From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) Sound Gallery Date: 24 Dec 1997 13:41:29 -0500 I admit that I can be amazingly slow when it comes to acquiring new releases, so please don't hurt yourself laughing when I say that I just got "Sound Gallery, Vol. 1". Super stuff. A wonderful mixture of elements you might not expect to mix so well. And it's very, er, interesting to see that it's a "A Jerry Cornelius Production". Glad to see he's finally found a gig that doesn't (generally) involve assassination. ; ) Pardon a very geeky question, but was 90's technology used to fatten up the bottom end for this cd? If not, I'm real curious about what they were using in the studio when they cut the bass guitar parts on some of those tracks. Extremely punchy and fat -- yum! Happy holidays, everyone. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ (Movies Of The Week tv picks for Dec. 21 to 28 now posted) - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Playlist Fantastica Date: 25 Dec 1997 14:26:06 +0100 (CET) Fantastica runs on Radio Scorpio, FM106, Leuven, Belgium, each Saturday 15-16 h. Fantastica # 9 * Mrs. Miller: "Yellow Submarine" [LP: "Will Success Spoil Mrs. Miller?"] * Julie Driscoll & Brian Auger: "A Day In The Life" [LP: "Pop History Vol. 26"] * William Shatner (Captain Kirk): "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" [CD: "The Transformed Man"] * Buddy Morrow: "I Saw Her Standing There" [LP: "Big Beat Beatlemania"] * Some Very Talented Kids: "Here Comes The Sun" [compil. CD: "The Talent Show"] * Mike Melvoin: "The Ballad Of John And Yoko" [LP: "The Plastic Cow Goes Moooooog"] * Susanna Hoffs: "Are The Beatles Really Here? (Fragment)" [compil. LP: "English As A Second Language"] * The Woofers And Tweeters Ensemble: "Love Me Do" [LP: "Beatle Barkers"] * Band Of The Irish Guards: "Michelle" [compil. LP: "Break-Through - An Introduction To Studio Two Stereo"] * The Hollyridge Strings: "The Delayed Fool On The Hill MIX" [CD: "The Best Of The Beatles Song Book"] * Vincent Bell: "Eleanor Rigby" [LP: "Pop Goes The Electric Sitar"] * The Wild Honey Singers: "That Would Be Something" [LP: "A Child's Introduction To The Beatles"] * Koot & Bie: "Yesterday" [TV Show: "?"] * Paul Frees as Charlie Chan: "Let It Be" [LP: "And The Poster People"] * Living Guitars: "Baby, You'Re A Rich Man" [LP: "San Franciscan Nights"] * Sounds Galactic: "Across The Universe" [LP: "An Astromusical Odyssey"] * Dick Hyman: "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" [LP: "The Age Of Electronicus"] * Paul Mauriat: "Get Back (Vuelve)" [LP (CD): "Interpreta A Los Beatles"] * Derek Enright M.P.: "Yellow Submarine (In Latin)" [compil. CD: "The Exotic Beatles Part One"] * The Frivolous Five: "All My Loving" [LP: "Sour Cream & Other Delights"] * Commercial: "Help" [compil. LP: "15/30/60"] * The Baroque Ensemble W/ Joshua Rifkin: "Help" [LP: "The Baroque Beatles Book"] * Patrick Husson: "Hey Jude" [CD: "Le Jardinier"] (CD) = bestaat op CD (exists on CD) the radio pages on my web site: http://bewoner.dma.be/Dada/radioq/radioq.htm Johan |)/\|)/\ Vis quiet@village.uunet.be + dada@bewoner.dma.be - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: LTepedino Subject: Re: (exotica) Sound Gallery Date: 25 Dec 1997 09:54:20 EST In a message dated 97-12-24 13:44:37 EST, ecam@voicenet.com writes: << Pardon a very geeky question, but was 90's technology used to fatten up the bottom end for this cd? If not, I'm real curious about what they were using in the studio when they cut the bass guitar parts on some of those tracks. Extremely punchy and fat -- yum! >> Regarding the sound on the Sound gallery, sure a little bit of mastering was inolved, but to tell you the truth, I've heard the source material on a lot of this stuff and part of the reason not a lot had to be done was because it ws engineered/recorded so well to begin with, many of the tracks being recorded at EMI's Studio 2 - the very same studio used by the Beatles and other top bands at the time. Ashley - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Randall Rothenberg Subject: Re: (exotica) NYT Death of Journalism Date: 25 Dec 1997 11:45:00 -0500 (EST) Now, now -- as a former reporter I take (goodnatured) umbrage at the assertion that New York Times trend pieces are always "off." There are good trend pieces and bad trend pieces. This one was lacking because it was a bit old and tired, and went pretty far afield in reaching for its examples, and thus came off as specious. It also repeated your -- David Strauss's -- thesis, but didn't go nearly as far and wasn't nearly as thoughtful in exploring it. - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Carl Russo" Subject: (exotica) Jan. on GROOVIE MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS Date: 25 Dec 1997 11:37:42 -0800 ============== H A P P Y H O L I D A Z E, A M I C I ! ============== January Highlights from GROOVIE MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS Sundays, 7 - 8 PM (PST) on KUSF 90.3 FM, San Francisco RealAudio BROADCAST: < http://www.kusf.org> for instructions to access stream CONTACT: Ratso Russo, Producer. E-mail: c_russo@msn.com ========================================================== SHOW 27: January 4 Astro-kitten "BARBARELLA" (68) leads us into the brave new year to hear the grooviest space sounds this side of Uranus, courtesy of BOB CREWE and CHARLES FOX. Composer JERRY GOLDSMITH fires the "WARNING SHOT" (67) that sets off a night of urban chaos. Dig HERBIE HANCOCK’s soulful sounds wafting through ANTONIONI’s pop culture snapshot, "BLOWUP" (66). Or slap yourself into an enlightened state with the mysterious "SHEMP MEDITATION TAPE" (93), minus LARRY and MOE. SHOW 28: January 11 Filmmaker MELVIN VAN PEEBLES helped usher in the age of black exploitation films when he cast himself as a superstud in "SWEET SWEETBACK'S BAADASSSSS SONG" (71). $4 million in stolen gold bullion can buy a lot of records, but QUINCY JONES’ chase scenes are priceless in the gold-heist romp "THE ITALIAN JOB" (69). Plus two JAMES BOND rip-offs almost redeemed by their scores: The WALKER BROTHERS’ "DEADLIER THAN THE MALE" (67) and DAVID WHITAKER’s "HAMMERHEAD" (68). SHOW 29: January 18 Maestro NINO ROTA’s mondo tribal freak-out inspires psychedelic gladiator dreams in "FELLINI SATYRICON" (70). THE BYRDS and VIC MIZZY provide fun in the Malibu sun for TONY CURTIS and SHARON "HELTER SKELTER" TATE in "DON'T MAKE WAVES" (67). JOHN WONG and his band of warriors massacre their foes along with the English language in the martial arts rock opera, "LET'S ROCK" (75). Included: NEW WORLD SYMPHONY’s extended theme from "WONDER WOMAN" (76-79). SHOW 30: January 25 AL CAIOLA’s twangy guitar screams "Run!" in the BOB HOPE comedy "EIGHT ON THE LAM" (67). There’s no place to hide when the pack of roving man-eaters from "SHE DEVILS ON WHEELS" (68) tears through your town—singing lyrics written by cult director HERSHELL GORDON LEWIS! The only PINK FLOYD soundtrack worthy of a spin here is the Euro-hippie odyssey "THE VALLEY (OBSCURED BY CLOUDS)" (72). Also ALEXANDRO JODOROWSKY’s funk remix from his own film "EL TOPO" (71). ==================================== Outside the Bay Area? Listen on the Internet! Visit the Groovie Movie Soundtracks Web Page--with complete playlists--at C. "RATSO" RUSSO c_russo@msn.com - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: (exotica) France Gall Date: 25 Dec 1997 22:33:52 -0500 (EST) Information and ruminations sought for an upcoming 'zine article on the French Poptresse, France Gall. This could include commentary on her music, biographical info, or simple personal opinion....Please site sources, please include supporting information......All sources attributed, all creditable sources credited in article. E-Mail me if interested....Jimmy Botticelli - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: Batmania cd Date: 26 Dec 1997 19:57:29 +0100 (CET) >>If only they had had the foresight to include the amazing (and fairly >>impossible to find) 45, "We Love You, Boy Wonder", sung by Burt Ward (Robin) >That is an odd exclusion. Dr. Demento used to play this fairly regularly >on his show. Dr. demento transcription LP's are a great source for this kind of super-rare novelty ditties. i've got one including that very "We Love You, Boy Wonder"; Johan quiet@village.uunet.be + dada@bewoner.dma.be --- - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) NYT Death of Journalism Date: 26 Dec 1997 10:48:39 -0500 > From: David J. Strauss > Subject: (exotica) NYT Death of Journalism > > I don't know if we should exactly fault the author of the piece -- anyone > who has ever dealt with the Times knows that they have pretty stringent > rules to enforce banality in their trend pieces. Every one has to read > like a catalogue of unrelated items which are then linked by specious > reasoning. But hey! It's a hell of a clipping. Yes, the Times piece struck me as a very generic pile of column filler. If you simply switched some key words and movie references it could be a "Death of 70's Retro" story (to name just one possibility). m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ (Movies Of The Week tv picks for Dec. 21 to 28 now posted) - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: BasicHip Subject: (exotica) basic hip for Ruddy Date: 26 Dec 1997 22:10:56 EST i hope Ruddy likes his tape. here it is. side a basic hip (how to speak hip) sid bass - spanish flea (moog espana) bill holman / richie kamuca - blue jazz (west coast jazz in hi-fi) fred lowery - the moon of manakoora (walking along kicking the leaves) esquivel - lazy bones (exploring new sounds) dennis farnon / marni nixon - very contrary mary (magoo in hi fi) group 1 - chime time (the brothers go to mothers and others) speedy west and jimmy bryant - old joe clark (stratosphere boogie) morricone - twist of the spinsters (malamondo) denny - voodoo dreams (hypnotique) jonathan frid - I, barnabas (dark shadows) perrey and kingsley - electronic can-can (essential) milton delugg - rise, robots rise (gulliver's travels beyond the moon) marcy do you know? (sing with marcy) pea hicks - fartin’ partners (lucas and friends discover a world of sounds) ??? - nine inches will please a lady (songs of erotica) time bomb commercial side b prelude - dimitri from paris (sacrebleu) lambert hendricks & ross - farmer’s market (way out voices of) alan lorber - mas que nada (lotus palace) mort garson - good morning starshine (electronic hair pieces) piero umiliani - topless party (svezia inferno paradiso) vic mizzy - vox box (don't make waves) enoch light - volare cha cha (pertinent percussion cha chas) franklyn maccormack - easy come, easy go lover (the torch is burning) andre popp - la polka du roi (delirium in hi-fi) comstock - twinkle twinkle little star (music from outer space) brass ring - the dis-advantages of you (the dis-advantages of you) henke - the lively ones (la dolce henke) bacharach - after the fox (after the fox) serge gainsbourg - ford mustang (comic strip) louise huebner - the emotional bondage spell (seduction through witchcraft) laurie johnson - happy go lively (music for tv dinners) pea hicks - donuts and jingle bells (lucas and friends discover a world of sounds) questions happily answered happy new year don't drink and drive - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Arjan Plug" Subject: (exotica) Demento/Martin Mull Date: 27 Dec 1997 19:47:55 +0100 Jerry on Demento: >Perhaps this isn't really "exotica" stuff, but it's certainly some >Incredibly Strange Music. >#32 The Mummy - Bob McFadden & Dor English indie-legends The Fall did a nice cover of this on their recent "Levitate" album >#45 2001 Polkas - Martin Mull Can anyone enlighten me about this guy?? Only know his awesome "Santa Claus doesn't cop out on Dope" Arjan - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Playlist Fantastica Date: 25 Dec 1997 19:12:01 +0100 (CET) Fantastica runs on Radio Scorpio, FM106, Leuven, Belgium, each Saturday 15-16 h. Fantastica # 39 (Xmas) 1. RODE DRAAD (THREAD): The Walt Disney Players: "Scrooge Duck tells a spooky Christmas story" [LP: "An Adaptation Of Dicken's Christmas Carol"] 2. Fragment: "Merry Fucking Christmas!" [Film: "Dark Angel"] 3. Jimmy Smith: "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" [CD: "Christmas Cookin'"] 4. Marcy Tigner: "Silver Bells" [LP: "Christmas With Marcy, Sing With Marcy"] 5. The Three Suns: "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" [LP: "A Ding Dong Dandy Christmas"] 6. Herman Apple, Ses Carillons Et Ses Percussions: "Le Pere Noel S'En Vient" [LP: "Stereo Percussion De Noel"] 7. U.S. Arm Band: "Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer" [compil. Cassette: "Off-The-Wall Christmas 1991"] 8. Miss Sza'Vee: "Jingle Bells" [compil. Cassette: "Awfully Painful Christmas Records"] 9. The Chipmunks Featuring David Seville: "The Night Before Christmas" [LP: "Christmas With The Chipmunks Vol. 2"] 10. Recyclophonics Featuring The 3 Barbra'S: "Streisand Night MIX" [LP: "A Christmas Album"] 11. Sam Ulano: "The Story Of Santa Claus" [compil. Cassette: "Off-The-Wall Christmas 1995"] 12. The Sonics: "The Village Idiot" [compil. LP: "Merry Christmas From The Sonics, The Wailers, The Galaxies"] 13. The Blue Hawaiians: "Have Yourself A Quiet Little Christmas" [CD: "Christmas On Big Island"] 14. The Bonnie Sisters: "I Saw Mommy Cha Cha Cha With You Know Who?" [compil. Cassette: "Christmas For The Kid In Us All 3"] 15. The Jethros: "Silent Night" [compil. CD: "The Dark Side Of The Christmas Tree"] 16. Trio Schmeed: "Winter Time" [LP: "Trio Schmeed"] 17. Tiny Tim: "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" [CD: "Tiny Tim's Christmas Album"] 18. The Mammoth Radio City Music Hall Organ Played By Richard Leiber: "The First Noel" [compil. CD: "Bob & Ray Throw A Stereo Spectacular"] 19. The Jingle Cats: "Little Drummer Boy (Edit)" [CD: "Here Comes Santa Claws"] 20. Karin Et Rebecca: "Petit Papa Noel" [LP: "Petit Papa Noel"] 21. John Klein: "Jingle Bells" [LP: "A Christmas Sound Spectacular"] 22. Sy Mann: "Rudolph, The Red Nosed Reindeer" [LP: "Switched On Santa!"] 23. Arthur Lyman: "Auld Lang Syne" [CD: "With A Christmas Vibe"] 24. Combustible Edison: "Sleigh Ride" [Promo CD: "Happy Holidays From Sub Pop"] (CD) = bestaat op CD (exists on CD) the radio pages on my web site: http://bewoner.dma.be/Dada/radioq/radioq.htm Johan |)/\|)/\ Vis dada@bewoner.dma.be - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Martin Mull Date: 28 Dec 1997 02:45:43 -0500 (EST) Martin Mull in exotica-----let me say this about that. He had his first show of paintings in the Mens' Room at The Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston in 1971. From then he recorded an LP--a brilliant endeavor--which contained the local aor hits "Am I In Heaven, Or Am I In Miami" and "The Bag I'm In Is Just A Package From, A Package Store". He'd won my heart, but opted for hollywood under the Steve-Martin-Mull umbrella from what I understand........he recorded a few more brilliant LP's then went idle, but I have the albums~~.Affiliated with Fernwood and Mary Hartmann too................. - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ross Orr Subject: (exotica) Exotic Christmas Date: 28 Dec 1997 22:48:36 -0500 Well the exotic CDs were flying around fast and furious here at Casa Mambo this Christmas. . . GAVE: Ennio Morricone's _I Malamondo_ soundtrack, and _The Legendary Italian Westerns_ comp. Thanks to Michael Toth for suggesting _I Malamondo_. This is one weird-ass platter let me tell you--it really may not be for everyone, the lurches in mood are so extreme. It can sound like Bert Kaempfert one moment and Charles Ives the next, finally winding up somewhere in the neighborhood of Dr. Seuss. With the Spaghetti Western soundtracks you are back on somewhat more familiar ground, if you can call Morricone's trademark eerie, echoey sounds "familiar." This morning I heard the composer of the _Titanic_ soundtrack on NPR, patting himself on the back for having written an "unconventional" score for that movie. It sounded perfectly generic to me, and I couldn't help thinking, "unconventional? Buddy, you have *no* idea. . . " GOT: Martin Denny's _Exotica I & II_ and _Afro-Desia_(both Scamp). Having known Denny only through the _Quiet Village_ LP and _Enchanted Sea_ it's really interesting to hear his earliest work, from before when his sound started to turn into a bit of a formula. In between all the monkey cries and Charlie Chan gongs, Exotica v.1 has some pretty rhythmically adventurous and sophisticated stuff going on ("Busy Port" etc.), which I have to admit surprised me a little. And I love "Bacoa" on vol 2. But it's _Afro-Desia_ which is the total jaw-dropper. This is the true missing link between Denny and Esquivel. Peculiar Percussion, screams, Stereo Action, a rockin' "Swamp Fire". . . but trippiest of all, the Randy Van Horne singers doing their most egregious "African" booga-booga vocals. I see a whole PhD here deconstructing all this pseudo-swahili. OK, everybody after me: "Ma Bunga-loo, Ma Bunga-loo. Aiieeeeeee! Mooga ya ya ya. Za-boo-ga-don, Za-boo-ga-don!! Yula Cha-Cha-Cha. . . MOOMBA!!!!" Ferrante and Teicher _Blast Off_ (Varese Sarabande) The cover photo is irresistable, and it's great to have this available on CD, where you can really appreciate some of those odd timbres. I like the F&T original "In the Rain," and all the bonus tracks from _F&T with Percussion_. But I'd have to say that my old LP of _Dynamic Twin Pianos_ (UA WWS 8504) still takes the prize for flat-out otherworldliness. A lot of the tracks on _Blast Off_ are actually (dare I say it?) somewhat on the sensitive and tasteful side. Dragged home some new vinyl too. . . Hope you all got the presents you wanted, --Ross || The Macintosh Witch Doctor: Ross Orr (313) 998-2546 || || " . . . it has been said that the Macintosh is the worst possible kind of || computer, except for all those other kinds that have been tried from || time to time. . . . " [with apologies to Winston Churchill] - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: (exotica) presents Date: 29 Dec 1997 01:28:48 -0500 (EST) I got Easy-Tempo volumes 1-3, Montefiori Cocktail, James Taylor Quartet's JTQ, Mo Plen 2000 and 3000, and KLF. Now I'm drowning in 7T's wa-wa blaxploitaiton pseudo funk and Continental Latinova on the E-Z side, with a nice dose of heavy playing from JTQ and some techno e-z from Montefiori......happy New Year all......Jimmy Botticelli - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Ben Waugh" Subject: (exotica) Gifts Date: 29 Dec 1997 05:52:34 PST Found in or near my sock: CD: Combustible Edison: Schizophonic; Johnny Burnette: Rock 'N' Roll Trio/Tear It Up LP: Irv Cottler: Percussion Around the World; Wild Stereo Drums; ?:Ancient Voices of Children (Nonsuch); Thunderball soundtrack; Little "Butchie" Saunders & His Buddies: Rock 'N' Roll Indian Dance; The Shadows: Out of the Shadows. Season's Greetings to all, BW ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Martin Mull Date: 29 Dec 1997 11:51:19 -0500 > albums~~.Affiliated with Fernwood and Mary Hartmann too... Yes -- after his little stint on "Mary Hartman" (his character wound up being impaled on an artificial Christmas tree), he hosted its summer replacement, "Fernwood 2-Night" (1977), a hilarious fake talk show. They gave Tom Waits some of his early exposure. It was followed the next summer by "America 2Night" -- same thing, except the show had (fictionally) moved from Fernwood to Alta Coma, California, "the unfinished furniture capital of the world." This gave them the excuse to have more celebrity guests on the show. Frank DeVol led the house band, "Happy Kyne and The Mirthmakers", which included Tommy Tedesco on guitar. Just to tie it all back into music. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ (Movies Of The Week tv picks for Dec. 28 to Jan. 4 now posted) - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) Martin Mull Date: 29 Dec 1997 12:20:43 -0500 >Yes -- after his little stint on "Mary Hartman" (his character wound up being >impaled on an artificial Christmas tree), he hosted its summer replacement, >"Fernwood 2-Night" Actually, it was two characters. Garth and Barth Gimble were twins and Garth was the one impaled, I think. To keep it even MORE musical, Martin Mull does play guitar and DeVol has many credits to his name, however, some of the musical highlights(?) of the program were "Ice Cream Baby" with vocals by Kyne, who also did a version of "Shake Your Booty". There was also a pianist in an iron lung, who accompanied a tap dancing Shirley Temple-style moppet, I cannot recall her name. Do leisure suits cause cancer? Brian Phillips - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: exotica-digest V2 #21: DJs + music writers Date: 29 Dec 1997 19:10:48 +0100 (CET) hi again, i just read this: >Date: Tue, 09 Dec 1997 10:10:20 -1000 >From: loidlink@pixi.com >Subject: (exotica) Don Tiki Part2 <--cut--> >Don't forget to include your address! Of course, DJs + music writers get >a CD and press kit just for asking. Until zen... well, I AM a dj, and write about exotica cd's on my web site, so i'd love to get the cd for free ;-) Dada'quariums Exotica: http://bewoner.dma.be/Dada/index.htm the radio pages on my web site: http://bewoner.dma.be/Dada/radioq/radioq.htm Johan quiet@village.uunet.be + dada@bewoner.dma.be --- - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: Help with archives Date: 29 Dec 1997 19:10:51 +0100 (CET) >I finally got an index of the archives, but when I ftp there to retrieve >documents it won't let me in without a password. for anonymous ftp, use your e-mail address as "password" Johan - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Playlist Fantastica Date: 29 Dec 1997 19:11:02 +0100 (CET) Fantastica runs on Radio Scorpio, FM106, Leuven, Belgium, each Saturday 15-16 h. Fantastica # 44: Cartoons in stereo - B * The Renegades: "Geronimo" [compil. CD: "Wa-Chic-Ka-Nocka"] * Bob Prescott: "The Races" [LP: "Cartoons In Stereo"] * Kai Winding: "Till" [LP: "Mondo Cane #2"] * Phil Cammarata: "The Last Blast Of The Bugler" [Transcription LP: "Dr. Demento Show # 87-33"] * Ennio Morricone: "The Devil Was Angel" [CD: "Golden Film Themes"] * Creed Taylor: "Heartaches" [LP: "Panic, The Son Of Shock"] * Bob Prescott: "The Shooting Gallery" [LP: "Cartoons In Stereo"] * The Little Big Horns: "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" [compil. CD: "Ultra-Lounge On The Rocks Part Two"] * Bob Prescott: "Calisthenics" [LP: "Cartoons In Stereo"] * Miss Piggy: "Dream Dancin'" [LP: "Aerobique Exercise Workout Album"] * Dean Elliott: "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" [LP: "Zounds! What Sounds!"] * Bob Prescott: "The Time" [LP: "Cartoons In Stereo"] * Ferrante & Teicher: "Three O'Clock In The Morning" [LP: "With Percussion"] * Judy Sheppard Missett: "Chase The Clouds Away - Chuck Magione" [LP: "Jazzercise"] * Creed Taylor: "Time Runs Out" [LP: "Shock"] * Bob Prescott: "The Railroad" [LP: "Cartoons In Stereo"] * Jack McDuff: "The Honeydripper" [CD: "The Honeydripper"] * Mel Henke: "Adventure On The Rails" [LP: "Dynamic Adventures In Sound"] * Creed Taylor: "The Operation" [LP: "Panic, The Son Of Shock"] * Doodoo Wah: "The Dental Yodel (Edit)" [CD: "For Amusement Only"] * Bob Prescott: "The Dentist" [LP: "Cartoons In Stereo"] * Bob Prescott: "Cristopher Columbus" [LP: "Cartoons In Stereo"] * B. Bumble And The Stingers: "Nautilus" [CD: "Nut Rocker And All The Classics"] * Leo Diamond: "The Skin Divers - 2" [LP: "Skin Diver Suite"] * Stevens & Grdnic: "Fast Food" [compil. LP: "Dr. Demento Presents The Greatest Novelty Records Of All Time Vol 5: The 1980'S"] * Bob Prescott: "The Intruder" [LP: "Cartoons In Stereo"] * Nervous Norvus: "Transfusion" [compil. LP: "Dr. Demento Presents The Greatest Novelty Records Of All Time Vol 2: The 1950'S"] the radio pages on my web site: http://bewoner.dma.be/Dada/radioq/radioq.htm Johan |)/\|)/\ Vis quiet@village.uunet.be + dada@bewoner.dma.be - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Martin Mull Date: 29 Dec 1997 17:05:44 -0500 > From: Brian Phillips > Subject: Re: (exotica) Martin Mull > > Actually, it was two characters. Garth and Barth Gimble were twins and > Garth was the one impaled, I think. Yes, Garth was the one who became a tree ornament. Barth was the tv host on the run from statutory charges in Florida (or something like that). > To keep it even MORE musical, Martin Mull does play guitar Indeed -- a big, blonde Gibson archtop. I seem to recall that he could do a nice job on a bossa nova. His stage design when touring in the 70's was a living room sort of setup, tv tables and everything, billed as "Martin Mull & His Living room Furniture" (or something like that -- maybe it was an album title also?). Whatsizname from The Cars played keyboards in the backing band at one point (keyboard was set up on an ironing board). m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ (Movies Of The Week tv picks for Dec. 28 to Jan. 4 now posted) - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: peter_risser@cinfin.com Subject: (exotica) Ultra Lounge Date: 30 Dec 1997 13:17:17 UT I have a question. Or, multiple questions: The first is, how biased is the Ultra Lounge series towards Capitol Artists? Is there anybody I might be missing hearing stuff from because they didn't record with Capitol? (Like say, Martin Denny or Esquivel or Ferrante & Tiecher or the Three Suns) Or did they do a decent job licensing stuff from other companies? I have the Christmas Cocktails disc and have heard some of the Crime Story disc and I like about 70% of what I hear. How do the rest stack up? Also, are there other comps a newbie should start with besides these? Maybe something a little less staid and a little more rambunctious? Any suggestions? Thanks, Peter - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: peter_risser@cinfin.com Subject: (exotica) Blue Hawaii Date: 30 Dec 1997 13:19:25 UT I saw a disc in a store called, I think, Blue Hawaii Christmas. It looked like a Lounge comp of Hawaiian-style Christmas tunes. Can anyone recommend or revile this? How exotically Hawaiian is it (versus Lawrence Welk-y Hawaiian)? How's the selection of artists? Thanks, Peter - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Waldo Muller" Subject: (exotica) easy tempo Date: 30 Dec 1997 16:19:41 +0200 DJ Jimmy Bee wrote: > > I got Easy-Tempo volumes 1-3, Montefiori Cocktail, James Taylor Quartet's > JTQ, Mo Plen 2000 and 3000, and KLF. Now I'm drowning in 7T's wa-wa > blaxploitaiton pseudo funk and Continental Latinova on the E-Z side ... As far as my taste goes, Easy Tempo vol. 3 looks like the best of the trio. Is it worth buying? Is it sort of like the Peter Thomas or Horst Jankowski bossa stuff? Is it mostly bossa or does it lean more towards the other Latin beats? (Jimmy mentions KLF ... my love for the elevator sounds of Acker Bilk started when they sampled "Stranger on the shore" on Chill Out ... Here Johnny Pearson's "Sleepy shores" - on Music for TV Dinners - also comes to mind. I recently compiled a 90 minute tape of early seventies Johnny Pearson and Sounds Orchestral - but I will spare you the track list) EZ Waldo, back on the mailing list - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Waldo Muller" Subject: (exotica) r-a-m-b-u-n-c-t-i-o-u-s Date: 30 Dec 1997 16:48:38 +0200 Peter wrote: > Also, are there other comps a newbie should start with besides these? Maybe > something a little less staid and a little more rambunctious? Any suggestions? More rambunctious, heh? Try Gert Wilden's crime jazzy, twisty CD comp "I told you not the cry" (think that is what it is called) on Crippled Dick Hot Wax. Also Hugo Montenegro's "Man from U.N.C.L.E." CD reissue (much more rambunctious than Ultralounge crime comp). Harder, but more seventies, in sound are the British Blow Up compilations or the first Easy Project Loungecore compilation. And on the Latin side, Yma Sumac's "Mambo" CD is also pretty rambunctious. staid Waldo - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bag@hubris.net Subject: (exotica) Re: Ultra Lounge Date: 30 Dec 1997 07:05:01 -0800 (PST) At 01:17 PM 12/30/97 UT, peter_risser wrote: >how biased is the Ultra Lounge series towards Capitol Artists? very. they do have some denny (capitol put together a 2-disc set of denny, in fact) but they don't include Esquivel or the 3 Suns because those are RCA. I don't recall Ferrante&Tiecher on UL. For RCA artists there are 3 CDs in the Space Age Pop series which has some E and 3S as well as other greats. Also, check out the Cocktail Mix series on Rhino. They were able to get a full range of artists including Dean Elliott, The 3S, F&T and Lenny Dee from respectively Capitol, RCA, ABC-Paramount and Decca! Volume 1 is my favorite. Hi-Fi Rykodisc owns Arthur Lyman but also Jack "Bongo" Burger and some other folks which are okay. Try "In a Cocktail Mood." They also have packaged three of their discs in a boxed set. Then there is Incredibly Strange Music, Volume 1...the CD on Caroline Records. I heard there is a Volume 2 CD but I have never seen it. Anyway, Vol. 1 has Harry Breuer, Dave Harris, Perrey & Kingsley, Billy Mure... The new Varese Sarabande disc "The Ernie Kovacs Record Collection" has a good cross section including several F&T selections, Yma Sumac, The Tony DeSimone Trio and the Les Baxter Orchestra...and, of course, Ernie Kovacs! All the Enoch Light and Command stuff has not gone onto a compilation, although several CD's from some of the Percussion albums have been made...but NOT on UL. With all those, I think you have a beginning sampling of a good range of this kind of music. Byron /- / '\ / ___> ; ; ; _ ;__ / \ [ | /"- / () | ) <}-___/_/(_|/ \_(__/\/| (_______ ___< -_/ Byron Caloz bag@hubris.net Portland, OR, USA - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Waldo Muller" Subject: (exotica) r-a-m-b-u-n-c-t-i-o-u-s, g-l-o-s-s Date: 30 Dec 1997 17:22:49 +0200 This has nothing to do with music but i must in retrospect explain why i used RAMBUNCTIOUS over and over in my previous e-mail. English is my second language and I learned a new word. Join the exotica mailing list and increase your word power! tipsy Waldo - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Carl Russo" Subject: Re: (exotica) easy tempo Date: 28 Dec 1997 07:59:25 -0800 From Waldo Muller: >As far as my taste goes, Easy Tempo vol. 3 looks like the best of the trio. >Is it worth buying? Is it sort of like the Peter Thomas or Horst Jankowski >bossa stuff? Did you know Volume 4 has been released? More excellent mod and funky sounds from Italian soundtracks and studio projects. The double LP is a beautiful thing to behold but the CD exists, too. Also out: Beat at Cinecitta, vol. 2 and Blowup, vol. 2, the latter consisting of more wild library music. Cool name, Waldo! C. "Ratso" Russo - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Randall Rothenberg Subject: Re: (exotica) Ultra Lounge Date: 30 Dec 1997 11:00:17 -0500 (EST) My recollection, from my interviews with Brad Benedict, the series producer at Capitol, is that Ultra Lounge is entirely from Capitol's vaults. Now, there may be some occasional crossover; rights-sharing and favors are done among companies on archival compilations. Ashley and Br. Cleve would no better about this, though. - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Sean Berry" Subject: Re: (exotica) Ultra Lounge Date: 30 Dec 1997 06:43:30 -0800 > I have a question. Or, multiple questions: > > The first is, how biased is the Ultra Lounge series towards Capitol Artists? Is > there anybody I might be missing hearing stuff from because they didn't record > with Capitol? (Like say, Martin Denny or Esquivel or Ferrante & Tiecher or the > Three Suns) Or did they do a decent job licensing stuff from other companies? > I have the Christmas Cocktails disc and have heard some of the Crime Story disc > and I like about 70% of what I hear. How do the rest stack up? --All of the artists on the Ultra-Lounge compilations recorded for Capitol. Martin Denny was one of them. You'll find a few of his tracks on several of the Ultra-Lounge CD's, PLUS, Capitol released an excellent 2-CD set of his exotic material last year. They also released great 2-CD sets by Jackie Gleason and Les Baxter. As far as I know all of the tracks on these CD's were taken from the Capitol vaults and no outside material was used. I have the complete set and like just about all of them. The only one that I found disappointing was Space Capades, which was fairly tame and had tracks that didn't really fit in with the space theme. My favorites are Cha-Cha de Amor, Bossa-Nova Ville, and Christmas Cocktails I. Thanks, Sean The Continental Magazine & Continental Records Home Page: http://www.az.com/~sberry Catalog: http://www.az.com/~sberry/catalog.html P.O. Box 4336, Bellingham, WA 98227-4336 - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: exotica-digest V2 #21: DJs + music writers Date: 30 Dec 1997 19:13:07 +0100 (CET) oh boy, i screwed up the header of that message... sorry guys, i wasn't meant to be sent to the list! Johan - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "allanc" Subject: Re: (exotica) Ultra Lounge Date: 30 Dec 1997 14:33:43 -0500 Peter wrote: > Also, are there other comps a newbie should start with besides these? > Maybe > something a little less staid and a little more rambunctious? Any > suggestions? I would suggest buying the following compilations: "Las Vegas Grind" (3 volumes on cd) and "Jungle Exotica" (2 volumes) all released by the good people at Strip Records. Wild 'n' Raucous tunes. Allan. - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Br. Cleve" Subject: Re: (exotica) Ultra Lounge Date: 30 Dec 1997 14:59:30 -0500 At 1:17 PM +0000 12/30/97, peter_risser@cinfin.com wrote: >The first is, how biased is the Ultra Lounge series towards Capitol >Artists? Is >there anybody I might be missing hearing stuff from because they didn't record >with Capitol? The Ultra Lounge series only uses artists who were on Capitol, or any of the labels that are also currently owned by the parent conglomerate, EMI. Therefore, you have artists whose original records were on Capitol, Liberty, EMI, United Artists, Tower, Blue Note and Imperial (I think that's all of them). So, you're not hearing artists who recorded for RCA, Command, Warner Bros, ABC-Paramount, Columbia, A&M, Time, Richmond, Omega, Atlantic, Elektra, Reprise, Mercury, MGM, Hi-Fi, Westminster, Decca, Coral, London, Epic, etc etc etc In other words, Ultra Lounge only provides a tip of the iceberg, albeit one with some very important artists. br cleve - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "allanc" Subject: (exotica) Playlist for The Single Eye" December 28, 1997 Date: 30 Dec 1997 15:11:49 -0500 The Single Eye can be heard on Sundays at 4pm on CKUT 90.3 fm in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The Camberwell Now: Greenfingers "Greenfingers" Silver Apples: Cosmic String "Beacon" Amon Tobin: One Small Step "Bricolage" Brainticket: Era of Technology "Celestial Ocean" The Lords: Don't Mince Matter (live) "The Continent Lashes Back!" The Ooze: We're Living Now "Visions of the Past Vol 1" Piero Piccioni: Notti Caldi "Beat at Cinecitta Vol 2" The Ray McVay Sound: Kinda Kinky "The Easy Project" Bruno Nicolai: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang "Beat at Cinecitta Vol 2" Eden Ahbez: Tobago "Lost Treasures!" Kid Koala: Taboo Soda "Scratchhappyland" Pasquale & the Lunar-tiks: Moon Madness "Jungle Exotica Vol 2" Improved Sound Ltd: Hit 'em in the Face "Electrick Loosers" Kid Koala: Thank you, Goodnight, Drive Safely "Scratchhappyland" Tony Rodelle Larson: Bear Rug "Swing for a Crime" - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Diamond Subject: (exotica) Looking for Jerry Larson Date: 30 Dec 1997 14:15:13 -0800 Jerry, If you're here, I need your address Jack - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Steve Sando Subject: Re: (exotica) Ultra Lounge Date: 30 Dec 1997 11:18:24 -0800 >--All of the artists on the Ultra-Lounge compilations recorded for Capitol. >Martin Denny was one of them. Weren't a lot of these tracks originally on labels later acquirred by Capitol/EMI, like Liberty and Blue Note? By the way, I think what works best about the Ultra-Lounge series is that they do mostly maintain the "Capitol Sound" rather than try to be all things to all people. MisterLUCKY, published by Coconut Grove Media Visit MisterLUCKY on the web: http://www.mrlucky.com "Strange how potent cheap music is" - Noel Coward - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: BasicHip Subject: (exotica) it's a good time to be a newbie Date: 31 Dec 1997 00:48:30 EST peter, you could drop a quick grand on all those comps that are out now! consider yourself fortunate that you have all of these CD's to feast upon. it was not long ago that all you had to pick from CD-wise was "Incredibly Strange Music", Rhino's Martin Denny collection and Esquivel's "Space Age Bachelor Pad Music". to this day, Capitol has given us something like 18 Ultra-Lounge comps but has still yet to release any of Les Baxter's greatest LP's. so there is still more to come. and that's STILL only the tip of the iceberg, because as soon as you dust off your turntable you'll be amazed at how much more is out there that will never see it's way to a Virgin Megastore. Piero Umiliani's "Svezia Inferno E Paradiso" is tremendous. might want to check out "Vampryos Lesbos" too. you mentioned The Crime Scene. You should consider Rhino's two fine new Crime Jazz collections. happy new year and all that jazz... if ya drink, don't drive. - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: NATHAN MINER Subject: (exotica) Thunderbirds are Go! Date: 31 Dec 1997 09:01:46 -0500 Okay gang, enlighten me. A couple of weeks ago I picked up this CD ("Pulse" label.....? I forget) - subtitled "Kiddie Shows for Adults" or something like that. It's got tracks to TV shows like "Stingray" and "Doctor Who." These tracks sound like they're in mono (makes sense since these tunes would only be heard through a small, tinny TV speaker). Are all/most of these shows British or what?? I'm not that old to remember Thunderbirds or any of the other shows listed. I'd highly recommend this CD for some swingin' theme music - almost all the tracks are a lot of fun - there's about 4 or 5 duds. - Nate - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: BasicHip Subject: Re: (exotica) Thunderbirds are Go! Date: 31 Dec 1997 09:41:56 EST In a message dated 97-12-31 09:05:21 EST, you write: << Are all/most of these shows British or what?? I'm not that old to remember Thunderbirds or any of the other shows listed. >> All British. Thunderbirds, Stingray, Fireball-XL-5, Captain Scarlet, Supercar all scored by the Barry Gray Orchestra. You should go to a good video store and check these out. sci-fi shows done with marionettes with thick lips and thicker eye brows who fly through through space and face danger. scamp's Shadows Are Go has Lady Penelope's pink car on the cover. something you have to see if only once. - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: NATHAN MINER Subject: Re: (exotica) Thunderbirds are Go! -Reply Date: 31 Dec 1997 09:55:02 -0500 Yeah, I've seen the Thunderbirds show, and have a vague recollection of this being on when I was a tot.......I've got that Scamp Shadows CD too... Can't really get into the puppet thing. They also did this for a "horror movie" whose name escapes me at the moment - its got all the classic monsters running around in a classic "old castle" setting.....Boris Karloff does one of the voices.....anybody know the title??? - Nate - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Thunderbirds are Go! Date: 31 Dec 1997 12:13:05 -0500 > Can't really get into the puppet thing. They also did this for a "horror > movie" whose name escapes me at the moment - its got all the classic > monsters running around in a classic "old castle" setting.....Boris Karloff > does one of the voices.....anybody know the title??? "Mad Monster Party" (1969). Not a Gary & Sylvia Anderson SuperMarionation project (they used actual marionettes with strings and everything), but a stop motion animation thang from Rankin & Bass. Besides Boris himself and some Peter Lorre and Charles Laughton sound-a-likes, it also includes the inimitable pipes of Phyllis Diller. Mad Magazine founder, Harvey Kurtzman, co-wrote the screenplay and you can see some influence from his art in the character design, especially the fabulous babe character. I can't remember who did the music, but I seem to recall (shudder) songs. Sort of like a mutated relative of the old "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" TV special. It's an interesting curio. Getting back to the Andersons (Thunderbirds, Stingray, Captain Scarlet, etc.), Outre Magazine has been doing a series of stories on their career for the last few issues. Also, the feature films, "Thunderbirds Are Go!" (1966) and "Thunderbird Six" (1968) seem to turn up regularly on Turner's channels, although curiously, they are flagged as "edited for content" at the beginning! "Thunderbirds Are Go!" includes a musical segment with puppets of Cliff Richard & The Shadows performing in space (as seen on the cover of the Scamp cd). Happy New Year everyone. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ (Movies Of The Week tv picks for Dec. 28 to Jan. 4 now posted) - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Micheleflp Subject: (exotica) Thunderbirds and the Giant Wheel show Date: 31 Dec 1997 12:53:37 EST In a message dated 97-12-31 09:59:14 EST, NMINER@gwgate1.jhmi.jhu.edu writes: << Yeah, I've seen the Thunderbirds show, and have a vague recollection of this being on when I was a tot.......I've got that Scamp Shadows CD too... >> Hey, they show that Thunderbirds show on the Televisions at the local nightclub here in L.A. (Silverlake) - Spaceland. Thunderbirds were really cool! Does anyone remember a show where a horse and some other animals would get in a big wheel (the wheel was like a vehicle for them) and they would travel in it? It was done during the Kimba the White Lion/Speed Race style/era. I'm still trying to find someone that remembers that show. What is the name of it????? Anyway, none of you said whethere these CDs were any good. So let us all know what you thought of the Cds, some of us may want to purchase them. - Michele Flipside Fanzine - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: John Zacherle: "Dinner With Zach Date: 31 Dec 1997 19:49:59 +0100 (CET) it's a bootleg i guess, and you can get it from Norton it has some tracks that are also on the "monster mash" LP i have, but also other ones; i don't have the track list right now. Johan quiet@village.uunet.be + dada@bewoner.dma.be --- - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Mirageman Date: 31 Dec 1997 19:49:55 +0100 (CET) got that new cd by Mirageman, called "thunder and lightning", on Irma (Italy), and i like it a lot! if you digged the sound gallery stuff, you'll like this - and i quote fom the sleeve - "psychedelic acid funk with violent trashings of fuzz guitar intertwined with a total freak out on the Hammond organ". ignore the "file under easy listening" label, as this is wild and dangerous stuff! (beautiful digi-pack sleeve too!) Johan quiet@village.uunet.be + dada@bewoner.dma.be --- - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) about 3 James taylor Quartet cd's Date: 31 Dec 1997 19:49:42 +0100 (CET) i checked out the 3 James taylor Quartet cd's that were mentioned here: Mission Impossible The Money Spyder Get Organized i liked the first 2 mentioned very much, and can recommend them if you like this kind of thing (jazz-influenced spy-flavored energetic instro rock). the third is a bit too "free" for me, more like nervous, freewheelin' funky acid-jazz. not bad, but not the same thing as the other 2 mentioned. Johan quiet@village.uunet.be + dada@bewoner.dma.be --- - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Diamond Subject: Re: (exotica) Mirageman Date: 31 Dec 1997 11:28:16 -0800 At 07:49 PM 12/31/97 +0100, Johan Dada Vis wrote: > >got that new cd by Mirageman, called "thunder and lightning", on Irma >(Italy), and i like it a lot! if you dug the sound gallery >stuff, you'll like this - and i quote from the sleeve - "psychedelic acid >funk with violent trashings of fuzz guitar intertwined with a total freak >out on the Hammond organ". >ignore the "file under easy listening" label, as this is wild and dangerous >stuff! (beautiful digi-pack sleeve too!) Yeah, I have to listen to that 1 again. Fabrezio, head of Irma America, sent me their entire catalog except the 1 I really wanted which is Montefiori Cocktail!, show biz is everywhere, even amongst small indie labels, and that was 1 of them. I'm sure since he saw that I reviewed it for KFJC and loved it, I didn't need "my own" copy, since I'm going to start carrying it So like I said, I have to listen to it again to really "get it", 'cause I didn't "get it" yet, meaning it didn't make me crazy. There's another "Mirageman", just in case you didn't know and I love that cover with the "chalked out" silhouette of a man on the ground thing Jack - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Antho=?iso-8859-1?Q?=F1?=io Mighuel Pettit Subject: Re: (exotica) Blue Hawaii Date: 30 Dec 1997 15:28:24 -0800 Ohayo! Regarding the Blue Hawaiians' "Christmas on Big Island" CD: I first heard it while trying on clothes at Urban Outfitters in Seattle. They were playing a bunch of loud thumpy Gen-X-type stuff, when out of nowhere came an intriguing twang followed by the perfect Hawaiian Christmas tune. It sounded like it could have been old late-forties country music. Very campy. My friend and I were both immediately taken by the song, so we approached one of the sales drones and asked what was playing. They showed us the CD but said that they had had it a couple of years etc etc etc... Blah blah blah We head out to all of the Disc shops on Capital Hill, but everyone gave us one of those "No-we've-never-heard-of-it-and-why-the-Hell-would-you-want-it-anyway" type looks. Even the upscale downtown Book 'n' CD shoppe "Borders" didn't stock it, and they have everything (albiet marked up 15%.) We had pretty much given up hope, when as a last resort we stopped into Tower Records and they cheerfully said that they had 15 copies in stock blah blah blah... They point is, it is pretty good. The songs that are good are really good. It is not Lawrence Welk-y at all. Exotica-yes, in that it's Hawaiian, but it doesn't sound THAT The particular track that I had initially heard and was so impressed by, ("Jingle-Jangle") was actually kind of a rarity in that the rest of the songs are definately more modern. It is kind of modern surf music otherwise. There are quite a few really catchy tunes, but they had to grow on me just a little bit for me to appreciate them. I think you should buy it... I ended up being happy with it. Sorry to go on and on, but I'm on company time... Regards, T. Mighuel Bishop Pettit pettit@cnw.com ********* Records, Tokyo - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Thunderbirds are Go! Date: 31 Dec 1997 16:50:42 -0500 > From: Wayne Davidson > Subject: RE: (exotica) Thunderbirds are Go! > > Here in Australia on the cable channel Nick At Nite they screen Stingray, > Captain Scarlet, Joe 90, Fireball XL5 and (the quite amazing) UFO every > Saturday night. They call the block of shows 'Strung Out In Space'. > > Something which may be of interest to TV fans: on the same channel they also > screen such British spy/adventure shows as The Man From UNCLE, The Saint, > > The cable channel of my dreams! You would be REAL disappointed by the U.S. version of Nick At Nite. Sheeeit, I'm movin' to Australia. ;) (oh, "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." was a US production, I think) m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ (Movies Of The Week tv picks for Dec. 28 to Jan. 4 now posted) - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "B. Yost" Subject: (exotica) Command discography questions Date: 31 Dec 1997 14:55:59 PST Hi, Does anyone have Command 916, 944, or 949, or know the artists/titles of them? None of the web-based Command discographies I've seen have the titles for these releases, including the Spaced Out site. Even more arcane, has anyone ever heard why there apparently is no Command 803? Or maybe there once was but it got discontinued? Any info appreciated, thanks. Brad Yost - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Michael D. Toth Subject: Re: (exotica) Ultra Lounge Date: 31 Dec 1997 19:15:57 -0000 "Br. Cleve" wrote: >At 1:17 PM +0000 12/30/97, peter_risser@cinfin.com wrote: > >>The first is, how biased is the Ultra Lounge series towards Capitol >>Artists? Is >>there anybody I might be missing hearing stuff from because they didn't record >>with Capitol? As previously suggested, rush out to get those Rhino Cocktail Mix CDs, especially Irwin Chusid's "Bachelor's Guide to the Galaxy" volume. Also, they're a bit uneven, but those Music for a Bachelor's Den comps aren't bad and feature stuff licensed from many different labels; but I consider them more interesting than a lot of the Ultra Lounge stuff I've heard. >The Ultra Lounge series only uses artists who were on Capitol, or any of >the labels that are also currently owned by the parent conglomerate, EMI. >Therefore, you have artists whose original records were on Capitol, >Liberty, EMI, United Artists, Tower, Blue Note and Imperial (I think that's >all of them). I don't know. I'm kinda annoyed with the reality that Ultra Lounge almost defines this whole genre because they're the only CDs I see EVERYWHERE, perhaps because they have the distribution and marketing push of EMI/Capitol. I'm increasingly disappointed in the kind of stuff they pick (but apparently they know what sells). They're squandering their resources, IMO. Take for example, Ferrante & Teicher's _Dynamic Twin Pianos_ LP on UA (recently plugged here by Ross Orr with good reason) and other stray prepared piano tracks on UA. Am I mistaken or has NOT A SINGLE ONE OF THESE *amazing* tracks turned up on Ultra Lounge discs? Idiots!!! It also seems like there's little chance of convincing them to reissue prominent cult albums like Russ Garcia's _Fantastica_ or a CD of the complete UA prepared F&T recordings. It seems that if it isn't the Rat Pack side of "lounge," it doesn't stand a chance any more. Michael David Toth mtoth@neo.lrun.com - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender.