From: johan.devis@ping.be (Johan De Vis) Subject: Yma Sumac "Voice of the Xtabay and other exotic delights" cd Date: 01 Feb 1996 19:20:21 +0100 the cd Yma Sumac "Voice of the Xtabay and other exotic delights" (Rev-Ola (Creation) CREVO34CD, GB, 1995) contains this previously unreleased tracks: Inca waltz Malambo No. 1 (early version) Karibe Taci Xtabay (boy and girl version) it also has "Wimoweh" on it, which i couldn't find on any of her lps, but i suppose that my collection is not complete... According to the liner notes, all other 21 tracks are taken from: Voice of the Xtabay Legend of the sun virgin Legend of the Jivaro Flahooley (original cast album) (Capitol T11649) Greetings from Johan Dada johan.devis@ping.be (home: Wivina 15, 1702, Belgium) ______________________________________________________________________________ Hear hear: the EXOTICA & NOVELTY CD OVERVIEW OF 1995 can now also be viewed at "http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/johan.html" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Bryan Stewart" Subject: Quiet Page Date: 01 Feb 1996 15:07:16 -0500 Hello out there! I haven't seen any messages in awhile. It's been pretty quiet since Les Baxter died so I am wondering if there is a relation here. Hope to hear from you all soon. Bryan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: viktrola@usa.nai.net Subject: An evil release Date: 01 Feb 1996 15:39:23 -0500 once upon time there was a thread about mass marketing...here's a lovely= example of the evil lurking in (and pouncing from) the shadows of the= record industry.=20 Swinging Singles Orchestra "Music For A 90's Bachelor Pad" (HOT 33114) slightly cheesy cover graphics in the "lounge" style hides what can only be= called Enigma meets JM Jarre (there's even a cover of Oxygene called= "Oxygen") without the slightest trace of the exotic or lounge. great for= the "New Age" crowd but the marketing of this reeks of "Hey let's sucker= those crazy space age kids!!" it can't even be linked to the moog movement= because it is simply too velveeta!!! you have been warned... i remain... viktrola@nai,net Vik's Lounge Of Self Indulgence http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/lounge.html Have you voted in the Great Grilled Cheese Debate? http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/kitchen.html#soup ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: cscheffy@kinglet.Berkeley.EDU (Clark Scheffy) Subject: Pierre Schaeffer Date: 01 Feb 1996 13:25:51 PST Found a new CD set this past weekend: A french release on Inaogram of the complete works of Pierre Schaeffer. I'm not even going to begin to ty and translate any of the French. The entire book (quite thick i might add) is in French and so is one of the four CD's which is an interview disc. Pierre Schaeffer is the father of Musique Concrete and released a couple of albums with a co-conspirator by the name of Pierre Henry on the french Bam label around 1952 simply titled "Musicque Concrete" volumes one and two. The stuff is far out and very psychedelic. What's interesting about Schaeffer is that after he invented this bizarre musical genre and perched in the upper echelon of the French musical avant-garde, he quickly became bored and set about writing Science Fiction for the next 40 or so years not to be heard from musically again until the late seventies. For those unfamiliar with musique concrete, it is a process of creating music from tape loops - essentially what we now call "sampling," but in a more 20th C classical sense. Good examples are on the Perrey-Kingsley releases which employ a great deal of the technique. The CD set is not cheap, but for the fanatic, its a hell of a listen. Clark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: erik@top.monad.net Subject: Recent Acquisitions Date: 01 Feb 1996 22:04:39 -0500 Here are a few things I've found recently on LP: 1) Enoch Light--"Persuasive Percussion" (purchased for two bucks in very nice shape at a place in Cambridge, Mass.) 2) Dick Hyman--"MOOG: The Electric Eclectics of Dick Hyman" (purchased for a buck; also in nice shape--on Command/ABC) 3) Jack Marshall--"Soundsville" (another dollar record--whadda cover!) 4) The Three Suns--"Everything Under the Sun (40 Top Tunes For Dancing)" (another dollar LP; unfortunately in mono. No dust jacket but in nice shape nonetheless) Not exotica but also excellent finds: 5) Frank Sinatra--"Pal Joey" Soundtrack (the cover's a little spotted but the record is in solid shape) 6) The George Shearing Quintet--"The Shearing Spell" (a buck) 7) Keely Smith--"Swing, You Lovers" (at $8.00 a bit more expensive, but in near-pristine condition!) By the way, it's worth mentioning for those in New England that all of these (except for the Enoch Light title) were purchased at a place called Hanging Slider Records at 82 Main Street in Keene, New Hampshire ([603] 358-6057). For those who care to make the trip, it's a *superb* source for exotica and SABP music. Not to mention the fact that you can get away from the high prices you'll usually find in New York and Boston. Well worth a day trip, even if you live in the Manhattan area. Be prepared to dig through a lot of 101 Strings, Claudine Longet, and Mantovani LP's, but it's well worth the effort when you hit paydirt like an Esquivel or Enoch Light album, as I often have. By the way, not purchased but sighted--an album by "H.R. Pufinstuf" star Jack Wild. Maybe I should go back for it tomorrow since it was only a dollar. I'll bet his version of "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" is a real hoot! Happy Hunting, Jon Johnson erik@top.monad.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "kevin king" Subject: Theremin! Date: 01 Feb 1996 23:39:24 -0500 Just saw the film - it's as wonderful as everyone's been saying. What a life! And Clara Rockmore is a fantastic and admirable example of the good and bad sides of dedication to one's art. Mesmerizing film. The home page announces a video release mid-March. I wanna poster! Was Moog as dismayed as Rockmore with what became of electronics in popular music? It was hard to tell from his brief and somewhat detached chronicle leaping from classical theremin to Carlos to the Beach Boys. kevin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jonny.S@eworld.com Subject: Re: An evil release Date: 02 Feb 1996 01:22:57 -0800 viktrola wrote... "once upon time there was a thread about mass marketing...here's a lovely example of the evil lurking in (and pouncing from) the shadows of the record industry. " I posted some comments a few weeks ago regarding the return of Exotica or Easy-Listening into the mass market. I probably didn't make myself clear judging by some of the responses to my post. If Easy-Listening makes the leap from the underground back into broader Pop culture (downtown goes uptown) its a fine thing by me and probably inevitable judging by social trends in popular music over the last 45 years. I'm a professional composer/musician and I DJ a few nights a week. I live in Manhattan, and most of my life is about popular music and getting my music heard and out into the world. I love the esthetic of sampling and musical appropriation from Stockhaussen to the S.F. Tape Music Center on to KRS-1 and KLF. The way that music and sound is "borrowed" and regurgitated. I think its important to make a delineation between artistic methods employed by musicians and artists to express themselves and the appropriation and inversion of a Whorhol pop esthetic by a multi-national corporation to sell there products. (If whorhol wants to paint Cambell's soup then we'll use Whorhol to sell the soup.) Obviously there are plenty of artists who have made the decision to participate in the selling of a product for the financial reward. Often though, the right to that decision is with the record company that owns the sound recording rights especially when the artist is no longer living and might have been paid a flat fee with no promise of residuals. By clouding the distinction between art and commerce I think we do ourselves and the popular arts a disservice while excusing ad agencies and their clients from our increasingly torpid stare. Looking kindly towards corporate appropriation in the name of heralding a new Easy-Listening movement is at best naive. Easy-Listening needs to make the leap from the past and into the future otherwise it will remain only kitsch and a novelty. I happened to see the Mike Flowers Pop video a few weeks ago, its great but it falls short of what's needed to bring Easy-Listening into the present. Musicians will need to write new original music that digests the Easy esthetic but steers away from the tongue and cheek kitschy aspects. As long as the music remains kitsch it gives the artist an escape clause from criticism. You have to put yourself on the line and give something of yourself up in the process. I think artists like Escovel, Hugo Montenegro and Yma Sumac were doing this no matter how silly it might sound to our ears today. I find it impossible to believe that "silly" and "kitsch" were the driving force behind theirs and other artists work. Today's artists will also have to look into themselves past superficial silliness to discover what this music means to them and all of us today. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: cscheffy@kinglet.Berkeley.EDU (Clark Scheffy) Subject: not exotic but important! Date: 02 Feb 1996 10:02:26 PST Got this a few days ago. I apologize in advance for anyone who thinks this is a waste of the exotica list, but it seemed a quick way to disseminate this info. -Clark A few months ago I received email someone reporting this virus, quickly followed by another email which stated that the virus did not exist and it was all a hoax. I have now received another email saying the virus really is out there on the internet. Whether it is a hoax or not, I would like everyone to be forewarned. What follows is a description of what to watch out for and what to do if this virus is emailed to you. Judy > ---------- Forwarded message --------->Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 18:33:20 -0500 >From:MacHeadMan@aol.com >To: wtw@well.sf.ca.us >Subject: WARNING!!! INTERNET VIRUS >WARNING!!!!! HIGHLY DESTRUCTIVE INTERNET VIRUS >> SUBJECT: VIRUSES--IMPORTANT PLEASE READ IMMEDIATELY There is a >> computer virus that is being sent across the Internet. If you receive >> an e-mail message with the subject line "Good Times", DO NOT read >> the message, DELETE it immediately. Please read the messages below. >> Some miscreant is sending e-mail under the title "Good Times" nation >> wide, if you get anything like this, DON'T DOWN LOAD THE FILE! It has >> a virus that rewrites your hard drive, obliterating anything on it. >> Please be careful and forward this mail to anyone you care about. >> WARNING!!!!!!! INTERNET VIRUS >> The FCC released a warning last Wednesday concerning a matter of >> major importance to any regular user of the Internet. Apparently a >> new computer virus has been engineered by a user of AMERICA ON LINE >> that is unparalleled in its destructive capability. Other more >> well-known viruses such as "Stonedif , "Airwolf" and "Michaelangeloll >> pale in comparison to the prospects of this newest creation by a >> warped mentality. What makes this virus so terrifying, said the FCC, >> is the fact that no program needs to be exchanged for a new computer >> to be infected. It can be spread through the existing e-mail systems >> of the Internet. Once a Computer is infected, one of several things >> can happen. If the computer contains a hard drive, that will most >> likely be destroyed. If the program is not stopped, the computer's >> processor will be placed in an nth-complexity infinite binary loop >> -which can severely damage the processor if left running that way too >> long. >> Unfortunately, most novice computer users will not realize what is >> happening until it is far too late. Luckily, there is one sure means >> of detecting what is now known as the "Good Times" virus. It always >> travels to new computers the same way in a text email message with >> the subject line reading "Good Times". Avoiding infection is easy >> once the file has been received simply by NOT READING IT! The act of >> loading the file into the mail server's ASCII buffer causes the "Good >> Times" mainline program to initialize and execute. The program is >> highly intelligent- it will send copies of itself to everyone whose >> e-mail address is contained in a receive-mail file or a sent-mail >> file, if it can find one. It will then proceed to trash the computer >> it is running on. The bottom line there is - if you receive a file >> with the subject line "Good Times", delete it immediately! Do not read >> it" Rest assured that whoever's name was on the "From" line was >> surely struck by the virus. warn your friends and local system users >> of this newest threat to the Internet! It could save them a lot of >> time and money. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bruce Rhodewalt Subject: Enchanted Tiki Room contest Date: 02 Feb 1996 10:23:13 -0800 FYI: The current monthly trivia contest is about the Enchanted Tiki Room at Disneyland. Enjoy! http://www.tikipub.com (I apologize in advance if this is perceived to be outside the domain of the exotica list. A single gentle reminder from the moderator will be more effective than a slew of flames. Thanks.) Bruce ________________________________________________________ | | | / | Tiki Publishing -- -- | | / | http://www.tikipub.com | | / | Bruce Rhodewalt, Owner | | \ | 78-365 Highway 111, #241 | | | \ | La Quinta, CA 92253 | | | \ | 619/342-3418 -- -- -- -- -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: cscheffy@kinglet.Berkeley.EDU (Clark Scheffy) Subject: re: exotic but not important Date: 02 Feb 1996 11:12:36 PST In regards to dx's posting: Thank you for helping spread the virus - your mail message *IS* the virus. Sheesh. -dx _____________________________________ That's funny, but no it's not. What I posted was scanned from a hard copy and contains nosuch virus program. How stupid do you think I am? -Clark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: David.Nadolski@turner.com Subject: Re: not exotic but important! Date: 02 Feb 1996 11:02:35 -0500 This is a Mime message, which your current mail reader may not understand. Parts of the message will appear as text. To process the remainder, you will need to use a Mime compatible mail reader. Contact your vendor for details. --IMA.Boundary.277473328 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: cc:Mail note part This IS bogus. I've seen it before too. The way it's been explained to me is that your computer can't get a virus by reading an email. Beware if you like, just don't write any emails you want to be read with "Good Times" as a subject line. Cheers, David Nadolski, aka: David.Nadolski@turner.com ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Author: exotica@xmission.com at Internet Got this a few days ago. I apologize in advance for anyone who thinks this is a waste of the exotica list, but it seemed a quick way to disseminate this info. -Clark A few months ago I received email someone reporting this virus, quickly followed by another email which stated that the virus did not exist and it was all a hoax. I have now received another email saying the virus really is out there on the i nternet. Whether it is a hoax or not, I would like everyone to be forewarned. What follows is a description of what to watch out for and what to do if this virus is emailed to you. Judy > ---------- Forwarded message --------->Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 18:33:20 -0500 >From:MacHeadMan@aol.com >To: wtw@well.sf.ca.us >Subject: WARNING!!! INTERNET VIRUS >WARNING!!!!! HIGHLY DESTRUCTIVE INTERNET VIRUS >> SUBJECT: VIRUSES--IMPORTANT PLEASE READ IMMEDIATELY There is a >> computer virus that is being sent across the Internet. If you receive >> an e-mail message with the subject line "Good Times", DO NOT read >> the message, DELETE it immediately. Please read the messages below. >> Some miscreant is sending e-mail under the title "Good Times" nation >> wide, if you get anything like this, DON'T DOWN LOAD THE FILE! It has >> a virus that rewrites your hard drive, obliterating anything on it. >> Please be careful and forward this mail to anyone you care about. >> WARNING!!!!!!! INTERNET VIRUS >> The FCC released a warning last Wednesday concerning a matter of >> major importance to any regular user of the Internet. Apparently a >> new computer virus has been engineered by a user of AMERICA ON LINE >> that is unparalleled in its destructive capability. Other more >> well-known viruses such as "Stonedif , "Airwolf" and "Michaelangeloll >> pale in comparison to the prospects of this newest creation by a >> warped mentality. What makes this virus so terrifying, said the FCC, >> is the fact that no program needs to be exchanged for a new computer >> to be infected. It can be spread through the existing e-mail systems >> of the Internet. Once a Computer is infected, one of several things >> can happen. If the computer contains a hard drive, that will most >> likely be destroyed. If the program is not stopped, the computer's >> processor will be placed in an nth-complexity infinite binary loop >> -which can severely damage the processor if left running that way too >> long. >> Unfortunately, most novice computer users will not realize what is >> happening until it is far too late. Luckily, there is one sure means >> of detecting what is now known as the "Good Times" virus. It always >> travels to new computers the same way in a text email message with >> the subject line reading "Good Times". Avoiding infection is easy >> once the file has been received simply by NOT READING IT! The act of >> loading the file into the mail server's ASCII buffer causes the "Good >> Times" mainline program to initialize and execute. The program is >> highly intelligent- it will send copies of itself to everyone whose >> e-mail address is contained in a receive-mail file or a sent-mail >> file, if it can find one. It will then proceed to trash the computer >> it is running on. The bottom line there is - if you receive a file >> with the subject line "Good Times", delete it immediately! Do not read >> it" Rest assured that whoever's name was on the "From" line was >> surely struck by the virus. warn your friends and local system users >> of this newest threat to the Internet! It could save them a lot of >> time and money. --IMA.Boundary.277473328 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; name="RFC822 message headers" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: cc:Mail note part Received: from internet.turner.com by ccmail.turner.com with SMTP (IMA Internet Exchange v1.04a) id 112587f0; Fri, 2 Feb 96 13:31:27 -0500 Received: from smap@localhost by internet.turner.com for via smapdV1.3 id NAA01720; Fri, 2 Feb 1996 13:25:00 -0500 Received: from xmission.xmission.com by interlock.turner.com for via SMTP (smap V1.3) id sma001517; Fri Feb 2 13:24:24 1996 Received: (from root@localhost) by xmission.xmission.com (8.7.1/8.7.1) id LAA1182 9; Fri, 2 Feb 1996 11:06:26 -0700 (MST) Resent-Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 11:06:26 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <9602021802.AA20922@kinglet.Berkeley.EDU> Resent-Message-ID: <"VY_fCC.A.BPC.uClEx"@xmission> Resent-From: exotica@xmission.com X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/22 X-Loop: exotica@xmission.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: exotica-request@xmission.com --IMA.Boundary.277473328-- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "kevin king" Subject: Re: An evil release Date: 02 Feb 1996 14:30:33 -0500 > I think its important to make a delineation between artistic methods > employed by musicians and artists to express themselves and the appropriation > and inversion of a Whorhol pop esthetic by a multi-national corporation to > sell there products. Appropriations... that opens up a great big can of worms. There was an entire art movement in the eighties that argued the validity of photographs of paintings or other photographs. Interesting idea that raises many questions - but forgettable work. > Easy-Listening needs to make the leap from the past and into the future > otherwise it will remain only kitsch and a novelty. Isn't it possible to appreciate technical and artistic brilliance while finding a piece of music kitschy? For myself, the kitschiness of SABPM lies in it's association with the cultural period in which it was made. The future prospects and optimistic mood of the time is reflected in the music. Needless to say, these are different times. I can imagine some New Age music seeming kitschy in a few decades. A future retro-ambient movement perhaps? (and btw, isn't ambient the easy-listening of the day?) Also, it's probably a gross underestimation to think that Esquivel and many others of the genre had no sense of humor about their music. His silliness (which must have been intentional) is, I think, the initial hook that grabbed me and so many of his retro-fans. This doesn't detract from the expertise and innovation. As for other easy-listening/(not necessarily SABPM) I'm thinking at the moment of Bacharach's music which has winks all over the place. I can think of at least one example during the eighties where his style was undoubtably a springboard - Brenda Russel. Pizzicato 5's Couples is a deliberate and genuine homage. Someone else pointed to Laika as an example of new exotica influences. I'd also add Pram. This isn't jokey sampling or imitation (not that there's anything wrong with that) but is an influence of sound. kevin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: kjmartin@earthlink.net (Kevin Martin) Subject: Frankie! Date: 02 Feb 1996 11:51:53 -0800 Not quite exotica, but certainly lounge, is this request. I am very interested in acquiring the recording by Frank Sinatra with string quartet titled "Close to You." If anyone on this list can direct me to a CD or cassette version of this tremendous collection of songs from Frank's "tragic hero" period, please let me know. Thanks! kjm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: kjmartin@earthlink.net (Kevin Martin) Subject: Good Times! (WAS Re: not exotic but important!) Date: 02 Feb 1996 11:52:05 -0800 Oh no! Not this again!!! Stop, please! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: lee@anti.com Subject: Re: Yma Sumac "Voice of the Xtabay and other exotic delights Date: 01 Feb 1996 11:08:01 PST >it also has "Wimoweh" on it, which i couldn't find on any of her lps, >but i suppose that my collection is not complete... "Wimoweh" was originally the flipside of the "Babalu" single, which Capitol released on both 7" 45 rpm and 10" 78 rpm formats. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: lee@anti.com Subject: Re: Yma Sumac "Voice of the Xtabay and other exotic delights Date: 02 Feb 1996 13:04:40 PST >it also has "Wimoweh" on it, which i couldn't find on any of her lps, >but i suppose that my collection is not complete... "Wimoweh" was originally the flipside of the "Babalu" single, which Capitol released on both 7" 45 rpm and 10" 78 rpm formats. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: cscheffy@kinglet.Berkeley.EDU (Clark Scheffy) Subject: I am a mindless idiot. Date: 02 Feb 1996 14:21:20 PST Joke is indeed on me. All apologies. I got the info from UC Berkeley Campus Computing Services, usually a reputable source of information. This is the last you'll hear of it! I'll stick to music... Clark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: viktrola@usa.nai.net Subject: The Goddess Yma!!! Date: 02 Feb 1996 17:42:54 -0500 Right Stuff/Capitol have finally taken their head's out of the sand and scheduled five Yma Sumac re-issues: Fuego Del Ande Legend Of Javaro Mambo Voice Of Xtabay Legend Of The Sun Virgin scheduled for March 5th at budget price. the exclusive track listings (yeah as if track listings could be exclusive) are at: http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/yma.html i remain... viktrola@nai,net Vik's Lounge Of Self Indulgence http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/lounge.html Have you voted in the Great Grilled Cheese Debate? http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/kitchen.html#soup ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mimis@synergy.net Subject: que es esto? Date: 02 Feb 1996 17:12:41 -0600 I just bought this new (c, 1967, but previously unplayed) lp, a .49 cent special off a sale table at my local Best Buy: "Night Magic" Music by Cesana Audio Fidelity AFLP 2179 Being without benefit of turntable at the moment, I wonder if you have any info about the artiste or comments about the music. The package is pretty darn Exotic, with notes referring to the "mood idiom" and a lovely Latina gal with really big earings flashing her grey eyes at us on the cover. / ----- --- - Mimi Schneider mimis@synergy.net | The Roots of Lounge [|] http://www.expanse.com/ads/kiwr/rootsoflounge.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ottotemp@aol.com Subject: Robert Drasnin Monday, Feb 5 Date: 03 Feb 1996 00:24:37 -0500 If you are outside of Los Angeles please accept my apologies for bending your ear again (ie I am giving you the opportunity to delete this message now) I can't stress the importance of the Robert Drasnin gig this Monday at 9 at the Lava Lounge in Hollywood. Drasnin IS the living epitome of the budget labels that we love and scooped up for $.50 each. He worked for Tops Records and cut an exotica record 35 years ago because it was the thing to do and Tops needed another exotica release. BUT because he is/was a good musician this truly became a lost masterpiece. Don't let Drasnin pass like Les Baxter - under appreciated and unknowning of the current appreciation of his music Robert Drasnin will be playing the music from his lp "Voodoo" backed by Skip Heller on bass, a drummer and keyboardist. Come to Lava, bring your lp to be autographed, pay a buck at the door, have a Blue Hawaiian, buy the CD and say hi to me, Otto von Stroheim. Cheers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: LTepedino@aol.com Subject: Re: Frankie! Date: 03 Feb 1996 19:43:43 -0500 You're in luck this is a regular Capitol CD (cat #CCP 7 46572-2) It even has additional tracks. Regardsa ASHLEY ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "DaveL" Subject: Private Eye stuff / a "sale" plug Date: 04 Feb 1996 01:43:22 -0600 (CST) I just wanted to mention a couple of exceedingly gratifying purchases (!) I recently made in the "spies and private eyes" genre... The first one is the soundtrack to JOHNNY COOL, a 1963 film described in my film guide as "...a sadistic study of a ruthless gangster seeking revenge. A brutal account, realistically told." I haven't seen the film, but the soundtrack is the quintessence of the genre, with moody, noir-ish pieces (lots of vibes & bongos!), juxtaposed with wild numbers that really _swing_. Some of the aptly-named titles are: "The Lizard", "Johnny Cool Theme", "Morning in Balboa", "The Coolest Pad", etc. Even a couple of vocals by Sammy Davis Jr.: "I've been thinking about you - something swinging about you..." and "Johnny Cool - he lived by the gun and the knife..." (Enough said.) Has anyone seen this? Also: Warren Barker's music for the television show, HAWAIIAN EYE (1960). This is great because it combines the essential elements of suspenseful private eye-type stuff with a deftly-handled touch of exotic(a) percussion, as befits the show's Hawaiian locale. They mix well! There's also a sultry vocal by none other than Connie Stevens on - what could be better? - "Let's Do It". I plan on playing _this_ slinky number, in fact, at our next Polar Bear Club gig (which happens to be on Valentine's Day, so there you are). Snap this one up if you come across it! The title theme arrangement is worth the price of admission. A brief plug... Unfortunately, I won't be selling either of the above, but I do have _lots_ of private eye / swinging detective stuff (soundtracks from I SPY, CHECKMATE, THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E., etc.) along with _loads_ of exotic percussion - over 75 items, Like Henri Rene's RIOT IN RHYTHM, David Carroll's PERCUSSION IN HI-FI, and Marty Gold's SKIN TIGHT (!!) which I'll be selling in a few days, so "watch this space", as they say... dave /\\ \\ \\ \\ / \\ \\ \\ \\ arouet records / \\ \\ \\ \\ ZING! ZING! -----------// // // //------> arouet@winternet.com \ // // // // \// // // // fnast! image ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Robert P. Krajewski" Subject: Re: Exotica pronunciation guide Date: 04 Feb 1996 17:57:42 -0500 >>>What about Cal Tjader? Is it "CH" or T(CH - as in Chanukah)ader? > >actually, as far as i know, the "T" is silent making it "CAL JAY-der" Yeah, that sounds right -- there's a Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth track that namedrops him. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: dx@netcom.com (dx) Subject: Denny concert info? Date: 04 Feb 1996 17:25:35 -0800 Did anyone hang on to the info about the Martin Denny benefit show in Hawaii in February? Looks like I'm going to be there the week before, so I want to see if I can get tix - in which case I'll hang another week (what a drag, huh?). -dx ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: dyemund@best.com (Jack Diamond) Subject: New List # 1/LOUNGE Date: 05 Feb 1996 08:33:39 +0000 All Goldmine Grades Apply. Need more info, just ask ! MAKE YOUR WINDOWS BIG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lounge Jazz/Bossa Nova/Cocktail/ Vocals !!/Etc. William Shatner-Live $20 (VG+,bc/Sealed/Stereo/LEMLI) Iıve never heard this and it was rtecorded live at Hofstra University, Heamstead, New York in 1977. The music is keyboards and synthesizers(liner notes) asnd there is much spoken word and many anecdotes of Star Trek from years gone by Titles incl; Earth Bound, Ways To The Moon, War of The Worlds, This is a 2 record set and is a fold out cover The fronbt is Shatner standing on a stage in front of many michraphone stands, arms crossed tight w/ a silver like space shirt on. Lorne Greene's American West $30 (Mint/Mint/Mono/RCA) Singing/Storytelling Mr. Bonanza himself singin', tellin' stories of the American West Katie Lee-Songs of Couch and Consultation $25 (VG, slight tear upper R hand corner/Mint/Mono/Commentary) Never released in stereo as featured on Incredibly Strange Music CD Vol #1 this is some really brilliant stuff. Ms Lee sings songs of being very neurotic and hanging out with very neurotic people like; Shrinker Man, The Guilty Rag, Stay As Sick As You Are, Real Sick Sounds, Schizophrenic Moon The Will To Fail and 6 more. This is the shit!! Randy Van Horne and His Swinging Choir-Clef Dwellers $20 (Mint-/Mint-/Stereo/RCA) Yep, thatıs right. The Randy Van Horne singers that zu zu zuıd along with Esquivel and chanted with Martin Denny and did wacky vocal stuff on the Jetsons TV series did make records on their own on RCA too ! The Greatest of ALL Space Age Pop labels ! you can quote me ;) In their truest form here arranged and conducted by who else BUT Randy Van Horne ? Titles include Itıs Only a Paper Moon, Are We Havinı Any Fun, Do It Again, Just Friends, Itıs A Good Day. These guys and gals mix POP with JAZZ and it comes out just oh so swell, dig it. 13 in all, dated 1958 and also original inner sleeve for new product coming out in 1959 ! Lulu Sings To Sir With Love $15 (Mint/Mint/Stereo/Epic) The voice that is ;) singing all of her hits incl. TO SIR WITH LOVE, oh yeah thatıs who did that as well as Morning Dew, Rattler, Best of Both Worlds, Letıs Pretend, Day Tripper...11 total Nancy Sinatra-Boots $15 (VG+/VG+/Mono/Reprise) Man I dig that psychedelic outfit youıre wearinı. coooooooool. She is cut and Rockinı and singinı the facts of love with; These Boots Are Made For Walkinı, As Tears Go By, It Ainıt Me Babe, Run For Your Life, Lies... 11 total Bobby Hammack Qrt.-Powerhouse $20 (VG+,ts/Mint/Mono Only/Liberty) Unless *you* really dig in *youıll* never know how GREAT a record label LIBERTY is. From Martin Denny -> Russ Garcia -> the best West Coast Jazz -> is this record. As featured on the new Rhino 3 CD collection, Vol. #1 this is some super swank, swell and schwinginı stuff. All of it is very much cartoon like/space age pop w/ definite strains of jazz as all space age pop does this Quartet/Qnt. features; Bobby Hammack-Piano,Organ,Celeste Jerry Friedman-Vibes,Xylophone,Percussion Wes Nellermore-Electric Guitar Irving Edelman-Bass Milt Holland-Bongos,Congas,Drums Recorded in Hollywood, Oct. 1955 Perez (Prez) Prado Orch. and Rosemary Clooney- A Touch of Tobasco $40 (Mint/Mint/Stereo/RCA) Great vocalist of the 50's here along side and in front of The King Of The Mambo! Prez Prado. Beltinı it out and snuggling up close with Rosemary this is absolutely wonderful and MUCHO CALIENTEı!! Mi Amigo/Amigas. You canıt miss with stuff like this; Adios, Corazon de Melon, Bali Hai, Mack The Knife, Cu-Cu-Rru-Cu-Cu-Paloma, Magic Is The Moonlight, In A Little Spanish Town, I Got Plenty Oı Nuttinı 12 titles in all ³Loco, hombreı, loco² (³Crazy, man, crazy ³ to all you foreigners ) ;) Perez Prado & His Orchestra-Prez $25 (Mint/Mint-/Mono/RCA) 1st side of this record is Prez as always w/ his orchestra at their finest. Well, they are always at their finest on RCA; Anyway, thatıs Side A. Side B is another story altogether; Itıs Prez and his Orchestra at their straight ahead Jungle-y Jazz Exotica best w/ Prez heading out the Percussion section on Bongos and Congas Perez Prado & His Orchestra-Prez $35 (VG++, wob/VG++/Stereo/RCA) SAME AS ABOVE LP Prez Prado-Pops and Prado $10 (VG++,ss/VG, you wonıt even notice ;)/Mono/RCA) You canıt miss on RCA. Pop tunes/standard done Rockambo style which came together in 1960 or so w/ his Rockambo lp with If You Knew Susie..., Manhattan, Isle of Capri, Ciribiribin, Youıre Drivinı Me Crazy, Satin Doll all w a 17 piece orchestra featuring Prez on Conn and Hammond organs Henry Mancini-The Latin Sound of Henry Mancini $7 (VG,rw,1²ss,VG/Stereo/RCA) Typical Mancini brilliant pop here with a Latin twist to many classics incl; Senor Peter Gunn, The Breeze & I, Baia, Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars, Tico Tico, La Raspa, Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps... 12 in all Barney Kessel-Big Band Bossa Nova $18 (VG++,2²ss/VG+/Mono/Reprise) Barnet Kessel is the epitome of the studio guitarist from the early 50ıs through the 60ıs. Most of the time uncredited and paid the studio wage, he is on thousands of records from the most beautiful 50ıs west coast jazz to Elvis Presley and beyond. Here we have him from 1961 (dated on label) with Ray Johnson on the Hammond Organ another great studio player with a BIG SOUND w/ Arrangements by Barney and a whopping pounding Rockinı orchestra and his guitar is this big big fat sound out in front !! Turn it up!!! David Carroll-Latin Percussion $10 (Mint/Mint/Mono/Mercury/Original Inner Sleeve) David Carroll was the musical director of Mercury Records at this time in the late 50ıs and had a few records in the Latin, percussive sound series of that label that are really excellent, this one included. The percussive Latin sounds are out in front with a very bright punching orchestra that is top notch! Titles incl; In a Little Spanish Town Cha Cha, Patricia, Besameı Mucho, The Lamp of Memory, Baia, By Heck Cha Cha Cha and on and on and on this his 4th LP on Mercury. Beautiful Fold Out Cover w/ Seductice ladies shaking their maracas, really !! Who do you think ³they² were aiming this market at with this cover ?? Hmmmmmmmmm The space age bachelor ?? Maybe ;) The New York City Taxi Driver $25 As recorded by Tony Schwartz. Spontaneous, in-the-cab recordings. (Mint/Mint/Mono/Promo/Columbia I HAVE GOT to get this scanned before 1 of youse guys buys this. The cover is priceless!! Subjects include; Women, Cops, The Bronx, Art, Traffic, Life, Marriage, Out-of-Towners, Hold Ups, Base Ball, etc etc etc. Un-be-lieve-a-ble :)) Vi Velasco with The Zoot Sims Orchestra (Mint/Mint/Mono/Colpix) $40 "Cantando Bossa Nova Means Singing The Bossa Nova" Now I know alot of you guys are looking at this and wondering and well you should be 'cause this is REALLY the real thing. Zoot Sims Orchestra is Zoot Sims-Tenor Sax, Jim Hall-Guitar and yes, Markie Markowitz-Trumpet They are the only soloists on this record other than the beautiful voice of Ms. Velasco. Arrangements by Manny Albam and Al Cohn with very much that pulsating and captivating tempo that attracts both pop and jazz fans alike. Recorded Oct 1 and 2, 1962. Claudine Longet-Claudine $15 The voice that is Claudine. Her 1st record and quite a nice one at that ;) Gotta have it ! (Mint/Mint/Stereo/A & M) Baja Marimba Band-Rides Again $10 (Mint/Mint/Stereo/A & M) Created by Julias Wechter from Martin Dennyıs Exotica outfit, this is soooooo much fun and Produced by who else but Mr. A&M, Herb Alpert Featuring Julias Wechter on Marimbas, this is an 8 or so piece outfit that youıve just got to hear play The Woody Woodpecker Song, Guacamoleı, Brasilia, More and 8 others. Dean Martin-Dino Latino $10 (VG++,ss,rw/Mint/Mono/Reprise) Singinı on his buddies label (Frank Sinatra) arranged and conducted by Don Costa w/ his orchestra Dino is full tilt great here, dated 1961 on label. Manana, Besameı Mucho. Tangerine, Magic Is The Moonlight, La Paloma Enoch Light-Pertinent Percussion Cha Chaıs $15 (Mint-/Mint/Stereo/Command) Hereıs a rare Enoch Light you donıt see everyday ! Really out there percussion arrangements in the typical Light brilliance With titles like; Green Eyes Cha Cha, Ja Da Cha Cha, Volare Cha Cha, Moon Over Miami Cha Cha, Travel Now Pay Next Year Cha Cha 12 in all. Laurindo Almeida is the real deal bossa nova wise He played w/ Stan Kenton Orchestra in the 40ıs/50s, Featured prominently w/ Esquivel on Classical/Spanish Guitar and was a major studio player in Hollywood throughout his career. He made a number of LPıs under his own name and won many awards for his Clssical LPıs in the 50ıs. He just died a few months ago. These records are from the mid 60ıs and feature many of the top studio players of the day. The sound is POP with that flowing happy bossa nova jazz sound and all of these are GREAT!!!! AND very consistent in their *sound* Want particular musicians/instrumentation ? Ask :)) ! Saxaphone, flute, drums, bongos, piano w/ L. Almeida on Guitar !!!!!!!!!! Laurindo Almeidaıs Bossa Nova All Stars : Itıs A Bossa Nova World(Mint/Mint/Stereo/Capitol) $12 Guitar From Ipanema(Mint/Mint/Stereo/Capitol) $15 Viva Bossa Nova(VG, 4" ss/Mint/Stereo/Capitol) $12 Ole' Bossa Nova (Mint-,rw/Mint-/Stereo/Capitol) $12 Jack Costanzo Orchestra-Afro Can Can(VG++,ss,rw/VG++/Mono/Promo/Liberty) $25 Session/studio bongo player(Esquivel, Rugolo, Kenton...) Here with his own Ssssssswwwwwwingin' (with a capitol S ) orchestra and his interpretation of Cole Porter tunes. Included are; It's All Right W/ Me, Snake Dance, Can Can Overture, Inch Worm. Really rockin', swingin' good time. 12 titles in all This is Jack's 3rd lp and the cover has this bitchin lookin' woman standing w/ a leopard bikini top fishnet stockings, lifting up her lace pink skirt for you ? to see :)) Very, very nice indeed. Kind of reminds me of Stockard Channing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: dyemund@best.com (Jack Diamond) Subject: New List # 2/Moog, Electronic Date: 05 Feb 1996 08:33:53 +0000 Moog/Electronic : Robert Margouleff and Malcolm Cecil-Tontos Expanding Head Band $40 (Mint/Mint-/Stereo/Atlantic) Mostly an instrumental pice, this LP has 6 pieces of original MOOG brilliance. All the sounds heard are of electronic origin performed on an expanded Series III Moog Synthesizer. It is very spacy and very psychedelic indeed Original Soundtrack score to One Step Beyond $40 (VG++, rw/Mint/Stereo/Decca) The cover is incredible and is coated w/ ALCOA ALUMINUM of many different colors. It was originally presented on TV sponsored by ALCOA PRESENTS Alot of the music on this score is exotica easy listening EXCEPT for 2 tracks and the entire score is with a 75 piece Orchestra w/ music composed, arranged & conducted by Harry Lubin 1) Fear, which is One Step Beyond is played with an electronic instrument called a trautonium and sounds VERY much like a THEREMIN but different along with incredible CELESTIAL VOCALS, soaring, wailing, SPOOKY SHIT! 2) Weird just might be the most unforgettable melody of them all. It is the ³psychic² music of ³Weird² that is heard throughout the series. Very rare. Original Soundtrack score to Dark Shadows $40 (Mint-/Mint/Stereo/Poster Included) This is soooooooooooo amazing. Written, arranged, conducted by Roger Cobert. This is truly the music from Dark Shadows that we all know and love. Theremin, it doesnıt say BUT Itıs gotta be something very very WEIRD and ELECTRONIC and it is in quite a number of the musical pieces as well as the spoken word as background music A very spooky and dramatic score with very very cool SPOKEN WORD from BARNABAS and QUENTIN that is absolutely priceless and must be played in the dark on the next Holloween. Guaranteed to scare the shit out of many including YOU This is the original score from the TV PILOT with titles; A Darkness at Collinswood, Night Of The Pentagram, When I Am Dead, The Secret Room, Seance, Iıll Be With You Always, No. 1 At The Blue Whale-I think I remember this as the coctail bar they all meet at. 16 TITLES IN ALL. The Poster is incredible with both Johnathan Frid and David Selby as ³themselves² and then when you flip it over there they are as ³Vampire² and ³Wolfman² Electric Moog Orchestra-Music From Star Wars $15 (Mint-, rw/Mint/Stereo/Musicor) Though not the original soundtrack this is a great record if you do indeed find a fascination with Star Wars and all that that entails. Titles : Main Title, Princess Leia Theme, Imperial Attack, Benıs Death & The Fighter Attack, Cantina Band, The Throne Room and Closing Titles The Story of TRON $10 (VG+,rw/Mint-/Stereo/Disneyland) The actual dialogue, music and sound effects from the film. This is sooooooo great Richard Hayman-Cinemagic Sounds $18 (Mint-,coh,fold out cover/Mint/Stereo/Command) The genius behing The Genuine Electric Latin Love Machine lp on this very same label which brought us the world wide hit of DANSERO here has a colection of tunes that are movies themes This kind of reminds me of Enoch Lightıs Spaced Out in that there is an orchestra w/ wordless vocals and solo horns mixed with the MOOG. Pretty damn swell stuff with; Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Take The Money and Run, Ice Station Zebra, The Killing of Sister George, Consider Youself (Oliver), Lucy In The Sky w/ Diamonds 11 titles in all Richard Marino Orchestra-Out Of This World $20 (VG, water damage 1/3 of front and very little on back/VG++/Mono/Liberty) You want outer space exotica ?? Then this is your ticket. What is it like out there in the deeps of space they were asking themselves in the early 50ıs -> the mid 60ıs ?? MUSICALLY THAT IS ! Great stuff here with TED KEEP twiddling the knobs on the electronic end which is a HUGE PART of this LP. Ted Keep was the genius who w/ Russ Garcia created another ORIGINAL SOUND w/ Libertyıs Fantastica, Music From Outer Space. Included in this orchestra are the full span of woodwinds all the way from the piccolo to the contrabassoon w/ 2 harps, many percussive and rhythm instruments and 3 soprano voices, read : celestial vocals. This record truly is OUT OF THIS WORLD Beaver & Krause-In A Wild Sanctuary $15 (Mint-,rw/Mint/Stereo/WB) Moog and electronics in a very pop spacy setting Ask Kevin King or David Schafer---Both of them have it (xanau@radix.net) (dragster@interport.net) Moog Machine-Switched On Rock $15 VG+,rw/Very Strong VG-Almost VG+/Stereo/Columbia) Rock standards of the day via the MOOG incl; Spinning Wheel, Jumpinı Jack Flash, The Weight, Time Of The Season, Hey Jude, Aquarius, etc etc Moog Machine-Switched on Rock VG++, slight wd on back/Mint/Stereo) $35 Claude Denjean & Synthesizer-Open Circuit $15 (VG+,woc/Mint/Stereo/Phase 4) Pop tunes by Elton, Joni Mitchell, Nino Rota, Ennio Morricone Quite Excellent!! Weird weird arranged POP stuff :)) Hugo Montenegro-Others By Brothers $25 (Mint/Mint/Promo/Stereo/RCA) A contemporary of Esquivels, wrote I Dream Of Jeannie and other TV stuff. This guy is an *arranger* - This wails and is f-u-n-k-y, psychedelic, killer guitars with synth and a great orchestra !! Caravan, Never Can Say Goodbye, Feel Like Makinı Love, Heard It Through The Grape Vine, Nothinı From Nothinı, Creepinı...... Brothers refers to Black Artists; S. Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Ike & Tina Turner....... Beaver and Krause-Gandharva $20 (Mint-,rw/Mint/Promo/Stereo) Tape manipulations w/voices. Major jazz players incl. Gerry Mulligan, Bud Shank, psych guitar by jazz/pop/studio great Howard Roberts. Emil Richards and Paul Beaver-STONES, New Sound Element $25 Mint/Mint/Mono/UNI) Emil Richards on electronisized vibes along with Paul Beaver on Moog here have created 12 original sounds that are very abstract BUT very POP with strange meters ; like instead of 4/4 or 2/4 or 3/4... they are 7/16, 2/33, 8/22 etc etc etc ALL IN ONE TUNE. They are all over the place on every number Joe Porcaro-drums, Bill Plummer-Bass and Andy Macay-piano Don Sebesky-The Distant Galaxy $30 (VG++,coh/Mint/Stereo/Verve) Arranged and conducted by Don Sebesky who also plays MOOG w/ Larry Coryell on Guitar Hubert Laws -Flute . Trumpet and a piccolo trumpet with all of the neccesary instruments for a full sounding combo, not an orchestra though the moog fills out alot of the sound, each piece is preceded by an electronic movement not exceding 28 seconds most of the main titles range from 3 minutes to 4 1/2 minutes and are pop/jazz/psych/outer spacce and rockinı w/ Sounds of Silence, Lady Madonna, Guru-Vin(Elec Sitar), Soul Lady, Water Brother, The Blue Scimitar. Other musicians include Dick Hyman, Chuck Rainey, Ron Zito. Out-a-sight man. Mort Garson-Black Mass Lucifer- $30 Mort Garson here has a very spacy set that is moog and out there pop music Really excellent and original tunes ! (ask xanadu@radix.net) Mort Garson-The Zodiac Cosmic Sounds $20 (VG++,rw/a very clean VG/Stereo/Elektra) Released in 1967 with Fuzzy psych guitars and MOOG and Spoken word poetry about the signs of the zodiac. Many people have this one Ask dragster@interport.net or mrbeatnick@aol.com and you can see the cover at my web page at http://www.cygnus.com/misc/kfjc/diamond under album covers Tartaglia-Good Morning Starshine $20 Mint-,coh/Mint/Stereo/Columbia Moog out front with a 46 piece orchestra with many guitars featuring fucked up versions of POP tunes such as; The title tune, A day in a life, clay boxer, within you without you, everybody gets to go to the moon, shannon girl, classical gas... 10 titles in all Electronic Concept Orchestra-Cinemoog $30 VG++, slight wd on back/Mint-/Stereo/Mercury) TV and Fim titles via the moog w/ Eddie Higgins at the controls. Very POP and weird sounds with moog versions from ; Midnight Cowboy, "Z", Che', Last Summer, Young Girls From Rochefort, Sweden Heaven & Hell, The Happy Ending. Most of these tunes DO NOT appear on any other Moog record ! Richard Hayman and Walter Sear-Electronic Evolutions $40 (Mint-,coh/Mint/2 Records/Stereo) A two-fer package from Command that is all MOOG and nothinı but MOOG Contains most of Genuine Electric Latin Love Machine, 7 titles from CINEMOOG, and 2 solo Walter Sear numbers. Itıs not clear whether Walter Sear WAS the Moog man involved w/ Richard Hayman but Iıd bet dollars to donuts that he was/is Really amazing collection with 19 tracks in all !! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: dyemund@best.com (Jack Diamond) Subject: New List # 3/Soundtracks/Crime Date: 05 Feb 1996 08:34:05 +0000 Soundtracks incl. Crime/Private Eye/Spies/Biker : Davey Allen and The Arrows-Devilıs Angels $15 (VG+,ss/VG/Mono/Tower) Original score to Roger Cormanıs Film with the man who invented the fuzzy psych guitar sound w/ only 2 vocals and 8 instrumentals most of this soundtrack this rocks and is very psychedelic. Plays tons better than it looks Warren Barker- 77 Sunset Strip Sountrack $30 (Mint/Mint-/Mono/Warner Bros.) Cocktail/lounge/beatnik jazz,more than a few variations of the same theme, Seventy Seven.... Sunset Strip. Can you hear me on that end ??;) Kookies Caper also on this one :)) Hugo Montenegro-Lady In Cement Soundtrack $30 (Sealed,bb/Stereo/20th Century Fox) Fuzzy psych guitars/a stripper scene/a vocal : "love is a many splendored thing", Rockin' Fuzzy psych guitars and organ combo on 4 or 5 numbers, really, really great and hard to find Sid Ramin-Stiletto Soundtrack $20 (Mint-, sticker on front/Mint/Stereo/Promo/Columbia) Very eerie and cool electronic crime/private eye sounds. Very spooky ! Excellent composer/arranger of space age pop is Sid Ramin Ask Bro Cleve at bcleve@tiac.net Geoff Love Orchestra-Big Suspense Movie Themes $10 Mint/Mint/Stereo/Birchmount Orchestrated sounds w/ some fuzzy guitars of spies, private eyes and outer space with; Shaft, French Connection, Godfather, In The Heat of The Night, Airport, 2001, Frenzy, Theme from Z, Diamonds Are Forever 12 titles in all Ray Martin-Goldfinger and Other Music From J. Bond Thrillers $15 (VG+, seam wear/Mint/Mono/RCA) Ray Martin is an excellent composer/arranger of space age pop and here he is arranging the orchestra very much like his Dynamica LP on RCA with "Those Voices" that are sooooooooo cool. (Ask xanadu@radix.net, he got 1 from me and LOVES it !) Ken Thorne-Inspector Clouseau $18 (Mint-/Mint/Stereo/United Artists) Tongue in cheek spoof of Crime Jazz, *Fun Crime* Wacky *Cartoon* like music, Jack Davis(MAD magazine) Cover Hugo Montenegro-Good, Bad and The Ugly $15 (VG+,rw,ss/Mint/Stereo/RCA) Ennio Morricone composed music for Clint Eastwood ³Spagetti Westerns² in the mid to late 60ıs that are absolutely wonderful :)) Very melodic sounds including whistling, guitars, orchestra/small combo, jaw harp, rattling teeth. A contemporary of Esquivel are both of these guys and Hugo Montenegros cover of For A Few Dollars More was a big hit on the pop charts in 1968. Keith Williams-Jazz Themes From TV and Film $5 (VG+,tos/VG/Mono /Edison) All the major themes of the day, M-Squad, Compulsion, Thin Man, The Wild One, I Want To Live!. 12 in all Keith Williams-Same As Above $5 (VG,rw/.....................) Same as above Video All Stars-TV Jazz Themes $20 VG,rw/VG++/Stereo/Somerset) All star west coast stuio jazz line up doing Manciniıs Themes from Peter Gunn, Rugoloıs - Richard Diamond, Thin Man and more. Really Really Great power punched sound, Thrilling!!!!!!!! and *Swings like hell* Did I say a super SCHWINGGINN' AFFAIR ? ;) Original Music From Dark Shadows Vol 2 $15 (Mint/Mint/Mono only/Media Sound) Taken from the original Mono master tapes, incidental music from the soap opera about Vampires !! Buddy Morrow Orchestra-Double Impact $25 (Mint-,ss/Mint/Stereo/RCA) A great space age pop arranger who has 2 lpıs in this sound genre. This LP deals more with the Crime Jazz sound an incl. Hawaiin Eye, complete w/ bird sounds, Twilight Zone, Staccato, Markham, The Line-Up, International Detective and much more!! Sssssssswinginı ! Blaxploitation Soundtracks : Cecil Holmes Soulful Sounds-The Black Motion Picture Experience $25 (VG, rw/A Supa, supa clean VG baby/Stereo/Buddah) Blaxploitation is/are black exploitation film soundtracks of the late 6o's and through the 70's It is a VERY psychedelic sound that is best described by the original with SHAFT. He's a bad muhthuh, shut cho' mouf, well I'm talkin' 'bout SHAFT music WITH OUT the VOCALS Wacka wacka, screaming, searing, synths and guitars. This is the stuff This is a really amazing and great record destined to be playing on YOUR TURNTABLE!!!!!!!!!!!! Titles incl. 2001, Freddies Dead, Super Fly, Shaft, Trouble Man/T Stands For Trouble 9 in all and the cover is just as exploitive with brothers w/ shotguns and foxy mamas in mini skirts and provocative poses. I'm a bad mother, shut 'cho mouf Oh yeah, gold chains too Can u spel f-u-n-k-y ? Sure, I knew you could ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: dyemund@best.com (Jack Diamond) Subject: New List #4/Space Age Pop & Beyond Date: 05 Feb 1996 08:34:15 +0000 Space Age Pop/Exotica and Beyond Yma Sumac-Soundtrack Score to Flahooley $20 (Mint/Mint/Reissue/Mono/Capitol What is there to say? Yma Sumac-Fuego del Ande (Fire of the Andes) $40 (Mint-/Mint/Mono/Capitol) Yma Sumac's next to her last LP released here in 1959(as her last is Miracles released in 1972) and she is as always, in top 4 OCTAVE form with her native Incan vocal interpretations of Jungle-y Exotica with (translated); The Hot Rooster, Cinnamon Flower, Crying Heart, Enchanted Lake, The Pearl, Virgins Of The Sun, One Eyed Rooster. 12 titles in all. Incredible indeed ! Korla Pandit-Hypnotique $15 (Mint-/VG/Red Vinyl/Mono/Fantasy) (dated 1961) Playing Piano and Pipe Organ simultaneously, you'd think there was more than one person playing but nooooooooooo. A master of Exotica. I saw him a couple of weeks ago at Bimbos in SF. Quite a treat I must say;)) Titles incl; Paradise, Beyond The Blue, Stella By Starlight, Moonglow, The Swan, Climb Evry Mountain, Polka Diots and Moon Beams...12 tunes in all Korla Pandit-Hypnotique $30 (Mint/VG+ -> VG++/Mono/Red Vinyl/Fantasy (dated 1961) Same as above but much better condition all the way around Korla Pandit-An Evening With Korla Pandit $30 (Mint, VG++/Stereo/Blue Vinyl/Fantasy/Original Inner Sleeve) A live performance in Oakland, CA in 1960 with; Love Call, Ritual Fire Dance, Torreador Song, Procession of The Grand Mogul, In Ther Mood... 12 titles in all and the cover is a woman and man embracing, him kissing her neck with her holding a half full cocktail glass in front of a roaring fireplace. And she is gor-gee-ous ;)) Blue Vinyl on Fantasy is very rare, more rare than red. Monty Kelly-Tropicana $8 Monty Kelly was an arranger/composer who was part of 101 strings Sounds of Today LP w/ the 4 Electric Sitar tracks. That does not have anything to do with this LP AND if you know about the 101 strings record well then you know who I'm talking about, strictly as reference point :))))) Heavily slanted towards the Exotic, the music takes on much of the aura of festive gaity that is typical of celebrations in Latin countries. Whew !! Arthur Lyman-Leis of Jazz $15 (VG++,ss/Mint-/Mono/HiFi) The cover says The Jazz Sounds of Arthur Lyman with a Lei surrounding 4 vibraphone Mallets and some flowers in the sand. I think that says it all with; Lady is a Tramp, Body and Soul, Gypsy in My Soul, Lullaby of Birland, On The Street Where You Live w/ Vocals by Ethel Azama on Lullaby of The Leaves This is Hawaiiana, Tropical Jazz At Its Best Yma Sumac-Voice of The Xtabay $30 (VG++,rw/Mint/4 EPıs in a box/Capitol) Long before their were 10² or 12² LPıs were 45ıs and thatıs what these are, Like little toys. Pronounced Ex Ta Bay this is Yma Sumacs 1st release and is an all time great as are all of her musics in any format. very collectible and composed/ arranged/conducted by Les Baxter Yma Sumac-Legend of The Sun Virgin $30 (VG++,rw/Mint/4 EPıs in a box/Capitol Yma Sumacs 2nd release on Capitol. Everything stated above is the same except that the music is composed/arranged and conducted by her husband, Moises Vivanco Muzzy Marcellino-House Party Music Time $25 (VG, wd on back,top ts/VG+/Mono/Capitol) Muzzy whistled w/ Esquivel and on just about every tv and film soundtrack where there was whistling. Wer have him here with a quintet(5 piece) pop/jazz outfit from the Art Linkletter House Party TV Show. Piano, vibes, clarinet, alto sax-all Bob Walters, Guitar, acccordian, drums, bass and Muzzy Whistling; Whistling Dixie, Time For The Kids, Freeway Jam(not jeff becks version), Heap Big Chief, Bob's Blues, Get Happy, Anitra's Dance, The Continental, High and The Mighty, Shoe Fly Pie, Bacarolle and Hawaiin Calypso Alvino Rey !-His Greatest Hits $25 (VG++/Mint/Mono/London Import) 1) Alvino Rey was the guy who invented "The Talking Guitar" 2) Was the 1st to feature a steel guitar w/ an orchestra 3) Was Esquivel's steel guitarist and 4) Made many records on his own w/ his orchestra featuring his own arrangements w/ his wordless vocal group At times you can hear alot of Esquivel in Mr. Rey's work and it is tremendously cool indeed because Esquivel wanted Mr. Rey to play as he usually does. It is easily heard on many of his hits included here with; Bloop Bleep, Cement Mixer, Hindustan, Idaho, On The Alamo, Mama's Blues, Tigar Rag, St. Louis Blues... 12 in all and you will love this ;) if you love Esquivel, guitars and space age pop in general Dick Schory's Percussive Pops Orchestra-Politely Percussive $10 Mint/Mint/Stereo/RCA) Typical Schory brilliance abounds here with The Playboy Theme, Baby Bossa Nova, Lover, Summertime, Night Train, Quiet Bossa Nova 12 tunes in all (1963) Dick Schory's New Percussion Ensamble-WILD Percussion $15 and Horns A'Plenty (VG++, rw,1"ss/VG+/Stereo/RCA) (This is the guy, just in case you didn't know that was the first to do this percussive thang in this way. This is Stereo-er Stereo ! Arrangers include Sid Ramin and Bobby Christian among others w/ Schory keeping his hand in all of the different dishes that everyone else serves up ;)) A very large and diverse orchestra with 2 truckloads of percussive instruments from the Ludwig Drum Co. and the Musser Marimba Co. (Liner notes) (1960) Henri Rene'-Dynamic Dimensions $30 (VG++,rw/Mint/Stereo Action/RCA, Heavy Die Cut Cover) Space Age Pop arranger Henri Rene' on RCA's Stereo Action series with The Sound Your Eyes Can Follow" with titles; Punctuated Performance, Parade Of The Wooden Soldiers, Time On My Hands, Temptation, My Blue Heaven----------12 in all This label's series is Magic to your ears !! (dated 1960) Ray Martin-Dynamica $40 (VG+, ss top/Mint/Stereo Action/RCA) This amazing arranger/composer is right up there at the top w/ Esquivel as far as I'm concerned and this record is unbelievable with his Arrangements, Voices and Orchestra incl; Malaguena, Bye Bye Blues, Shad Rack, Pagan Love Song, Cry Me A River, Flight of The Bumble Bee, Lullaby of The Leaves. Really Amazing, guaranteed (dated 1961) Clause Ogerman Orchestra-Watusi Trumpets $15 (Mint/Mint/Stereo/RCA) Clause Ogerman is a great composer/arranger in the space age pop field who has a few lp's under his own name. He has a very big "rockin" jazz/pop sound with organs/guitars and here Trumpets. A very wild rhythm runs throughout this 1965 lp with Trumpets That Go - Go !! Kenny Burrell, Mundel Lowe on guitars Bob Thompson, His Chorus and Orchestra-Mmmm Nice ! $30 (VG+/VG+/Stereo/RCA) Really amazing arranger/composer much in the style of Esquivel, Ray Martin. This is Space Age Pop Bachelor Pad Music. Whatever label you want to put on it is OK with me. 12 original sounds/arrangements Georgous gal on cover with a 1 piece bathing suit with bee-yoo-tee-fool legs and I do BTW love fishnet stockings and red high heels (dated 1958) Bob Thompson, His Chorus and Orchestra-On The Rocks $25 (Mint-/VG+/Mono/RCA) Bob's 3rd LP for RCA with this sound and as always great great great !!!!!!!!!!!!! With; Breezin' Along With The Breeze, Happy Talk, On The Rocks, Little Black Box, June Is Bustin' Out All Over 12 in all and the cover is this bee-yoo-tee-fool young lady wearing a bikini lying in a VERY LARG COCKTAIL glass w/ ice of course ;) dated 1959 Van Alexander-SWING ! Staged For Sound $15 (Mint-/Mint/Stereo/Capitol) Though I've never heard of this guy this is most definitely Capitols answer to RCA's Stereo Action sound series as well as the Enoch Light Command releases. Many of the days percussion giants are featured her incl. Milt Holland, Shelly Manne, Irv Cottler, Alvin Stoller as well as the major Brass and Reeded players of the day like Plas Johnson, Shorty Sherock, Milt Bernhart, Babe Russin, Joe Graves and 2 un named pianists. Super great, swingin' swayin' left speaker --> right speaker spectacular!! The Guitars Unlimited Plus 7-Crazy Rhythm $30 (VG, ss top and bottom/Mint/Stereo Action/RCA) Led by 1 of my fave pop/studio guitarists Al Caiola leads and arranges this mostly guitar onslaught outing with all of the typical RCA Stereo Action shenanigans and instrumentation Titles include ; Diga Diga Do, Expresso, Lady of Spain, Anitra's Dance, Crazy Rhythm, Glow Woprm, Donkey Seranade, Nola---------12 titles in all. A masterpiece of brilliant insanity that only RCA Stereo Action can do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lani Royal Diamond Head Band (VG+,ss/Fold Out/Mint/Stereo/Medallion) $8 Percussive Pinapples : The Sound Of Hawaii They actually bill this as Percussive Stereo and Medallion was an excellent label for this sound. The fidelity is absolutely brilliant and the separation is fantastic. Mucho Hawaianna sounds, including Steel Guitars with Hawaiin War Chant, Hawaiin Wedding Song, Beyond The Reef, Drifting & Dreaming, Hulikau Song. You'll swear you're right there on the beach. Buddy Merrill-Many Splendored Guitars of... $10 (Mint-,coh/Mint/Stereo/Accent) Super POP instrumental guitar and whacked arrangements set into motion by extrordinary guitarist Merrill with tape manipulations and many overdubs. MANY ;) Our Day Will Come, Skokian, Spanish Harlem, Winchester Catheral, Moonglow Theme, Taboo..... Great air guitar music Buddy Merrill-Holiday For Guitars $10 (Mint/Mint/Stereo/Accent) Same sound as above except this concept LP is a different guitar sound for ³every port² Take Five, Granada, Portugese Washerwoman, Song Of Inia, April in Portugal, etc etc Definite jazz influence evident. Still w/ shrink wrap and original price sticker Roger King Mozian Orchestra-Spectacular Brass Goes Cha Cha Cha $12 (Mint/Mint/Stereo/MGM) As it says at the top ->>SUPER STEREO<<- Dramatic Effects-Thrilling Realism-Unforgettable Listening Stanards done up cha cha cha style. Very cool and weird. INSTANT PARTY ! Sentimental Journey Cha Cha Cha, Swanee Cha Cha Cha, Tropical Trumpets Cha Cha Cha, Doinı The Cha Cha Cha, My Man Cha Cha Cha, Jealous Cha Cha Cha etc etc etc Music In Depth-Mercury Perfect Presence Sampler $10 (Mint/Mint/Stereo/Mercury) Stereo Sampler from the Mercury Living Presence Sound Series, late 50ıs with; Quiny Jones-Hot Sake, Clebanoff Orchestra-Turkish Harem Dance, Mike Simpson-Waltzing Mathilda, Xavier Cugat-Suco Suco, David Carroll-El Cha-Cha. 12 in all Mercury Living Presence was their answer to RCA and Command labels and all the super high fidelity stuff that was the rage in the late 50->the early to mid 60's The sound and fidelity are unbelievable. Believe it ;) Ferrante and Teicher-Sound Proof $30 (Mint/Mint/Mono/Westminster) Super cool, weird pop sounds from this duo of classicly trained pianists where something has gone terribly wrong in such a wonderful and bee-yoo-tee-full way. I play these guys on my show all the time. Itıs called Prepared Piano, what these 2 do. Theyıve opened up the hood of their pianos and stuck pieces of cork, wood, small bags of sand, metal, etc. etc etc into the strings, under the strings, around the strings so that it does not sound like a piano anymore, no how, no way :))m Yum yum !!!!!! AND it does sound amazing and exhilerating and FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The cover of the album is from the film Forbidden Planet, another added extra plus plus!! Ferrante and Teicher-Heavenly Sounds in Hi-Fi $30 Mint-/Mint/Mono/ABC Paramount) Same as above with the focus on other worldly exotic sounds. Lots of reverberation and great effects of hi-fidelity used here and truly HEAVENLY with; The Moon Was Yellow, Out Of This World, East Of The Sun, The Moon Is Low, Stardust, Over The Rainbow, etc et etc Jerry Fielding-Near East Brass, West Coast Style $15 (Mint-,bb/Mint/Stereo/Command) Jerrry Fielding wrote and arranged the music for most of Clint Eastwoodıs Dirty Harry Films If you can imagine Exotica sounds done Command style w/ a Brass orchestra and Percussion done with an *off-Meter* sound Not 4/4 or 2/4. 7/8, 2/16, etc. all in one tune !! Very different and really great!! With : Uskadar, Miserlou, Never On Sunday, Baubles, Bangles, Beads The Uplifted Veil of a Downhearted Frail Jack Burger-Letıs Play Bongos! $15 (VG++/VG -> VG+/Mono only/HiFiRecord) Excellent cover w/ numbered picture chart on cover so you know that you're doing the right thing ! Spoken word instruction by Danny Gould in a really *square* way. Beatnik Killer Bongo/Conga studio player, studio great Jack Burger wailinı away !! Lots and lots of solo work on bongos an various percussive instruments A great treat that you donıt see that often ! Jack Burger-Letıs Play Bongos! $25 (VG++/Mint/Mono only/HiFiRecords (Same as above) Great party record This is a Bongo Instruction Record w/ Narration Trust me ;) Beatnik all the way :)) Melachrino Strings-Music For Relaxation $8 (Mint/Mint/Stereo/RCA) The cover here is worth the price of admission, very relaxing to say the least ;) Les Baxter Orchestra-Primitive and The Passionate $50 (VG++,ss/Mint/Stereo/Reprise) Truly just like the title says with a 4 octave female vocalist by the name of Tiki. Mostly using her vocals abilities in the higher registers. Not like Bas Sheva, more like Yma Sumac but different ;) A singing sparrow and more. Sometimes youıd swear it REALLY IS a theremin Les Baxter-Tamboo! $40 (Mint/Mint/Stereo/Capitol) Very tribal, rocking jungle-y jazz. All time great, amazing cover. Ooga Booga Bwana!! Les Baxter-Jungle Jazz $30 (VG+, all the seams are split and the face of the cover is perfect not even any ring wear as well as the back liner notes-perfect The record is VG+/Mono/Capitol) This is an all time great, thatıs fer sure Throbbing, pounding, flowing rhythms with strings at the most perfect moment behind the ever blowing Plas Johnson on Tenor saxaphone. This wails ! Buddy Colletteıs Latin All Stars- Jazz Heat Bongo Beat $8 VG/VG+?--The record is absolutely perfect except for 1 track and that is unplayable. shit!! I know it sucks. WAIT ! Red Vinyl too !! ;) This here record is right there at the top of the latin beatnik jazz sound that we all want soooooo much. This is really really really great and whaddaya gonna do ? 8 bucks for a masterpiece. The 3 Suns-Fever and Smoke $50 (Mint-,ss,rw/Mint/Stereo/RCA) All Time Great, this record is soooooooooooooooo beatnik I canıt tell you. See my review at my home page and a scan of it as well at http://www.cygnus.com/misc/kfjc/diamond The 3 Suns-Having A Ball w/... $15 (Mint/VG++/Stereo/RCA) Each *tune* is a medley of 4 or 5 tunes of absolute joy Razor sharp guitar, Pipe Organ and Accordian. This is truly an original sound and these guys are genius at it !! The 3 Suns-Fun In The Sun (VG+,ss,rw, wob/Mint/Mono/RCA) $12 The 3 Suns go to the beach with; By The Beautiful Sea, Isle Of Capri, Sunny Side Of The Street, Under The Boardwalk......You get the picture. Buck a tune ;)) 1961 The 3 Suns-My Reverie (VG++,1" ss/VG+/Mono) $8 On 4 tunes a Harp is added and on 4 others a piano is added and on 4 are The 3 :)) Mellow sounds. Never released in stereo 1956 The 3 Suns-Twilight Memories (Mint/Mint/Stereo/RCA) $15 A georgeous blond lady on the cover, leaning against a tree. Titles incl; Twilight Time, Jalousie, Under Paris Skies, Delicado, Jet, Anna, Arrivederci Roma. Really fantastic ! Definately a record for seduction for some space age bachelor ;) Is that you ?? Harry Breuer Quintet-Mallet Magic $40 (Mint-,woc,Fold-Out Cover/Mint/Stereo/Audio Fidelity) With George Barnes on guitar, Breuer has created an original sound that is increibly strange indeed!! Very poppy and happy music A classic and one lp any serious collector of Exotia might definately want to own. This is the one "everyone wants" Perez Prado-Big Hits By Prado $20 (Mint-,woc/Mint/Stereo/RCA) A reworking of Prezıs 50ıs hits done in his *Rockambo Style* which was adapted in the early 6oıs featuring Prez on this incredible organ. A huge *rockin* sound!! A must!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ennio Morricone-Good Bad and The Ugly $12 (Mint/Mint/Stereo/UA) What can I say ?? Sergio Leone Film Morricone Original Score and sound. Guitars and pizza ;) Les Baxter Orchestra-Sacred Idol $20 (VG/VG -> VG+/Stereo/Capitol) All time great Exotica Sountrack for a film that was never made ! Les Baxter classic sounds (5 stars) Henri Reneı Orchestra-Compulsion To Swing $20 (Mint-/Mint-/Stereo/RCA) Most definately 1 of the great great Space Age Pop Arrangers for RCA (and some other labels including Imperial) in The 50ıs as featured on RCAıs History Of Space Age Pop 3 CD collection Arthur Lyman-Leis Of Jazz $10 (VG,warped, mold on back/VG++/Stereo/HiFi) Many jazz standards and much more of a true exotic jazz sound with Lady Is A Tramp, Body & Soul, How High The Moon, Lullaby Of Birdland, etc etc etc Arthur Lyman-Leis Of Jazz $20 VG++, 1² ss,VG+/Stereo Spoken Word : Alan Watts-The Sound of Hinduism $60 (VG++,rw/Mint/Stereo/Warner Bros.) Mr. Watts was known as the chemical buddha in the late 50's and early 60's. He lived in SF near the top of Pacific Hights. This made him the darling of the hoi polloi, BIG $$$. Later, in the early 60's he moved onto a houseboat in Sausalito. A controversial beat (before Herb Cain coined the word Beatnik). Talk about your space/age. Beatnik is from beat + sputnik, the first Russian satellite. I think the record is a genuine piece of Americana. Get hip already ;) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Desmond K. Hill" Subject: 'One by One' by New Direction Date: 05 Feb 1996 15:44:07 +0000 I picked up a cheap copy of the album 'One by One' by New Direction (Project 3: total sound Stereo, 1972) last week, after my eyes fell upon 'Enoch Light Presents' in the top corner of the sleeve. (Being the producer of many releases on Command i the early '60s). A trio, apparently from NYC, their sound is gentle, lite & melodic with the typically hippie-esque lyrics of the period. The production is wonderfully clear & warm. Can anyone shine any light on this: did new Direction record any other albums, were there more releases on the label, how was Enoch Light involved, etc? All thoughts appreciated. best wishes, des ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Desmond K. Hill" Subject: 'One by One' by New Direction Date: 05 Feb 1996 16:00:18 +0000 PS. I know about the easy going guitarist, Tony Mottola recording for Project 3, but who & what else? Thoughts appreciated. best wishes, des ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lazlo Nibble Subject: no subject (file transmission) Date: 05 Feb 1996 14:42:23 -0700 (MST) Approved: fatality Received: from cleo.bc.edu (cleo.bc.edu [136.167.2.122]) by xmission.xmission.com (8.7.1/8.7.1) with SMTP id UAA26150 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 20:36:49 -0700 (MST) Received: from [136.167.98.58] (bcra05p8.bc.edu [136.167.98.58]) by cleo.bc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA22766 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 22:37:23 -0500 X-Sender: eaganca@cleo.bc.edu In-Reply-To: <199601290045.QAA24336@netcom16.netcom.com> Message-ID: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Sun, 28 Jan 1996, dx wrote: > Does anyone know more about the 60's Swedish instrumental quartet, > The Spotnicks? I picked up one of their English EPs ("On the Air") > while in London recently, and wonder if there are any reissues of > their material out there? Anyone have a discography? Oh yeah, man...Boatniks...that was the funky, now, hip Disney movie starring Phil Silvers, right? Jeff Phillips eaganca@cleo.bc.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lazlo Nibble Subject: no subject (file transmission) Date: 05 Feb 1996 14:42:32 -0700 (MST) Approved: fatality Received: from mailhost.presence.co.uk (root@elvis.presence.co.uk [194.129.5.1]) by xmission.xmission.com (8.7.1/8.7.1) with SMTP id KAA19731 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 10:38:44 -0700 (MST) Received: from elvis.presence.co.uk by mailhost.presence.co.uk with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.29.1 #3) id m0thK0R-000i3HC; Tue, 30 Jan 96 17:38 GMT X-Sender: rcb@elvis.presence.co.uk Message-ID: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi all - Is everything OK? Where's everyone gone?! Just writing to say I spotted Kenyon Hopkins "three-fer"(!!) reissue CD: "Shock/Nightmare/Panic" (w/Creed Taylor orch) (FEAR 203). It's on WFMU's Catalog of Curiosities and CDNow... Anyone got this yet? What's it like and who are these FEAR people?! Can we send'em our "wants"?! Also heard the Friends of Dean Martinez CD and almost fell asleep with boredom - definite turn-off IMO... Robbie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Bryan Stewart" Subject: Capitol reissues Date: 05 Feb 1996 17:54:29 -0500 What's gotten into Capitol lately? With the Yma Sumac and Ultra Lounge reissues comming out, somebody must have woken them up. On the Yma Sumac reissues, are they going to at least keep original covers and liner notes? How much is a 'budget' reissue to them? Bryan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Mark Freitas Subject: Re: Capitol reissues - Yma Sumac Date: 05 Feb 1996 18:11:30 Actually Yma Sumac has been in and out of print on CD on Capitol since the late 80's. I bought Xtabay and Sun Godess on CD when I was still in college (late 80's). On a side note, I highly recommend Yma's excursion in to Exotic House music "Mambo ConFusion" from 1991. I don't know if you can still get it, and I don't know if she did a whole album of house, but the import single I have (on the German label GALA) is really fun. Yma pulls out most of her old vocal tricks - she could growl a bit more to make it perfect, but I'm not gonna complain. It's a far more interesting record than, say, Herp Alpert's house album:-| mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: lee@anti.com Subject: Re[2]: Yma Sumac / Frank & Keely? Date: 05 Feb 1996 16:41:09 PST I'm glad that Capitol is doing all of Yma's albums in one shot! Yesterday at the swap meet, I picked up a Frank Sinatra & Keely Smith single on Capitol! Don't remember the titles offhand (the record is at home with the stack of stuff I found). I never knew that they recorded together! Does anyone know if they did any more than two tracks together? Lee ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lazlo Nibble Subject: List Changes Date: 05 Feb 1996 15:45:04 -0700 (MST) I apologize for sending this out as a form letter, but lots of people have asked about this. As near as I can tell, xmission completely shut down all majordomo-supplied list services on January 29 or 30, replacing the majordomo software with SmartList. This was supposed to be a smooth transition, but it doesn't seem to have been that way for everyone. In a twist that makes matters even more difficult, I was out of town and (blissfully) offline from January 27th through February 4th. I'm back now, but I know nothing about using SmartList and have over 700 messages in my mailbox to plow through before I can even start to deal with any problems. If you've emailed me about a problem with the lists, I'm aware of it and will look into it as soon as humanly possible. If the problem you complained about has already gone away (i.e., you got extra copies of one digest but subsequent issues were fine, etc.), PLEASE LET ME KNOW IMMEDIATELY. If the problem still exists, please hold off on any further mail to me about it until Tuesday or Wednesday. Thanks. -- ::: Lazlo (lazlo@swcp.com; http://www.swcp.com/lazlo) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: LTepedino@aol.com Subject: Re: Re[2]: Yma Sumac / Frank & Keely? Date: 05 Feb 1996 22:21:12 -0500 I believe "Nothing In Common" and "How Are Ya' Fixed For Love" both under Billy May's direction were the only released duets. Regards Ashley ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: " | dave | " Subject: Re: Re[2]: Yma Sumac / Frank & Keely? Date: 05 Feb 1996 22:27:46 -0600 (CST) > I believe "Nothing In Common" and "How Are Ya' Fixed For Love" both under > Billy May's direction were the only released duets. Before I forget, and to give credit where credit is most certainly due, the soundtrack I raved about the other night - JOHNNY COOL - was composed and conducted by the above-mentioned Billy May in 1963. dave /\\ \\ \\ \\ / \\ \\ \\ \\ the arouet label / \\ \\ \\ \\ ZING! ZING! -----------// // // //------> arouet@winternet.com \ // // // // \// // // // fnast! image ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: viktrola@usa.nai.net Subject: Re: Capitol reissues Date: 06 Feb 1996 05:49:23 -0500 >What's gotten into Capitol lately? With the Yma Sumac and Ultra Lounge reissues >comming out, somebody must have woken them up. On the Yma Sumac reissues, are >they going to at least keep original covers and liner notes? How much is a >'budget' reissue to them? as far as i can tell, the Ymas are the original covers but don't know about the liner notes. a budget is $11.98 list. also the ultra lounges will be released at 13.98 and also have fabulous packaging! i remain... viktrola@nai,net Vik's Lounge Of Self Indulgence http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/lounge.html Have you voted in the Great Grilled Cheese Debate? http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/kitchen.html#soup ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: RPPeek@aol.com Subject: Re: New List #4/Space Age Pop & Beyond Date: 06 Feb 1996 09:57:36 -0500 Hey jack -- Put me down for Thompson's On The Rocks if you still have it -- thanks. Preston ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lazlo Nibble Subject: "New List" Date: 06 Feb 1996 10:32:54 -0700 (MST) I want to make it very clear to everyone that postings like Jack Diamond's "New List" postings are a violation of this mailing list's advertising policy, whch is clearly spelled out in the list information message: * The list is not meant to be used as an advertising forum, though short notices of the form "I have for sale; please email me for a full list" are acceptable as long as the items for sale are directly relevant to the topic of the mailing list. People who violate this policy will be removed from the list. -- ::: Lazlo (lazlo@swcp.com; http://www.swcp.com/lazlo) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: dyemund@best.com (Jack Diamond) Subject: Please accept my apology Date: 06 Feb 1996 10:14:27 +0000 Dear Exotica Mailing List. To all of you involved in this mailing list I do truly apologize if I violated your space and the rules of this list I really mean it here and am not fucking around. I didn't read the rules against such postings and I only acted out of pure business-like narcissism. I am truly sorry for this action and now honestly DO understand the rules about this issue. Please accept my most sincere apology and this will NEVER happen again. Jack Diamond ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: johan.devis@ping.be (Johan Dada Vis) Subject: Mr. Spock's Music From Outer Space CD reissue Date: 06 Feb 1996 19:11:55 +0100 Leonard Nimoy: Mr. Spock's Music From Outer Space (Varese Sarabande, US, 1995): this CD includes the "Mr. Spock" side of his LP "The Way I Feel". Are those tracks already on the "Highly illogical" Creation compilation cd, or not? Unfortunately, WFMU (who has these 2 CDs in their catalog) does not list the tracks... this is what is on the "Highly illogical" cd: Highly illogical If I had a hammer The difference between us Where it's at Contact Nature boy Consilium Here we go round again Proud Mary Once I smiled Ballad of Bilbo Baggins Amphibious assault Spock thoughts Love of the common people Ruby don't take your love to town Abraham, Martin & John Everybody's talkin' Both sides now I walk the line If I was a carpenter Greetings from Johan Dada johan.devis@ping.be (home: Wivina 15, 1702, Belgium) ______________________________________________________________________________ Hear hear: the EXOTICA & NOVELTY CD OVERVIEW OF 1995 can now also be viewed at "http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/johan.html" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: lee@anti.com Subject: NO 7" COLLECTORS? & DATING CAPITOL RELEASES Date: 06 Feb 1996 11:24:45 PST Hey, No one responded to my inquiry about exotica 7" collecting so I assume none of you collect 'em! You people are missing out! Also, I know that there is a chart to date many singles pressed on the west coast, via 'delta numbers' (and a wonderful thing it is, within the exact month and year!) but I was wondering if anyone knew how to date Capitol releases either via catalog numbers or master numbers? Also, has any maniac compiled a complete Capitol discography? Yes, Ashley was correct on those Keely/Frank song titles (the record is sitting in front of me) One tune, "Nothing In Common" is from the PARIS HOLIDAY film (have any of you seen this? Sammy Cahn co-wrote both tunes. Check this out: Sammy Cahn's granddaughter, Gwen Cahn, was the keyboardist on the first Pandoras EP (on Moxie) and the "It's About Time" (both great 80s era retro 60s garage-punk slabs) album on Voxx. She was also in local LA bands Mad Monster Party, The Leaving Trains, Bean and she is currently in a band who's name escapes me at the moment. Lee ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Bryan Stewart" Subject: Re: NO 7" COLLECTORS? & DATING CAPITOL RELEASES Date: 06 Feb 1996 15:48:24 -0500 Not really. The only Capitol discography I saw was written by some guy dowm in Florida. It was limited to the old 78s (remember them?) pressed before 1950. The only other places to look would be in Goldmine's Guides to Collectible Albums and Goldmine's Guide to Collectible Jazz Albums. Keely Smith, Yma Sumac Jackie Gleason and other Capitol recording artists, have listings in there. But it only gives the matrix number, title of the album and the year it was released. John Blair published a discography of surf music that has all of Capitol's releases concerning that genre of music. Otherwise, we have to rely on album covers and labels for information at least for the forseeable future. Bryan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moruzzi@aol.com Subject: Re: Re[2]: Yma Sumac / Frank & Keely? Date: 06 Feb 1996 17:47:22 -0500 unsubscribe exotica moruzzi@aol.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lazlo Nibble Subject: New Compilation: Music For Night People Date: 06 Feb 1996 22:14:11 -0700 (MST) I was in LA last week and picked up the following compilation that might be of interest: [Various Artists: Music For Night People] CD: 1995 US (Polygram Music Publishing; PMP 012) [promo; digipak] 2:25 Yma Sumac: Gopher Mambo 1:57 Les Baxter: Topage (from Master Of The World) 2:17 Bill Ramal & His Orchestra: Perry Mason Theme 3:05 Enoch Light: Dearly Beloved 2:31 Billy May: Brassman's Holiday 2:15 Bob Florence Trio: Cowbells 1:57 Perrey & Kingsley: Unidentified Flying Object 3:28 Willie Boho: Goin' Out Of My Head 1:50 Tornados: The Ice Cream Man 2:11 Lawrence Welk: Apples & Bananas 2:36 Bob Ralston: Allan's Theme 2:14 Johnny O: Meet The Bongo Man 3:04 Percy Faith & His Orchestra: Oba! Bossa Nova 3:05 Billy May: Cha Cha Bamer 2:43 Si Zentner: Burke's Law Theme 2:18 Perrey & Kingsley: Swan's Splashdown 3:10 Esquivel & His Orchestra: Nocturnal 2:44 Frank Chacksfield & His Orchestra: Parakeets Of Paraguay 2:43 The Three Suns: Chanson D'Amour 3:16 Yma Sumac: Xtabay 3:07 Larry Page Orchestra: Music For Night People 4:53 Korla Pandit: Diamond Head (exclusive new recording) As far as I can tell, Polygram Music Publishing put this together in an attempt to get people (movie studios?) to license the tracks! Most of the material is mastered from vinyl but sound quality is good throughout and the mix of material is great. I was at Heavy Rotation on Ventura with a friend and he found a copy first; I went into a frenzy of searching and found another copy in the promo bins, thus averting horrible bloodshed :-). A couple of days later I went by Rockaway Records and they had at least four more copies for $10 each. (Rockaway does mail order; you can call them at (213) 664-3232.) Definitely worth picking up, especially at that price. -- ::: Lazlo (lazlo@swcp.com; http://www.swcp.com/lazlo) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: cbennet0@counsel.com (Caressa Bennet -- Atty-Caressa Bennett - Washington ) Subject: Spotnicks Date: 07 Feb 1996 10:12:24 EST To: exotica, Inet Someone asked about the 60's Swedish instrumental group, the Spotnicks. While I don't know much more about them than was already mentioned, I do have a 1982 reissue on Polydor of their greatest hits. The tracks are: Amapola I'm Coming Home Karelia Havah Nagila Johnny Guitar Happy Guitar Moon Shot How Can You Leave Me Like That Recado Cape Kennedy Green Eyes In the Mood They were a cool band, but nothing exceptional except for the costumes -- nonmatching astronaut type outfits made out of regular clothing. They all had some type of vest with a giant padded ring for a neck. Perhaps some more fashion conscious list members can provide a better description. Michael Bennet ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: lee@anti.com Subject: Re: New Compilation: Music For Night People Date: 07 Feb 1996 10:54:06 PST And I just got the last one!!! Lee ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ I was in LA last week and picked up the following compilation that might be of interest: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: stefan.kery@mailbox.swipnet.se (STEFAN KERY) Subject: Tiki Room Date: 07 Feb 1996 23:44:11 +0100 Aloha! If your around Stockholm, Sweden tomorrow night (Thursday 8/12) I have the= =20 pleasure to inform you that we=B4re having the Grand Opening of THE TIKI= ROOM. Scandinavias first Tiki bar.One Thursday every month will see a big luau.=20 The club is totally dedicated to Exotic music (from Martin Denny to new=20 groups like Swedens: Fab Fezmen 5 or Bo Axelsson & His Exotic Sounds. We=20 will have a live band + DJ every time + lots of wonderful tropical drinks.= =20 Come over and have a Tiki Room cigar or a Sucko Ice Cream! Bacardi is=20 helping out so the Rum will flow freely. Tiki Mugs and original LPs for= sale. Aloha! Stefan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moruzzi@aol.com Subject: Re: unsubscribe Date: 07 Feb 1996 19:42:21 -0500 unsubscribe exotica Moruzzi@aol.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: LTepedino@aol.com Subject: WALTER WANDERLEY Date: 07 Feb 1996 21:52:48 -0500 HELP! Scamp Records is releasing a compilation of the late Walter Wanderley, Brazilian organist who gave the world "Summer Samba," and who recorded with Astrud Gilberto (among others). PROBLEM: Biographical info on WW is very hard to come by. If anyone has articles or background info about WW, could you please xerox and mail to: Irwin Chusid c/o WFMU PO Box 1568 Montclair, NJ 07042 Please - no e-mail responses. Anyone who provides useful information (including liner notes of any WW album that has real information and not just blurbs - Rain Forest, Cheganca, A Certain Smile, and Brazilian Blend are already covered) will receive album credit and receive either a copy of the CD upon it's release (ready in April) or a pair of smelly old gym socks (ready now) - your choice. Very much future all thanks and to you. Irwin Chusid Anyone who provides useful ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Amycamus@aol.com Subject: In search of GIFs Date: 08 Feb 1996 12:57:41 -0500 I am still working on the Women of Exotica page. Information is slowly being dug up, but photos are another story. Does anyone have a gif of the Sandy Warner album cover? I have dozens from her Denny days, but would like her cover if possible. Also photos of Betty Roche' would help. Thanks, Cherie amycamus@aol.com Vote Grilled Cheese!!!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: clean@bitstream.net Subject: Unidentified subject! Date: 08 Feb 1996 12:48:51 -0600 >Does anyone have a gif of the Sandy Warner album cover?... There's a jpeg of it on Jack Diamond's website. Look here: http://www.cygnus.com/misc/kfjc/diamond/covers/warner.jpg ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: LTepedino@aol.com Subject: Re: In search of GIFs Date: 08 Feb 1996 20:32:39 -0500 Scamp has just released the Maya Angelou "Miss Calypso" album - you may want to include that. Ashley ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: whitley@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Kirsten Whitley) Subject: Cocktails and New Kid in Town Date: 08 Feb 1996 21:02:37 -0600 Howdy, I've got 3 questions for all you cognoscenti. 1. I'd like to add my my collection of cocktail songs! Namely, I like finding songs that incorporate cocktails into the lyrics or title of the song. I know of about 15 or so such songs. For example: Champagne Taste Cocktails for Two Delicious I've Had One Too Many One For the Road You Go To My Head If you know of any such songs, please send them my way. Also, if there is a definitive version of a song, tell me that, too (for example, Eartha Kitt does "Champagne Taste"). To cut down on list traffic, I suggest sending all songs directly to me; I'll post the finished list for everyone. 2. I've just moved to the Bay Area. I'm interested to find out about the lounge/exotica activities in this area. Are any of you exotica list members in this area doing fun stuff? Drop me a line if you live in the area and think it would be fun to get some group acitivities together like: concerts, listening parties, swapping tapes, or maybe even carpooling down to Exoticon '96! 3. What can an exotica lover do for fun in Portland, Oregon? Are there any lounges or local acts that any of you can recommend (are there any Portanders lurking out there)? --Kirsten whitley@vuse.vanderbilt.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: LScottS@aol.com Subject: Fuck this list. Date: 08 Feb 1996 23:08:25 -0500 I triple fucking dare you to drop me. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ottotemp@aol.com Subject: Re: Fuck this list. Date: 09 Feb 1996 01:57:11 -0500 >I triple fucking dare you to drop me. I'll drop you with one punch you piece of shit! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: anita_serwacki@newlinecinema.com (ANITA SERWACKI) Subject: Re: Fuck this list. Date: 09 Feb 1996 09:57:14 -0500 So is this a test of the new internet decency laws or are you just some kind of ha-hoo bozo. ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Author: exotica@xmission.com at Internet I triple fucking dare you to drop me. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: prospect@tt.net (UltaMod) Subject: oy , the nerve of some people Date: 09 Feb 1996 10:09:43 -0600 sorry but somebody need to say something, by the way this is Chris Storuth (Prospective/Ultramodern) I just changed adress (from Coxx0010@maroon) just thought I would let you know. T H I S S P A C E F O R R E N T Chris Strouth UltraModern/Prospective Records 2217 Nicollet ave s Mpls Mn 55404 USA 612.874.2418 fax 612.874.2430 http://twintone.com/prospective/index.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: prospect@tt.net (UltaMod) Subject: re:f*ck this Date: 09 Feb 1996 10:09:34 -0600 >I triple fucking dare you to drop me. Excuse me but who the hell are you.Out of nowhere start throwing threats , Just otu of curiosty what response were you expecting except to be flamed , what you read about flaming in People and then in a moment of Butthead like inspration said " Flaiming...he heh heh ...cool" , or perhaps your a little more macho then that and you thought " I am so tough I can take on any one , I 'll go threaten those extoica fans that will show them and their martin denny records" Some advice take your free AOL membership(I know you think your special because you got a free disk in the mail, but rest assured , your not) and go spend time in a chat lounge and try to pick some fight with some people your own age. T H I S S P A C E F O R R E N T Chris Strouth UltraModern/Prospective Records 2217 Nicollet ave s Mpls Mn 55404 USA 612.874.2418 fax 612.874.2430 http://twintone.com/prospective/index.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: cxws@musica.mcgill.ca Subject: Re: oy , the nerve of some people Date: 09 Feb 1996 09:19:02 -0700 (MST) I agree with the recent posters who went after our poor little idiot; something needed to be said. But can we now go back to the spirit of friendly shared enthusiasm for exotica which has marked the group thus far? Will Straw Will Straw Associate Professor, Graduate Program in Communications/ Director, The Centre for Research on Canadian Cultural Industries and Institutions 3465 rue Peel, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1W7 Phone: (514) 398 7667; Fax: (514) 398 4934 http://www.facl.mcgill.ca/gpc/crccii/crccii.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Zach Spiller Subject: this list Date: 09 Feb 1996 10:19:50 -0600 (CST) Checking my email this morning, I ran into the confrontation (if you can call it that, staring at a computer) between two remarkably witty list-subscribers. To my mind, this type of thing is obviously not what this list is for... I have attempted to be removed from this list once already, but no one responded to my request. Please do me a favor and stop sending me messages. Be seeing you... zach spiller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: David.Nadolski@turner.com Subject: Re: oy , the nerve of some people Date: 09 Feb 1996 09:01:18 -0500 This is a Mime message, which your current mail reader may not understand. Parts of the message will appear as text. To process the remainder, you will need to use a Mime compatible mail reader. 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Nice little run-on sentence there, eh? David.Nadolski@turner.com ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Author: exotica@xmission.com at Internet sorry but somebody need to say something, by the way this is Chris Storuth (Prospective/Ultramodern) I just changed adress (from Coxx0010@maroon) just thought I would let you know. T H I S S P A C E F O R R E N T Chris Strouth UltraModern/Prospective Records 2217 Nicollet ave s Mpls Mn 55404 USA 612.874.2418 fax 612.874.2430 http://twintone.com/prospective/index.html --IMA.Boundary.237379328-- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moruzzi@aol.com Subject: Re: Attempt to unsubscribe Date: 09 Feb 1996 12:41:28 -0500 As much as I love participating in this group, my email list has become too full. Unfortunately, now that the majordomo server is gone, I have been completely unsuccessful in unsubscribing. I continue to get a message saying that majordomo is gone and smartlist has taken over. Fine, but how do I unsubscribe? Help!!! Aloha, Pete ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Dr A.C. Marshall" Subject: Rum Do Date: 09 Feb 1996 16:36:05 +0000 (GMT) Coo this list is a bit of a Rum Do! I haven't worked out what you are all supposed to be discussing yet! C'mon give me a clue! 'Dum -- | AC Marshall | Computing Services Department, | University of Liverpool, | PO Box 147. | L69 3BX | UK | email: adamm@liv.ac.uk | Tel: 0151-794 3722 | Fax: 0151-794 3759 | Take a look at: HPC Info: http://www.liv.ac.uk/HPC/HPCpage.html Adam Info: http://www.liv.ac.uk/~adamm/HomePage.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lazlo Nibble Subject: Fuck this list. Date: 09 Feb 1996 10:54:35 -0700 (MST) Drop it now, folks. I'm taking care of the problem. -- ::: Lazlo (lazlo@swcp.com; http://www.swcp.com/lazlo) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: anita_serwacki@newlinecinema.com (ANITA SERWACKI) Subject: Dino Re-releases Date: 09 Feb 1996 14:28:50 -0500 Does anyone know if Capitol and/or Reprise have any plans to rerelease any of Dean Martin's original albums? Or for that matter, does anyone know of any film soundtracks Dino contributed to that are out on CD ("The Silencers", "Rio Bravo", etc.)? As far as I can tell, there have only been "best of" complilations of Dino's music released on CD. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jonny.S@eworld.com Subject: Re: Rum Do Date: 09 Feb 1996 11:39:18 -0800 "I haven't worked out what you are all supposed to be discussing yet! C'mon give me a clue!" 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There's a lot of good stuff (if I do say so myself), and everything is "priced to move," as they say, in the interest of allowing _me_ to move a little more freely around my apartment... I'll be sending out the list tomorrow afternoon, so's if you want one, send me an email (if you haven't already). BTW, for list members and lovers of all things exotic and swinging in the Minneapolis area, the *Polar Bear Club* will be happening at the Seventh Street Entry on Wednesday, Feb. 14th (Valentine's Day!) and again on March 3rd at the Loring Bar. International recording sensations The Legendary Jim Ruiz Group will be making an appearance (fresh from their recent trip to Japan!) at the Valentine's Day show, as will the wonderful and talented Valerie Cenedella. I'll be DJing along with my pals Rod and Mike, and we'd love to see you there. Email me for details... dave /\\ \\ \\ \\ / \\ \\ \\ \\ the arouet label / \\ \\ \\ \\ ZING! ZING! -----------// // // //------> arouet@winternet.com \ // // // // \// // // // fnast! image ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Martin Schildkret Subject: Re: Dino Re-releases Date: 09 Feb 1996 22:08:52 -0500 (EST) On Fri, 9 Feb 1996, ANITA SERWACKI wrote: > As far as I can tell, there have only been "best of" complilations > of Dino's music released on CD. Connect to cdconnection.com (telnet or WWW) they have about a dozen releases currently available. Afraid though none are soundtracks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: LTepedino@aol.com Subject: Re: Dino Re-releases Date: 10 Feb 1996 00:39:21 -0500 Capitol are planning both a new compilation and extensive box set...Dino's Reprise recordings reverted back to him and just prior to his departing to that big casino in the sky he was asking an exorbitant sum. Things may ahve changed but as of recently the only way you could get some of Dino's Reprise recordings was on a Swiss CD. Ashley ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bbigelow@netrail.net (Brad Bigelow) Subject: Exotica Women--Hildegarde Date: 10 Feb 1996 11:13:33 -0500 Someone asked a few weeks ago for names of women associated with exotica. One I don't recall being mentioned is Hildegarde. She was a "chanteuse," which meant someone more sophisticated than a pop singer but not as swinging as a jazz singer. Hildegarde started in the 40s and became a minor TV star in the 50s as a regular on someone's variety show (Arthur Godfrey?). She cut a few albums--my in-laws have one she did for Decca that includes the number, "They're Either Too Old or Too Long," which dates from WW2 (when all the eligible men were in service). Brad Bigelow ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: shkdwn@micron.net Subject: Releases Date: 10 Feb 1996 09:05 MST Was at the ICE magazine web page yesterday and they list the following releases coming up: 2/6 Various Artists: Postively Fabulous (IRS)- does anyone know what this one is about? I listed because of the name only 2/6 Ultra Lounge- Vols. 1,2,3 (Capitol)- Vols. 4,5,6 listed to be released on 2/20 2/20 Various Artists: Shots in the Dark -Mancini Tribute (Del Fi) 2/27 Combustible Edison- Schizophonic 2/27 Steve Allen- Plays Hi-Fi Music for Influentials (Varese Vintage) 3/5 Yma Sumac- all five of the releases previously mentioned (The Right Stuff) 3/19 Tiny Tim and Brave Combo- Girl (Rounder) Cheers- Bob Ball <----------The information went data way----------> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: P0rKBuN@aol.com Subject: The Big Three Date: 10 Feb 1996 12:21:01 -0500 Looks like February is THE month for Exotica/Lounge comps. Rhino's Cocktail Mix, Capitol's Ultra-Lounge, and DCC adds three more volumes to their Music for a Bachelor Den effort. A couple of weeks ago, I walked into my local record shop and spotted the Rhino set. I checked out the track listings on each, put them down, thought a moment and walked away, empty handed. They just did not do it for me, maybe later. Yesterday, I walked into the same store and saw the three Capitol releases. One look and I was at the counter! Really, REALLY good!! So far, I have not seen the DCC titles, although I had read that they had been released. Just wondering if any of you had any feedback....(Johan? a review?).... Kent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: brett@echonyc.com (Brett Leveridge) Subject: Re: The Big Three Date: 10 Feb 1996 12:31:47 -0400 >A couple of weeks ago, I walked into my local record shop and spotted the >Rhino set. I checked out the track listings on each, put them down, thought >a moment and walked away, empty handed. They just did not do it for me, I have to disagree. I think Rhino did a great job, their collection is my favorite so far. Even the Swinging Singles volume, which I consider the weakest of the three, has some great stuff on it (Sarah Vaughan's cut is great!). I much prefer the Rhino to the RCA one. Haven't yet had the chance to check out the Capitol. Brett * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * "Without BRETTnews, I would wander aimlessly through the cultural wilderness. With it, I enjoy enlightenment and the love and esteem of family, friends and strangers." -- Bob Costas Enjoy BRETTnews, the Peppy Zine for Active People! http://www.brettnews.com/~brettnews ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: P0rKBuN@aol.com Subject: The Big Three Date: 10 Feb 1996 13:06:18 -0500 No, no....I did not wish to imply that The Rhino "mixes" were at all disappointing. I'm sure they did a fine job, as always. My point was I that I was more excited about the Capitol releases...most likely because many of the featured artists I do not already have or am not as familiar with. Kent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Bryan Stewart" Subject: Les Baxter reissues Date: 10 Feb 1996 19:05:45 -0500 I think it's great that all of Yma Sumac's albums are going to be reissued properly. Now if only Right Stuff would reissue Les Baxter's Capitol sides in the same fashion. Does anyone know if this is gonna happen or not? Bryan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: viktrola@usa.nai.net Subject: Re: Les Baxter reissues Date: 10 Feb 1996 18:17:49 -0500 >I think it's great that all of Yma Sumac's albums are going to be reissued >properly. Now if only Right Stuff would reissue Les Baxter's Capitol sides in >the same fashion. Does anyone know if this is gonna happen or not? > >Bryan actually...it will most likely be Captiol's "Ultra Lounge" series that re-issues them... i remain... viktrola@nai,net Vik's Lounge Of Self Indulgence http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/lounge.html Have you voted in the Great Grilled Cheese Debate? http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/kitchen.html#soup ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Bryan Stewart" Subject: Liberty Records Book Date: 10 Feb 1996 19:26:36 -0500 McFarland Publishing of North Carolina has a book out called "Liberty Records: A History of the Recording Company and its Stars". It is supposed to have a complete discography of all LPs issued between 1955 and 1971. I assume that would include Martin Denny, The Ventures, The Chipmunks, Jan & Dean and others. At $79.95 it is a little pricey but I might be willing to shell out if it is worth getting. Anyone have a copy? Bryan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: kjmartin@earthlink.net (Kevin Martin) Subject: Re: Releases Date: 10 Feb 1996 20:41:53 -0800 At 9:05 AM 2/10/96, shkdwn@micron.net wrote: >Was at the ICE magazine web page yesterday and they list the following >releases coming up: >2/6 Various Artists: Postively Fabulous (IRS)- does anyone know what this >one is about? I listed because of the name only House/dance music, from Italy, I think. Saw it recently. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: kjmartin@earthlink.net (Kevin Martin) Subject: Re: The Big Three Date: 10 Feb 1996 20:42:00 -0800 At 12:21 PM 2/10/96, P0rKBuN@aol.com wrote: >A couple of weeks ago, I walked into my local record shop and spotted the >Rhino set. I checked out the track listings on each, put them down, thought >a moment and walked away, empty handed. They just did not do it for me, >maybe later. I really am happy with the Rhino set. To me the music is punchier and more entertaining by far than the RCA set. Each of the releases has internal consistency, and there are gems galore, including a sultry Ann-Margret singing the postapocalypso "Thirteen Men" and Connie Francis (!) singing Portugese (!!) on "Bossa Nova Hand Dance." Very pop. Funny ... I had the reaction to "Ultra Lounge" that you had to "Cocktail Mix." I know I'll get it. Someday. Soon. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "kevin king" Subject: Re: Releases Date: 11 Feb 1996 02:13:49 -0500 > 2/6 Various Artists: Postively Fabulous (IRS)- does anyone know what this > one is about? I listed because of the name only This one I just saw the other day in a shop. It looks to be a house/hip-hop dance compilation. That's Fabulous as in Fabu, or Absolutely - it probably has no exotica, lounge influence. kevin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Dan Gresham Subject: Vampyros Lesbos Soundtrack Date: 11 Feb 1996 12:52:38 +0000 (GMT) Just bought the wicked sound track to this porn film from back in the late sixties/early seventies - really good. Released on 'crippled dick hot wax'. Lots of sitar and wordless vocals. Highly recommended. Dan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: erik@top.monad.net Subject: Re: The Big Three Date: 11 Feb 1996 08:28:47 -0500 I've picked up all three volumes of the Rhino set and volume three of Capitol's "Ultra Lounge." I really like the Rhino set, particularly volume three, which is about 80% vocal stuff. The Rhino set is light on the "basics" of space-age pop (Esquivel, Martin Denny, Les Baxter, etc.) but doesn't claim to be authoritative in any case. I've only heard the one "Ultra Lounge" collection I've purchased so far, but considering the outer space theme, it's a bit more sedate than I had expected. For instance, as much as I like "Holiday For Strings," I'm not sure what it has to do with outer space. Still, I imagine that I'll pick up the other two that are currently available as well as the three others that are coming out in a few weeks. R.I.P. Mercer Ellington.... --Jon Johnson erik@top.monad.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mimis@synergy.net Subject: reissues et al. Date: 11 Feb 1996 08:09:58 -0600 On 11 Feb 1996, Ashley (LTepedino@aol.com) wrote: >the Ultra Lounge series is superior to the >Rhino series. I do recommend you pick at least one up to see what I mean. This comment was prompted by my unbridled praise of the Rhino "Cocktail Mix" series--personally,I think Volume 2 is especially indicative of what I mean when I say "Lounge." I've only seen Ultra Lounge Volume 3 in stores; which one(s) do you all recommend? And why... Also, is "Ultra Lounge" going to be the series title for all of Capitol's reissues of music from the era, both comps and individual titles? Does anyone know the name of the Executive Producer of the Ultra Lounge series (and his/her phone extension, ha-ha...) / ----- --- - Mimi Schneider mimis@synergy.net | The Roots of Lounge [|] http://www.expanse.com/ads/kiwr/rootsoflounge.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: johan.devis@ping.be (Johan Dada Vis) Subject: Re: New Compilation: Music For Night People Date: 11 Feb 1996 19:33:42 +0100 lee@anti.com said: >Subject: Re: New Compilation: Music For Night People >And I just got the last one!!! >______________________________ Reply Separator ________________________________ >I ...picked up the following compilation that might be of interest: could you please remail whatever you posted about it, because it seems that i've missed *a lot* of postings due to that software change @ xmission -johan dada ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: johan.devis@ping.be (Johan Dada Vis) Subject: Rhino's Cocktail Mix vol.2 Date: 11 Feb 1996 19:33:58 +0100 while Rhino's Cocktail Mix vol.1 focusses on 50's percussive space age pop, vol.2 has 60's party lounge: a lot of interesting rhythms here! -johan dada ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Richard Jay <100022.3437@compuserve.com> Subject: Exotica magazine Date: 11 Feb 1996 16:31:33 EST I am thinking of starting an Exotica magazine, initially just on a small-scale. If anyone would be interested in contributing articles, scans of photo's/record covers, & would not require anymore than a free copy of the mag, then please email me directly - not the list. Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: P0rKBuN@aol.com Subject: Wimoweh Date: 11 Feb 1996 17:31:34 -0500 Ok, so I'm listening to Capitol's Ultra Lounge Volume 1 and come to the last track. It is Yma Sumac doing what is described in the notes as a Capitol Records single recorded in April of 1952. The title is "Wimoweh." What grabbed me was that is basically the same song as "The Lion Sleeps Tonight", made famous by The Tokens some ten years later. Hence the title, a wimoweh, a wimoweh.... This is news to me...any of you more experienced folk out there aware of this little piece of trivia? -Kent- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: LTepedino@aol.com Subject: Re: reissues et al. Date: 11 Feb 1996 17:54:02 -0500 Hello. - they all look pretty decent, I'm a sucker for the exotica stuff so you might want to pick up "Mondo Exotica"...the guy who is executive producing the whole series is Brad Benedict...the next three volumes are released this week and then there will be 6 more volumes! (maybe a little overkill?) Ashley ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: LTepedino@aol.com Subject: Re: Wimoweh Date: 11 Feb 1996 18:03:13 -0500 You are absolutely correct...this is basically a traditional, for lack of a better term "folk" song which, as there are no real published songwriters, can be readily adapted and played around with. Another example of this is the Johnny & The Hurricanes adaptation of the traditional cowboy song "Red River Valley" into "Red River Rock". By the way the Creation label Sumac compilation features a few seconds of studio chatter prior to the begining of "Wimoweh" (no real Yma dialog, but just the studio countdown). Regards Ashley ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: patrick@xpedite.com (Patrick Cashin) Subject: Re: MONDO EXOTICA Date: 11 Feb 1996 18:07:18 EST Did I understand that correctly? A series called MONDO EXOTICA? Where did this come from? Why wasn't I briefed on this? What's the story? What label, what artists... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Gary Mattingly Subject: Re: Ultra-Lounge / Mondo Exotica Date: 11 Feb 1996 17:10:48 -0800 Hello, Just a brief interjection. Mondo Exotica is vol 1 of the Ultra Lounge series from Capitol. Vol 2 is Mambo Fever and Vol 3 is Space Capades. With respect to the person who only picked up Space Capades, I considered it the weakest of the three, at least relative to its title. I would have picked different songs for that. I think vol 1 and 2 are much better. I'm glad to hear three more vol in the series are coming out and will have to check several times this week at my local Tower Records, since they only had one each of the first three in stock. Also picked up their one copy of The Spell of Yma Sumac. Relative to the lounge scene in San Francisco, there was an interesting article in this Sunday's (02/11) SF paper's magazine section about a place called The Red Room. Totally Red!! I'm not part of the lounge scene, other than buying the CD's and lurking here, but it sounded interesting. Gary ******************************* Gary S. Mattingly gmatting@surf.com http://www.surf.com/~gmatting ******************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bcleve@tiac.net (Brother Cleve) Subject: Re: reissues et al. Date: 11 Feb 1996 20:13:57 -0500 On Feb 111996, Mimi Schneider (mimis@synergy.net) wrote: >Also, is "Ultra Lounge" going to be the series title for all of Capitol's >reissues of music from the era, both comps and individual titles? Yes, that's the plan. > Does anyone know the name of the Executive Producer of the Ultra Lounge series >(and his/her phone extension, ha-ha...) Brad Benedict. He's in the Hollywood office. Br Cleve ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: patrick@xpedite.com (Patrick Cashin) Subject: Re: Ultra-Lounge / Mondo Exotica Date: 11 Feb 1996 20:39:57 EST >Hello, >Just a brief interjection. Mondo Exotica is vol 1 of the Ultra Lounge >series from Capitol. Vol 2 is Mambo Fever and Vol 3 is Space Capades. THANKS...GEEZ, I FEEL KINDA DOPEY ABOUT MY MESSAGE FROM BEFORE ( WHERE I WAS PANICING THINKING "MONDO EXOTICA" WAS A WHOLE OTHER SERIES ). I HAVEN'T GOTTEN MY COPIES OF ULTRA-LOUNGE YET. I HAD TO MAIL ORDER AS CENTRAL JERSEY IS FAR FROM BEING A HOTBED OF EXOTIC DELIGHTS. I APOLOGIZE AND WILL TRY TO BE LESS DOPEY AND PANIC-STRICKEN IN THE FUTURE. DOES ANYBODY OUT THERE HAS ANY INFORMATION ON A JERSEY LOUNGE/EXOTIC SCENE THAT I MAY BE MISSING OUT ON? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: viktrola@usa.nai.net Subject: Ultra Lounge Date: 11 Feb 1996 21:46:59 -0500 for those seeking info... http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/ultra.html it will be expanding over the next week with more graphics and info from the series. ...we now return you to the discussion already underway... i remain... viktrola@nai,net Vik's Lounge Of Self Indulgence http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/lounge.html Have you voted in the Great Grilled Cheese Debate? http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/kitchen.html#soup ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: cbennet0@counsel.com (Caressa Bennet -- Atty-Caressa Bennett - Washington ) Subject: Vampiros Lesbos Date: 11 Feb 1996 22:54:05 EST To: exotica, Inet Does anyone know anything about a reissued soundtrack album called Vampiros Lesbos? I believe it is taken from some 60's porn films. Does anyone know what the music sounds like? Michael Bennet ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: RPPeek@aol.com Subject: Re: Exotica magazine Date: 11 Feb 1996 23:26:52 -0500 Richard -- I publish an Exotica / Et Cetera List of original pressing LPs (mail order); if you get the mag off the ground, would you accept advertising? How about in exchange for a couple of reviews? Good luck, Preston Peek VINYL LIVES! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: dragster@interport.net (David Schafer) Subject: Re: Ultra-Lounge / Mondo Exotica Date: 11 Feb 1996 23:40:03 -0500 (EST) >>Ultra-Lounge / Mondo Exotica OH YEAH! NEXT? -- EXOTICASTOCK ..... (the theme park) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: kjmartin@earthlink.net (Kevin Martin) Subject: Re: Ultra-Lounge / Mondo Exotica Date: 11 Feb 1996 21:42:31 -0800 At 11:40 PM 2/11/96, David Schafer wrote: > EXOTICASTOCK ..... (the theme park) Exotipalooza ... coming this summer to a drag strip near you! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: LTepedino@aol.com Subject: Re: reissues et al. Date: 12 Feb 1996 00:38:00 -0500 Hey Cleve, I've been listening to some more of Mondo Exotica, and the mono trackas have been reprocessed for stereo. Ashley ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lazlo Nibble Subject: Re: reissues et al. Date: 11 Feb 1996 23:47:18 -0700 (MST) > the guy who is executive producing the whole [Ultra Lounge] series is > Brad Benedict...the next three volumes are released this week and then > there will be 6 more volumes! (maybe a little overkill?) Sounds like standard Capitol operating procedure to me! I just started picking up discs in the Capitol Sings series shortly after Christmas, and then when I was in LA a week or so back I found a volume that claimed to be number SEVENTEEN in that series! (Brad Benedict was behind most of these as well, as far as I can tell, and to date I've been very happy with 'em...so I'm looking forward to seeing what he does with the Ultra Lounge series. I picked up 1-3 yesterday but haven't have a change to pop 'em in the player yet.) -- ::: Lazlo (lazlo@swcp.com; http://www.swcp.com/lazlo) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: kjmartin@earthlink.net (Kevin Martin) Subject: Women of exotica Date: 11 Feb 1996 23:34:37 -0800 Here is a web page for the coolest of the cool "girl singers" of the 1940s and 50s, June Christy. It's called the "Misty Miss Christy" page and it has a pretty extensive discography and some neat pictures. the URL is http://www.ibmpcug.co.uk/~jws/jim/misty.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bbigelow@netrail.net (Brad Bigelow) Subject: Wimoweh Date: 12 Feb 1996 05:16:45 -0500 >P0rKBuN@aol.com wrote: >Ok, so I'm listening to Capitol's Ultra Lounge Volume 1 and come to the last >track. It is Yma Sumac doing what is described in the notes as a Capitol >Records single recorded in April of 1952. The title is "Wimoweh." What >grabbed me was that is basically the same song as "The Lion Sleeps Tonight", >made famous by The Tokens some ten years later. Hence the title, a wimoweh, >a wimoweh.... > >This is news to me...any of you more experienced folk out there aware of this >little piece of trivia? "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" is an American adaptation of "Wimoweh," which is an American adaptation of "M'bube," ("The Lion") which was a South African adaptation of a Zulu chant. Solomon Linda penned the South African adaptation, which was a best seller there back in 1939. The Weavers had a #1 hit with "Wimoweh" in 1950, which is certainly the version Yma Sumac covered. The Weavers' version was a simple repetitive chant of "Wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh ...." The Tokens put an English verse to it. "M'bube" also refers to the style of singing more recently popularized by Ladysmith Black Mambazo. The Weavers had hits with a number of folk songs, including "Tzena, Tzena, Tzena" and "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine." The Kingston Trio jump-started the folk revival of the earlier '60s ten years later with their own adaptation of a folk song about a murderer named Tom Dula from North Carolina: "Tom Dooley," which was another #1 hit. Brad Bigelow bbigelow@radiomail.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "bill wynne" Subject: re: exotica-digest Digest V96 #4 Date: 12 Feb 1996 9:48:49 EST What's up gang? I know I've complained about this before, but I didn't get the whole digest. I got the table of contents, and the profanities, but nothing after that. I ask the same question about my TV reception all the time: Is the problem on MY end or on THEIR end? If anyone thinks they know what's happening to my digests, please drop me a line. Your vinyl-loving friend, Bill Wynne wwynne@ets.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moruzzi@aol.com Subject: Re: Attempt to unsubscribe Date: 12 Feb 1996 13:04:29 -0500 Thanks for the input, but, again, the problem with unsubscribing is that the server 'majordomo' is gone. It has been replaced by some confusing 'smartlist' which doesn't seem to recognize unsubscription commands. Would the person who set this list up please read this message and tell me how to unsubscribe?! Thanks, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moruzzi@aol.com Subject: Re: Capitol set Date: 12 Feb 1996 13:15:34 -0500 I just bought Capitol's Ultra Lounge reissues 'Mambo Fever' and 'Space Capades.' Overall, I think the choices are good, but two things bother me. One, I sense that selections are often made less for their original arrangements and musicality and more for their kitschy, jokey qualities. I know there are better cuts which could have been chosen from the repertoires of Dean Elliott, Alvino Rey and Jack Costanzo. Two, and this relates to the first point, the liner notes consist almost entirely of references to the ambiance, mood, etc. of the era and not about the music itself. I.e., mention is barely made about the arrangements, musicians, experimental instruments used, etc. Irwin Chusid in his original Esquivel release, Space Age Batchelor Pad Music, was very thorough in this regard. I'm just not happy with the focus being on the cool, kitschy nature of all of this and less on the music. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lazlo Nibble Subject: Re: Attempt to unsubscribe Date: 12 Feb 1996 12:49:55 -0700 (MST) > Thanks for the input, but, again, the problem with unsubscribing is that the > server 'majordomo' is gone. It has been replaced by some confusing > 'smartlist' which doesn't seem to recognize unsubscription commands. > > Would the person who set this list up please read this message and tell me > how to unsubscribe?! You should be able to get off the list by emailing exotica-request@xmission.com with an "unsubscribe" command. If this doesn't work please let me know. I apologize for all the problems this changeover has caused. I'm looking for another site to host the list that will be willing to stick with majordomo. -- ::: Lazlo (lazlo@swcp.com; http://www.swcp.com/lazlo) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Robbie Baldock Subject: Tony Mottola/Enoch Light and other things Date: 12 Feb 1996 19:55:56 -0800 (PST) Des Hill recently posted a query about this "easy going" guitarist and funnily enough I picked up THREE LPs featuring him at the weekend! I got: Johnny Guarnieri - An Hour of Modern Piano Rhythms (w/Mottola, Haggart, Cole) This is pretty tame and must be a _very_ early Mottola record - the vinyl is like a slab of slate! (and since this is "an hour..." the level of music has to continually fight to make it over the surface noise!) Enoch Light - I Want to Be Happy Cha Cha's Jack Diamond had a Light "Cha Cha" LP up for sale recently - this is a different one and NOT on Command - it's one of the Grand Award "Phase X Stereo" LPs. Sounds pretty fine except that disappointingly(?) the version of Prado's Guaglione sounds exactly like... Prez Prado's version! This is by Enoch Light and the Light Brigade, which includes Tony Mottola (as well as Terry Snyder, Knuckles O'Toole (made up name?!), Jack Lesberg and a nine-piece brass section). Oh, and Raymond Scott - Business Man's Bounce (Golden Era records) Compilation LP of radio broadcasts from the mid forties. And yes, Tony Mottola seems to have played on some of these sessions too! If anyone would like this LP, I'm almost certain to sell it if anyone's interested (vinyl's fine, cover's water damaged). And any Mottola hunter has to check out the CD reissues of Enoch Light's "Persuasive" and "Provocative" Percussion if you think Mottola was "easy going" - some wacky atonal tunings there to boggle your ears! Mottola probably played on hundreds of LPs - and probably put out a few solos - my parents passed on his "Guitar Factory" LP (EMI Studio Two) which has some great stuff on it and I know he did at least one other Studio Two LP... And, to close, some questions: Is Mottola still with us? Is there a discography? And just why, if Enoch Light was such a superstar band leader as he appears to have been (or at least so say the LP sleeves!), does no-one seem to know anything about _him_, and why isn't there an Enoch Light WWW page?! Hey, maybe I should set one up! Now that's an end to this rambling post... Robbie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Robbie Baldock Subject: Travelin' Light - the new Three Suns? Date: 12 Feb 1996 20:05:03 -0800 (PST) Hi all - I haven't quite finished yet... I originally posted this into the maelstrom that was the majordomo/ "Smart"List move - so it never appeared... Has anyone heard (of) groovy happening band Travelin' Light? They appear to be three aging jazz codgers who have a fondness for banjos, tubas etc mixed with more trad "swingin'" sounds... I heard their "Christmas with Travelin' Light" (TELARC) and my sides nearly fell off from laughing. Some wonderfully (and unintentionally?) daft jazzed-up versions of "Frosty the Snowman" and other delights. Not exactly seasonal but still a MUST BUY (mind you, CDNow has this as "deleted January 1995" - AGH! Watch those bargain bins!). They also released "Makin' Whoopee" (also TELARC) which I haven't heard but most definitely want to! [BTW: the Three Suns comparison is a bit cheeky as I'm still awaiting the arrival of 3 Three Suns LPs from the US and this will be the first time my ears have clapped on the 'Suns!] Robbie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Robbie Baldock Subject: Virtual Vinyl: My Plug Date: 12 Feb 1996 20:13:40 -0800 (PST) Me again... OK, I promise, this is my last post today! Some subscribers may already know about my small online second hand record shop, Virtual Vinyl. Well, this has moved to larger "premises" and become an altogether larger operation. My favourite source of old weirdness and exotic sounds here in Edinburgh, Gramophone Emporium*, will shortly be joining in and I hope to persuade them to put some of their wonderful LPs on show... In the meantime, set your controls for: http://www-edin.easynet.co.uk/rcb/vv/virtualv.htm [although the site isn's specifically exotica biased, the backdrop to this page features a "spine-on" view of quite a few LPs from this recently rekindled area of interest - you may even be able to make out some titles!] Or go straight to the Exotica/Easy section: http://www-edin.easynet.co.uk/rcb/vv/exotica.htm That's all for now... Robbie * - if anyone's thinking of checking out this shop in person: I would wait a few months - they had a burst water main flow into the back room of their shop for TEN DAYS over the Xmas/New Year period and the place is still full of soaking wet LPs!!! Ouch... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: anita_serwacki@newlinecinema.com (ANITA SERWACKI) Subject: Dick Hyman - "Mr. Fantomfingers" Date: 12 Feb 1996 16:02:42 -0500 While finally wading through the albums I picked up at home over Christmas, I came across "Enoch Light presents - 'Mr. Fantomfingers' - Dick Hyman rocks the new Baldwin Organ." Great Moog-ish easy-listening from the early 70's. Best tracks included Hyman's original comps "A Letter from my Brother in Brazil" (nice Bossa Nova electronic drum beat - the schtick of the song is that the melody has only two notes)and the unbelivable 9 minute opus "Fantomfingers" plus a cover of "Boody Butt". Quite funky picture of Mr. Hyman on the back of the jacket. Anyone ever heard of this album or have anymore info on it? Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Grant China Subject: Re: The Big Three Date: 12 Feb 1996 11:29:17 -1000 At 07:25 AM 2/10/96 -1000, you wrote: >Looks like February is THE month for Exotica/Lounge comps. Rhino's Cocktail >Mix, Capitol's Ultra-Lounge, and DCC adds three more volumes to their Music >for a Bachelor Den effort. > >A couple of weeks ago, I walked into my local record shop and spotted the >Rhino set. I checked out the track listings on each, put them down, thought >a moment and walked away, empty handed. They just did not do it for me, >maybe later. Yesterday, I walked into the same store and saw the three >Capitol releases. One look and I was at the counter! Really, REALLY good!! > So far, I have not seen the DCC titles, although I had read that they had >been released. > >Just wondering if any of you had any feedback....(Johan? a review?).... I had exactly the same experience. The Rhino series just didn't excite me. Of course, it didn't help that I already had more than half of the material on vol. 3 on other CDs. I may buy it later for the Les Baxter cuts but I'm in no hurry. On the other hand, I snapped up "Mondo Exotica" and "Mambo Fever" as soon as I saw it. I'll probably buy "Space Capades" the next time I go the music store and I can't wait for the next three releases ("Bachelor Pad Royale", "Wild Cool & Swingin'" and "Rhapsodesia") to come out. By the way, somebody else mentioned that Yma Sumac's "Wimoweh" is the same song as "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" by the Tokens. But did anybody else notice that the "Voodoo" half of "Voodoo Dreams/Voodoo" is an exotica treatment of the old standard "Temptation"? Also, can anybody tell me if the picture on the first and second page of the "Mambo Fever" liner notes is of Billy May and Yma Sumac. I'm just taking a wild guess here since the buy reminds me a bit of Billy May. I haven't seen any really good pictures of Yma Sumac so I dont actually know what she looks like. Aloha, Grant China ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: SLACH@LOYOLA.EDU Subject: Re: Attempt to unsubscribe Date: 12 Feb 1996 18:07:20 -0500 (EST) i am having a problem too with unsubscribibg.... i need help in doing so thanks ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: anita_serwacki@newlinecinema.com (ANITA SERWACKI) Subject: Re: Tony Mottola/Enoch Light and other things Date: 12 Feb 1996 18:25:30 -0500 Strangely enough, I was thinking many similar things about Enoch Light last night. Lately, his name has seemed to come up everywhere (I recently even met someone who worked with him, but it was unfortunately not a situation where I could really ask the person questions about Mr. Light). IS Enoch still alive? DOES anyone have any information about him? Just remembered that Tony Mottola also plays on the "Enoch Light presents Dick Hyman 'Fantomfingers'" LP which I posted about a few hours back. ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Author: exotica@xmission.com at Internet Des Hill recently posted a query about this "easy going" guitarist and funnily enough I picked up THREE LPs featuring him at the weekend! I got: Johnny Guarnieri - An Hour of Modern Piano Rhythms (w/Mottola, Haggart, Cole) This is pretty tame and must be a _very_ early Mottola record - the vinyl is like a slab of slate! (and since this is "an hour..." the level of music has to continually fight to make it over the surface noise!) Enoch Light - I Want to Be Happy Cha Cha's Jack Diamond had a Light "Cha Cha" LP up for sale recently - this is a different one and NOT on Command - it's one of the Grand Award "Phase X Stereo" LPs. Sounds pretty fine except that disappointingly(?) the version of Prado's Guaglione sounds exactly like... Prez Prado's version! This is by Enoch Light and the Light Brigade, which includes Tony Mottola (as well as Terry Snyder, Knuckles O'Toole (made up name?!), Jack Lesberg and a nine-piece brass section). Oh, and Raymond Scott - Business Man's Bounce (Golden Era records) Compilation LP of radio broadcasts from the mid forties. And yes, Tony Mottola seems to have played on some of these sessions too! If anyone would like this LP, I'm almost certain to sell it if anyone's interested (vinyl's fine, cover's water damaged). And any Mottola hunter has to check out the CD reissues of Enoch Light's "Persuasive" and "Provocative" Percussion if you think Mottola was "easy going" - some wacky atonal tunings there to boggle your ears! Mottola probably played on hundreds of LPs - and probably put out a few solos - my parents passed on his "Guitar Factory" LP (EMI Studio Two) which has some great stuff on it and I know he did at least one other Studio Two LP... And, to close, some questions: Is Mottola still with us? Is there a discography? And just why, if Enoch Light was such a superstar band leader as he appears to have been (or at least so say the LP sleeves!), does no-one seem to know anything about _him_, and why isn't there an Enoch Light WWW page?! Hey, maybe I should set one up! Now that's an end to this rambling post... Robbie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: lee@anti.com Subject: Re: Exotica magazine Date: 12 Feb 1996 17:45:24 PST Would send you stuff for review & an ad! Lee Dionysus Records DDionysus@aol.com ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Author: exotica@xmission.com at INTERNET I am thinking of starting an Exotica magazine, initially just on a small-scale. If anyone would be interested in contributing articles, scans of photo's/record covers, & would not require anymore than a free copy of the mag, then please email me directly - not the list. Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: lee@anti.com Subject: Re: HI! Date: 12 Feb 1996 17:48:44 PST Greetings! I don't know what I did with your address (or if I even got it in the first place, I'm like soooo spacy) but I wanna send you a Drasnin CD, photo, bio and a neato poster! Best Lee @ Dionysus ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Author: exotica@xmission.com at INTERNET for those seeking info... http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/ultra.html it will be expanding over the next week with more graphics and info from the series. ...we now return you to the discussion already underway... i remain... viktrola@nai,net Vik's Lounge Of Self Indulgence http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/lounge.html Have you voted in the Great Grilled Cheese Debate? http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/kitchen.html#soup ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bryan Jare Cuevas Subject: RE: Vampyros Lesbos Date: 12 Feb 1996 09:36:42 -0500 (EST) According to Dan Gresham: > Just bought the wicked sound track to this porn film from back in the > late sixties/early seventies - really good. Released on 'crippled dick hot > wax'. Lots of sitar and wordless vocals. Can someone please post the catalogue information, label, etc. on this one.... thanks bryan c. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: LTepedino@aol.com Subject: Re: reissues et al. Date: 12 Feb 1996 21:13:57 -0500 Take it from me these Ultra Lounge CD's sound incredible...the packaging is superb...and there's real thought behind the concepts...some of the unreleased stuff is great..what's really interesting is that the mono tracks have been processed and have been given the feeling of more spaciousness, but without sounding like bad faked stereo...while another 6 volumes might be a lot, if the calibre keeps up I'll be looking forward to them Ashley ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Daniel Sean Grzegorczyk Subject: Re: reissues et al. Date: 12 Feb 1996 21:26:40 -0500 please help me get off this music group. i've tried everything sean ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bcleve@tiac.net (Brother Cleve) Subject: Re: Exotica in Billboard Magazi Date: 13 Feb 1996 11:51:22 -0500 On 2/13/96 Paco Ojeda wrote: >A while back, someone on this list mentioned that Billboard Magazine would >have an article dealing with Exotica sometime in February. > >If you're out there, can you post the issue release date agin, please? Or if >it's out and somebody has read it, could you please comment on it? It was last weeks issue, dated February 10. It may still be on newstands today (Tuesday 2/13), but the new issue will be out on Wednesday. It featured a half dozen or so pages detailing the upcoming releases for the next 6 months, a fine article by Chris Morris detailing the "movement" (exotica/surf/Space Age BP), and lots of advertisments, naturally. If you missed it, check the library. It's definitely worth checking out. br cleve ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: johan.devis@ping.be (Johan Dada Vis) Subject: Re: The Big Three Date: 13 Feb 1996 19:19:29 +0100 i only have vol.1 & 2 of the rhino set, and they are really great! vol.1 has wonderfull & thrilling 50's *percussive* (instrumental) space age pop, while vol.2 has 60's party lounge, some instrumental, some vocal, also with very exciting rhythms. i recommend them both. i will post a track listing asap! -johan dada Greetings from Johan Dada johan.devis@ping.be (home: Wivina 15, 1702, Belgium) ______________________________________________________________________________ the EXOTICA & NOVELTY CD OVERVIEW OF 1995 can now also be viewed at "http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/johan.html" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: johan.devis@ping.be (Johan Dada Vis) Subject: Re: new Releases Date: 13 Feb 1996 19:19:20 +0100 shkdwn@micron.net wrote : >releases coming up: Various Artists: Shots in the Dark -Mancini Tribute (Del Fi) anyone knows who's tributing here? Steve Allen- Plays Hi-Fi Music for Influentials (Varese Vintage) never heard of him; someone wants to tell something about him? thanx! -johan dada ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Dan Gresham Subject: Re: Vampyros Lesbos Soundtrack Date: 13 Feb 1996 19:42:31 +0000 (GMT) On Mon, 12 Feb 1996, Bryan Jare Cuevas wrote: > Dan - > Can you e-mail me the complete information on this > reissue...catalogue numbers, artist(s), etc. I'd like to try > and order it. Bryan - VAMPYROS LESBOS - Sexadelic Dance Party Music from the original motion picture soundtracks. Conducted and written by Manfred Hubler & Siegried Schwab Released on Crippled Dick Hot Wax - PO Box 2864, 78027 VS-Schwenningen, Germany. Fax +49+7720+22435 Track Listing 1. Droge CX9 2. The Lions and the Cucumber 3. There's no satisfaction 4. Dedicated to love 5. People's playground version A 6. We don't care 7. People's playground version B 8. The ballad of a fair singer 9. Necromania 10. Kamasutra 11. The Message 12. Shindai Lovers 13. The six wisdoms of Aspasia 14. Countdown to nowhere Hope this is helpful. Dan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Bryan Stewart" Subject: Right Stuff/Ultra Lounge Date: 13 Feb 1996 17:33:40 -0500 This may sound like a stupid question but what is the difference between "Ultra Lounge" and "Right Stuff"? Are they two newly created divisions of Capitol or what? Who is running them? Thanks, Bryan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lazlo Nibble Subject: Right Stuff/Ultra Lounge Date: 13 Feb 1996 15:41:03 -0700 (MST) > This may sound like a stupid question but what is the difference between > "Ultra Lounge" and "Right Stuff"? Are they two newly created divisions > of Capitol or what? Who is running them? As far as I know, The Right Stuff is a distinct sublabel that Capitol created to exploit certain portions of their back catalog. (One Right Stuff release that comes to mind is the Sedated In The Eighties series -- well, at least No.4, that's the one I have.) Ultra-Lounge is not a sublabel or division but a Capitol reissue series a la the Capitol Collectors Series, the Capitol Sings series, and so forth -- Brad Benedict is in charge of the Ultra-Lounge volumes announced so far. -- ::: Lazlo (lazlo@swcp.com; http://www.swcp.com/lazlo) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Katie Eagan & Jeff Phillips Subject: Re: Tony Mottola/Enoch Light and other things Date: 13 Feb 1996 18:46:00 -0800 (EST) On Mon, 12 Feb 1996, ANITA SERWACKI wrote: > Strangely enough, I was thinking many similar things about Enoch > Light last night. Lately, his name has seemed to come up everywhere > (I recently even met someone who worked with him, but it was unfortunately > not a situation where I could really ask the person questions about > Mr. Light). > > IS Enoch still alive? DOES anyone have any information about him? Sadly, Maestro Light is no longer with us. From Who Was Who in America (I forget the volume number): LIGHT, ENOCH HENRY, record company executive; born in Canton, Ohio, August 18, 1905; son of Morris and Rose (Feiman) Light; B.A. Johns Hopkins, 1926; M.A. NYU, 1953; student Mozarteum, Salzburg, Austria, 1929; married Mary Danis, November 18, 1927; children--Julie Light Klages, Mary Jack Light Wald. Music conductor in France, Germany, Italy, also recording artist for RCA Victor and Columbia records, 1938-40; president of Waldorf Music Hall Records, NYC, 1954-59, and Award Record Co., NYC, 1959-65; executive VP & managing director of Command Record Co., NYC, 1959-65; director of Grand Award Record Co., NYC, 1966-78, also Record Songs, NYC; producer Persuasive Percussion, Stereo 35, also Broadway shows, 9 Beethoven symphonies; teacher, NYU, 1959; pioneer of 4 channel recording, 1963-78; member of the national resources committee, Johns Hopkins, 1963-78; member of the president's council, NYU, 1967-78. Recipient of the Record Achievement award Industrial Department NYC Department of Commerce, 1964; award for finest Beethoven recordings, NY Times, 1970; award for outstanding contribution to music, Institute of High Fidelity, 1972; Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award, NYU, 1976 and Johns Hopkins, 1978. Member of ASCAP, Professional Music Men, National Association of Conductors and Composers, Pi Lambda Phi. Clubs: Johns Hopkins, NYU, Redding Country. Composer of popular songs; innovator of new developments in multi-microphone recording, stereo recording, and magnetic film recording. Home: West Redding, CT. Died July 31, 1978; buried Umpawaug Burial Ground, Redding, CT. I don't know about you, but I'm getting me a copy of his Beethoven 9 and hitching a ride to Umpawaug. EZ does it, Jeff Phillips eaganca@cleo.bc.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Daniel Sean Grzegorczyk Subject: Re: Exotica in Billboard Magazi Date: 13 Feb 1996 12:05:06 -0500 please remove me from this newsgroup, sean ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: viktrola@usa.nai.net Subject: Re: Exotica in Billboard Magazi Date: 13 Feb 1996 21:01:02 -0500 >A while back, someone on this list mentioned that Billboard Magazine would >have an article dealing with Exotica sometime in February. > >If you're out there, can you post the issue release date agin, please? Or i= f >it's out and somebody has read it, could you please comment on it? > the date was February 10 (last week's issue). not so much an article as an= info-tisement...it did have some swell ads and an extremely light= "overview" of the genre. also listed a few swank nightspots, radio shows,= and a tentative release schedule thru june. check the library...not really= worth $5.50 i remain... viktrola@nai,net Vik's Lounge Of Self Indulgence http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/lounge.html Have you voted in the Great Grilled Cheese Debate? http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/kitchen.html#soup ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: viktrola@usa.nai.net Subject: Ultra Right Date: 13 Feb 1996 21:02:54 -0500 >This may sound like a stupid question but what is the difference between= "Ultra=20 >Lounge" and "Right Stuff"? Are they two newly created divisions of Capitol= or=20 >what? Who is running them? =20 > "Right Stuff" is an actual Capitol label (specializing in re-issues). It = began with primarily R+B material but has begun to branch out into more of= Capitol's vaults. "Ultra Lounge" is a series of re-issues from Capitol (not= a label name per se). Brad Benedict is in charge of the "Ultra Lounge"= project. I have no idea who's involved with Right Stuff... i remain... viktrola@nai,net Vik's Lounge Of Self Indulgence http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/lounge.html Have you voted in the Great Grilled Cheese Debate? http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/kitchen.html#soup ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: LTepedino@aol.com Subject: Re: Right Stuff/Ultra Lounge Date: 13 Feb 1996 21:31:06 -0500 "Ultra Lounge" is the name of the series of "lounge music" that Capitol is releasing...The Right Stuff is an imprint from Capitol that primarily specializes in reissues (not necessarily "lounge" stuff.. Ashley ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Daniel Sean Grzegorczyk Subject: Re: Vampyros Lesbos Soundtrack Date: 13 Feb 1996 21:02:03 -0500 please get me off this goddamn music group sean ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Daniel Sean Grzegorczyk Subject: Re: Right Stuff/Ultra Lounge Date: 13 Feb 1996 21:03:05 -0500 please get me off this goddamn music group. sean ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Daniel Sean Grzegorczyk Subject: Re: Right Stuff/Ultra Lounge Date: 13 Feb 1996 21:42:42 -0500 please remove me from this group, sean ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mimis@synergy.net Subject: Re: Tony Mottola/Enoch Light and other things Date: 13 Feb 1996 22:24:09 -0600 Is Tony Mottola, e-z guitarist, any relation to Tommy Mottola, Sony Big Cigar and husband of e-z singer They-Call-The-Wind-Mariah Carrey? / ----- --- - Mimi Schneider mimis@synergy.net | The Roots of Lounge [|] http://www.expanse.com/ads/kiwr/rootsoflounge.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Daniel Sean Grzegorczyk Subject: Re: Tony Mottola/Enoch Light and other things Date: 13 Feb 1996 21:08:07 -0500 please help me get off this music group. sean ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Bryan Stewart" Subject: Ultra Lounge/Right Stuff Date: 14 Feb 1996 09:53:22 -0500 The reason I asked was beacuse I assumed that seeings how 'Right Stuff' was releasing Yma Sumac's reissiues, that they would do the same for Les Baxter. Someone else mention that 'Ultra Lounge' would probably do it. It sounded to me like it was a was another sub-label from Capitol. Like 'Right Stuff'. I thought it was a little confusing. Bryan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Dan Gresham Subject: Re: Vampyros Lesbos Soundtrack Date: 14 Feb 1996 14:08:14 +0000 (GMT) On Tue, 13 Feb 1996, Daniel Sean Grzegorczyk wrote: > please get me off this goddamn music group > sean I don't want this! Get my name off your goddamn email! Dan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Daniel Sean Grzegorczyk Subject: Re: Vampyros Lesbos Soundtrack Date: 14 Feb 1996 11:16:05 -0500 please remove me from this goddamn group ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: johan.devis@ping.be (Johan Dada Vis) Subject: Bonanza cd box set Date: 14 Feb 1996 19:16:10 +0100 German Bear Family has released a 4 cd box with all the Bonanza & Lorne Green LPs (BCD 15684-DI, DEM150) -johan dada ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: johan.devis@ping.be (Johan Dada Vis) Subject: postings seperator Date: 14 Feb 1996 19:17:42 +0100 i would like to see some kind of separator between each posting in the digest version, in order to skip easily to the next one; don't know what others think about this, and if, technically speaking, it is possible... lazlo? -johan dada ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: johan.devis@ping.be (Johan Dada Vis) Subject: Re: Women of exotica Date: 14 Feb 1996 19:18:15 +0100 would anyone else consider Marilyn Monroe to be "exotic"? i do: she just is too sexy, too dumb, too romantic, too heavy breathing-singing, too campy... too much of everything and slightly over the top. some of her film songs ("heat wave", "specialisation" ...) have great arrangements, nice percussion too. -johan dada ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: johan.devis@ping.be (Johan Dada Vis) Subject: Re: Wimoweh Date: 14 Feb 1996 19:18:31 +0100 bbigelow@netrail.net (Brad Bigelow) wrote: >"The Lion Sleeps Tonight" is an American adaptation of "Wimoweh," which is >an American adaptation of "M'bube," ("The Lion") which was a South African >adaptation of a Zulu chant. Solomon Linda penned the South African >adaptation, which was a best seller there back in 1939 Salomon Linda's Original Evening Birds' version can be heard on the compil lp "Mbube roots - zulu choral music from south africa, 1930s-1960s" (rounder 5025, 1987) -johan dada ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lazlo Nibble Subject: postings seperator Date: 14 Feb 1996 11:48:30 -0700 (MST) > i would like to see some kind of separator between each posting in the > digest version, in order to skip easily to the next one; don't know what > others think about this, and if, technically speaking, it is possible... > lazlo? I don't get the digest, but I've seen copies in the archives and I've received a couple of bounces as administrator, and they already have separators between the postings -- each pair of postings has a "----------------------------" between them. Are you not seeing these? You can also search ahead for the next "Subject:" line. -- ::: Lazlo (lazlo@swcp.com; http://www.swcp.com/lazlo) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Bryan Stewart" Subject: Reissues Date: 14 Feb 1996 15:29:57 -0500 So now that "Ultra Lounge" has come out, how would you rate in decending order, RCA Space Age Pop, DCC Music of Batchelor's Den, Rhino's Cocktail Mix or Capitol's Ultra Lounge? I'm sure ALL have great tunes on them but I want to know where I should invest as a start. There is so much comming out now that I would appreciate some direction in this. With your help, I can come to a decision. Thanks, Bryan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Grant China Subject: Re: Reissues Date: 14 Feb 1996 10:13:33 -1000 At 10:03 AM 2/14/96 -1000, you wrote: >So now that "Ultra Lounge" has come out, how would you rate in decending >order, RCA Space Age Pop, DCC Music of Batchelor's Den, Rhino's Cocktail Mix >or Capitol's Ultra Lounge? > >I'm sure ALL have great tunes on them but I want to know where I should >invest as a start. There is so much comming out now that I would appreciate >some direction in this. With your help, I can come to a decision. Obviously this is purely a matter of personal tast but here is one data point (1=best, 4=worst): 1) Capitol's Ultra Lounge 2) DCC's Music for a Bachelor's Den 3) RCA's History of Space Age Pop 4) Rhino's Cocktail Mix Background: I have "Mondo Exotica" and "Mambo Fever" from Capitol's Ultra Lounge, "Music for a Bachelor's Den" from DCC and all three of RCA's SABPM CDs. I do not own any of Rhino's Cocktail Mix CDs but have looked them over at the music store. Aloha, Grant China ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: RPPeek@aol.com Subject: Re: Reissues Date: 14 Feb 1996 15:21:14 -0500 I've only got the RCAs and the first 3 Ultra Lounges, but I can tell you that all the RCAs are great and I can't stop listening to the UL vol. 3 (Spacecapades). If the others are nearly as good, I'd say start anywhere and get them all over time. BTW -- I'll throw this out to the group -- I find the compilation format especially suited to this genre (even though I own and enjoy a lot of the full length albums), since it affords the opportunity to sample a lot of LPs (not to mention finding out about the more obscure ones) while enjoying a programmed radio-type "best-of" format. Thoughts? Preston ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bbigelow@netrail.net (Brad Bigelow) Subject: Re: new Releases Date: 14 Feb 1996 21:07:19 -0500 > Steve Allen- Plays Hi-Fi Music for Influentials (Varese Vintage) > never heard of him; someone wants to tell something about him? Steve Allen was the original host of the Tonight Show and hosted a number of American TV variety shows through the early 70s. He also wrote a few popular songs, his most famous being "This Could Be the Start of Something Big," which got a second life as the Ocean Spray cranberry juice jingle. He recorded a few LPs for Decca, very light jazz with string backing. I listened to one a few years ago and found it pretty forgettable. Save your money and buy something else. He also fancies himself something of an intellectual and hosted a really, really bad show called "Meeting of the Minds" on public television about 15 years ago. He, his wife Jayne Meadows, and other actors would dress up as philosophers and act out imaginary debates. It's a toss-up which was worse: the costumes or the dialog. Allen has a reputation among interviewers for being a pompous bore, but he held his own as a talk show host before Jack Paar and Johnny Carson. Brad Bigelow bbigelow@netrail.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bryan Jare Cuevas Subject: RECENT REISSUES - A GRIPE! Date: 14 Feb 1996 20:53:00 -0500 (EST) Ok, here's my complaint - I've noticed that all these "lounge" compilations have a problem with repeating themselves. At this point, we have a number of collections to choose from - RCA's "History of Space-Age Pop" (3 volumes), Capitol's "Ultra-Lounge" (3 volumes, 3 more to come), Rhino's "Cocktail Mix" (3 volumes, more on the way), DCC's "Music for a Bachelor's Den" (4 volumes), ReSearch's "Incredibly Strange Music" (2 volumes), and so on.... Now, from the looks of things it would appear that there exists only a very limited group of artists whose music is worthy enough to be included in these reissue packages. But it gets even worse - not only do we see the same artists over and over and over again, we also see the same songs by those same artists over and over and over again. Come on! Certainly, the resources are much richer than this. I love Les Baxter, The Three Suns, Perrey & Kingsley, to name just a few, but can't we get some VARIETY?! How many times do we need Bas Sheva's "Lust" or The Three Suns "Danny's Inferno", or Perrey & Kingsley's "Swan's Splashdown".....? Let me give you more examples - MARTIN DENNY "Quiet Village" (who knows how many compilations in which this appears). FELIX SLATKIN "I Get a Kick Out of You" (I know of at least 3 collections this shows up in). BOBBY HAMMACK "Powerhouse" (2 or 3 here, as well). HENRI RENE & HIS ORCHESTRA "Hansel and Pretzel" (2 at least). THREE SUNS "Danny's Inferno", "Fever" (I know beyond a shadow of a doubt there are many, many more Three Suns' tunes that NEED to be heard!) RUSS CASE & HIS ORCHESTRA "War Dance for Wooden Indians" (2 at least). I could go on....I haven't even begun to mention the Latin/Bossa Nova/Mambo stuff! Anyway, in plain English my question is this.....is it really too much trouble to include different songs on different collections. Take Les Baxter/Bas Sheva for example, I don't deny that "Lust" or "Terror" are fabulous cuts, but can't someone reissue another track off the "Passions" album? A great majority of these artists recorded an enormous amount of material, why don't these new CD reissues reflect this fact. I'm frustrated. Bryan J. Cuevas ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: erik@top.monad.net Subject: Re: new Releases Date: 15 Feb 1996 04:43:12 -0500 <---- Begin Included Message ----> > Steve Allen- Plays Hi-Fi Music for Influentials (Varese Vintage) > never heard of him; someone wants to tell something about him? Steve Allen was the original host of the Tonight Show and hosted a number of American TV variety shows through the early 70s. He also wrote a few popular songs, his most famous being "This Could Be the Start of Something Big," which got a second life as the Ocean Spray cranberry juice jingle. He recorded a few LPs for Decca, very light jazz with string backing. I listened to one a few years ago and found it pretty forgettable. Save your money and buy something else. (Buncha stuff deleted...) <---- End Included Message ----> Also worth mentioning is the fact that Steve is credited with having given Jerry Lee Lewis his T.V. break and, in fact, I think one of Jerry's kids was named Steve, after Steve Allen. Steve Allen also played piano on Jack Kerouac's first album. Steve was even given co-billing! The album, "Poetry For the Beat Generation," is well worth a listen, though currently only available as part of Rhino's 3-disc Kerouac boxed set. --Jon Johnson erik@top.monad.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Mark Koldys Subject: Re: Knuckles O'Toole Date: 15 Feb 1996 07:35:33 -0500 (EDT) Someone asked if "Knuckles O'Toole" is a made-up name. He's a Honky Tonk pianist who made his name on Enoch Light's first label, Grand Award records. I learned to my surprise recently that this IS a made-up name, and that Knuckles was actually Dick Hyman. (Maybe everyone else knew this but I didn't!) mkoldys@rust.net "All foxes come at last to fur store." --Charlie Chan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lazlo Nibble Subject: Re: new Releases Date: 15 Feb 1996 10:53:08 -0700 (MST) > Steve Allen was the original host of the Tonight Show and hosted a number of > American TV variety shows through the early 70s... As pointed out on The Simpsons, he's also the inventor of the Pog. :-) -- ::: Lazlo (lazlo@swcp.com; http://www.swcp.com/lazlo) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: johan.devis@ping.be (Johan Dada Vis) Subject: Vampyros Lesbos Soundtracks Date: 15 Feb 1996 19:41:20 +0100 is on MOTEL RECORDS 60259 1 2, but according to both CDWorld and AB CD's it isn't released/avail. yet -johan dada ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: johan.devis@ping.be (Johan Dada Vis) Subject: cocktail songs Date: 15 Feb 1996 19:42:05 +0100 Fred Astaire: "The martini": he gives (talking, not singing) the recepy for making a perfect martini. -johan dada ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: kjmartin@earthlink.net (Kevin Martin) Subject: Re: new Releases Date: 15 Feb 1996 11:07:42 -0800 At 9:07 PM 2/14/96, Brad Bigelow wrote: >> Steve Allen- Plays Hi-Fi Music for Influentials (Varese Vintage) >> never heard of him; someone wants to tell something about him? > >He also fancies himself something of an intellectual and hosted a really, >really bad show called "Meeting of the Minds" on public television about 15 >years ago. The other really notorious thing about Steve Allen (other than his pretensions to being a "jazz" artist) was his unbridled hatred and ignorance of rock'n'roll. On his programs he would regularly rail against "teen music" and attempt to show his contempt by quoting lyrics (to songs such as "Tutti Frutti"). He was outspoken in his contempt for Elvis Presley and the Beatles and was in league with the likes of Mitch Miller and Arthur Godfey to do what he could to limit their popularity. In retrospective, that behavior may endear him to certain members of this list, but in actuality it did nothing more than make him appear to be a fool. (A fate that also befell Mitch Miller in his later years.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: kjmartin@earthlink.net (Kevin Martin) Subject: Re: Reissues Date: 15 Feb 1996 11:08:15 -0800 At 10:13 AM 2/14/96, Grant China wrote: >1) Capitol's Ultra Lounge >2) DCC's Music for a Bachelor's Den >3) RCA's History of Space Age Pop >4) Rhino's Cocktail Mix > >Background: I have "Mondo Exotica" and "Mambo Fever" from Capitol's Ultra >Lounge, "Music for a Bachelor's Den" from DCC and all three of RCA's SABPM >CDs. I do not own any of Rhino's Cocktail Mix CDs but have looked them over >at the music store. If you were to hear the Rhino collection, you might change your ranking. I am really fond of it and would rank it above the RCA collection (which I have) and the DCC series (which, as you said re: Rhino, I have seen in stores often but never felt motivated to get). I do plan to get the Capitol collection, so I'll reserve judgment until I get them. I can say that the sonic fidelity of the Rhino collection is excellent, and posts to the list indicate that some mono on the Capitol recordings has been reprocessed, which bugs me, no matter how good it is. When I was "in the industry" in the 1980s Capitol was busily reissuing a series of Beatles tracks, some of which were doctored with in the studio (by Capitol Hollywood, _not_ George Martin or Geoff Emerick) and whatever value/interest the original recordings had were diluted by their tinkering. For the record, I worked with RCA too in that era and they were no better. kjm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: William Straw Subject: Unidentified subject! Date: 15 Feb 1996 12:42:37 -0700 (MST) Let's not forget Steve Allen's mid sixties bossa nova organ album, rereleased on budget CD, which is cheesy enough, though a friend of mine swears by it. Will Straw ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: dyemund@best.com (Jack Diamond) Subject: who is steve allen ? Date: 15 Feb 1996 15:05:35 +0000 Johan, steve allen is still alive and most definitely 1 of the coolest cats that ever lived. he was the originator of the tonit show befor jack parr and johnny carson in the 50's/60's, called what else but, "the steve allen show" and was a beatnik of sorts. tremendously intelligent, bright and very very funny. a comedian too. a contemporary of ernie kovacs, woody allen, and many more cool whacked out genius's "Record collecting is no mere hobby, no leisurely innocuous diversion. It's a feverish passion bordering on dementia, driving those under its influence to irrational,compulsive and sometimes fanatical extremes." 3-93 JD Ciao for now Jack ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Bryan Stewart" Subject: Re: new Releases Date: 16 Feb 1996 10:50:53 -0500 Steve Allen is entitled to have his own opinion. Not everyone HAS to like rock n' roll. Bryan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: transmat@teleport.com Subject: Re: new Releases Date: 16 Feb 1996 07:43:40 -0800 >Steve Allen is entitled to have his own opinion. Not everyone HAS to like >rock >n' roll. > Thanks, Bryan, 'cause I don't. "It's all Billy Joel to me." _`~=~=~`boom~~`boom~=~= _-I-__\ /__ ` ~ / \_ -I- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Robbie Baldock Subject: Re: Vampyros Lesbos OST Date: 15 Feb 1996 14:41:27 -0700 (MST) Hi all - Anyone who'd like a copy of this? I can probably get vinyl or CD copies fairly easily (my friendly exotiac record store friend is a fan!). I believe the vinyl might even be blood red?! Email me direct if you are interested. Robbie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Robbie Baldock Subject: Re: Enoch Light Date: 15 Feb 1996 14:56:34 -0700 (MST) Re: Jeff Philips post That excerpt from Who Was Who was great - just the sort of thing we want! I was thinking, it might be a bit of a mammoth task, but I might just go ahead and do that Enoch Light page... I see there's no discography at Joseph Holmes SABPM site - I could do that too (if Light is classified as "SABPM"?!) though there are probably a good few hundred releases to cover! Any info, existing discogs would be appreciated - and a general indication of the level of interest - do you me to do want this?! I can't guarantee an instant page - give me time, I'll see what I can do... Robbie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: prospect@tt.net Subject: Re: new Releases Date: 16 Feb 1996 12:08:17 -0600 t he held his own as a talk show host before Jack >Paar and Johnny Carson. Jeez prad some of this seems kind of harsh, I mean you are talking about one of the pioners of the medium, not to say that he is beyond criticsm but come on. Steve Alllen helped to shape Televisons glory period. And while he may have hated Rock and Roll he did do wonders for the Beats, correct me if I am wrong but wasn't he the first (if not one of the only) people to put Kerouac on TV. He also starded in the cinematic version of Benny Goodman's life story. Steve Allen may not be the greatest thing since sliced bread,but you have to hand it to the guy for inovating a lot of stuff . Through Ranting Chris T H I S S P A C E F O R R E N T ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: KRIS@MOM.SPIE.ORG Subject: The Mancini Generation/ARP Synthesizer Date: 16 Feb 1996 14:16:51 -0800 (PST) I picked this up for a dollar (sealed even!) a bit ago and was giving it a second listen last night. Not the best Mancini I've heard, but has a crazy jazz arrangement of J.S. Bach's "Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring" retitled as "Joy" which is patently surreal. Also some interesting originals by Mr. Mancini and a strangely straightforward rendition of "Amazing Grace". What stands out on this slab though is Henri's new toy: the ARP Synthesizer. It sounds something like a digital sample of a human whistle with a bit of a pitch bend at the start of each note. Very odd sounding... appears on almost every tune, but not enough to annoy (I could see great potential for overuse, but Henri and the other two ARP players exercised taste and control, thank- fully.) Does anyone know how the ARP sound was acheived? btw... this album is a collection from his television show, circa '69 or so. I wasn't aware that they let him run loose on the tube like that. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Desmond K. Hill" Subject: 'One by One' by Free Design Date: 17 Feb 1996 08:06:57 +0000 Actually, 'One by One' was performed not by New Direction, as I previously posted, but by Free Design. The quandary over who & why still remains. If anyone can offer a little history lesson, I'd be intrigued to hear.. I picked up a cheap copy of the album 'One by One' by Free Design (Project 3: total sound Stereo, 1972) last week, after my eyes fell upon 'Enoch Light Presents' in the top corner of the sleeve. (Being the producer of many releases on Command in the early '60s). A trio, apparently from NYC, their sound is gentle, lite & melodic with the typically hippie-esque lyrics of the period. The production is wonderfully clear & warm. Can anyone shine any light on this: did Free Design record any other albums, were there more releases on the label, how was Enoch Light involved, etc? All thoughts appreciated. best wishes, des ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: " | dave | " Subject: Re: 'One by One' by Free Design Date: 17 Feb 1996 04:27:06 -0600 (CST) > I picked up a cheap copy of the album 'One by One' by > Free Design (Project 3: total sound Stereo, 1972) last > week, after my eyes fell upon 'Enoch Light Presents' in > the top corner of the sleeve. (Being the producer of many > releases on Command in the early '60s). A trio, apparently > from NYC, their sound is gentle, lite & melodic with the > typically hippie-esque lyrics of the period. The production > is wonderfully clear & warm. > > Can anyone shine any light on this: did Free Design > record any other albums, were there more releases on the > label, how was Enoch Light involved, etc? I'm afraid I can't offer any definitive historical lessons on the Free Design, but suffice it to say that they had more than a few LPs - I've been told that there were at least six (including one record for children!). I have a couple of their LPs - "Kites Are Fun" and "Heaven/Earth". The three original members of the group (a fourth was added later) are siblings, their father being trumpet player Art Dedrick, who had his own band and did some arranging for Vaughn Monroe's band. The interesting thing is this: four of their Enoch Light-produced LPs (including "Kites Are Fun" and "One by One") have been reissued in Japan on CD on the same label that my friend's band, The Legendary Jim Ruiz Group, is on there - Trattoria. (As I mentioned in an earlier post, Jim & Co. returned to Minneapolis a while back from a trip to Japan, having played there in a one-night Trattoria showcase.) Trattoria is a great little label that's been around a few years & has been putting out some really cool retro-flavored Japanese pop along with things from the UK as well (stuff on the El/Cherry Red label) & now a fair number of reissues of esoterica from the past. They recently reissued Jerry Goldsmith's "Planet of the Apes" - also Enoch Light Project 3 - in Japan (although it's already available over here on CD on the Intrada label, I think) along with the Free Design stuff and a bunch of Bill Wyman's solo stuff! If you like the more retro/jazzy/60s pop side of Pizzicato 5, you'll love another Japanese group called Bridge - they have a CD called "Preppy Kicks" that'll blow your mind. Trattoria has also been issuing compilations featuring some of the recent crop of jazzy indie-pop that's been coming out lately over here - like Eggstone from Sweden & Le Mans from Spain. At any rate, Trattoria has a web site at: http://www.eccosys.com/PEOPLE/trattoria/index.html If you choose "Trattoria menu", you can see a listing/graphic showing all of the stuff that's come out on the label, including pictures of the Free Design albums (& track listings). The CD I worked on (design-wise) for The Legendary Jim Ruiz Group should be appearing there soon... ;) dave /\\ \\ \\ \\ / \\ \\ \\ \\ the arouet label / \\ \\ \\ \\ ZING! ZING! -----------// // // //------> arouet@winternet.com \ // // // // \// // // // fnast! image ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: PeteKitsch@aol.com Subject: Re: The Mancini Generation/ARP Synthesizer Date: 17 Feb 1996 08:34:20 -0500 In a message dated 96-02-16 17:24:06 EST, you write: >Does anyone know how the ARP sound was acheived? ARP made analog synthesizers, mostly. As far as I know used the same VCO/VCF technology as everyone else. And the Bach update ("Joy") was a top 10 hit in late '71 for Apollo 100. Mancini's version must've been a cover of that. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Jan Fornell Subject: Les Baxter CD Date: 17 Feb 1996 23:47:00 +0900 In a record store in Tokyo last week I found a (single) CD including Les Baxter's classic albums "Tamboo" (which I already had on LP) and "Ritual of the Savage" (which I didn't have). The CD is released by something called Tikitune Records, and has a distinctly bootleggy flavor: you can actually hear the needle descend into the old LP grooves. The insert lists 24 tracks, but for some reason there are in fact only 23 on the CD. A quick comparison with my "Tamboo" LP revealed that the track "Batumba" is missing, even though there is an evocative description of it in the sleeve notes. Although several other of my Les Baxter LPs have individual descriptions of each track, my Capitol copy of "Tamboo" just has a general description of the whole album, stating that Tamboo is the Haitian Creole word for drums (is it really?). I wonder if the track descriptions on the CD are from some other release, or if they were invented by somebody at Tikitune. Jan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lear Subject: Orgy of the Exotix Date: 17 Feb 1996 12:23:01 EST Hey all, I just wanted to let everyone know that I picked up the ORGY OF THE DEAD soundtrack a few weeks ago (it was a "horror" film written by the illustrious Ed Wood Jr.). And as I was listening to it just yesterday I thought to tell everyone hear how utterly gonesville it is! There is dialogue from the film included on the disc but the music... MAN!!!! It's got bits of Indian chants, car wreck tunes, gypsy guitar, and exotic clarinet. Not to mention a drop of go-go sounds during the "Golden Woman Ritual." It's put out by Kramer on his (apparently) new label Strangelove Records. That was a bonus I wasn't even aware of until I opened it. Great stuff for boys and girls alike... Adios, Lear &*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&* "CHAOS NEVER DIED... #blear@clam.rutgers.edu# ...Eros never grew a beard." *&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*& hakim bey ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: RPPeek@aol.com Subject: Re: Orgy of the Exotix Date: 17 Feb 1996 12:41:55 -0500 "I just wanted to let everyone know that I picked up the ORGY OF THE DEAD soundtrack a few weeks ago (it was a "horror" film written by the illustrious Ed Wood Jr.). And as I was listening to it just yesterday I thought to tell everyone hear how utterly gonesville it is! There is dialogue from the film included on the disc but the music... MAN!!!! It's got bits of Indian chants, car wreck tunes, gypsy guitar, and exotic clarinet. Not to mention a drop of go-go sounds during the "Golden Woman Ritual." It's put out by Kramer on his (apparently) new label Strangelove Records. That was a bonus I wasn't even aware of until I opened it. Great stuff for boys and girls alike..." The flick is pretty gone, too. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: patrick@xpedite.com (Patrick Cashin) Subject: Unidentified subject! Date: 17 Feb 1996 12:46:03 EST If you think the soundtrack is wiggin' try sitting through ORGY OF THE DEAD. It was just re-issued by Rhino and should be in the discount ($9.99) rack at the Suncoast Video in your local mall. Bad strippers, bad acting, bad dialog, bad direction...The kind of a movie that leaves you helpless, head in hands, wondering how a mess like this could ever have been produced. A real stinker-roo, coming and going. In other words, a perfect backround video for your next party. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: LTepedino@aol.com Subject: Re: new Releases Date: 17 Feb 1996 16:31:44 -0500 The Mancini tribute is worth the price of admission alone for Br. Cleve's (Combustible Edison's touring keyboardist) space age version of the great Peter Gunn album track "Dreamsville". Ashley ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: LTepedino@aol.com Subject: Re: Les Baxter CD Date: 17 Feb 1996 16:34:42 -0500 Ther Tikitune release is just a badly put together bootleg whose sonic quality matches any garage sale copy of these two Baxter albums that you can find. Ashley ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Martin Schildkret Subject: Re: Tony Mottola/Enoch Light and other things Date: 17 Feb 1996 16:42:47 -0500 (EST) On Mon, 12 Feb 1996, ANITA SERWACKI wrote: > Just remembered that Tony Mottola also plays on the "Enoch Light > presents Dick Hyman 'Fantomfingers'" LP which I posted about > a few hours back. Tony Mottola was one of the core that made up "Enoch Light and The Light Brigade." He was on just about every one of the EL releases. > Mottola probably played on hundreds of LPs - and probably put out a few > solos - my parents passed on his "Guitar Factory" LP (EMI Studio Two) which > has some great stuff on it and I know he did at least one other Studio > Two LP... Tony Mottola issued at least a dozen releases on his own. > Is Mottola still with us? Is there a discography? Yes and not that I know of. > And just why, if Enoch Light was such a superstar band leader as he > appears to have been (or at least so say the LP sleeves!), does no-one > seem to know anything about _him_, and why isn't there an Enoch Light WWW > page?! Hey, maybe I should set one up! He was and a very good question. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: patrick@xpedite.com (Patrick Cashin) Subject: Cocktail Mix 2 Date: 17 Feb 1996 16:38:42 EST In response to Cocktail Mix Volume 2: Why did they call Mel Torme the "Velvet Fog"? I don't know too much about him but if the song "Comin' Home Baby" any indicator, his nickname should have been "The More Than Slightly Creepy White-Bread Ray Charles Impersonator". Am I missing something? Did anyone know that "Soul Bossa Nova" was sampled by a rap act called the "Dream Warriors" and is the basis for the song "My Definition of a Boombastic Jazz Style". "Cantaloupe Island" got the same treatment by US3 and was called "Cantaloupe". ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: LTepedino@aol.com Subject: Re: Cocktail Mix 2 Date: 17 Feb 1996 17:01:43 -0500 Uncle Mel got his name the Velvet Fog because of his smooth enveloping vocal delivery that sneaks up and engulfs you ...don't go by the rather unrepresentative track chosen merely for its kitschiness on the Rhino comp. If you want to hear the real Mel grab one of his jazz albums - that man is the king of scat! Search out Stash's compilation "Round Midnight" or any CD with the ultimate Mel-evolent performance "Lulu's Back In Town"..by the way that's him in the zany Mountain Dew commerical jumping off the Rio sign in Las Vegas. As for "Cantaloupe" the original definitive version by Herbie Hancock called "Canataloupe Island" (five and a half minutes of pure cool) appears on the album of the same name, reissued on Blue Note two years ago in response to the US3 cover version. Regards Ashley ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Dan Gresham Subject: Re: Cocktail Mix 2 Date: 17 Feb 1996 23:15:47 +0000 (GMT) On Sat, 17 Feb 1996, Patrick Cashin wrote: > Did anyone know that "Soul Bossa Nova" was sampled by a rap act called > the "Dream Warriors" and is the basis for the song "My Definition of > a Boombastic Jazz Style". "Cantaloupe Island" got the same treatment > by US3 and was called "Cantaloupe". You really ought to check out the cover of Canteloupe Island by Third Wave (available on the UK compilation `Talkin Jazz', released on the Talkin Loud label) and Donald Byrd's version (available on `Talkin Verve', released on the Verve label, suprisingly...) Us3's version doesn't stand a chance against either of these (by the way, you'll all probably prefer Third Wave's version - the melody's kind of scat sung by a group of schoolgirls. It's fantastic) Take it _easy_, Dan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: dyemund@best.com (Jack Diamond) Subject: Mel Torme Date: 17 Feb 1996 18:47:41 +0000 >Why did they call Mel Torme the "Velvet Fog"? I don't know too >much about him but if the song "Comin' Home Baby" any indicator, his >nickname should have been "The More Than Slightly Creepy White-Bread >Ray Charles Impersonator". Am I missing something? I gotta agree with you about this particular track. pretty damn horrible. rhino should saved this for their next sore throats release mel torme is a really great vocalist when he sings jazz and jazz laced with pop his scat singing is amazing if you are into that wordless vocal thing you will dig it i don't know a whole lot more, maybe cleve will clear the fog for us "Record collecting is no mere hobby, no leisurely innocuous diversion. It's a feverish passion bordering on dementia, driving those under its influence to irrational,compulsive and sometimes fanatical extremes." 3-93 JD Ciao for now Jack ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jbtwist@aol.com Subject: Elusive Exotica Date: 18 Feb 1996 02:52:29 -0500 Having read Vol I of Incredibly Strange Music shortly after its publication, I ventured forth into the thrifts, fleas, garages, & store bargain bins in search of music I hadn't already heard a zillion times. My efforts were amply rewarded, at minimal cost, and I discovered a multitude of treasures. In the last year or so it seems the unusual stuff has been harder to come by, as the used record stores set up exotica bins and slapped exorbitant prices(over $3.00) on the previously ignored easy listening vinyl. But with spring approaching, at least in CA, I hopefully returned to my favorite vinyl sources, and EUREKA, I found that there are still nuggets to be unearthed by a prospector with perseverance, even in the ultra-suave SF area. So get out there today and take a look! Who knows what you might find? Last week I scored the Mariachi Brass featuring Chet Baker in the Chiquita Banana song, Spanish tunes by Tony Mottola on gut-string guitar with Doc Severinsen and Dick Hyman, and Paul Anka "singing" actual WORDS to Misirlou. Today I got TWO copies of Enoch Light at Carnegie Hall, Peter Gunn, a Ruth Welcome zither LP, some Austrian yodeling(Happy Pants-Slapping Music of the Alps), Caterina Valente's Bongo Chachacha (in German), Tommy Garrett's 50 Guitars, and a dozen more, most VG or better for under $1.00 ! Not to mention a half dozen Three Suns, 101 Strings and Baja Marimba from the free box. But the catch of the day was definitely Russ Garcia's "Fantastica - Music From Outer Space", on Liberty. My copy is in poor condition, but this is essential SAP/SABPM at its finest !!!!! Similar to the outer space cuts on Dick Jacob's "Themes From Horror Movies" (now on Varese CD without Mort Goode's Karloff/Lugosi/Lorre intros, but still a classic). Anyone know if Fantastica is on CD ? If not, it MUST be released ASAP, are you listening industry people ? Pardon this lengthy post from a stranger, but I want you all to remember that half the fun is the thrill of the hunt, the adrenaline/endorphin rush when that black RCA Living Stereo band leaps out at you from a musty bargain bin, and the right record is inside. (I was heartbroken last week at the Salvation Army when a Randy Van Horne Singers cover held a different record.) BTW, Gleason + Hackett = Heaven ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Phil Clark Subject: Barbarella reissue etc Date: 18 Feb 1996 10:10:01 +0000 Hey exotifans Went to a party last night and bumped into one of the guys behind the EMI "Sound Gallery" album, and I have an update on a couple things... Bear in mind this is all "party conversation" and I guess therefore is hearsay, but I think it's pretty reliable... Soundtrack fans will be interested to hear that the "Barbarella" reissue (vinyl and CD) should be out this summer thru EMI. It apparently sounds x-cell-ent & the CD booklet will hopefully feature pics from the original costume designers, among other treats. There's a RCA (UK) comp in preparation which features among other things the title track from Hugo Montenegro's "Moog Power", plus some other groovy stuff, There's a second volume of "Sound Gallery" in prep which will be out in the summer following a repromotion of the first volume, And there's now a vinyl edition of the "Easy Project" swinging London album. Hope this is of interest! BCNU Phil phil@stimpy.demon.co.uk -- Phil Clark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: SYoungNYC@aol.com Subject: Free Design Date: 18 Feb 1996 16:01:51 -0500 I have an album that this group appears on that I suspect is ultra-rare--it's a promotional record from the U.S. Air Force for Christmas 1968. One side is the Free Design, the other side is the comedy and musical stylings of the popular duo Sandler and Young. At this point in their careers, there were 4 members of The Free Design (or is it Free Design?), all siblings, I believe. The only track I remember from the Free Design's side is "The Now Sounds Of Christmas", part of which is background for an announcer saying "This is a record for today's people, courtesy of the United States Air Force and your local recruiter. . ." or something to that effect. Although it didn't explicitly say, I surmised that some member of the Dedrick family was in or had been in the Air Force at some point, based on some dedication in the liner notes. . . I recall the music as sounding similar to the Mamas & Papas. Well, that's it. If anyone is obsessed with the Free Design, I'll make you a tape. It's a pretty interesting artifact of the times, with this odd juxtaposition of the Air Force and the groovy folk-rolk. Steve Young ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: patrick@xpedite.com (Patrick Cashin) Subject: archives? Date: 18 Feb 1996 19:35:38 EST ----- Begin Included Message ----- From exotica-request@xmission.com Wed Feb 14 13:54:13 1996 Resent-Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 11:54:00 -0700 (MST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-Id: <"JZbRQ.A.zAD.L6iIx"@xmission> Resent-From: exotica@xmission.com X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/161 X-Loop: exotica@xmission.com Resent-Sender: exotica-request@xmission.com Content-Length: 625 > i would like to see some kind of separator between each posting in the > digest version, in order to skip easily to the next one; don't know what > others think about this, and if, technically speaking, it is possible... > lazlo? >I don't get the digest, but I've seen copies in the archives and I've received >a couple of bounces as administrator, and they already have separators between >the postings -- each pair of postings has a "----------------------------" >between them. Are you not seeing these? You can also search ahead for the >next "Subject:" line. Hey, there's an archive? Why am I always the last one to know about stuff? Can anyone access the archive? Is there a secret password? A secret handshake? What do I have to do? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: BStew32559@aol.com Subject: Re: Elusive Exotica Date: 19 Feb 1996 10:15:53 -0500 I heard that Russ Garcia's "Fantastic, Music from Outer Space" is available in Japan on EMI. I haven't bought it so I can't tell you how good it is. I don't really want to pay the price for an import. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: HOUSEOBOB@aol.com Subject: thanks! Date: 19 Feb 1996 11:11:00 -0500 I just wanted to say thanks to whoever it was who raved about The Easy Project and the AVI Rare Surf compilations, both of which I have been enjoying immensely. (I prefer Vol. 1 of Rare Surf). Also, as far as Mel Torme goes,I am not that much of a fan but I love his version of Sunshine Superman which I think is on one of those Rhino Golden Throats cd's. It really swings. Bob ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Dan Gresham Subject: Re: Barbarella reissue etc Date: 19 Feb 1996 16:13:15 +0000 (GMT) On Sun, 18 Feb 1996, Phil Clark wrote: > Went to a party last night and bumped into one of the guys behind the > EMI "Sound Gallery" album, and I have an update on a couple things... > Bear in mind this is all "party conversation" and I guess therefore is > hearsay, but I think it's pretty reliable... This is all true - I've talked with Tris Penna (one of the curators) and he told me exactly the same things (about the sound gallery, anyway) > There's a second volume of "Sound Gallery" in prep which will be out in > the summer following a repromotion of the first volume, > > And there's now a vinyl edition of the "Easy Project" swinging London > album. Hasn't this been out for a long time? I've had my copy since about December... Dan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: JoeBatutis@aol.com Subject: Spacecapades Date: 19 Feb 1996 13:02:51 -0500 Howdy- I really enjoyed Ultra-Lounge vol. 3 Spacecapades. I wouldn't avoid picking it up. Although, except for a couple of tracks, it doesn't sound like Space music. It DOES sound more like busy housekeeping music... which is very handy when you dislike housekeeping as much as I do. Anyone get a hold of Korla Pandits new album yet? I hope this leads to some Korla reissues! Aren't a lot of his albums on fantasy? -Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: johan.devis@ping.be (Johan Dada Vis) Subject: help needed identifying this song * Date: 19 Feb 1996 19:37:01 +0100 on an old tape, i found a crazy version of "sunday girl", and it's either by Der Plan or by Family Fodder; it has a chipmunk voice, guitar, organ and child-xylophone; it could be Family Fodder, because they once (1980?) released a 12" maxi called "Sunday girls", but it also sounds a lot like the crazy Der Plan; these 2 groups were so creative, so you never know... if anyone recognises this and can confirm one of the 2 groups, and even better: has it for sale/trade, please let me know. many thanx! * Greetings from Johan Dada johan.devis@ping.be (home: Wivina 15, 1702, Belgium) ______________________________________________________________________________ the updated EXOTICA & NOVELTY CD OVERVIEW OF 1995 can be viewed at "http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/johan.html" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: johan.devis@ping.be (Johan Dada Vis) Subject: track list of Rhino's Cocktail Mix vol 1 Date: 19 Feb 1996 19:39:01 +0100 Dean Elliott & His Swinging Big, Big Band Will you still be mine The Three Suns Fever =46elix Slatkin I get a kick out of you Bob Thompson Star fire Henri Ren=E9 & His Orchestra Hansel and Pretzel Les Baxter's Drums Mood tattooed The Three Suns Danny's inferno Dave Harris & The Powerhouse Five The penguin Lenny dee China boy (go sleep) Russ Case & His Orchestra War dance for wooden indians David Carroll Hell's bells Bob Thompson Early-bird whirly bird Robert Maxwell, His Harp & His Orchestra Accidental slip on an oriental r= ug Alvino Rey Rock gently =46errante & Teicher Che si dice Jack Costanzo Inch worm Rolley Polley Blue rumba Bobby Hammark Quartet Powerhouse -johan dada ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: johan.devis@ping.be (Johan Dada Vis) Subject: "The exotic trilogy" & Spike Jones Date: 19 Feb 1996 19:37:32 +0100 as someone else already said: this cd (released in Holland on KBZ 200) has amongst others 7 cover versions of "Quiet village". this reminded me that Spike Jones And The Band That Plays For Fun once did a great parody of that song on their lp "Omnibust" (Liberty LST 7140), in which we hear the quest of an adventurer for the mysterious Quiet village, where the "exotica's" live and have their "rituals of the savages"; it ends with a typical mega-wacky Spike version of "Quiet village", almost unrecognisable. -johan dada ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bcleve@tiac.net (Brother Cleve) Subject: Re: Spacecapades Date: 19 Feb 1996 14:12:07 -0500 JoeBatutis (@aol.com) wrote: >Anyone get a hold of Korla Pandits new album yet? I hope this leads to some >Korla reissues! Aren't a lot of his albums on fantasy? There is a Korla CD in the works right now, compiled by and with cover art by Byron Werner. Due out later this year on Rhino. br cleve ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: lee@anti.com Subject: Re: NEW Korla CD Date: 19 Feb 1996 11:50:54 PST >There is a Korla CD in the works right now, compiled by and with cover art by >Byron Werner. Due out later this year on Rhino. BUT... THERE IS A BRAN' SPANKIN' NEW RECORDING coming out on Sympathy For The Record Industry, produced by LA lounge god Joey Seehee! It was recorded about two months ago and man...did they have a bear of a time getting Korla into a studio! It also contains a LIVE TRACK from the LA Cacophony Society/Joe Seehee/Pat Tierny sponsored event, The Azusa Palooza, (which happened last summer at the Azusa drive-in theater)! Also, Korla appears on Joey's Sympathy single. Anti mail-order has the single and will have the CD in case you're wonderin (shameless plug) or get it at your local Mom and Pop record store (cuz the chain's don't know where it's at!) (maybe this posting will quell the rumors that Dionysus and Sympathy are at each-other's throats!) Lee (workin' on President's day)! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: kjmartin@earthlink.net (Kevin Martin) Subject: Re: Cocktail Mix 2 Date: 17 Feb 1996 22:36:20 -0700 (MST) At 4:38 PM 2/17/96, Patrick Cashin wrote: > Why did they call Mel Torme the "Velvet Fog"? I don't know too >much about him but if the song "Comin' Home Baby" any indicator, his >nickname should have been "The More Than Slightly Creepy White-Bread >Ray Charles Impersonator". Am I missing something? Mel Torme has had a very long career as a consummately smooth jazz balladeer. I'm not sure why "Velvet Fog" is his nickname (this is one for br. cleve or Mr. Beatnick) but I can say that, although I like "Coming Home Baby," it is not indicative of his overall style -- it does share quite a resemblance in arrangement and structure to a Ray Charles effort. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: AMcCon@aol.com Subject: Re: Elusive Exotica Date: 19 Feb 1996 18:01:00 -0500 Russ Garcia's FANTASTICA is available as a Japanese import on Liberty. The sound quality is superb. So good, in fact, that the "other-worldly" sound effects on one track had me convinced my radiator was leaking one night... Arn AMcCon@aol.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jonny.S@eworld.com Subject: Re: Barbarella reissue etc Date: 19 Feb 1996 15:15:23 -0800 There's a second volume of "Sound Gallery" in prep which will be out in the summer following a repromotion of the first volume, I got a record about a month ago that ssays ... "brought to you by the people who brought you Sound Gallery- Studio Two" Its one LP with a blue cover I can't remember the title and don't have it in front of me. Is volume 2 a different record/ I also got Easy Project on vinyl it sounds great. It comes as an LP and 12" single with "Spiral" on the 12" Its quite an opus. I have a copy of Hugo Montenegro's Greatest Hits wich has "The Theme from The Fox" Great sylabic choral singing. I also love "Dizzy" on Moog Power. My obsession of the moment is searching for "Harper's Bizzare 4" for under 10 dollars. I finally got a copy of the 7" Evolution Control Comittee that has two Herb Alpert tracks with a Chuck D accapella sync'ed up over it. Its out of control! I'm looking foward to the Barbarella soundtrack. I've got a version of the theme on Shades Of Brass.Bobby Byrne with arrangments by Dick Hyman and the great Chico O'Farrill. Keep a look out for the Family of God double LP on vinyl with a gate fold jacket and great art work. It should be in specialty/ import shops within the month. Its all new original easy-Listening written and produced in NYC by two Brits. You can already pick up the cassette at Smylonylon in SoHo. They've only pressed two thousand copies till it gets picked up. I think its great and worth having. regards, Jonny Sender ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mimis@synergy.net Subject: Esquivel Meets The Millionaire 2/21 Date: 19 Feb 1996 19:02:13 -0600 > >From:mimis@synergy.net >Subject:Esquivel Meets The Millionaire 2/21 > >>Date: Tue, 20 Feb 96 00:45:59 UT >>From: "MS Music Central Forum Manager" >>To: mimis@synergy.net >>Subject: Esquivel Meets The Millionaire 2/21 >>Status: >> >> >> >>Hi- >> >>Thought you & your fellow devotees (with access to msn) might be >>interested in >>this. By the way, we love your site! We have a link to it from our >>corner of >>msn and will replicate that from our own WWW site when it goes live next >>month. >> >>Keep swingin'! >> >>Peyton Mays >>Online Operations Manager, Music Central >> >>Esquivel Meets The Millionaire >>February 21 on Music Central >> >> >> >> >>Music Central Connection continues its expedition into the day-glo heart of >>the neo-lounge movement with a special interview and chat event scheduled for >>February 21. Mexican composer, arranger and producer Juan Garcia Esquivel, a >>pioneering force behind "space age bachelor pad music," will be >>interviewed by >>Combustible Edison guitarist The Millionaire, bringing two generations of >>musical lounge lizards together on-line. >> >>The first 40 minutes or so of the the 7 p.m. (PST) chat will consist of their >>live conversation followed by 20 minutes of Q&A from the floor so that MSN >>subscribers can post their own questions to the debonair duo. >> >>The recent groundswell of renewed interest in lounge pop and "space age" >>instrumental music from the late '50s and early '70s is being covered >>extensively this month on Music Central via special reviews, features, media >>and chats. The Esquivel/Millionaire summit will document a meeting between an >>original lounge master and a '90s disciple. >> >>Esquivel's whiplash-inducing albums earned him praise as "the Mexican Duke >>Ellington" during the early '60s. Combining his skills as an arranger with a >>brash sense of sonic adventure, Esquivel turned "easy listening" pop on its >>head with his vividly conceived recordings. Rediscovered by a new generation >>of rock and pop fans over the past decade, his work has reappeared on a >>series >>of highly successful anthologies for the Bar None and RCA labels, with raves >>from critics and musicians alike. >> >>Since their formation in the early '90s, Combustible Edison has emerged >>as one >>of the first new bands to successfully adapt the anything-goes aural tactics >>and naugahyde chic of the original lounge era. Their recordings have >>appeared >>in major motion pictures (including the current Four Rooms, which features >>their original score plus selections by Esquivel), network television and >>commercials for OK Soda. >> > / ----- --- - Mimi Schneider mimis@synergy.net | The Roots of Lounge [|] http://www.expanse.com/ads/kiwr/rootsoflounge.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: johan.devis@ping.be (Johan Dada Vis) Subject: Rhino's Cocktail Mix 3 Date: 20 Feb 1996 19:45:50 +0100 when i saw the titles on this vol 3, i thought "oh shit, what crapola is this?"; della reese, peggy lee, sarah vaughan, sammy davis jr, rosemary clooney, mel thorme, ella fitzgerald & satchmo, louis prima, dean martin, bobby darin, tony bennett are all fine artists, don't get me wrong, but are they exotic in any way? but after listening to it, i'm not complaining anymore; as the liner notes say: "what unifies the music on this cd is that either the arrangements, lyrics, or the delivery of the singer are more playful and vibrant than other treatments of the same songs performed by others"; if you liked vol 2, i'd say there's a big chance you'll also appreciate vol 3. i'll post a complete track list asap. = johan dada Greetings from Johan Dada johan.devis@ping.be (home: Wivina 15, 1702, Belgium) ______________________________________________________________________________ the updated EXOTICA & NOVELTY CD OVERVIEW OF 1995 can be viewed at "http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/johan.html" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: erik@top.monad.net Subject: Re: Rhino's Cocktail Mix 3 Date: 21 Feb 1996 06:18:00 -0500 <---- Begin Included Message ----> when i saw the titles on this vol 3, i thought "oh shit, what crapola is this?"; della reese, peggy lee, sarah vaughan, sammy davis jr, rosemary clooney, mel thorme, ella fitzgerald & satchmo, louis prima, dean martin, bobby darin, tony bennett are all fine artists, don't get me wrong, but are they exotic in any way? but after listening to it, i'm not complaining anymore; as the liner notes say: "what unifies the music on this cd is that either the arrangements, lyrics, or the delivery of the singer are more playful and vibrant than other treatments of the same songs performed by others"; if you liked vol 2, i'd say there's a big chance you'll also appreciate vol 3. i'll post a complete track list asap. <---- End Included Message ----> I'm also really fond of vol. III of the Rhino series, though I was pretty sure I would like it from the start. Also well worth picking up is Capitol's new "Wild, Cool, and Swingin'" collection; vol. V in their new "Ultra-Lounge" series. It has a couple of songs in common with the Rhino collection but is a similarly worthwhile collection of swingin' vocal tracks, including a great *unreleased* Sam Butera and the Witnesses track called "Dig That Crazy Chick." --Jon Johnson erik@top.monad.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Richard Jay <100022.3437@compuserve.com> Subject: Obscure Exotica labels Date: 21 Feb 1996 07:54:37 EST If anyone has names & fax numbers of the more obscure labels that release Exotica I would be grateful if they could email me privately with them. Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: anita_serwacki@newlinecinema.com (ANITA SERWACKI) Subject: Arthur Lyman Date: 21 Feb 1996 09:59:05 -0500 Recently picked up an Arthur Lyman compilation released on DCC in 1991 (certainly way before this kind of re-release had a wider, contemporary market). Contains 25 (yes, count 'em - 25) selections spanning the years 1957-64. The cover is a reprint of the "Taboo" album cover. I was lucky enough to pick this up in the neglected, dusty and chaotic "Easy Listening" bin in the basement of Sam Goody for a mere $11.95. Well worth every penny. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Bryan Stewart" Subject: Re: Arthur Lyman Date: 21 Feb 1996 11:28:38 -0500 I have that CD too. It also contains the Yellow Bird album and has photos of Lyman and Connie Stevens inside. I believe they were recorded in that same club /auditorium in Hawaii that Liberty used to record Martin Denny's albums. Rod McKuen supplied the pristine album covers for use in the CD reissue. Tremendous sound although I still prefer Denny. Bryan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: johan.devis@ping.be (Johan Dada Vis) Subject: Quiet village ... disco Date: 21 Feb 1996 19:18:51 +0100 horror of horrors: i just found a disco version of "Quiet village"... it's not that bad at all, actually it's more slow funk than disco, and it has the classical jungle sound FX, AND some nice Moog-ish synths; it's by the French band El Coco on their lp "Let's get it together" (PYE PYA.20.248, 1976). =johan dada ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Robert Hartung Subject: Re: Rhino's Cocktail Mix 3-- Ultra Lounge Date: 21 Feb 1996 11:57:11 -0600 (CST) On Wed, 21 Feb 1996 erik@top.monad.net wrote: > I'm also really fond of vol. III of the Rhino series, though I was pretty > sure I would like it from the start. Also well worth picking up is Capitol's > new "Wild, Cool, and Swingin'" collection; vol. V in their new "Ultra-Lounge" > series. It has a couple of songs in common with the Rhino collection but is a > similarly worthwhile collection of swingin' vocal tracks, including a great > *unreleased* Sam Butera and the Witnesses track called "Dig That Crazy Chick." > --Jon Johnson > erik@top.monad.net I also picked up Capitol's Ultra-Lounge Wild, Cool and Swingin' and I recommend it for the liner notes alone ("...think of it as a musical trip through the Ocean's 11 era of the Vegas lounge scene). The highlight for me was hearing Sammy Davis Jr. sing "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone", first heard by me in the cartoon "One Froggy Evening" and sung by current Warner's TV Network mascot Michigan J. Frog. Of course Sammy lounges the song up, but it swings. BobH ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Grant China Subject: RE: Arthur Lyman Date: 21 Feb 1996 08:58:08 -1000 At 05:37 AM 2/21/96 -1000, you wrote: >I have that CD too. It also contains the Yellow Bird album and has photos of >Lyman and Connie Stevens inside. I believe they were recorded in that same >club/auditorium in Hawaii that Liberty used to record Martin Denny's albums. >Rod McKuen supplied the pristine album covers for use in the CD reissue. >Tremendous sound although I still prefer Denny. Yes, it's a great CD. I got a chance to get my copy autographed by Lyman himself a few months ago. He seemed tickled that they had a picture of him with Connie Stevens (who was in Hawaii taping the old "Hawaiian Eye" show) but he mentioned that he didn't know who the other guy in the picture was. About the recording site, I could be wrong here but I *think* that Denny's albums were recorded at the showroom at the Outrigger hotel while nearly all of Lyman's albums were recorded at the (then) Henry Kaiser Aluminum Dome, now known as the Hilton Hawaiian Village Aluminum Dome. Aloha, Grant ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "bill wynne" Subject: fwd: RE: Arthur Lyman Date: 21 Feb 1996 14:03:28 EST I think Grant is right about Denny's and Lyman's recording venues. However, it is often erroneously recounted that the Kaiser Aluminum Dome was BUILT for Arthur Lyman and crew. Not so. Henry Kaiser built the dome on the grounds of the Hilton Hawaiian Village to showcase Hawaii's foremost entertainers of the day, most notably Alfred Apaka, who performed there until his death in the early 1960's. As it is the grand dame of concert halls in Hawaii, seating thousands of people as opposed to the Waikiki strip's smaller showrooms, it was built to provide generous seating for Hawaii's major performing artists/tourist attractions - of which, unbelievably, Lyman was not one. It just happened to be perfect acoustically for Arthur's brand of music, and hence became their recording locale of choice. Incidentally, if I am not mistaken, Arthur regularly performed on the Hilton Hawaiian Village grounds - either in the Shell Bar or the Tapa Room, each of which seated considerably less people. Denny may have performed at the Outrigger, but also performed frequently at the then-more-prestigious Duke Kahanmoku's. Bill Wynne wwynne@ets.org ------------- Original Text From exotica@xmission.com, on 2/21/96 11:59 AM: Cc: At 05:37 AM 2/21/96 -1000, you wrote: >I have that CD too. It also contains the Yellow Bird album and has photos of >Lyman and Connie Stevens inside. I believe they were recorded in that same >club/auditorium in Hawaii that Liberty used to record Martin Denny's albums. >Rod McKuen supplied the pristine album covers for use in the CD reissue. >Tremendous sound although I still prefer Denny. Yes, it's a great CD. I got a chance to get my copy autographed by Lyman himself a few months ago. He seemed tickled that they had a picture of him with Connie Stevens (who was in Hawaii taping the old "Hawaiian Eye" show) but he mentioned that he didn't know who the other guy in the picture was. About the recording site, I could be wrong here but I *think* that Denny's albums were recorded at the showroom at the Outrigger hotel while nearly all of Lyman's albums were recorded at the (then) Henry Kaiser Aluminum Dome, now known as the Hilton Hawaiian Village Aluminum Dome. Aloha, Grant ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: dyemund@best.com (Jack Diamond) Subject: korla pandit on fantasy Date: 21 Feb 1996 08:43:47 +0000 joe batutis writes: aren't some of korla pandit's records on fantasy ? joe, all of korla's records are on fantasy less a few that he made on his own mail order record label called India. He lived in marin county for awhile(sf bay area) and had a record mail order business, hence all if not most of his records being autographed as well. "Record collecting is no mere hobby, no leisurely innocuous diversion. It's a feverish passion bordering on dementia, driving those under its influence to irrational,compulsive and sometimes fanatical extremes." 3-93 JD Ciao for now Jack ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Bryan Stewart" Subject: Arthur Lyman, Martin Denny & the Dome Date: 21 Feb 1996 16:47:46 -0500 Your're right! It was the Kaiser Aluminum Dome and my understanding was that Martin Denny did record there as well, before Arthur Lyman left his group and formed his own. Speaking of Denny, I really liked his version of 'Miserlou' on vol. 1 of Capitol's Ultra Lounge. Those piano chords just reach out and grab me. I can't wait for Scamp to start releasing more of his stuff. They'll do a good job. Bryan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "kevin king" Subject: Sound Gallery Date: 21 Feb 1996 17:00:03 -0500 > Speaking of Denny, I really liked his version of 'Miserlou' on vol. 1 of > Capitol's Ultra Lounge. Those piano chords just reach out and grab me. I can't > wait for Scamp to start releasing more of his stuff. They'll do a good job. Just noticed (don't know if this has been mentioned) that Scamp is planning a March 26th US issue of Sound Gallery. kevin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: helmet@intergate.bc.ca (Brian Close) Subject: Ultra Lounge less Date: 21 Feb 1996 14:09:59 -0800 Hello fellow lounging exotica lovers, My name is Brian and Iive in Vancouver B.C. Canada. I have the Rhino's Cocktail Mix series and RCA's Space Age Pop series. Now, judging from resent posts I need to pick up the Capital's Ultra Lounge series so I've searched all over town for but to no avail. I'm like Ferrante without Teicher I must find these disks. Can anyone shed some lava-lite on my plight? Is there a later Canadian releise date I don't know about? Are they going to be released up here at all? How much to they cost in the States? Is there an address I can send away for them or is a trip to Bellingham, Wash. in my future? Any information on these topics would be greatly appreciated! Yours, loungingly, Brian Close ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: HOUSEOBOB@aol.com Subject: Re: Quiet village ... disco Date: 21 Feb 1996 22:11:43 -0500 I recall a version of "quiet village" by Denny that was a twist or at least a more rock an roll version. Does anyone know about this? Bob ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jonny.S@eworld.com Subject: Re: Quiet village ... disco Date: 21 Feb 1996 19:26:32 -0800 French band El Coco on their lp "Let's get it together" and don't ignore the title track either, a classic ... "Let's get it, get it together. Let's get it, get it together!" Also check out Cocomotion on the same titled LP Jonny sender ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: whitley@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Kirsten Whitley) Subject: Cocktail List Date: 22 Feb 1996 00:39:12 -0600 Hi Everybody, Here's the list of cocktails that I promised. My original question for the list was: > 1. I'd like to add to my collection of cocktail songs! Namely, > I like finding songs that incorporate cocktails into the lyrics > or title of the song. I know of about 15 or so such songs. The following list is in 2 sections: * Kirsten's Cocktail Extravaganza -- Here's my own list of fabulous cocktails. I can vouch that each one of these gems fits the category that I'm interested in: suave and "loungy". In fact, several of the songs listed are ultimate lounge songs (eg, the Kingston Trio's Scotch & Soda). This list has served me well; I've used it successfully at parties and on my radio show. Mix and match 'em as you please, although one recommendation I'd give: end with "Last Call" followed by "One For My Baby"... Intoxicating! * More Cocktails to Investigate -- These are the tunes that I collected from y'all exotica lovers. I'm unfamiliar with these songs and so am not sure if they fit into the same style category as the first list. Some of them sound like they will be great! After listing the song titles, I also included some of the comments people made about the songs. In both lists, I've used "(d)" to mark definitive versions of a song. Finally, I've listed everyone who emailed me with suggestions. Thank you! And, if anyone has other hip cocktail tunes or information about definitive versions, please drop me some email! --Kirsten whitley@vuse.vanderbilt.edu Kirsten's Cocktail Extravaganza Baby, It's Cold Outside Dinah Shore & Buddy Clark (d) Dean Martin The Bartender's Just Like a Mother Slim Gaillard Bourbon Street Manifesto Nine Parts Devil (d) Champagne Taste Eartha Kitt (d) Cocktails for Two Spike Jones Keely Smith Delicious Jim Backus & Friend (d) Gin & Coconut Water Lord Cody and Kasavubu Girl in a Martini Glass Vice Royals Hot Toddy Julie London I've Had One Too Many Maria Cole Last Call Tiki Men Moonlight Cocktail Ames Brothers One For My Baby Frank Sinatra (d) Scotch & Soda Kingston Trio (d) Knock 'Em Down Whiskey Buster Poindexter You Go To My Head Doris Day Linda Rhonstadt More Cocktails to Investigate Absinthe Duke Ellington Blue Champagne Manhattan Transfer Boozers & Losers Claire Hogan, arranged by Cy Coleman Champagne Charlie Leon Redbone Champagne and Reefer Muddy Waters Come Fly With Me Sinatra I Get A Kick Out Of You I'm Always Drunk In San Francisco Claire Hogan, arranged by Cy Coleman Just One More Drink Amos Milburn (d) The Martini Fred Astaire Pink Champagne Joe Liggins and the Honeydrippers One Mint Julep Rum and Coca-cola Andrews Sisters Sake Rock Martin Denny Scotching with the Soda the Nat King Cole Trio Suck 'em Up Don Ho Tequila Lenny Dee Stan Kenton Whiskey and Gin Johnny Ray Comments: * An R&B artist named Amos Milburn started a minor streak of drink songs with his "Just One More Drink" in the late 1940s. It became Milburn's trademark, as he followed with "One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer," "Bad, Bad Whiskey," Let Me Go Home, Whiskey," "Good, Good Whiskey," and "Vicious, Vicious Vodka." (Milburn later died from the effects of diabetes brought on my his drinking). * "Rum and Coca-cola," written by Morey Amsterdam (of The Dick Van Dyke Show), done by tons of folks, most notably the Andrews Sisters * Don Ho - "Suck 'em Up" - has got to be near the top of the list. Live version only. * The latest DCC compilations have: "Absinthe" by Duke Ellington & Lenny Dee's version of "Tequila" (Latin Rhythms CD) & "Hot Toddy" by Julie London (Easy Rhythms CD) while Rhino's Swingin' Singles CD has: "Tequila" by Stan Kenton and "One Mint Julep" by Sarah Vaughn * Johnny Ray was a crooner in the vein of Frank Sinatra-- his fame was of Beatle- mania proportions (for the requisite 15 minutes) just before Rock&Roll took over. "Whiskey & Gin" is his ode to a "...gal who drinks whiskey and gin." and is ironic when you know that Mr. Ray drank himself to death. His greatest hits is worth the price of a cd if only for the three-hankey epic "Cry". It gets me everytime. (Incidentally, Johnny was almost completely deaf... you'd never know.) * Fred Astaire: "The martini": he gives (talking, not singing) the recipe for making a perfect martini. It's on the lp "Astairable Fred" on drg records MRS 911 released in the US in 1987; it is not from a movie, i checked that in "the hollywood musical" which lists all the songs. Finally, thank you to everyone who emailed with cocktail tune suggestions!! anita_serwacki@newlinecinema.com (ANITA SERWACKI) bcleve@tiac.net (Brother Cleve) bbigelow@netrail.net (Brad Bigelow) johan.devis@ping.be (Johan Dada Vis) JOHN MATTURRI kjmartin@earthlink.net (Kevin Martin) KRIS@MOM.SPIE.ORG Otto von Stroheim saxmania@rci.ripco.com (Sax Therapy) Tedd Bale ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: dtaub@dewey.csun.edu (Daniel Taub) Subject: DCC Bachelor's Den collection Date: 21 Feb 1996 23:16:05 -0800 Has anyone else had trouble finding volumes 2-4 of the DCC Bachelor's Den collection in the Los Angeles area? I've had no problem finding the Cocktail Mix, Space Age Pop, Ultra Lounge collections, or Bachelor's Den Volume 1 (which has been out for quite some time), but the others elude me. I've even tried ordering them at my local store, and it hasn't been able to get them in either. So, does anyone know where in the Los Angeles area to get them that you know for a fact has them in stock? I'm in the San Fernando Valley, so anywhere in the SFV (or if necessary Hollywood or Santa Monica/W.L.A. area) would be great. Thanks for the help! Daniel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: LTepedino@aol.com Subject: Re: Obscure Exotica labels Date: 22 Feb 1996 08:37:53 -0500 Scamp Records will be releasing a major portion of Martin Denny's output over the next several months...FAX (212) 989-9791. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: LTepedino@aol.com Subject: Re: Arthur Lyman Date: 22 Feb 1996 08:43:15 -0500 Just to clarify. Lyman's albums were recorded at the Henry J. Kaiser aluminium dome, while Martin Denny's albums were recorded at Capitol studios in Hollywood (that is except Exotica Vol 1, which was recorded in a small studio in Hawaii). Look for an interesting glimpse into Lyman's and Martin Denny's early careers in the liner notes of the upcoming "Exotica"/"Exotica Vol 2" CD slated for May. Ashley ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: transmat@teleport.com Subject: Re: Obscure Exotica labels Date: 22 Feb 1996 07:30:04 -0800 >Scamp Records will be releasing a major portion of Martin Denny's output over >the next several months...FAX (212) 989-9791. I would be nice if some one reissued exotica on LPs. Alot of the beauty of the artwork is destroyed by shrinking it down to CD size. I'm not trying to bring back the tired olde subject of CD vs LP, but rather that a choice in formats would be nice. By I doubt that this would happen since the market for exotica is rather small and I am just a small voice in the wilderness___;( . _`~=~=~`boom~~`boom~=~= _-I-__\ /__ ` ~ / \_ -I- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Bryan Stewart" Subject: Re: Obscure Exotica labels Date: 22 Feb 1996 12:16:05 -0500 How about 180 gram virgin vinyl? Much better qualitity and you get the full artwork too. I'll bet the japanese will probably be the first to do this. Still, if it has to be CD size, then I hope they at least leave them intact with Sandy Warner and those weird, old stereo logos and graphics. That's just as important in my book. Just like they did with Afro-Desia. Bryan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Julia M. Kasdorf" Subject: Re: Cocktail List Date: 22 Feb 1996 12:21:39 -0500 (EST) You can add "Cuba Libre" to the list. Also a cocktail. Cugat himself has two versions, the best is found on DCC's Latin Rhythms. (Dance with Cugat.") The other can be found on a record called "Cugie's Cocktails which also includes: One Mint Julep Old-Fashioned Daiquiri Cocktails for Two Rum and Coca-Cola Cugi's Cocktail Grasshopper Blue Champagne Zombie Manhattan Singapore Sling There are other records with similar themes. I'll dig through some of them and try to find them. Kas. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Robert Hartung Subject: Ultra-Lounge Bachelor Pad Royale Date: 22 Feb 1996 12:18:35 -0600 (CST) Here are the tracks on Ultra-lounge's Volume 4, "Bachelor Pad Royale" 1. The Theme from Route 66 - Nelson Riddle & his Orchestra 2. Caravan - The John Buzon Trio 3. Sexe - Line Renaud 4. Cool - Lou Busch & his Orchestra 5. The Beast - Milt Buckner 6. Theme from "Our Man Flint" - Elliot Fisher 7. Spring, Sprang, Sprung - Jack Fascinato 8. Night Train - Alvino Rey 9. Harlem Nocturne - Martin Denny 10. The Boulevard of Broken Dreams / Fever - Sam Butera (previously unreleased) 11. Topsy - Joe Bucci Trio 12. Like Young - Dave Pell 13. Street Scene '58 - Lou Busch & his Orchestra 14. Playboy's Theme - Cy Coleman 15. A Shot in the Dark - Jimmie Haskell (previously unreleased) 16. Shangri-La - Spike Jones New Band 17. Black Coffee - Julie London 18. Melancholy Serenade - King Curtis Total Running Time - 51:14:04 ---------- BobH ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Renata Hansen" Subject: Re: DCC Bachelor's Den collection Date: 22 Feb 1996 10:35:20 -0800 I have also experienced some difficulty finding volumes 2-4 of the Bachelor's Den collection. I live in the northern Bay Area and would appreciate any suggestions. Thanks, Renata -- Renata Hansen Direct: +1 415 899 7940 Permanent Licensing/Technical Support E-mail: renata@z-code.ncd.com NCD Software, Z-Code Division keys@z-code.ncd.com 101 Rowland Way, Ste. 300 URL http://www.ncd.com Novato, CA 94945 ftp://ftp.z-code.ncd.com Madness is rare in individuals--but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule. --Nietzsche ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: johan.devis@ping.be (Johan Dada Vis) Subject: cocktail songs Date: 22 Feb 1996 19:41:42 +0100 maybe too obvious: Xavier Cugat's "Cugi's cocktails" LP (Mercury SMWL 21014) =johan dada ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jonny.S@eworld.com Subject: Re: Obscure Exotica labels Date: 22 Feb 1996 16:48:12 -0800 HERE HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I second! >Scamp Records will be releasing a major portion of Martin Denny's output over >the next several months...FAX (212) 989-9791. I would be nice if some one reissued exotica on LPs. Alot of the beauty of the artwork is destroyed by shrinking it down to CD size. I'm not trying to bring back the tired olde subject of CD vs LP, but rather that a choice in formats would be nice ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Scrunda@aol.com Subject: Re: help needed identifying this song * Date: 22 Feb 1996 22:38:30 -0500 The song is by Family Fodder. I could make you a tape if you like. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Scrunda@aol.com Subject: Re: Free Design Date: 22 Feb 1996 22:44:20 -0500 If you are at all interested in other Free Design records I have two gatefold cover albums that I'm Giving away. just tell me where to send them. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: LTepedino@aol.com Subject: Re: Free Design Date: 22 Feb 1996 23:50:18 -0500 Hey send 'em to Ashley @ SCAMP/Caroline 114 W. 26th St NY NY 10001 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Bryan Stewart" Subject: virgin vinyl Date: 23 Feb 1996 12:51:35 -0500 In fact, let's make 180 gram virgin vinyl taken directly from the first generation studio session tapes, with WIDE stereo separation. The jungle sounds will then come at you from all directions. Include full color original covers, (with Sandy Warner, of course) original liner notes on the back and a new liner note booklet inside written by Denny himself. Then have the LP wrapped in an audiophile plastic sleeve that's gentle with the vinyl. It's a nice dream, isn't it? Bryan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Grant China Subject: Re: virgin vinyl Date: 23 Feb 1996 08:24:30 -1000 At 07:03 AM 2/23/96 -1000, you wrote: >In fact, let's make 180 gram virgin vinyl taken directly from the first >generation studio session tapes, with WIDE stereo separation. The jungle >sounds will then come at you from all directions. > >Include full color original covers, (with Sandy Warner, of course) original >liner notes on the back and a new liner note booklet inside written by Denny >himself. Then have the LP wrapped in an audiophile plastic sleeve that's >gentle with the vinyl. > >It's a nice dream, isn't it? It's a lovely dream. Of course, they *have* recently re-released Dick Schory's "Music for Bang, Baa-rOOM, and Harp" on high quality vinyl. How many of you have purchased it yet? It costs $30. I know a lot of people with mega-buck equipment are convinced that vinyl is 3 times better than a CD but I still don't feel comfortable spending 3 times as much money for an LP. Let's face it, one of the driving forces behind exotica record collecting is that you can usually buy a box of LPs for $15. Even if they started re-releasing every exotica album ever published, how many could you afford to buy at brand new vinyl prices? Aloha, Grant ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ajackson@yorku.ca (Anthony Jackson) Subject: Flogging Cocktail Mixes Date: 23 Feb 1996 14:38:22 -0500 I'm sure there are some of you out there like myself who like nothing more than to indulge friends and family with cassette collection of favourites. It must be the frustrated DJ in all of us. Anyway, I'd be very interested in exchanging personal cassette mixes with anyone in this group. Just think...a collection of exotica tapes mixed by the very enthusiasts who are making this thing happen! I'm happy to keep up with the latest news and whatnot, but let's face it, the music is where its at and I'd like to actually hear all the marvellous things I'm reading about in these postings and the likelihood of ever finding most of it is remote. To start things off, I have one mix ready for anyone with a mix to trade. Any takers for a tape exchange? Email me privately: ajackson@yorku.ca. Ta, Aj ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: dyemund@best.com (Jack Diamond) Subject: martin denny stuff Date: 23 Feb 1996 15:47:22 +0000 it's my understanding that denny recorded ALL of his records, less the "live in person" in HOLLYWOOD, CA not in h.kaiser's dome, not in hawaii a. lyman did record in kaiser's dome and NOT hollyweird. i used to have, (maybe still do) a rockin' R & B version of denny's quiet village done by george cates. george cates was a producer and had something to do w/ lawrence welk though i'm not sure what. cates also produced a really great exotica record called polynesian percussion or something like that on DOT w/ alvino rey. jack diamond ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: dyemund@best.com (Jack Diamond) Subject: Maximum Caravan Date: 23 Feb 1996 15:58:52 +0000 KFJC-FM in Los Altos Hills, CA was 1st put on the map some 18 years ago by doing a Maximum Louie Louie Mayhem Special that became sooooooo huge that after a few years had come into the hundreds as far as different versions and landed us on the cover of the wall street journal and a louie louie comp from rhino, blah blah blah.......kfjc in May at KFJC-FM all hell breaks loose and that's why we call May, Mayhem. the word may is not allowed to be said over the air. what mayhem is, is/are music specials. i've been talkin' about this for quite awhile(on the air) and i thought i'd try and include the exotica mailing list too ;)) i'm seriously thinking of doing a Maximum Caravan Special which means as many versions of Caravan that i can possibly find. i'd appreciate any and all help that any of you would like to give me with the naming of such versions with what/who and what group/band/individual you can e-mail me directly with this info if you like, that would be faster any kind/style of music punk/exotica/jazz/bongo/rock/soul/funk.........you name it. From the original version on.................................... thanx for this list lazlo ! sincerly, jack diamond ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: patrick@xpedite.com (Patrick Cashin) Subject: Caravan Overload Date: 23 Feb 1996 19:16:05 EST >i'm seriously thinking of doing a Maximum Caravan Special which means as >many versions of Caravan that i can possibly find. Well, just between the Rhino, Capitol, and RCA compilations you have close to three thousand versions right there. And if i hear one more version of "Fever" and I'm gonna start taking hostages! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: transmat@teleport.com Subject: Re: virgin vinyl Date: 23 Feb 1996 16:59:35 -0800 >In fact, let's make 180 gram virgin vinyl taken directly from the first >generation studio session tapes, with WIDE stereo separation. The jungle >sounds >will then come at you from all directions. > >Include full color original covers, (with Sandy Warner, of course) original >liner notes on the back and a new liner note booklet inside written by Denny >himself. Then have the LP wrapped in an audiophile plastic sleeve that's >gentle >with the vinyl. > >It's a nice dream, isn't it? >Bryan Indeed so, my friend. Now where is my America Express card? _`~=~=~`boom~~`boom~=~= _-I-__\ /__ ` ~ / \_ -I- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: duda@hawaii.edu Subject: Denny band line-up change... Date: 23 Feb 1996 15:52:37 -1000 A few weeks back I noted (as reported in the Honolulu Advertiser) that the Denny band would be playing with Arthur Lyman on vibes. I just talked with Mr. Lyman and he said that that is not so (he already is booked for that night anyways -- as with the weekly lunchtime jaunts in Waikiki, he also performs regularly at some country club). Apparently the writer for the Advertiser assumed Lyman would be playing. I haven't yet talked with the people who are sponsoring the benefit, but it is unclear what exactly the line-up will be (at least Marty will be there). Sorry for disseminating the earlier misinformation... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: duda@hawaii.edu Subject: Denny Band on Hawaii Calls (c.1965) Date: 23 Feb 1996 16:00:09 -1000 I recently came across an amazing clip of the Denny Band performing on a 1960's broadcast of Hawaii Calls (hosted by Webley Edwards...several LPs also released in same era from that show). The show was apparently a 30 minute broadcast highlighting various performers from the islands. This particular one is packed with Denny classics (they start off, of course, with Quiet Village -- along with shots of the band performing under a banyan tree, they also feature some shots of a "true, Hawaiian, quiet village"). If anyone is interested in a dubbed copy, please contact me...price of a video tape and postage is all I ask for. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: dyemund@best.com (Jack Diamond) Subject: Turntables Date: 23 Feb 1996 18:43:49 +0000 >It would be nice if some one reissued exotica on LPs. Alot of the beauty of >the artwork is destroyed by shrinking it down to CD size. >Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 12:16:05 -0500 >How about 180 gram virgin vinyl? Much better qualitity and you get the >>full >artwork too. I'll bet the japanese will probably be the first. the japanese are always the 1st to copy something ;)) and they do it soooooo well. A couple of years ago i read this article, clipped it out-have it somewhere where in that year, there had been sales of 169,000 new turntables. i don't know if it was the world, the US or both, but in a time of our history where record companies are "not making records" and cd's are the thing that seems very very odd to me to sell that many turntables 2 years ago ;)) i'll look for the article, it was in the san jose mercury news san jose, ca ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: dx@netcom.com (dx) Subject: Re: Denny band line-up change... Date: 23 Feb 1996 19:00:40 -0800 Whatever the lineup for this event, the entire evening looks to be a real treat. The benefit for the Alzheimer's Association is having a theme of "Hawaii Before Statehood." Besides Denny and his combo, they are bringing a famous female vocalist out of retirement (I left the ad at work and can't remember her name), they're also having an auction that's likely to include lots of interesting pre-Statehood Hawaiian artifacts. See ya all there! -dx ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: transmat@teleport.com Subject: Re: Turntables Date: 23 Feb 1996 20:43:40 -0800 >i don't know if it was the world, the US or both, but in a time of our >history where record companies are "not making records" and cd's are the >thing that seems very very odd to me to sell that many turntables >2 years ago ;)) >i'll look for the article, it was in the san jose mercury news >san jose, ca I recall reading an article in a business mag like Forbes or Fortune about a company (don't recall the name) that makes turntables from $400. and up. Apparently, they can't keep the $400. model in stock because of demand. I heart my Technics sl-1200 mk2 and plan to buy another very soon. I also have a CD player and use it when I am lazy. When new friends come over to my house, sometimes they are suprised that I have a turntable and vinyl records. Because a majority of record stores don't sell vinyl records, some folks think that the market has disappeared. However, there is a niche in the market for vinyl. And thanks to exotica fans and dj of all tastes, vinyl will live! In fact, I noticed that Al Green's LPs from the 70s are being reissued on green vinyl...yummy. _`~=~=~`boom~~`boom~=~= _-I-__\ /__ ` ~ / \_ -I- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: dyemund@best.com (Jack Diamond) Subject: CD Reviews Date: 24 Feb 1996 08:56:19 +0000 >From: dyemund@best.com (Jack Diamond) >Subject: CD Reviews >Label : Rhino >Vol 1 : Cocktail Mix >Title : Bachelor's Guide To The Galaxy > >Here we have an 18 track collection that is 1 Volume of >a 3 CD set from Rhino in which this volume focuses on >instro space age pop. >Pretty damn great is what Jack says in spite of >3 duplicates (I think) from RCA's 3 CD collection of >The History of Space Age Pop. > >Extremly enjoyable/fun; the keyword here is "Happy Music" >Record labels in this collection are Capitol, RCA, Dot, >Vik, Liberty, Decca, Mercury and MGM. >My personal favorites from this collection are Dean Elliot, >Les Baxter's Drums, Russ Case, Ferrante & Teicher, Lenny >Dee, Jack Costanzo, Rolley Polley, Bobby Hammack Qrt. >with the stand out in the crowd being harpist Robert Maxwell's >Accidental Slip on an Oriental Rug. >Robert Maxwell is the gentleman who created yet another original >sound with his group *The Fortune Tellers* who did >Solfegio, or if you like, Song Of The Nairobi Trio. > > >Label : Rhino >Vol 2 : Cocktail Mix >Title : Martini Madness > > > >What is present on this volume that is unique, is that 16 of the >18 tracks are from the early to late 60's and on the jazz/pop side >of the tracks. >This is most certainly a kind of cocktail-y jazz sound. >I wouldn't put all of this cd there but many more than a few >A number of the tracks remind me of when I 1st started listening >to "jazz" music some 16 or so years ago with the great Cal Tjader >(pronounced Jayder) from San Fransisco on vibes. This is >a very latin jazz/pop sound with percussive rhythm sections and >there are many on this Volume 2 CD. >Other Latin jazz/pop sounds included are Quincy Jones Orchestra, >Sergio Mendez and Brazil '66 (They were huge in the 60's), >Rene' Touzet Orchestra, Pucho & The Latin Soul Brothers, >Perez (Prez) Prado (UGH!) >Jazz/R & B sounds great with the Harold Johnson Sextet-Sorry 'Bout That >Pt. 1 and there are also a few instro organ >combos including Walter Wanderly, Brother Jack McDuff and Dick Hyman, >what the hell was his mother thinking of when she named him on >the Lowery organ. >There are a few vocals here BUT I don't understand why Rhino included this >Mel Torme' piece ?? It is horrible, the worst. >Mel Torme' is soooooooo great. They shoulda saved this for their next >volume of Sore Throats. The real downer of the style of the CD >There are great vocals with a 22 or so >year old Ann-Margret and I can just picture her singing this, she >WAS soooooo hot! Get "Bye Bye Birdie" and tell me she's not!! >Also on vocals there is Connie Francis, Nancy Wilson >and the great I'm Not Talking by Mose Allison. >Just as great as Volume 1 as far as I'm concerned, very happy and fun, >funky, cool grooves all over the place >Great music all the way around. "Record collecting is no mere hobby, no leisurely innocuous diversion. It's a feverish passion bordering on dementia, driving those under its influence to irrational,compulsive and sometimes fanatical extremes." 3-93 JD Ciao for now Jack ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: LTepedino@aol.com Subject: Re: Quiet village ... disco Date: 24 Feb 1996 11:49:27 -0500 You might be thinking of his bossa nova version on the album "The Versatile Martin Denny" which is one of his more uptempo versions - the actual title being "Quiet Village Bossa Nova". Off the top of my head here are all the albums featuring different recorded versions: Exotica (mono) (Arthur Lyman on vibes) Exotica (stereo) (shorter version than the mono, feat Julius Wechter on vibes and a different drummer) The Verstile Martin Denny (bossa nova version) Exotic Moog (moog version) From Maui With Love (jazz trio version) Denny's most "rock n roll' album was "Hawaii Goes A Go-Go" which tries to replicate a live "hot" discoteque feel with some great jazz rock piano by Denny, but it does not feature a version of "Quiet Village". I hope this helps Ashley ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: LTepedino@aol.com Subject: Re: Sound Gallery Date: 24 Feb 1996 11:51:05 -0500 News travels fast! Yep and for all you vinyl hounds it will also be pressed as a double virgin vinyl edition. Ashley ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: patrick@xpedite.com (Patrick Cashin) Subject: Ray Conniff Date: 24 Feb 1996 16:46:27 EST Just got back from "Raging Lame-o Music and Video" at the local (ick) mall and noticed that there were enough Ray Conniff CDs that, if they were laid end to end, could conceivably stretch across the expansive "International Food Court". My question, who the hell IS Ray Conniff? I know someone had mentioned him at some point but I can't remember what for? Is he worth checking out? If he is, can anyone suggest a good place to start? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lear Subject: Re: Obscure Exotica labels Date: 24 Feb 1996 17:10:28 EST > If anyone has names & fax numbers of the more obscure labels that release > Exotica I would be grateful if they could email me privately with them. > > Thanks. > > Try emailing lee@anti.com. He sent me their catalogue that has releases by Romulan Records, Strip, Dionysus, and others. Fab stuff indeed. You might also want to check out WFMU's catalogue of curiosities. I don;t know the email address off hand but if you want I can get it to you. Ciao, Lear &*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&* "CHAOS NEVER DIED... #blear@clam.rutgers.edu# ...Eros never grew a beard." *&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*& hakim bey ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: LTepedino@aol.com Subject: Re: Ray Conniff Date: 24 Feb 1996 18:19:50 -0500 You might want to check the index of Jeseph Lanza's "Elevator Music" book as he has several pages on Ray Conniff that give a pretty good description/idea as to if you'd like him. Let's put it this way if you've ever waited in a dentist's office you've probably heard Ray Conniff! Ashley ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Bryan Stewart" Subject: Sir Julian Date: 24 Feb 1996 19:59:28 -0500 Can anybody tell me who Sir Julian was? I loved his quirky organ playing of 'Caravan' on RCA's SAP, Vol.1. Where can I find more of his music? Is he available on CD somewhere else? What would someone recommend I look out for? Thanks, Bryan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bryan Jare Cuevas Subject: RE: Quiet Village...disco Date: 24 Feb 1996 19:20:45 -0500 (EST) Well, there's another disco version of Quiet Village by The Ritchie Family on "African Queens" (Marlin, 1977)...this was a big hit back then. bryan cuevas ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bryan Jare Cuevas Subject: RE: Maximum Caravan Date: 24 Feb 1996 19:54:10 -0500 (EST) This is what I've pulled together so far... ******* CARAVAN ******* 1937 - Duke Ellington (obviously, there are other Ellington recordings) Barney Bigard 1948 - Billy Eckstine & Hugo Winterhalter's Orchestra with the Quartones 1953 - Ralph Marterie The Esquire Boys 1956 - Nat "King" Cole Trio featuring Juan Tizol 1958 - Kenny Burrell John Buzon Trio 1959 - Santo & Johnny Martin Denny 1960 - The Guitars of Tom (Tomlinson) & Jerry (Kennedy) Sir Julian 1961 - The Three Suns 80 Drums Around the World 1975 - Esther Phillips Deodato 1976 - Rhythm Heritage 1994 - Ensemble of Seven bryan j. cuevas ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: " | dave | " Subject: The next *Polar Bear Club* will be... Date: 25 Feb 1996 04:32:43 -0600 (CST) For swinging space-age hipsters in the Minneapolis area, those in other locales with generous travel expense accounts, cocktail aficionados, jazz heads, those on the run from unsympathetic authority figures, cosmopolitan types with time to kill and money to burn, high-wire artists, sophisticates with a thirst for sonic adventure, misunderstood intellectuals, post-modern cat burglars, neo-beatniks, cultural infidels, and all others not covered in one way or another by the above... ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ************************************************************ *** The POLAR BEAR CLUB will be making its cozy home *** *** at the Loring Bohemian Bar in downtown Minneapolis *** *** on Sunday, March 3rd at 8pm (no cover) *** *** Join us for lounge, exotica, space-age pop, *** *** vintage jazz, and cocktails amidst the decidedly *** *** chaotic melange of orientel rugs, neo-baroque art, *** *** victorian furnishings, candelabras, fountains, *** *** faux-classical sculpture and lots of strange plants. *** ************************************************************ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Smash the ruling elite - and have an Algonquin while you're at it! Algonquin: 1 1/2 ounces blended whiskey, 1 ounce dry vermouth, 1 ounce pineapple juice. Shake with ice, strain into a cocktail glass, and serve... For more information, contact dave & mention codeword "manakoora"... ;) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: dragster@interport.net (David Schafer) Subject: Re: Ray Conniff Date: 25 Feb 1996 11:05:36 -0500 (EST) >>Date: Sat, 24 Feb 96 16:46:27 EST >>Patrick wrote: > >> Just got back from "Raging Lame-o Music and Video" at the local >>(ick) mall and noticed that there were enough Ray Conniff CDs that, if >>they were laid end to end, could conceivably stretch across the expansive >>"International Food Court". My question, who the hell IS Ray Conniff? >>I know someone had mentioned him at some point but I can't remember what >>for? Is he worth checking out? If he is, can anyone suggest a good place >>to start? Patrick-- I don't know the 'Ray Conniff History' but I can say that I have over the years collected and listened to Conniff alot on CD and LP. Those harmonizing structures, meoldic lines and rhythmic backgrounds oooooooohhhhhh man--like nothing else. Their voices produce a sound that is so very slow and clear, sort of honest, chaste and cheezy sounding. Once and awhile you'll hear an electric guitar or some other type of instrumental oddity. I think there are alot of duds out there but usually the Conniffs' are cheap enough to expirement. I used to find Conniff at the Tower Annex-- 3 CD for 10.00. You'll either love it or reeeeeeeally hate it--check it out. One of my current faves is Ray Conniff/It Must Be Him with Music to Watch Girls By, Up Up and Away and others of the ilk. Go for it. --David da da da ...da da da da da...da da da...da da da da da da da da da...da da da ****************************************************************************** * AN UNRELATED MATTER * Bill Wynne -- please contact me at --> David Schafer < dragster@interport.net > !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: johan.devis@ping.be (Johan Dada Vis) Subject: Re: Obscure Exotica labels Date: 25 Feb 1996 19:28:05 +0100 Richard Jay <100022.3437@compuserve.com> wrote: >If anyone has names & fax numbers of the more obscure labels that release >Exotica I would be grateful if they could email me privately with them. no, please post them in the list! =johan dada ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: johan.devis@ping.be (Johan Dada Vis) Subject: Re: Ultra Lounge less Date: 25 Feb 1996 19:28:12 +0100 helmet@intergate.bc.ca (Brian Close) wrote: >Now, judging from resent posts I need to pick up the Capital's Ultra Lounge >series so I've searched all over town for but to no avail.... >Can anyone shed some lava-lite on my plight? they're not yet available through online mailorder sources, but they should be in a month or so, i guess, just check cdnow or cdworld every couple of weeks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: lee@anti.com Subject: Re: Denny Band on Hawaii Calls (c.1965) Date: 25 Feb 1996 13:50:41 PST Would love a copy! Would you like to trade for Les Baxter "Sounds Of The 60s" video tape? Let me know Lee Joseph ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Author: exotica@xmission.com at INTERNET I recently came across an amazing clip of the Denny Band performing on a 1960's broadcast of Hawaii Calls (hosted by Webley Edwards...several LPs also released in same era from that show). The show was apparently a 30 minute broadcast highlighting various performers from the islands. This particular one is packed with Denny classics (they start off, of course, with Quiet Village -- along with shots of the band performing under a banyan tree, they also feature some shots of a "true, Hawaiian, quiet village"). If anyone is interested in a dubbed copy, please contact me...price of a video tape and postage is all I ask for. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "kevin king" Subject: Re: Ultra Lounge less Date: 25 Feb 1996 17:33:40 -0500 > >Now, judging from resent posts I need to pick up the Capital's Ultra Lounge > >series so I've searched all over town for but to no avail.... > >Can anyone shed some lava-lite on my plight? > > they're not yet available through online mailorder sources, but they should > be in a month or so, i guess, just check cdnow or cdworld every couple of > weeks. Oh, but they are available. At least volumes 1, 2 , 3, and 5 are in stock at CDNow. That's where I got Mambo Fever when I couldn't find it at the local Tower. 11.77 each. kevin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: patrick@xpedite.com (Patrick Cashin) Subject: The Music Machine Date: 25 Feb 1996 17:56:52 EST Ok...you want weird? Someone recently hipped me to 1960's psych-punk garage band The Music Machine. Some of you might remember them for their one national hit, "Talk Talk" which reached number 14 on the Billboard charts in 1966 and appears on Rhino's "Nuggets" complilation. They recorded one entire album with the original band before leader Sean Boniwell hired a whole new band and recorded an album as "Boniwell's Music Machine". I don't know what these psycho-rangers were on but I'll be damned if'n these two albums ain't the world's only example of the hitherto unknown (and much hyphenated) genre PSYCH-PUNK-GARAGE-LOUNGE!!! Their first album is available on CD on several different labels, the second recently came out on Sundazed. Can anyone else think of another example of this? It sounds like the Electric Prunes and Kurt Weill, but it don't...know what I'm saying? They do demented versions of Neil Diamond's "Cherry Cherry" and "Hey Joe" (it's so depressing and doom laden it makes you wish your old lady would shoot YOU) on the first album but it's the second CD that really takes the last train to Loungeville. Has anyone else heard these guys? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "T. Duda" Subject: Re: Ultra Lounge less Date: 25 Feb 1996 05:24:34 -1000 I think CDNow has 'em on special for 11.99...just got the new three in the mail last Thurs...(only listened to a splattering of cuts so far, so no reviews)... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: William Straw Subject: Recent Threads Date: 26 Feb 1996 00:30:07 -0500 Odds and ends - I agree that Mel Torme is probably not the funkiest singer of all time, but the casting of him as cheesemeister by some of you here makes me want to rush to his defense. Some late 1940s/early 1950s things like 'Stranger in Town' are pure film noir. - I was in Toronto last week, and saw the Ultralounge series on US import for about $24 . . . that's typical for the first import copies of these things when they hit Canada, though (judging by the Rhino New Wave series) a $15.99 or lower price point is not far off. The new Tower on Yonge St. was selling the Space Age Bachelor Pad series for $9.99 each. - Are any of you into the Gitane Soul-Jazz series of CD reissues? I find them all quite wonderful, and, despite their packaging as respectable jazz for French people, many of them would fit right in alongside The Easy Project. They show how much the lines blurred between organ and vibe jazz, easy listening and soundtrack schlock during the 1960s -- the 1970 Sergio Mendes version of 'For What It's Worth' on one volume is fabulous. - I also picked up, in Toronto, volume 2 of 'Instrumental Diamonds: British 60's Instrumentals' on Sequel. I have another volume in the series, and they're very nice mixes of surf stuff, movie themesong knock-offs, discotheque hits and so on. - on this week off, I trolled through thrift stores in southern Ontario but turned up virtually nothing. I did pick up the Jubilee CD 'Stax of Sax' by Herb Geller, partly because Geller played on the Peter Gunn sessions, partly because one six minute track is entitled 'Nightmare Alley' (and that's also the title of a great film noir). Alas, the track and album as a whole are quite bland mid-1950s jazz. - If you live in (or around) Toronto, I highly recommend the 'Pop in the Space Age' exhibit at the Design Exchange (King and Bay Streets). It's a fairly small exhibit of mid 1960s artefacts (beanbag chairs and paper dresses, for example), but the centrepiece is a collection of space age sound systems from the period, complete with accompanying, remote-control-equipped chairs. Will Straw Will Straw Associate Professor, Graduate Program in Communications/ Director, The Centre for Research on Canadian Cultural Industries and Institutions 3465 rue Peel, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1W7 Phone: (514) 398 7667; Fax: (514) 398 4934 http://www.facl.mcgill.ca/gpc/crccii/crccii.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Bryan Stewart" Subject: Re: Ray Conniff Date: 26 Feb 1996 09:48:43 -0500 My mom used to listen to S'Wonderful a lot when I was a little kid so I remember those ooooosss and ahaaaas a lot. When I got older, it wasn't considered 'cool' to listen to that stuff anymore. Heavy metal ruled the day and now, it seems, I've come full circle.... Bryan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Robbie Baldock Subject: Enoch Light WWW Site Date: 26 Feb 1996 12:40:18 -0700 (MST) Hi all - Well, I've started work on this site. It's at a very early stage so don't expect too much! However, I would welcome comments, suggestions and more info from exotica subscribers, so you are cordially invited to pay it a visit at: http://www-edin.easynet.co.uk/rcb/light.htm Looking forward to your responses. Robbie Virtual Vinyl: http://www-edin.easynet.co.uk/rcb/vv/virtualv.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Katie Eagan & Jeff Phillips Subject: Re: Ray Conniff Date: 27 Feb 1996 07:59:34 -0800 (EST) On Sat, 24 Feb 1996, Patrick Cashin wrote: > Just got back from "Raging Lame-o Music and Video" at the local > (ick) mall and noticed that there were enough Ray Conniff CDs that, if > they were laid end to end, could conceivably stretch across the expansive > "International Food Court". My question, who the hell IS Ray Conniff? > I know someone had mentioned him at some point but I can't remember what > for? Is he worth checking out? If he is, can anyone suggest a good place > to start? Woo Hoo! I thought you'd NEVER ask!!! Patrick, my boy, you are in for the treat of your life. Ray Conniff is THE MAN. If you wish to begin your tutelage in the proper fashion, I recommend you start with "Somewhere My Love". Besides the title track (Lara's Theme from Dr. Zhivago), you get "Downtown", "Wouldn't it Be Loverly", "King of the Road", and "Edelweiss" among others. This is not even close to the best album out there, but is very listenable to the untRAYned ear. Then you might want to find one of the older "Ray Conniff and His Orchestra and Chorus" albums like "Hollywood in Rhythm" to see what format you like better. On the "Chorus" albums, the voices merely scat along with the instruments, without singing any words. On the "Singers" albums, you get the full text treatment like you hear on most of the later albums. A good thing to keep in mind when you're scouring the racks at Raging Lame-o. David Schafer suggested an excellent 2nd purchase (It Must Be Him), if for the cover alone (a woman's ecstatic visage, larger than life, swooping across the album cover bathed in pink and orange light). Then there's "Happiness Is", the title track of which will surely put a smile on your face... "To a beatnik - it's his beard, beard, beard, to a monster - something weird, weird, weird... ...That's what Happiness Is!" It's also got a VERY groovin' version of "The Sheik of Araby" with Conniff himself whistlin' the melody. At some point you're going to want to move into 70's Conniff. Feel free to go with that urge. One of the better albums from this era is "Laughter in the Rain". Once again, the title track steals the show. Ray runs laps around Neil Sedaka's original (IS THAT POSSIBLE?) with some real shmoosic. You also get "Mandy" (yes, that one), "Cat's in the Cradle" (and the silver spoon), Paul Anka's "(You're) Having My Baby", Gordon Lightfoot's "Sundown", and, yes, "Seasons in the Sun". Well, I could go on and on and on, but I'll spare y'all. :-} EZ does it, Jeff Phillips eaganca@cleo.bc.edu P.S. Don't bother to even try "Say You, Say Me" from 1986. Ray's star had sadly faded by that time. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: johan.devis@ping.be (Johan Dada Vis) Subject: Yma Sumac Mambo CD Date: 27 Feb 1996 18:59:44 +0100 as the original 10" of Mambo contained only 8 songs, will the cd version have additional tracks? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: stefan.kery@mailbox.swipnet.se (STEFAN KERY) Subject: Re: Yma Sumac Mambo CD Date: 27 Feb 1996 19:49:14 +0100 John Dada Vis wrote: >as the original 10" of Mambo contained only 8 songs, will the cd version >have additional tracks? I certainly hope so, the original LP has 11 tracks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: duda@hawaii.edu Subject: Denny video Date: 27 Feb 1996 12:03:49 -1000 To all of those who requested a copy, you should be receiving a message concerning shipping, etc. For all others, I did dub a few extra copies. I am soliciting for trades or compensation for tape cost and postage. Please e-mail if interested. The tape is a copy of a 1960s era Hawaii Calls tv program containing Martin Denny and his band...originally 30 min with commercials (disappointingly (is that a word?) no commercials in this copy), I would guess around 22-25 minutes without...there are around 6 or 7 different songs (Quiet Village, Burma Train, plus others...sorry, don't have title list in front of me)... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: stefan.kery@mailbox.swipnet.se (STEFAN KERY) Subject: Re: The Music Machine Date: 28 Feb 1996 00:26:43 +0100 Patrick wrote > >I don't know what these psycho-rangers were on but I'll be damned >if'n these two albums ain't the world's only example of the hitherto >unknown (and much hyphenated) genre PSYCH-PUNK-GARAGE-LOUNGE!!! > >Their first album is available on CD on several different labels, >the second recently came out on Sundazed. > >Can anyone else think of another example of this? It sounds like the >Electric Prunes and Kurt Weill, but it don't...know what I'm saying? Ok... Patrick you want really weird? This is my fave genre and after going thru alot of records looking for this style I got say that the champs are the BLUESMEN LP "Prohibido Prohibido" from Argentina ! 1968. It's got it all, a undescribable mix of psych-punk-garage-lounge- exotica, you got to hear it to believe it. They sing in English all though it's a weird hybrid. I'm trying to get the rights to release it on my Subliminal Sounds label in Sweden. More info on that later, if it happens. As for Mr. Boniwell and the Music Machine, if you like their softer moments you should seek out his third LP "Close" on Capitol. The Wayfarers "At the World's Fair" (Featuring a clean cut Shawn) is also great. Sort of gives you a perspective to where he got some influences from. He also have a book out about his life and music, write to buy a copy. Here's the adress: SEAN BONIWELL PO Box 409 Porterville, CA 93258 Stefan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: dyemund@best.com (Jack Diamond) Subject: cd review for kfjc-fm Date: 27 Feb 1996 15:37:31 +0000 Jac Zinder : Chairs I Have Known catasonic records http://underground.net/weba/catasonic.html this guy is dead, killed on thanxgiving eve 1994 on sunset blvd. by a scumbag drunk driver. the sounds that lie herein are very cool and very versatile in which this is pop music w/ many odd electronic sounds with sitars, finger cymbals, accordian, mellotron and lowery organs, oh yes exotica too ;-)> i forgot about that. reminds me of nino rota/cartoon/carnival music better than combustible edison by a long shot. nice fluid guitars, steel guitars, very space age pop-ish w/ lots of percussion and always this strange electronic sound in the back- ground. from #17-> 25 is really great psych & blaxploitation sounds, very very cool shit!! rockinı fuzzed out guitars forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!! track 2 is pretty damn great and check out pet sounds and birdhouse!!! #26 has fuck, motherfucker and shit jack diamond 2-96 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: PeteKitsch@aol.com Subject: Re: Ultra Lounge less Date: 27 Feb 1996 20:43:15 -0500 johan.devis@ping.be (Johan Dada Vis) wrote: >helmet@intergate.bc.ca (Brian Close) wrote: > >>Now, judging from resent posts I need to pick up the Capital's Ultra Lounge >>series so I've searched all over town for but to no avail.... >>Can anyone shed some lava-lite on my plight? >> >they're not yet available through online mailorder sources, but they should >be in a month or so, i guess, just check cdnow or cdworld every couple of >weeks. Check http://www.newbury.com -- they have 4, 5 & 6 on-line, and the first three are being added next week (and are available now if you just send them e-mail about it). They also have Rhino's Cocktail Mix series, most of the Esquivel releases, and some other good stuff. Fast service, too. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: viktrola@usa.nai.net Subject: Re: Yma Sumac Mambo CD Date: 27 Feb 1996 20:56:28 -0500 >as the original 10" of Mambo contained only 8 songs, will the cd version >have additional tracks? yes it will...track listings for all five are at http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/yma.html i remain... viktrola@nai.net Vik Trola's Lounge of Self Indulgence http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/lounge.html It's Vik's DCC Scavenger Hunt!!! Look under "What's New"! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: viktrola@usa.nai.net Subject: Another passes Date: 27 Feb 1996 22:42:50 -0500 dear swingers.... yet another of the great ones has passed. feb. 21, Morton Gould died at the age of 82 in a hotel near orlando, fl. most recently, Gould was president of ASCAP from 1986 to 1994. he wrote in both popular and classical realms with his popular pieces falling into the "light" or "mood" music catagorey. he also scored for musical theater, film and tv. beginning in 1934, he conducted orchestral arrangements of popular songs and other light music on his regular radio shows. this would lead him into the studio and the release of more than 100 records for RCA, Columbia, and Decca. In April, RCA will re-issue five "Living Stereo" discs of Gould conducting the Morton Gould Orchestra in such classics as "Jungle Drums" and "Blues In The Night". i shall always remember him for the album "Coffee Time With Morton Gould", one of my first acquisitions. an album with each track "designed" for a different coffee, it truly proves (as the liner notes state) "coffe and music are the perfect combination". i will miss him much. i remain... viktrola@nai.net Vik Trola's Lounge of Self Indulgence http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/lounge.html It's Vik's DCC Scavenger Hunt!!! Look under "What's New"! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: dyemund@best.com (Jack Diamond) Subject: web page update Date: 27 Feb 1996 22:42:48 +0000 hello all to all and anyone who's interested, there has been an update to my web page at http://www.cygnus.com/kfjc/diamond quite a number of new album scans with reviews including betty page, jack costanzo, marlon brando/leith stevens;the wild one, 77 sunset strip and valley of the dolls among others. i just found out myself by going there ;)))))))))) bye for now......... "Record collecting is no mere hobby, no leisurely innocuous diversion. It's a feverish passion bordering on dementia, driving those under its influence to irrational,compulsive and sometimes fanatical extremes." 3-93 JD Ciao for now Jack ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: johan.devis@ping.be (Johan Dada Vis) Subject: Re: Gitane Soul-Jazz series Date: 28 Feb 1996 19:41:24 +0100 William Straw wrote: >- Are any of you into the Gitane Soul-Jazz series of CD reissues? I find >them all >quite wonderful, and, despite their packaging as respectable jazz >for French people, many of them would fit right in alongside >The Easy Project. They show how much the lines blurred between >organ and vibe jazz, easy listening and soundtrack schlock during >the 1960s could you please give some titles of the most interesting on this series? thanx! =johan dada ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: jbr109@psu.edu (jordana robinson) Subject: i need help with a radio show Date: 28 Feb 1996 20:22:25 -0500 i'm a dj at my college's student radio station, and i was sitting around with another dj and we decided it might be a good idea for me to propose a lounge/exotica show. the reason it came up was that between new music (the alternative/indie/what-have-you format in which i am a dj) and jazz (the format in which the other guy is a dj), the station has been receiving a lot of exotica releases, as things get reissued on cd. and they end up in either new music or jazz because no one else knows what to do with them. anyway, i know there are a couple people on this list with radio shows, and i would appreciate any help getting started with my project. for one thing, i have to write up a proposal that convinces station management that there is an audience for an exotica/lounge show. i was thinking about mentioning the recent popularity of the format shown by the whole mike flowers pop things and other british groups, and the fact that so many reissues are coming out - any other ideas? anyway, any help in this area would be appreciated. my email is jbr109@psu.edu. thanks in advance. -jordana ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jan Fornell Subject: Quiet Villages Date: 29 Feb 1996 20:37:00 +0900 A lot of people even on this list seem to believe that Quiet Village was written by Martin Denny, but it is of course by Les Baxter. I think the first version appeared on Baxter's "Ritual of the Savage", or is there any before that? Denny made a synthesizer version in 1969 on an album called "Exotic Moog", although I have it on the excellent Japanese compilation "The Exotic Sounds - The Very Best of Martin Denny" (Toshiba/EMI CP32-5657) which has lots of information (in Japanese, by exotica connoisseur and steel drum player Yann Tomita) and an extensive discography. The same Yann Tomita was a member of the group Watermelon who recorded a version of Quiet Village together with other exotica standards and some original material on their wonderful and highly entertaining album "Cool Music" around 1985. It think it's been released on CD too recently. There was also a "Quiet Village" by the German new wave group Palais Schaumburg. It is a completely different song, but for some perverse reason it features an uncredited sample of Yma Sumac's "Wayra"! Jan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mimis@synergy.net Subject: Billy Strange Date: 29 Feb 1996 05:54:39 -0600 You know, the producer/arranger whose accomplishments include wedging a piece of the "James Bond" horn section motif into the Nancy Sinatra-Lee Hazelwood gem "Summer Wine!" What ever happened to him? For that matter, whatever happened to Lee Hazelwood--dead or alive? / ----- --- - Mimi Schneider mimis@gonix.com mimis@synergy.net | The Roots of Lounge [|] http://www.expanse.com/ads/kiwr/rootsoflounge.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: dx@netcom.com (dx) Subject: Lounge on NPR Date: 29 Feb 1996 05:57:35 -0800 This morning on NPR they were hyping a feature on lounge music that will be on this afternoon's edition of "All Things Considered." Check your local listings. This afternoon being Thursday 2/29. -dx ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bcleve@tiac.net (Brother Cleve) Subject: Re: Billy Strange Date: 29 Feb 1996 10:35:40 -0500 Mimi Schneider (mimis@synergy.net) wrote >For that matter, whatever happened to Lee Hazelwood--dead or alive? Lee's alive and living in Phoenix Arizona. He toured with Nancy Sinatra last year. Heard he was great (I was on tour and missed it - damn!) br cleve ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: riviera@tiac.net Subject: Lee Hazlewood Date: 29 Feb 1996 10:55:23 -0500 >For that matter, whatever happened to Lee Hazelwood--dead or alive? > Lee Hazelwood was doing selected dates with Nancy Sinatra on her tour last summer.I missed it, but he was with her when she played Boston. I presume this means he's alive,but with the recent big hits by John Lennon and Nat King Cole, death is obviously not the impediment to a pop career that it used to be.:-) Riviera ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Bryan Stewart" Subject: Gary Usher Date: 29 Feb 1996 12:00:05 -0500 Whatever happened to Gary Usher? I heard rumors that he had died but I don't know if they are true or not. I know that AVI will be releasing 'The Kickstands' sometime soon and I heard other rumors that 'Surf Route 101' will be released domestically in the future. Anyone know for sure? Bryan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: David Howard Subject: please get me off this thing Date: 29 Feb 1996 15:58:49 EDT I am having difficulty unsubscribing from this list, and I would really like to unsubscribe from this list. So can I please unsubscribe from this list? David_Howard@notes.lis.cch.com exotica ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bruce Rhodewalt Subject: Re: please get me off this thing Date: 29 Feb 1996 13:51:12 -0800 David Howard wrote: > > I am having difficulty unsubscribing from this list, and I would really like to > unsubscribe from this list. So can I please unsubscribe from this list? > David_Howard@notes.lis.cch.com exotica I'm not sure, but I think this guy is saying he'd like to unsubscribe from this list. Anyone? ________________________________________________________ | | | / | Tiki Publishing -- -- | | / | http://www.tikipub.com | | / | Bruce Rhodewalt, Owner | | \ | 78-365 Highway 111, #241 | | | \ | La Quinta, CA 92253 | | | \ | 619/342-3418 -- -- -- -- -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: LTepedino@aol.com Subject: Re: Billy Strange Date: 29 Feb 1996 21:36:52 -0500 Lee Hazelwood is alivve and well and performed recnetly to enthusiatic crowds on Nancy Sinatra's most recent album tour several months ago. Ashley ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: vishnu@netplus.net (randy ferguson) Subject: Reel-To-Reel Mania Date: 29 Feb 1996 21:13:21 -0600 How many of you out there collect exotik items on reel-to reel tapes? Has anyone out there found any Esquivel on this format? I recently acquired a reel to reel featuring Martin Denny's Quiet Village and A Taste of Honey, and it is great to hear the latter in ultra bombastic audiophonic fidelity without the scratches that permeate all three of my vinyl copies. Also, the spinning reels are really good for hypnotizing chaste debutantes as you Wow them by operating this particular machine's complicated buttons. Don't believe me? Try it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: lee@anti.com Subject: ASPHODEL'S EMAIL ADDRESS Date: 27 Feb 1996 13:05:33 PST Hey gang, Could someone supply me with Asphodel's email address? Thank you in advance for your anticipated bla bla bla Lee ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: lee@anti.com Subject: DELIRUM IN HI-FI Date: 27 Feb 1996 17:42:25 PST Wow, Picked up an album that goes into the category of Incredibly Stranger Music! Elsa Popping and her Pixieland Band "Delirium In Hi-Fi" (recorded somewhere in France), on Columbia's Adventures In Sound series, WL106. Man, what a strange piece! The cover has a drawing of a very clean-cut looking 50s family sitting around the living room listening to a hi-fi that looks more like parts of a submarine than a sound system. The music? Weird stuff. Lots of tape edits, tape echo, underwater- backwards effects, horns, guitars, pianos, accordions, voices that rival Esquivel's vocal arrangements. Off key mutations, whistling through overdosed tape echo and other strange combinations make for very Uneasy Listening! If Spike Jones, Esquivel, Lawrence Welk and a very demented engineer got together in a small French or German village, this is what it might sound like! The tracks include "Java", "La Paloma", "Beer Barrel Polka", "Jalousie" and others. The liner notes say that "Elsa Popping is Andre Popp, a talented and madly innovative arranger-conducter long famous in France". Search this one out! Lee