From: edjunkita Subject: Re: (exotica) Goldfrapp live Date: 01 May 2001 12:07:02 +0200 Tipsydave@aol.com wrote: > Goldfrapp is also playing in San Francisco at the Great American Music Hall > on Wednesday, May 9, with Tipsy opening. should have been the other way round imho. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: Found this weekend..... Date: 01 May 2001 07:25:55 -0400 > From: alan zweig > Subject: Re: (exotica) Found this weekend..... > > 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. > > 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. > > AZ Thanks for the heads up. I have been collecting The Three Suns for some time, and now I will go back and listen to "Fever and Smoke" more carefully. Man, I am learning a lot of new stuff on this list. Thanks, everyone. 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: Needle FAQ Date: 01 May 2001 07:16:13 -0400 > Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 17:46:29 +0100 > From: Michael Jemmeson > Subject: (exotica) Needle FAQ > > http://www.needleexpress.com/faq.htm > > I don't think anyone's posted this yet... it may be of interest. Thanks, Michael, for the new site related to stylus and cartridge replacement. I have been sending people to Needle Doctor, and now I have a good alternative. With all due respect to you and Needle Express, these guys have a vested interest in selling you a new stylus. I haven't read the whole article, but I would say there is some misinformation in the first few paragraphs, geared toward scarring you into buying, you guessed it, a new needle from Needle Express. The one true thing is "So the cleaner your records and stylus are, the longer they'll last." I guess I assumed that everyone uses a good stylus cleaner, perhaps also Stylast (which enhances the life of the stylus, and lubricates the movement in the groove), and most critically, a good record cleaning system. I get all my records from yard sales, thrift stores, flea markets, etc. Without a good vacuum system, I would have terrible sounding records that impart huge amounts of grit and grime to the body of the stylus. This is not good. Try not to mistake the sound of dirty records with the sound of a worn stylus. 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: Pearmania@aol.com Subject: (exotica) new Nordine CD Date: 01 May 2001 07:38:22 EDT I'm disappointed in this list. I had to stumble across the new Nordine CD, A Transparent Mask. I would have expected to hear about it on this list first. I couldn't find any info about it on the web, either, so I decided to write my own little review: This is another great piece of work from Ken. It's somewhat reminiscent of Nordine's 90's releases, Devout Catalyst and Upper Limbo (which was live), with most of the same musicians that were on Upper Limbo. If you haven't heard either of those titles, they're both excellent, too. There are no musical celebrities on this one (Tom Waits and Jerry Garcia were both on Devout Catalyst). IMHO, A Transparent Mask outclasses both Devout Catalyst and Upper Limbo because it's more diverse and explores more territory, lyrically and musically. For the most part, Ken is his usual light-hearted, witty, and thought-provoking self, playing with words and dialogue, poking fun at everything. The music is great, too, neither overpowering Ken nor confined to the background. There are some, great wild synthesizer sounds. "A Good Day For Spiders" has the bass making "boing, boing" noises while Ken ponders the different kinds of insects a spider might eat. Some great bluesy harmonica sounds make up the musical accompaniment on "You Don't Love Me Blues" while Ken blubbers "I Love You But You Don't Love Me". There are two recycled numbers (that I recognize), "Akond of Swat" (from Upper Limbo) and an updated version of "The Bullfighter", which first appeared on Son of Word Jazz. "Akond Of Swat" is probably the most driving number Ken ever did. I could see a dance floor hopping to it. On "The Bullfighter", Ken loses his fake Spanish accent from the earlier version, but this time laughs wildly to a flamenco guitar as he declares that "the biggest bull is inside me". "Hole in the Ego" describes an individual whose ego is leaking (everyone could see the ego leaking, but this guy didn't even realize it...). Other subject matter explored include dreams (Truth Mute, A Thousand Dreams), numbers (Fibonacci Numbers -- with harpsichord accompaniment). You can imagine the fun Ken has with "Cliche' Heaven". Nordine is getting along in his years. He looks like Benjamin Franklin without the reading glasses on the front cover and his expression is serious. The last two numbers seem to betray some thoughts on aging. "A Thousand Dreams" is a light-hearted description of what could be the death experience. The last track, "What's There to Do" is a more serious reflection on loss. Ken recites "What's There to Do Without You" and "You are all the reasons why I give a damn". If you're a hardcore Nordine fan, this is a must. If you haven't ever explored Nordine, I would start with the "Colors" CD reissue (last time I looked, Jack Diamond had a few copies left). Sean # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Nathan Miner" Subject: Re: (exotica) some interesting thrift store finds Date: 01 May 2001 09:17:20 -0400 Just two things: Wow, a "list old timer......" and I wish I got the joke, = but that's okay............Oh, probably something I said I hated to listen = to...........?! :-) Nate >>> basic hip 05/01/01 12:02AM >>> Kendoll found two list favorites :) The first is Nate Miner's Inside joke, list old timers may remember (just kidding wit cha 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) Frogs - Ribbit!!! Date: 01 May 2001 10:00:42 -0400 I doubt there was a soundtrack - love the poster though - a frog with a = human hand hanging out of it's mouth!!! "The Day Nature Strikes Back!!" (Go nature!!) - 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) some interesting thrift store finds Date: 01 May 2001 15:17:04 >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) I have an old thrift record of his and the only thing that's instantly recognisable about it is that it's crap. I was so disappointed when i got it home... >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 Send me a scan and I'll get it done straight away. rob _________________________________________________________________________ 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: "Robert McKenna" Subject: Re: (exotica) some interesting thrift store finds Date: 01 May 2001 15:17:39 >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) I have an old thrift record of his and the only thing that's instantly recognisable about it is that it's crap. I was so disappointed when i got it home... >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 Send me a scan and I'll get it done straight away. rob _________________________________________________________________________ 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) Little Jimmy Scott Date: 01 May 2001 11:30:05 -0400 >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). To add to the info here (and thanks for the compliment, AZ!), hermaphrodite isn't really the word for Scott, even though he does sound like a woman. He was afflicted with a disease that stunted his development and his Mother could have taken him in for "experimental" treatment, but she, feeling that she may lose her son, decided against it. Thus, in the saddest sense his voice and body is "boyish". He had the great misfortune of recording with Herman Lubinsky, who was hard on all of his artists, it seemed. It was finagling by Lubinsky that had the album I am looking for (for less than the hundreds I see it for) rescinded. When the Bravo profile came out, there was a CD that Borders and Bravo issued had two more sides than the Here and Now compilation, so I got that one. No liners, though. I did, however, get it signed. If all of you do nothing else [not a recommended life path - Ed.], you must hear Scott's version of "Exodus". 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: Re: (exotica) The composers, where are they now... Date: 01 May 2001 11:32:54 -0400 >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. ...and later of "Roots" fame! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Rajnai, Charles, NNAD" Subject: (exotica) I'm back Date: 01 May 2001 11:49:13 -0400 Holy moly. =20 Missed you freaks this month, but I'm back now.=20 =20 Recent score: Arthur Lyman "Yellow Bird" and Martin Denny "Hawii goes a-go-go" both for $.50 each =20 =A4=BA=B0`=B0=BA=A4=F8,=B8=B8,=F8=A4=BA=B0`=B0=BA=A4=F8,=B8=B8,=F8=A4=BA= =B0`=B0=BA=A4=F8,=B8=B8,=F8=A4=20 Charlieman=20 "Everything that can be invented, has been invented." - Charles H. Duell, 1899=20 =20 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) Finds this weekend in Uppsala,Sweden Date: 01 May 2001 12:46:43 -0400 >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 I am not, save for the good possibility that this version predates the Classics IV version of "Spooky". No drums in THIS typewriter, Mr. Petterstein, 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: Erik Subject: Re: (exotica) Little Jimmy Scott Date: 01 May 2001 21:29:38 +0200 chuck wrote: [Jimmy Scott] > I understand David Lynch is a fan. Makes sense. I can almost see > Little Jimmy in Blue Velvet. You can in fact see Jimmy in an episode of Twin Peaks (I think it was an episode directed by Lynch himself), singing "Sycamore Tree" under a sycamore tree. Btw, my favourite song in Lynch's Wild at Heart is "Up in Flames" sung by Koko Tayler. She's like the female version of Jimmy Scott here: equally haunted, but she sounds like a man :) Erik # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Little Jimmy Scott Date: 01 May 2001 13:29:36 -0700 (PDT) I was lucky enough to get the gig coordinating Jimmy's appearance at the Borders store here in Honolulu. Aside from being an incredibly moving performer, he was very warm and accessible. My 3 sons were very impressed with him and my oldest, who's at NYU, went to see him at Iridium in NYC six months later. Jimmy came out before his show and my son shyly approached him, reminding him of their meeting in Hawaii. Jimmy remembered all the details, sent regards to the ol' man and moved Keith up to the front row for another amazing performance... legendary and memorable! aloha, Fluid Floyd > When the Bravo profile came out, there was a CD that > Borders and Bravo > issued had two more sides than the Here and Now > compilation, so I got that > one. No liners, though. I did, however, get it > signed. If all of you do > nothing else [not a recommended life path - Ed.], > you must hear Scott's > version of "Exodus". __________________________________________________ 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: "james brouwer" Subject: (exotica) Tomorrow's "Back-Ward" Playlist, May 2 Date: 01 May 2001 23:12:12 -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: Border Crossing - Jerry Goldsmith, "Last Run" OST Last Trip Of The Truck - Georges Gavarentz, "They Came To Rob Las Vegas" OST Bowery Mood - Vladimir Cosma Addict's Psalm - Ralph Carmichael, "Cross and the Switchblade" OST Ah Ya Zen - Omar Korshid, "Rhythms of the Orient" Machine Danse - Pierre Henry, "Machine Danse" Aliens In Our Midst - The Twinkeyz Hush Puppy Hush - Wee Willie Shantz Yet Still Time - The New Creation, "Troubled" Dianne and the New Worlds - Talkin' Trash Continuation - Waterproof Tinkertoy Ballad of the Hip Death Goddess - The Ultimate Spinach Re-Entry - Tom Dissivelt, from "Fantasy in Orbit" Sacrifice - Pierre Henry, "Machine Danse" Peking O (exc) - Can, "Tago Mago" Suicide - Che, "Suicide" all for now, thanks 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: "basic hip" Subject: Re: (exotica) The composers, where are they now... Date: 01 May 2001 19:34:35 -0700 > >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. > ...and later of "Roots" fame! Also did a couple of good late 50s jazz scores. "Dino" with Sal Mineo and the recently aquired and top notch TV soundtrack (with Stanley Wilson) to "Shotgun Slade". His name shows up on some Man From UNCLE tracks too :) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Mr Fodder" Subject: (exotica) WFMU Record Fair Date: 01 May 2001 19:28:37 -0700 Sorry if this gets posted more than once, but if you're in the NJ/NY area this weekend, come on down. - Otis ------ WFMU RECORD FAIR Fri-Sun, May 4-6 for immediate release Prepare for a weekend of musical fantasies fulfilled! On May 4th, 5th, and 6th, the WFMU Record Fair sets up shop with more than 100 of the finest music dealers the world over at the Metropolitan Pavilion, in New York City. Now regarded as the most eclectic event of its kind on the east coast, if not the whole country, the WFMU Record Fair offers the rare opportunity for music lovers to seek out the most terminally elusive records and CDs from their want-lists. Whether it's an impossibly out-of-print Jazz import, a forgotten Psych LP, a limited edition Electronica 12", or a CD reissue of classic '60s Soul, your chances of doing the victory dance are greater here than they are in even the best record stores in the hippest neighborhoods. WFMU will broadcast its signal LIVE from the Fair all weekend long, featuring live DJ sets from Chris T., Belinda & Hova, Brian Turner, Laura Cantrell, Glen Jones, DJ OJ, Dave the Spazz, Bill Kelly, and Diane Kamikaze. On Saturday at 2:30, New York's ONEIDA performs, and on Sunday afternoon, Glen Jones welcomes NY media legend Joe Franklin, not to mention a real live Elvis impersonator! General admission to the fair is only $5 and runs from 7-10 PM on Friday night, and from 10 AM to 7 PM on Saturday and Sunday. If you're really desperate and want first crack at the booty, you can take advantage of our special early admission on Friday, from 4-7 PM for $20. All early admission customers also earn a free pass to return to the fair all weekend long. Broadcasting from Jersey City at 91.1 FM, at 90.1 in the lower Hudson valley, and on the web at www.wfmu.org, WFMU is the area's most prominent source for genre-blasting freeform radio programming. Proceeds from the record fair will go towards the continued operation of the station. The Metropolitan Pavilion is located at 125 W. 18th St., between 6th and 7th Avenues. For more information, call Mike at 201-521-1416 x243 or email mike@wfmu.org -- WFMU: adrift in a sea of ignorance, on a raft of indifference http://www.wfmu.org # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Clayton.Black@washcoll.edu (Clayton Black) Subject: Re: (exotica) WFMU Record Fair Date: 01 May 2001 23:16:53 EDT --- You wrote: WFMU RECORD FAIR Fri-Sun, May 4-6 for immediate release --- end of quote --- I've heard about this event for years now but I've never been able = to go. What are the prices like? Does all the good stuff get = bought up in the first day or is there so much that it lasts well = into the third day? Not that I can go this year either, but I'm = curious. =20 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) WFMU Record Fair Date: 01 May 2001 20:57:25 -0700 Any listees attending that run across records by Gordon Thomas, please keep me in mind. I'll pay decent money $60 for a NM, $30 for a VG+. On his own Samhot label - Brown Baby Gordon I already have his "Girls" LP in the plain yellow sleeve. thanks gang # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Kevin Leeeeee" Subject: (exotica) Theremin Show LA May 5 FREE Date: 01 May 2001 23:46:44 -0700 This just in... THEREMIN NIGHT at Cinefile Video!! THIS SATURDAY MAY 5th 8PM **FREE** 11280 Santa Monica Blvd. (corner of sawtelle and santa monica - next door to the Nuart movie house) West L.A. (310) 312-8836 Come check out 4 Thereminists from the LA area: Charlie Lester (THE MAN) Ed Sussman (says he'll let folks try his out!) Kevin Leeeeee (of seksu roba) Nick Gotimer (15 years old! wow!) That's like over an hour's worth of Theremin music! FREE! So please drop on by and listen in! This has been a blatant plug from kevin leeeeee thank you _________________________________________________________________ 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: G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk Subject: (exotica) Vinyl Date: 02 May 2001 12:00:54 +0100 Alan's documentary was shown on a cable channel over here last week, I got a mate to record it and I've finally had the opportunity to watch it. I'd just like to say, I have NO record collection. I have a few LP's. My bragging to my friends will have to stop (just because they have a mere twenty records, it doesn't make my few paltry thousand records a collection). I enjoyed the film, I didn't think it was long enough, I know that if you want to sell it, it has to be a sensible length, but personally I could have done with another half hour (tell me the vid is an extended edit and my moneys in the post) I wanted more. Restraint doesn't come easy. And its not all about record collecting, in the same way Uncle Alan's posts are not just about the records. In fact to me the film felt very much like an extension of Alan's posts to this list. And it wasn't really about the other collectors either. It was about Alan and in that way, it was about all of Us. Alan, I don't see why the people you interviewed should be upset with you. Obviously there is editing and therefore misrepresentation, but you get that in any reported conversation, not just in films, and I don't think you portrayed any of them as freaks. I thought it was pretty sympathetic and if that they were used as anything it was for reflecting parts of yourself, but then again, I suppose I can see why that would piss people off. And Alan, I don't think you should stop posting your thoughts to the list either. Geoff Bob says 3 stars, No breasts, plenty beasts, gratuitous LP covers, check it out. 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: edjunkita Subject: Re: (exotica) Frogs - Ribbit! & other Les Baxter Soundtracks Date: 02 May 2001 18:52:04 +0200 The hilarious compilation LP "4 Hairy Policemen" (the sequel of the even better "Wavy Gravy") has lot's of B-movie trailers inbetween the tracks, including "Frogs". "Frogs lay hundreds of millions of eggs every year [some frog sounds] What would happen if they ALL hatched? [lots of frog sounds] American International Pictures presents Frogs, the story of the day Nature strikes back [lots of people screaming] What strange sequence of unleashed such a slithering slimey tidal wave of Fear. Why did these particular people, on that particular island, face this particular kind of Terror? [typical Les Baxter film score] See Frogs, an American International Picture, in color rated PG. Frogs, today the pond....tomorrow the World!" Only later did I get to see the actual film and I was a bit disappointed. The trailers are often much better, and an art form in themselves. http://www.lesbaxter.com/ has this to say about his soundtracks: "Les Baxter scored scored over one hundred films for American International Pictures, the most successful B movie mill of the time. Everything was done quick and dirty. The players who worked on the recording sessions remember recording everything at the speed of light, with mistakes being covered by sound effects in the dubbing. " a list of all (?) of the films he scored for: http://www.spaceagepop.com/baxtfilm.htm some of his soundtracks on LP/CD: Alakazam the Great Master of the World Hell's Belles (recently rereleased LP) http://www.blaxploitation.org/s_129.html Cry of the Banshee/Edgar Allan Poe Suite Black Sunday (1960) & Baron Blood (1972) (1997 CD available at Amazon.com) http://home.earthlink.net/~citadel/release3.htm#77107 Wild in the Streets (groovy psychedelic) Dr. Goldfoot & the Girl Bombs Goliath & the Barbarians The Dunwich Horror http://www.317x.com/albums/b/lesbaxter12/card.html According to Les himself he made 120 soundtracks and "The Sacred Idol" was originally made as a soundtrack for a very obscure Mexican film: http://www.tamboo.com/baxter/baxinterview/ another discography (including soundtracks) with ratings: http://www.wildsscene.com/music/exot_lb.html Some Anette Funicello Beach Party LP/CD's have been rereleased with songs from the AIP films, although I doubt Les Baxter had anything to do with those songs (although some Beach Boys session musicians did) Nathan Miner wrote: > I doubt there was a soundtrack - love the poster though - a frog with a human hand hanging out of it's mouth!!! > > "The Day Nature Strikes Back!!" (Go nature!!) > > - Nate > > < > "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.>> # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 28, 2001, and an interesting record find Date: 02 May 2001 17:14:38 This week's playlist (delivered to you in the usual untimely manner) focused on sounds African and Afro-Latin, and of varying degrees of "authenticity". The one glaringly incongruous track was John Wood's UNBELIEVABLE organ-ized version of "Maiden Voyage", which came from a thrift-store record found enroute to the Radio1Austin studio/shed. The LP has one of those aluminum foil covers with some vaguely futuristic graphics on it, ca. 1970, and the music itself comes courtesy of a moogish-sounding organ combo - dense, shimmery half-jazz, and a slightly psychedelic vibe to it. You'd think I was describing wine. Anyways, any info about John Wood would be appreciated... -Dan ARTIST -- SONG -- ALBUM -- FORMAT -- LABEL Narration & Field Recordings -- Excerpt from Side 1 -- Heartbeat of Africa: Safari Song -- 7" EP -- Sapra Studio Carl Stevens -- The Call of the Jungle -- African Sounds -- LP -- Mercury Herbie Mann -- Guinean -- The Family of Mann -- LP -- Atlantic John Wood -- Maiden Voyage -- Turn of the Century -- LP -- Ranwood Bulawayo Sweet Rhythms Band -- In the Mood -- 7" -- London Horst Wende and His Orchestra -- Alibama -- Africana -- LP -- Polydor Afro National -- Gowa -- Tropical Funkmusic -- LP -- Makossa International Fela Ransome Kuti and The Africa '70 -- Roforofo Fight -- 7" -- Editions Makossa Orchestre African Fiesta -- Eh Bien Mon Ami -- African Party, vol. 1 -- LP -- African Michael White -- Spirit Dance -- Spirit Dance -- LP -- Impulse! Miriam Burton -- Yoruba Lady -- African Lament -- LP -- Epic Jimi Solanke -- Iba -- Orin Orisa -- LP -- Ase Oscar Sulley and His Afro-Percussion Ensemble -- Bontuku Music of West Africa -- LP -- Delta Tito Puente -- The Ceremony of Tambo -- Tambo -- LP -- RCA Silvestre Mendez -- Obanlese -- 7" -- Seeco Sabu -- Aurora Borealis -- Sorcery! -- LP -- Columbia Yusef Lateef -- The Golden Flute -- The Golden Flute -- LP -- Impulse! Mongo Santamaria -- Afro Blue -- Explodes at the Village Gate -- LP -- Columbia Les Baxter -- Safari -- African Jazz -- LP -- Capitol Tito Puente -- Alaumba Chemache -- Top Percussion -- LP -- RCA Duke Ellington -- Acht O'Clock Rock -- The Afro-Eurasion Eclipse -- LP -- Fantasy Dinizulu and his Africans -- Nike-Nike -- The Fiery Drums of Africa -- LP -- Eurotone 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: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) MOFO on IC/IM Date: 02 May 2001 15:49:36 -0400 Otis Fodder Wednesday, May 9th, Noon - 3:00pm on Irwin's show http://wfmu.org One-half of WFMU heavy-spinners the Bran Flakes, Mr. Fodder skies in from Seattle to guest on Irwin's program. He brings a grab-bag of audio goodies from his free-form collection of vinyl and MP3 files, including kitschy spoken word, shimmering vocal choruses, incorrigible singing children, and Bran Flakes remixchief. Otis Fodder Wednesday, May 9th, 3:00pm - 4:00pm on Incorrect Music with Irwin and Michelle Boulé Otis continues his dominance of the WFMU airwaves by taking over Incorrect Music, leaving Michelle and Irwin largely in the passenger seats. Michelle and Otis will premiere their collaborative cover of the IM classic, "Mr. Snuggles," and perform a live rendition of the Girls With Attitude song "Don't Judge 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: "Darrell Brogdon" Subject: (exotica) Hi-Fi on the Harpsichord Date: 02 May 2001 19:33:50 -0500 Maybe some of you have a copy of this album -- "Anything Goes: Hi-Fi on the Harpsichord" (RCA Camden, 1958). It's Bruce Prince-Joseph at the harpsichord with Al Caiola (guitar), Milt Hinton (bass) and Johnny Blowers (drums). It's not a particularly exotic or strange record; just lightly swinging, small group jazz with a harpsichord, much like Johnny Guarneri with the Grammercy Five back in the '30s. I've played this record on The Retro Cocktail Hour before and had listeners call to tell me that Bruce Prince-Joseph lives somewhere around here. Today I had the enormous pleasure of meeting him in person! He dropped by our studios with a pianist who's appearing in a concert series that he runs in Kansas City. What a great guy! We chatted about his "Hi-Fi on the Harpsichord" album and discussed the possibility of him re-creating the group for a live session in our studios. According to Bruce, the record was a fairly decent seller for RCA but at the time he was principal organist and harpsichordist with the N.Y. Philharmonic, teaching music at Hunter College and didn't want to go on the road to flog the album, so he never really did any more jazz harpsichord records. Too bad for me, I got confused about the day of Bruce's visit, so I didn't bring my copy of "Hi-Fi on the Harpsichord" for him to autograph. He promised to do so on his next visit. Maybe we'll actually get him to re-create his group! Hope this isn't too off-topic. It sure made my day. 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: bag@hubris.net Subject: Re: (exotica) Hi-Fi on the Harpsichord Date: 02 May 2001 18:21:30 -0700 At 07:33 PM 02-05-01 -0500, Darrell wrote: >Maybe some of you have a copy of this album -- "Anything Goes: Hi-Fi >on the Harpsichord" (RCA Camden, 1958). It's Bruce Prince-Joseph at >the harpsichord with Al Caiola (guitar), Milt Hinton (bass) and >Johnny Blowers (drums). Wow, that is cool! I interviewed him in 1990 at KCUR in conjunction with some show in Kansas City, but the emphasis was on ragtime music. He came over to perform live at KCUR but weren't able to get a good piano so everyone was unhappy at the end of that little thing. Oh well. Glad to hear he is still doing stuff, and especially cool to hear about this. I do especially enjoy harpsichord used as an instrument in pop music. Everything from the Addams Family to Artie Shaw...always a pleasure to hear it! Anyone with any particularly memorable harpsichord appearances in hi-fi pop albums to report? I will have to listen for them and report as I run across them, but maybe someone has a particular example right away. >Maybe we'll >actually get him to re-create his group! Just get him a GOOD harpsichord. Of course, I know you would! >Hope this isn't too off-topic. It sure made my day. Great topic...and it helped make my day too, even if vicariously. Byron ___...--''''***^^^^^^""""""^^^^^***''''---___ "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: "jonathan richardson" Subject: (exotica) John Zorn and other unrelated things Date: 02 May 2001 18:29:14 -0700 This is totally unrelated to the list but i need some information on how to stream real audio files. Please contact me offlist with any, I mean any links, sites, info or whatever to do with streaming audio. Oh, By the way, anyone heard the new John Zorn-The Gift? Its all Exotica and surf, complete with birdcalls and ocean surf sounds, surprised the hell out of me, but its pretty authentic. see, I guess my post wasnt totally unrelated to exotica proceed with normal exotica related postings -Jonathan Yuma _________________________________________________________________ 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: "Darrell Brogdon" Subject: Re: (exotica) John Zorn and other unrelated things Date: 02 May 2001 20:35:07 -0500 > Oh, By the way, anyone heard the new John Zorn-The Gift? Its all Exotica and > surf, complete with birdcalls and ocean surf sounds, surprised the hell out > of me, but its pretty authentic. I agree! I was totally surprised and quite impressed with this CD. Very authentic exotica feel. Zorn really did his homework. There's a track from this in the latest Retro Cocktail Hour. "Makahaa", in hour two. Just visit the link below. Sorry for the SSP (shameless self promotion). G'night, all. 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: Matt Marchese Subject: (exotica) Hyakugojuuichi lyrics Date: 02 May 2001 20:45:03 -0500 Well, this doesn't really make any sense, but at least now you can sing along with the Flash animation. http://www.animelyrics.com/anime/pocketm/pmhyaku.htm -- 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: "basic hip" Subject: Re: (exotica) John Zorn and other unrelated things Date: 02 May 2001 19:05:51 -0700 > This is totally unrelated to the list but i need some information on how to > stream real audio files. Please contact me offlist with any, I mean any > links, sites, info or whatever to do with streaming audio. no, no, not unrelated at all! And please share any feedback you receive offlist. I looked into this before. I thought it would be really neato to load files into my webspace and stream them via Real Player. like Darrell and Mr. Fodder do. First I went to Real Player's site and snooped around and found what i needed. It's called Real Networks. Here is the URL: http://www.realnetworks.com/index.html?src=010503realhome_1&mcc=rlhmpg My hopes were quickly dashed when I realized that I did not have a strong enough computer or deep enough pockets to get started. So I went running back to my free 365MB of broadcasting space at Live365. :( If I'm wrong about this or there is another way, please share 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: "Brian Linds" Subject: (exotica) Dylan's Strange Covers Date: 02 May 2001 20:08:28 -0700 Hi! Since Mr Zimmerman's 60th Birthday is fast approaching, I was wondering about your fave rave Dylan covers. Or....odd recordings of Bob himself. I love The Four Season's version of "Don't Think Twice It's Alright". That Micky Mouse singing cracks me up! 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: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) Dylan's Strange Covers Date: 03 May 2001 01:48:56 -0400 At 08:08 PM 5/2/01 -0700, Brian Linds wrote: > >Hi! Since Mr Zimmerman's 60th Birthday is fast approaching, I was wondering >about your fave rave Dylan covers. Or....odd recordings of Bob himself. I >love The Four Season's version of "Don't Think Twice It's Alright". That >Micky Mouse singing cracks me up! Living Voices "Like A Rolling Stone". Hands down. Even better than Buddy Greco's version. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Dylan's Strange Covers Date: 03 May 2001 21:30:27 +1000 on 5/3/01 3:48 PM, alan zweig at azed@pathcom.com wrote: > Living Voices "Like A Rolling Stone". Hands down. Even better than Buddy > Greco's version. I was gonna say the Buddy Greco so I'd love to hear the Living Voices version. The Lee Hazlewood produced "Duane Does Dylan" by Duane Eddy has some big twangy takes on classic Dylan. 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: Bruce Lenkei Subject: Re: (exotica) Dylan's Strange Covers Date: 03 May 2001 10:21:55 -0400 (EDT) Ferrante and Teicher have a cover of "Lay Lady Lay" on their "Gettin' Together" album. I always liked it. Sort of a fun, up-tempo thing. Not totally out there, but still one of the highlights of the album. - bruce ++++++++++++++++++++ Lenkei Design www.lenkeidesign.com ++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Visit The Exotica Review As many exotica/lounge record reviews as possible! on the web at: www.bway.net/~er ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ On Thu, 3 May 2001, alan zweig wrote: > > Living Voices "Like A Rolling Stone". Hands down. Even better than Buddy > Greco's version. > > # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) tag sales in Pittsburgh Date: 03 May 2001 10:34:53 -0400 Garage Sales Generate Traffic By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 9:41 a.m. ET PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Shoppers crowd the streets and cut across lawns, creating traffic congestion in quiet suburban neighborhoods. They knock on doors in the wee hours to get first crack at everything from lawnmowers to heirlooms. Garage sales are creating headaches in towns across Pennsylvania, prompting one community to pass a law that limits the longtime rite of spring to four per year at any address. ``It was getting so people were having them every weekend, and that can test people's patience,'' said William Harris, a supervisor in Richland Township, where the law went into effect last week. Township zoning officer Mark Walker said so much money was changing hands at some sales that they could be classified as businesses. Shoppers fanned through the township last weekend for sales advertising items such as carpet remnants, perfume bottles, workout machines and bathing suits. ``It got so bad that it got hard to get through with my car,'' said Shirley Leventry, a retired secretary. ``It made me late for an appointment one day.'' In the northwestern Pennsylvania town of Saegertown, the community had the same problems with traffic five years ago but dealt with the situation by scheduling one day each summer for a town-wide garage sale. Three-fourths of the households in town participate. At one recent sale, ``Trump: The Game'' -- as in real estate magnate Donald Trump -- was on the block for $1. This year's sale is July 21, and even the library pitches in by selling old books. Mayor Fred Smith said the sale is even starting to rival the two things that helped put Saegertown on the map. ``We've got Sharon Stone, we've got Saegertown Ginger Ale and now we've got the garage sale,'' said Smith, referring to the famous native and the soda once made in the town of 1,000. In the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Bloomfield, the garage sale season starts on Saturdays in May. Even if a homeowner advertises that a sale starts at 8 a.m., shoppers knock on doors at 6:30 a.m. trying to get first dibs on the best old stuff. ``It gets vicious,'' said Rick Schwartz, president of the Bloomfield-Garfield Corp., an economic development group in Pittsburgh. ``They're out there looking for the best furniture, lamps, even lawnmowers.'' Dan Edwards, mayor of the Scranton suburb of Moscow, said the only garage sale trouble he remembers was when one man had a sale every weekend one summer, earning him a visit from the zoning officer. The town now has two annual garage sales. ``I don't know why they're so popular. I guess we just have a lot of trash,'' Edwards said. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Dylan's Strange Covers Date: 03 May 2001 13:18:04 -0400 At 09:30 PM 5/3/01 +1000, Philip Jackson wrote: > >> Living Voices "Like A Rolling Stone". Hands down. Even better than Buddy >> Greco's version. > >I was gonna say the Buddy Greco so I'd love to hear the Living Voices >version. > >The Lee Hazlewood produced "Duane Does Dylan" by Duane Eddy has some big >twangy takes on classic Dylan. I was a bit hasty when I wrote that. Thought I'd take advantage of the rare occasion when I had a short answer to something. But I do think the Living Voices version is "stranger" than Buddy's. I guess it's a toss up. Buddy inflects in unusual places whereas the Voices don't inflect at all. Actually if I had to vote, I'd have to give a tie between their version of Like a Rolling Stone and their version of Positively 4th Street on the same record. I also have that Duane does Dylan record. And the String record with that great version of Subterranean Homesick Blues. And the Montenegro record which has to be the flattest record he ever made. But around the time I first went crazy on Now Sound and various "cover" versions, I ended up making at least a dozen tapes for friends who just basically wanted to hear that Living Voices Like A Rolling Stone. The first ten times I heard it, I was still laughing at the way they sang "Didn't you?" but at some point, some horrible magical transformation happened and suddenly that became my official version of the tune. And when I finally heard Dylan do it again, it seemed so strange and ugly. And I was thinking "What is all this passion and emotion? That doesn't belong in music, does it?????" That's why I can't change my vote. 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: "Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek" Subject: (exotica) new Jean Jacques Perrey Date: 03 May 2001 21:52:13 +0200 Hi everyone, Dustygroove.com have a new Jean Jacques Perrey CD for sale. Anyone know more about it? By the way, they also have a nice Roger Roger/Nino Nardini CD called Jungle Obsession. Nice exotic sounds, previously only available on a rare production music LP. 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: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) Hi-Fi on the Harpsichord Date: 03 May 2001 16:34:11 -0400 One that was mentioned a couple of years back was one that I picked up for next to nothing; "The Keyboard Sounds of Today!" by Derek and Ray. ...on Parpsichord by Dr. Seussichord, 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: rockwilson909 Subject: (exotica) Jimmy Scott - Twin Peaks Date: 03 May 2001 23:35:47 +0100 chuck wrote: [Jimmy Scott] >> I understand David Lynch is a fan. Makes sense. I can almost see > >Little Jimmy in Blue Velvet. Erik wrote: >You can in fact see Jimmy in an episode of Twin Peaks (I think it was an episode directed by Lynch himself), singing "Sycamore Tree" under a sycamore tree. Hm, I don’t know about being in the series, but Jimmy Scott’s ‘Sycamore Tree’ features on the OST from the movie ‘Twin Peaks – Fire Walk With Me’. Actually, I don’t recall the scene from the movie either, but maybe I just blotted it from my memory – I bought the CD a while before seeing the movie and disliked ‘Sycamore Tree’ from the first time I heard it. That voice really creeps me out. Time for coffee and some cherry pie. 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: "Domenic Ciccone" Subject: Re: (exotica) John Zorn and other unrelated things Date: 03 May 2001 20:23:13 -0400 ----- Original Message ----- > Oh, By the way, anyone heard the new John Zorn-The Gift? Its all Exotica and > surf, complete with birdcalls and ocean surf sounds, surprised the hell out > of me, but its pretty authentic. > > see, I guess my post wasnt totally unrelated to exotica Imagine my surprise listening to my avant-Jazz-bo colleagues at WJUL playing this. Didn't know what it was and when they said Zorn that explained it. Felt like calling the little snots and saying :YOOO-HOO!!! Your playing EXOTICA!!!" Back to lurking....(actually reading all this mail) 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) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Marty and Elayne from The Dresden Room Date: 04 May 2001 05:16:30 EDT Keep on the lookout for the new Target commercial that features Marty and Elayne from The Dresden Room in Hollywood. Marty and Elayne are famous for their sincere, albeit slightly tacky and certainly campy, renditions of standard Lounge tunes. When you see the commercial remember that they think they are singing with style and flair. That's what makes it so great. They come thru in typical style with the new 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: buMp Subject: Re: (exotica) new Jean Jacques Perrey Date: 04 May 2001 06:25:11 -0400 i just ordered it and should get it around tuesday. i will let you know if no one else does before then. bump out >Dustygroove.com have a new Jean Jacques Perrey CD for sale. Anyone know more >about it? ****************************************************** ***************************** ************* 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: chuck Subject: Re: (exotica) Marty and Elayne from The Dresden Room Date: 04 May 2001 06:41:40 -0700 (PDT) Hi Tiki Bob I caught them at the Dresden Room and thought I was in paradise! Is the Dresden Room still a happening place? Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck --- Rcbrooksod@aol.com wrote: > > Keep on the lookout for the new Target commercial that features > Marty and Elayne __________________________________________________ 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: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) [obit] Billy Higgins Date: 04 May 2001 09:49:02 -0400 Billy Higgins http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=B5zdqoaeabijn http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Billy+Higgins%22 INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) -- Legendary jazz drummer Billy Higgins died Thursday at age 64. Higgins was one of the most recorded figures in the history of jazz, performing with John Coltrane, Dexter Gordon, Herbie Hancock, Milt Jackson, Charles Lloyd, Pat Metheny, Lee Morgan, Art Pepper and Joshua Redman, among others. He played with pianist Cedar Walton and was involved with the first edition of bassist Charlie Haden's innovative Quartet West. Higgins came to prominence in the 1950s with saxophonist Ornette Coleman's free jazz group, which included Haden and trumpeter Don Cherry. Higgins' drumming laid the foundation for the group's free jazz flights of fancy. That group sparked a decade of innovation in jazz that was carried on by the Coleman Quartet, Coltrane, George Russell, Charles Mingus and Albert Ayler, among others. Higgins' ability to adapt his sense of swing to any genre made him one of the most in-demand drummers of the past four decades. Higgins helped found World Stage, a storefront performance space and teaching venue in Los Angeles' Leimert Park. He was also on the jazz faculty at the University of California, Los Angeles. Higgins was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master's Fellowship in 1997. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) WFMU Record Fair Date: 04 May 2001 10:25:28 -0400 (EDT) >I've heard about this event for years now but I've never been able >to go. What are the prices like? Does all the good stuff get >bought up in the first day or is there so much that it lasts well >into the third day? The WFMU fair is absolutely awesome! I will be going later and spending ALL my money! Prices vary hugely, but there are definitely loads of bargains to be had. I remember the first time I ever went, just being overwhelmed - coming away with records I had dreamed of owning when I lived in Europe, but figured I would never find - like Dick Hyman's 'the man from O.R.G.A.N.' and the three suns' 'fever and smoke' (for not much more than $5 each). Last November I went on Sunday and was still able to come away with some great records. There is such a huge volume of stuff there that it would be impossible for all the gems to disappear in 1 or 2 days. I highly recommend going; it's twice a year, normally November and May. Jonny read/post 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: G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk Subject: (exotica) bob dylan's tunes Date: 04 May 2001 15:53:26 +0100 Doing a CD for a friend last night I slipped on Cher's version of 'Tonight I'll be staying here with you' (the flip from I walk on Gilded splinters). Its on Atlantic from about 1970, slow, thick and lumpy. Big horn section riffing away. I'd like to hear Black Sabbath play it this way. Reading this again i get an image of falling over in a bananaskin kind of way. 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: "Benito Vergara" Subject: RE: (exotica) Marty and Elayne from The Dresden Room Date: 04 May 2001 08:16:34 -0700 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-exotica@lists.xmission.com > [mailto:owner-exotica@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Rcbrooksod@aol.com > Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 2:17 AM > Keep on the lookout for the new Target commercial that features Marty and > Elayne from The Dresden Room in Hollywood. Yeah, it was all over the "Survivor" finale last night (they sang "I Will Survive"). Weren't they also featured in "Swingers?" Later, 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: delicado@cheerful.com Subject: RE: (exotica) WFMU Record Fair Date: 04 May 2001 12:23:35 -0400 (EDT) >Does anybody have an address, times and dates for the event? May 4th, 5th, and 6th 2001 at the Metropolitan Pavilion (125 W. 18th st, NYC) More details here: http://www.wfmu.org/recfair/ nb. I noticed that some dealers are only going to be there on Sunday. cheers, Jonny read/post 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: (exotica) Nino Nardini & Toger Roger "Jungle Osession" Date: 04 May 2001 09:31:27 -0700 (PDT) Nino Nardini & Roger Roger "Jungle Obsession" Dare Dare 2001 This is a major Exotica release. Exotica with a capital E ala Denny/Baxter. Recorded in 1971 by a library music label, Jungle Obsession is a total concept album, unlike other library music releases. The songs fit together to create an exotic dream world. Now this does not sound like classic Martin Denny or Les Baxter because there are 1970s guitars occasionally and the style has some early 70s rock/jazz/easy influence upon it. But Wow does this album ever capture that exotica feeling of a far off mysterious land. The songs are almost all instrumental with only the briefest ooos and ahhhs. I am surprised how well this album captures a south pacific jungle paradise. There are even the occasional bird calls! Classic Exotica from 1971! Yeah!!! Chuck Also Bump, I have "Good Moog" a Jean Jacques Perry comp Jack Diamond was selling. I'm curious how much of the new Perry cd has already been released. I understand from Jack that there will be 5 or 6 of these Perry releases! Its an amazing time in the music world these days. I never imagined this much off the wall stuff being released. 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: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) 2 from The Scout Report Date: 04 May 2001 13:36:44 -0400 Red Hot Jazz Archive [RealPlayer, VivoActive] http://redhotjazz.com/ Created and maintained by Scott Alexander, this site is a solid resource for anyone interested in the early history of jazz. Here visitors will find comprehensive lists of musicians and bands that were active between 1895 and 1929. The latter includes lists of band members and full-length sound files and, in some cases, overviews of varying length. All entries are thoroughly hyperlinked to noted sound files and profiles of other musicians. Also included at the site are a collection of essays and articles and a listing of short jazz films (with two video clips). The Ricksha Arts of Bangladesh http://www.webpak.net/~ricksha/ Created and maintained by Joanna Kirkpatrick, a cultural and social anthropologist, this modest but attractive site celebrates a unique popular art of Bangladesh: "the paintings and decorations on the three-wheeled cycle ricksha or 'rickshaw.'" Based on Kirkpatrick's field visits between 1975 and 1998, this site offers an image collection of riotously colored and decorated rickshas, presented as thumbnails with brief descriptions. Also included at the site are some photos depicting commerce, street life, and religion in Bangladesh; some short readings; and a brief list of related links. ====== The Scout Report ====== Brought to You by the Internet Scout Project ==== From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2001. http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/ Copyright Susan Calcari and the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents, 1994-2001. The Internet Scout Project (http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/), located in the Computer Sciences Department of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, provides information about the Internet to the U.S. research and education community under a grant from the National Science Foundation, number NCR-9712163. The Government has certain rights in this material. Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of the entire Scout Report provided this paragraph, including the copyright notice, are preserved on all copies. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Peter Ledebur Subject: (exotica) Re: Dylan's Strange Covers Date: 04 May 2001 13:47:04 -0400 "Brian Linds" writes: >Hi! Since Mr Zimmerman's 60th Birthday is fast approaching, I was wondering >about your fave rave Dylan covers. I've always been partial to Enoch Light's "Blowing in the Wind." I have it on an album called 4 Channel Stero, but I think it was originally on Brass Menagerie. Unbelieveably upbeat! Peter ----- Music for Better Living 6-7pm Wed -- WZBC 90.3fm Newton/Boston www.hifibliss.com/mfbl/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) WFMU Record Fair Date: 04 May 2001 14:50:20 -0400 At 10:25 AM 5/4/01 -0400, delicado@cheerful.com wrote: >The WFMU fair is absolutely awesome! >I will be going later and spending ALL my money! >Prices vary hugely, but there are definitely loads of bargains to be had. well there's a little "kismet" for you. I'm sure that unless I go to this record fair one day, I will assume that it's better than any record fair in the world and that all the records I dream of... (Bud Shank, Vinnie Bell on sitar and the voices of the Free Design playing "Music from Batman") ... will be found there. However I probably will never make it there. And then there's the exchange rate to take into account. In any event, the kismet comes in because I and at least one other member of this list will be at the record fair here in this fair city. The place I got most of the cool lounge and exotica records I once had. The place I found "Zounds what Sounds" for 3 dollars. And countless other examples. I find the best dealers are these guys in their mid-sixties who were jazz collectors and bought everything when it came out. Then they put all the records that aren't quite jazz, all the embarrassing and unsuccessful hybrid crossovers in one section for a couple of bucks. And that's exactly what I'm looking for. That's where I found Zounds. Anyway now that I'm not looking for that kind of thing, it's a different experience. But still there's the anticipation.... 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: Erik Subject: Re: (exotica) Jimmy Scott - Twin Peaks Date: 04 May 2001 21:34:30 +0200 rockwilson909 wrote: > Hm, I don=92t know about being in the series, but Jimmy Scott=92s =91Sycamore > Tree=92 features on the OST from the movie =91Twin Peaks =96 Fire Walk With > Me=92. Actually, I don=92t recall the scene from the movie either, but maybe > I just blotted it from my memory =96 I bought the CD a while before seeing > the movie and disliked =91Sycamore Tree=92 from the first time I heard it. > That voice really creeps me out. Sycamore Tree is on the Fire Walk With Me soundtrack, but it's a scene from the last-but one episode of the serie, not in the movie. And I think the song was meant to creep you out, although his voice always sounds like that :) Erik # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Re: Dylan's Strange Covers Date: 04 May 2001 15:49:30 -0400 (EDT) Doesn't that album also include his version of "Marakesh Express"? I know, I know, not Dylan, but it's such a strange, twisted and beautiful version of that song. One of my favorites. - bruce ++++++++++++++++++++ Lenkei Design www.lenkeidesign.com ++++++++++++++++++++ > > I've always been partial to Enoch Light's "Blowing in the Wind." I have it > on an album called 4 Channel Stero, but I think it was originally on Brass > Menagerie. Unbelieveably upbeat! > > > Peter > ----- > Music for Better Living > 6-7pm Wed -- WZBC 90.3fm Newton/Boston > www.hifibliss.com/mfbl/ > # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Erik Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Dylan's Strange Covers Date: 04 May 2001 21:53:08 +0200 'Tangled up in Blue' by Half Japanese is a long time favourite of mine. It's early Half japanese: just the two Fair-brothers, an electric guitar, a beat-up drumkit and a romatic inclination. Erik # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "B.R. Rolya" Subject: (exotica) wfmu record fair/shameless plug Date: 04 May 2001 15:54:25 -0400 hello. WFMU is holding their fabulous record fair this weekend in NYC (www.wfmu.org./recfair/) and Triage will be selling things that you might want! (Of course, other people will be selling things that you might want, but this is *my* shameless plug!) We will only be there on saturday, may 5. If you're at the fair, please drop by and say hello. We will be selling all of our distributed titles at wholesale cost to the public, plus there will be some bargain goodies (and I mean good stuff. at a real bargain). Some of the many labels and/or bands we'll have include: Trikont (including all 4 volumes of La Paloma and the new "Overcome" and "Flashback" series), Don Tiki, "Schoolgirl Report", Luigee Trademarq (3 cd French porn soundtrack on Rectangle), Raymond Scott, Arling & Cameron, Dr. Samuel Hoffman's "Theremin" box set, Tricatel label, the Bran Flakes (don't miss Otis on Irwin's show next wednesday, 12-3pm est, www.wfmu.org), Noonday Underground, SHADO label, plus avant garde/experimental items, indie pop/indie rock, "old school" funk (Desco & Soul Fire), etc, etc. We might even have organic catnip for sale if the cat lets me harvest some of her stash. And if you're nice (and it's not too early in the morning), we'll introduce you to our official record fair beverage - the Ballangina . -BR Triage # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) more harpsichord - Enoch Light "Far Away Places" Date: 04 May 2001 15:51:20 -0400 Enoch Light & His Orchestra "Far Away Places Featuring Harpsichord and Exotic Percussion" (Command Records) With tracks like "Bali Ha'i", "Calcutta", "The Cockeyed Mayor Of Kaunakakai" and "Lisbon Antigua" you could see this as Light's exotica album, but it doesn't quite have the dreaminess quotient you like in to hear in hardcore exotica (or should that be softcore exotica?). It's in what I think of as Light's 50s mode, with stop-start "balance test" intros on all of the tracks and a sort of clinical feel to the arrangements. But it does indeed feature lots of harpsichord and lots of percussion, though not freakishly out of balance with the rest of the band. Credited players include Billy Rowland on the harpsichord and piano. Phil Kraus, Bob Rosengarden and Don Lamond on percussion. Tony Mottola and Al Casamenti on guitar. Dominic Cortese on accordion. Phil Bodner on sax. Doc Severinsen on trumpet. Bob Haggart on bass. Lois Winter, Jerry Packer, Jack Brown, Alan Sokoloff and Herb Davidson contribute wordless vocals, which have a strangely sarcastic tone to my ears. "Waltzing Matilda" and "How Are Things In Glocca Morra" make me fidget, but "The Third Man Theme" is done up nicely. And there's a version of "Mimi" with champagne cork-pop sound effects. Well-coordinated, right in time and everything, but Spike Jones would do it funnier. And tons of liner notes. It's a Light. Alright. 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: Ross Orr Subject: Re: (exotica) Dylan's Strange Covers Date: 04 May 2001 19:45:54 -0400 Brian Linds wrote: >Hi! Since Mr Zimmerman's 60th Birthday is fast approaching, I was wondering >about your fave rave Dylan covers. Or....odd recordings of Bob himself. My favorite would be Alvin and the Chipmunks doing "Mr. Tambourine Man." Is that on _Chipmunk Punk_? (Sorry, separated from my records at the moment. . . ) But I have to admit that I actually listen to it at HALF SPEED, so Ross Bagdasarian's voice comes out normally (well, sort of robotically, in fact) and all the instruments are slowed down to apocalyptic clanging. But that's just me. cheers, --Ross || Ross "Mambo Frenzy" Orr || Ann Arbor, Michigan 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: "basic hip" Subject: (exotica) Ray Barretto -- Senor 007 Date: 05 May 2001 18:31:49 -0700 While browsing thru the upcoming releases at Dusty Groove, I stumbled upon this one: Ray Barretto -- Senor 007 I buy about every secret agent theme album I can get my hands on and have seen this one only twice - a picture in a book and a beat copy at the house of showandtellmusic. This record goes for big money when it appears on ebay and had all but given up on finding an original, so I'm excited. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Ray Barretto -- Senor 007 Date: 05 May 2001 23:04:14 -0400 on 5/5/01 9:31 PM, basic hip at basichip@home.com wrote: > > While browsing thru the upcoming releases at Dusty Groove, I stumbled upon > this one: > > Ray Barretto -- Senor 007 I finally found a copy of this a year or so ago after years of searching, and it's pretty amazing. The Thunderball theme is especially great, as is "I Wanna Be A James Bond Girl" (which Ashley Warren and I had picked unheard for our proposed James Bond comp on Scamp, which never came out due to licensing problems). My copy is mono, so I'm hoping the CD is the stereo mix. Highly recommended. 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: Will Straw Subject: (exotica) Brazeeel Date: 05 May 2001 23:27:17 -0400 I just finished watching Two for the See-Saw (Robert Mitchum, Shirley=20 MacLaine) -- nothing spectacular, but lovely b+w shots of early 1960s New=20 York (on those rare occasions when they leave their apartment). Early on,= =20 Robert Mitchum sits on a park bench and watches the birds fly around. One= =20 of my earliest bonding moments with my buddy Keir (gone from this lost lo= =20 these last three years), was when we realized we both have memories of the= =20 middle-aged-man-on-the-park-bench as a quintessential 1960s movie/album=20 cover motif. Anyway, I've had the Andr=E9 Previn soundtrack for Two for the See-Saw for= =20 years, and it's one of my very favourites. I'm going to Brazil -- to Salvador, Bahia -- on May 12th, for about 22=20 days. I'm scared and excited. Any suggestions? Will # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Brazeeel Date: 06 May 2001 00:18:27 EDT In a message dated 5/5/1 10:28:28 PM, wstraw@po-box.mcgill.ca wrote: >lovely b+w shots of early 1960s New York Will...how can it be said any better?. JB/wistfully wishing for that cinematic moment in his reality # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Vivian Sisters? Date: 06 May 2001 11:45:33 +0200 This is from the weekly Forced Exposure mailing. Does anyone know it this is as good as it seems? VIVIAN SISTERS: Vivian Sisters CD (AVANT 079). "Mixing elements of Captain Beefheart, The Shaggs and Harry Partch, Vivian Girls is the bizarre new project from Laura Cromwell, the mastermind of Dim Sum Clip Job and Laito Lychee. Featuring Jamie Saft on keyboard, slide guitars, theremin and a host of other instruments as well as several special guests this is one of the strangest CDs of this or any other year. Weird sounds, beats and howls in the night." $20.00 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: (exotica) Playlist For Space Bop, May 6 Date: 06 May 2001 10:49:19 -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 #141 Ouh La La! Ouh la la! ... It's a compilation from France (where else!), put together by people with very good taste, on a label called Cosmogol, and it's beyond words to describe how good it is... and this is only Volume 1 - Volume 2 was just released. (We'll be featuring it on an upcoming show). Also, a few additional goodies by a few of the featured acts.. and even some Canadian content! Syd Dale: Disco-Tek "Ouh la la! - Vol 1." Michael Viner's Incredible Bongo Band: Bongolia Peter Beasson: Top Signal Two Werner Mueller: Bodybuilding Armando Trovaioli: Sesso Matto Peter Beasson: Choro Belingo David Whitaker: Strip Poker At Caeser'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 Orchester Werner Mueller: If I Were A Rich Man "Tanz Party 68" Michael Viner's Incredible Bongo Band: In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida "Bongo Rock" 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: Matt Marchese Subject: (exotica) Woo Woo's World Date: 06 May 2001 11:34:31 -0500 AMC's American Pop presented "College Confidential" last night. I'd never seen it before and was pleasantly surprised by how entertaining it was. While it certainly qualified as a wacky teenage farce, it also contained a pretty serious message (for its time) about sexual mores, nuclear destruction, and the generation gap. It also had a swingin' beat soundtrack by Dean Elliot. The best part of the film was by far the casting; Steve Allen as a professor whose career is ruined by the lies of a platinum-blonde teenage sexbomb played by (who else?) Mamie Van Doren. Audrey Meadows appears as a nosy reporter who's after the prof, and Conway Twitty plays sort of a low-budget Elvis who warbles a couple of rockabilly-ish tunes. Cathy Crosby also appears. But my favorite character by far is the musclebound fratboy played by Norman "Woo Woo" Grabowski. This guy's head is so flat you can serve drinks off it. He resembles Jerry Van Dyke on steroids and spends most of the film hopping around like a chimp and making passes at the multitude of gorgeous coeds who appear in the film. Gaze upon his countenance here: http://www.neosoft.com/~meeker/woowoo.html I also recommend checking out the rest of this site, especially if you're a Ralph Meeker (Kiss Me, Deadly) fan. Apparently Conway, Mamie, and Woo Woo also appeared in "Sex Kittens Go to College" along with Jackie Coogan and Vampira. Question for the list: Did Steve Allen have anything to do with writing the script for this film? His impassioned speech at the end of the film certainly sounds like something he'd write. -- 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: Will Straw Subject: Re: (exotica) Woo Woo's World Date: 06 May 2001 13:02:30 -0400 I believe the Book of Revelations lists the appearance of a webpage devoted to Norman "Woo Woo" Grabowski as one sign that the apocalypse is at hand. Will # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subject: RE: (exotica) Woo Woo's World Date: 06 May 2001 16:01:36 -0400 > But my favorite character by far is the musclebound fratboy played by > Norman "Woo Woo" Grabowski. This guy's head is so flat you can serve > drinks off it. He resembles Jerry Van Dyke on steroids and spends most > of the film hopping around like a chimp and making passes at the > multitude of gorgeous coeds who appear in the film. Gaze upon his > countenance here: > > http://www.neosoft.com/~meeker/woowoo.html You might be interested to know that Norm was more than a flat-topped teen movie wonder...he was (is) a wild man, a comedian, an artist, a genius in his own way, and a famous and influential hot-rodder. He became known as the inventor of the "Fad T" or "T-Bucket" style of hot rod. His car was on the cover of Hot Rod in 1955, and became a regular cast member of "77 Sunset Strip" as the "Kookie Kar" a couple of years later (the car, not Norm). This particular style of car has since been copied many thousands of times around the world, and in fact there was a thriving industry at one time building kits and components for this style of car. If you asked most non-rodders today to describe a "hot rod", they would likely describe a car like Norm's. You can see some photos and such here: http://www.hotrodsonline.com/HallOfFame/Grabowski/index.html Norm did a fair amount of TV and movie automotive work, and if you watch the credits of some late-50s and early 60s TV shows and movies you will sometimes see his name turn up in that context. I suspect that the reason he was cast in several teen movies is that he became known to the directors or producers from his automotive services and they found he was such a cut-up they decided he would go well in the films. He now lives in Arkansas and makes strange hand carved mugs and skull shift knobs. Definitely an Exotica kinda guy! :) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Woo Woo's World Date: 06 May 2001 16:14:15 -0400 >You might be interested to know that Norm was more than a flat-topped teen >movie wonder...he was (is) a wild man, a comedian, an artist, a genius in >his own way, and a famous and influential hot-rodder. And, it is said, he was able to drink beer and whistle at the same time. 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: "mark jung" Subject: (exotica) "china night guitar music" covers Date: 06 May 2001 22:06:34 dang, my last post bounced because i excessively quote myself. anyways, the cover of said album's visable at http://http://www.angelfire.com/mn/markj/guitarmusic.html and the part i needed translated's accessible from there. angelfire pops up an irritating window, just bury it behind your active brower window - 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: Matt Marchese Subject: Re: (exotica) Woo Woo's World Date: 06 May 2001 17:09:25 -0500 gannet@jtel.net wrote: > You might be interested to know that Norm was more than a flat-topped teen > movie wonder...he was (is) a wild man, a comedian, an artist, a genius in > his own way, and a famous and influential hot-rodder. Wow! All that and the 5th Horseman of the Apocalypse too! A man for all seasons. I'm pretty sure that one of his rods appeared in College Confidential as well...during the lake scene. > He now lives in Arkansas and makes strange hand carved mugs and skull shift > knobs. Definitely an Exotica kinda guy! :) Where can you buy them? I'd pay some serious simoleons to own an original Woo Woo mug. Thanks for the information! -- 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: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) [obits] Boozoo Chavis, Chris Bystrom, Cliff Hillegass Date: 06 May 2001 22:38:47 -0400 Sunday,=A0May=A0=A06=20 http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=3Damg&sql=3DBuchxlfhe5cqq http://www.google.com/search?q=3D%22boozoo+chavis%22 Boozoo Chavis, an accordionist, singer and bandleader who was a=20 patriarch of Louisiana zydeco music, died Saturday in Austin, a week=20 after suffering a heart attack and a stroke, said Jack Reich, his=20 manager.=20 Chavis was 70 and lived in Lake Charles, La.=20 During the 1990s, Chavis was widely acknowledged as the King of Zydeco,=20 a mixture of Cajun and Celtic traditions and rhythm and blues. Unlike=20 his contemporary, Clifton Chenier, who played an accordion with a=20 piano-like keyboard and carried an urban, bluesy zydeco style around the=20 world, Chavis played diatonic button accordion, and his music was closer=20 to rural and Celtic roots.=20 It was raw and propulsive, with modal tunes that merged zydeco's Celtic=20 and African American strains. Chavis wore country clothes: a Stetson hat=20 and an apron to keep his sweat off the accordion. With his rough-hewn=20 voice and hefty accordion riffs, his band's one-chord grooves had a=20 mesmerizing intensity that kept dance floors packed.=20 Chavis suffered a mild heart attack hours after playing a set April 28=20 at the Louisiana Swamp Romp at Austin's Waterloo Park. After being=20 admitted to Brackenridge Hospital, he had a major stroke, Reich said.=20 Chavis appeared to be improving for a day or two, and doctors hoped he=20 could return to Lake Charles for treatment, but he took a turn for the=20 worse.=20 Although Chavis influenced some prominent Austin musicians, including=20 Marcia Ball and Ponty Bone, he played in Austin sporadically until the=20 past year. He was scheduled to play five shows here this year and had=20 performed at a street festival concert during Austin's Mardi Gras=20 celebration, Reich said.=20 Chavis recorded one of the first zydeco hits, "Paper in My Shoe," in=20 1954, and from the 1980s onward he sparked a revival of button-accordion=20 zydeco. "I don't get mad if they play my music," he told author Michael=20 Tisserand in "The Kingdom of Zydeco." "But I get mad if they mess it=20 up."=20 Wilson Anthony Chavis was born on Oct. 23, 1930, near Church Point, La.,=20 and nicknamed Boozoo. His father, a tenant farmer, played accordion; his=20 mother did farm work, ran informal horse races called bush tracks and=20 eventually opened a dance hall. There, Boozoo Chavis would sit in with=20 Morris Chenier, a Creole fiddler, and his nephew Clifton.=20 Chavis worked as a farmer, jockey and horse trainer, and in 1952 he=20 married Leona Predium.=20 Chavis invested winnings from a horse race on a calf and sold it as a=20 heifer; he bought his first accordion with the profits. "Paper in My=20 Shoe," a song about being too poor to afford socks, was released in 1955=20 and became a regional hit. It remains a zydeco standard.=20 But after recording for just a few years, Chavis decided in the late=20 1950s that he had been cheated by his record company and gave up=20 performing. For more than two decades, he worked as a racehorse trainer,=20 sometimes playing his accordion "under the tree," he once said.=20 In 1984, Boozoo and Leona Chavis were driving to a horse race and heard=20 a radio advertisement for a dance featuring Boozoo Chavis. Someone was=20 impersonating him, and Chavis realized his reputation was strong enough=20 to restart his performing career. A single about his neighborhood, "Dog=20 Hill," put him back on local radio stations, and soon he was selling out=20 dance halls. He went on to write songs about nearly everyone he knew,=20 from his family to his manager. He also sang raunchy zydeco songs that=20 were sold locally from under the counter.=20 Eventually, Chavis began working beyond the bayou circuit. He took his=20 first commercial airplane flight in 1990 to perform in New York City and=20 began releasing albums nationally on Rounder Records. In 1993, he was=20 anointed the King of Zydeco according to the wishes of Rockin' Dopsie,=20 who died in 1993. Dopsie had proclaimed himself the heir to Clifton=20 Chenier. It was a contentious title in zydeco country, but Chavis was=20 universally respected.=20 Through the 1990s, Chavis gained fans across the United States and=20 disciples among zydeco musicians, among them Beau Jocques and Keith=20 Frank.=20 Chavis and his band, the Majic Sounds, worked constantly, even after he=20 lost the last joints of two fingers on his left hand in an accident=20 while building a barbecue pit. He had recently completed recording an=20 album, tentatively titled "I'm Still Blinkin'. "=20 Leona Chavis survives her husband, along with their sons Charles, Poncho=20 and Rellis, who played in their father's band; their daughters Do-Right=20 John, Louann Guidry and Licia Chavis; 21 grandchildren; and three=20 great-grandchildren.=20 http://www.google.com/search?hl=3Den&lr=3D&safe=3Doff&q=3DChris+Bystrom&btnG= =3DGoogle+ Search FROM SWELL.COM: THE PASSING OF A BRAINSTORM Film-maker Chris Bystrom killed in car crash May 5, 2001 Northern NSW, Australia:Friends, colleagues, and fans of surf movies generally will be shocked and saddened to hear that Chris Bystrom -- maker of the legendary Blazing Boards video series -- died yesterday in a car accident near Mooball, Australia. He was 51. Eyewitnesses reported that Bystrom's vehicle was travelling along the Pacific Highway on the far north coast of New South Wales at around 7 a.m. Friday Australian time, when it swerved into oncoming traffic, hitting a semi-trailer head-on. Bystrom was killed instantly. Business rivals and buddies alike were quick to pay homage to the multi-faceted lensman, who in recent years had dived into the renaissant world of longboarding, kickstarting Pacific Longboarder magazine and making a series of longboard videos. "Everyone's been calling to tell me," said Darryl Barnett, manager of Retro Groove, Bystrom's surf culture store-cum-museum. "It's been a huge shock ... (Chris) was quite a classic." "He was ahead of his time in lots of ways," said Australian Longboarding magazine editor Shane Peel, who fought circulation battles against Bystrom for much of the 1990s. "He saw the longboarding scene coming almost before it'd started, then he could see the trend toward mid-length boards and nostalgia. He was someone who put a real lot into surfing." Originally of San Diego, Bystrom had been living in Australia for nearly 20 years, settling in Elanora just south of the Queensland Gold Coast and enjoying what he saw as the country's similarity with an older Californian landscape. Before the move, he'd attended UCSD film school, and was a stickler for shooting 16-mm film stock rather than video. This may have been one reason why the Blazing Boards series was such a hit through the mid-'80s -- along with the fact that it featured some of Mark Occhilupo's and Tom Curren's most dazzling surfing of the time. Great surfers of today, Rob Machado and Shane Dorian among them, were hugely influenced by whaht they saw in BB and nominate it regularly among their favorite surf films. "He was aware that those guys liked his movies," says Barnett, "and he was proud of that." Other movies included Madmen '93 and Gravity Sucks, which featured the first internationally shown footage of Maverick's (shot by California's Steve Spaulding).=20 In the mid-1990s, wanting to try something new, Bystrom began publishing Pacific Longboarder -- the only surf magazine to deliberately base itself around an actual ocean, not a nation. PL ran material from Australia's east coast, Hawaii, California, and anywhere else with a Pacific coastline. It borrowed heavily in format from Steve Pezman's Surfer's Journal, but a hint to its owner's individuality and serious nature could be found in the cover tagline: "A Beacon of Truth, Controversy and Artistic Expression." This was years after Bystrom been given the affectionate nickname "Brainstorm" by media colleagues. PL blazed some new trails in Australian surf publishing, but ran into money problems in 1999 when the competition began hotting up, and was eventually sold (it is still being published). "After (Chris) lost his magazine he got a little bit depressed," says Barnett. "But he was very happy with the shop." After opening in March 2000, Retro Groove has gone on to become a surf cultural center and a focus for surfboard collectors around Australia. ---------- Cliffs Notes Founder Dies at Age 83 LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Cliff Hillegass, the founder and former president of Cliffs Notes, whose study guides helped generations of high school and= college students through literature classes, died Saturday. He was 83.=20 Hillegass died at his home of complications from a stroke he suffered in= late April, his family said.=20 Hillegass founded Cliffs Notes in 1958 with a $4,000 loan, writing his study guides in the basement of his Lincoln home.=20 His first study guide was for Shakespeare's ``Hamlet.'' While working for= the Nebraska Book Co., he distributed it to college book stores around the= country with a letter asking store managers to give it shelf space to see if it= would sell.=20 ``He discussed it with almost everyone he knew at the college book stores,'' said his wife, Mary Hillegass, 61. ``Some said it wouldn't go anywhere, and some thought it was a good idea.''=20 Cliffs Notes - which analyze characters and chapters and explain the works= of authors - became an almost immediate hit with students.=20 In 1999, Hillegass sold Cliffs Notes to IDG Books Worldwide Inc. of Foster City, Calif., for more than $14 million.=20 He is survived by his wife, four children, a stepson and seven= grandchildren.=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: "Colleen Pyles" Subject: Re: Re: =?iso-8859-1?B?oA==?=(exotica) Brazeeel/60's New York Date: 06 May 2001 22:05:26 -0500 >lovely b+w shots of early 1960s New York Will...how can it be said any better?. JB/wistfully wishing for that cinematic moment in his reality ************************* Ah yes, JB, How I always wished to be in NYC in the late fifties and early sixties...that's when it was all happenin'. Every time I hear Sunday in New York, I have a fantasy New York to go to....colleen/wishing she was Holly Golightly 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: Re: (exotica) Found this weekend..... Date: 06 May 2001 22:22:18 -0500 alan wrote: 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. ************************ Alan, I'm not sure what your"image" is...but I don't think you can shatter our innocence...I've always thought you were a dirty old uncle.....just joking, I'm dying to see your film. too. 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" Subject: (exotica) Who's influenced who here? Date: 06 May 2001 23:21:18 -0400 I was asked by a fellow listee to look into a similarity between a Residents LP (Fingerprince) and a sound from a German schlager song. A long shot maybe, but when I made the comparison I couldn't come to any conclusion. However, here I was putting together this week's Space Bop show and I happen to be listening to Les Baxter's "Skins" LP (circa 1956) and immediately thought back to that Residents LP, so I listened to it again. It may not be a sampled Baxter but it's certainly a similar piece to "Afro-Deesia" or at least a similar rhythm pattern in the beginning of the Residents piece, and the similarities continue on from there. I'm kind of happy this all came up, as the whole side 2 of Fingerprince "Six Things to a Cycle" has a very exotic, al la Martin Denny-Les Baxter sound to it, and frankly, it was one Rz album I hadn't ever given a lot of listening time to, as I passed it off as just another Moleshow period recording. And I probably would never have made the connection without these past few years of exotica inspired listening. Lesson learned for me: Play your records more often stupid! Thanks Rock for the motivation... 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: "Nathan Miner" Subject: Re: (exotica) Ray Barretto -- Senor 007 Date: 07 May 2001 09:17:10 -0400 Yes, this album is good, although it's very coooool arrangement wise, = don't expect the usual pound, pound, poundnig of bass in the background as = Secret Agent Man scuba dives underneath the enemy vessel. They're all bossa nova-ish, Mexicali with predominant horn section. Didn't know it was rare, glad I copied my 50 cent LP onto tape! - 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) Capitol Song Contest Date: 07 May 2001 09:19:52 -0400 Since I have been too tired to shop for records lately (a combination of diet, exercise and yardwork, but hey, I am losing weight), I decided to look at the albums that I HAVE already and I came across a couple of interesting discoveries: 1. Alan Livingston's name shows up on ALL of the Capitol Kiddie records advertised on the back of the "Sparky's Magic Piano" LP; Bozo, Woody Woodpecker (to the left of Woody is...POPEYE!?) and, of course "Sparky..." itself. I also found out that he starred as the ringmaster in one of the Bozo TV shows (how many label heads have appeared on kid's shows?). According to one site, he created Bozo (?) 2. The inner sleeve mentions a contest, which I lost, but I was born in 1963 and the contest ended in 1962. I blame the judges. In any case, it seems that Capitol issued a record of songs with no words and ran a contest to have people write lyrics to them. Has anyone heard this album and was it ever issued more than once, as a sort of before and after thing? Brian Phillips (sing to the tune of "Cresta Blanca") # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Re:_Re:_=A0(exotica)_Brazeeel/60's_New_York?= Date: 07 May 2001 09:39:52 EDT In a message dated Sun, 6 May 2001 11:08:53 PM Eastern Daylight Time, "Colleen Pyles" writes: Ah yes, JB, How I always wished to be in NYC in the late fifties and early sixties...that's when it was all happenin'. Every time I hear Sunday in New York, I have a fantasy New York to go to....colleen/wishing she was Holly Golightly And tell me What street compares to Mott Street in July. The pushcarts gently gliding by.The city's a wondrous joy, for every young girl and boy...We'll turn Manhattan into an Isle of Joy 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: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) And the winner is..... Date: 07 May 2001 09:42:50 EDT In a message dated Sun, 6 May 2001 11:23:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time, "Colleen Pyles" writes: << alan wrote: 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 OK..let me be the first to declare our beloved "Nat" the Winner of the Gary Schandling Lookalike Contest...JB/saw the film and its gets five stars at this address # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) And the winner is..... Date: 07 May 2001 06:50:10 -0700 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-exotica@lists.xmission.com > [mailto:owner-exotica@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of DJJimmyBee@aol.com > Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 6:43 AM > OK..let me be the first to declare our beloved "Nat" the Winner > of the Gary Schandling Lookalike Contest...JB/saw the film and > its gets five stars at this address Didn't CMJ New Music Report already do that? Oh wait, that was Gilbert Gottfried... =) Later, 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: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Capitol Song Contest Date: 07 May 2001 10:00:06 -0400 Brian Phillips wrote: > The inner sleeve mentions a contest, which I lost, but I was born in 1963 and the contest ended in 1962. I blame the judges. In any case, it seems that Capitol issued a record of songs with no words and ran a contest to have people write lyrics to them. Has anyone heard this album and was it ever issued more than once, as a sort of before and after thing? ------------------ You can read more about that contest at: http://www.aspma.com/wrtalong/intro.htm 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: Brian Phillips Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Re:_Re:_ (exotica)_Brazeeel/60's_New_York?= Date: 07 May 2001 13:08:54 -0400 >And tell me What street compares to Mott Street in July. The pushcarts >gently gliding by.The city's a wondrous joy, for every young girl and >boy...We'll turn Manhattan into an Isle of Joy Careful! That kind of talk could get Julius LaRosa fired! HowareyaHowareyaHowareya, 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: "jonathan richardson" Subject: Re: (exotica) Ray Barretto -- Senor 007 Date: 07 May 2001 10:40:14 -0700 >Didn't know it was rare, glad I copied my 50 cent LP onto tape! I didnt think it was rare. I have 2 copies, why? I dont know cause sometimes just one aint good enough. anyway I have transferred my best copy to cd-r and it pairs with Dick Hyman Man from O.R.G.A.N if anyone is interested in a cdr trade. But thats not the reason ive posted here today to this grand list, the reason is that I picked up a record at my favorite flea market that I want to boast. Vol. III of Soothing Sounds for Baby by Raymond Scott. I had my doubts when this was re-issued, i thought it was some DJ pulling the wool over our eyes and putting out one of those "fake" old records to make us all think that here was this genius dude doing electronic music for babies in the early 60s and we never knew about it. I didnt really think this but I had never seen an original of any of these, so I had a little doubt, until yesterday. When quickly flipping through the crate I went right over the top of it, it didnt even register until I was about 20 record past it. I couldnt believe my eyes. At any rate, its in Mono. Was wondering if it was ever released in stereo. Is the re-issue in stereo? Anyone else here have an original? Now I have to find Vols I and II. I reflipped through the crates just to see if I had missed the first 2 volumes, but to no avail. And I asked the woman, whom I proudly gave my dollar to for the record, if she had any more records thinking she might have the other 2 stashed away. She pointed me towards her "Collectible" records which of course consisted of thrashed Elvis records and Beatle records with no covers which she wanted $20 each for. What is the deal with Elvis and Beatle records? I find this to be a very funny thing that people think just because its Elvis or the Beatles that they have to charge all this money for them. Dont they realize that these two artists probably sold more records than nearly anyone other artists? There are BILLIONS of Elvis and Beatles records in the world, why do they think them so valuable and rare??? am I ranting? anyway im glad she had kept that Soothing Sounds aside for me, and im sure glad that Elvis didnt do any singing on it. -jonny _________________________________________________________________ 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: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) Ray Barretto -- Senor 007 Date: 07 May 2001 15:07:24 -0400 At 10:40 AM 5/7/01 -0700, jonathan richardson wrote: > > >>Didn't know it was rare, glad I copied my 50 cent LP onto tape! > >I didnt think it was rare. I have 2 copies, why? I dont know cause sometimes >just one aint good enough. anyway I have transferred my best copy to cd-r >and it pairs with Dick Hyman Man from O.R.G.A.N if anyone is interested in a >cdr trade.. Hey quit it with the "I didn't know it was rare" business. "Rare" is supposed to mean that very few copies exist. But effectively it has come to mean it's been "identified" as something people want and now it's hard to find a copy for cheap. Most of us have probably stumbled upon a record that others here are dying to find. Yesterday at the record show here, I saw at least a dozen records for a couple of bucks that I already had but which I'm sure somebody here would be thrilled to find. (I'm through with record shows myself. But that's another story.) Anyway just quit it. And you can do me a favor and also quit talking about my appearance. And finally, if anyone here is friendly with the journalist Christopher Hitchens, please let me know. 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: Re: (exotica) Nino Nardini & Toger Roger "Jungle Osession" Date: 07 May 2001 19:21:14 -0000 Chuck wrote: >Nino Nardini & Roger Roger "Jungle Obsession" Dare Dare 2001 > But Wow does this >album ever capture that exotica feeling of a far off mysterious >land. The songs are almost all instrumental with only the briefest >ooos and ahhhs. I am surprised how well this album captures a >south pacific jungle paradise. There are even the occasional bird >calls! Classic Exotica from 1971! Yeah!!! I just picked this one up in Toronto (along with about 70 other records of varying quality from the Toronto Record Show) and I couldn't agree more. Exotica meets psych, with an early 70's groove. Stellar lp. Highlly recommended. 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: "Nathan Miner" Subject: (exotica) Rod McKuen..... Date: 07 May 2001 15:46:45 -0400 Tried to look him up in the archives but couldn't find anything.....didn't = he come up in some discussions here?? Over the weekend I picked-up an LP on the Somerset label, looks like a = re-issue.....................this must've come from the same person who = donated all of the Rod poetry books in the book section. Haven't listened to it.................the person I was with (poet) just = groaned and rolled her eyes when she asked where the poetry section was = and I pointed and said, "Right there, see all the Rod McKuen books?!?" - 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: "ronnie edgar" Subject: (exotica) organ led funky stuff Date: 07 May 2001 22:03:15 +0100 Just came across a new compilation by an old Acid Jazz set called Corduroy, it is very good, kinda like the very groovy stuff you get on "Ironside" type shows when there is a club scene. Very Groovy Yours Ronnie # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Ray Barretto -- Senor 007 Date: 07 May 2001 20:50:53 -0400 Alan, I'm dying to hear the "other story", about why this was your last record show. 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: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) Rod McKuen..... Date: 07 May 2001 22:43:51 -0400 At 03:46 PM 5/7/01 -0400, Nathan Miner wrote: > >Tried to look him up in the archives but couldn't find anything.....didn't he come up in some discussions here?? > >Over the weekend I picked-up an LP on the Somerset label, looks like a re-issue.....................this must've come from the same person who donated all of the Rod poetry books in the book section. I've mentioned Rod a number of times. I like his crooning records. He does great versions of "He ain't heavy he's my brother" and "Lilac Wine". I like his songwriting, especially tunes like "A Single Man" and "The Lonely Things". I kind of like his poetry records. But mostly I like the Earth/Sky etc records he made with Anita Kerr. I know that his poetry is discredited but I think a lot of it has to do with how popular he was. Sort of like Dave Brubeck. "He can't be good if he's selling that many copies to people who normally wouldn't buy poetry". I think you could hide some of his poems in modern poetry anthologies and no one would be the wiser. It's certainly much much better than this Paul McCartney book of poetry that's out there now. I saw one poem to Linda. Something like "She was the yin to yang, She was the skin for my wang. She was the sun and the moon and the june and tune". Anyway I like Rod and I'll defend him to the death. 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: "basic hip" Subject: (exotica) New York / Tony Schwartz Date: 07 May 2001 21:29:42 -0700 Colleen wrote: Well, you can be - sort of. It may not be as glamorous as NYC through the eyes of Hollywood, but that's OK. Visit New York City in the late 50's through Tony Schwartz's field recordings of the sounds and people of New York. It's the most wonderful stuff. You've seen photos of New York. You've watched video footage. Now listen to New York. It's like browsing through a stranger's old photo album - except these are audio snapshots. From 1945-1976, Tony Schwartz created and produced a weekly radio program of people and sounds of New York on WNYC (AM & FM). With Webcor wire recorder, he taped the people and sounds around him, "documenting life in sound and pictures". From this hobby developed one of the world's largest and most diverse collections of voices, both prominent and unknown, street sounds and music, a collection that resulted in nineteen phonograph albums for Folkways and Columbia Records. The Library of Congress has requested that the entire body of Tony Schwartz's material be housed in their archives. Here are a few of those recordings: The New York Taxi Driver (Columbia) Conversations and stories recorded with taxi drivers while riding in their cabs during the 1950's and 60's. Nueva York (Folkways FP 58/2) A tape documentary about the migration of Puerto Rican people to New York City. Music in the Streets (Folkways FD 5581) http://www.basichip.com/covers/schwartz.jpg A documentary of the different outdoor musical environments in New York City. Moondog interview (1:10) http://www.basichip.com/sounds/moondog.mp3 Washington Square folk girl (1:32) http://www.basichip.com/sounds/washington_square.mp3 One, Two, Three and a Zing Zing Zing (Folkways FP 703) Street games and songs of the children of New York City. Sounds of My City (Folkways) The stories, music and sounds of the people of New York. A Dog's Life (Folkways) http://www.basichip.com/covers/dog.jpg The sound of the first year of the life of a dog; all the people the dog meets and all the situations a dog goes through in his first year. Narration by Ralph Bell - many will recognize his voice. Warm, funny, priceless! Sound clip one (1:21) http://www.basichip.com/sounds/dog1.mp3 Sound clip two (1:54) http://www.basichip.com/sounds/dog2.mp3 New York 19 (Folkways FP 58) http://www.basichip.com/covers/ny19.jpg A tape documentary of the non-commercial musical life in New York City's postal zone 19 during the 1940's and 50's. Puerto Rican Juke Box Translation (1:32) http://www.basichip.com/sounds/translation.mp3 Street Preacher (:52) http://www.basichip.com/sounds/preacher.mp3 Grocer (:57) http://www.basichip.com/sounds/grocer.mp3 Children At Play (:30) http://www.basichip.com/sounds/children.mp3 You're Stepping On My Shadow (Folkways FD 5582) Sound stories that were first presented on Tony Schwartz's WNYC morning radio program. I love New York and I love Tony Schwartz for making these recordings. You'll have a tough time finding the originals, but you can get cassettes and CD-Rs of them through the Smithsonian / Folkways site. I'd urge everybody to check him 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: kendoll Subject: (exotica) big bundle Date: 07 May 2001 23:22:43 -0600 a tale of woe, alas! today at the sally ann i came upon a copy the soundtrack of "the biggest bundle of them all," a caper film from 1968 with music by riz ortolani. the cover was in mint condition but there was no record inside. i thought of buying the cover anyway (raquel welch in a bikini) but i knew i would just be taunted by not having the record so i didn't. musically speaking, what am i missing? 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) Jean Jacques Perrey library LP part 2 and Rhapsody in Steel Date: 08 May 2001 12:16:20 +0100 I just got another stone mint MP2000 (Montparnasse) library LP by Jean Jacques Perrey - Moog Generation (MP27). This one also features Harry Breuer (weren't both of them responsible for The Happy Moog?) and Pat Prilly. I'll be sticking this one on Ebay soon for another potentially massively overpriced bidding war. And does anybody know anything about Dimitri Tiomkin's Rhapsody of Steel soundtrack? I've seen it for a lot of money but just won it on Ebay for very little money. I know I probably wont like the record and I don't really know why I bid apart from the fact that it was cheap and in mint condition. Sometimes I feel like a scavenger. 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: "Nathan Miner" Subject: (exotica) Weekend LP's..... Date: 08 May 2001 09:10:55 -0400 Added to the collection this past Saturday are: (not listened to yet) Another Brass Ring LP "Only Love" this time around. This is a gatefold = cover with a square cut out of the center. Beneath is a scary close-up of = two mouths/sets of lips gnawing on each other. Open it up to see the "big = picture" - oh! a rapturous couple embracing and........well........looks = like she's attempting to remove his lower lip!! The left-side of the = gatefold includes poetry re-prints like Wordsworth's "She Was a Phantom of = Delight." Rod McKuen "In the Beginning" - this looks like a re-issue on the Sunset = Records label. There's an odd note that says "Electronically re-recorded = to simulate s-t-e-r-e-o" The track Sinner Man includes credits to Will = Holt and Les Baxter(?). Here's a weird one. It's a Greek LP called Pycckaa Gananavka - Russian = Balalaika. I don't usually buy Greek albums but this one's cover is make = up of shockingly vibrant day-glo colors with a "hunter orange" background = and hand-done bubble lettering that makes it look like a hippies worst = trip. Smack in the center is a weird drawing of a young "groover" doing = an impossible sort of standing split with his legs bending in opposite = directions while strumming a rectangular shaped "guitar" - and he's = wearing vertically striped pants. Haven't listened yet......... 101 Strings Plus Guitars Galore Vol. 2 - Didn't know Vol. 1 was such a = hit. From the back cover, "...all in the groove of the pop and underground= scene of today. Over 130 players sending you to *where it is*! Got it = for their version of House of the Rising Sun. Sammy Kaye "Swing and Sway in Hawaii" - Took a chance on this to hear = Kaye's original song, Diamond Head Sword Dance. Hope it's 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: "basic hip" Subject: Re: (exotica) big bundle Date: 08 May 2001 06:27:50 -0700 > a tale of woe, alas! today at the sally ann i came upon a copy the > soundtrack of "the biggest bundle of them all," a caper film from 1968 > with music by riz ortolani....musically speaking, what am i missing? It pretty much follows the same formula that many soundtracks to this kind of movie do. A couple of throw away orchestra pieces. A couple of easy listening pieces A cool jazz number A comedy track A chase or "action" scene with music to match A "hip or groovy" track - in this case, it's called "In The Night Club" Listen here: http://www.basichip.com/sounds/bundle.mp3 This Lp also has a vocal by Johnny Mathis AND Eric Burdon and the Animals! Overall, a very enjoyable and varied score that is probably much better than the Modesty Blaise I (wisely) passed on and way more affordable. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Weekend LP's.....(part 2) Date: 08 May 2001 09:23:20 -0400 Is there a length limit?? Three entries got cut off??.......... Tommy Dorsey Orch. "More Tea for Two Cha Chas" - They do An Occasional Man = cha cha?? =20 The Guitar Kings "Lovin' Time" - from the Time Records label, so I hope it = "rocks." I liked the close-up female face and the title........ Dan and Dale "Thunderball and Other Themes" - Here's what I thought to be = a great find, but I played a few tracks and it has very *corny* arrangement= s that put a totally new "spin" on the "spy music" genre. Not what I was = expecting - but now that I know, I can listen again........the cover is = great James Bond fantasy stuff - a photo of a guy in white coat and = bow-tie holding his silenced pistol towering over a girl on the floor in a = red wet suit (how they managed to outline the breasts in a wet suite??) = that barely covers her thighs. She holds a spear gun. A very prominent = yellow sticker on the front cover states "This is not the original sound = track - the 10 additional tunes are originals composed by Dan and Dale." = I guess they feared legal action.......... - 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: "Colleen Pyles" Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) Ray Barretto -- Senor 007 Date: 08 May 2001 08:57:17 -0500 Me too..................Colleen ---- Begin Original Message ---- Sent: Mon, 07 May 2001 20:50:53 -0400 Alan, I'm dying to hear the "other story", about why this was your last record show. Will Will Straw, Associate Professor and Acting Chair, Department of Art History and Communications Studies McGill University 853 Sherbrooke Street W. Montreal, QC =A0H3A 2T6 Canada Phone: =A0(514) 398 7667 =A0Fax: =A0(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. ---- End Original Message ---- 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) Weekend LP's.....(part 2) Date: 08 May 2001 09:54:33 -0500 > From: "Nathan Miner" > Tommy Dorsey Orch. "More Tea for Two Cha Chas" - They do An Occasional Man cha > cha?? > Is this the Warren Covington album? I don't listen to his albums as much as I used to, but I always liked his albums. It seems to me it takes a lot of nerve to try to replace a giant like Tommy Dorsey, and maybe the effort was ill-conceived, but the albums are still good. Did he ever do a spy/jazz album, like Si Zentner or Ralph Marterie, or were they all variations on the cha-cha theme? 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: "Nathan Miner" Subject: Re: (exotica) Tommy Dorsey...... Date: 08 May 2001 10:11:38 -0400 ....Yeah, I think it's with the "Warren Covington Orch." or something = like that. The cover has an "up angle" close toe to head shot of two gals = stompin' out the cha cha......... - Nate=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: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) an occasional song Date: 08 May 2001 10:41:27 EDT In a message dated Tue, 8 May 2001 10:08:07 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Clayton Black writes: > From: "Nathan Miner" > Tommy Dorsey Orch. "More Tea for Two Cha Chas" - They do An Occasional Man cha > cha?? There is also an exotica/latin-flavored version of the same song on one of those Dynamic Percussion LP's (there were 3 i believe). I cannot remember the name of the orchestra that played them as they are only mentioned in the liners, BUTT, the liners were scribed by Nat Hentoff. This song may be of interest due to the fact that Don Tiki resurrected it on their maiden voyage with the Mark Ryden cover (a realllly PHATTT cover BTW). It was originally recorded by Jeri Sothern back in the 50's and was something of a lost item. Maybe Fluid Floyd can fill us in further.....JB/still weilding that tiki Floyd! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) an occasional song...man..... Date: 08 May 2001 10:43:51 -0400 I've heard early versions of this on am radio "The Music of Your Life" in = the mornings while riding to work. =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: Kirsten Noel Whitley Subject: (exotica) New Go-Go Date: 08 May 2001 10:56:45 -0500 (CDT) Howdy everybody, From Monday's edition of All Things Considered: Did anyone hear the segment yesterday about a Mexican rock band that plays "go-go" music for toddlers? While they jam out, they let their audience (which range from 3 to 8 years of age) get up on stage and dance around. Their songs seem to be on the garagey side, including one entitled "My Grandfather is a Go-Go Zombie". I would love to hear it... or, at least know what the lyrics are. Here's the info from the ATC website; You can listen to the story here: Mexican Go-go (14.4 | 28.8) -- Jerry Haden reports on a Go-Go band in Mexico that appeals to children 10 years old and younger. They're climbing up the charts. (5:30) http://search.npr.org/cf/cmn/cmnpd01fm.cfm?PrgDate=05/07/2001&PrgID=2 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: Re: (exotica) an occasional song...man..... Date: 08 May 2001 12:36:47 -0500 There is a wonderful jazz-exotica version of "Occasional Man" on that album Cal Tjader did with Anita O'Day. I can't remember the name of the album right now, but I think it is something like "Time for Two". It has been reissued on CD by Verve and is great stuff. Check it 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: Kevin Crossman Subject: Re: (exotica) an occasional song Date: 08 May 2001 10:17:09 -0700 DJJimmyBee@aol.com wrote: > This song may be of interest due to the fact that Don Tiki resurrected it on their maiden voyage with the Mark Ryden cover (a realllly PHATTT cover BTW). It was originally recorded by Jeri Sothern back in the 50's and was something of a lost item. Maybe Fluid Floyd can fill us in further.....JB/still weilding that tiki Floyd! Martin Denny also recorded "An Occassional Man" on his "The Enchanted Isle" album. -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: chuck Subject: Re: (exotica) New Go-Go Date: 08 May 2001 10:25:24 -0700 (PDT) Hi Kirsten I listened to this. I got the biggest kick out of the punky little attitude of the band. "Make up an excuse for the teacher when she asks you why you were late for school" One song they played was based on "Wooly Bully" by Sam the Sham. Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck --- Kirsten Noel Whitley wrote: > > Howdy everybody, > > From Monday's edition of All Things Considered: > > Did anyone hear the segment yesterday about a Mexican rock band > that plays "go-go" music for toddlers? While they jam out, they __________________________________________________ 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: "james brouwer" Subject: Re: (exotica) Jean Jacques Perrey library LP part 2 and Rhapsody in Steel Date: 08 May 2001 17:46:22 -0000 >And does anybody know anything about Dimitri Tiomkin's Rhapsody of Steel >soundtrack? I've seen it for a lot of money but just won it on Ebay for >very >little money. could you post a small review of this OST when you get it? I for one would appreciate it. thanks Charles 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: "james brouwer" Subject: Re: (exotica) big bundle Date: 08 May 2001 17:50:52 -0000 hey mike >a tale of woe, alas! today at the sally ann i came upon a copy the >soundtrack of "the biggest bundle of them all," a caper film from 1968 >with music by riz ortolani. the cover was in mint condition but there >was no record inside. i thought of buying the cover anyway (raquel welch >in a bikini) but i knew i would just be taunted by not having the record >so i didn't. musically speaking, what am i missing? I had this a couple of years ago and after listening to it a couple of times I thought the best thing about it was the cover. I sold it, and I don't remember the music being particularly good at all, it was probably a bit too stringy and traditional, not enough pop fun or twisted experimentation for my taste. I know the regret of no-record-in-the-sleeve thrift store finds. my sympathies. 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) Weekend LP's..... Date: 08 May 2001 14:01:27 -0400 At 09:10 AM 5/8/01 -0400, Nathan Miner wrote: > I don't usually buy Greek albums but this one's cover is make up of shockingly vibrant day-glo colors with a "hunter orange" background and hand-done bubble lettering that makes it look like a hippies worst trip. Smack in the center is a weird drawing of a young "groover" doing an impossible sort of standing split with his legs bending in opposite directions while strumming a rectangular shaped "guitar" - and he's wearing vertically striped pants. Haven't listened yet......... Don't listen. There's almost no way the music could match that cover. I have had the odd Polish rock record that sounded a bit like the Iron Butterfly but usually these covers have no connection to the music inside. Still, I certainly would have bought that record. Just like yesterday I bought a CD called "Apollo plays Burt Bacharach" or something. It's Tom Parker, the Apollo guy who made those moogy records. I love his version of Popcorn with the voices on it. But this record has no moog. It's just well-played jazz. I didn't want well-played jazz!!! I passed up a JJ Perrey CD for this one. Yes appearances can be deceiving but when it's got a cover like that Greek one, we don't mind being deceived. 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) Weekend LP's.....(part 2) Date: 08 May 2001 14:08:35 -0400 At 09:23 AM 5/8/01 -0400, Nathan Miner wrote: >Tommy Dorsey Orch. "More Tea for Two Cha Chas" - They do An Occasional Man cha cha?? I know that tune from a Tony Hatch record. Amazing version I think. Throw it into an Austin Powers movie and no one would be the wiser. >Dan and Dale "Thunderball and Other Themes" - Is this the Dan and Dale record that WASN'T played by Sun Ra and Al Kooper? Either way you could probably pretend it was played by them and put it out on ebay for huge dollars. That is, if you don't want it. I usually really like these compilations. I just got through putting mine on CDR. There's a lot of really good ones, I think. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Weekend LP's..... Date: 08 May 2001 14:07:34 -0400 Alan: I totally agree about the music not matching the cover - I'm expecting = Greek "standards" when the needle drops.........just couldn't pass it up = though, I was possessed that day and just picking out *anything* that = looked at all interesting - that happens sometimes.............I also = bought a stupid "The Polynesians" Hawaii-type rip-off album just for the = cover. 3 guys in matching loud shirts, white pants, and patent leather = shoes, ukeleles and a gal in grass skirt shimmying in the center. Hey, you mentioned this Appollo guy (Tom Parker). I was going to post = about one of his albums.....I think it's called "Joy." He covers a lot of = classical songs (and the arrangements are fun). The back has a blurb from = Beethoven or someone like that as though he were still around and = listening to this album. Weird. Can we expound on this guy a little bit??=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: alan zweig Subject: (exotica) record show no no Date: 08 May 2001 14:33:42 -0400 The reason I will be trying to resist record shows in the future is simply because my collecting habits have taken that "quality instead of quantity" twist. If you're buying fistfuls of dollar and two dollar records and taking a chance on most of them, that's one thing. But these days I almost have to force myself to buy that kind of record. For the most part, the records that catch my eye are either soundtracks or soft pop psychedelia. And though there was one guy who had this stuff cheapish (Peanut Butter Conspiracy for five bucks), for the most part this stuff goes for upwards of fifteen dollars. If you're wrong half the time, that's a lot of money wasted. And it's profoundly more disappointing to drop the needle on a fifteen dollar record only to find out it's a bad boogie rock band than it is to drop it on a one dollar record and find out there's no groovy organ flourishes. That's all. For the kind of record I'm attracted to, I need a store where I can actually play the thing. The four records that broke my heart on Sunday were Underground Sunshine (I should have looked more closely at their hair) Sunrise (a truly awful record. I figured 1974 was too late but took a chance) Central Nervous System (psychedelic cover, Tom Wilson production. I got carried away. It actually IS what it looks like and it's not something I want.) The Cascades (they have the same graphics as Sunshine Company, it's on Uni, they have sort of bad hair but it's awful country rock) And can someone tell me why Quincy Jones soundtrack to the Cactus Flower has instrumental versions of "To Sir with Love" and "I'm a believer"???? 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) record show no no Date: 08 May 2001 14:33:48 -0400 Alan's tip of the day: Look for the bad hair!! (That really got me laughing: "I should have looked more closely at their = hair.") - 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: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Weekend LP's..... Sinner Man Date: 08 May 2001 16:18:36 -0400 >Rod McKuen "In the Beginning" >The track Sinner Man includes credits to Will Holt and Les Baxter(?). I have the 45 of "Sinner Man" by "Les Baxter, His Orchestra and Chorus." Will Holt is credited with the lead vocal. The songwriting credit goes to Les Baxter and Will Holt. Rod would have to go some way to top this high-drama version. It seems to me that some post-punk person (like Nick Cave or someone like that) did a version in the 80s or early 90s. Anyone know? Thanks. (the flip is "Tango Of The Drums" (writing credit to Lotar Olias?)) 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) Woo Woo's World / Weegee's World Date: 08 May 2001 16:20:46 -0400 >AMC's American Pop presented "College Confidential" last night. I'd >never seen it before and was pleasantly surprised by how entertaining it >was. It had its moments, but I wish they'd show its naughtier sibling, "Sex Kittens Go To College". I was amused by the final scene of Steve & Jayne walking off into the distance chattering away. It felt like a setup for a TV detective series in a "Thin Man" vein... Steve's the wacky professor with a sympathetic ear and a penchant for noble crusades, Jayne's the nosy reporter who does his legwork and bails him out of trouble. They move to Manhattan, and it's another crazy case every week. Once a season there could be a "very special" serious episode where Steve falls off the wagon (I'm referring to his character in the movie, not real life) and gets to go for an Emmy. Show title? "Strictly Academic" And hitting another thread, it's nice to see I'm not the only one who feels a strong pull from that movie-mythologized New York City. And it's not just the glossy Tashlin, Wilder, "Bell, Book & Candle" versions, but the grittier noir versions too. Even the outer boroughs ("Little Fugitive"). Is it imprinting from the NYC-centric material I read in MAD magazine as a tyke? --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) Weekend LP's.....(part 2) Date: 08 May 2001 16:21:17 -0400 > >Dan and Dale "Thunderball and Other Themes" - > >Is this the Dan and Dale record that WASN'T played by Sun Ra and Al Kooper? I suspect that the busy Dan & Dale discography never used the same players twice. But that's just my intuition. --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: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) That NYC World Date: 08 May 2001 16:57:44 EDT In a message dated 5/8/1 3:19:54 PM, mace@ookworld.com wrote: >And hitting another thread, it's nice to see I'm not the only one who feels >a strong pull from that movie-mythologized New York City. Sorry Stanley, no fish today. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) That NYC World Date: 08 May 2001 17:01:32 EDT In a message dated 5/8/1 3:58:49 PM, DJJimmyBee@aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 5/8/1 3:19:54 PM, mace@ookworld.com wrote: > >>And hitting another thread, it's nice to see I'm not the only one who feels >>a strong pull from that movie-mythologized New York City. When I go to NYC I'm still in that mythologized noirish version of NYC. That's why I love the place I guess. Plus the energy. JB/if i had to live there........ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: tikiman Subject: Re: (exotica) an occasional song Date: 08 May 2001 15:38:57 -0700 (PDT) Aloha JB, Kevin, et al- Never heard Jeri Sothern' version, but bet it's great. Our reference to the tune was the version by Judy Holliday on "Trouble is a Man." I know that it's also been covered by Julie London, Sarah Vaughn, Anita O'Day and Tony Hatch... probably many others. The man who did our "realllly PHATTT cover"...Mark Ryden is an amazing artist and you should check him out (markryden.com). His recurring themes are tiki, meat, Abe Lincoln, Cristina Ricci, bees. It was a major coup for us to have him do the art for our cover. The new issue of Communications Arts, a glossy mag for professional graphic designers, has his art on the cover with a feature on his work which includes album covers for Aerosmith, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Oingo Boingo, Michael Jackson ("Dangerous") and others. We nevah knew! We found him via his covers for Capitol of the Martin Denny and Les Baxter comps. Mark rules...IMHO! ciao for now, FF > DJJimmyBee@aol.com wrote: > > This song may be of interest due to the fact that > Don Tiki resurrected it on their maiden voyage with > the Mark Ryden cover (a realllly PHATTT cover BTW). > It was originally recorded by Jeri Sothern back in > the 50's and was something of a lost item. Maybe > Fluid Floyd can fill us in further.....JB/still > weilding that tiki Floyd! > > Martin Denny also recorded "An Occassional Man" on > his "The Enchanted > Isle" album. > > -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: alan zweig Subject: (exotica) liner notes pit beatniks against hippies Date: 08 May 2001 20:15:32 -0400 You don't normally see them praising the hippies by putting down the beatniks but here's what it says on the Peanut Butter Conspiracy record "Is Spreading": "... many people still think of underground in terms of the Beats of the 50's - a group clustered in the Village, North Beach and Venice, whose sense of style ran the narrow gamut from black leotards to drab Army jackets. The new underground still lives in clusters - the East Village, Haight-Ashbury, around the Sunset Strip - but it is impossible not to notice them: all these wildly colored capes, flowered shirts , and knee-length moccassin boots. Most of all, you can hear the new underground. The Beats had a whole bunch of guys reading monotonous poems in a monotonous tone of voice. For the new underground, it is electronically amplified rock, and the songs they sing are celebrating what should be a simple thing but rarely is: that people should enjoy all of the possibilities of their lives. This is not being said in the old June-moon-croon style of the 40's; or the adenoidal be-mah-teenage-queen style of the 50's; but with a real sense of lyric poetry around it." If you could all now turn to their picture on the front cover, I will explain how three of them can have pretty convincing long hair and yet still have the right kind of hair to take a chance on the 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: TempoBlock@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Ray Barretto -- Senor 007 Date: 08 May 2001 20:59:41 EDT In a message dated 5/8/01 1:53:14 PM, owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com writes: >Was wondering if it was ever >released in stereo. Is the re-issue in stereo? No, & nope. . # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Ray Barretto -- Senor 007 Date: 08 May 2001 19:52:51 -0700 >>Was wondering if it was ever >>released in stereo. Is the re-issue in stereo? > No, & nope. Just got a message from Will at Show and Tell (who can't leave or post to the list) that his copy of Senor 007 is in (((((STEREO))))), so it must be. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Robert Cohen" Subject: (exotica) Re: Rod McKuen..... Date: 09 May 2001 07:29:19 -0400 > Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 22:43:51 -0400 > From: alan zweig > Subject: Re: (exotica) Rod McKuen..... > > I've mentioned Rod a number of times. I like his crooning records. He does > great versions of "He ain't heavy he's my brother" and "Lilac Wine". I > like his songwriting, especially tunes like "A Single Man" and "The Lonely > Things". > I kind of like his poetry records. But mostly I like the Earth/Sky etc > records he made with Anita Kerr. > I know that his poetry is discredited but I think a lot of it has to do > with how popular he was. Sort of like Dave Brubeck. "He can't be good if > he's selling that many copies to people who normally wouldn't buy poetry". > I think you could hide some of his poems in modern poetry anthologies and > no one would be the wiser. > It's certainly much much better than this Paul McCartney book of poetry > that's out there now. I saw one poem to Linda. Something like "She was > the yin to yang, She was the skin for my wang. She was the sun and the > moon and the june and tune". > Anyway I like Rod and I'll defend him to the death. > > AZ Alan, I long ago dismissed McKuen as a drivelly hack, whose shallow sentiments are coated with honey. Now that I've got that out of my system, I like what you wrote. I plan to rethink McKuen completely, as I see the McKuen/Kerr albums at yard sales all the time. And, I can relate to you as I am continually defending Karen Carpenter to the death, and people think I'm nuts. The only thing I have to be careful of is that when I start pulling McKuen albums out of a box, my friend Dan is not standing over anything fragile, as he is likely to get nauseous and do something embarrassing to both of us. :-) Thanks for defying the common wisdom, which, as we all know, is quite often wrong. 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 McKenna" Subject: Re: (exotica) Nino Nardini & Toger Roger "Jungle Osession" Date: 09 May 2001 12:28:02 BTW & Toger Roger would mean something rather rude over here... I seem to have an obsession with innocent phrases that are rude in other contexts. rob _________________________________________________________________________ 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: "Robert McKenna" Subject: Re: (exotica) Nino Nardini & Toger Roger "Jungle Osession" Date: 09 May 2001 12:28:28 BTW Toger Roger would mean something rather rude over here... I seem to have an obsession with innocent phrases that are rude in other contexts. rob _________________________________________________________________________ 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) an occasional song...man..... Date: 09 May 2001 05:45:23 -0700 (PDT) An recurrent topic. My favorite is Julie London's breathy version on, I think, Anything Julie Wants. Makes me feel all tingly and stuff. __________________________________________________ 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)buy cd-r's now- prices going up Date: 09 May 2001 09:00:00 -0400 Buy cd-rs now! prices going up http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/05/08/2315256 still, 3 for a buck ain't bad 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: "Robert McKenna" Subject: Re: (exotica) Rod McKuen..... Date: 09 May 2001 13:51:27 >Anyway I like Rod and I'll defend him to the death. > >AZ > He seems kind of cool. But he translated Brel appallingly. Absolute monstrosity. La Moribunde as 'seasons in the sun' and 'Ne me quitte pas' as 'If you go away'. Utter absolute kitsch schmaltz shite. I'd fight him to the death for that. rob _________________________________________________________________________ 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: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) [obit shorts] Charlie Applewhite, Herman Johnson, Billy Mitchell, Jerri Pollak, Evelyn Kuenneke Date: 09 May 2001 13:36:42 -0400 http://www.dallasnews.com/obituaries/354754_applewhite_02m.html Charlie Applewhite, crooner from Fort Worth, dies at 68 Charlie Applewhite, known as "the little man with the big voice," was a crooner from Fort Worth famous for his 1950s hits -------------- http://board.youreouttahere.com/webbbs_config.pl?read=190 SPRING HILL, Fla. (AP) - Herman ``Rock'' Johnston, a musician known for his innovative work on steel drums, died Monday of prostate cancer. He was 63. ----------- http://board.youreouttahere.com/webbbs_config.pl?read=199 saxaphonist Billy Mitchell dies Billy Mitchell, 74, a saxophonist who played in bands led by Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie and Woody Herman died April 18 of lung cancer at his home in Rockville Center NY. Born in Kansas City, Mitchell moved to Detroit as a youth and quickly honed his interest in music. Mainly a tenor sax player, he also played alto and soprano saxophone as well as flute and clarinet. He worked with Nat Towles' band in Detroit and Lucky Millander's Orchestra in New York in the late 1940s. He replaced Gene Ammons in the Woody Herman Orchestra in 1949. The high point in Mitchell's career was his stint with the Gillespie band in 1956 and '57. He played with Basie from 1957 to 1961 and later in the mid-1960s. Mitchell was very active in jazz education in New York City schools and offered seminars at Hofstra University and Yale. He spent more than 30 years as a resident player at a jazz spot in Seaford, N.Y., called Sonny's Place. --------------- http://board.youreouttahere.com/webbbs_config.pl?read=136 Jerri Pollak, singer, Beach philanthropist Jerri Kruger Pollak, singer, songwriter and Miami Beach philanthropist, died Saturday morning of injuries she suffered when she fell. She was 85. -------------- http://board.youreouttahere.com/webbbs_config.pl?read=115 BERLIN (AP) - Evelyn Kuenneke, a Berlin singer and cabaret artist whose tune "Sing Nightingale Sing" was a hit among German soldiers during World War II, died Saturday of lung cancer, her manager said. She was 79. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Otis on Irwin's show Date: 09 May 2001 14:30:26 -0400 Anyone else listening to Otis Fodder on Chusid's show right now? If not, you're missing something!! They're going until 4pm so you still have time to tune in. link via http://www.wfmu.org 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) Re: Rod McKuen..... Date: 09 May 2001 15:19:06 -0400 At 07:29 AM 5/9/01 -0400, Robert Cohen wrote: .>. I plan to rethink McKuen completely, as I see the >McKuen/Kerr albums at yard sales all the time. And, I can relate to you as >I am continually defending Karen Carpenter to the death, and people think >I'm nuts. . Karen Carpenter had a great voice and she knew how to use it. It's a distinction worth making in these sorry days of Celine Dion. Karen Carpenter never tried to impress you with her voice; she just sang the song. I think I once had anti-Carpenters feelings but that had a lot to do with the era in which they came out. They seemed like enemies at the time. And for some reason, Richard Carpenter seems like a bit of a dick. But I like their records and I listen to them and if "we've only just begun" comes on the radio, I swoon a little. As far as Rod goes, I don't know if it's the sound of his voice or something creepy about his personality or his immense popularity that turned people off. I wouldn't defend everything he did. It's just that he did a lot of different things and I like some of them. He may be an acquired taste. It's not as easy a call as Karen Carpenter. If someone were to find the spoken word records a little corny, I could see that. But the thing that's lovely about the Earth, Sky, Sea records are the musical pieces arranged and written by Anita Kerr. I don't mind the spoken word bits but the music is so nice that you can almost ignore the speaking. And as far as his crooning records go, some people don't like non-traditional voices. I do. I also like a guy called Robert Scott. But if you hate his voice, I still recommend the all-McKuen record that Frank Sinatra did. It's generally hated by Sinatra fans but so is another Sinatra record I love, namely "Watertown". I guess I like the Sinatra records that Sinatra fans hate. But it's not out of perversity. I genuinely like them. And that's the point, isn't it? Do people genuinely dismiss Rod McKuen or is it a kneejerk reaction? 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) Rod McKuen..... Date: 09 May 2001 15:45:39 -0400 At 01:51 PM 5/9/01, Robert McKenna wrote: >He seems kind of cool. But he translated Brel appallingly. Absolute >monstrosity. La Moribunde as 'seasons in the sun' and 'Ne me quitte pas' as >'If you go away'. Utter absolute kitsch schmaltz shite. Ne me quitte pas means I suppose, don't leave me. Do you have any suggestions for how that can be expressed in five syllables? To me the whole issue of translating lyrics or poetry has always been a thorny one. Lyrics by their very nature can't really be translated. And most of the time, when it's done, people complain. Especially if they love the original. I don't know about Brel in particular but I think that whole French tradition of which Brel was the most famous practitioner is a particularly French thing and really can't be translated into English. So I don't know if it's a good translation; I just think "If you go away" is a pretty good song and at the same time, it reminds me of a song form that is not "English". If you're not French and you don't speak French, you can't really expect to experience an artist like Brel. But in spite of that, people do expect it. They want the untranslatable translated. That's a very American viewpoint if you don't mind me saying. I'm not saying that's what YOU're demonstrating here but just in general. Anyway I don't know why I'm defending McKuen. I like "if you go away" on its own. If it turns out it's not a good translation, let someone else try their hand and do a better job. 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) Re: Rod McKuen..... Date: 09 May 2001 16:04:52 -0500 > From: alan zweig > I think I once had anti-Carpenters feelings but that had a lot to do with > the era in which they came out. My sentiments exactly. Somehow I knew the moment would appear when I could bring this up, but has anybody else seen the film "Superstar," in which the Carpenters are played by Barbie dolls? At first I thought that the gimmick of dolls was silly, but the longer I watched the more interesting it became and the less I noticed the dolls. The success of the film, as I saw it, was that it presented fascinating connections between the Carpenters' success and the national sense of disgrace that had set in with the failings of the war in Vietnam. At the same time, however, the feel-good quality of the Carpenters' music masked the unpleasant realities of Karen's struggle for control of her body (which the film largely, and perhaps unfairly--I'm in no position to judge--blames on her parents) just as it made the country feel good at a time when we were about to lose the war and the president was about to be revealed as a crook. My explanation may not do justice to the connections the film makes, but I went away from the film with a very high opinion of it and amazed at how thoroughly those tunes evoked the feeling of the early 70s (and I hated those sappy sentimental tunes back then). Unfortunately, the Carpenters' family has disallowed the use of the songs in "Superstar" (since they, understandably, disapprove of it), so the film is only available (as far as I know) in very grainy bootleg copies. Diehard Carpenters fans may hate it, but I thought it was great. 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: alan zweig Subject: (exotica) soundtrack question Date: 09 May 2001 16:23:46 -0400 The last two potentially groovy soundtracks I bought were not groovy at all, though "Harrad Summer" has some nice classic soundtrack moments. The other non groovy one is "Cactus Flower". But come on, if Harrad Summer isn't groovy, what is the world coming to? It's based on the Harrad Experiment which is all about sexy hippies having sex with everyone. And the soundtrack is by Pat Williams who is capable of being groovy. And yet the soundtrack sounds like warmed-over early sixties Mancini, which ain't bad but ain't groovy. It's 1974. Maybe that was too late for groovy. So now I need to know. Is the soundtrack to "Joe" by Joe Butler of the Lovin Spoonful, I assume, groovy in any way? I have wonderful memories of the film but of course I don't remember the soundtrack. And what about this thing called "The Baby Maker" with a score by "Ole Blue" whoever the hell that was? Yeah it's on ebay. If I go there tonight and there's a bunch of bids, I guess I'll know the answer to my questions. Was there a more clever way to ask my questions? Anyone? 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) Re: Rod McKuen..... Date: 09 May 2001 16:25:49 -0400 At 04:04 PM 5/9/01 -0500, Clayton Black wrote: c, but has anybody else seen the film "Superstar," in which the >Carpenters are played by Barbie dolls? If anyone has a copy of this, I'd love to trade anything for a copy of your copy. But otherwise this Todd Haynes film was pulled out of distribution by a Richard Carpenter lawsuit. It's now a legend. 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: Will Straw Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Rod McKuen..... Date: 09 May 2001 16:28:11 -0400 I saw Superstar, and llikewise loved it. I wish I could remember whose copy I borrowed. 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: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) soundtrack question Date: 09 May 2001 16:46:46 -0400 >But come on, if Harrad Summer isn't groovy, what is the world coming to? >It's based on the Harrad Experiment which is all about sexy hippies having >sex with everyone. And the soundtrack is by Pat Williams who is capable of >being groovy. I thought that Harrad Summer was the groovy sequel to the Harrad Experiment, in which the co-edded, co-habitating dormies "applied what they learned" (this was back in the days that the salacious paperback cover art made me go "ewww"). Is the soundtrack to "Joe" by Joe Butler of the Lovin Spoonful, I assume, >groovy in any way? I have wonderful memories of the film but of course I >don't remember the soundtrack. I have the soundtrack, but I have only listened to the cool, albeit not groovy song by Exuma, "You Don't Know What's Going On". I will listen to it and let ye know. Richard "Your suggestion for my nickname here" Holmes # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) soundtrack question Date: 09 May 2001 17:07:21 -0400 >Richard "Your suggestion for my nickname here" Holmes "SCHMOOOVE" ****************************************************** ***************************** ************* 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: Ben Waugh Subject: Re: (exotica) Rod McKuen..... Date: 09 May 2001 14:28:08 -0700 (PDT) I have no problems with the Rod translation: it's all a matter of sensibility. But there is nothing inscribed or spoken or chanted by humans that cannot be translated (shit, Queen Liz's man John Dee transcribed angelic speech). That seems to me a rational viewpoint. If understanding is always a local event, an individual would be hermetically closed in on himself- he could never express his pain, his joy, etc., to another and the other, of course, could never approach us. If the translator is fluent in each language - and by fluency I mean that s/he possesses a /French/ and an /American/ consciousness (which is really nothing but an interpretive comportment in/formed by language and experience), the thing will come off with reasonably accuracy. With regard to the sensitivity or artistic sensibility on the translator's part - well, that's one reason why things get translated over and over again. Who has read Rimbaud or Dostoyevsky in a language other than the original and not been moved? Is it possible the translation is a complete fraud? You might as well say that the 1969 moonlanding was a fraud - or that the US goverment had a hand in killing JFK. There is also the "it's a (name your favorite tribe) thing" , the "nuance" or insider factor, but that's the same with Green Bay fried cheese curds to a San Franscisco native. You get it or you don't. And the prerequisite for getting it is always the desire to, the openness to the task. In a sense, all understanding is an act of translation: We bring our local consciousness (i.e., ourselves: all our "foreknowledge", prejudices and expectations) to the task of communicating with another person (or text). Only if we are radically insensitive (or comatose)will we fail to understand the event opening before us. Christ, we integrate extreme borders of experience, such as cancer and genocide into words (which is to say, into consciousness)- why not a poem or a lyric? Sorry for the tractate... BW --- alan zweig wrote: > > Ne me quitte pas means I suppose, don't leave me. > Do you have any > suggestions for how that can be expressed in five > syllables? > To me the whole issue of translating lyrics or > poetry has always been a > thorny one. > Lyrics by their very nature can't really be > translated. .... > They want the untranslatable translated. ... > That's a very American viewpoint if you don't mind > me saying. __________________________________________________ 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: (exotica)Rod McCarpenters.... Date: 09 May 2001 18:19:48 EDT In a message dated 5/9/1 2:18:01 PM, azed@pathcom.com wrote: >I think I once had anti-Carpenters feelings but that had a lot to do with >the era in which they came out. But they were among the first to use the "direct tube" blow-driers...does that count? Or was it the use of the blowpdriers themselves that turned you off? I for one NEVER trusted their haircuts....JB/wearer of a pseudo-'fro in '73 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Re: Rod McKuen..... Date: 09 May 2001 18:24:43 EDT In a message dated 5/9/1 3:23:11 PM, azed@pathcom.com wrote: >At 04:04 PM 5/9/01 -0500, Clayton Black wrote: >c, but has anybody else seen the film "Superstar," in which the >>Carpenters are played by Barbie dolls? > >If anyone has a copy of this, I'd love to trade anything for a copy of your >copy. But otherwise this Todd Haynes film was pulled out of distribution >by a Richard Carpenter lawsuit. It's now a legend. emotion seconded..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: Micah Sittig Subject: (exotica) stab in the dark - my weekend Date: 09 May 2001 16:23:02 -0700 (PDT) So I've been lurking in the background of this list for a few months now and I feel like I finally may have managed to get a grasp of the weirdness in music that is appreciated here. I picked up a couple of records at a shop in town that tickled my newly developed fancy, would they be worth commenting on? The Mystic Moods Orchestra - "Emotions" Music From STAR WARS - Performed by the Electric Moog Orchestra (labelled "not the original soundtrack") Trans-Electronic Music Productions, Inc. Presents: Walter Carlos and the Well-Tempered Synthesizer More virtuoso electronic performances of Bach, Monteverdi, Scarlatti, Handel ----- In the four years I've been at Caltech, I've been to the Pasadena City College record sale once. Sunday mornings is just NOT a good time for college students. _Micah_ dual citizen with the Pizzicato 5 mailing list # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: Rod McKuen..... Date: 09 May 2001 16:33:19 -0700 (PDT) > At 04:04 PM 5/9/01 -0500, Clayton Black wrote: > c, but has anybody else seen the film "Superstar," > in which the > >Carpenters are played by Barbie dolls? I tried to find a copy of this years ago (maybe on this list?). I saw it at the last and now extinct Art/porn theater in DC. Great film (esp. how they whittle Karen/Barbie down as the Ex-Lax and purgings take their toll). Love to find a nice bootleg. The movie has been banned for years (Carpenter lawsuit, I think). __________________________________________________ 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: (exotica) harpsichord Date: 09 May 2001 21:47:07 -0400 I was just going through my ebay shelves - the shelves of records I will put on ebay if I ever qualify for a credit card - and I found a record I should have remembered a few weeks ago when someone was asking about exotic harpsichord. Then again, this may be the record they first mentioned when they asked if anyone knew of any OTHER exotic harpsichord records. But just in case this isn't the one that started the discussion... It's called Lonely Harpsichord "rainy night in Shangri-la" and it's by Jonathan Knight. tunes include bali hai, flamingo and of course quiet village. From the liner notes: "This is the utopian album for young romantics..." That would be exciting enough if they stopped right there. But no, it continues... "... it was designed to make every flirtation an affair to remember". Clearly that was written before anyone had ever uttered the words "sexual harassment". 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) stab in the dark - my weekend Date: 09 May 2001 21:51:11 -0400 At 04:23 PM 5/9/01 -0700, Micah Sittig wrote: > >So I've been lurking in the background of this list for a few months now >and I feel like I finally may have managed to get a grasp of the weirdness >in music that is appreciated here. I picked up a couple of records at a >shop in town that tickled my newly developed fancy, would they be worth >commenting on? Unless they're by Celine Dion, whatever records you find can somehow be squeezed into the territory of this list. I'm trying to think of something else that wouldn't fit. I guess some people might squawk if you got too enthusiastic about a Joan Baez record. Then again, Joan kind of sounds a bit like Yma Sumac. Maybe not. Anyway as it turns out the records you mention fit right in. >The Mystic Moods Orchestra - "Emotions" That's my favorite Mystic Moods record. Early Morning Rain, Homeward Bound. Even a Rod McKuen song if you want to tie discussions together. It also has Moog by Paul Beaver of Beaver and Krause (non-) fame. This record could hardly be more relevant to this list. In fact it's so relevant, that I'm tempted to demand an apology for your asking if it's relevant. >Music From STAR WARS - Performed by the Electric Moog Orchestra >(labelled "not the original soundtrack") It's Moog. Comment away. Tell us whether it's the good kind of cheesy moog or the bad kind of Keith Emerson moog. >Trans-Electronic Music Productions, Inc. Presents: >Walter Carlos and the Well-Tempered Synthesizer >More virtuoso electronic performances of Bach, Monteverdi, Scarlatti, >Handel Hmm. Well this may be the one yawner in the batch. Then again, this record is so well-known that perhaps many of us pass it over, wrongly assuming we know what it is. I must admit that I did that with the Tijuana Brass for the longest time but there are some good cuts I didn't know on their records. That goes double for the Baja Marimba Band. Which leads me to wonder if any of you have ever heard the Murray Roman comedy record in which he tells a story labelled "The Baja Marimba story" about a member of the band and one of their groupies. Sorry Micah, I used your post as a launching pad for my own selfish purposes. I had a friend named Micah at summer camp in 1965. He was a Jew from Georgia. Hebrew sounds funny with a Southern accent, let me tell you. I sometimes wonder about him. But I know that has nothing to do with you. Welcome to the list. I wish I had something to say about Cal Tech. 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: Pearmania@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Re: Rhapsody of Steel Date: 09 May 2001 22:14:11 EDT In a message dated 5/8/01 12:53:14 PM US Eastern Standard Time, charlesm@contentrepublic.com writes: << And does anybody know anything about Dimitri Tiomkin's Rhapsody of Steel soundtrack? >> I have this and it's great! It was commissioned by U.S. Steel and includes the logo on the jacket. Dmitri Tiomkin composed and conducted the piece which is 20-25 minutes long. Side One is all instrumental. Side Two is the same piece with narration by Gary Merrill. Merrill has one of those 50's bass, macho, corny voices which describes the history of steel. The story begins when a meteorite crashes to the earth bringing the "metal from heaven". He goes on to describe the discoveries of primitive man up until the Industrial Revolution. Then, we are given a step-by-step description of the steel refining process (complete with industrial sound effects and wild orchestral accompaniment). When we come to the present time, we are left to ponder the possibilities of steel in the space program as we here a rocket blast off for the moon. The music reminds me of those films we watched in 5th grade (that were at least 10 years old at the time) that detailed "modern technology" and the glory of human achievement -- very American, very fifties. The orchestra gets their workout. There are a lot of percussion bits and fast instrumental passages. Sean # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Rod to Carpenters Date: 09 May 2001 22:23:48 -0400 >At the same time, however, the feel-good quality of the >Carpenters' music Ah, but don't forget their exquisite downer tunes, such as "Goodbye To Love". Karen's delivery just nails those tunes right into your aching heart. And as I've mentioned before, for a less typical Carpenters album, get "Ticket To Ride" (originally titled "Offering"). As their first album, it precedes the format lockdown that occurred after their first big hit with the second album. 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: "basic hip" Subject: Re: (exotica) soundtrack question Date: 09 May 2001 19:37:45 -0700 don't cha think Doin' the Dentist (Cactus Flower) is kinda groovy? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) record show no no Date: 09 May 2001 21:26:47 -0400 Alan Zweig: > my collecting habits have taken that "quality instead of quantity" > twist. If you're buying fistfuls of dollar and two dollar records and > taking a chance on most of them, that's one thing. But these days I almost > have to force myself to buy that kind of record. I remember having this conversation before but I think Alan has come around to seeing my way of record shopping. I used to justify it with the argument of not having the time to look for cheaper things but I realized not so long ago that time wasn't a factor as there just wasn't much out there of much value at giveaway prices and there wouldn't likely be more coming. Many disagreed with me at the time but in our City at least it still holds true. > For the most part, the records that catch my eye are either soundtracks or soft > pop psychedelia.... for the most part this stuff goes for upwards of fifteen > dollars. There are a few types of records that you really don't want to find yourself interested in, as the scarcity and subsequent cost of originals is simply mind boggling! Two of the worst offenders are Krautrock and Psychedelia. So Alan you've possibly picked yourself up an expensive habit. Better begin withdrawl soon or it could become even more painful... think of Will and those 50's movie posters... The problem is the $15 records in this area are probably the bottom end. The really good ones will run three to four figures! > If you're wrong half the time, that's a lot of money wasted. And it's > profoundly more disappointing to drop the needle on a fifteen dollar record > only to find out it's a bad boogie rock band than it is to drop it on a one > dollar record and find out there's no groovy organ flourishes. For the kind of > record I'm attracted to, I need a store where I can actually play the thing. This is the reason I dropped my wantlist. It contained a lot of things related to music I already knew, that someone else mentioned, or that I read about and thought I needed to have. But we were talking records that are nearly non-existent and if you happen to find them, can run $50+ for a 7". We've become so used to listening to records in stores (for the benefit of the Europeans this was something you could not readily do in North America until not so long ago) that buying from a stall or even a mail order without hearing is a risk we no longer feel comfortable taking. If you're a reseller then you know the value and buy accordingly at these fairs, but if its the music you're after, its not so simple anymore. > The four records that broke my heart on Sunday were > Central Nervous System (psychedelic cover, Tom Wilson production. I got > carried away. It actually IS what it looks like and it's not something I want.) I don't know Alan, if its Psych you're after, and its beginning to look tha way, I'd look to a number of samplers out there, from the easier to find "Peace, Love & Poetry" series on QDK to some of the more offbeat ones like "A lethal dose of Heavy Psych?" and many more you should find in the 'various-retro' bins. It sometimes is a fine line between what is Psych, what is Prog(ressive), and what is that horrible Canterbury sound that I simply can't stand! I'm far from an expert in this area. I've dabbled a bit and been disappointed more often than pleasantly surprised, so tread carefully!!! 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: "Br. Cleve" Subject: Re: (exotica) Rod to Carpenters Date: 10 May 2001 02:30:05 -0400 on 5/9/01 10:23 PM, m.ace at mace@ookworld.com wrote: > Ah, but don't forget their exquisite downer tunes, such as "Goodbye To > Love". Karen's delivery just nails those tunes right into your aching heart. and let's not really forget their hymn to the space age - "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft (The Recognized Anthem Of World Contact Day)" that's The Carpenters are they're surrealistic best. Although I still have a spot in my heart for "Close To You" 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: G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk Subject: (exotica) Rod Mckuen Date: 10 May 2001 10:59:02 +0100 Perhaps thats where it falls down for Rob (seeing as he's Irish and all.........) And this is a deeply felt thing with Rob, I've seen his rant before. But i thought that most of the Brel translations to English where late Doc Pomus. 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 Ben Waugh said: If the translator is fluent in each language - and by fluency I mean that s/he possesses a /French/ and an /American/ consciousness (which is really nothing but an interpretive comportment in/formed by language and experience), # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: Carpenters "Superstar" Date: 10 May 2001 06:18:17 -0400 > Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 16:04:52 -0500 > From: Clayton Black > Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Rod McKuen..... > My sentiments exactly. Somehow I knew the moment would appear when I could > bring this up, but has anybody else seen the film "Superstar," in which the > Carpenters are played by Barbie dolls? At first I thought that the gimmick > of dolls was silly, but the longer I watched the more interesting it became > and the less I noticed the dolls. The success of the film, as I saw it, was > that it presented fascinating connections between the Carpenters' success > and the national sense of disgrace that had set in with the failings of the > war in Vietnam. At the same time, however, the feel-good quality of the > Carpenters' music masked the unpleasant realities of Karen's struggle for > control of her body (which the film largely, and perhaps unfairly--I'm in no > position to judge--blames on her parents) just as it made the country feel > good at a time when we were about to lose the war and the president was > about to be revealed as a crook. My explanation may not do justice to the > connections the film makes, but I went away from the film with a very high > opinion of it and amazed at how thoroughly those tunes evoked the feeling of > the early 70s (and I hated those sappy sentimental tunes back then). > Unfortunately, the Carpenters' family has disallowed the use of the > songs in "Superstar" (since they, understandably, disapprove of it), so the > film is only available (as far as I know) in very grainy bootleg copies. > Diehard Carpenters fans may hate it, but I thought it was great. I think you can love the Carpenters and still recognize the brilliance of "Superstar". My copy is at least 6 generations old, and barely watchable, but worth the effort. If there is accuracy in the film, then Karen should have ripped herself away from her family, and she might still be with us today. OTOH, she might not have created all that great music. I believe that Richard is the one who suppressed the film (I've been told this, but cannot confirm it). I suspect that the implications in the film that he is homosexual may have contributed to his desire to ban the movie. Clayton, I think the connections you make between the Carpenter saga and the mood of the country at the time are valid. But then, that's just your and my opinion. Let's hear from others who have seen the film. 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: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Marty and Elayne from The Dresden Room Date: 10 May 2001 07:02:17 EDT In a message dated 5/4/01 10:42:13 AM Atlantic Daylight Time, chuckmk@yahoo.com writes: << Hi Tiki Bob I caught them at the Dresden Room and thought I was in paradise! Is the Dresden Room still a happening place? Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck >> The Dresden Room is still a very happening place. And the "newbie" or "wanna be" factor has tapered off. I would highly recommend anyone going to LA to plan a few hours at The Dresden. The owners are Carl Ferraro and his son, Jim Ferraro. The nicest people you can meet. Carl is easy to spot. He usually wears a white suit and a bright red shirt. So typical of the 60-ish atmosphere of the place. Marty and Elayne are so bad that they are good! (Those who have seen them know what I am talking about). If you talk to them they end up singing your name in a song sometimes. It is a blast. And on the lines of a blast: the house speciality drink is The Blood and Sand. The whole scene is so lounge --- from the bar, to the music to the "dinning room." BTW, the food is good and not expensive. Your basic steaks, fish, pastas etc. None of that California cuisine with portions the size of an egg roll. It's like a nice restaurant from the 60's -- where you would go for drinks, dinner and a show. It is lots of fun. If you go, tell them I sent you. And they know me by my alterpersona, the somewhat respectiful eye doctor from South Carolina. Tell em I sent you. 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: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Marty and Elayne from The Dresden Room Date: 10 May 2001 07:03:47 EDT In a message dated 5/4/01 12:17:12 PM Atlantic Daylight Time, bvergara@sfsu.edu writes: << Yeah, it was all over the "Survivor" finale last night (they sang "I Will Survive"). Weren't they also featured in "Swingers?" Later, Ben >> Yes they were. And some pictures of The Dresden were in the Esquire article a few years back that explained the Lounge phenomenon. 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: Will Straw Subject: Re: (exotica) Marty and Elayne from The Dresden Room Date: 10 May 2001 08:25:15 -0400 Carl -- at the Dresden room -- was so suave; as you say, a nice suit, and a flower in his lapel. And the food is classic and of high quality. Johanne and I had lunch there last May, and I felt like I'd just signed a low-level meal deal and gone out to celebrate. We didn't even catch Marty and Elayne, but it's one of my favourite LA spots. 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: "Nathan Miner" Subject: (exotica) Weekend LP's follow-up..... Date: 10 May 2001 09:08:49 -0400 Okay, it turns out that "Diamond Head Sabre Dance" is a fun little = original tune from Sammy Kaye on his "Sing and Sway in Hawaii" LP. The = cut sounds like a mix between a gung ho "the army attacks" type soundtrack = and drum/exotica. Actually the whole LP is decent, there's some great = arrangements with hoppin' organ - they even do Tiny Bubbles decently!! = Fun record. Recommended. The Guitar Kings "Lovin' Time" sucks......it simply sucks...........slow, = arthritic arrangements.......... The biggest mess of an album has got to be that bizarre Dan and Dale = "Thunderball" LP. I listened to side 1 and it's an embarrassing mish-mash = of genres. There's a lame Hawaiian tune, and even a song from the = Supremes (!) or someone like that - I've heard this tune lots of times on = the FM oldies station here!!! So, that sticker that says these are all = original arrangements is a joke and a half! All of side one except for = one passably "spyish" tune sounds more like a bland Enoch Light "Discothequ= e" record or something. This is a masterpiece of ripoffery. Very weird. = Can't wait to hear side two!!! The Brass Ring "Only Love" is forgettable. Some cool cha cha cuts on More Tea for Two Cha Chas - recommended. The = "Occasional Man" track wasn't so great. But others made up for 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: Ben Waugh Subject: Re: (exotica) Weekend LP's Date: 10 May 2001 06:27:03 -0700 (PDT) I find myself rummaging less and less these days. Maybe the thrill is going. But, I swerved off the bike trail this past weekend to hit an antique shop where I bought Jackie Gleason's Songs for Lovers (I think that's the title. Now I had long ago said I would never touch a JG lp after OOOOOh and Lonesome Echoes... but there was that one with the sitars and all. And then Songs for Lovers. Spoken word and singing by Ralph Cramden. I just don't see how hearing him recite the lyrics to September Song is going "to make her change her mind." You have the feeling that the thing could have been recorded in a bar. And that if anyone there even looked as though they were about to heckle, a well-oiled Jackie would have walked over and popped them right in the kisser. __________________________________________________ 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: (exotica) Moog Generation - MP2000 number 27 Date: 10 May 2001 14:38:13 +0100 I'm concerned. I actually like one of the comedy tracks from Jean = Jacques Perrey's MP2000 (no 27) library LP, Moog Generation. The LP is a = 30/30/30 split between Perrey, Harry Breuer and Pat Prilly. The standout track = is halfway between The Happy Moog and something from The In Sound Way Out. = Very Perrey and Breuer. The rest is just childish electronic tunes with = loads of reverb.=20 The last one (Mig Mag Moog - no 26) had input from Andy Badale - now = Angelo Badalementi - and was pretty similar. I seem to remember reading in the Incredibly Strange Music book that there is one or maybe two more - = Moog Expressions (no 109ish) I'm pretty sure is a compilation of the three earlier MP2000 LPs. Anyway, much as I love records, I love money more and as I'm trying to = buy a =A3240k house sacrifices must be made so MP27 is going onto Ebay in the = next week or so. On another note does anybody have any idea how to get a normal audio = input signal into a Compaq laptop? It only has an input set at microphone = volume so I can't record anything. Thanks all. 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: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) Juan Garcia Esquivel KO'ed by love bug Date: 10 May 2001 10:03:11 -0400 for immediate release Juan Garcia Esquivel KO'ed by love bug Space Age Bachelor Pad Music icon Juan Garcia Esquivel has wed at the age of 83. The bride is Carina Osorio (Garcia Esquivel*), 25. Senora Osorio has assisted Senor Esquivel as a home health care aide for several years. The simple ceremony, administered by a justice of the peace in late March at Esquivel's home in Jiutepec, Mexico, was witnessed by Esquivel's son Mario, along with Mario's wife and daughter. The reason for the delay of the public announcement is that Esquivel did not divulge his marriage to anyone beyond his immediate family. Details of the knot-tying were revealed to manager Irwin Chusid during a phone call on May 5, 2001, and elaborated upon in a subsequent phone call to (Combustible Edison keyboardist) Br. Cleve the following day. Esquivel described Carina as "a simple girl, who is attentive and honest." "I am very happy, and she is too," said Juan. "We both stay up until 2:00 in the morning, and she helps me. Our house is not too big, not too small. Just for the two of us, it is nice. It has a garden. I got a three-month old German shepherd dog about six months ago, and it plays in the yard. It is getting very big." Esquivel was a legendary pianist/bandleader/composer in Mexico before arriving in the U.S. in 1957. He worked primarily in Hollywood, New York, and Las Vegas, where he recorded prolifically, led an explosive big band, and scored for TV. "Space Age Bachelor Pad Music," a 1994 compilation (on Bar/None Records) of Esquivel's 1950s/60s RCA Victor orchestral recordings, sparked a resurgence of interest in his work. A film biography is in script development at Fox studios, with John Leguizamo slated to star and Alexander Payne signed to direct. Esquivel has resided in Mexico since leaving the United States in the 1980s. He has been inactive in the music world for the past decade, largely due to an aggravated spinal injury which has left him disabled. He gets around his home with the aid of a wheelchair -- and assistance from Carina. Juan says Carina is his sixth wife. He was married twice while residing in the United States. ____________________________________________ (*The name may or may not follow Mexican custom, but this is the sequence related by Sr. Esquivel.) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Juan Garcia Esquivel KO'ed by love bug Date: 10 May 2001 11:20:47 -0400 I wonder if Senor Esquivel's new bride is the one who let us in when my Mexican friend Graciela and I went to visit him in 1996. She did seem simple, honest and attentive at the time, if I remember correctly. 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: "james brouwer" Subject: Re: (exotica) soundtrack question Date: 10 May 2001 16:17:23 -0000 >Is the soundtrack to "Joe" by Joe Butler of the Lovin Spoonful, I assume, >groovy in any way? I don't know about "Baby Maker" but "Joe" really ain't that great IMHO. I remember vocals spoiling stuff that might otherwise have been ok. I think there's a trippy part too, but it still ain't that good on the ears. I wouldn't spend eBay bucks on it either as it'll pop up in Big Smoke often enough for you to find it there. 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: "james brouwer" Subject: Re: (exotica) stab in the dark - my weekend Date: 10 May 2001 16:27:38 -0000 > >The Mystic Moods Orchestra - "Emotions" > >That's my favorite Mystic Moods record. Early Morning Rain, Homeward >Bound. Even a Rod McKuen song if you want to tie discussions together. It >also has Moog by Paul Beaver of Beaver and Krause (non-) fame. >This record could hardly be more relevant to this list. "Emotions" is good a good MMO lp but I think I prefer "Extensions" by them more. Has a bit more more moog, and a weird spoken word thing, plus a 'cosmic egg' cover. but hey, 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: "james brouwer" Subject: (exotica) Rod in San Fran? Date: 10 May 2001 16:31:11 -0000 I just found a copy of "Rod Mckuen takes a San Francisco Hippie Trip" (lots of drug and hippie-pad references, quite cool). My question: Is this the same lp as "Beatsville" dressed up in a different sleeve? anyone know? thanks 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: "Robert McKenna" Subject: Re: (exotica) Rod McKuen..... Date: 10 May 2001 17:15:14 >At 01:51 PM 5/9/01, Robert McKenna wrote: > >He seems kind of cool. But he translated Brel appallingly. Absolute > >monstrosity. La Moribunde as 'seasons in the sun' and 'Ne me quitte pas' >as > >'If you go away'. Utter absolute kitsch schmaltz shite. > >Ne me quitte pas means I suppose, don't leave me. Do you have any >suggestions for how that can be expressed in five syllables? never go away, whatever. 'Quitte' isn't stressed as two syllables and one would be a better mistake than changing it. It was a choice to distort the song (as well as bowdlerise it). Same as with seasons in the sun (didn't bother keeping the syllable count in that one btw) it isn't a schmaltzy song. McKuen's version is. >Lyrics by their very nature can't really be translated. Mort Schumann's translations of Brel are masterful. Personal poetry true to the nature of the songs. McKuen's aren't. This is not offering an opinion on his other stuff. Just his translations of Brel. I think he might have translated Gainsbourg also, I know they were friends in the 60s. >If you're not French and you don't speak French, you can't really expect to >experience an artist like Brel. But in spite of that, people do expect it. > They want the untranslatable translated. Art is about expressing the ineffable. Yes, I want that. >That's a very American viewpoint if you don't mind me saying. First time I've ever been accused of that! (Not offended or anything, just surprised). >I'm not saying that's what YOU're demonstrating here but just in general. >Anyway I don't know why I'm defending McKuen. >I like "if you go away" on its own. If it turns out it's not a good >translation, let someone else try their hand and do a better job. The whole thing pretty much translates directly from French quite literally. rob _________________________________________________________________________ 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) record show no no Date: 10 May 2001 14:24:31 -0400 At 09:26 PM 5/9/01 -0400, Brian wrote: .>I remember having this conversation before but I think Alan has come around >to seeing my way of record shopping. I used to justify it with the argument >of not having the time to look for cheaper things . Brian, you must know I'll never admit to having "come around". You're not the only one who has argued "Why buy twenty records for twenty dollars only to find you don't like any of them when you can buy ONE record for twenty dollars that you know you'll like?" I understand that logic but when I was buying twenty - or forty or one hundred - records for twenty dollars, it was mostly because 1) I liked the act of looking through thousands of records and 2) I liked the records I found there and 3) you couldn't find those records anywhere other than thrift stores The reason I've switched from quantity to so-called quality is because for the most part I'm no longer looking for the kind of record you find in thrift stores. And the reason I don't buy what I want on CD - at least not very often - is because I still hold out fantasies of DJ'ing. In fact, I think I'm going to make my debut in July at the Cameron. And that's the kind of place that doesn't have CD players. 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) Juan Garcia Esquivel KO'ed by love bug Date: 10 May 2001 14:34:10 -0400 At 11:20 AM 5/10/01 -0400, Will Straw wrote: > She did seem >simple, honest and attentive at the time, I don't know about simple but I find myself jealous of an 83 year old man. 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: "jonathan richardson" Subject: Re: (exotica) Rod in San Fran? Date: 10 May 2001 12:54:43 -0700 >My question: Is this the same lp as "Beatsville" dressed up in a different >sleeve? anyone know? i asked this same question about a year ago on this list and never got an answer, but as far as I can tell it is, but Beatsville was originally on Hi Fi records (Lyman and friends) and SF Hippie trip was on Everest Records. i think the songs are the same but titles of songs are different on the 2 recordings. I recently got the CD version and it throws on a few xtra song goodies plus gives you cool fonts and "hip"bats for your computer. Its my favorite McKuen record by far. Which on came out first? im sure the Beatsville on was but I want to be sure -jonny _________________________________________________________________ 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: "Br. Cleve" Subject: Re: (exotica) Juan Garcia Esquivel KO'ed by love bug Date: 10 May 2001 16:12:19 -0400 on 5/10/01 11:20 AM, Will Straw at wstraw@po-box.mcgill.ca wrote: > I wonder if Senor Esquivel's new bride is the one who let us in when my > Mexican friend Graciela and I went to visit him in 1996. She did seem > simple, honest and attentive at the time, if I remember correctly. I don't think so - he's had a different housekeeper/nurse everytime I've been there. For awhile he had 2, one during the day and one at night. I know this girl has been with him for over a year. 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: itsvern@attglobal.net Subject: (exotica) Beatsville vs Hippie Trip Date: 10 May 2001 18:12:13 -0400 > I just found a copy of "Rod Mckuen takes a San Francisco Hippie Trip" (lots > of drug and hippie-pad references, quite cool). > My question: Is this the same lp as "Beatsville" dressed up in a different > sleeve? anyone know? 'San Francisco Hippie Trip' is a resequenced and slightly cleaned up version of Beatsville. They actually remove some of the more objectionable language for the 'Hippie Trip' Lp. Kim Cooper of Scram Magazine had a great article on Rod McKuen comparing the two LPs (in issue #6 of Scram). She compared the track 'R.S.V.P' (from the late 50's Beatsville Lp) to the renamed 'Kranko's Hippie Party' (from the late 60's Hippie Trip Lp) The text that is in BOLD LETTERS is the text that appears on Beatsville, but not Hippie Trip ------------- Kranko's having a party. At his pad on August Alley. With genuine imported Beatniks from Los Angeles and everything. Bring your own refreshments - as long as they wear leotards. It should be a gas. THE LAST TIME HE HAD A PARTY IT WAS RAIDED AND THEY CARTED OFF TWO POLICEWOMEN MAKING IT IN THE BACK ROOM. Get there early though, BECAUSE THERE WON'T BE ENOUGH ROLLAWAY BEDS TO GO AROUND. YOU MIGHT HAVE TO BALL WITH SOMEBODY YOU'VE ALREADY BALLED. Kranko knows everybody - including Freida, who strips at the drop of a bennie, and Raffia the poet, who is not only an angry young man, but a dirty old man as well. I like Kranko - he has wheels. He once told a proprieter of the Renaissance he was Woody Guthrie; had him selling tickets for a folk-song concert .... The cat's not commercial or anything, it's just that even the hole he lives in costs money. SOMETIMES HE LENDS HIS PAD TO PEOPLE TO BALL IN AND HIDES IN THE CLOSET TO WATCH -- WHEN HE DOESN'T JOIN IN. Anyway, he's having a party and you're invited. If you've got any Leadbelly or Bird records, you don't have to being any wine. ------------- I own the Hippie Trip LP, but not Beatsville. Even in its cleaned up version though, its still a great LP. Beatsville was released in 1958 ior 1959, Hippie Trip in the mid/late 60's. 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: Brett Dunst Subject: (exotica) Re: (exotica-digest) Juan Garcia Esquivel KO'ed by love bug Date: 10 May 2001 15:45:08 -0700 >A film biography is in script development at Fox studios, with John >Leguizamo slated to star and Alexander Payne signed to direct. Holey moley. How could I have missed this? This probably isn't news to any of you, but it sure is to me! I'm not really a JL fan, but man...throw some think frames on that guy and he's practically a dead ringer! I found some articles about this, dating back to early 1998. Is this still happening? Anyone know? The Fox Searchlight site is pretty much devoid of any info. -Brett # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Cheap thrills Date: 10 May 2001 15:49:25 -0700 exotica-digest wrote: >Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 21:26:47 -0400 >From: "Brian" >Subject: Re: (exotica) record show no no > >I remember having this conversation before but I think Alan has come around >to seeing my way of record shopping. I used to justify it with the argument >of not having the time to look for cheaper things but I realized not so long >ago that time wasn't a factor as there just wasn't much out there of much >value at giveaway prices and there wouldn't likely be more coming. I just got 200 British import classical 78s from the thirties in mint condition for 50 cents a disk (including shipping) and several hundred 40s swing and jazz 78s in good shape for about 20 cents a disk after shipping. I just found a guy back east who got nearly 12,000 78s he found stored in a barn that date all the way back to the turn of the century. He's blowing them out in batches of 100. Get a 78 turntable and you will have more music than you can handle for pennies. 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: "Br. Cleve" Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: (exotica-digest) Juan Garcia Esquivel KO'ed by Date: 10 May 2001 19:05:18 -0400 on 5/10/01 6:45 PM, Brett Dunst at brett@newdream.net wrote: > > >> A film biography is in script development at Fox studios, with John >> Leguizamo slated to star and Alexander Payne signed to direct. > I found some articles about this, dating back to early 1998. Is this still > happening? Anyone know? The Fox Searchlight site is pretty much devoid of > any info. It's been in development since 1997. It's gone through about 3 scripts and a few different directors. The original script had Esquivel flying around in Bob Cummings flying car - an event that did in fact happen. No one in Esquivel's family ever believed the story, which was related to me late one night, but original screenwriter Bob Pulchini tracked down the actual car. I don't know if that has made it to the current script. whether the film ever gets made remains to be seen. 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: Pearmania@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Re: Beatsville Date: 10 May 2001 22:48:43 EDT In a message dated 5/10/01 5:21:34 PM US Eastern Standard Time, jamesbrouwer@hotmail writes: << My question: Is this the same lp as "Beatsville" dressed up in a different sleeve? anyone know? >> "Beatsville" was also re-released as "Life Is...". You can find "Life Is..." for nothing on E-bay whereas "Beatsville" and "Hippie Trip" are hot items. The material on "Beatsville" and Rod's other beat-ish LPs "Time Of Desire", "In Search Of Eros", and "Yellow Unicorn"(four tracks are by McKuen) were recycled several times and show up on other McKuen LPs like "About Me", "In the Beginning" and "The Sounds Of Day, The Sounds Of Night" Sean # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tipsydave@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Carpenters Superstar Date: 10 May 2001 23:21:17 EDT In a message dated 5/9/01 4:33:45 PM, sophisticatedsavage@yahoo.com writes: << I tried to find a copy of this years ago (maybe on this list?). I saw it at the last and now extinct Art/porn theater in DC. Great film (esp. how they whittle Karen/Barbie down as the Ex-Lax and purgings take their toll). Love to find a nice bootleg. The movie has been banned for years (Carpenter lawsuit, I think). >> If you really want, you can get it from http://www.coolstuffvideos.com/ or http://www.blackestheart.com/ or probably quite a few other bootleg outfits, but I have no idea of the quality. Caveat emptor (or maybe cave canem). However, what I'm looking for is the video for "Calling Occupants". It does exist; I've seen it (at Jean-Jacques Perrey's SF spacerock performance, actually) and it's amazing. -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: "Brian" Subject: (exotica) Records and the DJ Date: 10 May 2001 21:40:55 -0400 Alan wrote: > And the reason I don't buy what I want on CD - at least not very often - is > because I still hold out fantasies of DJ'ing. In fact, I think I'm going > to make my debut in July at the Cameron. And that's the kind of place that > doesn't have CD players. Now that you mention this, I'm curious how others deal with the problem of this type of record wear. Anyone who'se been around a college radio station knows the way equipment is treated, and I suspect clubs aren't always a lot better. But how do you continue to play and replay vinyl records without inevitable wearing them out. I suppose if you're a regular you can demand a headshell, use your own cartridge, and balance the arm before you go on, but does it really work like this? I mention this as the best records are inevitably the ones are least able to be easily (and cheaply) replaced! 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: "Robert McKenna" Subject: Re: (exotica) Records and the DJ Date: 11 May 2001 09:21:23 I bring along my own needles anyway. The state of the needles in some clubs is truly frightening. I've had some nights when i haven't played some records i've brought along simply because i'm worried about wear. I think it would be better to bring along your own cart and half the arm (is that what you mean by the headshell?) screw them in and they usually work pretty well. Problem is places like that the sound system is such a low priority you start to hear how it sucks with your own gear... as Carl Cox said when he was asked was he worth the ludicrous sums bookings payed him, 'i'm certainly not payed enough to make the equipment in most clubs sound good'. rob _________________________________________________________________________ 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: "William" Subject: (exotica) superstar & karl zero Date: 11 May 2001 09:22:36 +0800 > > At 04:04 PM 5/9/01 -0500, Clayton Black wrote: > > c, but has anybody else seen the film "Superstar," > > in which the > > >Carpenters are played by Barbie dolls? > > I tried to find a copy of this years ago (maybe on > this list?). I saw it at the last and now extinct > Art/porn theater in DC. Great film (esp. how they > whittle Karen/Barbie down as the Ex-Lax and purgings > take their toll). Love to find a nice bootleg. The > movie has been banned for years (Carpenter lawsuit, I think). i saw this a little over 10 years ago in a film class. all i rember is being really impressed at the time. i don't remember very many of the details about it though. i think you can find copies of this floating around on ebay. a friend of mine recently bought it there and i suspect she didn't pay too much for it. probably no more than 20 dollars i think. she didn't think the copy was too bad. does anyone know anything about this guy/band karl zero? everytime i see the cd in the shop i look at it and think "am i supposed to know this?". so does anything have this or know what it sounds like? 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: "Robert McKenna" Subject: Re: (exotica) Rod to Carpenters Date: 11 May 2001 09:53:53 >and let's not really forget their hymn to the space age - "Calling >Occupants >of Interplanetary Craft (The Recognized Anthem Of World Contact >Day)" > >that's The Carpenters are they're surrealistic best. Although I still have >a >spot in my heart for "Close To You" > >br cleve My absolute favourite too. People think you're taking the piss by liking this but i find it poignant and beautiful. I bought the original by Klaatu (is this list becoming Canadian?) and it's very bad. I'm sure I mentioned before that the Carpenters originally thought it was a Beatles song (Klaatu didn't do any press and managed to get the rumour started that they were the Beatles in disguise rather than simply ugly). Has anyone heard of World Contact day outside of this song? rob _________________________________________________________________________ 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: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: (exotica) USA Tiki-Today Date: 11 May 2001 07:46:27 EDT Here's the link: http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20010511/3311265s.htm 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: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) Hey, Joe (no, not that one) Date: 11 May 2001 09:30:42 -0400 Well, I just came back from listening to the Joe soundtrack and the verdict is: Not Groovy, with an explanation. It's not groovy, in the Now Sound sense, at least. It has a hard-rocking cut and a sitar break (hello, Lounge Laura!) and a couple of vocals by the Iceman Jerry Butler, Bobby Scott throws in a little Jazz and there is a song called Hey, Joe which is most certainly NOT the Chester Powers/Jimi Hendrix/Leaves/Golden Cups standard; it's a C&W song, with the memorable couplet "I saw a fella selling junk to children/He gets nervous every time I pass/ 'Cause he knows that if I catch him/I'm gonna kick his head and kick his fat *BEEP*." Yes, it's censored on the record, but I am not certain as to what the missing word is, because I am not really a songwriter. In short, it's groovy in the oom-TAAH-ah-oom-oom-TAAH sense of the word and even then, only in spots. Do not pay collector prices for this disk.. For grooviness at a reasonable price, I would suggest the Midnight Cowboy soundtrack, which has Now Sound sensations, "The Group" (The Band MUST have sued!), the wonderful "Florida Fantasy" and most rocking "Jungle Gym At the Zoo" by Elephant's Memory, which has been my favorite cut since childhood (child-rearing clarification: no, my parents did NOT take me to see an X-rated movie; my Mom is just a long time John Barry fan) on yet another one of those soundtracks I heard for years before I saw the movie, the others being MacKenna's Gold, The Big Country and On Her Majesty's Secret Service and I still have not seen the first two! Richard "SCHMOOVE (thank you, contest-winner DJ Bump)" Holmes # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) New York / Tony Schwartz Date: 11 May 2001 08:53:53 -0500 Thanks, Ford As soon as i get some down-time, I will peruse those links and take a "vacation". 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: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) [obit] Robert McKinley Douglas Date: 11 May 2001 11:20:33 -0400 Robert McKinley Douglas DAYTON, Tenn. (AP) -- Robert McKinley ``Uncle Bob'' Douglas, a renowned mountain fiddler who debuted at the Grand Ole Opry at age 100, died Wednesday of pneumonia. He was 101. He was scheduled to receive the state's highest arts award, the Governor's Folklife Heritage Award, on May 15. Douglas, a retired steamfitter who never pursued a commercial career, won the Smithsonian Institution's national fiddling contest in 1975 and performed at the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville. http://www.timesfreepress.com/2000/MAR/10MAR00/03FIDDLER.html Robert McKinley Douglas, better known as "Uncle Bob" and "Fiddlin' Bob," was born in the Sequatchie Valley near Pikeville, Tenn. He didn't take up the fiddle until he was 23. His father, Tom Douglas, was the family fiddler, so Bob played guitar, making music along with cousin Al Ferguson on banjo for dances all over the mountains. Though Douglas liked the guitar, his daddy's fiddle kept calling. "I just wanted to play the fiddle so bad," Douglas recalled. "Every time he'd take a rest, I'd pick it up. I could play a few tunes on it when he gave it to me." Three months later, Douglas won his first fiddling contest. During his lifetime, he has won trophy after trophy, most of which are displayed in the Museum of Appalachia in Norris, Tenn., along with the prized fiddle, a 1725 Stradivarius. But Douglas' contributions to music far outshine his rewards, say those in the business. Douglas was the first live act to appear on WDOD Radio in 1925, and he gave the Louvin Brothers their first playing job on the radio. He toured with the Allen Brothers and recorded for RCA Victor in 1928. More recently, he has had recordings requested by the Smithsonian Institution, stole the show on Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion," and won hearts at last year's Festival of American Fiddle Tunes in Seattle, where he taught a group of teen-agers how to play. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=%22bob+Douglas%22+fiddle # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Fun at the WFMU Rekkid Fair- last weekend Date: 11 May 2001 14:22:32 -0400 The best part of the fair is walking in and imm. finding dealers with album-filled milkcrates labelled MOOG; the worst part is looking at the pricez...$20 - $75 give or take. THats when I stop, not bothering to slobber over cover art only. 'Sides I figure maybe a lot of the music is available, a la Keith Lo Bue or some other dedicated compiler. Met B.R. from this list at triage international. They had some excellent prices on some good discs. Check out their site at www.triagemusic.com. Another interesting pair of dealers are from Maryland; didn't get their names but they call themselves the 'Vassals of Vinyl' and if you are in the Baltimore area you may want to check them out every 3rd sunday in a rekkid fair in Abutus (? somewhere on the beltway); they had a lot of 45's well organized (space, tv, weird,) for the right price $1 to $2. Okay you can tell I'm a cheepskate now. Since the event was sponsored by WFMU they had the biggest stall when you walked in; dollar (and $+) bins with quality material, and a good selection of $8 cds as well. They were broadcasting live from the far corner, as well as presenting live bands; 'Oneida' performed, starting off with a rather frighteningly loud industrial repeto-stomp and finishing off with a fine and highly listenable slice krautrock style psych. Speaking of k-rock/psyche, Dmitri Khavin at Psycho-path.com had a very good selection at his table, with reasonable prices. Check out his site. I picked up a copy of 'The Astral Scene', a vintage slice of 1968 psychedelic elevatormusic cheeze for $8. (I don't like to pay more than $8 for a cd, well, because...) And two other mentions, Academy Records (based in NYC) had some excellent condition mostly ethno stuff in their dollar bins; havent gone to the site yet but Academy-records.com should yield something interesting. And at Jack Fettermans site, I believe, were a pile of various music library albums which seemed to be generating some interest from hipsters; I know nothing of that stuff to know whats good or desirable, and jack seems to have no website.... So the upshot is its definitely a good time and well worth while (if you're cheep like me), but it would be best to go with 2 or 3 bills and be ready to drop it all on new finds and all those interesting cd's you've been interested in and can now get at a good price... See you there in November, 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: "William" Subject: (exotica) kaleidoscope? Date: 11 May 2001 15:11:07 +0800 hi all, today i was at fnac picking up yet another free design cd(you could be born again for those who may want to know). and while i was there they were playing something that seemed familiar. the music was jazzy but it was the voice i knew. at first i thought it was maybe someone lou had put on an exoticaring comp. but no...it was ken nordine! i think the band was called kaleidoscope. i know months ago there was some mention of ken working with some band and doing a single or something. is this that band? does anyone have this full length and is the band really called kaleidoscope? and is all the material on the disc as good as that track? 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: Ben Waugh Subject: (exotica) Mai-Kai visit Date: 11 May 2001 12:46:26 -0700 (PDT) Am taking my wife on a 10 ann. cruise this year (it's what she wanted): little does she know it's just a frosted excuse to visit the Mai-Kai in Ft Lauderdale. Being the proud owner of much vintage tableware from that mythic watering hole, I can't wait. __________________________________________________ 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) Mai-Kai visit Date: 11 May 2001 15:50:45 -0400 Ooh, Oooh, bring back souvenirs!!! >>> Ben Waugh 05/11/01 03:46PM >>> Am taking my wife on a 10 ann. cruise this year (it's what she wanted): little does she know it's just a frosted excuse to visit the Mai-Kai in Ft Lauderdale. Being the proud owner of much vintage tableware from that mythic watering hole, I can't wait. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/=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: Dean Keasey Subject: (exotica) places in Minneapolis Date: 11 May 2001 14:16:38 -0700 Any body out there in Minneapolis, Minn. on the list? Can you help a fellow exoti-cat get hip to cools spots, lounge nights, tiki bars, record shops, etc, who will be visiting June 4th through the 15th? Dean # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) places in Minneapolis Date: 11 May 2001 16:35:10 -0500 Hi Dean, Unfortunately, Mini-nipple's premiere Tiki lounge the Bali Hai was torn down a while ago to make way for a very important Sprint phone store/minimall. What's left is Nye's Polonaise: http://iyp.uswestdex.com/u1/nyespolonaise/Page1.html Nye's is LOUNGE in all-caps. Make that Polish LOUNGE. The music's piano bar and polka. The food's Eastern-European substantial. The drinks will kick your ass, you'll have a Manhattan and like it, mister. Record stores include Let It Be, Oarfolkjokeopus, Garage D'Or, and Know Name. If you find anything else interesting during your trip, please let the list know. I travel to Mpls pretty frequently. Matt Dean Keasey wrote: > Any body out there in Minneapolis, Minn. on the list? Can you help a > fellow exoti-cat get hip to cools spots, lounge nights, tiki bars, > record shops, etc, who will be visiting June 4th through the 15th? > > Dean -- 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: HOUSEOBOB@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Fun at the WFMU Rekkid Fair- last weekend Date: 11 May 2001 17:57:38 EDT In a message dated 5/11/2001 2:22:12 PM, peter.gingerich@wcom.com writes: << And at Jack Fettermans site, I believe, were a pile of various music library albums which seemed to be generating some interest from hipsters; I know nothing of that stuff to know whats good or desirable, and jack seems to have no website.... >> Actually he has a website : www.inhi-fi.com. I bought two of his compilations at the fair and they are both very good - "Live at the Kahiki" and one of the "Soundtracks for Drinking" series (I think there were three). They are both very good. I don't know whether or not he sells them on the website. And you're not that much of a cheapskate - I won't pay more than $1 for a piece of vinyl. Of course there are exceptions - but not many. 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: HOUSEOBOB@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) kaleidoscope? Date: 11 May 2001 18:00:26 EDT In a message dated 5/11/2001 2:57:47 PM, king8egg@ms60.url.com.tw writes: << i think the band was called kaleidoscope. i know months ago there was some mention of ken working with some band and doing a single or something. is this that band? does anyone have this full length and is the band really called kaleidoscope? >> sounds like it may be the DJ Food cd, which is called Kaleidoscope. Haven't heard it, but I think Nordine is on it.. 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: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) kaleidoscope? Date: 11 May 2001 18:28:01 EDT In a message dated 5/11/1 5:01:08 PM, HOUSEOBOB@aol.com wrote: >sounds like it may be the DJ Food cd, which is called Kaleidoscope. Haven't >heard it, but I think Nordine is on it.. he is...there's also a heavily sampled portion of "Hustler's Convention" on it, and a piece of Quincy Jones' piece called "Rack 'Em Up" (forget the OST's name)..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: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) kaleidoscope? Date: 11 May 2001 18:48:13 -0400 >he is...there's also a heavily sampled portion of "Hustler's Convention" on >it, and a piece of Quincy Jones' piece called "Rack 'Em Up" (forget the OST's >name)..JB Rack' Em Up is on "The Pawnbroker" Cheh-cheh-chi-caaaaaaaa, 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: Paul Wages Subject: Re: (exotica) kaleidoscope? Date: 11 May 2001 19:44:36 -0500 A few other interesting samples used by DJ Food on Kaleidoscope: "Wink" by Benny Golson. This is the harpsichord bit used under the Nordine track. "By The Waters Of Minnetonka" by Stanley Black from "Exotic Percussion". "Millionaire" by Dudley Moore from the Bedazzled soundtrack. And Del Close's "How To Speak Hip" Great record! > From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com > Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 18:28:01 EDT > In a message dated 5/11/1 5:01:08 PM, HOUSEOBOB@aol.com wrote: > >> sounds like it may be the DJ Food cd, which is called Kaleidoscope. Haven't >> heard it, but I think Nordine is on it.. > > he is...there's also a heavily sampled portion of "Hustler's Convention" on > it, and a piece of Quincy Jones' piece called "Rack 'Em Up" (forget the OST's > name)..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: RLott@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Selling some CDs Date: 11 May 2001 20:15:28 EDT I'm thinning out my collection here (mostly weeding out dupes) and offering=20 some CDs for sale. Condition on all is excellent. Prices quoted include=20 shipping.=20 * V/A - Songs for the Jet Set: Volume 2 (Siesta promo, includes Milky's=20 "These Boots Are Made for Walking," which was not on U.S. release) $7 * Remington Super 60 - Pling 2001 (S.H.A.D.O.) $10 * V/A - Harpischord 2000 (S.H.A.D.O., w/ Momus, Valvola, Stereo Total, etc.=20= -=20 HIGHLY recommended) $10 * V/A - The Theme from Get Carter Remixes (2 EPs, UK imports) $12 * Bruce Haack - Listen Compute Rock Home (Emperor Norton) $10 * V/A - Surfin' Se=F1orita: A Tribute to Herb Alpert (Wildbeest, surf covers= of=20 Tijuana Brass tunes) $10 * Air - Playground Love (Astralwerks 5-song EP) $7 * V/A - CAM's Soundtrack Encyclopedia Sampler (CAM, 99 snippets of Morricone= ,=20 Rota, Pino Donaggio, etc., very rare) $10 * V/A - Easy Tempo Experience: A New Cinematic Perspective (Right Tempo=20 Italian import, Umiliani remixes by Karminsky Experience, High Llamas, Kid=20 Loco, etc.) $12 * Fuzzy Love - Pagan Schmalz and Other Sacrifices (lounge covers of "Smells=20 Like Teen Spirit," "Sweet Caroline," "Black Hole Sun," "Spill the Wine,"=20 "Mandy," "Lady Marmalade," etc.) $8 Thanks! And apologies to those who don't like these sorts of things on the=20 list. --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: "Robert Cohen" Subject: (exotica) Re: Rod to Carpenters Date: 12 May 2001 07:18:42 -0400 > Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 22:23:48 -0400 > From: "m.ace" > Subject: Re: (exotica) Rod to Carpenters > > >At the same time, however, the feel-good quality of the > >Carpenters' music > > Ah, but don't forget their exquisite downer tunes, such as "Goodbye To > Love". Karen's delivery just nails those tunes right into your aching heart. Play "Superstar", "Rainy Days and Mondays", and "Goodbye To Love" in a row (you can do that with the compilation album "The Singles"), and you will never again question Karen and Richard's immense talent. And the famous Tony Peluso fuzz guitar solo, twice, on "Goodbye To Love" is still my very favorite air guitar accompaniment, even at the ripe old age of 51 :-). > And as I've mentioned before, for a less typical Carpenters album, get > "Ticket To Ride" (originally titled "Offering"). As their first album, it > precedes the format lockdown that occurred after their first big hit with > the second album. > > m.ace mace@ookworld.com Good recommendation. I am still trying to find a clean copy of that at a yard sale, but I only seriously started collecting The Carpenters this past winter, so I should have no problem finding all their albums this summer. 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: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) [obits] Douglas Adams, Henri Paris, Deborah Walley, James Date: 12 May 2001 10:44:29 -0400 Monday, May 7, 2001 --- L.A. Times Henri Paris; Hairdresser to the Stars Had Hands Insured for $1 Million Henri Paris, 90, hairdresser to stars who were traveling through the Midwest from the 1930s to the 1950s, died April 30 in Chicago of heart failure. Before airlines replaced trains as the most popular mode of travel from coast to coast, Chicago served as the mid-continental pit stop for entertainers traveling from New York to Los Angeles. Born on Chicago's South Side, Paris had a 60-year career as a hairdresser and became the hairdresser of choice for such stars as Joan Crawford, Lana Turner, Veronica Lake and Ava Gardner. He even tended to professional wrestler Gorgeous George's tousled curls. Paris became so popular that in 1941, Lloyds of London insured his hands for $1 million. He became a featured attraction on the lecture circuit at conventions and trade shows around the country, billing himself as "The Man With the Million-Dollar Hands." SEDONA, Ariz. (AP) -- Actress Deborah Walley, who appeared in a series of 1960s beach movies, died Thursday of esophageal cancer. She was 57. Walley appeared in 15 feature films, including the title role in the 1961 movie ``Gidget Goes Hawaiian,'' a sequel to the 1959 production ``Gidget'' that starred Sandra Dee. She also was featured in the 1965 film ``Beach Blanket Bingo,'' starring Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello, and ``Spinout'' with Elvis Presley in 1966. Walley had a role in the television series ``The Mothers-In-Law,'' which ran from 1967-1969, and made guest appearances on several television shows, including ``Route 66,'' ``Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.'' and ``The Virginian.'' She made sporadic appearances on television shows in the 1980s and 1990s, including ``Baywatch'' and a short-lived series called ``Passions.'' ------------------------- TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- James Myers, whose two-minute, eight-second tune ``Rock Around the Clock'' is considered the granddaddy of all rock 'n' roll songs, has died of leukemia. He was 81. Myers, who died Wednesday, wrote the song with Max Freedman in 1953. Bill Haley & His Comets recorded it in 1954, and it soared to the top of the charts in 1955 as the theme song of the teen rebel movie ``The Blackboard Jungle.'' With its rockabilly sound, the song was considered a breakthrough for crossing racial barriers by borrowing from rhythm and blues. Myers, who also wrote under the name Jimmy DeKnight, wrote more than 300 songs and had bit parts in movies and TV shows, but ``Rock Around the Clock'' remained his most famous work. He said the melody evolved in his head over a few years before he finally wrote it down. While picking out the tune on a piano at his office one day, his friend Freedman joined him. ``When we finished it he said, `What are you going to call it?' I said, 'Rock Around The Clock,''' Myers said in an interview with the Rockabilly Hall of Fame in Burns, Tenn. ``And he said, `Why rock? What's that mean? Why not ``Dance Around The Clock?''' And I said, `I just have a gut feeling and since I'm half writer and whole publisher, I'm the boss! Right!' So, we called it 'Rock Around The Clock.''' The song was No. 1 for eight weeks and went on to sell 22 million copies worldwide. It has been recorded by more than 500 artists, from Mae West to the Sex Pistols, and has been used in more than 40 movies. ``It sounded like nothing else,'' said Howard Kramer, associate curator for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland. ``The drums and guitar on that song sound like nothing else. The snare drum on that was like a howitzer going off.'' Dick Clark called it ``the anthem of rock 'n' roll.'' Disc jockey Alan Freed pronounced it ``the daddy of rock 'n' roll.'' A Philadelphia native, Myers was a drummer in his own band before joining the Army during World War II. After serving in the South Pacific, he returned to his hometown to become a songwriter, country music promoter and music publisher. Marshall Lytle, the bass player who played ``Rock Around the Clock'' with Bill Haley & His Comets, said he realized how big the song was as the band drove to Boston from New York in Haley's new Cadillac and turned on the radio. ``It was one of those new radios where you pushed a button and it went to the next station,'' he said. ``I turned on the radio and hit the button and the station was playing `Rock Around the Clock.' I hit the button again and the next station was playing `Rock Around the Clock,' and the next station too. ``Within two minutes that morning, I heard `Rock Around the Clock' playing on 12 different stations simultaneously.'' Myers estimated he made $10 million in royalties from the tune. ``He figured out that at any given moment, `Rock Around the Clock' is playing somewhere in the world,'' Lytle said. Myers, who lived in Bonita Springs, Fla., for the last year, will be buried in Philadelphia on Wednesday. Myers told the News-Press of Fort Myers last year that he didn't set out to create a style of music; he just wanted to make people feel happy. ``And I think I succeeded,'' he said. ------------------ http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1326000/1326657.stm Author Douglas Adams, who wrote The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, has died suddenly aged 49. Mr Adams died on Friday morning in Santa Barbara, California, following a heart attack, said his spokeswoman Sophie Astin. The author became a household name when the cult science fiction novel was turned into a BBC TV series. In recent years he had been working on a Hitchhiker's Guide movie. -- LONDON (AP, 5-12-01) - Douglas Adams, author of the cult science fiction comedy ``The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,'' has died at age 49. The British-born Adams died Friday of a heart attack in Santa Barbara, Calif., his London spokeswoman, Sophie Astin, said Saturday. The ``Hitchhiker's Guide,'' which began life as a British Broadcasting Corp. radio series in 1978, was a satirical adventure about a group of interplanetary travellers; it opens with the Earth being destroyed to make way for an intergalactic highway. It was turned into a book, which sold 14 million copies around the world, and later into a television series. The book was followed by several sequels, including ``The Restaurant at the End of the Universe,'' ``Life, the Universe and Everything'' and ``So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish.'' The books blended satire, memorably named characters such as Zaphod Beeblebrox and Marvin the Paranoid Android and witty philosophy, at one point supplying the answer to ``the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything.'' The answer was 42. Born in Cambridge, England, in 1952 and educated at Cambridge University, Adams began his career as a writer and script editor at the BBC, including work on BBC TV's ``Doctor Who.'' He followed the ``Hitchhiker's Guide'' with several books about ``holistic detective'' Dirk Gently; ``Last Chance to See,'' a book about endangered species; and, with John Lloyd, the hilarious alternative dictionary ``The Meaning of Liff.'' A frequent radio broadcaster on science and technology, Adams had been working for several years on a screenplay for an oft-delayed ``Hitchhiker's Guide'' movie. In August 1996, he told a technology conference in New Orleans that the fundamental problem is not special effects. ``It's the nature of the story, which is picaresque, which translates to one damn thing after another, and another, and another. ``It's very hard to translate that to a 100-minute feature film,'' he said. ``Every script has a beginning and a middle and an end.'' Adams married Jane Belson, a lawyer, in 1991. The couple, who had lived in Santa Barbara since 1999, had a daughter, Polly. On the Net: http://douglasadams.com/ --------------- >Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 15:22:29 -0700 >From: "Mark O'Connor" >Reply-To: markinstudio@home.com >Organization: Mark O'Connor Musik >Subject: John Hartford > >A note to ask my friends to send out a good thought and prayer for one >heck of a guy. John Hartford is about to pass on and is not able to >communicate now. I have found out that his family is not answering any >phone calls, but he is at home now from the hospital. > >John Hartford has been a friend of mine since he flew to Nashville from >L.A. to be on my 2nd recording back in 1975 when I was just thirteen. He >was a prince and has always been there for me as a friend and a >colleague. When I was trying to figure out how to play unaccompanied >performances twelve years ago, it was John who gave the words of >encouragement I needed to have, while many others simply doubted the >possibility of my doing it. > >John was also my mother's favorite person in the music business. Thought >he hung the moon. Just before losing my mother to cancer almost 20 years >ago, one of her last wishes was for my sister and I to drive her across >the country from Seattle to see John one last time in Tennessee. It is >also cancer that will take John Hartford away from us very soon as well. > >A collective prayer from my mailing list towards John Hartford would be >something great. The wonderful modern day minstrel one man show, the >author of one of the greatest hit songs of all time, Gentle On My Mind, >and those early memories of him and Glen Campbell on "The Good Time >Hour" in the late 60's prime time television will last with me for ever >and I am sure will endure with many of you. He was a champion for the >fiddle and collected as many original fiddle tune manuscripts and the >various literature as anyone I know. He continued to practice furiously >on the fiddle even until recently, setting out to get better and better. >And he did! He would come to my fiddle camps in Tennessee and just hang >out on the porch of the mess hall playing away until way past the sun >going down. For all of that and more, I will think of you and love you >forever John Hartford. > >I also love your home there looking over that Cumberland River. The >thoughts of you dreaming about the old steamboats coming past you from >days gone by is a poignant one at this time. > >I was on the nomination committee of the Kennedy Center Honors last year >and did nominate John Hartford. I bet one day you will get that one too >John. May God be with you. > >Mark O'Connor >markinstudio@home.com >ph. (760)806-9514 fax (760)806-9524 >P. O. Box 398 Bonsall, CA 92003 >http://www.markoconnor.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Kevin Crossman Subject: (exotica) Tiki Restaurant News Date: 12 May 2001 10:26:48 -0700 A couple updates for fans of old-time Tiki joints. 1) Trader Vic's in Palo Alto, CA is moving along. This was supposed to open late last year or early this year but has been delayed. They are now constructing walls inside the building and have added an awning to to the entrance to the building. There is also now a sign stating "Trader Vic's - Coming Soon". No tikis on site yet. Will keep everyone informed as the opening draws closers. 2) Don the Beachcomber fans may be delighted to learn there is a Don the Beachcomber locale at the new Disney California Adventure theme park at Disneyland. One section of this park is the Hollywood Pictures Backlot - and there is a large restaurant which is made up of decor and service-counters from various defunct restaurant locales. Don the Beachcomber is one of them. The menu for this is strictly Chinese. There is a section of the seating area devoted to Don the Beachcomber, including Tikis and bamboo decor and a small display about the restaurant in it's classic period. -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: "Domenic Ciccone" Subject: Re: (exotica) stab in the dark - my weekend Date: 12 May 2001 21:00:56 -0400 > Music From STAR WARS - Performed by the Electric Moog Orchestra > (labelled "not the original soundtrack") > There is another on by the same people but of "Music From Close Encounters of the Third Kind" I've dipped the needle into it and not really into it. Cute noises on some of the originals just for the LP. 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: edjunkita Subject: Re: (exotica) Dylan's Strange Covers Date: 13 May 2001 05:26:56 +0200 Ross Orr wrote > > But I have to admit that I actually listen to it at HALF SPEED, so > Ross Bagdasarian's voice comes out normally (well, sort of > robotically, in fact) and all the instruments are slowed down to > apocalyptic clanging. > > But that's just me. No it's not. And I thought I was the only one listening to Ross at half speed... # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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, May 13 Date: 13 May 2001 01:40:54 -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 #142 Ouh La La! - Volume 2 After last week's show featuring the first volume of this series, we just had to continue...so here's volume 2, which is even better! 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: Mexico Fiesta The Jurgen 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 Drug Sound: Voodou The Living Seafood: Gravy Somnolence The Jurgen Franke Sextet: Feeling High "A Little Bit Of Beat" The Jurgen Franke Sextet: Carnaby Dance "A Little Bit Of Beat" Andre Brasseur: Pow Pow "Get Easy Vol. 3" 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: Christine Karkow Subject: Re: (exotica) places in Minneapolis Date: 13 May 2001 00:47:03 -0700 on 5/11/01 14:35, Matt Marchese at mjmarch@charter.net wrote: > > Unfortunately, Mini-nipple's premiere Tiki lounge the Bali Hai was torn down a > while ago to make way for a very important Sprint phone store/minimall. and let us not forget either the polynesian restaurant that used to be in the old Lemmington Hotel. I forgot the name, but when I was a kid I used to go there with my parents. the only other thing I can recommend in the Twin Cities is the Turf Club, on the Midway, and, thought this would not be tiki or lounge, the old 3.2 bars in Nordeast definentely have a distinct and unique character that is worth going to. But Nye's is first on the list!!! 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: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Tiki Restaurant News Date: 13 May 2001 06:44:29 EDT In a message dated 5/12/01 2:28:14 PM Atlantic Daylight Time, kevin@kevdo.com writes: << 1) Trader Vic's in Palo Alto, CA is moving along. This was supposed to open late last year or early this year but has been delayed. They are now constructing walls inside the building >> Boy, I hope they do a good job on those lava rock walls. Remember a few years ago when a lava rock wall fell on some dude at Don Ho's in Hawaii? 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: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) [obits] Perry Como,Sebastian Snow Date: 13 May 2001 10:55:08 -0400 http://www.msnbc.com/news/572616.asp?0cm=3Dc30 http://www.google.com/search?q=3D%22perry+como%22 http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=3Damg&sql=3D1PERRY|COMO http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/13/obituaries/13COMO.html Singer Perry Como Dies at 87 MIAMI (AP) - Perry Como, the crooning baritone barber famous for his relaxed vocals, cardigan sweaters and television Christmas specials, died Saturday after a lengthy illness. He was 87.=20 Como died in his sleep at his home in Jupiter Inlet Beach Colony, his= daughter Terry Thibadeau said.=20 ``We spent two beautiful hours (Friday) with dad, me and my grandson,= Holden,'' Thibadeau told The Palm Beach Post. ``We shared ice cream. It was a= wonderful moment for us.''=20 The charming Italian-American whose name became synonymous with mellow performed through seven decades, starting in the 1930s. His idol, the late singer Bing Crosby, once called Como ``the man who invented casual.''=20 Como left his job as a steel town barber to sing with big bands in the 1930s and his songs were a mainstay of radio and jukeboxes in the late 1940s. He helped pioneer variety shows on the new medium of television in the 1950s= and performed on television specials over the last four decades. His music= remained popular in recent years on easy-listening radio.=20 In 1945, Como had his first million-selling hit, ``Till the End of Time.''= It was among many songs including ``Prisoner of Love'' that topped the charts.= He competed with Frank Sinatra and Crosby to be the era's top crooner.=20 While Como emulated Crosby in his early years, some of his best-known= numbers were light novelty songs like ``Hot Diggity'' and ``Papa Loves Mambo.'' He= made a brief foray into wartime movie musicals in Hollywood, but decided to= pursue a career in radio.=20 Como often said he far preferred singing romantic ballads to some of the lightweight numbers, but the novelty songs were a frequent audience request.= =20 ``They get tired of hearing `Melancholy Baby' and those mushy things,'' Como said in a 1994 interview. ``But those are the songs that, as a singer, you= love to sing.''=20 Some music experts say Como, with his naturally melodic baritone voice,= might have carved a deeper niche if he had taken firmer control of his material.= =20 Will Friedwald, author of ``Jazz Singing'' and an expert of music from= Como's era, once called Como ``a marvelous singer'' who ``seemed to do everything= they put in front of him.''=20 Como made his television debut in 1948 on NBC's ``The Chesterfield Supper Club'' and in 1950 he switched to CBS for ``The Perry Como Show,'' which ran for five years. Como then returned to NBC for a variety show that ran for= eight years, first on Saturday nights opposite Jackie Gleason, then on Tuesday= night. In 1963, he gave up the regular television show and began doing occasional specials. Rock 'n' roll had crowded out the crooners who once charmed hordes= of screaming bobby-soxers.=20 His career saw a resurgence in the 1970s with songs like ``It's= Impossible,'' ``And I Love You So'' and several best-selling Christmas albums. In 1987, President Reagan presented Como with a Kennedy Center award for outstanding achievement in the performing arts.=20 In 1994, Como put out a three-CD boxed set including his most popular songs since he started recording in 1943. And his former hit, ``Catch a Falling Star,'' became familiar to a new generation of fans when it became part of= the Clint Eastwood-Kevin Costner movie ``A Perfect World.''=20 Como said he occasionally tired of the jokes about his somnambulant style, although he found a skit on the SCTV comedy show particularly amusing. The= spot showed a Como impersonator lying on the floor nearly comatose with a= microphone in front of his barely moving lips as dancers leaped about him.=20 His casual legend grew from his first pressure-packed appearances on the pioneering medium of live television - with its crashing scenery, misplaced= cue cards and camera confusion.=20 ``I decided the only thing to do was take it as it came,'' he recalled in a 1985 interview. ``People wrote in asking how I could be so casual. It all started to grow.''=20 Pierino Roland Como was born May 18, 1913, in Canonsburg, Pa., the middle offspring of 13 children of Italian immigrants.=20 At age 11, he went to work sweeping floors after school at a barbershop in= the town just south of Pittsburgh. He got lessons on how to cut the hair of coal miners and other workers, and by the age of 14 he had his own barber= business earning $150 a week. His pay dropped off during the Depression when he went= to work for another barber.=20 But he got an offer to sing with Freddie Carlone's band in Cleveland in the early 1930s. He began his rise in show business when he was signed to sing= with Ted Weems big band in 1936, a relationship that continued for six years.=20 In 1943, he began what turned into a 50-year contract with RCA-Victor= Records with the recording of the song ``Goodbye Sue.''=20 In his later years, Como lived in a private semiretirement with his wife Roselle, whom he met at a picnic when he was 16 and married in 1933. They divided their time between the North Carolina mountains and the Palm Beach County town of Jupiter where he played golf, took long, brisk walks and entertained his grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Mrs. Como died in= August 1998, less than two weeks after she and Como celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary. She was 84.=20 He reappeared on television periodically for Christmas television specials= from exotic, international locales. Even as he grew older, the graying Como= retained a tanned, fit appearance and youthful charm.=20 ------------ May 13, 2001=20 Sebastian Snow, Eccentric English Explorer, Dies at 72 By DOUGLAS MARTIN,NYTimes Sebastian Snow, an eccentric English explorer who helped confirm the source of the Amazon River as he bumbled about vast portions of South America singing the "Eton Boating Song" with somewhat perplexing frequency, died on April 20. He was 72.=20 Christian Bonington, a widely traveled explorer who made some trips with him, called Mr. Snow "the last of a fast-dying breed of true amateur adventurers."=20 His friend the explorer Robin Hanbury-Tenison said Mr. Snow had been "sort of reclusive" for the last 20 years. He did not know where he died, or the cause of death, and obituaries in British newspapers did not contain this information.=20 Mr. Hanbury-Tenison said he last heard from his friend about eight weeks ago, when Mr. Snow asked him to be best man when he married his landlady. The marriage apparently did take place, but Mr. Hanbury-Tenison could not attend.=20 Mr. Snow became famous as an explorer in 1951, when he participated in a successful expedition to find the source of the Amazon River in the Andes. He then turned around and navigated the river to the Atlantic Ocean, thousands of miles away, paddling canoes and bobbing on balsa log rafts, as he braved ferocious rapids, snakes and headhunters.=20 Upon his arrival back in London, The Daily Mirror hailed him as "a six-foot live hero, straight from the `Bumper Book for Boys.' " The next year, a comic strip about his adventures appeared in a boys' paper.=20 He played the part in a manner that recalled some of the characters of Evelyn Waugh or Peter Fleming, a British travel writer of the 1930's who combined parody, wit and self- derision to famous effect.=20 When interviewed by The New York Times on Dec. 3, 1952, Mr. Snow, then 23, said he "found the whole trip a bit dull." He remarked on the trials of traveling alone and perhaps spraining one's ankle and being pecked to death by birds of prey. "That would be a bit trying," he said. Sebastian Edward Farquason Snow was born in Midhurst, Sussex, on Jan. 21, 1929. His father owned a bank in Exeter and his uncle was the British ambassador to Colombia, a connection that opened many doors. He was educated at Eton, where be broke his thigh playing rugby, making him unacceptable to the army. He went to work for Lloyd's, the insurance exchange, before being dismissed after six months. He then explored Lapland by motorcycle and hiked from Istanbul to Karachi.=20 He saw an advertisement in The Times of London in April 1951 asking for volunteers to take part in a hydrological expedition around the head of the Amazon. "No experience necessary," it said. The source of the Amazon had been discussed at least since 1641, and in 1944, two French explorers, Bertrand Florney and Fred Matter, put the source at a glacial lake in southern Peru. With a series of measurements and soundings, Mr. Snow and his colleague, John Brown, confirmed the French finding.=20 Last December, an expedition by the National Geographic Society used advanced satellite navigation technology to pinpoint the source even more exactly: a trickle of water on the mountain Nevada Mismi. Mr. Snow said "dinner together on my return" and Mr. Brown left, after the discovery of the source.=20 Mr. Snow quickly showed he could overcome a blundering nature with pluck and luck. (He was described by Mr. Hanbury-Tenison as "myopic and incompetent.") Mr. Snow handled many tricky situations by shouting in English, working in an occasional Spanish word, particularly "pistola." "But it always seemed to work," Mr. Hanbury-Tenison marveled.=20 After Sir Edmund Hillary beat him to the top of Everest, Mr. Snow made do with some South American mountains. He had been eccentric in his preparations, not bringing nearly enough food. He ate roast monkey (which he said tasted "like stringy beef"), bamboo shoots and snails. After several South American expeditions in the 1960's and early 1970's, he set off in 1973, wearing a backpack and carrying a briefcase, to walk from Tierra del Fuego to Alaska, a journey of 15,000 miles, but was forced to give up after 19 months and 8,700 miles. He carried no water, and drank from puddles in the road.=20 In the introduction to his book about the walk, "The Rucksack Man" (Hodder and Stoughton, 1976), Mr. Bonington wrote, "Sebastian is prone to every kind of accident, some of them ludicrous."=20 Vampire bats sucked blood from his toes, and tigers and pumas prowled nearby as he nervously relieved himself. "What is Sebastian Snow?" Mr. Bonington asked. "A strange mix of na=EFvet=E9, diabolical intelligence, modesty, self-esteem, sentimentality, cynicism and sheer bloody toughness and= courage." After almost two years, he made it as far as Costa Rica, more than halfway to his goal. But he weighed barely 100 pounds and could go no farther. Three months later, he telephoned Mr. Hanbury-Tenison and said his weight had doubled. "You are a perfectionist like me, Robin," he said. "You will understand that I will have to go back to the beginning."=20 His friend talked him into picking up the walk in Costa Rica, but he gave up shortly afterward.=20 In 1957, Mr. Snow converted to Roman Catholicism and married the Contessa Letizia Bizarri, the daughter of one of the Privy Chamberlains of the Sword and Cape at the Papal Court. They had a son, Sebastian, and three daughters, Francesca, Miranda and Natasha. The couple divorced in 1970. All their children survive.=20 While married, he made an unsuccessful attempt at chicken farming. "My roaming days are over," he proclaimed. "Now we're going to raise broiler fowls. It's a far cry from exploring the upper Amazon, but so much more comfortable." Mr. Hanbury-Tenison said that Mr. Snow lived alone =97 except for the= landlady he recently and briefly married =97 for at least the last 20 years.=20 --------- http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/obituaries/AP-Obit-Adams.html On the Net: Douglas Adams site: http://www.douglasadams.com Hitchhiker's Guide: http://www.h2g2.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 Jemmeson Subject: (exotica) Recent reissues Date: 13 May 2001 19:07:27 +0100 Anyone know of anywhere in London or the UK that has either of these? EDEN AHBEZ: "EDEN'S ISLAND" LES BAXTER: "AFRICAN JAZZ" I thought Intoxica would, but no luck... # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) what would Journey do? Date: 13 May 2001 15:52:16 -0400 Thought you guys might enjoy this site: http://members.tripod.com/~vpchrispv/wwjd.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: "basic hip" Subject: Re: (exotica) Recent reissues Date: 13 May 2001 18:49:08 -0700 Why not just order Eden's Island from Tower Records? I just checked their site and they list it as available and 12.99. Don't they ship anywhere? You gotta have it, Michael. It's the tippety top of the tops. Not sure about the African Jazz, did not know there was a (legit) reissue of it. > Anyone know of anywhere in London or the UK that has either of these? > > EDEN AHBEZ: "EDEN'S ISLAND" > LES BAXTER: "AFRICAN JAZZ" > # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Recent reissues Date: 13 May 2001 19:34:46 -0700 I wrote: > > Why not just order Eden's Island from Tower Records? I just checked their > > site and they list it as available and 12.99. Don't they ship anywhere? There is also a vinyl reissue of this that you can order from Jack Diamond Music - I think he has copies left and ships all over. Also, it's not a recent reissue - the Del-Fi Cd came out a good 4 or 5 years ago... # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "mark jung" Subject: (exotica) re:places in Minneapolis Date: 14 May 2001 12:34:28 Oarfolk's now Treehouse (but it's in the same place), and Garage D'Or closed up about two months ago; also check Roadrunner (43rd & Nicollet), and the colossal Cheapo store in uptown (K-Mart-size new & used vinyl & CDs), near Lake and Hennipen. If Hymie's is still around over there on east Lake Street, that's definitely worth investigating as well. Matt Marchese sez: >Record stores include Let It Be, Oarfolkjokeopus, Garage D'Or, and Know >Name. _________________________________________________________________ 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: "Nathan Miner" Subject: (exotica) SONORISSIMA Date: 14 May 2001 08:55:47 -0400 There are two volumes of this Italian pop. How are they?? Same goes for the Pop Shopping comp. of German stuff..........do tell......= # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) DC area Mai Tai/Tiki Bar questors Date: 14 May 2001 06:31:37 -0700 (PDT) http://yp.washingtonpost.com/E/E/WASDC/0001/79/62/cs1.html __________________________________________________ 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) Cowsills comic book Date: 14 May 2001 11:07:39 -0400 Cowsills comic book (say it three times fast) http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/oddball/index.cgi?date=2001-05-08 The comments are sort of snide, but you can always hit the guy's mail link at the bottom if you want to vent. 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: chuck Subject: (exotica) Kaliki & Vern and Teasorama In New Orleans Date: 14 May 2001 08:54:30 -0700 (PDT) Kaliki and Vern Please contact me off list about teasorama in New Orleans Please send me your phone numbers if possible. For all exoticats Teaseorama is a dream come true with Otto and Cleave djing at 2 faboulous clubs here in New Orleans this coming weekend. Thanks 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: "Daniel Shiman" Subject: (exotica) Playlist for Dial-ated Pupils: May 12, 2001 Date: 14 May 2001 17:36:45 This week's broadcast featured a lot of Latin soul and boogaloo, among other things. And most interestingly, a mini-set of America's own ribald variant of ritual-insults, that is, The Dozens, set to song. Thanks to Mike Buck for the unbelievable Snatch and the Poontangs (AKA Johnny Otis) LP. -Dan ARTIST -- SONG -- RECORD -- FORMAT -- LABEL Hugo Blanco -- Domingo Por La Manana -- 14 Canonazos Bailables -- LP -- Discos Fuentes Freddie Rodriguez -- Swing Para Ti (Part 1) -- La Versatilidad de Freddie Rodriguez -- LP -- UA Latino Miss Lavell -- You're the Most -- 7" -- Duke Cal Tjader -- Manteca -- Soul Burst -- LP -- Verve Mongo Santamaria -- Sweet 'Tater Pie -- Mongo Explodes -- LP -- Riverside Sergio Mendes -- Comin' Home Baby -- Sergio Mendes' Favorite Things -- LP -- Atlantic The Jazz Crusaders -- Tough Talk -- Chile Con Soul -- LP -- Pacific Jazz El Chicano -- El Grito -- Celebration -- LP -- Kapp Gerald Wilson -- Viva Tirado -- Moment of Truth -- LP -- Pacific Jazz Lou Courtney -- Do the Thing -- 7" -- Riverside The Latin Souls -- Tiger Boo-Ga-Loo -- Tiger Boo-Ga-Loo -- LP -- Kapp Willie Bobo -- Spanish Grease -- Spanish Grease -- LP -- Verve Tom and Jerrio -- Boo-Ga-Loo -- 7" -- ABC-Paramount Cortijo y su Combo -- Agua Que Va A Caer -- La Quiniela del Dia -- LP -- Tico Mongo Santamaria -- Cold Sweat -- Soul Bag -- LP -- Columbia Bo Diddley -- Say Man, Back Again -- 7" -- Checker Bobby Patterson and The Mustangs -- I'm Leroy - I'll Take Her -- 7" -- Jetstar Kokomo Arnold -- The Twelves (The Dirty Dozens) -- Bottleneck Guitar Trendsetters of the 1930's -- CD -- Yazoo Snatch and the Poontangs -- The Signifyin' Monkey (Part 1) -- Snatch and the Poontangs: For Adults Only! -- LP -- Kent Ebbie Veasley -- The Signifyin' Monkey -- Catfish, Carp & Diamonds: 35 Years of Texas Blues -- CD -- Catfish Sam Price and His Band -- The Dirty Dozens -- Boogie Woogie, vol. 2: The Small Groups -- CD -- Jasmine Lightnin' Hopkins -- The Dirty Dozens -- Lightnin' Hopkins: 1947-1969 -- CD -- Best of Blues 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: "Ron Grandia" Subject: (exotica) Compact Disk Logo and Parents Advisory art. Date: 14 May 2001 11:38:49 -0700 Anybody out there have vector art samples of the Compact disc logo and/or the Parental Advisory sticker that accompanies most rap titles these days? A pal of mine is making a CD as a wedding favor, and I thought the exoticats would be the crowd to turn to in such a time. Thanks! Ron Grandia # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) more Journey Date: 14 May 2001 15:20:36 -0400 this is what the internet was invented for: http://members.aol.com/tributetoamerica/dontstopbelievin.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: Ben Waugh Subject: Re: (exotica) more Journey Date: 14 May 2001 12:32:20 -0700 (PDT) Can someone please forward Osama ibn Latte's buddies directions to the next gig. You know you are. --- alan zweig wrote: > > this is what the internet was invented for: > > http://members.aol.com/tributetoamerica/dontstopbelievin.html > __________________________________________________ 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) The Big Hurt........ Date: 14 May 2001 16:17:29 -0400 What are some of youse guys' favorite renditions of this song?? - 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: Hep Cat Subject: (exotica) Atlanta scene Date: 14 May 2001 14:29:08 -0700 (PDT) I'm going to be spending a lot of time in Atlanta pretty soon. Other than Trader Vic's are there any other Tiki related places? Any retro themed martini lounges? Any bands I should look out for? Thanks! Ford _____________________________________________________________ Enjoy the hip cats and magical martinis at the world's most famous martini bar, Chatini! http://www.chatini.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: (exotica) Pop-Shopping Date: 14 May 2001 18:03:30 EDT I like the Pop Shopping CD. The standout tracks for me are the Swining Nordwest Theme, Moulinex, Wild Freshmess, Minikillers. Also like the early tunes like Tobler Twist and Nescafe Calypso (from '59). Most of it is from the mid-60s thru early 70s. In a message dated 5/14/01 5:57:33 AM Pacific Daylight Time, nminer@jhmi.edu writes: << Same goes for the Pop Shopping comp. of German stuff..........do tell.... >> # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) The Big Hurt........ Date: 14 May 2001 22:40:43 EDT In a message dated 5/14/1 3:19:15 PM, nminer@jhmi.edu wrote: >What are some of youse guys' favorite renditions of this song?? Miss Toni Fisher is the definitive word on the tune..what with phase shifting in 1960 and that voice that has no time or place, but for my money Susan Rafey's version, produced by Alan Lorber on Verve, complete with fuzzzzzzz, is a fucking monster. You WILL react viscerally...JB/no jackie "d", but I feel strongly about that virgin of the song # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) record show no no Date: 14 May 2001 22:42:29 -0400 Steve wrote: > > I realized not so long ago that time wasn't a factor as there just wasn't > > much out there of much value at giveaway prices and there wouldn't likely > > be more coming. > I just got 200 British import classical 78s from the thirties in mint > condition for 50 cents a disk (including shipping) and several hundred > 40s swing and jazz 78s in good shape for about 20 cents a disk after > shipping. I just found a guy back east who got nearly 12,000 78s he > found stored in a barn that date all the way back to the turn of the > century. He's blowing them out in batches of 100. Get a 78 turntable > and you will have more music than you can handle for pennies. There are always things that come out from nowhere, but there are also a LOT more dealers and "pickers" out there, looking further and further up the chain. So in order for the folks on this list to find the records they want, it becomes necessary to get there first. There's the question of time and availability to shop. I suppose if you want say 78's and find a whole barn full at next to no cost you're laughing, but these things just don't happen as often as we'd like. Maybe I'm the wrong guy to argue this as I've never in my life bought a lottery ticket... 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) Records and the DJ Date: 15 May 2001 11:11:10 +0100 I was doing the sound for a friend who was supporting mantronix doing a live set around '84. About halfway through the sound check Curtis Mantronik took offence to the fizzing sound coming out of one of the speakers and got a screwdriver started taking them apart. The look on the PA mans face was a joy. This was when I was at college, so I can't imagine we were paying him that much. It worked though, maybe he charged the PA company for fixing their PA. 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 as Carl Cox said when he was asked was he worth the ludicrous sums bookings payed him, 'i'm certainly not payed enough to make the equipment in most clubs sound good'. rob _ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) The Big Hurt........ Date: 15 May 2001 07:40:19 -0700 (PDT) There's also a Hi-enrgy version from around 1983 that rocked me, though the singer was no Toni Fisher. Don't have the record in front of me but the cover of the 12 inch was a Hi heel crushing something. Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck --- DJJimmyBee@aol.com wrote: > > > In a message dated 5/14/1 3:19:15 PM, nminer@jhmi.edu wrote: > > >What are some of youse guys' favorite renditions of this song?? > > Miss Toni Fisher is the definitive word on the tune..what with > phase shifting in 1960 and that voice that has no time or place, but for my money Susan Rafey's version, produced by Alan Lorber on Verve, complete with __________________________________________________ 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: (exotica) The Big Hurt........ Date: 15 May 2001 11:37:44 EDT In a message dated Tue, 15 May 2001 10:41:19 AM Eastern Daylight Time, chuck writes: << There's also a Hi-enrgy version from around 1983 that rocked me, though the singer was no Toni Fisher. Don't have the record in front of me but the cover of the 12 inch was a Hi heel crushing something. That may have been The Motels or something like that Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck --- DJJimmyBee@aol.com wrote: > > > In a message dated 5/14/1 3:19:15 PM, nminer@jhmi.edu wrote: > > >What are some of youse guys' favorite renditions of this song?? > > Miss Toni Fisher is the definitive word on the tune..what with > phase shifting in 1960 and that voice that has no time or place, but for my money Susan Rafey's version, produced by Alan Lorber on Verve, complete with __________________________________________________ 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. >> # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Salvation Army gets Greedy Date: 15 May 2001 12:30:55 -0700 (PDT) Wow. This list is Gonesville today. Here's some filler. The DC area SA outlets have not been putting any new lps out - when I asked why they mentioned that HQ (like a real army, they are)is individually pricing lps from now on. Great. I can see Major Barabara commanding her subalterns to price each crusty lp according to the Goldmine or Osborne guides. __________________________________________________ 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: Dj45rpm@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Salvation Army gets Greedy Date: 15 May 2001 16:13:29 EDT < Subject: (exotica) Broaden your scope Date: 15 May 2001 13:22:10 -0700 exotica-digest wrote: >Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 22:42:29 -0400 >From: "Brian" >Subject: Re: (exotica) record show no no > >There are always things that come out from nowhere, but there are also a >LOT more dealers and "pickers" out there, looking further and further up the >chain. You missed my point I think. There are areas of really good music that the dealers and pickers don't know about, or don't bother with. If you are looking for Esquivel or Elvis, there is bound to be a lot of competition. If you are looking for Ambrose or the Alveno Rey big band, or if you are set up to transcribe defunct formats like audiophile reel to reel or 78s, you can get as much good music as you can carry away for a lot less scratch. The gist of my point is, don't resign yourself to pay more, or give up entirely. Just broaden your interests by experimenting a little. It's a lot easier to take a risk on a 50 cent 78 than it is a thirty dollar "lounge" record. The market isn't the problem. Your tastes are just too close to the crowd. 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) Cheep Munx Date: 15 May 2001 13:30:10 -0700 exotica-digest wrote: >Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 05:26:56 +0200 >From: edjunkita >Subject: Re: (exotica) Dylan's Strange Covers > >Ross Orr wrote > >> >> But I have to admit that I actually listen to it at HALF SPEED, so >> Ross Bagdasarian's voice comes out normally (well, sort of >> robotically, in fact) and all the instruments are slowed down to >> apocalyptic clanging. >> >> But that's just me. > >No it's not. And I thought I was the only one listening to Ross at >half speed... I used to work for Ross Jr on the TV show. The singer, Sherwood Ball would have a hell of a time singing the parts. If he wanted to hold a note, he had to hold it twice as long. If he wanted vibrato, it would have to be twice as wide. If he wanted a rasp in his voice it had to be double, because speeding up smoothed everything out. I remember one show where we did a Bruce Springsteen song where he was voiceless and dripping wet at the end of the session. Just remember that behind those chipper little 'munks is a lot of physical pain! (It can be painful to listen to as well... I used to keep cotton balls in my ears when we recorded to keep my ears from ringing.) 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: chuck Subject: Re: (exotica) Salvation Army gets Greedy Date: 15 May 2001 13:31:02 -0700 (PDT) The same wierd thing is going on at the salvations & the goodwills too down here. Hardly any new stuff and one guy told me the days of 50 cent dollar records are about to end! They probably will price exotica/cheescake the highest since I'm the big buyer in town. I love thrifts and hate them at the same time. I feel an album that is 40 years old deserves better treatment than it gets at the thrifts. Its like waiting on death row for an lp. Something that was once cherished gets thrown in a box on a mildewed damp floor and furniture and other boxes get stacked on it for months. Than it is thrown into new boxes after someone removes the inner paper sleeve and clawed at by greedy animals. Some lps are lucky enough to have an exoticat find them, clean them off, put them in a nice new paper sleeve, and place the cover in a new plastic cover, where they may be cherished once again for another 40 years. Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck --- Ben Waugh wrote: > > Wow. This list is Gonesville today. Here's some > filler. The DC area SA outlets have not been putting > any new lps out - when I asked why they mentioned that > HQ (like a real army, they are)is individually pricing > lps from now on. __________________________________________________ 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) Salvation Army gets Greedy Date: 15 May 2001 13:31:40 -0700 (PDT) The same weird thing is going on at the salvations & the goodwills too down here. Hardly any new stuff and one guy told me the days of 50 cent dollar records are about to end! They probably will price exotica/cheescake the highest since I'm the big buyer in town. I love thrifts and hate them at the same time. I feel an album that is 40 years old deserves better treatment than it gets at the thrifts. Its like waiting on death row for an lp. Something that was once cherished gets thrown in a box on a mildewed damp floor and furniture and other boxes get stacked on it for months. Than it is thrown into new boxes after someone removes the inner paper sleeve and clawed at by greedy animals. Some lps are lucky enough to have an exoticat find them, clean them off, put them in a nice new paper sleeve, and place the cover in a new plastic cover, where they may be cherished once again for another 40 years. Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck --- Ben Waugh wrote: > > Wow. This list is Gonesville today. Here's some > filler. The DC area SA outlets have not been putting > any new lps out - when I asked why they mentioned that > HQ (like a real army, they are)is individually pricing > lps from now on. __________________________________________________ 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) SONORISSIMA Date: 15 May 2001 13:37:38 -0700 (PDT) Pop Shopping is fantastic! As good as it gets! Now what about Sonorissma? --- Nathan Miner wrote: > > Same goes for the Pop Shopping comp. of German stuff..........do > tell...... __________________________________________________ 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: Ben Waugh Subject: Re: (exotica) Salvation Army gets Greedy Date: 15 May 2001 13:41:22 -0700 (PDT) I am not entirely joking when I put forth the (conspiracy) theory that E-Bay is behind it all. E-Bay and the dealers. --- chuck wrote: > > The same wierd thing is going on at the salvations & > the goodwills > too down here. Hardly any new stuff and one guy > told me the days > of 50 cent dollar records are about to end! __________________________________________________ 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: edjunkita Subject: Re: (exotica) Salvation Army gets Greedy Date: 15 May 2001 23:41:52 +0200 That's right Chuck. Instead of spending money, we should actually get paid for all the love and care we give those poor old vinyl orphans in need of a good home. We should start a campaign called Vinyl Aid to financially support that charitable sacrifice we put ourselves through... Edward (in dream mode) chuck wrote: > Its like waiting on death row for an lp. Something that > was once cherished gets thrown in a box on a mildewed damp floor > and furniture and other boxes get stacked on it for months. Than > it is thrown into new boxes after someone removes the inner paper > sleeve and clawed at by greedy animals. Some lps are lucky enough > to have an exoticat find them, clean them off, put them in a nice > new paper sleeve, and place the cover in a new plastic cover, where > they may be cherished once again for another 40 years. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Dymaxia Subject: Re: (exotica) Salvation Army gets Greedy Date: 15 May 2001 20:02:35 -0500 (CDT) On Tue, 15 May 2001, chuck wrote: > I love thrifts and hate them at the same time. I feel an album > that is 40 years old deserves better treatment than it gets at the > thrifts. Its like waiting on death row for an lp. Something that > was once cherished gets thrown in a box on a mildewed damp floor > and furniture and other boxes get stacked on it for months. Than > it is thrown into new boxes after someone removes the inner paper > sleeve and clawed at by greedy animals. Some lps are lucky enough > to have an exoticat find them, clean them off, put them in a nice > new paper sleeve, and place the cover in a new plastic cover, where > they may be cherished once again for another 40 years. And don't you just *hate* it when you finally find that record you've been looking for all these years, and when you take the LP out of the sleeve you find that there's a totally different record inside?! Garrrr! Kerry # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: kendoll Subject: Re: (exotica) Salvation Army gets Greedy Date: 15 May 2001 19:35:45 -0600 > The DC area SA outlets have not been putting > any new lps out - when I asked why they mentioned that > HQ (like a real army, they are)is individually pricing > lps from now on.=20 the sally ann here used to be like that. at their "antiques and collectibles" store they would have really common records (i'm talking bing crosby's christmas lp) priced at $3.99 and $4.99 -- ironically the same records they were selling for 99=A2 at their other stores. i stopped going for awhile, then when i returned they'd done a total about face -- now they often have records on sale 3 for a buck or even ten for a buck (it's also been my best source for tiki items -- lucky thing none of you live in edmonton).=20 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: bag@hubris.net Subject: Re: (exotica) Salvation Army gets Greedy Date: 15 May 2001 19:46:17 -0700 At 01:13 PM 5/15/01, DavidH wrote:They probably think (like the folks running certain garage sales I've come across) that vinyl is now "collectable" no matter WHAT it is and will start charging $10 for scratchy Slim Whitman and Kansas records. They did this at the Mt. Vernon,WA Value Village...3, 4, 8 dollar records...often just because they were "old". They sat. And they sat. And eventually the 8 dollar ones became 4 dollars because of the half price tag deal.... And they sat. And they sat. Finally they figured it out...LPs at thrift stores won't sell at high prices. So, why does it work at used record stores? Because the folks there price according to quality and then sometimes rarity...and stand behind their grading practices! A buyer knows that a 50 dollar record is not only probably difficult to find anywhere but also meets certain standards. Unless a thrift store keeps its records in a regular order, puts the records within comfortable reach of an average standing human, places protected coverings on the better items (even locks up the primo selections) and has a record geek with a turntable, an industrial record cleaner and a strong light source nearby, the store will not succeed with differential pricing. 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: G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk Subject: (exotica) Recent reissues Date: 16 May 2001 11:28:06 +0100 Michael, If you're after CD's then the mainstream shops have got to be worth a try. But check some of the places in the directory: http://www.moremusic.co.uk/links/uk_shops.htm Sister Rays claim to have some exotica stuff, but I'm sceptical. Did you ring or go to Intoxica? I don't think they put new stuff on their site. Good luck 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 Anyone know of anywhere in London or the UK that has either of these? EDEN AHBEZ: "EDEN'S ISLAND" LES BAXTER: "AFRICAN JAZZ" I thought Intoxica would, but no luck... # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Salvation Army gets Greedy Date: 16 May 2001 07:58:45 -0700 (PDT) Hi Edward I can't think of a better descrption for thrift store lps than your "vinyl orphans in need of a good home" The words "vinyl orphans" makes me feel justified for spending all my money all my life on vinyl! This will probably only fuel my fire to thrift! thanks Chuck --- edjunkita wrote: > Instead of spending money, we should actually get paid for all the love and care we give those poor old vinyl orphans in need of a good home. We should start a campaign called Vinyl Aid to inancially support that charitable sacrifice we put ourselves through... Edward (in dream mode) __________________________________________________ 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) "Bing Crosby" (from Discover America) Date: 16 May 2001 11:41:16 -0700 (PDT) This was posted to the Van Dyke Parks list. God I love the lyrics to old calypso songs. These lyrics are stunning and beautiful to me. Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck M wrote: Browsing through Gary Giddins' bio of Bing Crosby, Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams: The Early Years, 1903-1940, I found a lyric for "Bing Crosby," by the calypso singer Roaring Lion. As Giddins tells it, Roaring Lion came to New York from Trinidad in 1938 and performed for FDR and on Rudy Vallee's radio show. Bing Crosby stopped by during a recording session, and the Lion then paid tribute to Bing in 1939 with this song. Here's the lyric, as given by Giddins: Of all the world's famous singers That I have ever seen On the movie screen, Of all the world's famous singers That I have ever seen On the movie screen, Lawrence Tibbett and Nelson Eddy, Donald Novis and Morton Downey, Kenny Baker and Rudy Vallee, But the crooning prodigy is Bing Crosby. Bing has a way of singing With his very heart and soul, Which captivates the world. His millions of listeners never fail to rejoice At his golden voice. They love to hear his la-da-de-da [whistles] So sweetly and with such harmony Thrilling the world with his melody. Mention must also be made of Bing's romantic life, Centered on his wife. As lovely as the soft sylphs of poetic dreams Her smile is like the moonbeams. A former star, we know she can sing. But now her voice she has reserved For her sons and Bing. So, so happy must be Bing Crosby That he married a beauty like Dixie Lee. I wonder if you heard him singing that song "May I (be the one to say I)?" And yet I'm wondering if you heard again, "(Every time it rains, it rains) Pennies from Heaven"? But "Love Thy Neighbor" was the most thrilling song, And "Git Along, Little Dogies, Git Along." So sweetly and with such harmony Thrilling the world with his melody. Bing has a most interesting personality Beloved universally. He has two private horses, Double Trouble and Ligaroti, Pipe smoking is his hobby. He has a queer eccentricity-- Takes off his hat very infrequently. So one and all, let's unanimously Shout three cheers for this golden voice prodigy. According to a note on page 657, the Lion also wrote "Four Mills Brothers" and was still performing as of 2000. Cheers, Michael __________________________________________________ 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: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) "Bing Crosby" (or Road to Trinidad) Date: 16 May 2001 16:49:28 -0400 >According to a note on page 657, the Lion also wrote "Four Mills >Brothers" and was still performing as of 2000. To add to my esteemed colleague's post, to which I owe thanks, because I have had the songs for years, but haven't understood all the lyrics, "The Four Mills Brothers" is a great song as well, with the wonderful couplet "Rudy Vallee is a peppy singer/But I prefer to hear the four Mills Brothers sing/I ain't got nobody/And nobody cares for me", complete with scat singing! A collector I know, Lou Curtiss mentioned the name of the band that backed him and other Calypso singers of the era, but I forgot the name! They are a "peppy" bunch. For those who are interested in the older Calypso, I recommend "The Real Calypso" on Folkways, which not only has "G-Man Hoover" (can't remember the artist) but "Yankee Dollar" by the fabulously named Wilmoth Houdini (with his distinctive vibrato), which bears more than a passing resemblance to "Rum and Coca-Cola" by the Andrews Sisters (Morey Amsterdam co-wrote something THAT hip? Hmmmm....). I am also enjoying "Roosevelt in Trinidad", which has the Mills Brothers song and if you wish, you can listen to this album online afer ye buy it, (arrr, mateys) at: http://www.broadcast.com/jukebox/albums/r/rooseveltintrinidad_3451.html Daaaaaaaaaay-OUCH! (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: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) Calypso Correction Date: 16 May 2001 17:58:36 -0400 >lyrics, "The Four Mills Brothers" is a great song as well, with the >wonderful couplet "Rudy Vallee is a peppy singer/But I prefer to hear the >four Mills Brothers sing/I ain't got nobody/And nobody cares for me", >complete with scat singing! Yike! Mae West was the singer mentioned, not Rudy Vallee. I Done Her Wrong, 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: Paul Wages Subject: Re: (exotica) Pop-Shopping Date: 16 May 2001 18:26:06 -0500 You can listen to all of "Pop Shopping" at www.atrecordings.com with RealPlayer. Last time I checked, they were offering the great track "Ford Capri II" by Christian Bruhn as a free mp3 download. > From: Dlsmay@aol.com > I like the Pop Shopping CD. The standout tracks for me are the Swining > Nordwest Theme, Moulinex, Wild Freshmess, Minikillers. Also like the early > tunes like Tobler Twist and Nescafe Calypso (from '59). Most of it is from > the mid-60s thru early 70s. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: Re: (exotica) The Big Hurt........ Date: 16 May 2001 18:31:49 -0500 Nick Cave did a version with Gallon Drunk on some soundtrack. I can't remember the name of the film, but I did like the song. > What are some of youse guys' favorite renditions of this song?? > > - 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: itsvern@attglobal.net Subject: (exotica) Whistling Date: 16 May 2001 18:31:56 -0400 Whatever happened to the art of whistling? That's the question that an article in today's Washington Post asks. I know there are a few of you who like those whistling records, who might enjoy this article. Lots of information on the state of whistling in today's world. http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30975-2001May15.html Neat fact from article .... "By 1900, the Thomas Edison Improved Phonograph company's most popular artist was a whistler named Joe Belmont ("The Human Bird")" 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: itsvern@attglobal.net Subject: (exotica) Ghost World trailer Date: 16 May 2001 19:09:47 -0400 Last weekend I saw the trailer for the soon-to-be released film 'Ghost World' This film looks very promising, not just because it is based on the Dan Clowes comic or directed by Terry Zwigoff (director of the fantastic 'Crumb' documentary) The trailer contained 1) a yard-sale scene where the main characters ask 'You have any used records besides these?' 2) a kick-ass vintage exotica go-go scene with an amazing song -- like something out of the Something Weird video vaults. I would pay money just to see this clip alone in its entirety. Hopefully there will be a soundtrack CD released for this film. You can watch the trailer at http://www.mgm.com/ghostworld/ns/index.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: "William" Subject: (exotica) song to the siren Date: 17 May 2001 00:35:57 +0800 hi all, i recently picked up the tim buckley anthology. and in the booklet with the discs it says that "song to the siren" was written in 1967 and first performed on the monkees tv show. however, the first version of the song to be released on vinyl was by pat boone in 1969. does anyone have this and what does it sound like? 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: edjunkita Subject: Re: (exotica) Ghost World trailer Date: 17 May 2001 03:59:40 +0200 itsvern@attglobal.net wrote: > 2) a kick-ass vintage exotica go-go scene with an amazing song -- like > something out of the Something Weird video vaults. I would pay money > just to see this clip alone in its entirety. Hopefully there will be a > soundtrack CD released for this film. The song is my all time Bollywood favourite "Jan Pahechan Ho" by Mohamed Rafi. It's on the CD "Golden Voices From The Silver Screen #3" And also on "Doob Doob O' Rama #1" on Normal Records/QDK Media The title of the original film it's taken from is listed on the Golden Voices CD, I would have to look it up for you. You can probably find the film at your local Indian Video Rental. Due to the low bandwidth quality I couldn't make out if the clip featured in the Ghost World trailer is the original or a remake. Edward > You can watch the trailer at > http://www.mgm.com/ghostworld/ns/index.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: Dlsmay@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Ghost World trailer Date: 16 May 2001 22:09:56 EDT The video for "Jaan Pechan Ho" is about the coolest thing I've ever seen, with rows of bolero jacketed, zorro masked guys go go dancing with a girl in a Zorro mask while the pencil-thin moustached guy sings it. Unutterably cool. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Pop-Shopping Date: 17 May 2001 05:03:52 +0200 Do you have the full link?I was just there and couldn't find it. Not under soundtrack/other, not under Lounge, not under Crippled Dick. Paul Wages wrote: > You can listen to all of "Pop Shopping" at www.atrecordings.com with > RealPlayer. Last time I checked, they were offering the great track "Ford > Capri II" by Christian Bruhn as a free mp3 download. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Ghost World trailer Date: 17 May 2001 05:15:45 +0200 Yet probably kinda average for a bollywood film of that period Dlsmay@aol.com wrote: > The video for "Jaan Pechan Ho" is about the coolest thing I've ever seen, > with rows of bolero jacketed, zorro masked guys go go dancing with a girl in > a Zorro mask while the pencil-thin moustached guy sings it. Unutterably > cool. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Les Belikian" Subject: Re: (exotica) Ghost World trailer Date: 17 May 2001 01:36:35 -0700 edjunkita@wanadoo.nl wrote: > The song is my all time Bollywood favourite > "Jan Pahechan Ho" by Mohamed Rafi. > It's on the CD "Golden Voices From The Silver Screen #3" > And also on "Doob Doob O' Rama #1" on Normal Records/QDK Media > The title of the original film it's taken from is listed on the > Golden Voices CD, I would have to look it up for you. You can > probably find the film at your local Indian Video Rental. It's from a 1965 film called "Gumnaam," kind of a lunk-head comedy plus murder mystery (a la "Murder by Death.") That wacky nightclub/go-go scene's right at the beginning of the movie and is only there, so far as I can tell, as an excuse to introduce some of the characters later to be marooned and bumped off one by one. Can anyone tell me anything about the Heavenly Ten Stems version of "Jaan Pehchan Ho"? Is this the same thing as the Mohammed Rafi recording? If not, has it been reissued? Les # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Pop-Shopping Date: 17 May 2001 09:25:13 -0400 >Do you have the full link?I was just there and couldn't find it. >Not under soundtrack/other, not under Lounge, not under Crippled Dick. I had to do a search from google, but here it is: http://www.atrecordings.com/frontsite/LabelArtistAlbum/Album.asp?album=alb_popsho00 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Salvation Army gets Greedy Date: 17 May 2001 11:10:27 -0400 I've been concerned about the supply lines lately, and I think statistically, things must be getting tighter. But then again, last weekend I snagged Julie London's "Julie Is Her Name", Denny's "Quiet Village" and Chaino's "Jungle Echoes" all for a buck each (and the Beach Boys Christmas Album for, uh, free). So we're not quite dead yet. And yes, when I found those three, I practically levitated out of the flea market. 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) more praise for The Book Of Tiki Date: 17 May 2001 11:10:18 -0400 I *finally* got my hands on "The Book Of Tiki" and hey hey, it is mighty fine. Praise and appreciation to everyone who was involved, including of course, the people who happen to be on board here. Nice job, gang. --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: Charles Moseley Subject: (exotica) Library madness. Date: 17 May 2001 17:25:04 +0100 People are going mad again. Must be something in the air....... http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1430690246 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: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) Virtual Visit to the Tiki Room Date: 17 May 2001 13:07:20 -0400 I don't remember if this has been previously posted or not, but in case it hasn't: http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Boulevard/1877/tikivirtual.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: "Robbie Baldock" Subject: Re: (exotica) Whistling Date: 17 May 2001 22:01:30 +0100 Vern wrote: > Whatever happened to the art of whistling? That's the question that > an article in today's Washington Post asks. There's quite a lot of whistling on the wonderful new Goldfrapp album... 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: buMp Subject: Re: (exotica) Ghost World trailer Date: 17 May 2001 17:38:11 -0400 i could not believe my eyes when i saw the clip crystal clear on the trailer. i have been watching it over and over and over for years on a multi-generation video from WFMU. so glad to finally have the opportunity to see it on the BIG SCREEN in full cinematic glory. i hope they show the whole thing! i have been searching for the video in every indian store i see here in baltimore. still have not found it. they do not like the old stuff, only the new crap. Gumnaam means NAMELESS btw. if anyone has it please let me know. Jan Pahechan Ho has been a crowd pleaser for years in my dj sets, i guess i will be considered "trendy" to play it after the movie comes out. i hope the movie is worthy of such a fine musical number. it is so good i suppose it demanded and deserves a new life! i recommend the Golden Voices CD over Doob Doob. it has much cooler songs and Jan Pahechan is unedited. (Doob Doob cut out the whole last section of the song) it is just about the coolest thing i have ever seen/heard as well! bump >>The video for "Jaan Pechan Ho" is about the coolest thing I've ever seen, >>with rows of bolero jacketed, zorro masked guys go go dancing with a girl in >a Zorro mask while the pencil-thin moustached guy sings it. Unutterably >cool. > >>edjunkita@wanadoo.nl wrote: >> >>> The song is my all time Bollywood favourite >>> "Jan Pahechan Ho" by Mohamed Rafi. >>> It's on the CD "Golden Voices From The Silver Screen #3" >>> And also on "Doob Doob O' Rama #1" on Normal Records/QDK Media >>> The title of the original film it's taken from is listed on the >>> Golden Voices CD, I would have to look it up for you. You can >>> probably find the film at your local Indian Video Rental. >> >>It's from a 1965 film called "Gumnaam," kind of a lunk-head comedy >>plus murder mystery (a la "Murder by Death.") That wacky >>nightclub/go-go scene's right at the beginning of the movie and is only >>there, so far as I can tell, as an excuse to introduce some of the >>characters later to be marooned and bumped off one by one. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Ghost World trailer Date: 17 May 2001 23:54:16 +0200 (CEST) > it is just about the coolest thing i have ever seen/heard as well! Agrees, What fun! 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: Hemmel@gmx.net Subject: (exotica) Big Lounge Festival in Italy (Il Giaguaro Expo 2001) Date: 18 May 2001 03:33:07 +0200 (MEST) Il Giaguaro Expo 2001 June 8 and 9, 2001 Palazzo Veronese, Viale Carducci, Cesenatico Il Giaguaro, entertainment magazine, in cooperation with TamTam Registrazioni Audio, Bar 45 giri and Associazione Culturale Kaleidos proudly presents the first edition of Il Giaguaro Expo 2001, two days of parties, live music and DJ sets. Expo 2001 wants to offer the opportunity to meet all the realities of the Easy Listening and Lounge Music world and, especially, wants to be a tribute to Italian film music and to all the musicians and composers who have written its history. The festival will be hosted in Palazzo Veronese, a huge early 1900¹s building, on Cesenatico¹s seaside, 500 meters from the historical center, close to hotels and restaurants, and 50 meters from the Leonardo Da Vinci port canal. The large and bright structure can hold up to 2000 spectators inside, and half that much in the yard outside which reaches the beach. The first Expo 2001 day will open at 4.00 p.m. with the aperitif hour accompanied by the cool sounds of the Hammonder, at the central bar in the Palazzo¹s hall. At 7.00 p.m. there will be a meeting with one of the composers who have made Italian film music famous worldwide, Maestro Piero Piccioni. Along with Maestro Piccioni, there will be two of the most important critics and producers on the Italian music scene, Roberto Zamori and Claudio Fuiano. The former is manager of Prato¹s Film Art Studio, the latter is the executive producer of hundreds of soundtracks from around the world, Avanz from Japan, Crippled Dick from Germany and Easy Tempo from Italy. In the film hall there will be the Italian Thriller in 8-MM review, in which we will be screening rare and artistically valuable films such as "Colpo Rovente", "La Volpe dalla Coda di Velluto", etc. In the Labels hall we will be setting up an exhibition space for the Italian labels dealing in Soundtracks, Lounge, Easy Listening and Library Music. Among them, Irma, Easy Tempo, Schema, Studio Uno, Blow Up and Black Cat Records. In yet another of the Palazzo¹s halls, there will be the evening DJ sets, with the Pop Shopping DJ set from Germany, the duo responsible for one of the most exciting compilations of the last few years, Pop Shopping, on the Crippled Dick Hot Wax label. Along with them, Nicola Conte (Schema Rec.), and a special guest, DJ "Maxwell Implosion" (Bungalow Rec.) from Berlin, but also Alessandro Casella (Il Giaguaro), Sir Taylor (Venezia,), Masoch Club (Trieste), Duba (Cattolica), Rod Sfizioso Agency (Vicenza),Vanni "W. Paul D.Jazz"(Brescia), Robert Passera (Maghella -Doing Time), Piero Casanova (Riviera Beat), Planet Music, la vendetta del disco nero ,Elettric Escargot (Milano).Another special guest of the Giaguaro Expo will be the famous American group, Combustible Edison 2001, Br. Cleve & The Millionaire with Miss Lily Banquette. The second day, Saturday June 9, the main attraction will be live in the stage area in the Palazzo Veronese and a mobile recording studio to document every moment of the happening. We will begin at 2.00 p.m. with the opening of the Pop Boutique, a hall with various stands, second-hand and collector records, vintage clothing and musical instruments. In the film hall there will be the film projections in 8-MM, with the screening of the films "L¹Uomo dalla Pelle Dura" and "I Diafanoidi Vengono da Marte" At 4.00 p.m. the usual aperitif moment. In the Palazzo¹s inner yard, directly opposite the stage there will be an oasis called "Lounge Exotica", with chairs, tables and a picturesque Polynesia/Romagna-style wooden bar where it will be possible to have an aperitif while waiting for the concerts to begin. The live music will take off at 8.30 pm with the Smart Set from Padova IT. At 9.15 pm we will have the "Riviera Exotica Show", where the H.P ORCHESTRA (12 piece orchestra) will accompany the groups VIP 200 and Montefiori Cocktail, who will introduce several important guests on stage. Les Hommes, the London-based Hammond trio, one of the most representative groups of the Soho scene and regulars at Madame JoJo¹s and the Blow Up, will also perform on the main stage after VIP 200 and Montefiori Cocktail. Part of the event will be broadcast live on Francesco Adinolfi¹s Radio Rai Due show, Ultrasuoni Cocktail. During the two days there will be exhibitions of film posters, vintage instruments and Italian design. And last but certainly not least, special guest Cesar Carocerra, an up-and-coming painter from Belgium,will set up an exhibition of his pop-psychedelic paintings called "The Super Pop Studio"along with Fabio Conti an Italian lounge artist. On Friday & Saturday admission will be free, entrance into the arena will be 20.000 Lire (aprox. 10 euro) ticket.. More info on www.giaguaro.com Alessandro Casella Editor & Label Manager Il Giaguaro & Black Cat Records Via Braccio da Montone 56 00176 Rome, Italy Tel 0039-06-27800193 Fax 0039-06-272167 www.giaguaro.com -- 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: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) more praise for The Book Of Tiki Date: 18 May 2001 01:25:04 -0400 At 11:10 AM 5/17/01 -0400, m.ace wrote: > >I *finally* got my hands on "The Book Of Tiki" and hey hey, it is mighty fine. > >Praise and appreciation to everyone who was involved, including of course, >the people who happen to be on board here. Nice job, gang. I have virtually no interest in tikis and I try to avoid discussion of them here. BUT after browsing through this book in my favorite bookstore here, I almost bought this it and I still might. 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: G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk Subject: Re: (exotica) Pop-Shopping Date: 18 May 2001 12:08:47 +0100 I wasn't going to buy this LP, but as the proud owner of a Ford Capri Mark II, I now feel obliged. I've set the mp3 to start up every time I start my PC. Rockin'. 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 You can listen to all of "Pop Shopping" at www.atrecordings.com with RealPlayer. Last time I checked, they were offering the great track "Ford Capri II" by Christian Bruhn as a free mp3 download. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Mark Bennett Date: 18 May 2001 07:25:13 -0700 (PDT) More pop art panditry insinuating that the 50s and consumer culture in general are steeped in a tawdry evil. Most of Mark Bennett's stuff though, with which I was unfamiliar until I browsed the local galleries, consists of blueprints of classic TV characters (The Clampett House, Dr Robinson's Space Ship, etc): http://yp.washingtonpost.com/E/E/WASDC/0002/98/41/ http://www.augengallery.com/Prints/bennett.html http://hotwired.lycos.com/gallery/96/50/profile.html Detail of Mr Ed's Stable: http://hotwired.lycos.com/gallery/96/50/dd.html Home of Wilbur & Carol Post, 1995: http://hotwired.lycos.com/gallery/96/50/d.html __________________________________________________ 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) "Ukulelia" Date: 18 May 2001 14:05:52 -0400 Is a brand new ukulele weblog: http://boingboing.net/uke/ --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) "Bing Crosby" (or Road to Trinidad) Date: 18 May 2001 15:57:49 -0400 >>According to a note on page 657, the Lion also wrote "Four Mills >>Brothers" and was still performing as of 2000. > >A collector I know, Lou Curtiss mentioned the name of the band that backed >him and other Calypso singers of the era, but I forgot the name! They are >a "peppy" bunch. If it was a NYC session, might it have been Gerald Clark and His Caribbean Serenaders? They seem to have played on a lot of the NYC calypso sessions back around the 30s. Some of the backup bands from Trinidad sessions are Audley Francis Washboard Orchestra, Sa Games Rhythm Boys, Clemons Smith and His Broadway Syncopators, John Buddy Williams and His Blue Rhythm Orchestra. Swiping this information from the booklet of "Fall Of Man: Calypsos On The Human Condition 1935-1941" (Rounder). Mighty fine, with tracks by The Lion, Atilla The Hun, King Radio, Lord Beginner, The Caresser, Mighty Destroyer, The Growler, The Tiger and The Executor. Sounds like a wrestling league... 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: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) Ghost World trailer Date: 18 May 2001 17:10:38 -0400 Gumnaam can be bought here: http://www.indiaplaza.com/catalog/catalogdetail/Videodetail.asp?itemid=188250&place=US&majorcat=music&subcat=audiocds # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Tease-o-rama 2001 in New Orleans Date: 18 May 2001 14:32:46 -0700 (PDT) Wow, I walked into the Circle Bar last night to catch a Teaseorama warmup party. There were all these burlesque artists lounging around and cool tiki music coming from the back room. The band from San Francisco consisted of a Bongo/drummer, bass and Vibes. The band, The Fishermen (if I remember or it has slipped into oblivion), is the same band that played at Otto and Baby Doe's wedding. The band did a Martin Denny Tiki version of She Said She Said by the Beatles that was fantastic. The vibes guy was intense! It was pleasurable to hear live Tiki music. The guest singer was from Hawaii and sounded so sublime. Teaseorama is a huge gathering of modern burlesque groups/artists that are putting on shows down at a couple of clubs in New Orleans. Otto djs Friday night, and Br. Cleve Sunday night. The dancing last night to the dj and the band was truly unbelievable. The dj was from a surf type band called the Pendletons and he spun a raucous mix of cool 60s rock/soul/dance/neworleans toons that got every one to shimmy and grind. 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: HEDCANDY@aol.com Subject: (exotica) The Toledo Show Date: 18 May 2001 19:37:54 EDT Any of you Los Angeles cats know if Toledo still performs every Monday? I have forgotten where and would love to go. To anyone on this list... you MUST see Toledo live before you die. His show is a brilliant mix of crime jazz, seedy dames and cigarettes, sweat sex and noir. The music is tight and brilliant smoky jazz and vocals, the band is on fire and the women in fishnets walking on my table... Oi! Chris # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Brian" Subject: Re: (exotica) Big Lounge Festival in Italy Date: 19 May 2001 00:19:26 -0400 > Il Giaguaro Expo 2001 > June 8 and 9, 2001 > Palazzo Veronese, Viale Carducci, Cesenatico Now THAT's a festival! I won't follow with the rest of the descriptions as you probably all read it too, and well... like most of us I only wish I could be there, as I''m now feeling seriously deprived!!! Leave it to the Italians to do it in style... 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) Broaden your scope Date: 19 May 2001 01:09:37 -0400 Steve wrote: > You missed my point I think. There are areas of really good music that > the dealers and pickers don't know about, or don't bother with. If you > are looking for Esquivel or Elvis, there is bound to be a lot of > competition. If you are looking for Ambrose or the Alveno Rey big band, > or if you are set up to transcribe defunct formats like audiophile reel > to reel or 78s, you can get as much good music as you can carry away > for a lot less scratch. You just can't get away from those 78's... I'm not looking for a good deal, I'm looking for music I like! And LP records are quite defunct enough for me thank you... I already have more than my share of defunct technology. > The gist of my point is, don't resign yourself to pay more, or give > up entirely. Just broaden your interests by experimenting a little. I'm not depressed or despondent about this situation as much as I'm merely noting a trend that is the result of the way the market works for any product that is no longer produced. Paying more for a quality product (and I don't mean solely condition) is something I have no problem with. As for broadening interests, I find this comment somewhat amusing coming from a person who expressed such a very rigid definition of just what constitutes good music! > It's a lot easier to take a risk on a 50 cent 78 than it is a thirty > dollar "lounge" record. I'l reiterate my comment of never having bought a lottery ticket. But nevertheless any record I would buy in the upper price range would almost always be electronic or experimental, and not the kind of thing you find in the 50 cent bins! > The market isn't the problem. Your tastes are just too close to the crowd. I'm afraid you really don't know me or my tastes at all! In fact having tastes too close to the crowd is just about the last thing I've ever been accused of! Anyway I really don't have any interest in arguing the point any further. I've simply made an observation based on my experiences, and I don't think it is my place or yours to be telling people what they should be listening to or what they should be spending their money on... 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: (exotica) AMC - American Pop Date: 18 May 2001 21:34:48 -0400 Say what happened to the American Pop series on AMC? I was just about to ask for any takers interested in a Showcase for AMC video swap and I can't find any reference to this series anymore? Did anyone tape the films they ran; Ski Party, Head, etc? I can offer lots of Showcase/Bravo (Canada) derived goodies in exchange! 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: Kevin Crossman Subject: (exotica) May 27th: World's Largest Mai Tai Date: 18 May 2001 22:16:10 -0700 They're building the World's Largest Mai Tai at the Hawaiian Village on May 27th. If you can make it over there for a swim in the mix, please drop us a line and let us know how it goes... :-) http://www.975kpoi.com/pages/47639.asp -Kevdo -- *********************************************************** * 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: Brett Leveridge Subject: Re: (exotica) AMC - American Pop Date: 19 May 2001 01:21:31 -0400 (EDT) On Fri, 18 May 2001, Brian wrote: > Say what happened to the American Pop series on AMC? It's still on. 10pm eastern, every Saturday night. This week they're showing that JD classic, HIGH SCHOOL CAESAR. Brett ************************************************** Brett Leveridge's "Men My Mother Dated and Other Mostly True Tales" is now in a bookstore near you. Order signed copies at: http://www.menmymotherdated.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) Broaden your scope Date: 19 May 2001 03:59:38 -0400 At 01:22 PM 5/15/01 -0700, bigshot wrote: >. There are areas of really good music that >the dealers and pickers don't know about, or don't bother with. If you >are looking for Esquivel or Elvis, there is bound to be a lot of >competition. If you are looking for Ambrose or the Alveno Rey big band, >or if you are set up to transcribe defunct formats like audiophile reel >to reel or 78s, you can get as much good music as you can carry away >for a lot less scratch. That's a huge exaggeration. I don't disagree that one can choose to channel one's taste towards those records that are still relatively easy to find for very little money. And away from the records that are often relatively expensive. I did that for about five years. But there's a price to be paid if you choose to go there. It's not as if the moment you start buying cheap records, the world of music opens up. It clearly closes down. There are certain things you find at thrift stores and certain things you don't. And that's even more true of 78's. If you have the patience to go through piles of 78's - and the patience to play them - you will undoubtedly find thousands of cool and obscure records. But you will find them in a fairly narrow group of genres. And however much you may be able to stretch your tastes in order to accomodate the records that you find, most people can't stretch it endlessly. Finding a box of of Russian opera 78's is not necessarily a sure ticket to becoming a lover of Russian opera. The other thing that should be noted while we're here is that if you find an old 78 of Turkish music and you really want to hear more of it, the cheapest and most efficient solution would be to buy a CD compilation of Turkish 78's. Unless you really like looking for them. Another thing we have to acknowledge is that when thrift store owners start putting high prices on records, it usually has nothing to do with whether the record is actually popular or sought after. It has to do with their misguided delusion that all records are worth something by virtue of being old. So it doesn't really matter whether your taste is close to the crowd or not. The only good reason to limit your shopping to thrift stores is because you love the hunt more than the find. Like I said, I've been there. For at least five years, I tailored my tastes to match the records I could find for cheap. Then one day, those records led me to this tributary and I got a couple of miles upstream before I realized that I wasn't going to find those records at a thrift store. And it wasn't that those records were so close to the popular taste. It was that they'd been identified as somehow "collectible". I tried to turn around and get back to the main stream but the current was against me. And thus I was banished from the world of thrift stores. "Broaden your scope" is bullshit. If you truly broaden your scope, the thrift store will recede in the distance. 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) Ghost World trailer Date: 19 May 2001 12:36:26 -0400 thanx mr. schmoove, i just bought that and the soundtrack on cd!!! http://www.indiaplaza.com/catalog/catalogdetail/musicdetail.asp?itemid=91419&maj orcat=music&subcat=audiocds&place=US yea! bump >Gumnaam can be bought here: > > >http://www.indiaplaza.com/catalog/catalogdetail/Videodetail.asp?itemid=188250&p >lace=US&majorcat=music&subcat=audiocds > ****************************************************** ***************************** ************* 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: alan zweig Subject: (exotica) soft pop psychedlia fans alert Date: 19 May 2001 15:30:24 -0400 If I didn't have this, I would definitely bid on it: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1431950382 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: Salvation Army gets Greedy Date: 19 May 2001 19:11:06 -0400 > Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 11:10:27 -0400 > From: "m.ace" > Subject: Re: (exotica) Salvation Army gets Greedy > > I've been concerned about the supply lines lately, and I think > statistically, things must be getting tighter. But then again, last weekend > I snagged Julie London's "Julie Is Her Name", Denny's "Quiet Village" and > Chaino's "Jungle Echoes" all for a buck each (and the Beach Boys Christmas > Album for, uh, free). So we're not quite dead yet. > > And yes, when I found those three, I practically levitated out of the flea > market. > > m.ace mace@ookworld.com Our local Goodwill tried records at $2 each for almost 2 years. I was probably their biggest customer, but they weren't selling many records. They just recently reduced the price to $1, supposedly permanently. Naturally, I'm delighted, but I don't know how long it will last. Hopefully it really is permanent. As for supply, my opinion over the last 10 years has not changed. Many BILLIONS of lp's were pressed from 1948 to 1988, and there are still billions of them out there. I live in the Northeast, where records have been a way of life during that whole period. I can't speak for other parts of the country, but I have good vinyl finds on a regular basis, at thrift stores, flea markets, and in the summer, very much at yard sales. I expect this to continue indefinitely into the future. I also expect the demand for vinyl to decline because those of us who were raised on vinyl are getting older. The younger crowd were raised on CD's, and whatever comes next, so the emotional attachment to vinyl won't exist for most of them. Just my opinion. My interest in vinyl is as strong as ever, and I expect it to continue. And I expect that the value of the records we collect will continue to decline over time, with a few exceptions (the really, truly extremely rare items). 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: "Darrell Brogdon" Subject: (exotica) Retro Cocktail Hour Date: 19 May 2001 19:50:03 -0500 On this week's Retro Cocktail Hour webcast, we'll preview "Dad Music", the newest CD by those Ambassadors of Lounge, Dead Ringer. "Dad Music" features a sexy, sassy mix of Mancini, torch songs, Latin tunes and bossa nova. Also, during the show we'll meet Dead Ringer's chanteuse, Kathleen Frasca, who joins us from L.A. Elsewhere on the show, you'll find the usual mix of tunes, this week with Arling and Cameron, "Popshopping", Henry Mancini, Jack Costanzo, The Harmonicats and Yma Sumac. To hear The Retro Cocktail Hour on the web, visit: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro.html Visit the Retro Cocktail Hour website right now and enter to win a free copy of "Dad Music"! To learn more about Kathleen Frasca and Dead Ringer, visit their site at: http://home.earthlink.net/~deadringer/home.html 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: "cheryl" Subject: (exotica) Playlist For Space Bop, May 20 Date: 19 May 2001 21:34:34 -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 #143 The Mile High Compilation This week, we're playing a great breakbeat compilation put together by Sol of Mi Senor Records. There are a few new discoveries, and a lot of old favourites - making for one hour of on-air entertainment! Thanks, Sol! Ursula 1000: Psyche Rock Remix Resident Filters: Big Train Hardwire: Rock Right Oh! Polo: The Italian Job Stereo de Luxe: Let's Have Some Fun Gents International: Bitch Sell Crack Tito Puente: Hit The Bongo ESG: The Beat Mansfield: Groove Room I, Monster: Daydream Osymyso: Think & Sing Hairy Diamond: Givin' Up Pimple Jackson: Wiese Nicht Ich Jacknife Lee: Jacknife Is Your Friend 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: Charles Moseley Subject: (exotica) California Dreaming Date: 20 May 2001 18:44:37 +0100 After escaping from a conference in the middle of Disney in Florida earlier in the year, it now appears I have to attend another conference in Anaheim in July. Turns out the hotel is the Disney California Grand, in the middle of Disney Land (or is it World?). This time I WILL try to get into a fight with Mickey or Goofy or some other be-suited fun loving Disney employee. Anyway, the point is, does anybody have any recommendations for the Los Angeles area (big question, I know)? I will have about four days to explore and will probably need a car. In fact, is it possible to exist in CA without a car?? 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: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Tiki e-greeting card Date: 20 May 2001 23:04:44 -0400 If it's a Tiki e-greeting you are needing: http://www.expressit.com/110_Greetings/cardform.asp?cid=FL000533&Sec=1 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: "Richard BADGER(LFM)" Subject: (exotica) I monster Date: 21 May 2001 10:57:01 +0100 Hi everyone Anyone out their got any info on the band "I Monster"? I heard their new single on BBC Radio 2 the other day, and was the coolest thing I've heard in a long while. badge # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ronnie.edgar@lineone.net Subject: Re: (exotica) I monster Date: 21 May 2001 13:15:57 +0100 (BST) Is that "daydream I fell asleep among the flowers, for a couple of hours on a beautiful day......" If it is, it is really nice, I have been trying to get it but to no avail. I know that it is on the Cercle Label, but that is about it, if you want to hear the original that the track samples, it is on Beyond the valley of the Superbeats on the grand gruyere label, it is really good too, very very peaceloving hippy type stuff. regards Ronnie ---------- >Anyone out their got any info on the band "I Monster"? >I heard their new single on BBC Radio 2 the other day, and was the coolest >thing I've heard in a long while. >badge # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) I monster Date: 21 May 2001 09:21:41 -0400 Check here http://www3.gemm.com/c/search.pl?sid=7995286&key=56816&field=ARTIST+OR+TITLE&wild=I+monster Be mindful of the feedback, just like e-Bay. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) California Dreaming - LA activities Date: 21 May 2001 15:28:22 +0100 It would help us with ideas if you posted some of the stuff you're into. If you're into Tiki Bars we can point you this way or that way, or if you're into Jazz..., etc. Good point! I'm NOT into Disney. I like record shopping, second hand stuff, flea markets, drinking, and wacky places to visit. Are there many Los Angelesians on this list? 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: Matthew Marchese Subject: Re: (exotica) California Dreaming - LA activities Date: 21 May 2001 10:11:07 -0500 Charles Moseley wrote: > I'm NOT into Disney. That's too bad, since Disney designed and runs the Encounter Restaurant at Los Angeles International Airport which is a must-see for anyone into retro-Space Age kitsch design, nouvelle cuisine, and outstanding cocktails! The new California Adventure theme park at Disneyland also features a nice collection of tikiana from various Polynesian restaurant/bars that no longer exist. I strongly recommend that you modify your anti-Mouse proclivities at least enough to visit these two locations. > I like record shopping, second hand stuff, flea > markets, drinking, and wacky places to visit. Go to amazon.com and order yourself a copy of LA Bizarro, by Matt Maranian and Anthony Lovett. This book contains everything that you need to know about drinking, dining, and weird scenes inside the goldmine in the City of Angels. As for flea markets, just visit any drive-in movie theater on a Saturday morning and you'll find more second-hand treasures than you can haul off in a lorry. > Are there many Los Angelesians on this list? I lived there for 8 years, but finally escaped. By the way, we call ourselves Angelenos...not Angelesians. Cheers, -- Matt Marchese mattm@sgi.com http://reality.sgi.com/mattm_americas/ Service Publications and Training, Silicon Graphics, Inc. "If there's no ear then there's no sound if there's no tree then there's no ground" -Imperial Teen *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chuck Subject: (exotica) Re: The Reincarnation of Frank's Vinyl Museum Date: 21 May 2001 09:43:11 -0700 (PDT) Hi Frank The vinyl museum is a wonderful site to have back. I always get a big kick out of it. Its sites like yours that I always enjoy seeing again and again. Chuck --- Frank LaRosa wrote: > Frank's Vinyl Museum is back on a new URL -- > http://franklarosa.com/vinyl > > Over these past few months, I've received many emails asking me > why Frank's > Vinyl Museum was offline or broken all the time. __________________________________________________ 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) "Julie Is Her Name" Date: 21 May 2001 18:04:29 -0400 Julie London "Julie Is Her Name" Liberty This is such a "known" record, that there isn't much I can say about it that's new. I will observe that Julie is the antithesis or antidote to the latter-day shrieking divas infesting our modern airwaves. The terrific low-key arrangements are mighty tasty too... just Barney Kessel's deft guitarwork, Ray Leatherwood on bass and Julie floating her vocals in over top. So many artists today are so pushy in their delivery... those divas may be singing lyrics, but to me the message is always the same: "Listen to meeeeeeeeeee -- I'm really singiiiiiiiiiing -- I'm a biiiigtiiiiiiiiime siiiiiiiiiingeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer -- LISTEN TO MEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!" None of that for Julie -- she just wafts the tune in like a gentle breeze, delivers the essence of the song and keeps her ego out of the way (Cliff "Ukulele Ike" Edwards was another expert at the low-key delivery). The production is excellent also. A simple recording like this is easy in some respects, but also difficult... so easy to get it wrong. But they really hit it here. With (usually) minimal reverb on Julie's vocals, it sometimes feels like she's whispering in your ear. You can even hear the way she plays with her distance from the microphone. That's all I can say. A classic and rightly so. Further comments welcomed. Where IS everyone? Is it Exoticalist summer vacation already? Hmmm, guitar, bass and female vocals... isn't that the same lineup as Young Marble Giants? 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: Philip Jackson Subject: Re: (exotica) California Dreaming - LA activities Date: 22 May 2001 12:26:36 +1000 on 22/5/01 1:11 AM, Matthew Marchese at mjmarch@charter.net wrote: > That's too bad, since Disney designed and runs the Encounter Restaurant at Los > Angeles International Airport which is a must-see for anyone into retro-Space > Age kitsch design, Some CubicVR movies of this are online here http://www.panoscan.com/CubicDemos/ 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: "Richard BADGER(LFM)" Subject: Re(2): (exotica) I monster Date: 22 May 2001 09:07:15 +0100 ronnie.edgar@lineone.net writes: > >Is that "daydream I fell asleep among the flowers, for a couple of hours on a >beautiful day......" > yeah, that's the one - made me want to hug everyone in a 100 meter radius... very dreamy, and dangerous as I was driving a hire vehicle at the time! After more searching, turns out that their from my very own town of Sheffield! and it's now on the Radio 1 playlist, so you should be able to get hold of a copy soon. badge > > > > > # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) I monster Date: 22 May 2001 10:58:39 +0100 "Richard BADGER(LFM)" wrote: > > ronnie.edgar@lineone.net writes: > > > >Is that "daydream I fell asleep among the flowers, for a couple of hours on a > >beautiful day......" > > > yeah, that's the one - made me want to hug everyone in a 100 meter radius... > very dreamy, and dangerous as I was driving a hire vehicle at the time! > > After more searching, turns out that their from my very own town of Sheffield! > and it's now on the Radio 1 playlist, so you should be able to get hold of a > copy soon. Is it The All Seeing I under a different name? That Gunter Kallman Chorus track is on the Polydor 'Easy Listening' 2LP compilation which is a fairly common charity shop record in the UK. Been meaning to sample that for about 5 years. I hope the I Monster track does it justice... # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Burgalat: Japanese "Sssound Of ..." bonus cuts? Date: 22 May 2001 07:04:44 +0100 Hi all, Wondering if anyone out there knows the titles and lengths of the 3 bonus tracks on the Japanese edition of Burtrand Burgalat's "Sssound Of Mmmusic" disc. Thanks in advance ... -Patrick # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Elvis films good shock Date: 22 May 2001 15:58:02 +0100 An attempt to elevate Elvis' Hawaiian films to high camp art. Not entirely convincing, but any article on Elvis that can drop Melville so easily has got to have something going for it. It has an Exotica tinge, too, so not entirely off topic. http://members.nbci.com/livingsouth/sr-elvis-essay.html Has anyone read the Melville books mentioned (Typee and Omoo)? What are they like. 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: "Nathan Miner" Subject: Re: (exotica) Typee Date: 22 May 2001 11:16:48 -0400 You can read the entire book here: http://literatureproject.com/typee/index.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: RE: (exotica) Typee Date: 22 May 2001 16:52:11 +0100 Thanks Nate. But does that count as a recommendation? If I prefer my music on Vinyl, would it follow that I prefer my literature bound in leather (if only I could afford such vanities). i do like a nice book with a spine, mind. Would a paperback equate to a cassette? Seriously I would like to know if it would be worth a read. And then I'll get a bound copy. Perhaps even from a library. Call me old fashioned. 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 > ---------- > From: Nathan Miner[SMTP:nminer@jhmi.edu] > Sent: 22 May 2001 16:16 > To: G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk; exotica@xmission.com > Subject: Re: (exotica) Typee > > You can read the entire book here: > > http://literatureproject.com/typee/index.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: RE: (exotica) Typee Date: 22 May 2001 11:56:30 -0400 I haven't read it, so I can't say................although I hated Moby = Dick. I agree, I can't stand "e books" I love a real book - and libraries are = great too!!!=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: "Colleen Pyles" Subject: Re: (exotica) more Journey Date: 22 May 2001 12:28:15 -0500 Now that was just awesome. Journey Rocks!! Colleen/holdin' up my lighter, 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: Ben Waugh Subject: (exotica) Briefcase Theremin Date: 22 May 2001 10:27:03 -0700 (PDT) Got an extra grand lying around? You owe yourself (and your fellow passengers) the experience of a briefcase theremin. Imagine the look on the pre-empted flight attendant's face when you cheerfully explain that what you have been manipulating in your lap is "the only musical instrument played without being physically touched". Anyway, after the site opens, select Briefcase Theremin. http://www.hammacher.com/unexp/index.asp __________________________________________________ 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: Ben Waugh Subject: Re: (exotica) Elvis films good shock Date: 22 May 2001 11:21:57 -0700 (PDT) "In the opening scene of Girls! we first meet Elvis atop his fishing boat, gazing through binoculars at a sea of girls--girls sailing, girls water-skiing, girls floating and bobbing in inner tubes like shiny minnows. The rhetoric of the title song and its dramatic setting is a throwback to the Ovidian conception of women as animal prey, as "girl" to be hunted and snagged like the catch of the day: Girls, girls, girls, girls Goin' swimmin' in bikinis Walkin' and a wigglin' by Yea, yea, yea, yea On the beaches, oh what beaches Oh pretty Lord I could cry I'm just a red-blooded boy And I can't stop thinking about Girls, girls, girls, girls Articles like this are usually goofier than Graceland: "Ovidian conception (what's that, the conception that Fate or gods can transform our lives for sport?)" - applied to an acephalic but otherwise overtly healthy Tupelo lug - who never studied Derrida - ogling some equally blithe young girl-things? "Susan Sontag inadvertantly illuminates" - it would be priceless if not so shopworn. It can only be the case that this guy is parodying academic cant and excess as much if not more tahn is appraising the cinematic oeuvre of the dead and bloated king. Or maybe not. That makes it more amusing, like Graceland. --- G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk wrote: > An attempt to elevate Elvis' Hawaiian films to high > camp art. Not entirely > convincing, but any article on Elvis that can drop > Melville so easily has > got to have something going for it. __________________________________________________ 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: Ben Waugh Subject: (exotica) "Natural Islanders Thatched Hut" Date: 22 May 2001 11:52:39 -0700 (PDT) For $5K you can go instant native (after the site opens, select Sports and Leisure, Outdoors, scroll down to N and select the hut): http://www.hammacher.com/unexp/index.asp This company is what I love about the love of filthy lucre - you can score a private submarine for 62 thousand (great for terrorizing the yachting community), hovercrafts, English phonebooths transformed into shower stalls. Fill in my blank spaces with bright unnecessary things. __________________________________________________ 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: Mimi Mayer Subject: Re: (exotica) Elvis films good shock Date: 22 May 2001 14:31:50 -0500 >> An attempt to elevate Elvis' Hawaiian films to high >> camp art. If you find this article a laugh (I did--thanks!), you might also love a scene in my ex's book, The Lecturer's Tale (James Hynes). A high flying Brit Marxist critic gives a lecture on the lost (read fictious) Elvis movie, set in Vietnam. So far, there's no eBook or hypertext version of Jim's book. It's a real object with a real spine. I haven't read Typee or Omoo, Cheesemaster. Do know they were hugely popular when published, so when Melville did Moby Dick, he was flayed. Unlike you, Nate, I adore MD. There's exotica throughout in the character of Queequeg. Plus the chapter A Bower in the Arsacides details a whale skeleton become tiki temple. 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: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Elvis films good shock Date: 22 May 2001 17:49:27 -0400 >Has anyone read the Melville books mentioned (Typee and Omoo)? What are >they like. Weird, I saw them mentioned somewhere else very recently, but can't remember quite where now. I checked here: http://www.picklehead.com/ian/ian_txt_surfing.html But no mention. What this IS is some more literary exotica for you. An article by musician/historian, Ian Whitcomb, about surf pioneer, George Freeth (1883-1919). Colorful scenes of early 20th century Hawaii and a guest appearance by Jack London. Makes passing mention of London's travel book, "The Cruise Of The Snark" and London's wife's (Charmian) book, "Our Hawaii". A very interesting story, covering everything from Freeth's mysterious life to the touristization (sorry) of both Hawaii and Southern California. 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) Elvis films good shock Date: 22 May 2001 18:51:06 -0400 >>Has anyone read the Melville books mentioned (Typee and Omoo)? What are >>they like. > >Weird, I saw them mentioned somewhere else very recently, but can't >remember quite where now. Hang on, I found it now. "Typee" is quoted at the beginning of Chapter 1 of Sven Kirsten's "Book Of Tiki". He refers to it as, "one of the classics of South Seas fiction." I've never read it myself, but now I'll probably take a look at that online version to get an idea of whether I want the "spiney" version. --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) Elvis films good shock Date: 23 May 2001 00:53:09 +0100 In article <08C89600D966D4119C7800105AF0CB6B02365A97@moulsecoomb.bton.ac .uk>, G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk writes > >An attempt to elevate Elvis' Hawaiian films to high camp art. Not entirely >convincing, but any article on Elvis that can drop Melville so easily has >got to have something going for it. > As an ardent Elvis fan who thinks his great potential as an actor was never allowed to develop due these generally dire exploitation flics I'm willing to consider a revisionist critical view! >Has anyone read the Melville books mentioned (Typee and Omoo)? What are >they like. I read them at University as part of my American literature course. Can't remember much about 'em now, except that, like all of Melville's work other than "Moby Dick", I found them at the time pretty dull and not a patch on his magnum opus. -- 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: itsvern@attglobal.net Subject: Re: (exotica) Elvis films good shock Date: 22 May 2001 21:10:18 -0400 > An attempt to elevate Elvis' Hawaiian films to high camp art. Music Graveyard offers for sale a set of nine Elvis films from the late 60's for $60. I'm one of those who was pulled by the many temptation of Elvis - especially when they cost less than $7 per flick. http://www.musicgraveyard.com/elcomcolvol2.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: itsvern@attglobal.net Subject: Re: (exotica) Briefcase Theremin Date: 22 May 2001 21:23:44 -0400 > the experience of a briefcase theremin. A few months ago I thrifted a real neat item - a briefcase stereo. It's about 3 inches thick, has a sleek black plastic cover, and when you open it up one finds a turntable, cassette recorder, AM/FM stereo, detachable speakers, two microphones, and AC adaptor (it also works on batteries) It was made my a company called Bohsei (model 6100), but I was unable to find any information about this company It was priced at $30, and works fairly good - except that some of the wires leading to the cartridge need be be re-soldered or replaced. My goal is to get this repaired, and then put on my suit, join a bunch of business travellers somewhere (airport, urban business street) where I will proceed to sit down, pop open my briefcase, and start playing some 60's era exotic dance groove. 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: Moritz R Subject: (exotica) test Date: 23 May 2001 07:41:06 +0200 -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de ......................................................................... Thierschstrasse 43, D 80538 Munchen, Germany e-mail: tiki@netsurf.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: Moritz R Subject: (exotica) Bali Hai 2 Date: 23 May 2001 09:28:30 +0200 (continued from 1) Day is from 6 to 6, the sun wanders over the northern sky of our paradi= se garden - we are south of the equator. We get up at 6 too, when the bir= ds wake us up. A can of tea is brought to our porch. The Balinese boys ar= e pretty, the type of pretty, attractive to gay men rather than to women = - says Katja. After breakfast, which is always a plate of fresh tropical = fruits and a strong Balinese coffee, the beautiful girl, wearing a deep p= urple sarong with golden embroidery, comes with a big tray full of sacrif= ices, little hand-made palm leaf plates with rice, vegetables, flowers bl= ossoms and a stick of smoking incense. She places them everywhere, on the= dozens of big and little shrines - some of them stem from times when thi= s guesthouse was still a rice-field - on the ground, on the statues, that= are all over the place, and on the stone fish bowl in front of our bambo= o bungalow too, now we are protected. She sprinkles some water over the s= acrificed place and moves on to the next, with endless grace, seriously, = without a smile on her face. Later the sacrifices become food for the dov= es, the sparrows, the dogs and finally the ants, who transport every rema= ining rice grain into their underworld empire. It's 8 o'clock by now and = so hot already that we can hardly move and the sweat is dripping from our= skin. Ubud is the center of the arts in Bali. All kinds of arts. There is pai= nting, stone carving, wood carving, horn carving, bead embroidering, silv= er forging, bamboo furniture carpenting... to mention a few. You can get = your tiki lounge filled up within a few days easily. You can find sculpto= rs, that make you 6 feet high tiki statues from a photo you give to them = - shipping included - for 300 $ alltogether. Forget Ebay! "Made to order"= is what it's called. A friend of mine, who stayed in the most beautiful = hotel I've ever seen in my life, found an artist, who just finished two g= iant Hawaiian style tikis (10 feet?), ordered by an American customer. Th= ey where standing there in front of his shop. I found two lovely little w= ood figures and a sort-of-Maori-style mask, that I took home, payed the e= quivalent of 5 $ for all of them to an old man with one and a half teeth = in his mouth, who could speak a little bit of German, knowing a couple of= football celebrities from my hometown and showing me a four feet high st= one statue of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, that a German had ordered years = ago, but never picked up. Stunning and entirely unexpected piece of art i= n the back-yard of a shop in Ubud. "Transport?" You hear this question a hundred times a day, when walking= through the streets. Boys hanging around, offering you cheap rides on th= eir motor bikes or in their cars. It's a bit annoying, until you get used= to it and again after three weeks, when you have to admit, that you have= not gotten used to it. A friendly "no thanks" does it - almost - all the= time, if you can say it in Indonese, the better. You can't escape the de= alers, nowhere; even when you want to do a walk under the volcano, high u= p in the mountains, in the middle of nowhere, they suddenly show up and w= ant money "for trekking". You tell your driver to drive somewhere else, b= ut you always end up at places where people want to sell you something. S= ometimes no "no" does it and you better leave. What's the use of walking = around among lava stones at baking-oven temperatures anyway? Only tourist= s come up with idiotic ideas like that. We decide to move to a guest-hous= e with a pool instead, drink Mango-Lassies and read books for a couple of= days. We read "Tales Of Bali" by Vicky Baum, an excellent introduction t= o the old culture of Bali, and a very nicely written novel from the 1930s= =2E It helps immensly to understand the strange pagan-hinduist ways of th= is country. The jewels: Restaurants, bars and hotels so beautiful you want to cry. Y= ou're never sure wether you're inside or outside, especially in the night= =2E The typical Balinese house is a straw-covered bamboo hut on sticks wi= th a "bedroom" in the "2nd floor" and an open "first floor" to sit in the= shade during the day. These are called Bal=E9s and their design is often= used in the places you eat and live. Between these huts there are tropic= al gardens beyond belief. So rich and green and sappy - Southern Californ= ia is a desert compared to these paradises. Palm trees with 15 feet leave= s, they give shade during the day and you can watch the sun set behind th= em in the evening. Most trees carry blossoms all year long and between th= em are little fish ponds and springs, that are used by the birds to drink= and take a bath. One restaurant, the Lotus Garden, has a big Lotus pond = and is surrounded by a former temple. Stone figures and reliefs make it a= psychedelic dream world. Yes - psychedelic, that's how many of these pla= ces look like - besides exotic. In the night carefully placed lamps, that= look like little huts, give them a mysterious appearance. You hear frogs= , gold fishes play with the Lotus leaves, and some ducks chase between th= e blossoms. Simple Gamelan sounds, that seem to come from somewhere else,= make a meditative atmosphere. It's so nice, so relaxing and so exciting.= Food? Service? Prices? Fabulous. I could go on raving about Ubud for hours... I just hope, some of you wi= ll take the opportunity to experience it yourself. As for the exchange ra= tes and the number of tourists, right now seems to be a very good time fo= r a Bali visit. Don't believe to the news: Jakarta is a different planet,= Bali has nothing to do with the political unrest of some parts of Indone= sia - and by the way: the Malaria is extinguished. I'm offering detailed = tips to anyone who decides to go there. Just contact me. I will also publ= ish the best pictures of Bali in my tikiland homepage soon. mR -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de =2E......................................................................= =2E. Thierschstrasse 43, D 80538 Munchen, Germany e-mail: tiki@netsurf.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: ronnie.edgar@lineone.net Subject: Re: (exotica) I monster Date: 23 May 2001 09:59:29 +0100 (BST) Stunning, I have had the polydor easy listening compilation for a few years, I bought it because I liked the writing on the cover, and listened to the one or two Kai Warner style tracks (crap) and it has been languing in my "to be binned pile" for a while, until last night.. when I dicovered Daydream ---------- >That Gunter Kallman Chorus track is on the Polydor 'Easy Listening' 2LP >Been meaning to sample that for about 5 years. I hope the I Monster does it justice It does!! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: [exoticaring] Re: (exotica) test Date: 23 May 2001 15:48:57 +0200 cheryl schrieb: > Welcome back, Mo! We're waiting to hear all about Bali... I don't know what it is with this silly list. I resubscribed, I sent a po= st, but it wasn't was posted. I sent a testmail, it arrived. I split the = original post in two parts (maybe it was too long?!?), sent it again, and= the second - longer! - part is posted, but the shorter first part not. OK, I'll try again, here's part 1: BALI HAI 5 weeks since I "unsubscribed exotica"... the perfume of thousands of inc= ense sacrifices and Hibiskus blossoms still in my nose, sun-tanned, no: b= urnt, excited, enchanted, enlightened, extremely relaxed and ready to go = back forever every time. Coming back, but not yet back, from the most exo= tic country I've seen so far. The search for the real thing is over: Exot= ica is all there in Bali. Sad about the loss of the likes of the Kahiki, = the Mai Kai or S.F.'s Trader Vic's? Don't worry: The world is still offer= ing places with not only all the ingrediences of an Exotica style, but wi= th real people, who create it, as if it was their very own nature, real f= lowers, that have been growing there forever, real animals, that turn an = animatronics mall attraction into a live adventure and real devotion in c= ombining nature, art and religion to a simple, yet precious way of living= =2E Tourism? yes, there is in Bali, but not as much as we had suspected. Peo= ple, who want to sell you something? Yes, the Balinese are quick of compr= ehension of what westerners want. Ruined Bali? Not at all. They still pra= y to their ancient gods, they still put sacrifices to all their countless= temples every day, they still decorate the statues of their spirits with= flowers, they still regularily celebrate their temple rituals and they s= till do it for themselves, for their own peace of mind. They seem to alwa= ys have had an incredible sense for art and ambiente styling. Even when t= hey have to work hard and much, they take their time for these things. Th= ese sacrifices are even on the side-walks all over Bali. Temples... they = have lots of them. Each village has at least three, plus each house has o= ne of its own. The temples look like the gardens and the houses, it's a c= ontinuous world of architecture, art, religion and nature. The most impor= tant part of a temple is the gate. The Balinese idea of a gate is amazing= : imagine a symmetric stone shrine, like a heavily ornamented tower gett= ing thinner to the top, cut it clean in two and move the halves apart - t= hat's a Balinese gate. They are everywhere. To confuse and trick out the = evil spirits, there is always a wall behind the gate: the evil spirits ca= n't walk around a corner, so they will smash against the wall. For the sa= me reasons there are stone monuments in the middle of cross-roads. There is a constant noise in the air: a waterfall, crickets and busy bee= s, geckos click their tongues, roosters crow all day long, dogs bark, bir= ds sing, little Sunbirds, that fly from blossom to blossom, Bulbuls build= ing a nest, a Mountain Myna, or: Beo, in a cage. Music seems obsolete, na= ture is music, a concerto of interactive rhythms and layers of sound. If = you turn on the radio being broadcasted from the capitals Denpasar and Ja= karta, all you get to hear is Phil Collins, Witney Houston, Celine Dion, = and their Indonesian doppelgangers, disappointing. Yet understandable: If= you hear Gamelan, the original folk music of Bali, as fascinating as it = is, especially when you also see it, it's only five-tone music, always re= maining on the same emotional level, no harmonies, almost no melodies - n= o melody without harmonies - it's trance, it's exhausting, it's even bori= ng. One can understand the dramatic impression the well-tempered tonality= must have made in the one-dimensional world of five tones. The Balinese = have sucked it up, they sing along with the songs from the west. (to be continued) Mo -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de =2E......................................................................= =2E. Thierschstrasse 43, D 80538 Munchen, Germany e-mail: tiki@netsurf.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: "Colleen Pyles" Subject: Re: (exotica) Bali Hai 2 Date: 23 May 2001 10:10:08 -0500 Mo. Your trip sounded fabulous, I could almost smell the place after your description. How long did you stay there? I am sooo ready for a visit. Thanks for the great report. 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: tikiman Subject: (exotica) The Tribe has spoken Date: 23 May 2001 12:42:06 -0700 (PDT) Years before the mast... before K-Mart brought it to the masses... there was the exotica list! http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2001/May/22/il/il02a.html Alohaderci, Fluid Floyd __________________________________________________ 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: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) [obits] shorts with links to full obits Date: 23 May 2001 18:14:39 -0400 http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/20/obituaries/20MCCO.html?pagewanted=print May 20, 2001 Susannah McCorkle, Pop and Jazz Singer, Is Dead at 55 Susannah McCorkle, the sultry voiced pop-jazz singer who brought a rare literary refinement to popular standards, was found dead outside her apartment at 41 West 86th Street early yesterday morning. She was 55. =========== http://www.xrefer.com/entry.jsp?xrefid=623920&secid=.- Alexandria, Lorez [Nelson [née Turner], Dolorez Alexandria] (Chicago, 14 Aug 1929) Singer She grew up in a musical family, and sang gospel music at churches during the 1940s and early 1950s; she was also a member of a choral group that performed spirituals, jubilee music, comedy numbers, and other secular songs, which influenced her subsequent choice of repertory as a soloist. Later she sang at clubs in Chicago with the pianist King Fleming and others, and recorded four albums (1957-9). ============ http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/22/obituaries/22CARO.html?pagewanted=print May 22, 2001 Renato Carosone, Singer, Dies at 81 ROME, May 21 — Renato Carosone, who revolutionized traditional Neapolitan song, died on Sunday at his home here. He was 81. ========= http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010520/us/obit_foster_1.html Bluesman Willie Foster Dead at 79 JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Internationally known bluesman Willie Foster died early Sunday of an apparent heart attack, shortly after a performance at a private party, a family member said. ============== http://www.latimes.com/obituary/20010519/t000041985.html Top Jimmy; Bluesman, Band Rocked City Clubs James Paul Koncek, a barrel-chested blues-rock singer who changed his name to Top Jimmy and became a colorful and inspirational presence on the Los Angeles rock scene in the 1980s, died Thursday in Las Vegas of liver failure. He was 46. Though he never found commercial success himself, Top Jimmy was a magnet for his famous peers, often sitting in with bands such as X and attracting guest performers ranging from Tom Waits to Stevie Ray Vaughan at his long-running "Blue Mondays" show every week at the old Cathay de Grande club in Hollywood. Superstar rock band Van Halen, whose David Lee Roth frequented the Zero Zero club, where Koncek worked as a bartender, paid homage in a song titled "Top Jimmy" on its "1984" album. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) The Tribe has spoken Date: 23 May 2001 18:15:12 EDT In a message dated 05/23/01 3:42:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time, taboorecords@yahoo.com writes: << Years before the mast... before K-Mart brought it to the masses... there was the exotica list! http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2001/May/22/il/il02a.html Alohaderci, Fluid Floyd >> And they made Shag a couple of years younger than he is! (in the article). And I hate to mention it, but K-mart had these fairly nice rayon shirts (one with tikis around the whole waist line) on sale for 10 bucks a couple of weeks ago. For ten bucks, how can you go wrong. I wore mine to cut the grass (which I usually don't do with my nicer aloha shirts). BTW, did I mention the grass I was cutting was attached to a Hula skirt! Yow-sa! 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: Matt Marchese Subject: Re: (exotica) The Tribe has spoken Date: 23 May 2001 17:24:28 -0500 Rcbrooksod@aol.com wrote: > And they made Shag a couple of years younger than he is! (in the article). And they failed to mention that despite the renewed interest, Disneyland is letting the old Enchanted Tiki Room rot down to rattan splinters. -- 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: bigshot Subject: (exotica) LA Record Swap Meet Date: 23 May 2001 16:12:36 -0700 exotica-digest wrote: >I'm NOT into Disney. I like record shopping, second hand stuff, flea >markets, drinking, and wacky places to visit. > >Are there many Los Angelesians on this list? > >Charles Moseley I'm from LA. The best thing to hit if you are here for it is the Pasadena City College Record Swap Meet. It is held on the first Sunday of every month and the records are in the North/East corner of the campus. The rest of the campus is full of great antique and junk stuff. Get there early before the sun gets hot though. 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: "Kevin Leeeeee" Subject: (exotica) Seksu Roba on Tour Date: 23 May 2001 16:38:20 -0700 hi, in case anyone's interested in seeing my band, Seksu Roba, in action we're going on tour on the west coast with 3 other terrific bands. i'd say about half our set features theremin playing (yes, notes). we also have a dancing robot and the lovely lun*na as well as video projection. Seksu Roba's spacey seksy sounds can be found on the crippled dick hot wax label out of berlin but we're based in LA. ecclectic, loungey (?) electronic music with an emphasis on melody and musicality rather than sample flavor of the week. there's free mp3's on the website: http://www.seksuroba.com other bands featured in the tour are Anubian Lights (with belly dancer), The Ray Makers, and Earthlings. All bands are worth checking out! Anubians have a brand new album out on Crippled Dick called Naz Bar you should listen to - very exotica friendly. goto www.atrecordings.com to check out both our albums for free! (try anubian lights' "what a bagdad had") release date is the 27th - the last date on the tour. Seksu Roba http://www.seksuroba.com Thusday, May 24th Seattle WA The Baltic Room 1207 Pine Street 206-625-4444 Friday, May 25 - Portland, OR Plan B 320 S.E. 2nd (503)235-4424 Saturday, May 26 - San Francisco, CA Club Deluxe 1509-11 Haight St. (415)552-6949 Sunday, May 27 - Los Angeles, CA Mr. T's Bowl 5621 1/2 N. Figueroa Ave. (323)256-7561 _________________________________________________________________ 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: "jim gerwitz" Subject: (exotica) Ian Whitcomb Date: 23 May 2001 19:02:31 -0700 If you liked the sample Mike posted check out some of Ian's other writings at that site: http://www.picklehead.com/ian.html The Hot Salsa article is Ian's wacky tale about filming an adult movie, while the Crooners articles are the kind of stuff you'll find in his enjoyable book "After the Ball: From Ragtime to Rock," which I've recommended here before and is now back in print. It's a journey through early 20th century music history that led me to discover George Formby and "The Window Washer's Song" on Napster (R.I.P). I still have't gotten around to reading "Rock Odyssey," Whitcomb's tale about his brief stint as a Brit rock star in the 60's, and I spotted his book about Irving Berlin in the library, but that must wait until I finish "Bardot: An Intimate Portrait." I think I'm going to start believing in reincarnation because there just ain't enough time for everything - but that's a Pandora's box I dare not open. Jumpin Jehosophat Jim # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Ian Whitcomb Date: 23 May 2001 23:23:24 EDT In a message dated 5/23/1 9:01:45 PM, jamesbg@home.com wrote: >I still have't gotten around >to reading "Rock Odyssey," Whitcomb's tale about his brief stint as a Brit >rock star in the 60's...jb He recorded a song that many relatively early garage bands covered in '65 called "You Really Turn Me On (C'mon Now Song)"...I guess I never saw him rising above the parody level, but what did (or do) I know?? 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: Lou Smith Subject: Re: (exotica) Ian Whitcomb Date: 23 May 2001 23:26:10 -0400 At 07:02 PM 5/23/01 -0700, Jim wrote: >I spotted his book about Irving Berlin in the >library, but that must wait until I finish "Bardot: An Intimate Portrait." It can't be quite as intimate a portrait as this: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1146436487 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: "William" Subject: (exotica) 100% and other things Date: 24 May 2001 15:38:56 +0800 welcome back mo! sounds like bali was wonderful and now i'm thinking i should go there for lunar new years(yes, i'm thinking way ahead - but i sort of have to) and not to thailand. hmm. decisions decisions. last night i was at one of my favourite shops here and saw that they had gotten in most of the crippled dick cd catalogue. very cool. i picked up 100% cotton by peter thomas. which i am really really digging. and very happy it was at a cheap price too. i talked to the boss and he said they are expecting more, so i'm looking forward to getting sound shopping soon if it does indeed show up. now, i saw a cd that looks like its a tribute to the vampyros lesbos ost. or something like that. does anyone have this? how is it? are there any releases on crippled dick people feel i should stay away from? someone on the p5 list posted this url, and i think some here will find it interesting as well. it's about momus' trip to tokyo and his meeting up with cornelius, but the real gist seems to be about style. http://www.demon.co.uk/momus/thought180501.html the page also has link to download the honda commercial that cornelius did music for(it's a version of "brazil"). 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: "jamie_james@lineone.net" Subject: (exotica) I Monster - it lives!!!! Date: 24 May 2001 10:07:43 +0100 >From: ronnie.edgar@lineone.net >Subject: Re: (exotica) I monster >Is that "daydream I fell asleep among the flowers, for a couple of hours on a >beautiful day......" Ronnie - i checked out the link that Brian Phillips posted - it is the same record. I Just heard it in the car - you're right, its great. For anyone who is interested, the main guy in the band is Dean Honer from the 'All seeing I' ( or is it 'eye'? ...whatever) who has also produced Add N to X. As soon as i heard this track i thought that it was probably 'I Monster'. Does sound quite like 'Air' though. think a lot of you will like it. 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: Re: (exotica) I monster Date: 24 May 2001 10:22:57 +0100 That polydor comp is a good one. Starts with a great Augusto Alguerro track 'Bocaccio Soul', that I love, Roberto Delgado's hawaii 5-0 theme with slide guitars playing teh horn riff, and that frenetic Xtlo's Inc version of 'Walk on By'. I was looking at it last night (taping the AA track for someone) I didn't notice the Gunter kallman track, I'll have to go back and listen to it. But I thoink I'll forget the Jimmy Young track. Thats more or less stopped me listening to teh second LP. Its funny 3 people having teh same LP, it may as well have been three different records from teh way we listen to it. 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 Stunning, I have had the polydor easy listening compilation for a few years, I bought it because I liked the writing on the cover, and listened to the one or two Kai Warner style tracks (crap) and it has been languing in my "to be binned pile" for a while, until last night.. when I dicovered Daydream ====================================================================== >That Gunter Kallman Chorus track is on the Polydor 'Easy Listening' 2LP >Been meaning to sample that for about 5 years. I hope the I Monster does it justice It does!! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) I monster Date: 24 May 2001 11:25:30 +0100 G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk wrote: > > That polydor comp is a good one. Starts with a great Augusto Alguerro track > 'Bocaccio Soul', that I love, Roberto Delgado's hawaii 5-0 theme with slide > guitars playing teh horn riff, and that frenetic Xtlo's Inc version of 'Walk > on By'. I was looking at it last night (taping the AA track for someone) I > didn't notice the Gunter kallman track, I'll have to go back and listen to > it. > > But I thoink I'll forget the Jimmy Young track. Thats more or less stopped > me listening to teh second LP. > > Its funny 3 people having teh same LP, it may as well have been three > different records from teh way we listen to it. I think you've got the A-Z of Easy Listening there... The one with the Gunter Kallman(n?) track is just called 'Easy Listening' and has a woman and a man with headphones on the cover (woman on the front, man on the 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: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) CDDB users - an interesting article with a bit o' bad news Date: 24 May 2001 10:05:41 -0400 http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2764843,00.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 Linds" Subject: (exotica) Pirates In Bali Date: 24 May 2001 09:11:55 -0700 Hey Mo! When I was in Bali they had lots of stores that sold pirated cassettes. I'm assuming they are now selling CDRs. Was there any of the music discussed here on the shelves? 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: evan.cordes@monkey.org Subject: Re: (exotica) 100% and other things Date: 24 May 2001 12:18:53 -0400 > From: "William" > http://www.demon.co.uk/momus/thought180501.html > > the page also has link to download the honda commercial that cornelius > did music for(it's a version of "brazil"). What's the original version of "Brazil"? Or is it "trad."? thanks, Evan # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) 100% and other things Date: 24 May 2001 10:13:33 -0700 (PDT) My research says the full and initially Spanish title of this canonical tune is "Acuarela de Brazil" ("Watercolor(?) of Brazil"), composed by Ary Barroso. Read on: http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Cabana/1244/ary.html --- evan.cordes@monkey.org wrote: > > What's the original version of "Brazil"? Or is it > "trad."? > > thanks, > Evan __________________________________________________ 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: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: Creating a Linklist.... Date: 24 May 2001 19:02:59 +0200 >Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 15:26:37 -0400 >From: Peter Gingerich >Subject: (exotica)> >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... i might save you some work: most of those links are already online, in my "Linquarium" @ my "Dada's Exotiquarium" site: http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Lounge/1936/linq/linq.htm 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) OT> Mac> record audio Internet streams Date: 23 May 2001 19:49:48 +0200 someone asked once how to record audio Internet streams..... SOUND STUDIO Version: 1.5.5 File size: 587K License: Shareware ($35) Minimum requirements: PowerPC, Mac OS 8.5 Have you heard from your Mac lately? Most Macs ship with formidable audio capabilities, but harnessing that potential can be a little daunting. This straightforward recording and editing program lets you save and manipulate audio tracks from just about anywhere. Pull audio tracks from CDs, record Internet streams and MP3s, or even convert your old records and tapes from analog to digital format. Sound Studio's waveform interface makes it easy to cut and paste, shift pitches, resample, drop in crossfades, and more. The latest version fixes a few bugs, adds some new features (such as QuickTime export capabilities), and comes with improved documentation and tutorials. See you in the studio: http://two.digital.cnet.com/cgi-bin2/flo?y=eBpb0GFFk0S0bD0AU Want to review Sound Studio? Submit your opinion here: http://two.digital.cnet.com/cgi-bin2/flo?y=eBpb0GFFk0S0cMW0A6 Find all of the latest multimedia and design software here: http://two.digital.cnet.com/cgi-bin2/flo?y=eBpb0GFFk0S0gH0Ad # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Re: Creating a Linklist.... Date: 24 May 2001 16:14:22 -0400 >>i might save you some work: most of those links are already >>online, in my "Linquarium" @ my "Dada's Exotiquarium" site: http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Lounge/1936/linq/linq.htm Oy!! Johan you are indeed the man when it comes to all things exotica. Certainly pulls my b-side out of the pan....now I can concentrate on my exotica fakebook that I started...oh about a year ago... But I have been going through a years worth of exotica emails (and 8000 is quite a lot to look thru and delete) to pull any interesting links. Actually its kind of fun reading the already antique posts- debates about copyrights and napster (who?), birth of the exoticaring, l'affaire BJ (which for some reason have been inexplicably deleted already),etc. Whatever I pull out or come across that you haven't caught in your net, I'll post here and/or to you for possible inclusion in the Linquarium. 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: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Pirates In Bali Date: 24 May 2001 20:44:06 +0200 Brian Linds schrieb: > When I was in Bali they had lots of stores that sold pirated cassettes.= True, I even bought some, 50 cent a piece, but there was nothing very muc= h exotica related. A bit of turn-of-the-90s "light house" (my term) pop, = a very good CD, "Brazasia", by a Brazilian band, lead by Oscar Castro-Ne= ves, called Yutaka, a bit of disco, a band called "Bad Examples", but it = was NOT the exotica combo from D=FCsseldorf, but a very bad country rock = band from the US... But I didn't look very much, since I hardly use any c= assettes anymore. The entire music chapter of my visit was a bit disappoi= nting. Neither did I appreciate the traditional music like Gamelan very m= uch, nor did I find any Indonesian or Balinesian pop that I would buy. I = guess one has to spend a little more time before one can get a survey on = that scene. I saw a bit on TV, but it was not that terribly interesting. = I presume though that there should somewhere be records from the past, bu= t I never found any record shop, let alone a used record shop. So no glor= ious reports about incredible finds from me this time. Wonder if any of y= ou guys going to Bali soon, will have better luck, or better eyes, and fi= nd more! You can buy international pop CDs in Bali for very good prices. An averag= e legal CD costs around 6$, illegal Video CDs even less, DVDs were hard t= o find, there are much more available in Bangkok. No luck with finding Ho= ng Kong movies though, those available were all translated in Thai. I gue= ss you have to go to Hong Kong to get those with English subtitles. Mo -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de =2E......................................................................= =2E. Thierschstrasse 43, D 80538 Munchen, Germany e-mail: tiki@netsurf.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: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) Pirates In Bali Date: 24 May 2001 17:30:34 -0400 Moritz R wrote: > The entire music chapter of my visit was a bit disappointing. Neither did I appreciate the traditional music like Gamelan very much, nor did I find any Indonesian or Balinesian pop that I would buy. I guess one has to spend a little more time before one can get a survey on that scene. =============== Mo, Sorry to hear that you didn't get off on the local music. I've got a couple hundred Indonesian/Balinese/Javanese CDs and dig them all. I must have (at least) 8 different Kecak monkey chants just for a start. I'd whip up a sampler for the Exoticaring but I wouldn't know where to start. Of course there are Western versions of gambelan that you might like - Lou Harrison, Evan Ziporan, I've got one CD on Laserlight that mixes gambelan with Carribbean pans. One guy you should check out is Sabah Habas Mustapha http://members.aol.com/sabahhabas/ He has a radio show in Germany which you should be able to catch, over the air or over the web. I really dig his 3 solo CDs - and he's touring out your way in a few months. Just poke around his site for info and example sound files. He's playing in a Sunda/West Java dangdut style, not Balinese, but way cool. Three books you would enjoy are: Bali Modern : The Art of Tropical Living Balinese Textiles and most highly recommended Images of Power : Balinese Paintings Made for Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead by Hildred Geertz 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: Matt Marchese Subject: Re: (exotica) Ian Whitcomb Date: 24 May 2001 16:37:38 -0500 DJJimmyBee@aol.com wrote: > He recorded a song that many relatively early garage bands covered in '65 > called "You Really Turn Me On (C'mon Now Song)"...I guess I never saw him > rising above the parody level, but what did (or do) I know?? JB These days, he's taken on more of a role as a musical historian by reviving popular tunes from the turn of the century. He's probably best known nowadays for producing and performing on the CD "Titanic: Music As Heard On The Fateful Voyage." Parody or not, Ian's a lovely man who sent me a load of cool stuff when I asked to get added to his mailing list. He also was nice enough to recommend an ukulele to me when I was shopping around for one last year. I also recall him fondly as a DJ on the Los Angeles radio station KROQ. His shows were wonderfully eclectic, informative, and very entertaining. -- 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: chuck Subject: (exotica) Ring of Fire goes to Bali Date: 24 May 2001 14:54:57 -0700 (PDT) A public broadcasting (PBS) special in the the early/mid 1980s called Ring of Fire was available for rent at the Tower records on VHS. This was a four part series on 2 Brit brothers that sailed and traveled by boat around Indonesia. The special contained spectacular footage of very rare exotic Indonesian islands and their cultures. The special was on the Nova series on WGBH, public television. The 4th show the brothers finally went to Bali for some rest and relaxation. One of them got swept away by Balinese culture and changed his way of behaving. Bali has been on my list of must see places since I was a teen. Thanks MO for the wonderful descriptions. I'm surprised the gamelan music didn't suck you in. I've always been intrigued by the concept of Indonesian music which is based in part on 2 wheels turning and when a certain place on each wheel intersects that certain place on another wheel a big GONG goes off. My recommendation for a peaceful hypnotic gamelan is "Javanese Court Gamelan" on the Nonesuch label. Slow chants (male and female), cricketts, frogs and a mystical feeling like a slug moving on a branch. 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: "Domenic Ciccone" Subject: Re: (exotica) Fun at the WFMU Rekkid Fair- Date: 24 May 2001 21:58:47 -0400 Took the train down to NYC and hit the record fair too. First of all it was great meeting up with some exotica list members and Luxuriamusic chatters. (Did you know that the Luxuriamusic chat room is still going? And people still pop in) Usually when I meet folks with similar musical interests you find out you share other interests too. And the time spent with these folks was worth the trip. As for the record fair got most of my records from former list member Tony Wilds. Nice fellow who had some nice deals. He was selling the "Silhouettes Segments" for $12. A new pressing of this LP that could be described as "Ken Nordine finds Jesus". If grew up in an open-minded religious household you will dig "The Hippie Version of the 23rd Psalm" and "Music to Watch Girls By" with the statement They say that god created people in the beginning of things. Girls included. Quite a design. God made it. You might think about that next time your watching a girl." Most of the records after that I got for $6-$1. Most of the $1 on Sunday when some were lowering the prices. But most of the booths it was sticker shock. CD's are cheaper. Peter Principle, who dj'ed at the in Hi-Fi sessions, was selling a lot of things from his collection too and gave me his best deals. And I met Jack Fetterman and picked up a few In Hi-Fi comps that are simply wonderful. I'm just going to play these thru on my show soon. Shake and bake radio. But I was too late to get the Kahini ones mentioned earlier here. Somehow got all 53 LP's into my new knacksack/stroller hybrid and got to Penn station in time to get back to Worcester MA. Hoping to be at the Hi-Fi sessions on June 14. Maybe I'll see you there. It's like Mecca, every exotica list member has to make one pilgrimage. and the stars are lining up for this one. 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: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Ring of Fire goes to Bali Date: 25 May 2001 11:57:01 +0200 chuck schrieb: > I'm surprised the gamelan music didn't suck you in. It sucked me in - and spat me out. > I've always been intrigued by > the concept of Indonesian music which is based in part on 2 wheels > turning and when a certain place on each wheel intersects that > certain place on another wheel a big GONG goes off. I guess to fully understand what you hear and see, you need more introduction, more experience and more performances of Gamelan music. In Vicky Baum's book "Tales of Bali", there are humerous descriptions of how the Dutch leaders are tortured and bored to death by incredibly long performances of the Legong dance, really funny. My #1 book recommendation BTW, if you go to Bali! #2 would be "The Beach", which is countless classes better than the film. Mo -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de ......................................................................... Thierschstrasse 43, D 80538 Munchen, Germany e-mail: tiki@netsurf.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: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Pirates In Bali Date: 25 May 2001 11:57:46 +0200 nytab@pipeline.com schrieb: > Sorry to hear that you didn't get off on the local music. I've got a couple hundred Indonesian/Balinese/Javanese CDs and dig them all. I must have (at least) 8 different Kecak monkey chants just for a start. I'd whip up a sampler for the Exoticaring but I wouldn't know where to start. Oh, you should really do that! If I had that much choice I would probaly have to change my judgement about Gamelan, which is only based on a very few experiences. The Kecak dance is in fact an interesting phenomenon, as, although based on original Balinese dance styles, it was invented only in 1931 by a German artist, Walter Spies, for a film about Bali, called "Island of the Demons" and is performed for tourists as an original folkloristic dance ever since. > One guy you should check out is Sabah Habas Mustapha > http://members.aol.com/sabahhabas/ Ah, 3 Mustaphas 3, I've heard of them, when they had a coming out some 10 years ago, but I had no idea that it is Balinese music. > Sunda/West Java dangdut style I bought two CDs called Sunda Africa. They sound a bit like so called "world music" and I couldn't yet figure out, what they exactely are or come from. They are OK, but not more. > Three books you would enjoy are: > Bali Modern : The Art of Tropical Living > Balinese Textiles > and most highly recommended > Images of Power : Balinese Paintings Made for Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead by Hildred Geertz I've seen all of them in Ubud, they are available here too, and for the same price. Since I own "Tropical Asian Style" I thought I don't need further books, but I'll give it another look! Mo -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de ......................................................................... Thierschstrasse 43, D 80538 Munchen, Germany e-mail: tiki@netsurf.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: leslie gilotti Subject: (exotica) Re: i-monster Date: 25 May 2001 11:48:22 +0100 You can hear it here: http://www.playlouder.com/radio It's track #11, I think. Leslie >Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 10:57:01 +0100 >From: "Richard BADGER(LFM)" >Subject: (exotica) I monster > >Hi everyone > >Anyone out their got any info on the band "I Monster"? >I heard their new single on BBC Radio 2 the other day, and was the coolest >thing I've heard in a long while. > >badge > # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ton =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=FCckert?= Subject: (exotica) ... & other delights Date: 25 May 2001 13:27:24 +0200 http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/22/arts/22SHUT.html In Performance Art Piece, a Taste of Honey (Hold the Chocolate) By BEN BRANTLEY Ladies and gentlemen, there's a surprise substitute on the dessert cart this evening. Chocolate is no longer on the menu. Instead, it's gold, gleaming honey that is being served, by the gallon and on the skin. It is of course for external use only. And it will be worn, in a thorough scalp-to-toe coating, by your host, Karen Finley, the performance artist and specialist in the imaginative use of foodstuffs. Ms. Finley really does work wonders with honey, which is poured (by audience volunteers) onto a mattress for the climax of "Shut Up and Love Me," her new theater piece at=20 Performance Space 122. The much celebrated, much=20 reviled Ms. Finley slides, twists, slithers and=20 poses in honey like a one-woman wrestling match.=20 She also achieves some remarkable split-second anatomical illusions sculpturing honey in the air. It's true that Ms. Finley must splash water on=20 her eyes to unseal them. But, ah, clothed in=20 absolutely nothing but her sheath of shimmering=20 honey, she has turned into the ultimate objectified woman, a bit like one of those human statues in=20 "Goldfinger." If the context of the image weren't=20 so ridiculous =97 and if Ms. Finley weren't obviously=20 enjoying the joke of it all so much =97 you would=20 indeed call it a thing of beauty. Such a term rarely came to mind in this artist's=20 chocolate period, descriptions of which drew the=20 wrath of conservative politicians and turned Ms.=20 Finley into the center of a vicious debate on the=20 use of funds from the National Endowment for the=20 Arts. There was nothing cosmetic about the mudlike chocolate she smeared over her body in willful self-degradation. No matter how explicitly sexual=20 the monologues, what audience members were really being asked to feel was her pain. These days, what with dark chocolate replaced by=20 translucent honey, Ms. Finley would seem to be in=20 a happier frame of mind. She continues to distort=20 and explode traditional visions of female=20 sensuality. But the hectoring tone of her monologues in recent years, in which she angrily massaged her=20 wounds from the national endowment wars, has given=20 way to a more amused approach, one more likely to find absurdity than tragedy in sexual combat rather. Not that "Shut Up and Love Me" is likely to make=20 fans of her detractors. The piece, which runs through=20 June 2, is still vintage Finley in its pointedly=20 self-conscious mix of confrontation and confession,=20 of raunch and aspirations to poetry. But there is a more pronounced philosophical sense=20 of humor in the grotesqueness, a feeling that this=20 crazy thing called lust, as in Shakespearean comedy,=20 does indeed make fools =97 and even animals =97 of us all. Ms. Finley is cheerfully insistent in reminding us of the awkwardness in eroticism. Sex, as she presents it,=20 is never pretty. The evening begins appropriately with an enthusiastic=20 and ungainly striptease, to moaning disco. Ms. Finley=20 unflatteringly frames her own flesh by bunching up her red synthetic satin dress. She wriggles and thrusts=20 various body parts into the faces of her audience,=20 grinning all the while like a spaced-out, eager- to- please cheerleader. What follows is a series of monologues, conducted from a bordello- style chaise and a makeshift lectern, in=20 which Ms. Finley portrays women in pursuit of sex.=20 These range from a stalking urbanite in a fishnet body stocking to a whiny rich girl who decides to resolve=20 her Freudian obsessions by bedding Daddy. There is=20 also, most memorably, the incantatory creature given=20 to picking up homeless war veterans, preferably=20 amputees. Humiliation is a given in these scenarios.=20 So is the blurred line between seduction and repulsion. Ms. Finley shifts from sultry Vargas pin-up postures=20 to something like epileptic seizures, between high- society diction and canine growls. She keeps trying on and discarding different voices=20 and poses, steps out of character to make=20 autobiographical references that may or may be not be spontaneous, stops in mid scene to start over and=20 regularly consults a loose sheaf of a script. As usual, the amateurism is calculated, a reminder=20 that we all wear our crude masks and that despite our=20 best efforts, they invariably slip. Most performers=20 have nightmares about finding themselves onstage with=20 their pants down or their skirts over their heads,=20 their lines forgotten and their makeup smeared. This=20 exposed state is what Ms. Finley strives for in "Shut=20 Up." The image she so artfully controls is that of a=20 woman incapable of controlling her image, the opposite=20 of the airbrushed movie stars on magazine covers. There was a time when Ms. Finley seemed to wallow=20 abjectly in such mortification; now she revels in it.=20 The results are hypnotic, funny, irritating and finally =97 in an odd way =97 cathartic, turning raw embarrassment into a form of joy. *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***=20 *** Ton R=FCckert Mozartstraat 12 5914RB Venlo The Netherlands *** *** mojoto@plex.nl http://www.plex.nl/~mojoto 31/0 773545386 *** ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ http://www.members.tripod.com/king8egg/exoticaring.html ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~=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: G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk Subject: Re: (exotica) I monster ? EZ Polydor Date: 25 May 2001 13:46:35 +0100 Indeed you are right. Explains why I couldn't find the kallman track when I got home last night. (and reading my most badly spelled post it was Xylo's Inc not xtlo's). Its a great LP. But why do these 60's Polydor LP's have such great sound? is it the super quality vinyl? Did they have their own cutting operation? Its just that they sound so consistently better than any other LP's I have from the same period (great bass, clear tops, nice overall tone). 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 I think you've got the A-Z of Easy Listening there... The one with the Gunter Kallman(n?) track is just called 'Easy Listening' and has a woman and a man with headphones on the cover (woman on the front, man on the 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: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) [obits] Hartzell Spence,Maurice J. Noble Date: 25 May 2001 09:59:46 -0400 May 25, 2001 Hartzell Spence, 93, Inventor of Pinup, Dies By DOUGLAS MARTIN,NYTimes Hartzell Spence, a writer who as founder and executive editor of Yank magazine during World War II helped introduce the term "pinup," died on May 9 at his home in Essex, Conn. He was 93. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, Yank was the first to use the term as a noun, in 1943, but Life magazine used "pinup" in 1941 as an adjective — for a girl, of course. The 2.2 million American soldiers who raptly awaited their weekly black-and-white glimpses of Rita Hayworth, Hedy Lamarr and other beauties wearing lingerie or swimsuits and come-hither expressions, are not known to have lingered over etymology. But it seems certain that they valued Yank, which was written by, about and for the enlisted man, personified by its popular comic strip "Sad Sack," which Mr. Spence also championed. Yank's reporters were soldiers who carried both guns and notebooks into battle, and its cartoonists were of the caliber of Bil Keane, who went on to draw "The Family Circus," now appearing in 1,500 newspapers. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower called Yank's staff "highly professional," suggesting that "few more important records of World War II can be found anywhere." He did not mention the pinups, which found their way inside the lids of footlockers and were nailed to palm trees beside shaving mirrors; they lasted long after the rest of an issue was discarded. One 1944 pinup that proved worth keeping showed Norma Jean Baker, who became better known as Marilyn Monroe. For these treats, soldiers could thank Mr. Spence, according to an account in "The Pinup from 1852 to Now," a 1974 book by Ralph Stein, Yank's cartoon editor during the war. Mr. Stein recalled an early staff meeting at the magazine, in which he quoted Mr. Spence as saying, "We've got to have a pinup." "None of us had ever heard the term," Mr. Stein wrote. "I think Hartzell might have invented it." The pinup was not Mr. Spence's only addition to the national conversation. He heard about Sgt. George Baker, who had just won an Army cartoon contest, and asked him to send samples of his work. The result was "Sad Sack," which vividly portrayed the soldier's existence and was widely syndicated after the war. Mr. Spence was born on Feb. 15, 1908, in Clarion, Iowa. A Methodist minister's son, he graduated from the University of Iowa in 1930 as a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and then served as Iowa bureau manager of the United Press Association. He was promoted to New York to supervise the agency's special service bureau. After having a dozen books rejected by publishers, he heeded a friend who had asked, "Why don't you write something you know best about?" The result was "One Foot in Heaven," a 1941 best seller about a Methodist minister's family as it moves from town to town. The plot has the congregation split into warring factions and depicts the choir as "a cross between the devil's grandmother and a swarm of mountain wildcats." After his service as editor of Yank, Mr. Spence was transferred to the Army Air Forces as special assistant to Gen. Lauris Norstad. He was awarded the Legion of Merit in 1945. He then resumed his career as a writer of, among other things, historical novels and "The Big Top," written with Fred Bradna, a celebrated circus ringmaster. He wrote about 200 articles for magazines like Saturday Evening Post, Look and Reader's Digest. In 1964, he wrote "Marcos of the Philippines," a biography of Ferdinand E. Marcos. The book, which described Marcos as having "selfless, passionate patriotism," was distributed widely during Marcos's successful campaign for the presidency in 1965. There were accusations that Mr. Spence either stretched the truth or was gullible. In 1986, Newsweek magazine published an article saying that wounds Mr. Spence reported Marcos as receiving in a single- handed battle against 50 Japanese were actually suffered at least a year earlier. Mr. Spence is survived by a son, Matt L., of Boca Raton, Fla.; a daughter, Laurie Reeves of Lyme, Conn.; and two grandchildren. His pinup idea almost ended up on the composing room floor, according to Mr. Stein's book. An early layout of the feature was sent to Henry L. Stimson, the secretary of war, who then sent it on to his superior officer, Mrs. Henry Stimson. She saw the pencil drawing and ordered it quashed. But for reasons lost in time, the pinups — as pictures and as nouns — survived. =========== May 25, 2001 Maurice J. Noble, Animator for 'Bambi' and Other Films, Dies at 91 By THE NEW YORK TIMES A CAÑADA FLINTRIDGE, Calif. -- Maurice J. Noble, a film animator whose award-winning design work can be seen in the Disney classics "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," "Bambi," "Dumbo" and "Fantasia," died on May 18 at his home in La Crescenta, Calif. He was 91. In addition to the Walt Disney Company, Mr. Noble also worked for Warner Brothers on cartoons including "What's Opera, Doc?" and "Duck Amuck," both of which were inducted into the National Film Registry. For Chuck Jones Film Productions he directed "The Dot and the Line," an Academy Award winner for best short animated subject in 1961. Mr. Noble also collaborated with Mr. Jones at MGM, where they produced the Dr. Seuss cartoons "The Cat in the Hat," "Horton Hears a Who" and the original animated adaptation of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas." Mr. Noble "changed the way backgrounds were designed,"` said Don Hall, a Disney storyboard artist. "His style was all about bold color choices. His backgrounds were warm and interesting, and he was careful to make them subordinate to the characters." Born on May 1, 1910, in Minnesota, Mr. Noble moved with his family to California, where he attended Chouinard Art Institute before he began an advertising career. One of his ad campaigns was the creation of the Red Door brand for Elizabeth Arden. Mr. Noble is survived by his wife, Marjorie; two children; and a grandson. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Encomiums Date: 25 May 2001 09:32:47 -0700 (PDT) Tiki Bob: Muchos mahalos to you for the lead on the tiki print shirt at K-Mart (what does the K stand for?). I will wear this as I sit on my deck, sipping Cap'n Waugh's Blackout Punch, watching the neighbor kid cut my lawn. Brian of the North: an homage to you for your mention of Barbeque in your latest. I am currently enjoying the best I ever had, with beans and FRENCH FRIES in reserve. Sorry for the noise you rest, but I've lost TB's coordinates. ===== "What I need is a shot of Drambuie and some clean sheets." - Jack Nance __________________________________________________ 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: (exotica) Ian Whitcomb Date: 25 May 2001 15:08:38 EDT In a message dated 5/24/1 4:42:38 PM, mjmarch@charter.net wrote: >I also recall him fondly as a DJ on the Los Angeles radio station KROQ. His >shows were wonderfully eclectic, informative, and very entertaining. That must have been before these days of rigid formatting even on so called "alternative" commercial stations. KROQ is--or was-- the biggie in LA ain't 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: "Nathan Miner" Subject: Re: (exotica) Kmart-ica Date: 25 May 2001 16:38:26 -0400 Yes, that is a cool Tiki shirt - it's actually designed very nicely, what = with that gentle "wash" of color/design in the background and the dominant = palm,surf board, tiki print "roped" around the bottom of the shirt.=20 The big K also has a great T-shirt with a huge "wood-block cut" looking = tiki advertising a fake tiki bar (can't recall what it's "name" is). The = print is big on the back, with a smaller version over the left breast on = the front. Very nice! Target now also carries great looking retro "hot rodder" shirts with bands = of color running vertically over the breast and stitched designs in the = center. - 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: Radio Khartoum Subject: (exotica) Ebay bummer...Bedazzled OST Date: 25 May 2001 14:15:51 -0700 So, I just got a copy of the "Bedazzled" soundtrack on CD via eBay. The Dudley Moore one, not the remake from last year. Except, it turns out to be a homemade CDR with an inkjet printed cover. Low-res scan of the LP cover art on the front and a designer unfriendly tracklisting cobbled together on the back. I admit I was surprised that the soundtrack existed on CD, but what really ticks me off is that the seller didn't seem to think it important enough to mention that it was neither legit, nor a properly manufactured CD. Would have been quite happy if someone had made this for me, but to have someone selling it for a profit is quite another... The seller is claiming not to have made it herself, but to have bought it from "2lk" (never heard of...) in Germany. I think I'm getting a proper refund, so I'm not going to mention any other names yet... Idle curiosity...anyone know if the remake included any of the old songs? Alexander -- Radio Khartoum http://www.radiokhartoum.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) Ian Whitcomb Date: 25 May 2001 16:46:10 -0500 DJJimmyBee@aol.com wrote: > That must have been before these days of rigid formatting even on so called > "alternative" commercial stations. KROQ is--or was-- the biggie in LA ain't > it? KROQ was a lot looser back in the early 80s before they hit pay dirt. Plus, Ian had the Sunday morning shift which was always looser than anyone elses. One morning, he and the jock who had the shift following his, had an hour-long conversation about music, drugs, women, etc. Ian played just one song during the hour (Sally Sails the Skies). I bet the station manager had a heart attack when he found out about that! -- 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: "Benito Vergara" Subject: RE: (exotica) Ebay bummer...Bedazzled OST Date: 25 May 2001 14:53:43 -0700 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-exotica@lists.xmission.com > [mailto:owner-exotica@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Radio Khartoum > Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 2:16 PM > turns out to be a homemade CDR with an inkjet printed cover. Low-res > scan of the LP cover art on the front and a designer unfriendly > tracklisting cobbled together on the back. I admit I was surprised > that the soundtrack existed on CD, but what really ticks me off is > that the seller didn't seem to think it important enough to mention > that it was neither legit, nor a properly manufactured CD. > The seller is claiming not to have made it herself, but to have > bought it from "2lk" (never heard of...) in Germany. That's "Two Little Kooks." But I thought the semi-official bootleg was paired with a Hugo Montenegro soundtrack (with a naked woman hanging upside down on the cover)... And no, Brendan Fraser sings different songs on the remake (the song about the dolphin was funny, though). Later, 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: "cheryl" Subject: Re: (exotica) Ebay bummer...Bedazzled OST Date: 25 May 2001 18:47:51 -0400 I think there may actually be a legit version being reissued - in Dusty Groove's upcoming releases, there's a listing for Bedazzled by The Dudley Moore Trio. Maybe the remake finally convinced someone to reissue the original. 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: "Robbie Baldock" Subject: (exotica) Amsterdam Date: 26 May 2001 00:36:39 +0100 I'm going to be making my first visit to Amsterdam in July - hurrah! Can anyone recommend any record shops, retro design shops, bars, clubs, museums etc that would be worth seeking out? 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: Paul Penna Subject: Re: (exotica) 100% and other things Date: 25 May 2001 16:59:04 -0700 Ben Waugh wrote: > My research says the full and initially Spanish title > of this canonical tune is "Acuarela de Brazil" > ("Watercolor(?) of Brazil"), composed by Ary Barroso. Actually, it's "Aquarela do Brasil," and it's Portuguese, not Spanish. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subject: RE: (exotica) Encomiums Date: 25 May 2001 20:59:36 -0400 Ben Waugh wrote > Tiki Bob: Muchos mahalos to you for the lead on the > tiki print shirt at K-Mart (what does the K stand > for?). Kresge. As in Sebastian S. Kresge. As in Kresge department stores. Kresge was a Michigan-based old-style department store chain, somewhat like a five and dime. Lunch counter, the whole bit. They were somewhat down-market compared to the likes of J.L. Hudson's. Being an older chain, most stores were in city and town downtown areas. When malls got big and all the action moved to the suburbs, Kresge's didn't do so well. Rather than make the considerable investment to move into expensive mall stores and compete head-to-head with Hudson's, Sears, and Wards, they decided to try transplanting to the suburbs via discount retailing in standalone stores sited on not-so-expensive real estate. K-Mart was their experiment with this business model. The word "mart" had become somewhat associated with discounting at that point, and the "K" tied it back to Kresge's. It was so successful that there are no more Kresge stores (nor any other five and dimes, so far as I know) and the corporation eventually changed their name to K-Mart Corporation. For me, K-Mart itself is an icon of 50s-60s Americana, and fits right in with the Exotica list. The original K-Mart is still open, last I heard, and doesn't look all that different from when it was first built. It's on Ford Road in Garden City, Michigan. Stop in for an -original- Blue Light Special if you're in town. :) Gannet gannet@jtel.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: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Encomiums Date: 26 May 2001 01:25:52 EDT In a message dated 5/25/1 8:00:52 PM, gannet@jtel.net wrote: >For me, K-Mart itself is an icon of 50s-60s Americana, and fits right in >with the Exotica list. The original K-Mart is still open, last I heard, and >doesn't look all that different from when it was first built. It's on Ford >Road in Garden City, Michigan. Stop in for an -original- Blue Light Special >if you're in town. :) extending you a thanks for a nice list-stylee take on K-Mart...Like the (wo)man says, "you don't know what you got till its gone"...I'm at the point now where it has to be gone for me to like it sometimes. Is that sad?...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: Chuck Collazzi Subject: (exotica) LA/Orange County record show Date: 26 May 2001 13:16:00 -0700 It's tomorrow: Sunday, May 27 at the Sequoia Health Club, 7530 Orangethorpe @ Western in Buena Park. 15,000 square feet of great 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: itsvern@attglobal.net Subject: (exotica) Teaseorama Review Date: 26 May 2001 16:22:59 -0400 Last weekend I had the pleasure of attending the Tease-o-rama burlesque event held in New Orleans. This was a great event, and I'm sure it would have been appreciated by many on this exotica list. The event took place over three evenings at two different venues, generally starting at about 9pm and extending on to 2am or later, after which a live surf/60's sound rock band would perform until 3:30 or 4 in the morning. I was very pleasantly surprised at the quality and creativity of the burlesque acts. The performers had that raw sense of enthusiasm and perhaps slight nervousness that somehow seems to be replaced with a sheen of repetitive slickness once someone turns into a professional performer. Many of the Tease-o-rama performers had steady regular jobs, and were participating in the revival of burlesque out of their own sheer enjoyment for that art form - almost all of them paid for their airfare and hotel bills out of their own pockets. I would say that 80-90 % of the music used for the acts would fit into what this list would call exotica-flavored. Most of the music I was able to recognize - some selections were on the Ultra-Lounge Series or other similar compilations, and others had that sound where if you could not immediately name the artist, you could at least place the genre and time period it came from. There were only a handful of songs that featured a fast driving 80's rock track. This was definitely an event which was inspired by the original lounge culture scene of the 1950's, versus the Motley Crue "Girls, Girls, girls' video that featured women swinging on the vertical pole in your typical 80's -90's strip club. The audience appeared to be split 50-50 male/female, helped, I'm sure, by the large number of female performers taking part in Tease-o-rama. Even though I had heard much of the exotica music before, I often had the sense that I was finally listening to these tunes in their true intended setting. All of us are familiar with the emphasis that our culture placed on the gorgeous 'pinup' type models used for the LP covers back then. Well, take those images of those beautiful women, bring them to life in true 3-D fashion, and then have them dance and perform on stage, and a whole new level of meaning are given to those songs and the lyrics. Nowadays we may listen to our exotica music either in our own homes or in a nightclub where the music is supplied by DJs familiar with the exotica genre. The Tease-o-rama event provided the setting where the music was an integral part of a full visual and auditory experience, where almost all the attention was focused on the performer's interpretation on stage. Much of the music was provided by CDs, while other acts had their music provided by a live band located off to the stage side. This was the event that will go down in memory as the first place that I ever heard the song 'Ma Na Ma Na' performed live. It was great to hear so many exotica standards being performed in this live setting. Hearing Tiki Otto, Brother Cleve, and other Djs spin some of their favorite tunes during the break periods was also very pleasureable. I have heard the song 'Caravan' hundreds of times in my life, but I never heard a version where an beautiful woman, dressed in a shimmering gold dress, sang the lyrics to the song, and then proceeded to perform a tantilizing strip-tease. Believe me, I don't think I will ever be able to hear this song again without having memories of that performer come to my mind. Other songs included 'Temptation' where the performer was dressed in a half stripper / half devil (with full sized horned head), and the devil half proceeded to reach and pull articles of clothing from the 'protesting' stripper. In the same vein of a 'captive' woman, another act featured a gaint spider web, where black gloved 'spider' arms would reach from behind a backdrop to hold the woman. Most acts though had a stronger more empowering sense to them, where the women were acting with a strong sense of purpose and a " I will do what I want to do' or a 'I will reach what I desire' attitude. One of the most well received acts was a woman, bound head to toe in 'Harry Houdini' styled ropes, who was carried onto stage, which she proceeded to twist and turn and escape from - all to the music of Leslie Gore's 'You Don't Own Me.' I could go on and on with all the other exotica flavored acts -- the belly dancers balancing swords on their heads, the primitive pagan exotic dances done with the fast percussive soundtrack, culminating in real flames reaching upwards, the very energetic can-can dancers - the most energetic I've ever seen in my life, the many hula styled dancers, the large and beautiful feathered fan dances, the 'shine a silhouette onto a sheet' acts, the performer who came onto stage wearing a big bouquet of balloons, and then proceeded to 'accidently' pop them one by one with her lit cigarette. One of my favorite acts appeared to be cut short .... the performer proceeded to pound out some dough and started to spin and toss a pizza crust high into the air ... and I find myself wondering how it would have finished if enough time was given for everyone to do their full acts. For those who are into the cocktail scene, two acts were especially memorable. One featured a statuesque blond who placed a silver cocktail shaker between her breasts, poured her vodka (or was it gin) into the shaker with a few other ingredients, and then proceeded to 'hands free' shake (and not stir) her cocktail. She then reached for her cocktail glass, set it on the table, leaned forward and allowed the finished drink pour into the glass ... which was soon supplemented with a pair of olives obtained elsewhere from her sparse costume. The other 'cocktail' act was performed by two of the two more beautiful performers - Dita von Teese and Catherine D'Lish (who in her red dress was the closest resemblance I've ever seen to Jessica Rabbit). A pair of giant cocktail glasses were part of their stage setup, and their acts concluded with each of them sitting in their respective cocktail glass, spinning around in 360 degree circles as the crowd cheered. One had to greatly admire the amazing beauty and dedication of these two to the art of 50's era burlesque - this was the closest I felt I had ever come to sensing what it would have been like to see Tempest Storm or Blaze Starr or any of the other word famous burlesque stars at their peak. Although this sense of glamour was nice to experience, I found myself in a way preferring the less-slick and more amateur feel of most of the other performers, and how it was so nice to see the others cheering and supporting all the other performers who were part of their small, but hopefully growing, circle of burlesque. There were some slight technical problems, which resulted in some minor delays, but I say if the Academy Awards can every year extend way longer than the planners expected, surely the same can apply to an event filled with dozens of performers from all over the world, each with their own music choices and unique props and costumes. My biggest complaint for the event were that the sight-lines to the stage areas were often blocked by people standing in front of the stage. Having tables in front of the stage area would have gone a long ways in capturing the true feel of a 50's nightclub. One of the acts I was most looking forward to - a revival of the Oyster Girl act - I missed the majority of because most of the performance took place near the stage floor, and I simply could not see over the people standing immediately in front of the stage. Other times I would have a good view to the performers, but would soon see it blocked by some home video-camera recording type who would raise their cameras with the angled viewing screens above their heads. It gave the sense that you were not in a nightclub, but at a golf tournament where several people had those weird periscope type devices. This isn't so bad when someone is reaching for a momentary photo snapshot, but when the camera has a bright LCD screen that shines brightly and distracts you from the act on stage ..... well, my view is that anything that distracts you from the act and the glamour on stage is bad. One also hates to have their sense of the present glamour diminished just to benefit someone else's own latter home viewing pleasure. I'm a fairly tall person (5'10") and can only imagine that the experience was much more frustrating for those who were even shorter than myself. I just hope that some cool promotional films or documentaries will result from all those video cameras. (end of my tease-o-rant) Overall though, the sheer novelty and joy at finally seeing incredible burlesque acts live in person outweighed any inconvience caused by faulty sightlines. Even if the view was blocked, one could still listen to some great exotica music, and catch glimpses of the performers on the stage..... which is still way more pleasureable than listening to exotica music at home with headphones with the same old decor in front of you. This past week I was listening to some great exotica music CDs, and whereas before I would have been smiling and enjoying myself, now I found myself still smiling and enjoying myself, but also thinking 'Oh, if only I were back at Tease-o-rama again' Tease-o-rama will go down in my memory as one of the greatest exotica related events I've attended. It will rank right underneath the closing of the final Kahiki closing party last year. Already talk has started about holding a Tease-o-rama 2002, and I would highly encourage any appreciator of exotica music to try to attend. If you want to learn more about the event and the acts that performed, I suggest you visit the teaseorma website at http://www.teaseorama.com/ 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: "Darrell Brogdon" Subject: (exotica) Retro Cocktail Hour Date: 26 May 2001 17:24:11 -0500 It's a mixed bag of goodies on this week's Retro Cocktail Hour, featuring everything from private eye jazz and stereo action to outer space exotica and Bollywood pop! For crime jazz fans, check out tunes from TV's Peter Gunn (including "Walkin' to Mother's", which I don't think even Henry Mancini ever recorded), Richard Diamond and Checkmate. Also Lizabeth Scott, who played lots of tough babes in film noir thrillers of the '40s and '50s, in her only album as a singer (with Henri Rene and his orchestra). From outer space, it's the music of Leith Stevens and the Voices of Walter Schumann in "Exploring the Unknown" (classic '50s sci-fi music), plus the Satellite Singers in "A Child's Introduction to Outer Space". Elsewhere, you'll find a little bit of this and a little bit of that, from new tunes by Bebel Gilberto and John Zorn to Les Baxter, Mort Garson, The 3 Suns, Bob Thompson and Bryce Bond's Bachelor Apartment. Also, the ultimate make-out record, "Blue Martini", by saxophonist Plas Johnson. We'll also hear Mohammed Rafi's "Jan Pahechan Ho", featured in the "Ghost World" trailer and mentioned recently on this list. To hear The Retro Cocktail Hour anytime on the web, visit: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro.html Salud! 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: "cheryl" Subject: (exotica) Playlist For Space Bop, May 27 Date: 26 May 2001 18:42:18 -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 #144 Jet-Lag Disco Lots of fun stuff this week - from computer-generated noises to organs to fun sampling, and everything in between. The Bran Flakes: Close But Not It "I Don't Have A Friend" (thanks, Otis) La Rue: Q.U.A. "ReVue" (thanks, Sol) Seksu Roba: Zero Gravity Miniskirt "Seksu Roba" Felix Kubin: Hotel Spanova "Jet Lag Disco" The Bran Flakes: Everybody Pay Attention "I Don't Have A Friend" Seksu Roba: Let's Fly Monster Island "Seksu Roba" Jeans Team: Ein Atom "Fucky Don't" The Rip-Off Artist: Strawberry Jam "Brain Salad Surgery" (thanks, Matt) The Bran Flakes: Smith Corona "I Don't Have A Friend" The Visions: Beat Generation "Fucky Don't" DJ Me DJ You: Captain Harlock (thanks, Ross) La Rue: Joie De Vivre "ReVue" The Bran Flakes: A Musical Computer "I Don't Have A Friend" Die Marinas: Strana Mondo Di Tanti Nomi (Stereo Total Remix) "Alpha Bravo Charlie" DJ Me DJ You: Brothers And Sisters Stock, Hausen & Walkman: Pizza Hut "Organ Transplants Vol. 2" 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: edjunkita Subject: Re: (exotica) Amsterdam Date: 27 May 2001 06:40:13 +0200 Robbie Baldock wrote: > I'm going to be making my first visit to Amsterdam in July - hurrah! > > Can anyone recommend any record shops, retro design shops, > bars, clubs, museums etc that would be worth seeking out? > > Robbie I say when in Amsterdam do as the Brits do: Smoke dope in the coffeshops all day, get drunk as hell in the evening and annoy the locals while visiting the prostitutes in the red light district. There's not much else to do here otherwise. from Amsterdam, Edward # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Amsterdam Date: 27 May 2001 10:25:53 +0200 edjunkita schrieb: > I say when in Amsterdam do as the Brits do: > Smoke dope in the coffeshops all day, get drunk as hell in the evening > and annoy the locals while visiting the prostitutes in the red light > district. There's not much else to do here otherwise. I know it's NONE OF MY BUSINESS whatsoever, but don't believe this Dutchman! The natives from the "Low Countries" seem to hate themselves and don't find anything good about their country. Amsterdam is as good as any other European capital and if you're lucky enough to catch some sun during your stay, you can have a nice time in a beautiful city. Yes, you should smoke some dope in one of the coffeeshops, and I recommend the "Rokerij"... Skip the alkohol and the hookers, but take a round trip with a boat. Stay at the Hotel New York. Visit the Rijksmuseum. Or any of the many other museums. Check record shops - now someone from Holland should know which and where to find them. Eat Fricandel Special from an automatic vending-machine. Sit in a park. Talk to Dutch girls. Etc. Etc. Mo -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de ......................................................................... Thierschstrasse 43, D 80538 Munchen, Germany e-mail: tiki@netsurf.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: "Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek" Subject: RE: (exotica) Amsterdam Date: 27 May 2001 12:20:42 +0200 Mo wrote: > I know it's NONE OF MY BUSINESS whatsoever, but don't believe > this Dutchman! The natives from the "Low Countries" seem to hate > themselves and don't find anything good about their country. I happen to like my country a whole lot. I would recommend Robbie to visit Get Records in the Utrechtsestraat for an excellent selection of CDs. Also, Concerto in the same street has lots of second hand records, but their selection is not as good as it used to be. For used books there is De Slegte in the Kalverstraat or any of the zillions of used book stores around the city. Marco # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek" Subject: (exotica) Plunderphonics is back Date: 27 May 2001 12:20:39 +0200 From ForcedExposure.com PLUNDERPHONICS: 69 Plunderphonics 96 2CD (SEE 515). "Eleven years after Michael Jackson forced a halt to this 'wild...brilliant' (Rolling Stone) package, Plunderphonics is back, and it ¹s twice as big as ever. Five dozen tracks on two discs in this deluxe twenty-seven year retrospective box set packed with legendary and notorious previously banned cuts, including the first rap song ever ('Power', from 1975), the first jungle track ('Birth') plus never-before-heard material; complete with double-size replications of all the Plunderphonics collages and a long revealing interview with project reproducer John Oswald, in a full-color 48 page exposé, all wrapped in an eye-catching, spot-the-celebrities, digibook hardback case. The genre Plunderphonics is the transformation of familiar music into surprisingly new music by any of dozens of unique and radical techniques. This collection is as categorically diverse and evocative as a blockbuster movie soundtrack, with symphonic orchestral implosions (Strauss, Beethoven, et al) interspersed with speed metal, C&W, swing, and exotica. Every curious listener will want to find out if it ¹s really the Beatles, Metallica, Elvis, Sonic Youth, The Doors, James Brown, Public Enemy, Igor Stravinsky and dozens more, including Dolly Parton¹s infamous aural sex change. Get it while you can." $28.00 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Korla Pandit's secret identity? Date: 27 May 2001 12:31:29 +0200 I have a small section about Korla Pandit on my website. A guy named Scott obviously visited it and sent me the message below. Does anyone know more about this? Scott's message: "You need to change the Korla Pandit bio.... he was really John Roland Red from Columbia, Missouri. An African-American, Red changed his name TWICE....first to Korla Pandit and then also assumed the alias "Juan Rolando". These aliases allowed him to find work in segregated Los Angeles and San Francisco in the 40's and 50's. He was a great keyboardist; however, his story of the assumed names is much more interesting!! You can real all about him and his triple identities in the June issue of Los Angeles Magazine" 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: "Darrell Brogdon" Subject: Re: (exotica) Korla Pandit's secret identity? Date: 27 May 2001 07:16:11 -0500 > "You need to change the Korla Pandit bio.... he was really John Roland > Red from Columbia, Missouri. An African-American, Red changed his name > TWICE....first to Korla Pandit and then also assumed the alias "Juan > Rolando". I don't know about the John Roland Red part, but I have heard the Juan Rolando story before. I remember reading an interview with Korla Pandit once in which he was pretty open about using the Juan Rolando name when he worked on radio. I've heard some old shows in which the music is credited to Sr. Rolando. BTW, exotica listers and especially Pandit fans should check out "Chandu the Magician", a late '40s radio serial in which Korla Pandit provided the creepy organ music. A real exotica radio show! 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: Paul Wages Subject: Re: (exotica) Bedazzled OST Reissue Date: 27 May 2001 11:22:55 -0500 Footlight Records ( http://www.footlight.com ) is offering what looks like a legit version. The label is listed as HARKIT, and it has a different cover than the Two Little Kooks release. Click on the soundtracks link under the recent releases bar. They are also offering Percepto's Vic Mizzy release, a reissue of Morricone's great "Exorcist II" score, and several interesting French soundtracks. Anyone heard the "Fantomos" or "4..3..2..1...Morte - Perry Rhodan" soundtracks? > I think there may actually be a legit version being reissued - in Dusty > Groove's upcoming releases, there's a listing for Bedazzled by The Dudley > Moore Trio. Maybe the remake finally convinced someone to reissue the > original. > > 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: Dj45rpm@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Korla Pandit's secret identity? Date: 27 May 2001 11:55:37 EDT In a message dated 5/27/01 3:37:48 AM Pacific Daylight Time, weirdomusic@wxs.nl writes: << You need to change the Korla Pandit bio.... he was really John Roland Red from Columbia, Missouri. An African-American, Red changed his name TWICE....first to Korla Pandit and then also assumed the alias "Juan Rolando". These aliases allowed him to find work in segregated Los Angeles and San Francisco in the 40's and 50's. He was a great keyboardist; however, his story of the assumed names is much more interesting!! You can real all about him and his triple identities in the June issue of Los Angeles Magazine" >> I don't know, the Korla Pandit I saw at Bimbo's on his last (?) trip up here seemed pretty Caucasian to me. I wouldn't doubt that "Korla Pandit" wasn't the only alias he ever used though (of course the debate would be which aliases were the ones he actually used). # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Bedazzled OST Reissue Date: 27 May 2001 13:00:19 -0400 on 5/27/01 12:22 PM, Paul Wages at rewages@mediaone.net wrote: > Footlight Records ( http://www.footlight.com ) is offering what looks like a > legit version. The label is listed as HARKIT, and it has a different cover > than the Two Little Kooks release. Harkit is a bootleg label; they've also issued "Klute" and "Enter The Dragon". I've heard that the sound quality on this Bedazzled is not that great. 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: "Darrell Brogdon" Subject: (exotica) Perry Rhodan and Fantomas Date: 27 May 2001 17:42:09 -0500 >Anyone heard the "Fantomos" or "4..3..2..1...Morte - Perry >Rhodan" soundtracks? I, too, would be curious about the Perry Rhodan CD is anyone's heard it. I received the Fantomas CD last week (music by Michel Magne). The music veers wildly from groovy '60s crime/spy jazz to music that might accompany light comedy. Judging by the liner notes, it sounds like the films were decidedly tongue in cheek. A little disappointed in the CD but, hey, that's just me. 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: "Brian" Subject: Re: (exotica) Amsterdam Date: 28 May 2001 00:10:48 -0400 Robbie wrote: > I'm going to be making my first visit to Amsterdam in July - hurrah! > Can anyone recommend any record shops, retro design shops, > bars, clubs, museums etc that would be worth seeking out? Amsterdam was home to one of the more interesting experimernatal music stores (and label of the same name) I've ever visited, called Staalplaat. I assume it's there as I visited its newly opened branch in Berlin last year and it was even more loaded with goodies, from music to videos to books & comics. I also went looking for the store I spent many days in while in the city in 1980, called Boudisque, and at that time it was just about the best store I'd ever visited. It was still there but it was just about as interesting as going to a shopping centre record store. I don't know what else is still around as 5 years is a long time. As for museums and other culture, Amsterdam is a great place to visit and I wouldn't know where to start. It is also the home of the finest Indonesian food in the western world. Coming from the UK you may not find it a shock, but as compared to Canada it is one expensive place to visit! 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: edjunkita Subject: Re: (exotica) Amsterdam Date: 28 May 2001 08:45:47 +0200 Moritz R wrote: >edjunkita wrote: >>There's not much else to do here > >don't believe this Dutchman! The natives from the "Low Countries" seem to hate themselves and don't find anything >good about their country. Welcome back, Mo. For your information, I am not a Dutchman, but an Englishman in exile. It's just that 99,9% of the Dutch are totally unhip to cool Retro and Exotica. There's virtually nothing like that here in Amsterdam (why do you think I'm so depending on this list, goddammit) Ok, I will turn off my frustration mode for a while and try to be more helpful. Bratwurstfresser Mo wrote: >Eat Fricandel Special from an automatic vending-machine. I strongly advise you not to. These contain the slaughterhouse leftovers (I'll leave it up to your imagination what may be) Better to check out some of the many Indonesian restaurants for a more tastier and healthier meal. Some of them have very nice Exotica interiors. Museums: The 3 main museums are conveniently next to each other on the Museumplein: Rijksmuseum - pre 19th century Classicism - Rembrandt and his contemporaries Van Gogh museum - 19th century Impressionism & Symbolism (one of my favourite museums) Stedelijk Museum - 20th century Modernism Exotica fanatics might want to check out the Tropenmuseum (=Tropical museum) And if you're in a really cheezy mood the Sex museums (there's 2 different ones) or the Torture museum, where everything is totally fake. Record shops: Record Palace - Weteringschans 33 A good selection (although pricy) of 2nd hand jazz/soundtracks/50's-70's in the basement. Listen all you want (self service) Concerto - Utrechtsestraat 52-60 Although the 2nd hand section is not what it used to be, it's still worth checking out. Reasonably priced and you can listen to the 2nd hand vinyl for as long as you want (self service). The New section has a bit of everything, including a ok selection of lounge, soundtracks, triphop, dance, "world", etc. Get Records - Utrechtsestraat 105 New CDs & Vinyl only, one of the best shops for alternative/independent guitar/dance/"world" etc. Distrortion Records - Westerstraat 72 New & 2nd hand, small but good selection of alternative/independent guitar/dance music Forever Changes - Bilderdijkstraat 148 New & 2nd hand Vinyl & CD, small but good selection of lounge/soundtracks/50's-now, some 2nd hand and occasionly even some Exotica. Datzzit - Prinsengracht 306 2nd hand CD's/LP's/45's/78's interesting stuff, but can be bit pricy Sound of the Fifties - Prinsengracht 669 New and 2nd hand, mostly vinyl (someCD's) 50's& 60's /jazz Boudisque - Haringpakkerssteeg 10-18 New CD's and some vinyl, not what it used to be, but they still have a bit of everything Clubs (best to check out the flyers while you're here): Winston Kingdom - Small bar/club, one of the few places where you can go to a decent 50's -70's retro party Korsakoff - Liijnbaansgracht 161 - bar/club - "alternative" dance music Paradiso - Weteringschans 6-8 - bands playing every night and dance parties afterwards Melkweg - Lijnbaansgracht 234 - bands playing every night and dance parties afterwards Mazzo - Rozengracht 114 (2Step, speedgarage etc. maybe an occasional retro party) More - Rozengracht (2Step, speedgarage etc.) West-Pacific - Westergasfabriek Haarlemmerweg 8-10 Club de Ville - Westergasfabriek Bars: Du Lac - Haarlemmerstraat 118 - nice place, must be checked out for it's amazing exotic interior Seymour Likely, Bep, etc- Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal 250 - 3 or 4 loungy type bars, all next to each other De Diepte - Sint Pieterspoortsteeg - (trashy) retro rock&roll bar. Next to it is De Buurvrouw, which is also not bad Fleamarkets: Looiersmarkt - indoor market on the Looiersgracht, not too well known (everyday except sunday) Waterlooplein- the main fleamarket, a bit too touristy for my taste (everyday except sunday) Noordermarkt - (monday morning/early afternoon only) De Tweede Ronde - Van Slingelandtstraat - one of the few real thriftstores in Amsterdam parks: I reccomend the Vondelpark. (you can rent skates there) Your trustworthy local native guide, Edward # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Amsterdam Date: 28 May 2001 09:20:10 +0200 Brian wrote: > Amsterdam was home to one of the more interesting experimernatal music > stores (and label of the same name) I've ever visited, called Staalplaat. > I assume it's there as I visited its newly opened branch in Berlin last year > and it was even more loaded with goodies, from music to videos to books & > comics. The Staalplaat in Amsterdam doesn't have comics and only a few books and videos. I didn't mention it in my earlier post (not being a typical exotica or retro type shop) but it's interesting none the less. The address is: Staalkade 6 > I also went looking for the store I spent many days in while in the > city in 1980, called Boudisque, and at that time it was just about the best > store > I'd ever visited. It was still there but it was just about as interesting as > going to a shopping centre record store. They used to be the best store in town as they also used to be the biggest distributor in the country. Now they're... well sorta ok. > It is also the home of the finest Indonesian food in the western world. True > Coming from the UK you may not find it a shock, but as > compared to Canada it is one expensive place to visit! Totally not true! well CD's are a bit more expensive than many other countries (new Cd's can range from US $14 -$20, especially American CD's thanks to the high $ rate) but if you know where to go, Amsterdam is much cheaper than Paris, Berlin, London, New York, Rome, Scandinavia, Japan etc. (Not to mention the cheap drugs) You don't tip in bars and taxis, in restaurants only10% max (if the service was really good). Taxis are expensive, but Amsterdam is small, so everything is more or less walking distance. Rent a bike! Your trustworthy Amsterdam native guide, Edward # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Amsterdam Date: 28 May 2001 12:24:31 +0200 compared to your initial statement you finally came up with an amazing load of interesting spots in Amsterdam. It made me want to visit it again eventually... Mo -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de ......................................................................... Thierschstrasse 43, D 80538 Munchen, Germany e-mail: tiki@netsurf.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: HOUSEOBOB@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Amsterdam Date: 28 May 2001 11:41:24 EDT In a message dated 5/27/2001 4:25:24 AM, tiki@netsurf.de writes: << Skip the alkohol and the hookers, >> Skip the hookers, but don't miss the red light district. Window shopping takes on a whole new meaning there - I was there years ago but if it is still the same, the hookers sit in storefront windows on the bed waiting for customers. It' s very surreal. 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: "Robert McKenna" Subject: Re: (exotica) Amsterdam Date: 28 May 2001 15:42:37 There were lots of interesting, very good value second hand shops (the new selection was quite pricy as I recall) I don't have the addresses posted to me by a listmember to hand. The only problem being the long walk necessitated by not knowing the city and the streets following the canals concentrically so you may walk a long way to the street to find the number you are looking for is crosstown. The reason I am posting is the flea markets. The Dutch invented credit capitalism (and stockmarket crashes etc.) and as a result everything is for sale. And due to the high standard of living and remarkable wealth distribution people don't want other people's old junk at high prices. I saw some incredible bargains. Lots of 10 records for 7 guilders (£3 in those yankee dollars you have in Scotland I think). I wish I could have carried more! Or head up North to Frieseland, say Hoi! to the locals (confusingly, particularly when you're leaving) drink the nice beer, second only to Belgium in the good beer stakes (don't drink the cheap piss most Dutch people drink, even the good stuff is cheap by British standards) and pick up old harmoniums and the like for about 20 quid. Apparantly if you make it over for Queen's day this culture is seen at its extreme as parents send their kids out to flog all the old stuff on the streets. I wouldn't be a huge fan of the, um, cuisine. Dutch farming is so industrialised the produce is tasteless. But I love the country and the culture. Great museums. Particularly if you're a bit of a map geek like me (old Blaue atlases etc.) the queen's library had an exhibition on last time I was there which I found enthralling - including the Nazi propaganda that was collected during the war as a future history project - documenting the occupation. forgive waffling. and don't eat the hash cakes, that's when the Dutch really laugh at the tourists. Nice mushrooms in the coffeeshops though. rob _________________________________________________________________________ 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: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) BBC Radio 2 - Goon Show Night Date: 27 May 2001 19:42:15 +0200 BBC Radio 2's Goon Show night on Tuesday 29th May starting at 7 pm BST. Here's the time-table: 19.00 Goons Night Introduciton 19.10 Spike Milligan's favourite Goon Show "The Fear Of Wages" 19.40 Modern day comedians select their favourite Goon Show moments 20.00 At Last The Go-On Show - revised version of programme celebrating 40 years of the Goons 21.00 Just before Goon Rise - Denis Norden traces the history of the show 21.30 -22.30 - The Cardboard Replica Goon Show - re-creation of an original Milligan/Larry Stephens script featuring Andrew Secombe (son of Harry), Jon Glover & Jeffrey Holland Announcer Christopher Timothy (son of Andrew Timothy). Lance Ellington performs one of his father's songs and Harry Pitch performs the Max Geldray number. Orchestra conducted by John Wilson. BBC Radio 2 can be obtained via the WEB (http://www.bbc.co.uk) On home page click on "Audio-Video" (at top of page) and when "Listen Live" appears, select Radio 2 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) old folks old lists Date: 28 May 2001 13:18:43 -0400 On this other list, people are talking about Dylan turning 60 and the whole issue of short careers versus long careers. So it makes me wonder, is this list finished? Effectively over? I know no one can answer that. But I just bought the fourth record by a band whose first three records were huge for me and the fourth is kind of not much. And it makes me wonder about the whole issue of things running their course. I have no idea how to revive this thing. Maybe it's time to bow out before it gets even sadder. 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: "Jonny Perl" Subject: Re: (exotica) Amsterdam Date: 29 May 2001 02:29:08 +0800 Hi Robbie, Record Shops - as Marco mentioned, Get Records and Concerto are good, comprehensive stores, but mainly for new CDs. My favorite store there was 'Forever Changes' on the Bilderdijkstrasse, which has a good selection of CDs and vinyl reissues, with some bargains in the 10 guilder bin. Also, there's big vinyl store on the Prinsengracht near the looisgracht(?) on the west side. Quite a few small interesting record stores are in the Jordaan area in the north west central canals. Oh, and the Noordermarkt on a Monday sometimes has great record deals. In terms of clubs - there are 2 legendary venues - the Melkweg and the Paradiso, both of which often have interesting stuff on and could be worth a visit. It's 2 years since I lived there, but it used to be that two sets of 'ez' DJ's were playing out reguarly - 'Easy Alohas' were playing at the Westergasfabriek on Sundays, and the 'B&M DJs' (slightly more house oriented, but of some interest) were playing at a bar called 'Seymour' near the Dam Square. Again, this is possibly 2 years out of date, but if you're into the more caberet/club montepulciano side of the lounge scene, there is/was something on Sunday nights called 'Club Vegas'. In fact, I just found a website - so it looks like it's still going: http://www.clubvegas.nl/vegas.html Museums - I'd say the Stedilijk modern art museum is probably the most interesting. Have frites met mayonnaise; have a good time! Jonny ------ http://musicaltaste.net tell us about your favorite songs! -- _______________________________________________ Get your free email from http://mymail.lycosmail.com Powered by Outblaze # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Jonny Perl" Subject: Re: (exotica) I monster Date: 29 May 2001 02:39:59 +0800 >That Gunter Kallman Chorus track is on the >Polydor 'Easy Listening' 2LP >compilation which is a fairly common charity shop >record in the UK. >Been meaning to sample that for about 5 years. I >hope the I Monster track does it justice... I know what you mean! I think a lot of people into this stuff in England about five years ago leapt on this track. For me, it was about the first really cool E/Z track I owned on vinyl (sad, eh!), and I remember even doing a cover version (in private) with some friends. FYI, The middle section of the song ('I've dreamed of the places I've been with you....') is lifted directly from a piece by Tchaikovsky. Although this song is probably the least common of the three famous 'Daydreams' I know of (the others being the Lovin' Spoonful and Johnny Hodges/Duke Ellington), I've come across a couple other versions. One superb on is by Franck Pourcel, with a nice beat on it. cheers, jonny -- _______________________________________________ Get your free email from http://mymail.lycosmail.com Powered by Outblaze # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Amsterdam Date: 28 May 2001 15:33:24 -0400 Actually, one of the best cheeses in the world comes from Holland - aged Gouda. It's sort of like real good Parmesan, but even better. From: "Robert McKenna" > I wouldn't be a huge fan of the, um, cuisine. Dutch farming is so > industrialised the produce is tasteless. 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: Clayton Black Subject: Re: (exotica) old folks old lists Date: 28 May 2001 15:37:45 -0500 It took me a minute to figure out exactly what you were getting at, Alan, but if you mean that all things run their course and that therefore this list will as well, and the apparent "sadness" of discussion in recent days/weeks/months/ is the sign that the list is "effectively over," then I suppose that depends on your expectations. I suppose it's clear it can't be forever what it once was for you--that thing that needs to be revived. Or do you mean, on the other hand, that your interest in exotica is waning? You've indicated in several ways that it might be taking a different direction--your interest is more in sitars and now sound, and you don't much care for tiki culture, so has your taste just evolved out of what originally led you to the list? Or has the list evolved away from what led you to it? If so, how? I had the impression that the "fourth record" that disappointed you was by a current band, in which case I wanted to say that although I've learned a lot about current bands on this list, the list has never been about what is new (although that is obviously not excluded) but about good music (or good sounds) that the rest of the world seemed to leave behind. If there's a revival of it, great. If not, it's still good music and I can still enjoy it. As long as there are other people who think the same, I'll throw in my two cents. I haven't added much lately because I don't know a thing about what anyone's been talking about in recent weeks. Nor have I had any good thrift finds. But as long as there are people on the list who have interesting things to say, I'll hang on. (Hope that doesn't put the nail in the coffin for you.) If it's not too painful, do you mind saying what's lacking now? What's "sad" about the list? Clayton > From: alan zweig > Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 13:18:43 -0400 > On this other list, people are talking about Dylan turning 60 and the whole > issue of short careers versus long careers. > So it makes me wonder, is this list finished? > Effectively over? > I know no one can answer that. But I just bought the fourth record by a > band whose first three records were huge for me and the fourth is kind of > not much. > And it makes me wonder about the whole issue of things running their course. > I have no idea how to revive this thing. Maybe it's time to bow out before > it gets even sadder. > 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) "funtown" record? Date: 28 May 2001 20:20:05 -0000 I picked up a strange record at the local thrift the other day called "Funtown" on K-Tel records, from 1976 I think. The cover shows a bunch of different puppets and they sing current hits (Snowbird, etc.) in their weird puppet voices, often changing the lyrics. They sort of look like a puppet version of Hee-Haw. A few tracks on the disc use the moog too. It's tough to listen to for long but it's odd enough to warrant keeping. But it looks to be the spinoff of a TV show called "Funtown" which I don't remember at all. Anyone know this show or this record? Can you throw some facts my way if you do? thanks 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: "james brouwer" Subject: (exotica) El Chicano lp? Date: 28 May 2001 20:24:44 -0000 Hoped this hasn't been discussed already but I picked up an album for 75 cents called "Viva Tirado" by El Chicano. It's good, sort of instrumental early Santana sounding Chicano funk stuff. I had never heard it before but looking on the net it doesn't appear to be that rare. But I couldn't see whether the original lp is worth much (is it?). And do they have any other albums? They do a great version of "Quiet Village" by the way. anyone else like this lp? 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: HOUSEOBOB@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) El Chicano lp? Date: 28 May 2001 17:40:28 EDT In a message dated 5/28/2001 4:25:35 PM, jamesbrouwer@hotmail.com writes: << They do a great version of "Quiet Village" by the way. anyone else like this lp? >> It's pretty good. I should listen to it again. I bought it for a buck at a flea market near Santa Fe. I found another lp by them with a great instrumental version of "Sugar Sugar". I almost never see their records out there so I assume there are not a lot around. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Re: Amsterdam Date: 28 May 2001 23:51:06 +0200 (MEST) Hi Robbie, if you are into Bollywood... I’ve been told that it is a good place to find old Indian OST vinyl cheap at the fleamarkets there, because there are living a lot of Indians. ( for me this would be a reason alone to visit Amsterdam ) Martin >Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 00:36:39 +0100 >From: "Robbie Baldock" >Subject: (exotica) Amsterdam > >I'm going to be making my first visit to Amsterdam in July - hurrah! > >Can anyone recommend any record shops, retro design shops, >bars, clubs, museums etc that would be worth seeking out? > > >Robbie -- 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/ Machen Sie Ihr Hobby zu Geld bei unserem Partner 1&1! http://profiseller.de/info/index.php3?ac=OM.PS.PS003K00596T0409a -- 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: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) El Chicano lp? Date: 28 May 2001 19:19:09 EDT In a message dated 5/28/1 3:25:35 PM, jamesbrouwer@hotmail.com wrote: >They do a great version of "Quiet Village" by the way. anyone else like this >lp? I LOVE that LP and the one other one I have by them which contains a killa latinized instrumental version of "What's Going On?" I also have one other song by them called "Don't Put Me Down (Cause I'm Brown)" which popped up on an English Kent compilation a decade and a half back....Five Stars. Also, for breakbeat fans, Los Chicharrons pile "Viva Tirado" up on top of a break from Sylvia's "Pillow Talk" which makes for some tasty listening...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: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) The Sandpipers "Guantanamera" Date: 28 May 2001 21:30:39 -0400 The Sandpipers "Guantanamera" (A&M / mono version) Well, after seeing this album pictured on A&M inner sleeves for years, I finally stumbled on a nice copy. This is definitely soft pop... some of the softest pop I've ever heard. So soft, it becomes downright hallucinatory at times. Very relaxing though. They definitely worked from a formula here. And when applied to "Louie, Louie" it makes for the strangest "Louie, Louie" I've run across, complete with the bassline from the second part of "You've Lost That Loving Feeling"! I can't really pull out any other tracks for special comment, as they all tend to flow together. In a pleasant way. Soothing soft pop for nights when life has left you frazzled. For those who have heard more Sandpipers... did they maintain this formula exactly on later albums, or did they develop some other moves? It's very effective for one album, but I can see it becoming tedious if they stuck with it record after record. Derek Taylor's blank verse liner notes are fun. Excerpt: "Earning, Yearning Seeking a corner Of the Cave Somewhere away From the battle And the fire of Popwar." I leave it to Chuck or Alan to illuminate this album's place in the soft pop cosmology. 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: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) The Sandpipers "Guantanamera" Date: 28 May 2001 21:56:22 -0400 At 09:30 PM 5/28/01 -0400, m.ace wrote: > >The Sandpipers >"Guantanamera" >(A&M / mono version) > .> >I can't really pull out any other tracks for special comment, as they all >tend to flow together. In a pleasant way. Soothing soft pop for nights when >life has left you frazzled. > >For those who have heard more Sandpipers... did they maintain this formula >exactly on later albums, or did they develop some other moves? No. No other moves. Basically there's Sandpipers with a Latin tinge and Sandpipers without a Latin tinge. But if you don't mind the softness, they're really good at 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: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) El Chicano lp? Date: 28 May 2001 22:01:14 -0400 At 08:24 PM 5/28/01 -0000, james brouwer wrote: > > >Hoped this hasn't been discussed already but I picked up an album for 75 >cents called "Viva Tirado" by El Chicano... But I couldn't see >whether the original lp is worth much (is it?). And do they have any other >albums? I think they have at least four records. They get gradually worse. The first record has a number of influences and genres mixed together. The fourth record is just a pop record with pretty good musicians. As far as rareness and price go, they're in limbo. Some record stores know that the first couple of records are hot and so a copy in good condition could easily go for twenty bucks. Other places just see it as warmed-over Santana (isn't one of them a Santana brother or is that Malo?) and put it out at five or six bucks. 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) old folks old lists Date: 29 May 2001 04:10:34 +0200 this other list? a band? this thing? what's wrong with calling a spade a spade? we want some juicy details here now alan zweig wrote: > On this other list, people are talking about Dylan turning 60 and the whole > issue of short careers versus long careers. > So it makes me wonder, is this list finished? > Effectively over? > I know no one can answer that. But I just bought the fourth record by a > band whose first three records were huge for me and the fourth is kind of > not much. > And it makes me wonder about the whole issue of things running their course. > I have no idea how to revive this thing. Maybe it's time to bow out before > it gets even sadder. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Amsterdam Date: 29 May 2001 06:32:18 +0200 Robert McKenna wrote: > Lots of 10 records for 7 guilders since a couple of years that's only the crap 80's & 90's stuff > Or head up North to Frieseland, The best vinyl booty is to be found in the south of Holland in the towns = near the belgian border. For some reason fleamarket salesmen there are either too benevolent or too ignorant to price their rekkids according to= their date or catalog value. I never seem to find time to go down south myself,= but a friend of mine pulls out the most amazing stuff for US$1 max. That's wh= ere all the Amsterdam 2nd hand record salesmen get their merchandise from (an= d resell for $20) > Apparantly if you make it over for Queen's day this culture is seen at = its > extreme as parents send their kids out to flog all the old stuff on the > streets. Oh yes, best day of the year by far. That's April 30th and every true vi= nyl hunter should make sure their ass is in Amsterdam on that day. Imagine the whole= town being one big garagesale. This year I got like 100 records for like 50cts= each. The most amazing stuff. >I wouldn't be a huge fan of the, um, cuisine. Dutch farming is so indust= rialised >the produce is tasteless. You must talking about the "waterbomb tomatoes", they're improving, with = more emphasis on the taste again instead of on the profit. A survey among my n= on dutch friends in Holland says the best dutch food product is 'vanille vla= ', a very creamy kind of custard. Second best is 'ontbijtkoek' (a kind of gingerbre= ad?). >the queen's library had an exhibition on last time >I was there which I found enthralling - including the Nazi propaganda th= at >was collected during the war as a future history project - documenting t= he >occupation. huh? Sounds like I missed out on something good. Didn't even know there e= xisted such a library. Where would that be? > and don't eat the hash cakes, that's when the Dutch really laugh at the > tourists. not really. Actually the hash cakes can be quite good, especially if you'= re a non smoker. It's just that you never know how much is in them. My advic= e is to eat half of it first, wait and see what happens and then you can al= ways decide wether or not to eat the rest. (careful you don't eat more hash ca= ke when you get the munchies, you wouldn't be the first to make this unfortu= nate mistake) > Nice mushrooms in the coffeeshops though And legal too. ("Curiouser and =A9u=AE=EE=D2use=AE! ") Jonny Perl wrote: >My favorite store there was 'Forever Changes' on the Bilderdijkstrasse, >which has a good selection of CDs and vinyl reissues, with some bargains= in >the 10 guilder bin. I'm being spoilt living just opposite this place (Bilderdijkstraat). I ca= n actually see what's new from my own window. It has just changed owners. The former had a great nose for sniffing out rare and amazing stuff, but he had such a chronic bad mood, his employees nicknamed him Mr. Ulcer. The new guy is very friendly but has less knowledge about the music. He bought the store records and all, so there's still lots of goodies to be found, and at bet= ter prices. >It's 2 years since I lived there, but it used to be that two sets of 'ez= ' DJ's were >playing out reguarly - 'Easy Alohas' were playing at the Westergasfabrie= k on >Sundays, Haven't heard much of the Easy Alohas lately, last thing I heard was they had a showbiz gossip column in a newspaper. >if you're into the more caberet/club montepulciano side of the lounge sc= ene, >there is/was something on Sunday nights called 'Club Vegas'. In fact, I= just >found a website - so it looks like it's still going: >http://www.clubvegas.nl/vegas.html That's in the Winston Kingdom - Warmoestraat 127 Latest news is the Club Vegas people are suffering from burnout. The Teutonics Beat Club (run by some Aussies) is the best night in the Winston Kingdom now. They even had a Bollywood evening recently. (Is it just my imagination, or is the Bollywood Vibe gathering momentum?) There is a new dutch law making all bars and venues have to pay live musicians the full official fees like insurances / pensions / taxes etc. So most of the non state-sponsored (=3Dsmaller & alternative) venues (like the Winston) can't afford to let live bands play anymore. Now the Winston is going to reschedule their whole program soon, I am negotiating a theme night there myself with some friends. I forgot to mention the Bar Nonsense on the Leidseplein where some of the Club Vegas DJs are organizing some nice evenings. Hemmel@gmx.net wrote: > if you are into Bollywood... I=EDve been told that it is a good place t= o find > old Indian OST vinyl cheap at the fleamarkets there, because there are = living > a lot of Indians. ( for me this would be a reason alone to visit Amster= dam ) Unfortunately you were misinformed. There is a small Hindu community tuck= ed away in the Amsterdam suburbs, but they are from Surinam in South America= , so their taste tends to go more towards Soca (fast Carribean style dance = music) and bland 80's synth stuff. Not too much Bollywood vinyl too be found, an= d certainly not cheap at the fleamarkets. Best place to find 2nd hand Bollywood viny= l is in Concerto, once in a while if you're lucky. For Bollywood, the only Mekka in Europe is Southhall, London (maybe place= s like Birmingham too) And of course, the pirate radiostation where I broadcast is always welcom= ing DJs on this list visiting Amsterdam to come to the studio for a workout. http://www.radio100.nl/_eng/index.html Here to set the record(s) straight, Edward # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Amsterdam Date: 29 May 2001 00:53:13 -0400 on 5/29/01 12:32 AM, edjunkita at edjunkita@wanadoo.nl wrote: > For Bollywood, the only Mekka in Europe is Southhall, London (maybe places > like > Birmingham too) Another great Mekka for Bollywood is Moscow (probably St Petersberg, too). Indian films were regularly imported and shown during the Soviet era, and we found hundreds of soundtracks while we were there. There's plenty of good record shopping in general - Fodor's Guide called Moscow a vinyl lovers paradise. Just one of the many "everything you know is wrong" things I discovered while in Russia. Make your travel arrangements now, before it's winter again. 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: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) old folks old lists Date: 29 May 2001 14:22:03 +0200 alan zweig schrieb: > On this other list, people are talking about Dylan turning 60 and the whole issue of short careers versus long careers. > So it makes me wonder, is this list finished? Effectively over? Because we don't discuss Dylan, careers and age? I rather think that "other list" is finished. > I have no idea how to revive this thing. Maybe it's time to bow out before it gets even sadder. Relax, let others do the revival and enjoy. Mo > -- studio R "the role model for the unthinkable" http://moritzR.de ......................................................................... Thierschstrasse 43, D 80538 Munchen, Germany e-mail: tiki@netsurf.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: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Bob Thompson live Date: 29 May 2001 08:24:40 -0400 Our Ol' Pal Irwin passes on the following info: * * BOB THOMPSON RCA Victor bachelor pad music icon Bob Thompson ("Mmm, Nice!," "Little Black Box," "Starfire," "Just For Kicks," et al) playing solo piano every Wednesday and Saturday (6-9 pm) at Bootleggers Old Town Tavern 210 Washington St. Old Auburn CA (Placer County - 30 mi. east of Sacramento) (530) 889-2229 Bob plays lots of standards, and mixes in some originals. Go see him if you're in the area, and say hello! http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Den/7533/just4kicks/kicks.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: Ben Waugh Subject: RE: (exotica) Encomiums Date: 29 May 2001 05:54:35 -0700 (PDT) Ah, yes - now it comes back ... the line in the Alice Cooper song from the early 70s about "Kresge's and Woolworths"... we didn't have the Kresge's down here, but we did have the Woolworth's. It used to sit in a mall that is now occupied by the likes of Pottery barn and Nordstrom's. Along with the 60s & 70s in which it thrived, it and it's 50s-ish short-order grill, is irretrievably vanished. --- gannet@jtel.net wrote: > Kresge. As in Sebastian S. Kresge. As in Kresge > department stores. > ===== "What I need is a shot of Drambuie and some clean sheets." - Jack Nance __________________________________________________ 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: Ben Waugh Subject: Re: (exotica) Perry Rhodan and Fantomas Date: 29 May 2001 06:09:06 -0700 (PDT) Are these the original Fantomas films that you refer to? Given your description of the music, it seems as though someone remade them. I'd love to get a line on them if so. The Souvestre/Allain novels are great camp horror fun... inspired the surrealists (fantomas being a sort of anti-bourgeois ur-terrorist). Go figure. Here's one of many apostolic sites for any curious: http://www.fantomas-lives.com/ --- Darrell Brogdon wrote: > > >Anyone heard the "Fantomos" or "4..3..2..1...Morte > - Perry > >Rhodan" soundtracks? Allongeant son ombre immense Sur le monde et sur Paris, Quel est ce spectre aux yeux gris Qui surgit dans le silence? Fantômas, serait-ce toi Qui te dresses sur les toits Robert Desnos __________________________________________________ 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: Ben Waugh Subject: (exotica) Salvation Army: RIP LPs (?) Date: 29 May 2001 07:10:39 -0700 (PDT) Over the weekend I stopped at the SA in my hometown only to find that all vinyl had been deported and its former spot taked up by Cds and cassettes. When I spoke to the ill-humored desk-jockey he told me that SA was either never going to carry vinyl again, or was going to auction it all off. No explanations. He said not to contact HQ at this point as nothing had been officially decided. I mentioned in the most earnets tone possible that I would take this under advisement. I know that there is a ton of vinyl out there, much of which is crap, that it takes up space, ruins shocks and promotes hernias and may not clear allot of revenue- but the Salvation Army is a thrift store. They take our donations. Where do they get off depriving me of my $1 fixes? The glory days are done. ===== "What I need is a shot of Drambuie and some clean sheets." - Jack Nance __________________________________________________ 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) Salvation Army: RIP LPs (?) Date: 29 May 2001 07:14:00 -0700 (PDT) Ben, one of the Salvations down here quit carrying lp also. The others seemed to have dryed up or the lps are only trickeling in. Chuck --- Ben Waugh wrote: > > Over the weekend I stopped at the SA in my hometown > only to find that all vinyl had been deported and its > former spot taked up by Cds and cassettes. When I > spoke to the ill-humored desk-jockey he told me that > SA was either never going to carry vinyl again, or was > going to auction it all off. No explanations. He said > not to contact HQ at this point as nothing had been > officially decided. __________________________________________________ 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) The Sandpipers "Guantanamera" Date: 29 May 2001 08:13:42 -0700 (PDT) You are so right M.Ace when you say the Sandpipers are among the softest pop. Only the Fleetwoods or the Phil Spector/Teddy Bears' song "To Know Him Is to Love Him" is perhaps as soft. I kinda think these two bands set the stage for late 1960's soft pop bands like the Sandpipers. Its enlightening to compare the soft pop sound of the Sandpipers to the sunshine pop sound of the Association with their ba da ba das. Guantanamera and Louie Louie are fabulous remakes! This makes Guantanemera my favorite lp by them. They kept this formula up in later releases. I don't understand where all the A & M releases are but they do seem to trickle in at thrifts. Another cool label with this sound, White Wale has been collected by Verese Saraband on cd. Check out the song 1900 Yesterday for a similar sound to the Sandpipers. Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck --- "m.ace" wrote: > > The Sandpipers > "Guantanamera" > (A&M / mono version) > > Well, after seeing this album pictured on A&M inner sleeves for > years, I finally stumbled on a nice copy. This is definitely soft 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: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) The Sandpipers "Guantanamera" Date: 29 May 2001 12:16:32 EDT In a message dated Tue, 29 May 2001 11:16:16 AM Eastern Daylight Time, chuck writes: You are so right M.Ace when you say the Sandpipers are among the softest pop. Only the Fleetwoods or the Phil Spector/Teddy Bears' song "To Know Him Is to Love Him" is perhaps as soft. I kinda think these two bands set the stage for late 1960's soft pop bands like the Sandpipers. Its enlightening to compare the soft pop sound of the Sandpipers to the sunshine pop sound of the Association with their ba da ba das. Guantanamera and Louie Louie are fabulous remakes! This makes Guantanemera my favorite lp by them. They kept this formula up in later releases. I don't understand where all the A & M releases are but they do seem to trickle in at thrifts. Another cool label with this sound, White Wale has been collected by Verese Saraband on cd. Check out the song 1900 Yesterday for a similar sound to the Sandpipers. Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck --- "m.ace" wrote: The Sandpipers also do good e-z versions of "Misty Roses" and "Never Can Say Goodbye....Packaging is another thing to notice. For example on the LP with "Guantanemera" (I think), each Sandpiper--Latinos all--is pictured from a distance, strolling along an idyllic beach, waves washing ashore, gulls squaking overhead. Superimposed is a close-up image of the presumed object of their collective thoughts--a blonde-haired blue-eyed lass, seemingly of Northern European extraction!...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: "Robert McKenna" Subject: Re: (exotica) The Sandpipers "Guantanamera" Date: 29 May 2001 16:21:54 Its enlightening to compare the soft pop >sound of the Sandpipers to the sunshine pop sound of the >Association with their ba da ba das. > Hang on, did the association break with the time honoured sunshine pop formula of da ba da ba? That's revolutionary behaviour. rob PS i posted a caveat to my comments on Dutch food excusing the very fine cheeses, coffees, teas, chocolate and other fine goods such as cigars. but i did it from another email address and can't be bothered digging it up again. so you're right cheryl. PPS now i don't feel so guilty about the Sandpipers tracks i have and don't hate _________________________________________________________________________ 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: Pearmania@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Re: Korla Pandit's secret identity Date: 29 May 2001 13:21:40 EDT In a message dated 5/28/01 11:34:14 PM US Eastern Standard Time, Dj45rpm@aol.com writes: << I don't know, the Korla Pandit I saw at Bimbo's on his last (?) trip up here seemed pretty Caucasian to me. >> I remember coming across some records by a guy named "Karla Pandit" who looked like an imitation of Korla Pandit. I didn't buy any of the records, but I assumed it was someone trying to uphold the Korla Pandit tradition. That may have been the guy you saw. He definitely looks whiter than the real Korla Pandit Sean # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Brian Karasick" Subject: (exotica) Re: "funtown" record? Date: 29 May 2001 13:48:03 -0400 james brouwer wrote: > I picked up a strange record at the local thrift the other day > called "Funtown" on K-Tel records, from 1976 I think... > But it looks to be the spinoff of a TV show called "Funtown" which > I don't remember at all. Anyone know this show or this record? I could swear this was the later day name of the CTV Winnipeg (Canada) based kids show "Archie Wood and Friends" (with Uncle Bob as the ventriloquist making Archie talk). It was a staple in my early days although as I remember it wasn't all that good. It probably was a knock off of the Howdy-Doody show which is even before my time. Considering K-Tel was created in Winnipeg (few people realize this I'm sure) I suspect this is how the record may have gotten made. I could be wrong but I'm not sure if this show was ever broadcast nationally so it may not be easy to verify. Any references on the record to CKY TV in Winnipeg or Archie Wood? 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: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) Salvation Army: RIP LPs (?) Date: 29 May 2001 13:56:05 -0400 At 07:10 AM 5/29/01 -0700, Ben Waugh wrote: > >Over the weekend I stopped at the SA in my hometown >only to find that all vinyl had been deported and its >former spot taked up by Cds and cassettes. That is a frightening harbinger. I don't think that's happened up here yet. Not officially. But there's no doubt it's different from just a few years ago. There's no lively action anymore. Not much coming in. Not much going out. The vinyl is not in the same place as it was. You have to look for it, ask them where they moved it. Next week or so I'm going to return to my favorite thrift store in the area, the place I took Moritz to - and he left with over 100 records. If they've moved their records to an even more dusty corner, then I'll know the earth has shifted. 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) The Sandpipers "Guantanamera" Date: 29 May 2001 14:01:18 -0400 At 04:21 PM 5/29/01, Robert McKenna wrote: > >PPS now i don't feel so guilty about the Sandpipers tracks i have and don't >hate How can you hate the Sandpipers? I don't understand this. Where does this prejudice against soft things come from? I wonder if it's macho indoctrination. Hard is good; soft is for sissies and housewives. I like soft. And more and more, I dislike hard. And it's not just because I've climbed into the Viagra demographic. 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: Dave Van Allen Subject: (exotica) Re: old folks old lists Date: 29 May 2001 14:10:40 -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_3073990240_22064541 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Alen Zweig wrote: >=B3On this other list, people are talking about Dylan turning 60 and the who= le >issue of short careers versus long careers. >So it makes me wonder, is this list finished? >Effectively over? >I know no one can answer that. But I just bought the fourth record by a >band whose first three records were huge for me and the fourth is kind of >not much.=B2 Yeah but the question is are the first three records still ringin=B9 your bell?? It=B9s a matter of YOU keeping tabs on YOUR OWN tastes... If you still dig discussing exoterica then what matter it if the world passes you by...? The very nature of exotica is that it ain=B9t fer everybody, and what=B9s for m= e may not be for you, and thank goodness for that, =8Ccause you won=B9t be lookin= g for the same records I am.... >=B3And it makes me wonder about the whole issue of things running their cour= se. >I have no idea how to revive this thing. Maybe it's time to bow out befor= e >it gets even sadder.=B2 Being relatively new to the list I don=B9t know this =B3sadder=B2-I have no frame of reference for what may have been a HeyDay I missed ... I will aver that the list will take care of itself ... Those who are interested will post those who aren=B9t will go off and find the =B3next thing=B2 (and more power to =8Cem) =20 dva --B_3073990240_22064541 Content-type: text/html; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Re: old folks old lists Alen Zweig wrote:

>“On this other list, people are talking about Dylan turning 60 an= d the whole

>issue of short careers versus long careers.

>So it makes me wonder, is this list finished?

>Effectively over?

>I know no one can answer that.  But I just bought the fourth recor= d by a

>band whose first three records were huge for me and the fourth is kind = of

>not much.”


Yeah but the question is are the first three records still ringin’ yo= ur bell?? It’s a matter of YOU keeping tabs on YOUR OWN tastes...

If you still dig discussing exoterica then what matter it if the world pass= es you by...?

The very nature of exotica is that it ain’t fer everybody, and what&#= 8217;s for me may not be for you, and thank goodness for that, ‘cause = you won’t be looking for the same records I am....

>“And it makes me wonder about the whole issue of things running t= heir course.

>I have no idea how to revive this thing.  Maybe it's time to bow o= ut before

>it gets even sadder.”


Being relatively new to the list I don’t know this “sadder̶= 1;-I have no frame of reference for what may have been a HeyDay I missed ...= I will aver that the list will take care of itself ... Those who are intere= sted will post those who aren’t will go off and find the “next t= hing” (and more power to ‘em)
 
dva
 --B_3073990240_22064541-- # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ben Waugh Subject: Re: (exotica) The Sandpipers "Guantanamera" Date: 29 May 2001 11:41:28 -0700 (PDT) I concur here. I think of my mellowing (there's a good word for it) musical preferences as a protracted or "lite" version Logan's Run. Limping along, BW --- alan zweig wrote: > I like soft. And more and more, I dislike hard. > And it's not just because I've climbed into the > Viagra demographic. ===== "What I need is a shot of Drambuie and some clean sheets." - Jack Nance __________________________________________________ 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: Ben Waugh Subject: Re: (exotica) Perry Rhodan and Fantomas Date: 29 May 2001 12:19:42 -0700 (PDT) Never mind... Magne's ST comes from French TV adaptations in the 60s. Love to find the ST. --- Ben Waugh wrote: > > Are these the original Fantomas films that you refer > to? Given your description of the music, it seems as > though someone remade them. ... ===== "What I need is a shot of Drambuie and some clean sheets." - Jack Nance __________________________________________________ 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: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) The Sandpipers "Guantanamera" Date: 29 May 2001 21:58:58 +0200 alan zweig schrieb: > > How can you hate the Sandpipers? > I don't understand this. > Where does this prejudice against soft things come from? > I wonder if it's macho indoctrination. Hard is good; soft is for sissies > and housewives. I think disliking soft may have other reasons too. As for me sometimes I like soft, sometimes not. Sometimes soft just means somewhat unexciting, it doesn't grab me enough, for instance when I listen to music in the car. It's a mood thing. Soft often referres to sentimental and when I am not at all sentimental I may even hate soft a bit. A generalization doesn't work here very well. I wish there was more soft humorous music, or at least campy soft, like Claudine Longet, that's a kind of soft I can almost always hear, whereas the Sandpipers don't have that certain sense of humor "between the lines". Or maybe I just don't hear it. Did someone mention that this album is out on CD for quite a while? Mo -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de ......................................................................... Thierschstrasse 43, D 80538 Munchen, Germany e-mail: tiki@netsurf.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: "Darrell Brogdon" Subject: (exotica) Fantomas and Korla Pandit Date: 29 May 2001 15:38:22 -0500 Actually, the music is from the three Fantomas feature films made in the 60s, starring Jean Marais: Fantomas Fantomas se Dechaine Fantomas vs Scotland Yard The liner notes refer to the 1976 TV series, but the CD is movie music. Fantomas is one creepy-looking guy. As to the Karla/Korla conundrum, Lance Kaufman was/is Karla Pundit. He did the Dionysus CD "Journey to the Lost City" or something like that in about 1996. He made no bones about the fact that Karla is a very affectionate take-off on Korla Pandit. And the CD's pretty nice, too. 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: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) Ian Whitcomb Date: 29 May 2001 17:13:50 -0400 >That must have been before these days of rigid formatting even on so called >"alternative" commercial stations. KROQ is--or was-- the biggie in LA ain't >it? Yes it is/was. I remember Whitcomb from his broadcasts on KPCC (Pasadena Community College?). He had a show four nights out of five. One night was an old BBC radio night, another a Rock 'n' Roll night, with Jim and John, the terrible twins, who had an unbelievable collection of stuff and two other nights which I cannot recall, however, he did have a show (part of which I got on tape) which featured recordings of people not known for singing (Walter Pidgeon, who had a fine singing voice!) or rare recordings of silent film stars (Clara Bow, Rudolf Valentino). When I left L.A., I missed his show terribly and when the internet came along, with the innovation of real audio, Whitcomb was off the station and KPCC STILL cannot be heard via Real Audio. Dang, 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: Matt Marchese Subject: Re: (exotica) Ian Whitcomb Date: 29 May 2001 16:32:35 -0500 Brian Phillips wrote: > I remember Whitcomb from his broadcasts on KPCC (Pasadena > Community College?) Double dang. I never heard this show. I lived on the opposite side of the San Gabriel Valley, so I only picked up KPCC occasionally when atmospheric conditions allowed their signal to bounce off the bottoms of police helicopters as they were chasing former football heroes driving their white Broncos down the 494, or something... -- 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: "Robbie Baldock" Subject: Re: (exotica) Amsterdam Date: 29 May 2001 22:42:08 +0100 Thanks for all the suggestions about Amsterdam! Brian's mention of Staalplaat prompted me to wonder whether Basta have their own shop? Anyone know? 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: bump@defectiverecords.com (Bump Stadelman) Subject: Re: (exotica) Ghost World trailer Date: 29 May 2001 18:21:16 -0400 just an update on the Gumnaam video and soundtrack. you apparently cannot buy either of them here. my order was cancelled today. :( back to the search. thanx anyway bump >Gumnaam can be bought here: > > >http://www.indiaplaza.com/catalog/catalogdetail/Videodetail.asp?itemid=188250&p >lace=US&majorcat=music&subcat=audiocds ****************************************************** ***************************** ************* 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: Tipsydave@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Ghost World trailer Date: 29 May 2001 19:50:06 EDT Well, if it's any consolation, I have the Gumnaam soundtrack lp, and Jaan Pechaan Ho is really the only outstanding track... -dave In a message dated 5/29/01 3:28:40 PM, bump@defectiverecords.com writes: << just an update on the Gumnaam video and soundtrack. you apparently cannot buy either of them here. my order was cancelled today. :( back to the search. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Salvation Army: RIP LPs (?) Date: 29 May 2001 20:13:20 -0400 At 07:10 AM 5/29/01 -0700, Ben Waugh wrote: >Over the weekend I stopped at the SA in my hometown >only to find that all vinyl had been deported and its >former spot taked up by Cds and cassettes. When I >spoke to the ill-humored desk-jockey he told me that >SA was either never going to carry vinyl again, or was >going to auction it all off. No explanations. I paid a visit to my local SA thrift shop in Central Pennsylvania last week and just happened to be there as they rolled out 4 or 5 cartons of fresh vinyl. From my conversation with the clerk, it was apparent that there were no plans to discontinue accepting donations or stop reselling records. In fact, he gave me a couple of leads on other shops in the region that have large inventories of LPs. It turns out that the local shop has been shipping surplus to some of the other stores to spread things around a bit. I ended up walking (staggering?) out of there with almost 60 interesting albums. I'm hoping that what you described is just a local phenomenon. Even if SA stops dealing in vinyl, all those old albums squirreled away in closets and basements have to end up somewhere. Goodwill and other charity-operated thrift stores aren't going away. Larry # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bump@defectiverecords.com (Bump Stadelman) Subject: Re: (exotica) Ghost World trailer Date: 29 May 2001 20:12:45 -0400 thanx dave, for the words of comfort. but it is the video that i am really bummin about. ;( maybe i can find it thailand :) ??? bump >Well, if it's any consolation, I have the Gumnaam soundtrack lp, and Jaan >Pechaan Ho is really the only outstanding track... >-dave > >In a message dated 5/29/01 3:28:40 PM, bump@defectiverecords.com writes: > ><< just an update on the Gumnaam video and soundtrack. >you apparently cannot buy either of them here. >my order was cancelled today. :( >back to the search. ****************************************************** ***************************** ************* 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: jschwart@voicenet.com Subject: (exotica) TONIGHT: EXOTICA FILMS 3: MUSIC AND MORE! in Philadelphia Date: 30 May 2001 01:11:08 Sorry that I just remembered to post this now! It's been a busy month. The Secret Cinema presents EXOTICA FILMS 3: MUSIC AND MORE! at Silk City The Silk City Lounge 5th & Spring Garden Streets, Philadelphia (215) 592-8838 Tonight -- Wednesday -- May 30, the Secret Cinema will present EXOTICA FILMS 3: MUSIC AND MORE! at the Silk City Lounge. This collection of rare celluloid will showcase a unique collection of filmed musical performances from a variety of offbeat jazz, pop, experimental and rock artists from around the globe, combined with wondrous and colorful short films relating to jet travel, cocktails, and primitive cultures. The films come from a variety of sources, including TV shows, film jukeboxes from the 1940s ("Soundies") and 1960s ("Scopitones"), and select feature film clips. Coming five years after the first Secret Cinema Exotica Films program, and two and a half years since its first sequel, EXOTICA FILMS 3 will once again feature 100% new programming -- little of which is likely to have been seen before by anybody attending! As with all Secret Cinema presentations, all of the films will be projected from 16mm film prints onto a giant movie screen (not video). Doors open at 9:00 pm. The screening begins at 10:00 pm. Admission is $5.00. Just some of the performers shown on the big screen will be: Louis Prima and Keely Smith, Sylvie Vartan, Dean Martin, Johnny Hallyday, Dalida, and a singing (and very young) Henny Youngman(!). Also seen will be amusingly-dated travel films about the South Seas and Africa, Technicolor promotional shorts about the latest developments in air travel (in the 1950s), and a drinking and driving warning that makes the cocktail scene look pretty enticing. Between reels there will be sets of vintage "now sounds," exotica music and TV themes, spun by Secret Cinema programmer Jay Schwartz. SECRET CINEMA WEBSITE: www.voicenet.com/~jschwart # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Amsterdam Date: 30 May 2001 07:23:20 +0200 > Brian's mention of Staalplaat prompted me to wonder whether > Basta have their own shop? Nope, they don't. 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: alan zweig Subject: (exotica) sorry Date: 30 May 2001 01:53:43 -0400 I know it's stupid to complain about the state of the list or the relatively low frequency of lively discussion. I know it's silly, especially for new members, to complain about a previous time - two years ago I'd say - when the discussion was livelier. (Meaning that more people were mentioning more records and getting more responses and opinions and recommendations from more other people.) But once upon a time, my stupid unanswerable musings were one of the things that made the list more lively and I thought I'd try a group goose just to see what fell out of the trees. I shouldn't have bothered. Or maybe I should have said "The Stu Philips soundtrack to "Follow Me" which appears to be a movie about a trip around the world (to surf?) is actually one of the best pure exotica records I've ever heard"... and seen if anyone except James Brouwer commented. I was bored. I turned to this list to provide me with distraction. It didn't. I whined. Nuff said. 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: ronnie.edgar@lineone.net Subject: Re: (exotica) The Sandpipers "Guantanamera" Date: 30 May 2001 09:54:30 +0100 (BST) Alan Zweig Wrote >How can you hate the Sandpipers? >I don't understand this. >Where does this prejudice against soft things come from? >I wonder if it's macho indoctrination. Hard is good; soft is for sissies >and housewives. >I like soft. And more and more, I dislike hard. >And it's not just because I've climbed into the Viagra demographic. After this post I decided to give the sandpipers One More Chance, as AZ's posts tend to be well informed, and his taste usually good. I pulled out the LP from my stack, noted the rather lovely cover, of the chaps sitting on a porch, cleaned the LP, it is rather scratchy, but that can sometimes be nice. Placed the LP eagerly on my turntable, waited for the wonderful softness, but all i got was slushy, corporate crap, spineless with no hidden passion, now I like Astrud Gilberto, Sergio Mendez, The Free Design, all soft acts which regularly have a place on my turntable. but this was no better than Kai Warner et al, so I for one can at least understand why someone would hate The Sandpipers, wishy washy, spineless pap. It fulfils the worst criteria of indolent, passionless, "ear candy", and not particularly good "ear candy", that i can imagine. Hope this hasn't trodden on too many toes. regards Ronnie # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) The Sandpipers "Guantanamera" Date: 30 May 2001 12:34:37 >How can you hate the Sandpipers? I'll admit to not being a huge fan of Peter, Paul and Mary too if you won't beat me up. Not majorly into the Sringfields either. Though I do have a killer now-sound easy latin funk tune on a Tom Springfield solo album. >I don't understand this. >Where does this prejudice against soft things come from? >I wonder if it's macho indoctrination. Yes that's it. My entire personality, and most particularly my musical tastes are informed by a macho definition of masculinity and a perception of gender roles that would be considered unenlightened and regressive among nandrolone pumped drugby players. That and the fact that while my pecs now look like an american female pornstars* breasts my testicles have shrunk to the size of dried marrowfat peas in a saggy onionsack inform my weltanschauung >Hard is good; soft is for sissies and housewives. don't knock mogodon music. Musak and valium go together like Ham and Clov. >I like soft. And more and more, I dislike hard. >And it's not just because I've climbed into the Viagra demographic. > >Az > I've climbed into bed with music my parents would find attractive. And not being in any way a freudian, i find that a touch repulsive. I'll largely pass on the Sandpipers and continue to love the Free Design. Hard? Saw Pansonic and FM Einheit and Caspar Brotzman and Acid Mothers Temple last week ('Acid Mothers Temple Rock Dublin', 'We Will Play NO U2'). Good loud week. My musical moment of the week however was finding a Frankie Laine album with a rather fine version of Misirlou on it. Soft and hard aren't really polarisations that define my taste in music. Nor indeed, considering the amount of people on this list who got into exotica via industrial and noise music, is it really a defining dichotomy for exotica / non-exotica related music. Try again. rob * or my beloved phrase, popular in 1920s/30s England 'leading exponant of artistic embrace' _________________________________________________________________________ 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: G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk Subject: RE:(exotica) The Sandpipers "Guantanamera Date: 30 May 2001 13:54:10 +0100 I have 4 or maybe 5 of their LP's, and as Alan says the songs come as latin tinged or not but apart from that they are mostly the same. Why waste a good formula? Nearly every LP by them worth having has Guantanamera on it. I have one LP I don't really care for by them, and that has covers of Tin Pan Alley type songs, the only track I can remember from it is 'Inch Worm', I think its from the 70's. Apart from that I love 'em all. They do a good version of 'The things we said today' and 'The Sea (la Mer)', and a good if slightly clunky 'Fly me to the moon'. And I love their version of Louie Louie especially the Spanish Section in the middle. It has been quiet recently with Mo away, Magnus working and Alan in quiet mode. I try but i can't sustain a lengthy post. Too much TV rotting my brain, I suppose. 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 They definitely worked from a formula here. And when applied to "Louie, Louie" it makes for the strangest "Louie, Louie" I've run across, complete with the bassline from the second part of "You've Lost That Loving Feeling"! I can't really pull out any other tracks for special comment, as they all tend to flow together. In a pleasant way. Soothing soft pop for nights when life has left you frazzled. For those who have heard more Sandpipers... did they maintain this formula exactly on later albums, or did they develop some other moves? It's very effective for one album, but I can see it becoming tedious if they stuck with it record after record. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Salvation Army: RIP LPs (?) Date: 30 May 2001 06:07:19 -0700 (PDT) Yes, likely it's some sort of karmic retribution, perhaps for all the fires I set as a child. In any event, I have had a nice run over the past 5 years or so. I will try not to gripe or think badly of them for this obviously well thought out grudge screw they've pulled on me. --- Larry wrote: > I'm hoping that what you described is just a local > phenomenon. Even if SA > stops dealing in vinyl, all those old albums > squirreled away in closets and > basements have to end up somewhere. Goodwill and > other charity-operated > thrift stores aren't going away. ===== "What I need is a shot of Drambuie and some clean sheets." - Jack Nance __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! 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: G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk Subject: Re: (exotica) The Sandpipers "Guantanamera" Date: 30 May 2001 14:20:54 +0100 Hey, Ronnie, is it just the sun coming out that makes you post these things? A little bit of warmth and a hot-headed rush? I gotta say I disagree completely, and with Mo about the Sandpipers being humourless, That spoken bit in the middle of Guantanamera cracks me up every time I hear it. But there is something there. A&M started out as a label with a vision, sophisticated pop, whatever, and then by what 1974 it was just another corporate label (I mean, Rick Wakeman, for gods sake). What happened, did Alpert get bored and sell up? The offer of the dollar too much? 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 but this was no better than Kai Warner et al, so I for one can at least understand why someone would hate The Sandpipers, wishy washy, spineless pap. It fulfils the worst criteria of indolent, passionless, "ear candy", and not particularly good "ear candy", that i can imagine. Hope this hasn't trodden on too many toes. regards Ronnie # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) TONIGHT: EXOTICA FILMS 3: MUSIC AND MORE! in Philadelphia Date: 30 May 2001 07:21:14 -0700 Is there any chance this could be a roaming sort of festival...? I'd love to see these films to come to San Francisco. -Kevin jschwart@voicenet.com wrote: > The Secret Cinema presents > EXOTICA FILMS 3: MUSIC AND MORE! at Silk City > > Also seen will be amusingly-dated travel films about the South Seas and > Africa, Technicolor promotional shorts about the latest developments in air > travel (in the 1950s), and a drinking and driving warning that makes the > cocktail scene look pretty enticing. > > Between reels there will be sets of vintage "now sounds," exotica music and > TV themes, spun by Secret Cinema programmer Jay Schwartz. > > SECRET CINEMA WEBSITE: www.voicenet.com/~jschwart -- *********************************************************** * 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: Ben Waugh Subject: (exotica) Tiki shirts Date: 30 May 2001 07:59:58 -0700 (PDT) Just scored the jade Telescopic Tiki: http://www.reyns.com/cgi/showcatalog.pl?continue=1&ShowItemsStart=11 ===== "What I need is a shot of Drambuie and some clean sheets." - Jack Nance __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! 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: Re: (exotica) Tiki shirts Date: 30 May 2001 10:55:38 -0700 (PDT) Sorry> Here's the specific link: http://www.reyns.com/cgi/showitem.pl?ProductId=205 ===== "What I need is a shot of Drambuie and some clean sheets." - Jack Nance __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! 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) re: tiki shirts Date: 30 May 2001 10:58:38 -0700 (PDT) Sorry: Here's the specific link: http://www.reyns.com/cgi/showitem.pl?ProductId=205 ===== "What I need is a shot of Drambuie and some clean sheets." - Jack Nance __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! 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: Bruce Lenkei Subject: (exotica) recent finds Date: 30 May 2001 15:42:16 -0400 (EDT) The recent SA thread worries me, but it ain't over yet judging by what I found over the weekend. But of course the F&T and the Harry Breuer were at an actual record store... Harry Breuer, Mallet Mischief, Vol. 2 Yeah, the famous cover. The tunes are light-hearted and lots of fun. I also have Mallet magic which is just as good, but with a more abstract cover design with pictures of the mallets and things. Ray Conniff, Happiness Is I'm enjoying Ray's output more and more, and almost any SA or junk store has a vast trove of his stuff. This is a fun record and the title song is hilarious, with references to the Beatles and beatnicks. Ferrante & Teicher, Soundproof The stereo version. Dynamite stuff and that flying saucer cover is a beautiful thing. Saw a copy of the mono version right next to it, but at $25 bucks it was out of my range. Enoch Light, My Musical Coloring Book Another nice record from dependable ol' Enoch. Not that I need any more of his stuff. I think I already own at least 30 Command/Enoch Light disks. But still, the music is good. I also found some kind of Chevrolet promotional film score from 1974. It is a great record, with music that runs the gamut from ultra heavy funk to mellow vocals to almost annoying bombastic orchestra stuff. An Odd collection, to say the least, but I'm very glad I found it. - bruce # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) recent finds Date: 30 May 2001 15:55:02 -0500 Is this one of those cases, like Martin Denny's first Exotica album, in which the mono version is more valuable than the stereo? Is it, like Exotica I, a case of two different albums recorded at different times? Forgive my ignorance if this is already well known, but this is the first I've heard of it with Soundproof. The two "prepared piano" albums I have are pretty tripped out, and my wife can barely stomach them, but I think they're great--one's something like "Percussion Piano" and the other is "Heavenly Sounds." As far as the exotica touch goes, though, I'm still partial to their soundtrack to Cleopatra. Clayton > From: Bruce Lenkei > > Ferrante & Teicher, Soundproof > The stereo version. Dynamite stuff and that flying saucer cover is a > beautiful thing. Saw a copy of the mono version right next to it, but at > $25 bucks it was out of my range. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) recent finds Date: 30 May 2001 16:47:53 -0400 (EDT) I actually don't know, except from what I saw at the spaceage pop website, which says the track listings are different. Judging from the vast price difference between the two, I guess the mono one is much more rare. On Wed, 30 May 2001, Clayton Black wrote: > > Is this one of those cases, like Martin Denny's first Exotica album, in > which the mono version is more valuable than the stereo? Is it, like > Exotica I, a case of two different albums recorded at different times? > Forgive my ignorance if this is already well known, but this is the first > I've heard of it with Soundproof. The two "prepared piano" albums I have > are pretty tripped out, and my wife can barely stomach them, but I think > they're great--one's something like "Percussion Piano" and the other is > "Heavenly Sounds." As far as the exotica touch goes, though, I'm still > partial to their soundtrack to Cleopatra. > 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: bigshot Subject: (exotica) Bozo Ends Its 40 Year Run Date: 30 May 2001 14:03:09 -0700 For those who might not be aware of it, the local WGN Bozo Show has been on the air for forty years. It's the second longest running show on TV. On July 14th, they'll be airing the very last episode, which is going to be a prime time special. Those of you with access to WGN, make sure to set your VCR timers. WGN has done a ton of research on the history of "the world's most famous clown" and has created a website worthy of him. There are sound and movie clips, and photos going all the way back to when Bozo was known as "the Capitol Clown". The URL is... http://www.wgntv.com/station/bozotime/ I had the pleasure of meeting Vance Colvig, the son of the original Capitol Bozo and a Bozo himself on LA's KTLA from 1959 to the early 60s. Vance was quite a character. If you saw the movie Barfly, Vance was the guy who had the DT trembles and worked the rig with his necktie to get the glass up to his lips without shaking all the juice out. I asked him what his favorite Bozo related story was, and he told me this tale. I have no reason to doubt its truth. But it's definitely a whopper... I'll try to tell it as I remember Vance telling it. He had a kind of a drawl, like Walace Beery (He did the voice of Chopper on Yakky Doodle, so that should give you an idea of how he talked...) Back when Vance was playing Bozo on KTLA, he didn't get paid a whole heck of a lot, so he would do personal appearances on the weekends to make extra money... supermarket openings, record stores, toy stores, etc. He'd do a bunch of them on a single day. He said that on weekends the highway was thick with kids' shows hosts running back and forth to get to all of these events. He'd be driving along and Sheriff John would wave to him passing on one side, and Engineer Bill would be on the other side waving and going the opposite direction. All of the kids' show hosts knew each other... One day he gets a phone call from Engineer Bill Stulla who said, "I hear you are scheduled for the suchandsuch supermarket opening next week..." Vance replied, "Yeah... what about it?". Bill told him, "Whatever you do, DON'T go to that thing! I did my show there last week and it was a huge mess!" Vance asked, "What happened?" Engineer Bill told him, "They had me scheduled to do my show at noon. The flyer advertising the date said that after my show, Santa Claus would be arriving by helicopter. Well, I finished my show and went around the back of the stage and sat down. And sure enough, a few minutes later, a helicopter started hovering up above." "I looked up and the door was open and there were two elves and Santa Claus peeking out. All of the kids were running around the parking lot excited. All of a sudden the elves take ahold of Santa by the seat of his pants, and throw him out of the door!!! He falls fifty feet and hits the asphalt in a heap! All the kids started crying and hollering, and it turns out it's just a dummy Santa. Two more guys dressed as elves ran out of the market with a stretcher... They scooped Santa onto it and ran inside." "When I saw that, I didn't want to have any part of it, so I packed up my gear and left." Vance thanked Stulla for tipping him off. He thought about it a minute and decided to call the manager of the supermarket that booked him to see if it was true. He got the guy on the horn and he said, "Say there, I hear you've got Santa Claus set to arrive at the end of my show." The manager said yes and Vance said, "Welll... Bill Stulla tells me you plan to chuck him out of a helicopter!" The manager laughed and replied, "You heard about that? Yeah! It's a great stunt! We should get a lot of press out of it!" Vance said, "Well you can get your press without me. I quit." The manager got furious and said, "We have a contract! I've done advertising! The kids are expecting Bozo! If you don't show up, I'll sue your ass!" Vance calmly replied, "You just try and find one court in this land that will rule against Bozo the Clown in favor of an idiot who flings Santa Claus out of a helicopter!" and hung up on him. He skipped the date and never heard another thing about it after that. That's the story... If you happen to think of it, have a drink in honor of old Bozo and Vance... and Bob Bell, and Pinto Colvig, and all of the other Bozo's over the years. It's sad that Steven King has forever banished clowns to horror movies. They were a big part of my childhood, and I can't imagine a childhood without them. 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: George Hall Subject: (exotica) RE: Sandpipers, etc Date: 30 May 2001 17:07:05 -0400 That's it. One more word against the Sandpipers & I'm gonna kick somebody's ass. Me, I have none of their records, but I remember seeing them on tv when I was young, wandering around a beach or something & lip-synching "Come Saturday Morning." I liked the song & have retained a soft spot, perhaps in my head, for it. Maybe I'll seek it out on record now. And didn't they sing a song in "Valley of the Dolls?" Perhaps the song "Valley of the Dolls?" Or am I thinking of "Beneath the Valley of the Dolls?" Next up, corporate swill; I've said this before... but I think judging the supposed intentions of an artist tends to lead to some iffy conclusions... there is much well-intentioned crap out there, and fine work has been created by those attempting to make a buck & score a hit. I love the Monkees too, no less the pre-liberated tools of Don Kirshner, Inc; hey, the singing's good, writing's good & playing's good... what's not to love? Lastly on the soft/hard, macho/wimp front, please recall that one of the sweetest falsettos in R&B belongs to Aaron Neville, who also possesses the one of it's longest criminal records. So do not count Alan out as a potentially violent, swaggering, macho kinda guy purely on the evidence of his listening habits. gh Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 12:34:37 From: "Robert McKenna" Subject: Re: (exotica) The Sandpipers "Guantanamera" >How can you hate the Sandpipers? I'll admit to not being a huge fan of Peter, Paul and Mary too if you won't beat me up. Not majorly into the Sringfields either. Though I do have a killer now-sound easy latin funk tune on a Tom Springfield solo album. >I don't understand this. >Where does this prejudice against soft things come from? >I wonder if it's macho indoctrination. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Sandpipers "Guantanamera" Date: 30 May 2001 21:11:13 -0400 It may be a question of scale. A couple of weeks ago, I assembled a sort of "punishment" compilation for someone... nothing but the most schmaltzy, syrupy, snoozy, oozy easy listening tracks I could scrape together (in the wake of his string album research project, Brad knows this territory). After a tapioca immersion like that, The Sandpipers sound downright wild. 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: "cheryl" Subject: Re: (exotica) RE: Sandpipers, etc Date: 30 May 2001 21:14:45 -0400 Yes, they did the title song from "Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls". I knew there was something they did that I liked... > That's it. One more word against the Sandpipers & I'm gonna kick somebody's > ass. > > Me, I have none of their records, but I remember seeing them on tv when I > was young, wandering around a beach or something & lip-synching "Come > Saturday Morning." I liked the song & have retained a soft spot, perhaps in > my head, for it. Maybe I'll seek it out on record now. And didn't they sing > a song in "Valley of the Dolls?" Perhaps the song "Valley of the Dolls?" Or > am I thinking of "Beneath the Valley of the Dolls?" >Lastly on the soft/hard, macho/wimp front, please recall that one of the >sweetest falsettos in R&B belongs to Aaron Neville, who also possesses the >one of it's longest criminal records. So do not count Alan out as a >potentially violent, swaggering, macho kinda guy purely on the evidence of >his listening habits. But then again, if you've seen his movie... (okay, just kidding, AZ!) 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: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) The Sandpipers "Guantanamera" Date: 30 May 2001 21:33:19 -0400 At 02:20 PM 5/30/01 +0100, G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk wrote: .> >But there is something there. A&M started out as a label with a vision, >sophisticated pop, whatever, and then by what 1974 it was just another >corporate label (I mean, Rick Wakeman, for gods sake).. To each his own. I'm not going to make my stand with the Sandpipers. They're not the Free Design. There's less going on. But unlike Moritz for instance, I don't need a dash of humor or irony to enjoy soft or even "plain" things. If I like the tune and the "artist" does it well, I usually like it. I suppose that there could be arrangements that would just be a bit too subtle or non-existent for my taste. I find Ken Griffin's "just play the tune" style kind of flat and uninspiring (though sometimes it's so bad it's almost good). And if no one here is spying for the Beautful Instrumental mailing list, I'll admit that I find most James Last renditions to be just like that. Nothing going on. "Yeah I like the tune but can't you do something with it"? But I think the Sandpipers actually had a style. They made some choices. Some thought went into "the Sandpiper Sound". They were very consistent in both the sound of their records and their choice of material. It's interesting that more than one person said essentially "I like the Free Design but I can't go as low as the Sandpipers". It's interesting that it's the Free Design that draws the comparison. It's true the Sandpipers don't have that kind of harmony going on. And if the Free Design is as far as you can go when it comes to soft stuff, I'm happy you can go that far. I think the Free Design are amazing and it would be a (minor) shame if their "softness" prevented you from appreciating them. There is a "prejudice" against soft music and I too have used the term "too soft" on occasion to describe something I don't like, though I usually apply it to films or books. But I have gotten over my prejudice to soft things in music. I think Andy Williams for instance, had a beautiful voice. And I like his ex-wife's records too. Even when they're not particularly funny. I had two or three Sandpiper records but I never really played them because I assumed the Sandpipers were too boring for me. Then someone played me a nice tune from a record I owned and I went home and played them. Sometimes it's good to let down your critical guard. I had judged them more harshly when I owned the record than when I heard them floating in the background at my friend's record store. I heard them and I said "This is nice". Nice. Sometimes I like nice. I took my Sandpipers records, put my favorite cuts on a CDR and it made a very enjoyable half hour or so. And now I find myself defending them. They're okay. PS I noticed the compliment Ronnie. Thanks I guess. 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@defectiverecords.com (Bump Stadelman) Subject: (exotica) carpenters Date: 30 May 2001 21:23:33 -0400 this list is affecting my sleep. the other nite i had a dream i went to a carpenters concert and was surprised to see karen alive and well. (well she never looked TOO well) but i had 1st row seats, in a relatively small venue. and the rest of the crowd was the jet-geriatric set. she commented on the spiritual aspect of my elephant belt buckle and yelled for Calling Occupants! i remember when they finished the show, everyone left without clapping for an encore. except me! i did it out of feeling bad for them since i really do not like them that much. she asked me why they all left, clearly upset they were not brought back on. i just said, You know old folks, maybe they just don't understand the encore thing or they were just too tired to keep clapping. geez, i don't get myself sometimes. bump i would not tell this to anyone else except you people # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: (exotica) Yukihiro Fukotomi Date: 31 May 2001 10:24:13 +0200 into somethin' >>> newsletter s e l e c t e d f r e e s t y l e s i n c e 1 9 9 1 this week's link / link der woche fr, june 1st 2001 23.00 - 04.30 @ muffathalle, café yukihiro fukutomi (tokyo / compost-jazzanova records) go here to the official website (english/japanese w. soundfiles) "The late 80's, the period at the dawn of the Japanese domestic dance/club music scene, Tokyo native Yukihiro Fukutomi started his career as a DJ at clubs like Gold, Zoo and Cave in Tokyo. At the same time he started working as a composer, arranger, programmer and producer. Fukutomi was also involved with the programming for Pizzacato 5. After presenting his first solo project, a compilation track titled "Tokyo DJs Only", he received recognition as a pioneer and creator innovator of house and dance music. As one of only a few artists who is able to handle producing, arranging, composing, programming and remixing in the whole process of music production, he has constantly participated in a number of sessions up until now. From 1991 to 1995, he released three solo albums and got high acclaim for each one in various music circles. In 1999, his mini album titled "Brasilia 2000" and 12" remix single titled PEG from Galactic Disco (Hospital) were released and further enhanced his reputation as a top artist. After releasing Brasilia 2000 EP (bpm king street sounds / nite grooves)] in November 1999, there were many people around the world who were loud in their praises for Fukutomi. His new, full-length album on cutting edge/avex inc in Japan. And believe or not, the album was in the Gilles Peterson charts while it was only a demo track. These facts have led to Fukutomi‘s widespread recognition and respect throughout the international music circuit. Moreover, he was flooded with offers, from JCR / Compost (Germany), Schema (Italy), Irma (Italy), Slip'n'Slide (UK), R & S (Belgium), Roadrunner (UK) etc… and a wide range of labels from various countries. He continues to DJ regularly, he has appeared at clubs such as Vendredi (Mishuku web), and Darling of Discotheque (Aoyama fai - the last Sunday every month)." from www.jazzanova.de on air every wednesday 22.00 to 00.00 cet >>> click here to find out your actual local time into somethin' radioshow click here to listen to the may 30th 2001 show. playlist: nintin shawney: walkaway (cd-r) neotropic: close to the sun (ninja lp: la prochaine fois) dj krush: paradise bird theory (columbia lp-tr: zen) s.a.q.: space between (further out 7") sequel: usold - domu rmx (cd-r) nite-liters: serenade for a jive turkey (rca lp-tr) 100% pure poison: windy c. soul brother reisue) donald byrd: miss kane (blue note lp-tr: street lady) dus: a brighter day (ssoh 12") fini dolo: heart beat, part 3 (people 12") blaze: my beat - swag rmx (3wy music 12") underwolves: bird song - earthbound rmx (cd-r) chris bowden: original sins (ninjatunes 12") marc alphonse: contentment in humidity (cd-r) vikter duplaix: manhood - vikter's i.l.m. mix (groove attack 12") air frog: bon voyage - swag rmx (r&s 12) rudy ray moore: sera sera jim (a&m lp-tr) poets of rhythm: discern / define (ninjatunes cd-r) marvin holmes: i can't see you (kon-kord lp-tr) johnny king & fatback band: peace love not war (bc project II 7") ben sidran: 'bout love (capitol p-tr) linda lewis: on the stage (reprise lp-tr) le mans: mi novela autobiografica (spectrum works lp-tr: "folky") mystic moods: halo around the moon (warner lp-tr) >>> livestream @ radio M94,5 munich >>>into somethin' every friday, 11.00 pm @ muffatcafé, zellstr. 4. >>> into somethin' radioshow every wednesday, 22.00 - 00.00 @ m94,5 munich, fm 94,5 mhz >>>into somethin' recordshop @ buttermelcherstr. 1, munich, germany if you recieve text-only format, go here: http://www.intosomethin.com/news.htm >>> to unsubscribe, go to http://www.intosomethin.com/formular.htm -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de ......................................................................... Thierschstrasse 43, D 80538 Munchen, Germany e-mail: tiki@netsurf.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: G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk Subject: RE: (exotica) The Sandpipers "Guantanamera" Date: 31 May 2001 10:03:49 +0100 Its funny, to me the Sandpipers are a lot more accessible than the Free Design, mind you I don't have that much Free Design, I imagine that having an in house writer of Chris Dedricks calibre must help with their credibility, and they reached a kind of delirium on songs like 'Kites are fun' which the Sandpipers never even attempted, but then that wasn't what they did. But I find some of the Free design stuff quite stilted. I don't think they did slow soft as well as the Sandpipers. Perhaps a soundclash is in order, Beatles covers at dawn. I can't imagine what possessed you to go onto the James Last mailing list. OK, so I've seen the voodoo LP going for 15 UKPounds, and I own one LP, but purely for the cover. Honest. (Its Silver and pink and has 'Go-Go' on it in nice lettering) 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 Alan Zweig wrote > It's interesting that more than one person said essentially "I like the > Free Design but I can't go as low as the Sandpipers". > It's interesting that it's the Free Design that draws the comparison. > It's true the Sandpipers don't have that kind of harmony going on. And if > the Free Design is as far as you can go when it comes to soft stuff, I'm > happy you can go that far. I think the Free Design are amazing and it > would be a (minor) shame if their "softness" prevented you from > appreciating 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: ronnie.edgar@lineone.net Subject: (exotica) Siegfried Schwab Date: 31 May 2001 11:19:26 +0100 (BST) Has anyone heard any of his solo stuff, there are a couple of LP's on GEMM at the moment, and I don't want to bid to be dissapointed. regards Ronnie # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) The Sandpipers "Guantanamera" Date: 31 May 2001 09:05:35 -0400 "Voodoo Party" is so unlike the rest of the James Last LPs, it's almost unbelievable that it's him. Definitely worth picking up, even for 15 UK pounds. > I can't imagine what possessed you to go onto the James Last mailing list. > OK, so I've seen the voodoo LP going for 15 UKPounds, and I own one LP, but > purely for the cover. cheryl # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) The Sandpipers "Guantanamera" Date: 31 May 2001 09:21:34 EDT In a message dated Wed, 30 May 2001 9:30:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time, alan zweig writes: << At 02:20 PM 5/30/01 +0100, G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk wrote: > >But there is something there. A&M started out as a >label with a vision, >sophisticated pop, whatever, and then by what 1974 it >was just another >corporate label A fantastic 1974 A&M soft pop LP is by Nick DeCaro and its called "Italian Graffiti". So it may have "changed with the times", but complete corporate sellout? And what did A&M start out as? Certainly not a Mom & Popper.. >I'm not going to make my stand with the Sandpipers. I'm with you. Not every battlefield is worth dying on # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) The Sandpipers "Guantanamera" Date: 31 May 2001 14:44:06 +0100 Tell me more.... 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 > A fantastic 1974 A&M soft pop LP is by Nick DeCaro and its called "Italian > Graffiti". So it may have "changed with the times", but complete corporate > sellout? And what did A&M start out as? Certainly not a Mom & Popper.. > # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) The Sandpipers "Guantanamera" Date: 31 May 2001 14:42:21 +0100 G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk wrote: > > I can't imagine what possessed you to go onto the James Last mailing list. > OK, so I've seen the voodoo LP going for 15 UKPounds, and I own one LP, but > purely for the cover. Honest. (Its Silver and pink and has 'Go-Go' on it > in nice lettering) Voodoo Party is probably worth that much, if you like afro-funk stuff. I'd definitely pay 10 GBP without question. Make sure you get the cover with the voodoo mask on the front and not the one with just Herr Last's grinning visage. (He's on the back of the Voodoo mask cover though, still grinning away) All the tracks are great except for the 2 Last-penned tracks ending each side - they sound silly after all the sly stone covers and things. Another surprise track is 'Happy Brasilia' on one of the Beach Party records (vol 1, i think) which is pretty hot batucada. The Hair album has it's moments too, but could be so much better. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) RE: Sandpipers, etc Date: 31 May 2001 09:48:26 -0500 > Me, I have none of their records, but I remember seeing them on tv when I > was young, wandering around a beach or something & lip-synching "Come > Saturday Morning." I remember that tune, too. I used to have it on the soundtrack from The Sterile Cuckoo which, as I remember it now, was the same sort of dreamy, easy, mostly instrumental pop with some faint (very faint) Now Sound accents. My memory may be hazy, it's been a long time since I last heard it. But I do remember really liking the album at the time. The rest of the music in the movie is by Fred Karlin, who also did Up the Down Staircase. 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: "Magnus Sandberg" Subject: Re: (exotica) The Sandpipers "Guantanamera" Date: 31 May 2001 16:50:27 +0200 (CEST) I just relisted, and I missed the first mail in this thread. Was it about the song Cuantanamera? that song was my first musical love in life, Mom and Dad had two versions of it, silly spanish records that they probably found on some sale, I was maybe three years old, and loved it! Some year ago I learned that the song was about marijuana, is that right? It would definetely explain a lot. 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: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) The Sandpipers "Guantanamera" Date: 31 May 2001 17:07:05 +0200 cheryl schrieb: > "Voodoo Party" is so unlike the rest of the James Last LPs, it's almost > unbelievable that it's him. Definitely worth picking up, even for 15 UK > pounds. oops... Voodoo Party is definitely the best J.L., but 15 pounds? I wouldn't pay so much. I think it's an OK album, but not much more. Mo -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de ......................................................................... Thierschstrasse 43, D 80538 Munchen, Germany e-mail: tiki@netsurf.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: "Benito Vergara" Subject: RE: (exotica) The Sandpipers "Guantanamera" Date: 31 May 2001 08:15:02 -0700 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-exotica@lists.xmission.com > [mailto:owner-exotica@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Magnus Sandberg > Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 7:50 AM > Some year ago I learned that the song was about marijuana, is that > right? It would definetely explain a lot. http://www.arlo.net/lyrics/guantanamera.shtml "Puff the Magic Dragon" was =), but I just looked up the lyrics above and I can't see any herbal essence to it. I should respond to Alan's comments, but they're so long! (I will, later.) Later, Ben np: flying saucer attack, s/t # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) The Sandpipers "Guantanamera" Date: 31 May 2001 11:19:10 -0400 (EDT) Acyually, if you listen to the live Pete Segar version, he explains that it's a poem writen by a Cuban freedom fighter. If I recal correctly - bruce > Some year ago I learned that the song was about marijuana, is that > right? It would definetely explain a lot. > > 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: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: Re: RE: (exotica) The Sandpipers Date: 31 May 2001 11:47:26 -0400 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-exotica@lists.xmission.com > [mailto:owner-exotica@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Magnus Sandberg > Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 7:50 AM > Some year ago I learned that the song was about marijuana, is that > right? It would definetely explain a lot. Are you sure you're not thinking of La Cucaracha? Who sang a version of Guantanamera called "One Ton Tomata" as in "One ton tomata/I ate a one ton tomata/one ton tommmmmata/I ate a one ton tomata"? lousmith@pipeline.com La Cucaracha http://www.cs.ut.ee/~gordon/varia/lyrics/cucaracha.html Strangely translated by Google.com: La Cucaracha, la cucaracha, ya no puede caminar, porque no tiene, porque le falta, marihuana que fumar. The Cockroach The Cockroach, the cockroach, no longer it can walk, because it does not have, because him lack, marijuana that to smoke. The carrancistas already go away, they already go away by the wire, because the Pancho Villa supporters say, that estam dying of hunger. Poor man of the Cockroach, complaint with deception, of not using ironed clothes, by the coal shortage. The Cockroach, the Cockroach, etc. Pobrecito de Madero, all have almost failed to him, Orchard ebrio brigand, it is an ox for the plow. The clothes without starch, all the days are put; and without those boberias, melon imagines to me. The Cockroach, the Cockroach, etc. With the beards of Forey, I am going to do vaquerillo, pá to put it to it to the horse of brave Don Porfirio. The one that persevera reaches, it says a true saying, I what I want it is revenge, by the death of Log. The Cockroach, the Cockroach, etc. For sarapes Forecastle, Chihuahua for soldiers; for women, Jalisco, in order to love, toditos sides. A baker went to mass, not having to say, him pidio to the pure virgin, to the granddaughter of Don Juan. The Cockroach, the Cockroach, etc. All fight the chair that it leaves much silver them; in the North Pancho Villa and in the South Alive Zapata! A thing gives laughter me: Pancho Villa without jacket, another thing gives horror me, to the vile Orchard in nightgown. The Cockroach, the Cockroach, etc. Now it eats his salad, verdolaga and quintonil, because it does not have money in order to buy melapil. Also suprimio the oil lamp of I refuel that tapeworm, and everything is suprmiendo by horrible carestia. The Cockroach, the Cockroach, etc. I need algun " fortingo " in order to make the long walk, to the place where mado to the convention, Zapata. Before so single to Gambrinus it was watched to him to arrive, but or that this repobre to the piquera it is going to give The Cockroach, the Cockroach, etc. In the mine everything shines due to its minerals, already murio Francisco Villa: general of generals. One guacamaya dot it said to him to a red one, who of goal with my mother country, the load.... The Cockroach, the Cockroach, etc. It has that robs much, and soon they flee very far, been worth of law and control and of which they create to us they pen... itnetes. There are others remove to us and with its debts it starts off to us, because with its race all the booty is distributed. The Cockroach, the Cockroach, etc. That pretty soldaderas when they dance the fandango. Alive Panfilo Natera, the pride of Durango. Already murio the Cockroach they already take it to bury, between four buzzards and a mouse of scristan. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) jewel box alternatives Date: 31 May 2001 12:27:16 -0400 I've filled something like 12 CD binders by now and I still have many more CDs that I'd like to remove from their jewel box prisons. Not everything I have needs to be in a binder, so I'm considering a "sleeve" alternative. Has anyone had any experience with jazzloft's sleeves? They look like a reasonably priced way to go. lousmith@pipeline.com http://www.jazzloft.com/sleeves.html Space-Saving CD Sleeves If you're running out of space for your CD collection, consider getting rid of the space hogging jewel box and replacing them with these gatefold sleeves. These clear 4mil thick sleeves hold both the front cover and back graphics to create an LP-like gatefold. They take up 75% less space than the jewel box. The spine even shows, much like an LP. Though not required, paper liner sleeves are available. Our price is only $12.99 per 100 sleeves # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) jewel box alternatives Date: 31 May 2001 10:02:40 -0700 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-exotica@lists.xmission.com > [mailto:owner-exotica@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of nytab@pipeline.com > prisons. Not everything I have needs to be in a binder, so I'm > considering a "sleeve" alternative. Has anyone had any experience > with jazzloft's sleeves? [snip] > gatefold. They take up 75% less space than the jewel box. The > spine even shows, much like an LP. I sent for a sample two years ago and I couldn't get the spine to show just right, at least not to my satisfaction. There's this too, which I like: http://www.jewelsleeve.com The sleeve lets you keep everything except the jewel case. Now all you'll need is a nice box to keep 'em in (they don't fit in CD shelves, and you'll need to flip through them). I'm currently going the binder route (CaseLogic's nylon binders), but it gets difficult because I can't have binders for every category. For instance, I have a "groove" binder and an "exotica" binder, but then I get a CD that's a groovy exotica soundtrack, and I end up agonizing for about half a minute wondering where it's going to go. =) Later, 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: Peter Gingerich Subject: RE: (exotica) jewel box alternatives Date: 31 May 2001 13:29:05 -0400 2 suggestions: 1) just put them into the binder in the order you get them. More challenging for your memory.... 2) melt everything down to mp3....nah, too much time and not as good. 'Sides, isn't microshaft coming out with a newer shinier codec? I've been fooling around with 'WhereIsIt' a (shareware) cataloging program, you might want to check it out at: http://www.whereisit-soft.com/ pg >>I'm currently going the binder route (CaseLogic's nylon binders), but it >>gets difficult because I can't have binders for every category. For >>instance, I have a "groove" binder and an "exotica" binder, but then I get >>a CD that's a groovy exotica soundtrack, and I end up agonizing for about >>half a minute wondering where it's going to go. =) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: (exotica) James Last and beautiful instrumentals Date: 31 May 2001 13:42:03 -0400 At 05:07 PM 5/31/01 +0200, Moritz R wrote: >oops... Voodoo Party is definitely the best J.L., but 15 pounds? I wouldn't pay so much. I think it's an OK album, but not much more. Don't judge a record by its price. I've seen Voodoo Party going for as much as fifty bucks (Canadian). I sold my copy for about ten bucks to a store that put it out at about twenty five. I kind of wonder if it would be so sought after if it weren't for the fact that it was made by an otherwise mediocre artist. In my opinion. Which brings me to the question. How can people like James Last so much? I'm talking about people on that other list. I feel a bit rude asking this question but you can't breathe a hint of doubt about him there. By the way, if anyone wonders why they call James Last "Hansi", it's because his real name is Hans Warner and yes indeedy, he's Kai Warner's brother. I wonder if growing up, their father instructed them "Just sing the melody. Nothing else" and cracked them on the knuckles if they tried to bring their own ideas to the tune. Yesterday I bought a comic put out by a Christian organization in the seventies, called "Hansi, the girl who loved the Swastika". It's about a girl who learns her lesson and turns her back on Hitler. I think half the reason I bought it was to rebel against the James Last fanatics on that other list. Pretty immature eh? If any of those fanatics are also on this list, I apologize. Sort of. But I really really don't get it. I know I don't have to get it. And I know that there are other artists with fanatical fans who would baffle me. So far, it seems to me that as much as I would claim to love "beautiful instrumentals", the people who hang out on the Beautiful Instrumentals list love beautiful instrumentals for completely different reasons than me. It just goes to show you. In the last couple of years, I've really come to love a certain kind of lush, orchestrated thing. I love the sound of a big string section, especially when they're playing quietly. But I usually like it most if there's a lot going on. Leroy Holmes has some amazing records. There's strings and wordless female choruses and all kinds of other sounds buried deep and floating to the surface. Same with Paul Mauriat. And Francis Lai on the records where he covers other tunes (like McArthur's Park for instance.) I did a CD for the exoticaring where I tried to demonstrate this taste. But just because I love big string sections doing endless Bacharach covers doesn't mean I want to hear the bland "Music of Candlelight and Wine" kind of music that I grew up avoiding. I know I'm tilting at windmills here but I guess a month or so lurking on that other list has really gotten to me. The word "beautiful" should have some meaning. You can't be beautiful and bland at the same time. You can be beautiful and soft, beautiful and quiet, beautiful and simple but beauty and blandness are enemies. And I'm sorry but Hansi ain't beautiful. I was staying on that other list for the same reason I watch American political talk shows. I get some kind of charge out of watching Robert Novak and Bob Barr and Tucker Carlson and George W.stomping all over ideas I hold dear. I guess it was the same perversity kept me on that list. But I am unsubscribing. 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: "Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek" Subject: RE: (exotica) James Last and beautiful instrumentals Date: 31 May 2001 19:57:51 +0200 Alan wrote: > Which brings me to the question. How can people like James Last so much? > I'm talking about people on that other list. > So far, it seems to me that as much as I would claim to love "beautiful > instrumentals", the people who hang out on the Beautiful > Instrumentals list > love beautiful instrumentals for completely different reasons than me. I know exactly what you mean, Alan. I've been a member of *that* list for about 3 weeks and it was a very weird experience. I got an incredibly warm welcome, with a couple of members welcoming me personally and telling me how much I would like it on their list. It was as if I had just joined some sort of love cult. And then all they did for three weeks was... talk about 'Hansi' Last and how much they love him. That must have been at least six weeks ago, and they're STILL talking about him?? Jeezis, I'm glad I unsubscribed. 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: "Robert McKenna" Subject: Re: (exotica) James Last and beautiful instrumentals Date: 31 May 2001 18:07:49 >store that put it out at about twenty five. I kind of wonder if it would > >be so sought after if it weren't for the fact that it was made by an >otherwise mediocre artist. In my opinion. It's a bit like the Mandingo records. I think they actually *are* better because they are by the godfather of English schlock string 'beautiful instrumentals'. So with James Last. A good record by somebody bad is better than a good record by somebody great. If you know what i mean. I don't mean if the record in question is actually great in the first place. Which would surely make it better than a merely good one. Even by someone monstrous like 'Hansi'. >Which brings me to the question. How can people like James Last so much? I once sat in a waiting room with Celine Dion on and tried, concentrating very hard like it was a piece of 'difficult' music, to gain some kind of appreciation for her singing. Shit. I was glad when the dentist called me in (hell, at least i was getting some kind of anaesthetic for that tooth-pulling). >Yesterday I bought a comic put out by a Christian organization in the >seventies, called "Hansi, the girl who loved the Swastika". It's about a >girl who learns her lesson and turns her back on Hitler. I think half the >reason I bought it was to rebel against the James Last fanatics on that >other list. >Pretty immature eh? No, I think buying that magazine to spite the world is a beautiful thing. >The word "beautiful" should have some meaning. You can't be beautiful and >bland at the same time. You can be beautiful and soft, beautiful and quiet, >beautiful and simple but beauty and blandness are enemies. >And I'm sorry but Hansi ain't beautiful. Stop it! Hansi and Mr. Acker Bilk are selectively beautiful. To their mothers perhaps. That semi stoned semi gurning embarassed grin. The great straw hats. Hansi's phunky phlares. The 'lovely girls'* and the in crowds on his records. Truly a beacon in blighted post-war Germany. It's just your American beauty fascism taking over. Next you're going to slag their lack of expensive orthodontic care as teenagers like other americans when dealing with europeans. and i just may cry. > >I was staying on that other list for the same reason I watch American >political talk shows. I get some kind of charge out of watching Robert >Novak and Bob Barr and Tucker Carlson and George W.stomping all over ideas >I hold dear. I guess it was the same perversity kept me on that list. >But I am unsubscribing. Don't worry about that. It's all a complicated situationist joke aimed at making the rest of the world think they're satan before they guffaw and shout 'fooled you'.... Or did i just dream that last night. rob * any father ted fans out there? i once went for a drink with both finalists of the 'lovely girl competition'. Which I felt was quite surreal. Particularly as they were playing 14 yr old twins in the Abbey and were wearing pigtails. Guess who's working late? PS I think the Sandpipers did a few songs on the 'Beyond the Valley of the Dolls' soundtrack. Which I like. PPS Great translation of la Cocaracha! In Spain they largely sing it in a version about him lacking a leg rather than sensimilla. _________________________________________________________________________ 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: Michael Jemmeson Subject: Re: (exotica) James Last and beautiful instrumentals Date: 31 May 2001 19:10:08 +0100 alan zweig wrote: > > At 05:07 PM 5/31/01 +0200, Moritz R wrote: > > >oops... Voodoo Party is definitely the best J.L., but 15 pounds? I > wouldn't pay so much. I think it's an OK album, but not much more. > > Don't judge a record by its price. I've seen Voodoo Party going for as > much as fifty bucks (Canadian). I sold my copy for about ten bucks to a > store that put it out at about twenty five. I kind of wonder if it would > be so sought after if it weren't for the fact that it was made by an > otherwise mediocre artist. In my opinion. Well, there's definitely a certain something about it because of his general mediocrity (this applies to the Mandingo LPs as well), but if you like Afro-funk then it's a great record, and a lot more consistent than more 'authentic' lps i've got by Manu Dibango etc, which tend to have quite a few dull tracks. But I'm not surprised you sold it, remembering now that you got rid of all your Fela records too. (Fela avoiding the dull album tracks problem by recording only one long track per side... ) Single artist mailing lists usually seem to have too many over-sensitive fans, who won't hear any criticism, and talk about nothing else... # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) James Last and beautiful instrumentals Date: 31 May 2001 14:57:55 -0400 Michael Jemmeson wrote: Single artist mailing lists usually seem to have too many over-sensitive fans, who won't hear any criticism, and talk about nothing else... ============= Yeah... you should check out the alt.fan.hello-kitty newsgroup! Just try dissing that kitty. 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: Michael Jemmeson Subject: Re: (exotica) James Last and beautiful instrumentals Date: 31 May 2001 20:56:05 +0100 nytab@pipeline.com wrote: > > Michael Jemmeson wrote: > Single artist mailing lists usually seem to have too many over-sensitive > fans, who won't hear any criticism, and talk about nothing else... > ============= > Yeah... you should check out the alt.fan.hello-kitty newsgroup! Just try dissing that kitty. So they wouldn't like me pointing out that Kitty looks almost identical to the Miffy childrens' books from Holland (i think?) which I believe came out first? Can anyone confirm that? Obsessive fans never like plagiarism charges... Listening to Voodoo Party at the moment... The tracks with singing have the usual vocal chorus sound, but the arrangements and percussion underneath are fantastic. Plus I really like the slower moody ones like Inner City Blues and Mamy Blue (presume that's a cover - who did the original?), the latter actually having a bit of 'soul' in the singing. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Date: 31 May 2001 22:12:00 +0200 (MEST) For me the much better Cover is the one WITH James Last on it ( and red yellow green and blue collors). I still remember when I first saw it. I couldn't believe it, James as a Hippie, barefoot, and all these square Germans dressed funny as freaky hippies who surround him. What a great cover !!!. I must grin for the rest of the day ! James Lasts grinning face is one of the most bizarre trademark that I know. And the music ?. Some Tracks has some horrible (for my ears) 70s Santana rock solo guitars on it. The Percussions are great, but there is much better similar stuff out there (just for example, listen to "Sing A Simple Song" by Roberto Roena Y Su Apollo Sound from the "Broasted Or Fried" comp). For me the most enjoyable cut is still the silly Voodoo Ladys Love. I imagine a super 8 Movie from a typical german family who filmed there camping Holiday party where they grooving to this goofy sound... I would never pay 15 UK Pounds (or 10) for it With "Happy Brasilia" I agree absolutely ! It was just reissued again on the techno (!) label R & S Records (Aphex Twin, Ken Ishii etc.) Just my two Pfennig 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/ Machen Sie Ihr Hobby zu Geld bei unserem Partner 1&1! http://profiseller.de/info/index.php3?ac=OM.PS.PS003K00596T0409a -- 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: "Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek" Subject: RE: (exotica) James Last and beautiful instrumentals Date: 31 May 2001 22:22:37 +0200 > > So they wouldn't like me pointing out that Kitty looks almost identical > to the Miffy childrens' books from Holland (i think?) which I believe > came out first? Miffy was 'born' in 1955 and she's indeed from Holland. 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: Michael Jemmeson Subject: Re: (exotica) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Date: 31 May 2001 21:23:25 +0100 Hemmel@gmx.net wrote: > > For me the much better Cover is the one WITH James Last on it ( and red > yellow green and blue collors). I still remember when I first saw it. I couldn't > believe it, James as a Hippie, barefoot, and all these square Germans dressed > funny as freaky hippies who surround him. What a great cover !!!. I must > grin for the rest of the day ! James Lasts grinning face is one of the most > bizarre trademark that I know. And the music ?. Some Tracks has some horrible > (for my ears) 70s Santana rock solo guitars on it. yeah, there's definitely 'rock' in afro-rock: Santana, Osibisa etc all have their guitar solos and Pink Floyd moments. I normally hate a distorted guitar (especially in funky stuff: Sly, George Clinton, Larry Coryell etc) but it seems to work for me in Afro rock... > With "Happy Brasilia" I agree absolutely ! It was just reissued again on the > techno (!) label R & S Records (Aphex Twin, Ken Ishii etc.) I particularly like the cover of that one, with the bloke in the string vest and bowler hat tending the barbecue (like Clockwork Orange meets the village people or something) And everyone looking pretty cold and fed up on a miserable North Sea beach... # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) The Sandpipers "Guantanamera" Trader Vics of Havanna Date: 31 May 2001 23:13:40 +0200 (CEST) citerar Bruce Lenkei : > > Acyually, if you listen to the live Pete Segar version, he explains that > it's a poem writen by a Cuban freedom fighter. If I recal correctly > > - bruce Cuban freedom fighter? Before or after the revolution? I Just watched the russian propaganda epic "I am Cuba" with almost ten minutes of live images from the Trader Vics of Havanna, probably closed by now. What a place!!! 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: chuck Subject: (exotica) James Last and beautiful instrumentals Date: 31 May 2001 14:14:20 -0700 (PDT) My favorite Mammy Blue is by the great Hugo Montenegro on the Mammy Blue lp released on cd from RCA Spain. This song and the whole lp rock in a wild soulful moogy way. I really can't recommend this album enough. I got mine from dustygroove. Hugo is one of my favorites these days, I think I'll call him Hugsi. Thanks Alan for describing why they call James Last Hansi on the Beautiful Instrumentals list. I just didn't want to ask that question to that list for fear of a flood of sugar coated replies. My favorite post to that list was from you Alan when you told them they were "too nice to". I think these people are like sweet sweet grandfather grandmother types. I liked when one of them talked about how beautiful instrumental music was playing up in heaven. Sometimes I like my music soft, but other times hard and fast is just right. The comp I am most excited about these days is Nuggets 2. Garage music from England and Europe from the mid late 60s. I have a lot of this on 45 but this comp offers some real jewels. Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck --- Michael Jemmeson wrote: > Mamy Blue (presume that's a cover - who did > the original?), the latter actually having a bit of 'soul' in the > singing. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! 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: "Magnus Sandberg" Subject: (exotica) only you beneath the moon and under the sun Date: 01 Jun 2001 00:24:56 +0200 (CEST) no, that was it. sorry. 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: Matt Marchese Subject: (exotica) Who Shot Les Baxter? Date: 31 May 2001 17:25:42 -0500 Howdy y'all, My work is going to be taking me to the Dallas/Ft. Worth area at the end of June, so once again I turn to you, exotipals and exotipal-ettes, to hopefully point me in the direction of any loungey, tropical diversions that may exist in the area. Only you can save me from a week of Pearl Beer in honky-tonks with mechanical bulls! -- Matt (hoping to wake up from this terrible dream to find Esquivel alive in the shower) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) James Last and beautiful instrumentals Date: 01 Jun 2001 00:48:37 +0200 alan zweig schrieb: > > I'm talking about people on that other list. > > Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek schrieb: > >> I've been a member of *that* list for about 3 weeks > This "other list" shit is beginning to make me sick. Mo -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de ......................................................................... Thierschstrasse 43, D 80538 Munchen, Germany e-mail: tiki@netsurf.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: alan zweig Subject: RE: (exotica) jewel box alternatives Date: 31 May 2001 18:54:52 -0400 At 10:02 AM 5/31/01 -0700, Benito Vergara wrote: > >I'm currently going the binder route (CaseLogic's nylon binders), but it >gets difficult because I can't have binders for every category. For >instance, I have a "groove" binder and an "exotica" binder, but then I get a >CD that's a groovy exotica soundtrack, and I end up agonizing for about half >a minute wondering where it's going to go. =) Please, pretty please, give examples. 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) James Last and beautiful instrumentals Date: 31 May 2001 19:08:00 -0400 At 02:14 PM 5/31/01 -0700, chuck wrote: > >My favorite Mammy Blue is by the great Hugo Montenegro on the Mammy >Blue lp released on cd from RCA Spain. I would never try to compete with Hugo but my favorite Mammy Blue is by Manzanilla. I hope that's not Kai Warner's pseudonym or something. 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) James Last and beautiful instrumentals Date: 31 May 2001 19:11:32 -0400 At 12:48 AM 6/1/01 +0200, Moritz R wrote: > >This "other list" shit is beginning to make me sick. This "other country" shit makes me sick but if I can tolerate all you non-Canadians, certainly you can tolerate references to other lists. Of course I sympathize with you on some level given that those other lists have all banned you from their ranks. I know that you said "I don't want to be on those lists anyway" but still it must have hurt when they told you that you're just not "beautiful instrumental material". I'll try to avoid references to them in the future. 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) recent finds Date: 31 May 2001 19:15:11 -0400 What can anyone tell me about the following "artists"? Nick Frazier Hans Sturm Jurgen Franke Juan Demonio Hubert Deuringer I went thrifting today because my niece wants old dresses to play dressup in. So I figured I'd make my return to the thrift bins. It was interesting. Not much but some. I'll report later. But one of the more intriguing record was this one called "The Hong Kong Flutes... pipers and other strangers" on the MOR label with cuts by some of the artists above. It's from 1976 so it's a bit slicker than I'd like but there's something cool about it. So, anyone know anything? 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: Philip Jackson Subject: Re: (exotica) The Sandpipers "Guantanamera" Date: 01 Jun 2001 09:41:48 +1000 on 1/6/01 1:19 AM, Bruce Lenkei at lenkei@echonyc.com wrote: > > > Acyually, if you listen to the live Pete Segar version, he explains that > it's a poem writen by a Cuban freedom fighter. If I recal correctly Check our Gabor Szabo's version from "Wind, Sky and Diamonds" for a spoken section in the middle which talks about the composer. 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: "Magnus Sandberg" Subject: Re: (exotica) The Sandpipers "Guantanamera" Date: 01 Jun 2001 01:55:20 +0200 (CEST) citerar Philip Jackson : > > on 1/6/01 1:19 AM, Bruce Lenkei at lenkei@echonyc.com wrote: > > > > > > > Acyually, if you listen to the live Pete Segar version, he explains that > > it's a poem writen by a Cuban freedom fighter. If I recal correctly > > Check our Gabor Szabo's version from "Wind, Sky and Diamonds" for a spoken > section in the middle which talks about the composer. > > Philip > I got that one, will do (in some weeks when i get my records to my new apartment (with a fireplace... at last. oh future looks bright, all i need is a kitten))! Thanks Philip. 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: "Colleen Pyles" Subject: Re: (exotica) Bozo Ends Its 40 Year Run Date: 31 May 2001 19:03:14 -0500 Stephen, Great story about BOZO!!!! Will try to catch the final episode. 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: "Magnus Sandberg" Subject: Re: (exotica) Bozo Ends Its 40 Year Run Date: 01 Jun 2001 02:23:36 +0200 (CEST) Is that about Bozo the clown? Not that I expect to watch the episode at all. Does american TV ever show documentaries of strange artists that live in the forest that make strange art? All we get over here from american TV is total crap. Except some occasional serial. 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: Matt Marchese Subject: Re: (exotica) Bozo Ends Its 40 Year Run Date: 31 May 2001 19:31:28 -0500 Magnus Sandberg wrote: > Does american TV ever show documentaries of strange artists that live in the > forest that make strange art? All we get over here from american TV is total > crap. Unfortunately, most Americans would probably consider documentaries like that to be total crap, but cable channels like Bravo! often show interesting documentaries about artists. Just a few weeks ago, they had an incredible bio of the autistic slaughterhouse designer, Temple Grandin. As an outgrowth of her truly strange abattoir schemes, she also designs gentle restraint devices for autism sufferers. I visited an art museum a few months ago that had a special exhibit of Temple's restraint devices. I sat in a giant leather lounge chair that has inflatable arms and legs that hold you in place. Very weird! Wow, I went from Bozo to slaughterhouses in one step. How's that for a segue!? Probably more indicative of my disturbed mind than anything else... -- 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: "Darrell Brogdon" Subject: (exotica) This Just In Date: 31 May 2001 19:36:41 -0500 For those who might be interested... Just received today from Concord Records..."Shake Those Hula Hips", the second release by Big Kahuna and the Copa Cat Pack (the first was "Hawaiian Swing"). It's not particularly exotic in a Denny-Baxter- Lyman-ish way, but it IS another jumping, swinging big band session with a great mix of tunes and an island theme: Hawaii 5-0 Fever Ain't No Big Thing Avalon Hey, Baby (Shake Those Hula Hips) It's Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) Princess Poo-Poo-ly Has Plenty of Papaya I Dream of Jeannie And the Angels Sing (vocal by Rosemary Clooney) Waikiki In the Mood Little Grass Shack (vocal by Debby Boone?!) It Was a Very Good Year Tequila Big Kahuna is Matt Catingub, son of singer Mavis Rivers and a multi- instrumentalist, composer and singer. Again, there's probably as much Hollywood as Hawaii in this CD but, like the Copa Cat Pack's first CD, it's a LOT of fun. 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: Matt Marchese Subject: (exotica) Daria Swings Date: 31 May 2001 19:42:02 -0500 I was watching an episode of "Daria" on MTV the other night (guilty pleasure, I confess) and I was surprised to see them featuring an exoticat as the boyfriend of Daria's galpal Jane. Not surprisingly perhaps, the guy was portrayed as a total jerk who was completely obsessed with swing dancing, zoot suits, tiki drinks, and his hairdo. The show's writers had obviously not done much more than cursory research as they seemed to lump together swing, lounge, tiki, and space-age retro kitsch into one big genre mess largely defined by a bunch of self-absorbed hipsters. [sigh] It's depressing to see your preferred musical tastes used as an object lesson in morality aimed at teenagers. I guess that there are people who take the clothes, music, and scene a bit too seriously, but outside of an utterly forgettable Lavay Smith concert I went to in San Francisco a couple of years ago, I have yet to meet anybody who takes the scene that seriously. Most of them are just in it for fun, as it should be. Besides, the last thing I need is for MTV to be 'splaining life to me. -- 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: edjunkita Subject: Re: (exotica) James Last and beautiful instrumentals Date: 01 Jun 2001 04:42:40 +0200 Miffy is actually called Nijntje (pronounce: Nine-che) and was first drawn by the Dutch artist Dick Bruna in 1955. This year there is even a theatreplay about Nijntje, finally giving her the serious recognition she deserves. The derivative Hello Kitty (or Kittychan as she is known in Japan) wasn't born until 1974. Please don't ask me why I know such trivia. Michael Jemmeson wrote: > So they wouldn't like me pointing out that Kitty looks almost identical > to the Miffy childrens' books from Holland (i think?) which I believe > came out first? Can anyone confirm that? Obsessive fans never like > plagiarism charges... # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Bozo Ends Its 40 Year Run Date: 31 May 2001 22:48:55 -0400 >Does american TV ever show documentaries of strange artists that live >in the forest that make strange art? That sounds like a "Northern Exposure" rerun... --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: "Manuel Kalmanovitz" Subject: (exotica) La cucaracha Date: 31 May 2001 22:07:26 -0500 Ok the solution of the enigmatic translation is this: Pata is what the cucaracha is lacking, which can be translated as a foot (I don't know if that's the word for insect's legs). But then again pata is what people call the last tiny bit a joint, as when they have to hold it with some kind of specialized instrument in order to not burn their fingers (those who haven't got used to burning them, at least). Why? I have no idea. Maybe because they are small and smelly. But if you are looking for second meanings a more obvious one, and working fine in Spanish, is sexual. Cucaracha is a very common slang word for female genitalia. And that part where the cucaracha (it's a feminine word in Spanish) kneels down and shows her 'cucaracha' makes it quite obvious. Cheers, Manuel Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.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: Re: (exotica) Bozo Ends Its 40 Year Run Date: 31 May 2001 23:24:12 -0400 At 02:03 PM 5/30/01 -0700, bigshot wrote: >For those who might not be aware of it, the local WGN Bozo >Show has been on the air for forty years. It's the second >longest running show on TV. On July 14th, they'll be airing >the very last episode, which is going to be a prime time >special. Those of you with access to WGN, make sure to set >your VCR timers. WGN has done a ton of research on the >history of "the world's most famous clown" and has created >a website worthy of him. There are sound and movie clips, >and photos going all the way back to when Bozo was known as >"the Capitol Clown". The URL is... > >http://www.wgntv.com/station/bozotime/ > I guess my earliest Philip K Dick moment came when my family drove down to Miami from New York in 1960 (I was 5 or so at the time). We stopped at a motel in Georgia (I think) overnite. I'm watching TV, Bozo comes on, and IT'S A DIFFERENT BOZO than the one in NY! With a bizarre accent!!! And different outfit & makeup! Freaked me out good and the world hasn't been as simple or innocent since. 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: Philip Jackson Subject: Re: (exotica) Bozo Ends Its 40 Year Run Date: 01 Jun 2001 13:57:18 +1000 on 1/6/01 10:31 AM, Matt Marchese at mjmarch@charter.net wrote: > Just a few weeks ago, they had an incredible bio > of the autistic slaughterhouse designer, Temple Grandin. As an outgrowth of > her > truly strange abattoir schemes, she also designs gentle restraint devices for > autism sufferers. I visited an art museum a few months ago that had a special > exhibit of Temple's restraint devices. I sat in a giant leather lounge chair > that has inflatable arms and legs that hold you in place. Very weird! They just aired that last week in Australia. Fascinating woman - "Anthropologist from Mars" I think it was called. 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: "Benito Vergara" Subject: RE: (exotica) jewel box alternatives Date: 31 May 2001 22:17:30 -0700 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-exotica@lists.xmission.com > [mailto:owner-exotica@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of alan zweig > Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 3:55 PM > For > >instance, I have a "groove" binder and an "exotica" binder, but > then I get a > >CD that's a groovy exotica soundtrack, and I end up agonizing > for about half > >a minute wondering where it's going to go. =) > > Please, pretty please, give examples. Well, I should elaborate: it's not exotica in the usual sense of the word, but exotica in terms of what usually gets discussed in this list. Take those Easy Tempo CDs, for instance -- groovy but exotica-list exotic as well. Or Raymond Scott -- the electronic binder? The experimental binder? The exotica binder? So Alan, how about that 68-72 list? Later, 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: Irwin Chusid/Raymond Scott Archives Subject: (exotica) Raymond Scott update June 2001 Date: 01 Jun 2001 01:23:48 -0400 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RAYMOND SCOTT NEWS UPDATE -- JUNE 2001 -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # RAYMOND SCOTT ORCHESTRETTE Brooklyn Children's Museum, June 15 # SCOTT MUSIC ON 'THIS AMERICAN LIFE' # HOLLAND'S METROPOLE ORCHESTRA TO RECORD SCOTT LARGE ENSEMBLE WORKS # SCOTT Choice Quote * * * * * * * # RAYMOND SCOTT ORCHESTRETTE at Brooklyn Children's Museum, June 15 The Raymond Scott Orchestrette will perform at the Brooklyn Children's Museum on Friday June 15, from 6:30 to 7:30, as part of Arts at St. Ann's "World's In Tune" series. Admission is FREE, and the performance takes plac= e on the roof of the BCM. In addition to well-known works from Scott's legendary Quintette period, th= e 7-piece Orchestrette performs acoustic arrangements of Scott's electronic works. The RSO consists of Brian Dewan (electric zither, piano, accordion, koto, vocals, arrangements); Michael Hashim (saxes); Will Holshouser (accordion, arrangements); Deidre Rodman (piano); George Rush (bass and tuba); Rob Thomas (violin); and Clem Waldmann (drums). David Garland will guest reprise his for-children-of-all-ages performance o= f Scott's "And the Cow Jumped Over the Moon." The Brooklyn Children's Museum: http://www.bchildmus.org/ Visit the RSO info page: http://RaymondScott.com/orchette.html includes two audio files - - - - - - - - RAYMOND SCOTT ORCHESTRETTE STUDIO DEMO The RSO has an 8-tune demo and is seeking interested record labels. Inquiries: * * * * * * * =20 # SCOTT HEARD ON 'THIS AMERICAN LIFE' At the following page: http://www.thislife.org/pages/scoring.html the producers of the popular public radio series 'This American Life' provide info and mini-RealAudio files of some of their "Scoring Greatest Hits" (recordings used as soundtracks in the programs). Raymond Scott seems to be among their favorites, as they note: "Tracks from [Raymond Scott] show up on quite a few segments, most notably under Ira Glass' piece in our Get Over It! show, last broadcast in August 1998. [Scott's Reckless Nights and Turkish Twilights is] an amazing, fun record, full of cartooony pieces from the 40's (Scott was a bandleader, a strange, brilliant, ahead-of-his-time sorta guy). Many of the songs on his CD were used in Warner Bros. cartoons and are today being reappropriated by bands like Soul Coughing and Radiohead [sic?]. He's also got some other nea= t stuff, sort of early electronica that he wrote to nurture infants in their first months/years. The three records are called Soothing Sounds For Baby and are each set for a different age (0-6 months for volume one, for example). They're totally different from his jazzier early stuff, really a predecessor to much of the music you hear today." * * * * * * * # HOLLAND'S METROPOLE ORCHESTRA TO RECORD SCOTT LARGE ENSEMBLE WORKS The Netherlands-based Metropole Orchestra will record a new album of Raymon= d Scott titles -- only one of which has been previously issued on CD -- for future release by Basta. Sessions take place from June 18 to 22, and will b= e conducted by Jan Stulen, who conducted THE CHESTERFIELD ARRANGEMENTS (Basta 309097). Artwork will be designed by Chesterfield cover artist Kellie Strom= # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender.