From: Wayne Davidson Subject: RE: (exotica) Thunderbirds are Go! Date: 01 Jan 1998 08:25:00 +1000 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'. All are Gerry Anderson productions. The theme from UFO is one of my favourite TV themes, it's another by Barry Gray who scored all of these shows. 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, Department S, Jason King (the Laurie Johnson theme to this show can be found on the second 'Sound Gallery' compilation) and Randall And Hopkirk (Deceased). Also recently the entire series of Patrick McGoohan's 'The Prisoner' was screened. The cable channel of my dreams! Ciao, Wayne Davidson - # 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: MUV96TBD@Student2.lu.se (Chester W. Nimitz) Subject: RE: (exotica) Thunderbirds are Go! Date: 01 Jan 1998 02:22:23 +0100 >Gerry Anderson productions. The theme from UFO is one of my favourite TV >themes, it's another by Barry Gray who scored all of these shows. I have to say, despite being pretty sleazy (in a not too positive way), the theme to Loveboat is a TV-theme favourite of mine...what do you listees think? Otherwise, I prefer all the classics...John Barry, preferably. Out of movies, Bacharach is the king naturally (atleast to me!) but that movie with the song "Windmills of our minds" (or something like that) starring Steve Mcqueen and Faye Dunayway is pretty good too, but I can't remember the title of the movie...anyone? >(Deceased). Also recently the entire series of Patrick McGoohan's 'The >Prisoner' was screened. Is he the guy from Avengers? Or is that Patrick McNee? Sorry, I shouldn't have drunk all that beer and wine tonight, my memory has bought a temporary one-way ticket to Pluto, hahaha!! :D HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!! Chester W. Nimitz - # 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: MUV96TBD@Student2.lu.se (Chester W. Nimitz) Subject: Re: (exotica) Mirageman Date: 01 Jan 1998 02:22:36 +0100 >(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". It seems like The Sound Gallery is divided into two categories; 1) psych-funk/hammond stuff and 2) String'n'brass-based lounge stuff. Interesting to see you like the sooner; personally I can't stand the most overtly funky songs such as the #2 by Mandingo (can't rememeber the songtitle). However, I do really love all the lovely loungey stuff, particularly Neil Richardson's "The Riviera Affair" and Alan Hawkshaw's "Girl In A Sportscar". What have these two later guys done?? I did a web-search but couldn't find anything that didn't have anything to do with their Sound Gallery contributions... Chester W. Nimitz - # 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: Wayne Davidson Subject: RE: (exotica) Thunderbirds are Go! Date: 01 Jan 1998 13:00:00 +1000 Outof movies, Bacharach is the king naturally (atleast to me!) but that movie with the song "Windmills of our minds" (or something like that) starring Steve Mcqueen and Faye Dunayway is pretty good too, but I can't remember the title of the movie...anyone? The Thomas Crown Affair Is he the guy from Avengers? Or is that Patrick McNee? Sorry, I shouldn't have drunk all that beer and wine tonight, my memory has bought a temporary one-way ticket to Pluto, hahaha!! :D Patrick MacNee is from the Avengers, McGoohan was in Danger Man Wayne D. - # 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: 01 Jan 1998 10:53:08 -0500 (EST) I dunno, I think the criticism of Ultra-Lounge, based on its success, is a bit unfair. Brad Benedict, the series producer, came up with the idea because he really loved the music, the ambience, the cultural currency of "Lounge." (He'd previously done a wonderful series of compilations for Capitol, called "Great Men of Song," which enabled tykes like me to recall the range and reality of, e.g., Vic Damone, Dean Martin, Bobby Darin, and Matt Munro.) And he's also been involved in spurring new artists in the tradition; I sat in on a recording session for a compilation album he was producing last year that was to feature, among others, the Blue Hawaiians and the Step Sisters. If the "Ultra-Lounge" series is everywhere, it's probably because Capitol, among major record companies, got behind the phenomenon more strongly, gave it better and more consistent design, put some money into it, etc. - # 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: "Robbie Baldock" Subject: Re: (exotica) Christmas on Big Island Date: 01 Jan 1998 17:03:19 +0000 T. Mighuel Bishop Pettit wrote: >They point is, it is pretty good. The songs that are good are >really good. It is not Lawrence Welk-y at all. I like this CD too - particularly the way they turn Quiet Village into "Have Yourself a Very Merry Christmas"! Robbie Spaced Out - the Enoch Light WWW Site http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~rcb/light/ Space Safari - to Hi-Fidelity and Beyond! http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~rcb/space/ - # 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: "Robbie Baldock" Subject: (exotica) Space Safari playlist 21/12/97 Date: 01 Jan 1998 17:03:19 +0000 A very Happy New Year to all exoticats! Rather belatedly, here is the playlist from my -last ever-* Space Safari. It was another all-digital affair (I had hoped to resurrect my turntable for this one but found out that a new stylus would cost me 90 UKP!!! Jeez, I can get a new turntable for that!). * - it looks like it might not have been the last Space Safari as I was offered a similar Sunday evening slot at another Edinburgh venue! I'll keep you all posted... Oh, I see Air are going to be releasing their first LP in 98 called "Moon Safari". Hmmm... Anyway, in alphabetic order: Intro: first few tracks from Les Baxter's "Exotic Moods" (while I changed into my space suit!) The main course: Art Blakey - Cubano Chant The Bad Examples - Song Electrique Blue Hawaiians - Jingle Bells, We Four Kings (Little Drummer Boy) Willie Bobo - Kojak (from "Blue Movies") Brigitte Bardot - Harley Davidson John Buzon - Mr Ghost Goes to Town (from "Organs in Orbit") Francesco De Masi & A Alessandroni - Tema di Londra M.1 Preston Epps - Bongo Rock Esquivel - Frosty the Snowman Mort Garson - Easy to Be Hard (from "In Flight 2") Barry Gray - Joe 90 Nancy Holloway - Sand and Rain (from "Pop Boutique 1") Laika & The Cosmonauts - Experiment in Terror, Ipcress File Michel Legrand - Di-Gue-Ding-Ding (from "In Flight 1") Enoch Light - I Love Paris, Love is a Many Splendored Thing Alan Lorber Orchestra - Mas Que Nada, The Look of Love Henry Mancini - Shot in the Dark Moog Cookbook - Black Hole Rain, Freefallin' Nice 'n' Easy Experience - Spaceman (CD single) Leonard Nimoy - Music to Watch Space Girls By (from "Spaced Out") Korla Pandit - Temptation (from "Exotica 2000") Perrey & Kingsley - Cosmic Ballad Rajput and the Sepoy Mutiny - Up, Up and Away Edmundo Ros - Light My Fire (from "In Flight 1") Ananda Shankar - Dancing Peacocks Roland Shaw - Let the Love Come Through (from "In Flight 1") Nancy Sinatra - Sugar Town Stereolab - Miss Modular Sukia - Feelin' Free Big Jim Sullivan - Sunshine Superman (from "In Flight 2") Yma Sumac - Goomba Goomba Tipsy - Tuatara Cal Tjader - Lullaby at Birdland, Cal's Bluedo Turn On - Electrocation of the Fire Ants unknown - Snowman's Stomp (from "Blow Up") The Ventures - The Cape (from "Batman" CD) Link Wray - Rumble Mambo Mix: William Shatner - Hamlet (from "Spaced Out") + Star Trek sound FX CD (the Red Alert Klaxon seemed somehow appropriate in places!) For dessert: A mix of Louis Armstrong reading "The Night Before Christmas" (from "Santa Claus Blues" comp CD) and Raymont Scott's "Little Miss Echo" from Soothing Sounds for Baby Vol 3 - worked rather well! Robbie ("Bongo Boy") ** ** * Space Safari - to Hi-Fidelity and Beyond! * ** ** ** ** ** http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~rcb/space/ ** ** ** - # 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: Rcbrooksod Subject: (exotica) A UL Christmas (Under-writer Lab approved ! ! !) Date: 01 Jan 1998 13:47:05 EST I was rather disappointed with the Ultra Lounge Christmas Cocktails Part 2 (especially since I love Part 1 so much). I did enjoy the "Christmas Island" cut on Part 2 and just about wore it out (along with my wife's patience). If they decide on a Part 3 (and I bet they will ! ! !) I hope that they "dig" a little deeper into their "vaults". Or better yet, get some non-Capital artists. They gotta be running out of suitable stuff using just their own stuff. Final note, I like how they have labels on the UL CD's now that say "THE GRAMMY AWARD WINNING . . . " The award was for the packaging -- gimme a break. Tiki Bob - # 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) Lightning/Thunder and Lightning Date: 01 Jan 1998 14:30:56 -0800 For me, the "Mirageman - Lightning" CD from Irma America is INFINITELY better than the "Thunder and Lightning" Thunder and Lightning seems to have much more of that "70's" bad rock guitar in it as the "Lightning" is way more great crime jazz/great sound gallery sounding But that's just me:) 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: Jessica Cameron Subject: (exotica) Exotica on CD? Date: 01 Jan 1998 18:46:34 -0500 Shhhhh--please don't say lounge! This catchall term for instrumental music is starting to drive me crazy--I have a friend who was calling an instrumental Marvin Gaye track on a Motown Christmas tape he had "lounge music." ^_-;;; Then again I stopped saying "exotica" long ago because people around here thought I was talking about the music topless dancers use . :O Right now I'm split between "easy listening/instrumental" and "orchestral novelty albums (a little too highbrow I guess)" If an album has a title like "Instrumental Favorites from the Coal Town Inn Bar and Grill," _then_ that's really lounge music. Or music that was performed in a lounge but re-recorded for an album, like the John Buzon trio. I guess that's a grey area. ^_- Anyway--do any of you think that a lot of the really really great, classic recordings we all love so much are being neglected in favor of more middle-of-the-road stuff? I don't mean that Lawrence Welk CDs are outselling any of the popular Ultra-Lounge releases, but instead of really really good stuff, the folks at Capitol seem to be giving us so-so, kinda cute stuff--like Ferrante + Teicher's "Barbarella." It's nice, it's funny, but compared to "Cold Turkey?" :P The champion of the arts in me thinks it's great that the talented musicians and singers that made these recordings are getting their digital due, but the cynic in me thinks they just want to keep people out of the thrift shop bins. 15 bucks is too much for average stuff I can get for 50 cents at the flea market, so my new years resolution is : no more ultra lounge! (that doesn't mean I think you all should stop buying CDs--if you have the money, go for it! I'm just a poor college student with more time than money ^_-). Getting back to the music--I hate to say this, given the battles this list has had over 'em before, but the bootlegs seem to be getting out more "desert island" (uh-oh, another hot potato!) material than any of the major guys (however, Scamp is doing a terrific job, IMHO ^_^;;). I guess it all boils down to taste--but I'd rather have Sabu than George Shearing and Ray Anthony. This was probably one of the most weak-kneed bitch posts ever. Sorry. :( Thanks for the space and Happy 1998, Jessica ^_^ PS--Speaking of CDs, don't nobody buy records anymore? Seems like all that's been discussed lately is reissues.! ^_^;;; - # 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: loidlink@pixi.com Subject: (exotica) Hau`oli Makahiki Hou! Date: 01 Jan 1998 13:39:18 -1000 Pal Joie de vivres- Hau`oli Makahiki Hou from da islands... Hope that your New year is a great one! We wish you get what you want, want what you get, and knew that what you got is what you wanted. Keep your tiki torches lit in '98! Fluid Floyd + Perry Coma - # 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: 01 Jan 1998 18:55:05 -0000 Randall Rothenberg wrote: >I dunno, I think the criticism of Ultra-Lounge, based on its >success, is a bit unfair. Brad Benedict, the series producer, came up with >the idea because he really loved the music, the ambience, the cultural >currency of "Lounge." Yeah, sorry if I seemed TOO hard on Brad. His heart does seem to be in the right place. Our taste and interests just seem to be in different places (although they overlap quite a bit and it's more a matter of what I prefer more than incompatible dislikes). I'm much more the Cocktail Mix (Rhino comp) Vol. 1 speed, and the Ultra Lounge direction seems to be much more of the Vol. 3 variety. But in some cases, I still think he squandered his opportunity with some of those comps (most specifically the space-themed ones). Randall, in your Esquire article, you rightly described the "Space Age Bachelor Pad" types of music as one subsection of what gets collectively referred to as "Lounge Music." The greater public, I think, has a greater frame of reference for stuff like Rat Pack lounge (quick! man-on-the-street survey! "Have you heard of Dean Martin? How about Dean Elliott? Martin Denny?!?"). Rat Pack Cocktail Music was neglected long enough but still familiar enough that it should come as no surprise that this is the stuff that instead attained the biggest mass interest in this revivial of old music. But most of the stuff I'm attracted to seems more akin to the Pee Wee's Playhouse aesthetic than smooth crooners with cigars and martinis. As such, I don't know how accurate of a picture of SABPM the term "lounge" forms for people whose only reference to this scene may be the movie Swingers, and I still have a hard time trying to explain to friends just WHAT this "other" kind of music is that I started getting into a few years back. >(He'd previously done a wonderful series of >compilations for Capitol, called "Great Men of Song," which enabled tykes >like me to recall the range and reality of, e.g., Vic Damone, Dean Martin, >Bobby Darin, and Matt Munro.) And he's also been involved in spurring new I'll definitely admit to having a deeper, albeit mostly academic, appreciation for those kind of artists than I did five or ten years ago, but with a record collection running out of control, I still don't own a single whole LP or CD by *any* of those guys you mention, and I'm still not enamored enough with them to have any intention to. Brad is just going a different direction with the emphasis of the series than I would like, which is ultimately MY personal problem I guess. I suspect I'm being whiney cuz things aren't going my way. :-) 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Diamond Subject: Re: (exotica) Exotica on CD? Date: 01 Jan 1998 15:59:44 -0800 >PS--Speaking of CDs, don't nobody buy records anymore? Seems like all that's >been discussed lately is reissues.! ^_^;;; Let's see, what have I scored lately that I really love; Bill Page's Sonic Sixties(Capitol), Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, George Barnes-Country Jazz on Colortone, Mel Brown-The Wizard(Impulse) Ann Margaret-"Sings Songs From The Swinger" (RCA) There's 5 killers for ya babe @;-O Well, I have never bought ANY of the Ultra Lounge series CD's. I look at them in stores and I say to self, "what a bunch of junk" because I do know what all of that stuff sounds like and I don't mean to say that or to sound like I am some sort of snob or elitist, it's just a simple fact Now true, there are a few tracks here and there that are really good BUT for the most part, it is truly gar-bahggggg. What most "regular people" don't seem to realize or want to know about record companies is this; They don't care. They just don't care. It's just that simple. If it sells, that is ALL they care about, PERIOD, end of subject "Capitol" is not going to break out the really good stuff if they don't have to, right ? I mean, why should they if idiots are continuing to buy the "middle of the road" Doesn't make any sense to me. It may cost them a few more dollars too and why should they do that when their ONLY BOTTOM LINE is how much do we really need to spend VS how much are we making. The sad but very real and true reality is that record labels/companies don't give a damn about anything except the bottom line whether it be Capitol/EMI or some ho-dunk label in Norway, Sweden, Germany, UK et al or anywhere else on the planet MONEY is the ONLY bottom line that matters and that very real BOTTOM LINE is money going out and money coming in. This is not about or has anything to do with ART, this is biz-ness, plain and simple. Everyone who is anyone has all heard horror stories about the (actual) artist who got screwed and didn't get dime 1 from the record company, correct ? That is still very much a reality even in 1998, it is still going on. I will say that I do LOVE the CD Releases that Ashley Warren and his little "off shoot" label, SCAMP has done because he sticks directly to the original and I LOVE originals, no matter what shape or form it is. The Martin Denny CD Reissues, Mel Henke, Jackie Gleason et al reissues from Scamp are IMHO some form of an "original" art form release, even if it is a CD:) are gorgeous works of art in themselves. Compilations for me are great, I love 'em. Both SCAMP Sound Galleries are tre-mendous for me. The John Barry collections are incredible and the liner notes are worth the price of admission alone. I learned soooooooooo much incredibly interesting stuff from those I really do love comps, BUT those Ultra Lounge series releases that I have seen and I have seen them all are just bottom of the rung on the ladder for me, they are the K-Mart of comp reissues where as the SCAMP reissues are Nordstrom or Bloomingdales. Maybe that's also why the Ultra Lounge outsells the SCAMP reissues by such a high margin. There are just more people interested in shopping at K-Mart than at Nordstrom. There are an infinite amount more people with no taste or class than there are with. Nothing new there either. If it were different we wouldn't be struggling with the Endowment for the Arts, now would we ? Time for a nap, I'm a cranky boy on this 1st day of the new year and sick of a lotta crap, namely rekkid labels/companies:) 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: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Exotica on CD? Date: 01 Jan 1998 19:20:18 -0500 > From: Jessica Cameron > Subject: (exotica) Exotica on CD? > > Shhhhh--please don't say lounge! This catchall term for instrumental music > music." ^_-;;; Then again I stopped saying "exotica" long ago because > . :O Right now I'm split between "easy listening/instrumental" and > "orchestral novelty albums (a little too highbrow I guess)" How about "Multi-Colored Hi-Fi Music"? Or "Eclectica"? I'm none too crazy about "Lounge" myself, but if WE can't come up with anything better, we're probably stuck with it. The name game is pretty hopeless, I fear. > Anyway--do any of you think that a lot of the really really great, classic > recordings we all love so much are being neglected in favor of more > middle-of-the-road stuff? I don't mean that Lawrence Welk CDs are outselling > any of the popular Ultra-Lounge releases, but instead of really really good > stuff, the folks at Capitol seem to be giving us so-so, kinda cute Since the subject is hanging around, I guess I might as well throw in my two cents on the "Ultra Lounge" series. Uh, it's great that they've been putting all of this stuff out, and perhaps setting little traps that may snare new listeners into the fold. But 18 volumes?!? Is that what it's up to now? It's time to stop doing compilations with cute names and get down to serious business -- like straight up reissues of the Baxter catalog (and did I understand correctly that they're also sitting on F&T's early stuff?). I mean, I got the first 3 volumes in the series, but for one with limited means, it's a bit too much of a shotgun approach. I'd rather put my moolah into something more focused. And with the number of volumes they've done, it just feels exploitative to me at this point. But (as Jack says) that's just me. And yes, better this than nothing at all from Capitol, but still... > PS--Speaking of CDs, don't nobody buy records anymore? Seems like all that's > been discussed lately is reissues.! ^_^;;; Maybe it's too cold for hunting? Happy '98, 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: bag@hubris.net Subject: (exotica) Records preferred Date: 01 Jan 1998 17:26:28 -0800 (PST) Jessica wondered whether anyone was into records anymore? Of course! You have got to admit some records you will NEVER find (and if you do you are lucky or had to burn a BIG hole in your pocket)...which is where some CDs come in. The record market got a little slow over the past couple of weeks. The stores didn't do a lot of restocking. However, here is what I found most recently: Henri Rene White Heat Imperial 9074 Mostly big band type stuff but "Runnin' Wild", "Woody Woodpecker" and "Limehouse Blues" had a good percussion thing going. (I did have the cover for this but no record. The record I got was in top condition but the cover a bit beat up, so I did a switchero and I am all set!) Enric Madrigruera/Chu Reyes Sambas (Arthur Murray) Capitol T260 I love this series and here the record and cover were in perfect condition. This has Tico Tico on it which alone makes the album worth the buck I paid. Ann Southern Southern Exposure Tops L 1611 Occasionally Tops puts out something good (usually I only buy their albums for the cover!). These are standards with nothing really spectacular going on in Ian Bernard's orchestra, but some of the tunes are sort of neat. The Velvet Sounds Twilight Dance Time International Award Series AK-181 Yes, someone (who we don't know) is doing their take on the Three Suns material and doing a credible job on such tunes as "Song of India." Johnny Desmond Swings Tops L 1635 Here is the OTHER Tops LP I like. Johnny (actually Giovanni Alfredo di Simone) sings standards with the John T. Williams Orchestra. Just how many John Williams are there in the music biz anyway? Wish I could report on more. When I celebrate my 39th orbit around the sun, I'll have a chance to see the San Francisco market. I don't know *WHAT* I will do there, but I plan to be there January 8-14, so any ideas would be welcome. I will stay at Fort Mason and stop at the Book Bay, of course...and probably also visit at least the Mission District. Anywhere within reach of BART, MUNI, Caltrain and the San Mateo bus system is possible. Dozo Yoi Otoshi Wo! 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: "Michael Bennet" Subject: (exotica) stylaphone Date: 01 Jan 1998 22:31:31 -0500 There was a thread a couple of months ago about weird instruments, and I apologize if this was already discussed, but I just ran across something pretty odd called a stylaphone. It's about the length and width of a VHS cassette, and it consists of a flat single octave keyboard with a pencil made out of either plastic or metal attached (kind of like one of those things attached to kids' drawing pads, where you lift the cover sheet to erase what's just been written). You use the pencil to touch the keys and it creates an electronic tone for each key it touches (which lends itself to Speedy West style excursions). What I was wondering is if anyone has actually heard of this thing being used on a record. Is there a master of the stylaphone? Michael Bennet - # 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: Action Plus Subject: Re: (exotica) stylaphone Date: 01 Jan 1998 20:06:49 -0800 What I was wondering is if anyone has >actually heard of this thing being used on a record. Is there a master of >the stylaphone? > >Michael Bennet *You've* probably heard it on a record--that's a stylophone on David Bowie's "Space Oddity," and you can also hear it on Ennio Morricone's main title from "Ad Ogni Costa," which appears on the Rhino Morricone anthology. The sylophone produces a sort of square-wavey synth sound, and it cand sound a lot bigger and deeper than its tiny size would suggest. - # 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: 01 Jan 1998 23:40:27 -0500 (EST) Nah, Michael, not whiney at all. It's just that music is so vast and taste so personal and time so short that we can't get everything we want in the way we want it when we want it. We've got to take shortcuts; the compilation albums seem like a good way of doing it; and when they fall short, we get pissed off. I just wanted to give a vote of support for the producer of "Ultra Lounge," who really did have the music and musicians at heart -- in the same way that the handful of producers on this conference do. Personally, I find all the definitional arguments -- is it "Lounge" or "exotica" or "SABPM"? -- somewhat jejune. It's whatever you want to call it, at least to the extent that other people with whom you might discuss it will understand what the hell you're talking about. - # 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) New Year Sounds Date: 02 Jan 1998 13:57:20 +0100 Been amusing myself the last couple of days with a number of records borrowed from my brother (who DJ's quite regularly), A few titles might be of interested to the list I think. # Beat Actione (Actione Records ACT 01), Italian compilation with odd sixties stuff, "Crazy beats and wild". songs (with a few short instrumental cuts thrown in between) featured are: The Do-Re-Me Children Choir - Spooky Peter Cook and Dudley Moore - Bedazzled Jacques Lossier - Ballet Photo Rouge Lyn Christopher - Take Me With You Don Harper - Dr Who Theme Leroy Holmes - Emotions Bill Plummer & The Cosmic Brotherhood - Journey to the East Jacques Lossier - Clara's Jerk Silver Apples - A Pox On You The Mike Samms Singers - He Who Would Be Valient Be Dick Hyman and Mary Mayo - Moon Gas Especially the synthijazz version of the Dr Who Theme is weird. Recommended # Piero Umiliani - Mah Na Mah Na Italian 12"on Easy Tempo (MET 205) with the original version from 1968. There's also a recent 12" with a couple of remixes of this funny song around. # Espresso : a lightly latin brazilian blend (Deram), a double album from last year compiled by the Karminsky Experience mostly all latin orientated material by amongst others Cugat, Bacharach, Last. Specifically like the Serge Gainsbourg and long Astrud Gilberto songs. # The People's Groove (Root Down Records 1995), another double vinyl which touches late 60's, early 70's rare groove/jazz/funk. Of note is the inclusion of Lalo Schifrin's "Danube Incident", sampled with great success on Portishead's first album. Also quite liked Eugene McDaniels "Supermarket Blues" 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: Hugh Petfield Subject: Re: (exotica) stylophone Date: 02 Jan 1998 15:35:19 +0000 Michael wrote >Is there a master of the stylaphone? Australian Rolf Harris was, I believe, the inventor of the gadget, and if you bought one new in the 60's you got a book and a flexi-disc with him playing. I seem to recall you could buy one which had a lower range as well. The keypads would get a little corroded and crackly, but would clean up very well using that impregnated wadding stuff for cleaning silver. Another record which sounds as if it's using one is Brenton Wood's 'Gimme a little sign'. While I'm here, Happy New Year to all. Hugh. - # 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: breithel@lund.mail.telia.com (Ingemar Breithel) Subject: Re: (exotica) stylophone Date: 02 Jan 1998 19:02:02 +0100 >>Is there a master of the stylaphone? > >Australian Rolf Harris was, I believe, the inventor of the gadget, >and if you bought one new in the 60's you got a book and a flexi-disc >with him playing. I seem to recall you could buy one which had a >lower range as well. The keypads would get a little corroded and >crackly, but would clean up very well using that impregnated wadding >stuff for cleaning silver. > >Another record which sounds as if it's using one is Brenton Wood's >'Gimme a little sign'. Rolf Harris used the Stylophone on his TV show and on records (along with other strange instruments like the wobble board) but he didn't invent it -- it was manufactured in England by a firm called Dubreq Studios Limited and marketed as a "pocket electronic organ". I've had one since I was a kid -- it's still in its original box; I never quite became the virtuoso. The only control switch is for vibrato: on or off. The volume was adjusted by putting your hand over the speaker. I think there were other, larger models too. It was surely meant to be more than a gadget; the accompanying booklet declares: "The Stylophone is an ideal extra instrument for groups and can be used with any amplification system. Get together with other Stylphone enthusiasts and form music clubs. The Stylophone is today's instrument!" There's a Stylophone track on the recent Dimitri from Paris "Sacre Bleu" album, and Paul Buckmaster's 60s pop exploitation group Sounds Nice feature a Stylophone ensemble on their version of the Beatles' "Flying". There must be more... - # 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: (exotica) Carpenters and Mummers Date: 02 Jan 1998 14:20:43 -0500 Last night I caught a little bit of yet another Carpenters documentary -- this one was on VH-1. Must be a box set cooking, the way these documentaries are suddenly sprouting up. Anyway, it featured this surprising (considering the source) quote from Richard regarding his quaalude addiction in the late 70's / early 80's... "Shit happens." Meanwhile, here's a news story on yesterday's Mummers Parade in Philadelphia. Death toll of three, apparently, but they don't go into details! http://www.phillynews.com/daily_news/98/Jan/02/local/MUMM02.htm Photos here: http://www3.phillynews.com/photo/mummers98/ 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: "Waldo Muller" Subject: (exotica) music Date: 02 Jan 1998 21:32:03 +0200 Jessica wrote about how she is more inclined to use the description "easy listening" than "lounge" or "exotic" these days. Amen. Also: "I guess it all boils down to taste--but I'd rather have Sabu than George Shearing and Ray Anthony." I'll will take all three thank you - each can be super in his own sweet way. Variety and changes in intensity can be very healthy - listen to a Tito Puento percussion work-out and then smooth early sixties vibes from Milt Jackson, some Three Suns or Jean Jacques Perry and then the solo bossa guitar of Baden Powell or early seventies Enoch Project 3 go-go followed by, heck, Bobby Goldsboro! It can all be enjoyed. For me it is about mood music or mood swing music or music for wild mood swings or just plain music ... EZ 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: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: "The Typewriter" & "Switched On Bacharach" Date: 02 Jan 1998 20:36:17 +0100 (CET) >Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 00:50:40 +0100 >From: MUV96TBD@Student2.lu.se (Chester W. Nimitz) > >>* Werner Muller: "The Typewriter" >Could someone please describe his music, what he sounds like? of course, this is a Leroy Anderson tune, but you knew that i guess; there are tens (hundreds?) of versions, but not all are as good as this one, or as Leroy's own (which i found on a 78 rpm, but which also was released on some cd. *don't* buy the cd by Erich Kunzel and Rochester Pops (on maxiplay pops) entitled "blue tango, Leroy Anderson's greatest hits", it sounds awfully thin and metalic and boring; the typewriter is way too far in the background... >Finally, "Switched On Bacharach", is that a recommended record? How >re-worked are these versions? err, i'm not a big bacharach fan, but i liked this lp a lot! i think there's just enough moog sounds and effects on it to please moog fan(atic)s, and yet the sound is still gentle, fresh, soft, subtle ... and there are lots of "lalala" voices! 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: "Waldo Muller" Subject: (exotica) this 'other' kind of music Date: 02 Jan 1998 21:40:19 +0200 Michael D. Toth wrote: "I still have a hard time trying to explain to friends just WHAT this "other" kind of music is that I started getting into a few years back." Explaining can be easy and really down to earth. For instance: "I like interesting old mostly instrumental music - minus rock and classical." EZ 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: RALPHA6982 Subject: (exotica) The Ralph Book Date: 02 Jan 1998 16:44:36 EST Just a note to say my first book is out. It reprints the first 25 issues of my RALPH zine and is called RALPH (Coffee Jazz and Poetry). It should be available at Tower stores or directly from me at: Http://www.bongobeat.com I also have a new cd out called "Sophisticated Boom Boom" with equally wild and wonderful lounge/rockabilly/jazz and more sounds on it. We do a great cover (in Italian) of "Roman Guitars". Ralph Alfonso - # 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) this 'other' kind of music Date: 02 Jan 1998 17:03:13 -0500 (EST) On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, Waldo Muller wrote: > > Explaining can be easy and really down to earth. For instance: "I like > interesting old mostly instrumental music - minus rock and classical." Ah, but -- to gum up the works a little bit -- is it *really* "mostly instrumental"? After all, virtually every lounge scene in the old "B" movies that so many of us use for inspiration feature singers, usually female -- in the Julie London mode. - # 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: MUV96TBD@Student2.lu.se (Chester W. Nimitz) Subject: Re: (exotica) Space Safari playlist 21/12/97 Date: 03 Jan 1998 01:22:48 +0100 >Turn On - Electrocation of the Fire Ants Wow! Turn On is my definitive favourit record released in '97 without a questio, I really urge you listees to pick it up if you haven't already! It's pretty short (29min) but still...It's a collaboration between The High Llamas' Sean O'Hagan and Stereolab's Tim Gane, Latetia Sadier and Andy Ramsey. Tons of moogs, Arps and other analog synths, banjos (obviously when the Llamas are involved! :)), farfisas, fender rhoades pianons, etc. It's pretty much influenced by stuff like Dick Hyman, Perrey&Kingsley, latesixties Beach Boys but still has its own sound. Recommended! I've also had an advance tape of the Llamas "Cold and Bouncy" record for a month now which'll be released Jan 27th worldwide and it's *the* best albums I've heard in years...It's not as 'retro' (whatever that means...even something like extreme avant-techno like Aphex Twin is as retro because he lifts huge ideas from Kraftwerk and indirectly from Dick Hyman, Pierre Henrie, etc, etc) as what they've done in the past, it's still has a lot of ideas taken from Martin Denny (the frequent use of marimbas and vibes!), Esquivel, John Barry, Bacharach, Beach Boys and other stuff from the past but it's equally influenced by the ambient krautrock techno of Mouse On Mars and the so called 'postrock' of Tortoise. The Llamas' songwriter Sean O'Hagan has also said he's been listening a lot to Brazilian stuff such as Mutantes lately. Anyone else like the Llamas?? It's interesting how unique they really are today. They're the *only* 'new' group I can think of (with maybe the exception of French stuff like Kid Loco and Air, Stereolab, etc) that treats the Exotica-list's favourites *seriously* with utter respect (remember the irony of Mike Flowers Pops, for example) and at the same time manage to make a sound which is fresh and modern, ultimately sounding like just itself and nothing else. Chester W. Nimitz - # 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: Jay Schwartz Subject: (exotica) stylophone Date: 02 Jan 1998 19:25:04 Not only did David Bowie use the stylophone, but he once did an endorsement ad for it (in the Space Oddity era), which was reproduced in some large format David Bowie book I saw years ago. - Jay Schwartz - # 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: robert john sloane Subject: Re: (exotica) Space Safari playlist 21/12/97 Date: 02 Jan 1998 23:01:04 -0600 (CST) On Sat, 3 Jan 1998, Chester W. Nimitz wrote: > Anyone else like the Llamas?? Yeah, I've been diggin' the 2-disc _Hawaii_ set since it came out. It's hard for me to tear that record away from its huge debt to _Pet Sounds_ (especially with O'Hagan's love for the banjo!), but I think you're right to suggest that he respects and draws from many exotica-ish influences, and folds them together in a really creative way. Thumbs up. Rob - # 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: "Phil Clark" Subject: (exotica) james taylor quartet Date: 02 Jan 1998 16:18:20 -0000 hey y'all happy new yr from Swingin London (altho I spent all my Xmas in Italy) Johan Vis said: >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. Pleased to supply some background info here: "Mission Impossible" & "Money Spyder" were the JTQ's second and third releases back in 1987 (the first was a 7" single of Blow Up/One Mint Julep) and were recorded for next to nothing & released by Acid Jazz mainman Eddie Piller on a specially-formed label. Indeed, I think "Blow Up" was originally done as a bit of a joke and put out to see if it sold at all. "Get Organized" came much later after the original lineup was disbanded and JTQ signed to Polydor; it's more of an acid-jazz sound for sure. There was also a version of the second (more famous) Starsky & Hutch theme and have been loads of other releases too, most recently last autumn with an LP of crime jazz/TV soundtrack covers by JT and various friends. Before JTQ, the man JT played organ (latterly Hammond) in mid-80s garage/psyche/mod faves The Prisoners, who were a tremendous live band, and made some really great records too! track down "The Last Forefathers" LP if you can find it. anyhow it turned out they were quite influential on the whole early 90s UK indie scene - perhaps on the Charlatans in particular. anyway hope that's of interest groovily phil - # 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) 1997 exotica releases overview Date: 03 Jan 1998 19:55:37 +0100 (CET) THIS WAS THE YEAR THAT WAS: 1997 EXOTICA RELEASES OVERVIEW ---------------------------------------------------------- A discography of more or less quintessential, exotica and related CD's & LP's. for ratings, label and catalog numbers, links to reviews and labels, jump to the entrance of the "eXotica Releases Overview", in Dada'quariums Exotica: - albums & anthologies - * Action Plus: "Wanderlust" * Eden Ahbez: "Echoes From Nature Boy" * Joey Altruda: "Kingston Cocktail" * Ray Anthony: "The Dream Girl/Moments Together" * Apocalyptica: "Plays Metallica By Four Cellos" * The Bad Examples: "The River, The Night, The Moon, Temptation And You" * Balanco: "Bossa & Balanco" * Bambi And The Boys: "Just Lounging Around" * John Barry: "The Best Of John Barry - Themeology" * Shirley Bassey: "Diamonds Are Forever" * Shirley Bassey: "Shirley Bassey" * Art Blakey: "Orgy In Rhythm Volumes 1 & 2" * Pat Boone: "In A Metal Mood. No More Mr. Nice Guy" * The Boss Martians: "13 Evil Tales" * Roy Budd: "Rebirth Of The Budd" * Bugs And Friends: "Sing Elvis. The Looney Tunes Crown The King" * Cabildo's Three: "Yuxtaposicion" * Rev. Benjamin Cone Jr.: "The Trial Of Oh Jesus" * Ray Conniff: "Hawaiian Album" * Cordara Orchestra: "The Best Of" * Corduroy: "Dead Man Cat" * Xavier Cugat: "Latin Dance Time" * Xavier Cugat And His Orchestra: "Cugie A-Go-Go" * Martin Denny: "Bachelor In Paradise" * Martin Denny: "Hypnotique & Exotica III" * Martin Denny: "Quiet Village & The Enchanted Sea" * Martin Denny: "The Exotic Sounds Of Martin Denny" * Deodato: "Prelude" * Don Tiki: "The Exotic Sounds Of Don Tiki" * The Duke Of Burlington: "The Pressed Piano A Revolution In Sound" * Esquivel: "Exploring New Sounds In Hi-Fi" * Esquivel: "Exploring New Sounds In Stereo / Strings Aflame" * Esquivel: "Infinity In Sound" * Esquivel: "Infinity In Sound / Infinity In Sound Vol.2" * Esquivel: "Other Worlds, Other Sounds / Four Corners Of The World" * Ferrante & Teicher: "Blast Off!" * Ernie Freeman Combo: "Raunchy" * Serge Gainsbourg: "Comic Strip" (1966-69) * Serge Gainsbourg: "Couleur Cafe" (1959-64) * Serge Gainsbourg: "Du Jazz Dans Le Ravin" (Jazz, '58-64) * The Gentle People: "Soundtracks For Living" * Jackie Gleason: "The Romantic Moods Of" * Joe Goldmark: "All Over The Road" * Joe Goldmark: "Steelin' The Beatles" * Babs Gonzales: "Weird Lullaby" * Ron Grainer: "The A To Z Of British TV Themes - The Ron Grainer Years" * Ravi Harris & The Prophets: "Funky Sitar Man" * Rolf Harris: "Can You Tell What It Is Yet?" * Mick Harvey: "Pink Elephants" * Tony Hatch: "Best Of" * Tony Hatch: "Hatchback" (The Easy Project 4?) * Neal Hefti: "Hefti In Gotham City + Batman Theme And Other Bat Songs" * Mel Henke: "La Dolce Henke" * Pierre Henry: "Messe Pour Le Temps Present" * Homer & Jethro: "America's Song Butchers. The Weird World Of" * Husikesque: "Green Blue Fire" * Dick Hyman: "Moog: The Electric Eclectics Of Dick Hyman" * The Impacts: "Eternal Surf" * Red Ingle: "Tim-Tayshun" (Temptation) * Jackie & Roy: "The ABC-Paramount Years" * Horst Jankowski: "Black Forest Explosion!" * The Kabalas: "The Eye Of Zohar" * Eartha Kitt: "Best" * L'Atome: "The Flash Of Light" * The Last Of The International Playboys: "The Last Of The International Playboys" * Peggy Lee: "Fever" * Peggy Lee: "Latin Ala Lee!" * Peggy Lee: "Latin Ala Lee!/Ole Ala Lee!" * Julie London: "Cry Me A River" * Julie London: "The End Of The World/Nice Girls Don't Stay For Breakfast" * Alan Lorber Orchestra: "The Lotus Palace" * Lucas & Friends: "Discover A World Of Sounds" * Machito & His Afrocubans: "Freezelandia" * Henry Mancini And His Orchestra: "Combo! The Original Peter Gunn Sound!" * Henry Mancini And His Orchestra: "Mancini '67. The Big Band Sound Of" * Henry Mancini: "Martinis With Mancini" * Mandingo: "The Primal Rhythm Of Life" * Shelly Manne: "Shelly Manne And His Men Play Peter Gunn" * The Marketts: "Batman Theme" * Mary Schneider: "Yodeling The Classics" * Felix Mendelssohn: "And His Hawaiian Serenaders" * Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66: "The Very Best Of Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66" * Merricks: "The Sound Of Munich" * Russ Meyer: "Vixen/Cherry, Harry & Raquel/Good Morning.And Goodbye/Mondo Topless" * Attileo Mineo: "Man In Space With Sounds!" * Mirageman: "Thrilling" * Mirageman: "Thunder And Lighting" * Federico And Francesco Montefiori: "Montefiori Cocktail Raccolta No 1" * The Moodsong Project: "Music For TV Dinners: The 50's" * The Moodsong Project: "Music For TV Dinners: The 60's" * The Moog Cookbook: "Ye Olde Space Bande" (Plays The Classic Rock Hits) * Moondog: "Sax Pax For A Sax" * Os Mutantes: "A Divina Comedia Ou Ando Meio Desligado" * Os Mutantes: "Jardim Eletrico" * Os Mutantes: "Mutantes" * Os Mutantes: "Mutantes E Seus Cometas No Pais Dos Baurets" * Os Mutantes: "O A E O Z" * Os Mutantes: "Panis Et Circenses" * Harry Partch: "Volume 1" (Eleven Intrusions/Plectra & Percussion Dances/Ulysses At The Edge) * Harry Partch: "Volume 2" (The Wayward/And On The Seventh Day Petals Fell In Petaluma) * Harry Partch: "Volume 3" (The Dreamer That Remains/Rotate The Body In All It's Planes/ Windsong/Water! Water!) * Harry Partch: "Volume 4: The Bewitched" * Pastel Vespa: "Several Shades Of Pastel" * Perrey & Kingsley: "The Essential Perrey & Kingsley" * Jean Jacques Perrey: "E.V.A. - The Best Of Jean Jacques Perrey" * Jean Jacques Perrey & David Chazam: "Eclectricity" * Jean Jacques Perry: "Eva. The Best Of Jean Jacques Perry" * Pinky & Perky: "Pinky & Perky's Top Pop Party!" * Pizzicato Five: "On Her Majesty's Request" * Pucho And His Latin Soul Brothers: "Yaina" * Pucho And The Latin Soul Brothers: "Superfreak" * Tito Puente: "El Rey Del Timbal: The Best Of Tito Puente" * Radio Symphony Orchestra Of Cracow: "Monstrous Movie Music" * Radio Symphony Orchestra Of Cracow: "More Monstrous Movie Music" * Emil Richards: "Wonderful World Of Percussion" * Nelson Riddle: "Best" * Nelson Riddle: "The Joy Of Living/Love Is A Game Of Poker" * Edmundo Ross: "That Latin Sound" * Royal Crown Revue: "Kings Of Gangster Bop" * Tod Rundgren: "With A Twist." * Sabu: "In Orbit" (+ "Astronautas De La Pachanga") * Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler: "The Ballad Of The Green Berets" * Samaroo Jets Steel Orchestra: "CAM's Movie Soundtracks Caribbean Style" * Santo & Johnny: "The Original Recordings" * Lalo Schifrin: "Black Widow" * Lalo Schifrin: "The Dissection And Reconstruction Of Music From The Past" * Raymond Scott: "Soothing Sounds For Baby Volume 1: 1-6 Months" * Raymond Scott: "Soothing Sounds For Baby Volume 2: 6-12 Months" * Raymond Scott: "Soothing Sounds For Baby Volume 3: 12-18 Months" * The Shadows: "Shadows Are Go!" * George Shearing: "Burnished Brass/Satin Brass" * Silhouettes: "Conversation With Silhouettes" (Mood Mosaic) * The Slackmates: "Hot Car Girls" * Sounds Orchestral: "Sounds Rare" * Sparky: "Sparky's Magic Piano And Other Stories" * The Spotnicks: "Live In Paris" * Stereophonic Space Sound Unlimited: "Plays Lost TV Themes" * Glyn Styler: "Live At The Mermaid Lounge" * Sukia: "Contacto Espacial Con El Tercer Sexo" * Gabor Szabo: "Sorcerer" * The Tiki Tones: "Suburban Savage" * Tipsy: "Trip Tease. The Seductive Sounds Of" * Cal Tjader: "Several Shades Of Jade / Breeze From The East" * Piero Umiliani: "To-Day's Sound" * Jerry Van Rooyen: "At 250 Miles Per Hour" * The Ventures: "Batman/TV Themes" * The Ventures: "In The Vaults" * The Ventures: "New Testament/More Golden Greats" * The Ventures: "T.V. Themes" * The Ventures: "Tele-Ventures. The Ventures Perform The Great TV Themes" * Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant: "Flamin' Guitars" * Paul Weston: "Floatin' Like A Feather/The Sweet & The Swingin'" * Gert Wilden & Orchestra: "I Told You Not To Cry" * Gert Wilder & Orchestra: "Schulmadchen Report" * Andre Williams: "Mr. Rhythm" * John Zacherle: "Dinner With Zach" - soundtracks - * "Breakfast At Tiffany's" [music by Henry Mancini] * "Bullit" [music by Lalo Schifrin] * "Deadfall" [music by John Barry] * "Diamonds Are Forever" [music by John Barry] * "Dr. No" [music by Monty Norman] * "Experiment In Terror" [music by Henry Mancini] * "From Russia With Love" [music by Lionel Bart] * "Girl On A Motorcycle " (Mood Mosaic Volume 3) [music by Les Reed] * "Goldfinger" [music by John Barry] * "Good Morning... And Goodbye/Cherry, Harry & Raquel/Mondo Topless" [music by Russ Meyer] * "Hatari" [music by Henry Mancini] * "Le Malizie Di Venere/28 Minuti Per 3 Milioni Di Dollari/Hypnos" [music by V/A] * "Lolita" [music by Nelson Riddle] * "Music From The Tomb Of The Cybermen" [music by The BBC Radiophonic Workshop] * "Octopussy" [music by John Barry] * "Planet Of The Apes + Escape From Planet Of The Apes" [music by Jerry Goldsmith] * "Savage!" [music by Don Julian] * "Secret Agent" [music by Edwin Astley And His Orchestra] * "Superfly" [music by Curtis Mayfield] * "Svezia,Inferno E Paradiso" [music by Piero Umiliani] * "Teresa La Ladra/Tiffany Memorandum/Una Sull' Altra" [music by Riz Ortolani] * "The Batman Trilogy" (Batman/Batman Returns/Batman Forever) [music by Danny Elfman] * "The Dr. Who Album" [music by V/A] * "The Pink Panther" [music by Henry Mancini] * "The Prisoner, Volume 3" [music by V/A] * "The Saint" [music by Edwin Astley] * "The Spy Who Loved Me" [music by John Barry?] * "This World Then The Fireworks" [music by Pete Rugolo] * "Thunderball" [music by John Barry] * "Una Colt In Pugno Al Diavolo + 2" [music by Reverberi] * "You Only Live Twice" [music by John Barry] - compilations - * "A Classic Cartoon Christmas" * "A Reggae Tribute To The Beatles Volume 2" * "Batmania. Songs Inspired By The Batman TV Series" * "Beat Actione" * "Beat At Cinecitta Volume 1" * "Beat At Cinecitta Volume 2" * "Beat, Beat Beatsville!: Beatnik Rock 'N' Roll" * "Blow Up Presents Exclusive Blend Volume 2" * "Blue Movies" * "Cafe Java Bongo" * "Cafe Noir" * "Cigar Classics Volume 3: Cool Smokes" * "Cigar Classics Volume 4: Smokin' Lounge" * "Closer Than A Kiss - Crooner Classics" * "Da Film Erotici La Musica Del Piacere" (From Erotic Films The Music Of Pleasure) * "Dancing At The Nick At NiteClub" * "Easy Tempo Volume 3. Further Cinematic Easy Listening Experiences" * "Easy Tempo Volume 4" * "Further Inflight Entertainment" * "Futurism & Dada Reviewed" * "Get Easy! Vol.3: The French Pop Collection" * "Get Easy! Vol.4: The German Pop Collection" * "Golden Throats 4: Celebrities Butcher Songs Of The Beatles" * "Instrumental Gems Volume 1" * "Instrumental Themes For Young Lovers" * "Jazz A GoGo" * "Jungle Exotica Volume 2" * "Las Vegas Grind Volume 3" * "Las Vegas Grind Volume 5" * "Le Cour Qui Jazz" * "Loose And Juicy" * "Lounge Lizard 1 - Foot Tappin' Vocals" * "Lounge Lizard 2 - Jazz Around Midnight" * "Lounge Lizard 3 - Cocktails And Black Coffee" * "Lounge Lizard 4 - A Musical Cocktail" * "Lounge Lizard 5 - Strangers In The Night" * "Lounge-A-Palooza" * "Lounging At The Nick At NiteClub" * "Martini Lounge" * "Martinis And A Broken Heart To Go" * "Mighty Mellow" * "Mo'Plen 2000. Acid Hip Tracks From Italian Cocktails!" * "Mo'Plen 3000. Space Killer Tracks From The Past... Till The Third Millenium" * "Mondo Music Volume 2" * "Movie Grooves" * "MSR Madness Volume 3: Human Breakdown Of Absurdity" * "MSR Madness Volume 4: I'M Just The Other Woman" * "Music In The First Degree" * "Music In The Second Degree" * "Music To Watch Comets By" (Compiled By The Gentle People) * "Nu Yorica 2!" * "Orchestral Party" (Act 1.) * "Pop Boutique Volume 1" * "Scoctopus The In Sound From Octopus Records!" * "Setting The Scene" * "Sex-O-Rama: Music From Classic Adult Films" * "Sexopolis" * "Shake Your Congas: Another Crazy Cocktail Party" * "Sourcelab 2" * "Suono Libero" * "Swingin' Cheese - Croon Tunes And Kitscherama" * "Take It Off! 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I'm looking for details on a song/tune called "Dracula Cha Cha Cha". I= believe it appeared briefly in the movie "Two Weeks In Another Town" in= the early 60s. Any help with this one would be appreciated. Terry ---------------- Help Stamp Out Economic Rationalism. _____________________________________________________ - # 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: (exotica) Thelonius Monk Documentary Date: 04 Jan 1998 11:48:52 -0500 On Tuesday night at 6:20 pm and early Wednesday morning at 4:00 am (eastern standard time), Bravo is showing "Thelonius Monk: Straight, No Chaser" -- a 1988 documentary that is well worth catching. It's loaded with great looking 60's footage of Monk at work and play. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ (Movies Of The Week tv picks for Jan. 4 to 11 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: "allanc" Subject: (exotica) Playlist for "The Single Eye" Sunday January 4, 1998 Date: 04 Jan 1998 12:46:28 -0500 The Single Eye can be heard Sundays at 4 pm on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Jim Backus & Friend: Delicious! "Frolic Diner pt.2" The Lushes: Drunken Guitar "Las Vegas Grind pt 1" Andy Nevison & his Rhythm Masters: Indiano "Electrick Loosers" Ramblers: Just for Chicks "Joe Meek's Intergalactic Instros" Dave Myers & his Surftones: Gear! "Gary Usher - Hot Rod U.S.A." Dick Dale & the Del Tones: The Victor "Revenge of the Surf Instrumentals" Armando Trovaioli: Bada Caterina "Beat at Cinecitta Vol. 2" John Barry: Mood One "Betty Page: Danger Girl" Bonzo Dog Band: Big Shot "Gorilla" Buddy Morrow & his Orchestra: Staccato's Theme "Crime Jazz: Music in the First Degree" Lalo Schifrin: Quiet Village "Black Widow" The Herbaliser: Scratchy Noise "Ninja Cuts: Flexistentialism" Sukia: Gary Super Macho (the Dirty Sanchez mix) "Gary Super Macho ep" The High Llamas: Mini-Management "Hawaii" Thanks for the space, 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: LTepedino Subject: Re: (exotica) Mirageman Date: 04 Jan 1998 13:10:47 EST In a message dated 97-12-31 20:28:03 EST, MUV96TBD@Student2.lu.se writes: << It seems like The Sound Gallery is divided into two categories; 1) psych-funk/hammond stuff and 2) String'n'brass-based lounge stuff. Interesting to see you like the sooner; personally I can't stand the most overtly funky songs such as the #2 by Mandingo (can't rememeber the songtitle). However, I do really love all the lovely loungey stuff, particularly Neil Richardson's "The Riviera Affair" and Alan Hawkshaw's "Girl In A Sportscar". What have these two later guys done?? I did a web-search but couldn't find anything that didn't have anything to do with their Sound Gallery contributions... >> Both Neil Richardson and Alan Hawkshaw were primarily production music library composers. If you love the stuff from these guys you'll really enjoy "Music For TV Dinners - The '60s" as they feature 3 more Alan Hawkshaw and one really incredible Neil Richardson track that perfectly apes the lush Les Baxter sound called "Rio Magic." These tracks were taken from the same vaults as the stuff culled for the Sound Gallery. 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: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: FWD: Cold-shouldered at home, French DJs export talent Date: 04 Jan 1998 19:28:11 +0100 >From: lousmith@pipeline.com (Lou Smith) >> [cut] >> Among the quirkier French artists are the duo Air check them out if you like The Gentle People. they've got i think 3 maxi's out (on poor quality vinyl), but their cd is announced for february. cosmic lounge, new age exotica, kraftwerk on valium ;-) they use not only synths, but horns 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) Re: Lyman Xmas album Date: 04 Jan 1998 19:19:03 +0100 this is one of my favorite xmas albums! beautiful, oh so beautiful! typical lyman: jazzy, with heavenly vibes, and very very good arrangements! the extra track on the cd is a live performance, with extra sound effects (like the surf in the opening) added-on. 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: Jessica Cameron Subject: Re: (exotica) music Date: 04 Jan 1998 22:52:14 -0500 >"I guess it all boils down to taste--but I'd rather have Sabu than >George Shearing and Ray Anthony." > >I'll will take all three thank you - each can be super in his own sweet >way. Not that I have anything against Shearing or Anthony--it's just that their records are common as dirt, and don't need to be reissued on CD. Personally, I'd rather have really hard to find stuff reissued. Like those ugly and expensive A+M CDs of the Tijuana Brass and Brasil 66? Who buys these things? For the same money you could get all the records! ^_-;;; Maybe you'd have to look around for decent copies, but it shouldn't be that hard. Same goes for any post-prepared piano Ferrante and Teicher ("Getting Together" and "Midnight Cowboy," anyone?). I think the whole Ultra-Lounge series is up to about 24 now--a mess of regular volumes, plus the Christmas and "Now" releases. And I'll bet my last copy of a "Taste of Honey" that the worst selling volume was "A Bachelor in Paris"--WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?!?! ^_- Thanks for the space, Jessica (who _would_ buy a CD of "Music for Heavenly Bodies"--who owns the Omega catalog, anyway?) - # 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: Jessica Cameron Subject: Re: (exotica) Exotica on CD? Date: 04 Jan 1998 23:07:03 -0500 >> Shhhhh--please don't say lounge! This catchall term for instrumental music >> music." ^_-;;; Then again I stopped saying "exotica" long ago because >> . :O Right now I'm split between "easy listening/instrumental" and >> "orchestral novelty albums (a little too highbrow I guess)" > >How about "Multi-Colored Hi-Fi Music"? Or "Eclectica"? I'm none too crazy about >"Lounge" myself, but if WE can't come up with anything better, we're probably >stuck with it. The name game is pretty hopeless, I fear. But why should there even be a name game? If it was easy listening in the past, why can't it be easy listening in the present? Are people ashamed to admit they like old instrumental pop, so they have to jazz it up with nutty names? ^_- a defiant record geek, Jessica ^_^ (who wishes she was a little old lady so she just buy the old records and not have to get the "you're mighty young to be listenin' to such mighty old music, girlie" line) - # 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) music Date: 04 Jan 1998 19:48:30 -0800 >Not that I have anything against Shearing or Anthony--it's just that their >records are common as dirt, and don't need to be reissued on CD. What about the people that don't buy records ? Personally, >I'd rather have really hard to find stuff reissued. Like those ugly and >expensive A+M CDs of the Tijuana Brass and Brasil 66? Who buys these things? Well, they sold ZILLIONS way back when, probably the people who bought them then, would most likely buy them now >And I'll bet my last copy of a "Taste of Honey" that the worst selling >volume was "A Bachelor in Paris"--WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?!?! ^_- Money/Sales 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: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Exotica on CD? Date: 04 Jan 1998 23:33:19 -0500 > From: Jessica Cameron > Subject: Re: (exotica) Exotica on CD? > > >> . :O Right now I'm split between "easy listening/instrumental" and > >> "orchestral novelty albums (a little too highbrow I guess)" > > > >How about "Multi-Colored Hi-Fi Music"? Or "Eclectica"? I'm none too crazy about > >"Lounge" myself, but if WE can't come up with anything better, we're probably > >stuck with it. The name game is pretty hopeless, I fear. > > But why should there even be a name game? I think you misread me a bit. I was sorta saying that the name game IS pointless. > If it was easy listening in the > past, why can't it be easy listening in the present? That's fine. I just don't see "easy listening" as accurate for the full range of this musical domain I dare not name. Some artists are easy most of the time. Some are easy sometimes. But when Esquivel is at full throttle, or when Ferrante & Teicher start slicing and dicing the keyboards, there's nothing easy about it. But if "easy" works for you, that's good. I've sometimes been using "EZ" lately, myself. But I'm not worried about being consistent about what I call it. Good tunes are good tunes no matter what we call them. Music doesn't need definition. It just needs ears. > Are people ashamed to > admit they like old instrumental pop, so they have to jazz it up with nutty > names? ^_- I'm not ashamed (I LOVE how this music furrows the brows of checkout clerks). I just like inventing nutty names! ; ) m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ (Movies Of The Week tv picks for Jan. 4 to 11 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) Attention Spans of U.L. Buyers Date: 04 Jan 1998 23:39:49 EST In a message dated 98-01-01 19:21:47 EST, ecam@voicenet.com writes: << It's time to stop doing compilations with cute names and get down to serious business -- like straight up reissues of the Baxter catalog (and did I understand correctly that they're also sitting on F&T's early stuff?). I mean, I got the first 3 volumes in the series, but for one with limited means, it's a bit too much of a shotgun approach. I'd rather put my moolah into something more focused. And with the number of volumes they've done, it just feels exploitative to me at this point. But (as Jack says) that's just me. And yes, better this than nothing at all from Capitol, but still >> The cynic in me says they are probably too afraid to move away from the compilation formula for fear that the ignorant "lounge public" won't figure out how to look up an individual artist in the bin and buy a CD that way. They will loose this audience's attention (and buying dollars) because this audience isn't sophisticated enough to step away from the formula. What do you think? - 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: Micheleflp Subject: Re: (exotica) Ultra Lounge Date: 04 Jan 1998 23:39:46 EST In a message dated 98-01-01 10:55:36 EST, you write: << If the "Ultra-Lounge" series is everywhere, it's probably because Capitol, among major record companies, got behind the phenomenon more strongly, gave it better and more consistent design, put some money into it, etc. >> It is more than just that, they are trying (I don't know if this is conscious or not) to create a cultural phenomenon in order to sell product - and in this regard they are miles ahead of their competitors. Look at their website, graphics and now full utilization of such, in product merchandise being sold in the U.L. store (albiet it may not have been their idea but the idea of the store's proprietor). As for the shitty selection of tunes on their comps: of course I'm very new to this scene and don't have the record collections to argue whether or not they are giving us listeners a variety from their vaults but I love their releases and plan to continue to buy them as long as they are willing to put out. - 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: Micheleflp Subject: (exotica) Nick's boring drivel Date: 04 Jan 1998 23:39:38 EST In a message dated 97-12-31 16:59:38 EST, ecam@voicenet.com writes: << You would be REAL disappointed by the U.S. version of Nick At Nite. Sheeeit, I'm movin' to Australia. ;) >> I actually wrote to Nick at Nite on the internet at their website suggesting a bunch of shows and they sent back a form letter saying they read everyone's suggestions and once in awhile they tabulate and give to their show buyer. In otherwords, tough shit, get in line! Yeah, I can hardly stand to watch the horrible shows they've selected on either Nick at Nite or their sister station TV Land. Really bad stuff usually. - 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: Ross Orr Subject: (exotica) "Lounge" and vinyl Date: 04 Jan 1998 23:30:56 -0500 >Ultra Lounge almost >defines this whole genre because they're the only CDs I see EVERYWHERE > I'm increasingly disappointed in the kind of stuff they pick The first UL I heard was _Space Capades_, and a based on that one, I nearly wrote off the whole series--many of the tracks were just too tasteful and generic to deliver what the title promised. It badly needed a stiff jolt of Enoch Light! But I have to say I recently vowed to give the series another chance, after getting _Cannot Become Obsolete #4_, where our own Vern Stolz gives his thumbnail rankings of all 18 UL CDs. Just BUYING all of them is really above and beyond the call of duty; but furthermore he very nearly went off to that big Tiki Lounge in the sky whilst listening to _Space Capades_, which just confirmed to me that there was some kind of bad juju to that one. His nifty scorecard scheme shows a huge spread between the best of the series and the weaker ones. You should really send him his richly-deserved $2 for the full story--but it was all enough to make me curious again about getting Bachelor Pad Royale, Mondo Exotica, and Bottoms Up. >please don't say lounge! This catchall term for instrumental music >is starting to drive me crazy Labels are basically useless and limiting, and it's really MUCH too late to salvage the situation. . . but I will just try one more stab at proposing my favored term, "Hi Fi" music: 1) It's short 2) People will have no idea what you mean, so you immediately get to describe the music in somewhat more useful terms (unlike "lounge," where what people imagine you mean is probably WRONG) 3) It sounds energetic and fun--and is really more descriptive for artists like Esquivel, early F&T, Enoch Light, etc. 4) It suggests something of the commercial and technophile marketing environment in the late-50s golden age of LPs >don't nobody buy records anymore? Seems like all that's >been discussed lately is reissues.! ^_^;;; Absolutely! They're taking over the dining room! I have to pore over about 50 new ones before I can regale you with the highlights. I do feel it's getting harder to find good things though. . . But just to leave you with one precious vinyl moment: George Wright playing "Take Five" on the pipe organ! Yours in Super Specra InfraSonic Hi Fi, --Ross || Ross "Mambo Frenzy" Orr || Ann Arbor, Michigan 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: Micheleflp Subject: (exotica) Giant Wheel Show Date: 04 Jan 1998 23:39:57 EST No one answered about the animals in the giant wheel show. Does anyone know what show that was? I think it was called something like "The Magnificent Five" . Does this ring a bell with anyone? - 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: Jack Diamond Subject: (exotica) The Good Stuff Date: 04 Jan 1998 21:46:04 -0800 Personally, I think that the good stuff is way too sophisticated for "the masses" or numbers if you will, that they have been dealing with. I think it's a way smaller market and maybe they just want to wait and see how long they can keep on going like they have been doing until they *really* have to change. -J - # 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) music Date: 05 Jan 1998 00:52:07 EST << Who buys these things?>> the same idiots who got rid of all their records and turntables when compact discs hit the market. how could anyone live without a turntable? - # 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) Dracula cha cha cha Date: 04 Jan 1998 19:19:17 -0500 At 10:49 AM +1100 1/4/98, Terry Frost wrote: >I'm looking for details on a song/tune called "Dracula Cha Cha Cha". I >believe it appeared briefly in the movie "Two Weeks In Another Town" in >the early 60s. Any help with this one would be appreciated. The song was released in the U.S. on the compilation titled "Music and Songs From Italian Films of International Fame" (RCA Victor International; FSO/FOC-4; 1962). The jacket says the song is from the film "Tempi Duri Per I Vampiri" (translation anyone?), and was written by Martino & Brighetti. I imagine that this was originally released in Italy on CAM, which released the other albums RCA licensed in this International series (the other records being the soundtracks to "La Dolce Vita", "Rocco & his Brothers", "Black Tights", "8 1/2" and "Boccaccio '70") 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: "Waldo Muller" Subject: (exotica) the lounge marketeers Date: 05 Jan 1998 10:29:59 +0200 Michele wrote... ---------- > The cynic in me says they are probably too afraid to move away from the > compilation formula for fear that the ignorant "lounge public" won't figure > out how to look up an individual artist in the bin and buy a CD that way. > They will loose this audience's attention (and buying dollars) because this > audience isn't sophisticated enough to step away from the formula. What do > you think? > I agree. When the industry do dare a compilation of one artist's music, it is often called something embarrassing and crass like "Martinis with Mancini" (I adore the Mancini genius, but this comp's title was just too much. Perhaps we could expect "Cigars with Perez" next. Or when the lounge marketeers finally completely lose it... "AZT with Liberace" - you put it in a cocktail, right?) 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: "R. Matheson" Subject: Re: (exotica) Dracula cha cha cha Date: 05 Jan 1998 01:55:34 -0800 (PST) On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Br. Cleve wrote: > > The song was released in the U.S. on the compilation titled "Music and > Songs From Italian Films of International Fame" (RCA Victor International; > FSO/FOC-4; 1962). The jacket says the song is from the film "Tempi Duri Per > I Vampiri" (translation anyone?) According to the translator at babelfish.altavista.com, that would be "Hard Times for the Vampires." Sounds like a good flick. - # 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: (exotica) A short reply and a couple of finds Date: 05 Jan 1998 08:03:03 -0500 I suppose, although I had to rummage in the 78 bins before I found a copy of George Shearing's "In a Chinese Garden". I found Stan Kenton's "Thermopylae" at about the same time. A pawn shop near my house is going out of business, so their four to six dollar CD's are now three dollars. Getting out my tweezers and dust mask, I found: Provocative Percussion - Enoch Light. Yeah, I know, but I didn't have a copy. Batman - Neal Hefti. All the way up to "Holy Graduation, Batman! Straight A's!" Sonny Boy Williamson - Bluebird Recordings. John Lee, not Rice Miller Earl "Jazz" Gillum - I have NEVER heard of this blues guitarist. I am away from my finds right now, however, there was another equally unknown name to me, but the disc featured an artist with one of the most fascinating names since Dick Hyman, Gay Crosse. The 1952 track was not one that distinguished itself, save the fact that one of the sidemen was credited as "John Coletrain". It was indeed THAT Coltrane! A find supreme. Brian Phillips >Not that I have anything against Shearing or Anthony--it's just that their >records are common as dirt, and don't need to be reissued on CD. - # 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: Stilgloria Subject: Re: (exotica) Nick's boring drivel Date: 05 Jan 1998 09:36:51 EST Well, I'll be dating myself here, but I wish they'd really reach back to shows that were out in the 50s and very early 60s. Show like The Stu Erwin Show, Beulah, Fury, My Friend Flicka, Sky King, Annie Oakley, Shindig, Hullabaloo, It's A Great Life, The Millionaire, I Led Three Lives,The Eleventh Hour,etc. I could go on more, but you get the idea. why do they show the same old shows, rerun after rerun? There are just scads of great shows they could show. stil "Take Me To TV Land For Real" Gloria - # 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: Jessica Cameron Subject: Re: (exotica) music Date: 05 Jan 1998 11:27:45 -0500 >>Not that I have anything against Shearing or Anthony--it's just that their >>records are common as dirt, and don't need to be reissued on CD. > >What about the people that don't buy records ? They can all go to Hell! ^_- Seriously, I guess I was being a little harsh last night. It just seems silly to shell out upwards of 15 bucks on stuff that can be had for say, a buck (if you're willing to look around). But if a person has the money and doesn't want to be bothered with vinyl, that's their business. I shouldn't be so mean to CD buyers, actually. It's thanks to them I can still find good stuff on vinyl with little or no competition to worry about. ^_^ ^_^, Jessica (who can't imagine NOT buying records. what do these people do with all their storage space? ^_-) - # 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 Hipwell Subject: Re: (exotica) stylophone Date: 05 Jan 1998 15:26:52 GMT > >>Is there a master of the stylaphone? > > > >Australian Rolf Harris was, I believe, the inventor of the gadget, > >and if you bought one new in the 60's you got a book and a flexi-disc > >with him playing. I seem to recall you could buy one which had a > >lower range as well. The keypads would get a little corroded and > >crackly, but would clean up very well using that impregnated wadding > >stuff for cleaning silver. > > > >Another record which sounds as if it's using one is Brenton Wood's > >'Gimme a little sign'. > > Rolf Harris used the Stylophone on his TV show and on records (along > with other strange instruments like the wobble board) but he didn't > invent it -- it was manufactured in England by a firm called Dubreq > Studios Limited and marketed as a "pocket electronic organ". I've had > one since I was a kid -- it's still in its original box; I never quite > became the virtuoso. The only control switch is for vibrato: on or off. [snip] They are collector's items nowadays, at least in the UK. I have a Stylophone accompaniment record (7" with 4 tracks), which is part of a series -- features Rolf Harris on the front (with a sketched in sombrero, as this is the Latin record). It's there for you to play along with, the little booklet shows you how to move your little stylus to buzz it right. Rolf has a new record out right now... - # 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 Hipwell Subject: [LTepedino: Re: (exotica) Mirageman] Date: 05 Jan 1998 15:38:21 GMT > In a message dated 97-12-31 20:28:03 EST, MUV96TBD@Student2.lu.se writes: > > << It seems like The Sound Gallery is divided into two categories; 1) > psych-funk/hammond stuff and 2) String'n'brass-based lounge stuff. > Interesting to see you like the sooner; personally I can't stand the most > overtly funky songs such as the #2 by Mandingo (can't rememeber the > songtitle). However, I do really love all the lovely loungey stuff, > particularly Neil Richardson's "The Riviera Affair" and Alan Hawkshaw's > "Girl In A Sportscar". What have these two later guys done?? I did a > web-search but couldn't find anything that didn't have anything to do with > their Sound Gallery contributions... > >> > > Both Neil Richardson and Alan Hawkshaw were primarily production > music library composers. If you love the stuff from these guys > you'll really enjoy "Music For TV Dinners - The '60s" as they > feature 3 more Alan Hawkshaw and one really incredible Neil > Richardson track that perfectly apes the lush Les Baxter sound > called "Rio Magic." These tracks were taken from the same vaults as > the stuff culled for the Sound Gallery. There was also a CD of Alan Hawkshaw material released last year, called "Girl In A Sportscar", but it was too pricey for me. Unhelpfully, I can only remember that it was on a small, obscure label. - # 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: Rcbrooksod Subject: (exotica) Re: Ultra Lounge Date: 05 Jan 1998 12:45:56 EST In a message dated 98-01-04 23:48:56 EST, Micheleflp writes: << As for the shitty selection of tunes on their comps: of course I'm very new to this scene and don't have the record collections to argue whether or not they are giving us listeners a variety from their vaults but I love their releases and plan to continue to buy them as long as they are willing to put out. - Michele Flipside Fanzine >> I have to side with Michele. I really enjoy (most of) the UL releases. I collect vinyl also but sometimes it is just easier to put in a CD. Overall I think the UL series provides a good sampling especially when considering they try to "lump" similar themes together. I don't think it's fair to downgrade the UL series (and other compilation CDs) as not true to lounge, SABPM, etc. just because someone did not have to search the thrifts to find that special album. This is the tone I gather from some of the negative UL posts. On the other hand, I do think that Capital is doing us listeners a dis-service by not expanding their selections past their "vaults". OK, I got my "flame" retardant suit on now. Fire away. Robert - # 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: Action Plus Subject: Re: (exotica) Dracula cha cha cha Date: 05 Jan 1998 10:15:59 -0800 > >The song was released in the U.S. on the compilation titled "Music and >Songs From Italian Films of International Fame" (RCA Victor International; >FSO/FOC-4; 1962). The jacket says the song is from the film "Tempi Duri Per >I Vampiri" (translation anyone?) It means "Hard Times for Vampires." Sounds like a winner. - # 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: Rcbrooksod Subject: (exotica) Exotica Mediums Date: 05 Jan 1998 13:10:37 EST << It just seems silly to shell out upwards of 15 bucks on stuff that can be had for say, a buck (if you're willing to look around). But if a person has the money and doesn't want to be bothered with vinyl, that's their business. >> But think of it this way: You would have to buy 15 vinyl records (at $ 1.00 each and that equals $ 15.00!!!) to get the same 15 cuts you get on the compilations. The UL series usually has 18 cuts with a few more "bonus" cuts on some. No offense but the cost approach here just does not work out. I don't think it is about money. I have a collection of 78s that I only play on my Victorla. I play my vinyl on 60’s vintage hi-fi’s and my CDs on , well -- you get the point. It's atmosphere, it's convenience, it's preference. Seriously, I hate these us v. them threads, but always love the debate. And I am glad to say, "My keyboard has not melted from the flames yet!" Robert - # 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) New eXotica Releases Overview Update Date: 05 Jan 1998 19:16:16 +0100 A new update to the eXotica Releases Overview is now available. These are some older finds: * Peggy Lee: "Latin Ala Lee!" CD, PID 410172, UK, 1997 * Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra: "Greatest Science Fiction Hits" CD, GNP/Crescendo GNPS 2128, USA, 1991 * Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra: "Greatest Science Fiction Hits 2" CD, GNP/Crescendo GNPS 2163, USA, 1992 * Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra: "Greatest Science Fiction Hits 3" CD, GNP/Crescendo GNPS 2128, USA, 1991 * The Ventures: "Theme From Shaft/The Horse" CD, See For Miles C5CHD 651, UK, 1996 Dada'quariums Exotica: http://bewoner.dma.be/Dada/index.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: chuck Subject: (exotica) Air cd Date: 05 Jan 1998 10:59:52 -0800 (PST) Johan wrote: Among the quirkier French artists are the duo Air check them out if you like The Gentle People. , ....but their cd is announced for february. Greetings from the Northernmost Bananna Republic, the City of Exotica, New Orleans, I want to add that I was able to pick up the Air cd from either Modern Music in Baltimore or Other Music in NYC. These two mail order stores have been able to satisfy almost all of my habit for musique exotique. Thanks for reminding me about this great band. Looking forward to Parading on Mardis Gras with the Mondo Kayo Social and Marching Club. chuck _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.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: Stilgloria Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) music Date: 05 Jan 1998 13:52:59 EST In a message dated 1/5/98 8:33:09 AM, jfc135@psu.edu wrote: <> I have recurring dreams that someone, perhaps a member of my family, has me in their will and they've left me storage space. As much as I need for all of my thousands of albums. What a dream, yes? Gloria - # 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: "Jeff Chenault" Subject: (exotica) Cool Soundtracks For Sale!! Date: 05 Jan 1998 14:15:48 -0500 If anybody here is interested I have a list of Cool And Rare Soundtracks that I am selling. Please e-mail me personally for the list. Thanks, Jeff - # 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: Vik Trola Subject: Re: (exotica) Air cd Date: 05 Jan 1998 14:36:38 -0500 >Johan wrote: Among the quirkier French artists are the duo Air > check them out if you like The Gentle People. , ....but their cd is >announced for february. > actually, "Premiers Symptomes" is out now. this is a collection of AIR's EPs and singles. catalog # is Source/Caroline CAR 6642. coming january 27 will be "Moon Safari" the debut full length. catalog # Source/Caroline CAR 6644. RealAudio clips and background info on the band can be found at http://associated.caroline.com/source/air/ and a swell picture of AIR's Jean Jean Benoit Dunckel in the studio with Jean Jacques Perrey can be found at http://associated.caroline.com/source/air/gallery.html. - # 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: Hugh Petfield Subject: (exotica) Recommended listening Date: 05 Jan 1998 19:44:42 +0000 Hi, especially UK readers (and possibly those on the west of mainland Europe), Just to recommend a series on BBC Radio 2 at 10pm on Sunday night, An A-Z of Easy Listening, presented by legendary producer George Martin. Last night was the first hour-long programme (of 13). As you might expect, he puts a lot of credit down to the producers, and there were short interviews/sound bites with Perry Botkin, Jimmie Haskell and Brian Eno. Part one covered acapella (illustrated by The Kings Singers, and the Beach Boys' 'God only knows' played with the voices only), Airport music, The Cliff Adams Singers ("Sing something simple"), Charles Aznavour and Herb Alpert. Next week's show covers Bacharach and David. BBC Radio 2 is on FM 88-91. European listeners might try 88.8 and 89.1 first. Hugh. - # 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) music Date: 05 Jan 1998 10:52:04 -0800 At 10:52 PM 1/4/98 -0500, you wrote: >>"I guess it all boils down to taste--but I'd rather have Sabu than >>George Shearing and Ray Anthony." >Not that I have anything against Shearing or Anthony--it's just that their >records are common as dirt, and don't need to be reissued on CD. This just proves how diverse things are here under the Lounge umbrella. I think the Geo Shearing Sound, especially earlier, defined the cocktail sound better than anything. I just go nuts when the vibes and piano play the same notes, followed by a peppy beat. Very little of the important stuff is on CD and none of the classic Latin with Armando Peraza. The Lps one finds tend to be the choir and orchestra ones. >And I'll bet my last copy of a "Taste of Honey" that the worst selling >volume was "A Bachelor in Paris"--WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?!?! ^_- I think it's pretty funny and very clever, but probably the last one to get if one is just starting. It's hard to imagine that France was as hip to yanks as Italy is now. It just goes to show you- it takes all kinds! 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: Jeff Phillips Subject: (exotica) The Island Riddim Band 1/10/98 in San Jose Date: 05 Jan 1998 15:10:48 -0800 Just wanted to pass this along to interested folks in the Bay Area...I've never seen their show, but it might warrant a look-see. >Hawaiian Music Nights at Yokohama Restaurant > >Saturday January 10, 1998 >9PM - midnight >Yokohama Restaurant >230 East Jackson Street at 6th Street in San Jose > >Come join us as we greet the new year with a bang. The Island Riddim Band >is the featured group this month, along with special guest - Patrick >Landeza! Hope to see you all down there! Please forward this email to any >interested parties. Mahalo! > >http://virtual.sdg.com/islandriddim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~ Jeffrey D. Phillips, Production Manager, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra ~ ~~~ 333 Market Street, Plaza Suite San Francisco, California 94105~2102 ~~ ~~~~ 415~495~7445 (phone) 415~495~7473 (fax) jphillips@philharmonia.org ~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - # 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) Re: Ultra Lounge Date: 05 Jan 1998 22:49:19 -0500 At 12:45 PM -0500 1/5/98, Rcbrooksod wrote: >On the other hand, I do think that Capital is doing us listeners a dis-service >by not expanding their selections past their "vaults". They never will because they would then have to pay licensing fees to the other labels, just like they charge to independent labels who want to reissue their material. {Actually I should say what they used to charge, as they will no longer license any of this material to other labels; they are keeping it all for future UltraLounge compilations}. Since EMI/Capitol owns the sound copyrights on all their material, they are free to issue anything from their vaults; the only money they pay out is in performance and compositional royalties to the original artists, per copies sold (not including promotional copies). 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: Jack Diamond Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Ultra Lounge Date: 05 Jan 1998 20:39:39 -0800 At 10:49 PM 1/5/98 -0500, you wrote: > >At 12:45 PM -0500 1/5/98, Rcbrooksod wrote: > >>On the other hand, I do think that Capital is doing us listeners a dis-service >>by not expanding their selections past their "vaults". > >They never will because they would then have to pay licensing fees to the >other labels, just like they charge to independent labels who want to >reissue their material. Like I said before....it's all about the money, honey @;-O It sure as s&*t ain't about music - # 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: [LTepedino: Re: (exotica) Mirageman] Date: 06 Jan 1998 00:37:16 EST In a message dated 98-01-05 10:41:23 EST, petehip@cogsci.ed.ac.uk writes: << There was also a CD of Alan Hawkshaw material released last year, called "Girl In A Sportscar", but it was too pricey for me. Unhelpfully, I can only remember that it was on a small, obscure label. >> It was both pricey and very dull. 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: David Retief Subject: (exotica) Arthur Lyman Pop Date: 06 Jan 1998 15:18:21 +0200 I noticed a Rykodisc release of Arthur Lyman's Sonic Sixties in my local cdshop's acid jazz section (home too of Esquivel..?) and was wondering whether the treatment of the standards made them worthwhile? I'm struggling to imagine what he may have done with them - Anyone got this? So many of my favourite stars blanded out round 67, so i have to be a tad apprehensive. DavidR. - # 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) Vik's Date: 06 Jan 1998 13:55:20 UT Hey, I just wanted to say Kudos to Vik for providing such a fabulous web site with Real Audio previews of tons of albums. I visited it last night and he single-handedly turned me on to five or six albums I probably never would have bought otherwise. If only the record companies would get so smart. Anyway, not to pimp too much, but keep it up Vik! His address: http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/radio/features.html Thanks Vik, 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: dan hill Subject: (exotica) Re: shop finder Date: 06 Jan 1998 14:47:23 +0100 [ apologies for cross-posting ] thanks to all the people who replied and have checked out the Shop Finder (at http://www.state51.co.uk/motion/services ) - keep entering those shops! dan. . . . . ..dan hill.. . . . . mailto:dan@state51.co.uk 91 brick lane, london e1 6qn check out the record shop finder ---+ [ http://www.state51.co.uk/motion/services/ ] - # 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) Jimmie Haskel-Countdown Date: 05 Jan 1998 22:25:57 -0800 Can anyone tell me if either of these Jimmie Haskel Orchestra titles are on any CD ? ROCKIN' IN THE ORBIT or ASTROSONIC Thanks, 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: chuck Subject: Re: (exotica) Vik's Date: 06 Jan 1998 12:56:52 -0800 (PST) ---peter_risser@cinfin.com wrote: > > > Hey, I just wanted to say Kudos to Vik for providing such a fabulous web site I second Peters Kudos, Vic probably turned me on to 30 or 40 albums, its always awake while the web never sleeps. Looking forward to playing some of the music we heard at Vic's on Mardis Gras Day in the Mondo Kayo Carnival Club, Chuck _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.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: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Recommended listening Date: 06 Jan 1998 18:20:25 -0500 (EST) At 07:44 PM 1/5/98 +0000, Hugh Petfield wrote: >Just to recommend a series on BBC Radio 2 at 10pm on >Sunday night, An A-Z of Easy Listening, presented >by legendary producer George Martin. Last night >was the first hour-long programme (of 13). So I guess we're all moving to Australia for Nick at Night, but only after we all go to England for the next 3 months of radio. Any idea if this series will be released on cassette? Or if a book has been produced to go with it?? BTW, here's the official BBC2 blurb on the show: BBC2 Sunday 10:00pm The A-Z of Easy Listening: George Martin presents 13 programmes delving into all aspects of music for easy listening. In the second programme, B is for background music, Bassey and baritones. George Martin explores the link between bread and Boy George, and hears from lyricist Hal David, who talks about his partnership with Burt Bacharach. --Lou - # 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: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) In the tradition Date: 06 Jan 1998 18:48:21 -0500 (EST) Hey, it's sorta nice to see that some low-budget label traditions haven't died in the CD/Photoshop era. I was flipping through the post-Xmas seasonal CD sale at J&R and came across something called "A Christmas TV Dinner". This low price item was produced by Rod McKuen and released by Stanyan/LaserLight. Now, to make this more interesting, coming as it does on the heels of Scamp's two Music For TV Dinners CDs, is that LaserLight has used *the exact same photo* of that now-famous TV dinner that Scamp used. LL just flipped the photo left to right and pasted a little toxic looking red/green poincetia clipping on the salisbury steak. Now, this mighta been cool(ish) if the CD comprised Christmas flavored production music, but it's just 11 cuts of TV stars (Brady Bunch, Partridge Family, Cartwrights, etc.) singing Christmas tunes. But, as I said, it's sorta quaint to see the tradition of low-budget mis-leading packaging continuing. And who knew Scamp's line was so successful it could breed a rip-off?!? --Lou - # 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) cee dee's Date: 06 Jan 1998 21:39:38 EST Jimmy Haskell "Countdown" - now THAT is something I dream seeing reissued on CD since i have NEVER seen the LP for sale. I touched it once. Can someone please direct me to a source where i can find "Beat Actione"? I keep trying Groove Attacks, but keep getting a error message when i try their URL. Would someone who is familiar with the recordings below please offer a short "review"? (the included descriptions were supplied by the dealer) 1) Various -- Get Easy Vol. 3 -- The French Pops Collection Motor (Germany), Late 60's/1997 Simply fantastic! An amazingly insane assortment of groovy groovy French vocal pop from the 60's, with tracks that will make your ears pop out when you hear them. Soaring vocals, groovy guitars, and arrangements that have quirky little edges that make Serge Gainsbourg sound soft. Stellar stuff from people like France Gall, Nicoletta, Brigitte Bardot, Eddie Barclay, Les Parisiennes, Jacques Dutronc, Andre Brasseur, Daniel Gerard, and sooo many others. Great package, great notes, and the kind of stuff that we always dream about, but have never been able to find. Amazing stuff all the way through, and a real treat for your groovy groovy ears! 2) Pierre Henry/Michel Colombier -- Messe Pour Le Temps Present Phillips (France), 1967/1997 Fantastic! This classic bit of funky electronic French stuff has been showing up in bits and pieces on various compilations over the past few years (most notably the cut "Psyche Rock", which has some sample history to it), but this is the full release of this amazing collaboration between electronic music pioneer Pierre Henry and Michel Colombier, and a soundtrack for a full length ballet of groovy electronic pieces. It's great all the way through, and many tracks have the same feel as the famous "Psyche Rock". Other tracks have a very spare electronic sound -- there's odd bubbling sounds, cool funky beats, and some very groovy melodies. Wild stuff, and a great re-release in a beautiful package! 3) Pams Planet - commercial jingles distributed thru Ken R Incorporated thanks! - # 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: Arthur Lyman Pop Date: 06 Jan 1998 19:14:48 -0800 (PST) At 03:18 PM 1/6/98 +0200, David Retief wrote: >I noticed a Rykodisc release of Arthur Lyman's Sonic Sixties in my local >cdshop's acid jazz section (home too of Esquivel..?) and was wondering >whether the treatment of the standards made them worthwhile? Well, it doesn't belong *THERE* Jeez! It should be in the cool jazz category. The renditions are more on the laid back side and not very much going on, but the delicateness of the marimba and vibes played by Mr. Lyman is quite nice. Watermelon Man is pretty neat, as is the END of Born Free. I'd say if you don't like Dave Brubeck, you wouldn't like it. If you dig cool jazz, this does very well. 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: Peter Hipwell Subject: [BasicHip: (exotica) cee dee's] Date: 07 Jan 1998 12:12:38 GMT > Would someone who is familiar with the recordings below please offer a short > "review"? (the included descriptions were supplied by the dealer) [snip] > 2) Pierre Henry/Michel Colombier -- Messe Pour Le Temps Present > Phillips (France), 1967/1997 > Fantastic! This classic bit of funky electronic French stuff has > been showing up in bits and pieces on various compilations over the > past few years (most notably the cut "Psyche Rock", which has some > sample history to it), but this is the full release of this amazing > collaboration between electronic music pioneer Pierre Henry and > Michel Colombier, and a soundtrack for a full length ballet of > groovy electronic pieces. It's great all the way through, and many > tracks have the same feel as the famous "Psyche Rock". Other tracks > have a very spare electronic sound -- there's odd bubbling sounds, > cool funky beats, and some very groovy melodies. Wild stuff, and a > great re-release in a beautiful package! > This is one of my all-time favourite records. I picked it up at a charity shop about a year ago, expecting "avant-garde" music, i.e. a lovely chromatic splurge and received a bit of a (welcome) shock. The "Messe" basically consists of driving instrumental "pop" music -- drums, bass, organ and the odd bit of electric guitar, often quite manic. Then, over the top of this, and sometimes falling over the edge, there are weird electronic noises, not blips and bleeps, but rhythmic squawks, squeals and squarks. Sudden blasts of sound rather than ambient layers. Oh, and there's bells. Very emphatically, in places. The rest of the disc (more than 1/2) consists of extracts from a few other pieces but covers a fair range, from stuff that sounds like the bits of Star Trek where Captain Kirk falls in love with a green alien lady with tempo-variant snare drumming underneath, to computer meltdown sounds (Les Insects) to very aetherial sounds, to Death represented by the sound of tortuous asthmatic breathing and a horrifically squeaking door (apparently he scoured the countrry looking for a door with the right range of squeaks, eventually alighting on the perfect barn -- that is, if the home-made translation of the liner notes was any good). The CD reissue only overlaps to a certain extent with the version I have (all the "Messe" is present), but the pieces on it are all from the same compositions. There's also a ltd. edition vinyl version (at least for the UK release), and a CD of remixes (haven't heard that). Um. Make of that what you will. - # 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: cscheffy@kinglet.Berkeley.EDU (Clark Scheffy) Subject: (exotica) Mess pour le temps present Date: 07 Jan 1998 06:30:10 PST To add to this thread of this reissue, it's great that the release includes all of "Messe..." but too too bad that all of "Le Voyage" and some of the other excerpted works don't appear in their entirety in reissue. As a complete work, "Le Voyage" is really well-conceieved, and listening to the full version with all the parts really brings this out. If ever any of you come across a recording of Le Voyage, buy it by all means. Clark - # 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: "Ron Wyly" Subject: (exotica) SESAC Recordings Date: 07 Jan 1998 10:10:29 CST Would appreciate any information about SESAC Recordings. Picked up about 30 of their LPs at a garage sale a couple years ago. All of the album covers are of the same style, black with a SESAC logo on the front. The top half of the front cover has a label affixed which wraps around to the back cover. There appears to be color- coding to the cover labels: blue for light classical, red for easy listening, yellow for vocal performances. Performers on these albums include Richard Maltby, Richard Hayman, Bill Snyder, Jose Melis, Alfredo Antonni, and there is even a Jordanaires record in the bunch. Have never seen these anywhere again--any info. is appreciated! Ron Wyly College of the Ozarks - # 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 Subject: Re: (exotica) cee dee's Date: 06 Jan 1998 19:24:40 -0800 >Can someone please direct me to a source where i can find "Beat Actione"? I >keep trying Groove Attacks, but keep getting a error message when i try their >URL. I think I got my copy at Dusty Grooves http://www.dustygroove.com/ Pretty damn swell, I MUST admit Should be 12 bucks plus whatever I have seen at least 1 Jimmie Haskel-Countdown cut on some lame-oh comp, 'cept for that track of course:) Doesn't anyone here know ??? Jimmie Haskel-Countdown from the Imperial label ? Ashley, Vik(Caroline Dist.) anyone ? -J - # 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) REVIEW> Cordara Orchestra Date: 07 Jan 1998 15:08:25 +0100 if you liked the tracks by Cordara Orchestra on the 2 "Mo'plen" compilation cd's (on La Douce/Irma, from Italy) then you should get his full cd "the best of". sound quality is not perfect, as these racks were mastered from vinyl. some tracks (tipsy/battuta d'arresto/hypotesis) remind me of Mirageman, because of the electric fuzzed guitars. most tracks are better crafted than Mirageman's songs. Cordara was a diplomated pianist and conductor, after all. it all sounds more gentle than Mirageman too. some latin influences (distensione/saguia) , lots of funky influences (especially on target/irony), but a sophisticated kind of funk. almost all of the songs have the flute as main instrument, which gives it all a jazzy feeling too. the last 3 tracks of this 18 track album don't fit in very well i find, they're much more funky and the last one is even disko. as far as i can tell these are all original Cordara compositions. the "smart" compilers call it "italian sound gallery". it does fit in with the british loungecore scene, and yet it is differnet all together. there are more jazz, latin and funk influences here. rated very good! - # 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) Recommended listening Date: 07 Jan 1998 14:05:24 -0500 > From: Lou Smith > Subject: (exotica) Recommended listening > > So I guess we're all moving to Australia for Nick at Night, but only after > we all go to England for the next 3 months of radio. Ha! Well-played line. I think this internet gizmo fosters a frustrated wish that we could get around as easily as our e-mail. It's a little surprising that the BBC doesn't have a web feed. Or do they? m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ (Movies Of The Week tv picks for Jan. 4 to 11 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: "Robbie Baldock" Subject: Re: (exotica) George Shearing Date: 07 Jan 1998 19:07:46 +0000 Brian Phillips wrote: >I suppose, although I had to rummage in the 78 bins before I found a >copy of George Shearing's "In a Chinese Garden". Anyone know on which album Shearing's fabulous arrangement of Aquarius (as featured on the first Mood Mosaic comp LP) appeared? And is the rest of the LP as good? Robbie ** ** ** * Spaced Out - the Enoch Light Website * ** ** ** ** ** ** http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~rcb/light/ ** ** ** - # 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: "Robbie Baldock" Subject: Re: (exotica) Ventures Date: 07 Jan 1998 19:07:46 +0000 Johan wrote: >* The Ventures: "Theme From Shaft/The Horse" > CD, See For Miles C5CHD 651, UK, 1996 Noticed in Tower at the weekend what looked like a *new* Ventures CD ("New Adventures with the Ventures"?) which had a version of Quiet Village on it! Anyone heard this?! Robbie ** ** ** * Spaced Out - the Enoch Light Website * ** ** ** ** ** ** http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~rcb/light/ ** ** ** - # 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: "Robbie Baldock" Subject: Re: (exotica) Pierre Henry/Michel Colombier Date: 07 Jan 1998 19:07:47 +0000 BasicHip scrove: >2) Pierre Henry/Michel Colombier -- Messe Pour Le Temps Present >Phillips (France), 1967/1997 >Fantastic! Here here! I particularly enjoy the creaking door tracks at the end and dream of mixing these in with some spoken word horror story someday... Robbie ** ** ** * Spaced Out - the Enoch Light Website * ** ** ** ** ** ** http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~rcb/light/ ** ** ** - # 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: "Robbie Baldock" Subject: Re: (exotica) A-Z of Easy Listening / Perry Botkin Date: 07 Jan 1998 19:07:46 +0000 Hugh Petfield wrote: >Just to recommend a series on BBC Radio 2 at 10pm on >Sunday night, An A-Z of Easy Listening, presented >by legendary producer George Martin. Last night >was the first hour-long programme (of 13). > >As you might expect, he puts a lot of credit down to >the producers, and there were short interviews/sound >bites with Perry Botkin, Jimmie Haskell and Brian >Eno. I tuned into this and was pleasantly surprised though there were a few ultra-cheesy morsels (eg: Charles Aznovoice) which were a bit much for me. But as for Perry Botkin... After hearing his contribution I was inspired to see what he was up to nowadays as his arrangement of "Ode to Billy Joe" is in my all time Top 10 (anyone know what LP that came out on - my copy is on a Readers Digest comp?) - the way it builds and builds is spine-tinglingly wonderful! Only to find that, as seems to be the case with many EZ folk, he's now into experimental electronics! Check out: http://kspace.com/KM/music.sys/Botkin/pages/title.html He's got two CDs out at the moment (Combines and Combines 2) and there are samples of both to listen to on the site. A question to Stateside list members - how commonplace are Botkin LPs over yonder? I don't think I've ever seen one over here. And who did he arrange for mostly? Robbie ** ** ** * Spaced Out - the Enoch Light Website * ** ** ** ** ** ** http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~rcb/light/ ** ** ** - # 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 Subject: (exotica) Speaking of Horror Date: 07 Jan 1998 11:49:27 -0800 Pierre Henry/Michel Colombier -- Messe Pour Le Temps Present >>Phillips (France), 1967/1997 >>Fantastic! I particularly enjoy the creaking door tracks at the end >and dream of mixing these in with some spoken word horror story >someday... >Robbie Speaking of mixing and horror stories; "Boris Karloff-Tales of The Frightened Vol 2"(Mercury) has got Tom Dissvelt/Kid Baltan's MASTERPIECE recording of "The Song of The 2nd Moon/The Elektrosonics-Electronic Music" originally issued on Phillips and then on Limelight as the music bed. I think though that they slowed it down a bit though, to make it "dreamier" Incredible LP by the way. Find it now or you can at least see the cover HERE! http://www.jackdiamond.com/Rekkid%20Covers%202.htm 3rd one down 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: Hugh Petfield Subject: (exotica) Jimmie Haskell Date: 07 Jan 1998 20:13:09 +0000 My 1966 Schwann catalog lists four albums by Jimmie Haskell. Capitol ST 2075 "From Russia with love" (10/64) Capitol ST 2151 "Teen Love Themes" (10/64) Reprise 9-6010 "Jimmie Haskell" (2/62) Dot 25414 "You too can sing a hit" (4/62) Anyone know: What sort of music these are (vocal, choral , instrumental) Are they any good? A recent thread mentioned another album called "Countdown": is this a later album? Thanks, Hugh. - # 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: Hugh Petfield Subject: (exotica) Capitol Records info sought Date: 07 Jan 1998 20:13:11 +0000 Hello folks, Can anyone with a knowledge of the workings of Capitol in the 1960's give an educated guess to the following question please? Two consecutive Lettermen albums were: ST 2142 "She Cried".................November 1964 ST 2213 "You'll never walk alone"....January 1965 I actually need to know when the second album was recorded: is it likely that it could have been cut before the previous album was out? Before that even? As early as March 1964? The only clues I have are on the Capitol Collector's series Lettermen album, which shows the tracks being mostly cut about two months before issue. The same pattern also shows in the Four Preps issues for the same era. Thanks, Hugh. - # 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) Pierre Henry/Michel Colombier Date: 07 Jan 1998 15:22:24 -0500 > BasicHip scrove: > >2) Pierre Henry/Michel Colombier -- Messe Pour Le Temps Present > >Phillips (France), 1967/1997 > >Fantastic! Then Robbie wrote: > Here here! I particularly enjoy the creaking door tracks at the end > and dream of mixing these in with some spoken word horror story > someday... If you liked that release, you'll love Pierre Henry's lp "Variations for a door & a sigh" (Limelight Records LS 86059). 25 brief tracks which alternate between the sounds of someone sighing & a door creaking! Ideal for compilation tape use or radio airplay me thinks. Cheers, Allan. "You don't need to call it music, if the term shocks you." John Cage - # 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: (exotica) the "Fever & Smoke"/"Rockambo" girl Date: 07 Jan 1998 19:42:55 -0000 This isn't an earth-shattering observation, but despite its total meaninglessness, it struck me as something worth passing along: Here's another for the "separated at birth" album cover category: I finally got a copy of Perez Prado's "Rockambo" LP (RCA LPM/LSP-2308), only to find the woman from The Three Suns' "Fever & Smoke" (RCA LPM/LSP-2310) wearing that same outfit and dancing inside the second "O" in "Rockambo." Kinda makes you wonder if she's hanging out on 2309 as well, whatever that record is... 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: peter@imcnet.net Subject: (exotica) info needed Date: 07 Jan 1998 21:10:10 +0000 Hi Everyone. I'm new to the exotica scene. I found you through the web. Before that, I never would have believed that anyone besides me would be interested in this stuff. I need some information. I'm basically looking for some records, or recordings of them. Right now, I'm interested in a few specific things, but no doubt will become acquainted with much other cool stuff as things progress. Can anyone tell me where I can get "Stereo Action" records? I have a bunch, but need to complete my collection. My favorite record in the Stereo Action series is "Futura." Does anyone know of other music that sounds like this? Any insights would be appreciated. I'm also interested in Dick Schorry albums. Again, does anyone know where I can get hold of some? Anyone who wants to recommend any other cool stuff is more than welcome to do so. My musical interests are truely wide, and I'm always on the lookout for cool stuff. Thanks very much. 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: Michael Jemmeson Subject: (exotica) Recommended listening Date: 08 Jan 1998 11:02:09 +0000 >BTW, here's the official BBC2 blurb on the show: >BBC2 Sunday 10:00pm >The A-Z of Easy Listening: George Martin presents 13 programmes delving into >all aspects of music for easy listening. In the second programme, B is for >background music, Bassey and baritones. George Martin explores the link >between bread and Boy George, and hears from lyricist Hal David, who talks >about his partnership with Burt Bacharach. >- --Lou I'm annoyed i missed that first programme now, it looks like a broad coverage of 'easy' - good to see Music For Airports etc included. About a year ago their was a Top 100 of Easy Listening produced by Radio 2 and published in The Times saturday magazine. Anyone else see that? A lot of pretty obvious ones in there but a couple of unusual ones 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: "Magnus Sandberg" Subject: Re: (exotica) Vik's Date: 08 Jan 1998 04:29:53 PST >Hey, I just wanted to say Kudos to Vik for providing such a fabulous web site >with Real Audio previews of tons of albums. I agree! While I'm not working at the moment, I used to listen to Radio Vik alot when I did. And also a big thanks to King Kini (www.tamboo.com) for hours of great music. Made my job easier and funnier. Tack så mycket! Magnus ______________________________________________________ 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: peter_risser@cinfin.com Subject: (exotica) JTQ Date: 08 Jan 1998 13:59:32 UT Someone mentioned in a post a James Tayler project with some "friends" that was an album of TV and Movie theme covers. Does anyone know what this is, or if it's even out? 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) Perry Botkin (+ bit on Jimmie Haskell) Date: 08 Jan 1998 17:10:37 +0200 Robbie Baldock wrote in the wake of the A-Z of Easy Listening feature on BBC Radio 2 and its short interviews/sound bites with Perry Botkin, Jimmie Haskell and Brian Eno ... > But as for Perry Botkin... > > After hearing his contribution I was inspired to see what he > was up to nowadays as his arrangement of "Ode to Billy Joe" is > in my all time Top 10 (anyone know what LP that came out on - > my copy is on a Readers Digest comp?) - the way it builds and builds > is spine-tinglingly wonderful! Perry Botkin arranged and produced for The T-bones, the sixties band that concocted an enjoyable instrumental sound somewhere between surf and easy listening. The LP's I know of are "No matter what shape (your stomach's in)" and "Sippin 'n Chippin". They may be available on CD, dunno. Botkin composed two tracks on the first-mentioned LP. It also features Bob "Music to watch girls by" Crewe's "Let's hang on". And a version of "Fever" that begins just like a Pixies song! I also really love the Readers Digest comp Botkin version of "Ode to Billy Joe" (composer Bobbie Gentry's LP of which it was the title track was actually arranged and conducted by Jimmie Haskell). I think some of the Readers Digest comp stuff of the late sixties was absolutely super. So well-arranged in an easy, pop instrumental mode. Botkin's "Billy Joe" was part of the great 1969 Readers Digest four-record box-set "Love is blue". It was also in the "Festival of International Hits" mega-set. People with top credentials contributed to these box-sets: Nelson Riddle, Billy May, Les Reed, The New Classic Singers and Pete King. The Readers Digest Johnny Gibbs rendition of "Love is blue" is truly brilliant and my favourite of the many versions of the song I've heard - it has a much more driving, harder beat than the Paul Mauriat hit recording and is just generally a sure winner for any party or dance floor. (Almost on the power of this track alone I turned friends away from Pavement and The Chemical Brothers ... into EZ ! ) And for what it's worth, on the "Love is blue" set there are quite a few very well-executed Botkin tracks: An top notch, beautiful version of "There's a kind of hush". Two songs by the unsung genius mr Bert Kaempfert, "The Happy Trumpeter" and "That Happy Feeling". Also: "It must be him", "For what it's worth", "Here comes my baby", "Ode to Billie Joe", "A whiter shade of pale", "Eleanor Rigby", "Wonderful World", and "What the world needs now is love". 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: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) are our ears burning? Date: 08 Jan 1998 10:48:33 -0500 (EST) I just discovered http://www.reference.com , which is sorta like DejaNews but also archives mailing lists as well as newsgroups. Here's something just posted to a non-EZ (ie. Loud) music listserv. Are they talking about *us*?? --Lou (BTW, I don't think our Exotica list is being archived at Reference.com) From: "Joseph M. Mallon" Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 17:19:08 -0800 (PST) Mailing List: loud-fans@loudfans.com On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Stewart Mason wrote: > No, no, what I'm saying is that I think Combustible Edison and all the rest > of the lounge revivalists (I don't think I've heard enough of the Moog > Cookbook to say if they are or not) *were* being condescending, and that I > didn't care for that attitude because there's an inherent charm to the > Botho Lucas Choir or Esquivel or Ray Conniff or Martin Denny that really > appeals to me and I don't think they deserved to be treated like that! I misunderstood what you were saying, then. Genuine appreciation is different from the ironic type. I like The Carpenters and always have. That tribute album a few years back was reeally painful, because so many of the bands were doing winking versions of the songs: "Hey, we know these are cheesy songs, so we'll butcher them." How fitting that a lot of the members of the bands who pull that kind of stuff will be corporate middle managers in 5 years, while "Yesterday Once More" will be coming out of the Muzak systems in their offices. I also detest the lounge revival for that very reason - a smothering sense of irony and postmodern remove. There comes a point when doing something and pointing at that doing at the same time - "Look, I'm reviving a dead trend, which means I'm hip because the trend was hip, because it's so kitschy, because no one's done it before, etc." - becomes a hall of mirrors that removes one from any real experience, and that's truly pathetic. > I kinda resent being told that I'm being condescending in my admiration for > the Moog Machine record. I don't think it's condescending for me to say > that I think the Moog Machine album is silly, because it's silly in a fun > way. It's like those educational shorts from the 50s that are so > fascinating today because they're like an unintentional time capsule of the > era both in fashions and styles (there's invariably furniture in these > films I would kill for) and in the sociological attitudes of the era. The > Moog Machine album has that very same quality, and enjoying it is not > condescending unless you're approaching it from an attitude of "Oh, let's > laugh at this dumb record." Which I, for one, am not. It's condescending in the sense of saying, "Oh, we know better now, don't we?", and I'm as guilty of it as anyone, having embraced Negativland's withering dissection of those '50s/'60s hygiene films. I used to be a big fan of MST3K, who use the same paradigm, but the show just got to be too much of the same joke - fun poked at others for trying, albeit failing, to create something. I guess that's what really bothers me about the lounge-revival and the whole ironic school - that it gives people an excuse not to try to create anything, to do nothing but laugh at those who *do* try. Effort is seen as a bad thing by "hipsters", and that attitude leads nowhere but down. > All I'm saying is that a band like the Moog Cookbook or a lounge-revival > band that's deliberately commenting on fashions current and/or past is not > going to ever have that historical period-piece sense to their records. > I'm not saying that this is a bad thing, I'm just saying that given a > choice between the two, I'll take the first. I should note that the Moog Cookbook do not try for any sense of period. I would place them in the same catagory as "Weird Al" Yankovic or Tom Lehrer, satirists using common idioms to make a point about those idioms. J. Mallon - # 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) Caroline's Date: 08 Jan 1998 19:08:08 UT All right, so I didn't know that Vik was really Caroline, as in Caroline Distributors. So it was told to me and further corresponded by the fact that the RA files for Vik's and the Scamp stuff on the Caroline site (www.caroline.com/scamp) are on the same server. Still, Kudos for the ability to hear new stuff before buying it. I'd like to encourage that, for I am truly tired of shelling out fifteen bucks for crap. And this stuff is ever so tasty... So, I'm not as impressed as if it were a single person, But it's still a great deal. Plus, they've got the whole Barbarella soundtrack on realAudio. So. Take that for what you will. 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: Vik Trola Subject: (exotica) Vik's Caroline connection Date: 08 Jan 1998 14:47:44 -0500 >All right, so I didn't know that Vik was really Caroline, as in Caroline >Distributors. >So it was told to me and further corresponded by the fact that the RA >files for >Vik's and the Scamp stuff on the Caroline site (www.caroline.com/scamp) are on >the same server. >So, I'm not as impressed as if it were a single person, >But it's still a great deal. you've been misinformed... Vik's continues to be (as it always has been) a comnpletely non-commerical hobby site designed, edited, written, coded and maintained by one single person. in the early days, it was accused of being some elaborate marketing company tool to cash in on the "lounge" trend. guess i should've expected the caroline connection. yes, Vik's uses a bit of Caroline's bandwidth for Real Audio. No, the sites are not on the same server (caroline.com has a server and chaoskitty,com has it's own server). yes, the Scamp site at Caroline is in fact a copy of the Scamp site at Vik's (actually the Caroline Scamp site is more up to date). Why? Because Vik's day job is the internet director for Caroline (you don't actually think Vik's pays the bills) and he gave Caroline the Scamp site rather than building a new one. Other than the day job connection and the use of the Real Audio server, Caroline has absolutely nothing to do with Vik's (either monetarily or editorially). Most of the albums featured in 1997 were purchased by Vik from Other Music in NYC (a handful came from Vik being a music biz weasel). hope this helps, Vik "not Caroline" Trola - # 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: chuck Subject: Re: (exotica) cee dee's Date: 08 Jan 1998 13:55:23 -0800 (PST) Jack wrote > I think I got my copy at Dusty Grooves > http://www.dustygroove.com/ > > Pretty damn swell, I MUST admit > I agree Jack and thanks for turning me on to Dusty Grooves. I don't think many exoticats know about them and they really do stock alot of what we like and for a reasonable price. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.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: Kerry Keane Subject: Re: (exotica) cee dee's Date: 08 Jan 1998 16:49:38 -0600 (CST) On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, chuck wrote: > Jack wrote > > I think I got my copy at Dusty Grooves > > http://www.dustygroove.com/ > > > > Pretty damn swell, I MUST admit > > > I agree Jack and thanks for turning me on to Dusty Grooves. I don't > think many exoticats know about them and they really do stock alot of > what we like and for a reasonable price. For those of you who are anywhere near Chicago, DustyGroove has begun opening its doors to the public on weekends. Actually, I think it is Friday and Saturday. Check your Readers, Chicago people. I'm going next weekend, so I'll give a report if I find anything noteworthy. Next thing you know, they'll be opening a regular store! ___________________________________________________ Pursuant to US Code, Title 47, Chapter 5, Subchapter II, '227, any and all unsolicited commercial E-mail sent to this address is subject to a download and archival fee in the amount of $500,000 US. E-mailing denotes acceptance of these penalties, along with a summons from the supreme Creator-General of the universe. Oooo scary. Note new address. - # 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: Lang Thompson Subject: (exotica) Fwd: Looking for Gershon Kingsley album Date: 08 Jan 1998 20:24:24 -0500 >Return-Path: >Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 19:42:52 -0500 (EST) >From: David Newgarden > > >Gershon Kingley would like to rerelease two of his albums on CD, but >the master tapes are lost. Does anyone own a mint or excellent-condition >copy of > >Gershon Kingsley "Music To Moog By" >or >Gershon Kingsley "First Moog Quartet" > >? > > > >thanks! > >David Newgarden >home 212-431-4614 >work 212-246-1200 >dn@panix.com Lang Thompson http://www.tcf.ua.edu/wlt4 PLEASE NOTE NEW URL!! "I saw weird stuff in that place last night. Weird, strange, sick, twisted, eerie, godless, evil stuff. And I want in." -- Homer Simpson - # 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) JTQ Date: 07 Jan 1998 04:30:13 -0800 Peter writes: >Someone mentioned in a post a James Tayler project with some "friends" that was >an album of TV and Movie theme covers. Does anyone know what this is, or if >it's even out? The Scored I-O comp from JTI records is just that, with bands swapping members. JTQ also covers 3 soundtracks on the unfortunately-named Acid Jazz Movie & TV Themes from Acid Jazz/Hollywood Records. Great arrangements--intense beats. Maybe there are more JTQ comps--what do I know? 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: Jack Subject: Re: (exotica) cee dee's Date: 08 Jan 1998 18:16:10 -0800 >I agree Jack and thanks for turning me on to Dusty Grooves. I don't >think many exoticats know about them and they really do stock alot of >what we like and for a reasonable price. The reason that they can offer what "other people" sell at "more reasonable" prices is because they are also a DISTRIBUTOR, meaning they get it for at least a few dollars less than someone who has a "store" gets it at. -J - # 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: Ottotemp@aol.com Subject: (exotica) AOL user benefits Date: 09 Jan 1998 02:27:23 -0500 (EST) Sock it to the Man! wanna stop getting adverts from AOL? After logging on go to Keyword (command + K on a Mac) then type in: marketing prefs click on: pop-up menu preferences then: click on the box that specifies to stop receiving pop advertisements - # 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: (exotica) wag the swan Date: 09 Jan 1998 13:32:58 -0500 Has anyone else noticed this? In a TV spot for the movie "Wag The Dog" there's a snippet of someone doing something that sounds like Perrey & Kingsley's "Swan's Splashdown" (opening riff). What's up there? m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ (Movies Of The Week tv picks for Jan. 4 to 11 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) Indian Vibes (old thread) Date: 09 Jan 1998 16:14:05 +0100 Here is a thread from Oct 7th that I just came across First, Ariel wrote: > >Can someone tell me where can I get that > groovey sitar track? then "Jordana Robinson" wrote: > > I have a 12" called "Indian Vibes" that is > probably the one Ariel refers to. The group is > called Mathar that incredible track is also on v/a: Talkin Jazz volume 2: More Themes from the black forest volume 2 CD & 2LP, Talkin' Loud 523529, UK, 1994 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) REVIEW> The Forbidden Sounds of Don Tiki Date: 09 Jan 1998 18:57:20 +0100 do you like wordless vocals? Martin Denny? exotic percussion? bird calls? loungy "Las Vegas" vocals? lazy cocktail jazz? Hammond sounds? 90's lounge? exotic atmospheres? then get "The Forbidden Sounds of Don Tiki" (Taboo TAB 8888). It doesn't happy very often that you get a chance to listen to a _new production_ of *classic exotica*! Martin Denny is on it, AND Lopaka Colon, son of Augie! Almost 50 minutes of warm, excellently played "exotic lounge", that will bring Hawaiian heaven into this cold winter season. 9 well crafted originals, 2 Denny compositions, 2 covers; 4 vocal tracks, the rest instrumental. Gorgeous cover painting by Mark Ryden, who also did Capitols "The exotic moods of Les Baxter" double cd. listen to them at Radio Vik if you hesitate! =00 tracks: Exotica '97 (Martin denny) An occasional man (originally recorded by Judy Holliday) Barbi in bali Hot like lava Close your eyes Maidenhair fern Terminal Polyamor=E9 Clutch cargo cult Bam-boozled Itchy palms Da t'ing he grow =46orever and ever (Martin Denny, recorded never before) - # 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: Indulis R Rutks Subject: Re: (exotica) wag the swan Date: 09 Jan 1998 13:55:25 -0600 (CST) On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, m.ace wrote: > > Has anyone else noticed this? > > In a TV spot for the movie "Wag The Dog" there's a snippet of someone doing > something that sounds like Perrey & Kingsley's "Swan's Splashdown" (opening > riff). What's up there? > Actually, it's the opening riff from "Walking On the Sun" by Smashmouth. It *is* pretty similar to the P & K tune, though... -Indy Rutks (rutks002@tc.umn.edu) - # 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 Subject: (exotica) Outer Space Electronic Exotica Date: 09 Jan 1998 16:22:43 -0800 Hello everyone:) Well the day has finally come that I can truly present to you a project that I have been working on, along with Stefan Kery and his Subliminal Sounds label in Sweden and that is; "Attileo Mineo Conducts Man In Space With Sounds" is now available on Compact Disc and a gorgeous package it is, I must admit:) It's outer space exotica with electronics and it is truly a masterpiece like I guarantee you have never heard anywhere It also has Spoken Word Introductions that speak of "The Promise Of The Future" that are tremendous in their own right. Originally recorded in the early 50's and released at the Seattle State Worlds Fair in 1962/63. It was played inside of a ride at the World's Fair called "The Bubbleator" It is ___awesome___, guaranteed (as always) You can read all about it and see it too on my New Arrivals page at my web site at http://www.jackdiamond.com/NewArrive.htm Titles: 1)Welcome To Tomorrow, 2)Gayway To Heaven, 3)Soaring Silence, 4)Mile-A-Minute MonoRail, 5)Around The World, 6)Century 21, 7)Man In Art, 8)The Queen City, 9)Man Seeks The Future, 10) Boeing Spacearium, 11)Science of Tomorrow, 12) Space Age World's Fair, 13-24) Man In Space With Sounds Last copy I sold of the original went for $200.00 as this is a 1 of a kind release This is it! We have landed and are now taking passengers:) Retail as well as Wholsale Inquiries welcome Overseas contact Stefan Kery of Subliminal Sounds at Stefan@subliminal.se and right here in the good 'ol USA, I'm the man, at least for now:) Most sincerely, the guy who truly has your musical cultural best interests in mind, unlike the chain stores and corporations. Jack Diamond - # 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 Subject: (exotica) Sun Ra ? Date: 09 Jan 1998 22:55:59 -0800 "Disco 3000" - Saturn Records, CMIJ 78 Does anyone know if this has been reissued in any format ? Thanks, 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: Eb Subject: (exotica) Re: Cookbook Date: 09 Jan 1998 23:25:59 -0700 Someone wrote: >I should note that the Moog Cookbook do not try for any sense of period. They don't? The new Moog Cookbook album Ye Olde Space Bande is nothing but '70s FM-rock staples, and is played on almost nothing but vintage '70s synthesizers. I, for one, definitely get a sense of period.... Eb - # 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) wag the swan Date: 10 Jan 1998 10:47:17 EST In a message dated 98-01-09 13:37:54 EST, ecam@voicenet.com writes: << In a TV spot for the movie "Wag The Dog" there's a snippet of someone doing something that sounds like Perrey & Kingsley's "Swan's Splashdown" (opening riff). What's up there? >> Actually I believe it is the keyboard riff from the first Smash Mouth single "Walinking On The Sun". 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: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: Mirageman/The Sound Gallery is divided into two categories Date: 09 Jan 1998 20:43:44 +0100 Chester W. Nimitz replied to a post of mine about Mirageman: >It seems like The Sound Gallery is divided into two categories; 1) >psych-funk/hammond stuff and 2) String'n'brass-based lounge stuff. >Interesting to see you like the sooner oh, but i like both kinds! i like variation, i don't like to listen to the first kind _all_ the time ;-) that's why i mostly prefer compilations over albums: if they're good, they offer more diversity. 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: MUV96TBD@Student2.lu.se (Chester W. Nimitz) Subject: (exotica) Roger Nichols... Date: 11 Jan 1998 00:34:40 +0100 Has anyone heard a record which involves Tony Asher (the lyricist to Beach Boys' "Pet Sounds") called "Roger Nichols And The Small Circle Of Friends"? What does it sound like, is it good, is it out of print, etc, etc? Any kind of info would be appreciated, thanks. Chester W. Nimitz - # 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: (exotica) James Bond's Theremin Date: 10 Jan 1998 23:21:10 -0500 Just happened to catch Fishbone on that Viva Variety tv show, and the lead singer has one groovy theremin. It's built into a briefcase! Classic 60's spy gizmo design school. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ (Movies Of The Week tv picks for Jan. 4 to 11 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: breithel@lund.mail.telia.com (Ingemar Breithel) Subject: (exotica) Re: Sun Ra ? Date: 11 Jan 1998 10:21:31 +0100 Jack@JackDiamond.com wrote: >"Disco 3000" - Saturn Records, CMIJ 78 > >Does anyone know if this has been reissued in any format ? No, this is not among the Saturns reissued by Evidence, save for a snippet included on the "Singles" double-CD that was issued on a 45 (and titled, for some reason, "Disco 2100"). And more's the pity, since it's one of the greatest, whackiest Sun Ra LPs; one of several he made in the late 70s with drum machines, electric piano or Moog. This one also has the familiar "Space is the place" chorus. Ingemar - # 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: mnakatsu@joho-shimane.or.jp (nakatsu) Subject: Re: (exotica) Roger Nichols... Date: 11 Jan 1998 19:29:40 +0900 (JST) Hello everyone! My name is Mutsumi. And I'm Japanese. This is my first voice in exotica. Best regards. At 0:34 AM 98.1.11 +0100, Chester W. Nimitz wrote: >Has anyone heard a record which involves Tony Asher (the lyricist to Beach >Boys' "Pet Sounds") called "Roger Nichols And The Small Circle Of Friends"? >What does it sound like, is it good, is it out of print, etc, etc? Any kind >of info would be appreciated, thanks. > >Chester W. Nimitz > "Roger Nichols And The Small Circle Of Friends" is one of the most popular sounds in japanese music lovers. We call such a sound as "Roger Nichols..." named"soft rock",for example Harpers bizarre,cyrkle,millennium,etc.etc.... If you would like to listen "Roger Nichols...",their CD released in japan. THE COMPLITE ROGER NICHOLS & THE SMALL CIRCLE OF FRIENDS (POCM-2065) And many of "soft rock" & "soft rock" compilation CDs are released too, in japan. Sorry my poor english. $B"!"!"!(BMutsumi Nakatsu$B"!"!"!(B $B"!(Bmnakatsu@joho-shimane.or.jp$B"!(B - # 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: (exotica) Lolita Ya Ya, Sabu & Monk Date: 11 Jan 1998 11:52:58 -0500 Despite our bellyaching about US television (me included), there really is some good stuff on. Of particular list interest (all times eastern standard)... TCM has "Lolita" (1962) on Tuesday night (1/13) at 6:00 pm. I've been doing some supplementary reading in the archives, and there was an enthusiastic thread over the movie and the song "Lolita Ya Ya" back in August 1996. Plus, it's supposed to be in wide screen letterbox format. I don't get this channel, drat! The same night, AMC has a new documentary on Sabu (the actor, not the percussionist) at 9:00 pm (and 1:45 am Wednesday morning). Followed at 10:00 pm (and 2:45 am) by "The Thief Of Bagdad" (1940), which has been discussed here quite recently. Also, "Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser" (1988, and notice that I spelled his name correctly this time!) will be on Bravo again next Monday (1/19) at 6:15 pm and Midnight. I caught it last week, and it really does have terrific performance footage -- for example, a mind boggling solo piano dissection of "Just A Gigolo". Oof! In a totally different area, yet ANOTHER Carpenters bio turns up on A&E's "Biography" tomorrow night (1/12) at 8:00 pm. That makes at least 3 in the last few months -- definitely something brewing in that camp. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ (Movies Of The Week tv picks for Jan. 11 to 18 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: "Phil Clark" Subject: (exotica) Mathar "indian vibes" Date: 11 Jan 1998 17:26:38 -0000 First, Ariel wrote: > >Can someone tell me where can I get that > groovey sitar track? then "Jordana Robinson" wrote: > > I have a 12" called "Indian Vibes" that is > probably the one Ariel refers to. The group is > called Mathar (snip) yep... doesn't it feature Paul Weller somewhere? anyhow it's been reissued on a 12" single (and presumably a CD too) here in the UK in the last few months. there are four versions: the original and a bunch of dance mixes. sitaringly Phil - # 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 Ledebur Subject: (exotica) Playlist: Music for Better Living Date: 11 Jan 1998 20:34:55 -0500 ***** 1 / 7 / 98 ***** Soul Bossa Nova -- QUINCY JONES (v/a - Cocktail Mix Vol.2) Lover's Concerto -- ENOCH LIGHT (Spaced Out) All that Meat -- MEL HENKE (La Dolce Henke) Fotomodelle -- PIERO UMILIANI (Svezia - Inferno E Paradiso) Souvenirs -- MICHEL LEGRAND (The Windmills of Your Mind) The Thief -- HERBIE HANCOCK (Blow-Up) Penny's Arcade -- JOHNNY WILLIAMS (Penelope) Down the Drain -- KEN NORDINE (Best of Word Jazz Vol.1) Exodus -- SI ZENTNER & HIS ORCHESTRA (It's Nice to Go Trav'ling) Harlem Nocturne -- ESQUIVEL (Infinity in Sound) Dog -- BOB DOROUGH (v/a - Pictures from the Gone World) The Mugger -- STANLEY WILSON (The Music from M Squad) Staccato's Theme -- BUDDY MORROW & HIS ORCHESTRA (v/a - Crime Jazz: Music in the First Degree) One O'Clock Jump -- HOWARD ROBERTS QUARTET (H.R. Is a Dirty Guitar Player) A Martini for Mancini -- JOEY ALTRUDA (Cocktails with Joey) Maria Ninguem (Maria L'Amour) -- BRIGITTE BARDOT (Bubble Gum) Ping Pong -- BERNIE GREEN (v/a - The History of Space Age Pop Vol.3) Madeira -- GIOVANNI LAMBERTI E LA SUA ORCHESTRA (v/a - Mo'Plen 2000) Girl Talk -- STAN KENTON & HIS ORCHESTRA (The World We Know) Let There Be Love -- JULIE LONDON (Julie... at Home) ----- Music for Better Living WZBC 90.3 fm -- Newton/Boston -- Wed.6-7pm http://members.aol.com/Hifibliss/mfbl.htm - # 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 Subject: (exotica) Playlist for Jack/KFJC-FM Date: 11 Jan 1998 18:16:37 -0800 KFJC play list 1/4/98 for Jack Diamond http://www.KFJC.org ARTIST TRACK ALBUM ____________________________________________________________________________ _____ The Planets Chunky Stu Williamson Qnt.; Slugger Jan. 15, 1955 Stan Levey-Drums Max Bennett-String Bass Bethlehem Charlie Mariano-Alto Claude Williamson-Piano Glittering Guitars Love Is Blue Andre Popp Title Gershon Kingsley For Alisse Beethoven Burt Bacharach Bird Bath After the Fox Ost Jr. and His Soulettes Do Your Funky Thang Psychodelic Sounds Frank Kapp Orch. G-O-O-F-I-N' At the Coffehouse Boogaloo Joe Jones I'll Be there 1970, Prestige Johnny Mandel Orch Nightmare Sequence I Want to Live Ost Preparations for Execution Mike Pacheco-Bongos Letter Writing Sequence Day the Earth Stood Still The Elevator/ Magnetic Pull 1951 Boris Karloff The Vampire Sleeps Mercury Dissvelt/Baltan's; Song of the 2ND Moon Runs Underneath Boris Big Jim Sullivan Sunshine Supa-Man Sitar Beat Riz Ortolani Cani E Gatti Mo'plen 2000 Kenyon Hopkins Jocko's Theme The Strange One Ost Lester Song From An Unmade Bed Lithuanian Luau The Surfmen With; Quiet Village Exotic Island Jack Costanzo-Bongo Alvino Rey-Steel Guitar Paul Horn-Flute Emil Richards-Vibes Ken Nordine The J-U-N-K-M-A-N In Stereo!, 1958 Sabu Martinez with Jungly Tropical Rhythms Pounding Out Voodoo Beams Of Love and Erotica! Shorty Petterstein Interview with Jump Caulkenburger Sabu Martinez See Above Davey Allen/Arrows Hell's Angels on Wheels Enoch Light Orch. Puppet Man Project 3 The Free Design Umbrellas Project 3 Cannonball Adderley Another Kind of Soul 1956, Emarcy Sol Kaplan The Spy Who Came in From the Cold Rca, 1966 Roberto Conrado Maze Scoctopus, 2 Lp's Anita Ellis 4 Walls and 1 Dirty Window B-L-U-E-S Richard Hayman The Look of Love GELLM Chun King Commercial A Request! Marshall Mcluhan The Medium Is the Massage Frank Evans Narration Pacific Jazz Hi-Fi Bud Shank,Chet Baker Sampler Umiliani, Piero Notte Di Mezza Estate Sweden Heaven and Hell Black Sabbath Planet Caravan Paranoid Mario Molino Operazione Beat Mo'plen 2000 Bud Shank/Chet Baker Hollywood Composed By Leith Stevens Mike Pacheco-Bongos The James Dean Story Leith Stevens Orch. Private Hell 36 Coral http://www.jackdiamond.Com Album Cover Here Bob Mersey/Det Moore Jazz Dramatic WNEW Sat Morn TV Noir Theme Music Late 1950'S Doctor Bop Satin and Velvet Christopher George P-S-A Customs Message/Drugs Jack Kerouac Hard Hearted Old Farmer Bill Page's Sonic's Nature Boy Mirageman Crimen Irma America Ken Nordine Olive and Burgundy Colors Ennio Morricone Nadine Il Sepente Candido Orch. Royal Garden Blues Manny Albam Arr. Pete Rugolo Orch. Diamond on the Move 8 titles above available on CD. Question is, which ones ??? KFJC 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022 http://www.KFJC.org - # 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: mnakatsu@joho-shimane.or.jp (nakatsu) Subject: (exotica) introducing Date: 12 Jan 1998 23:40:43 +0900 (JST) Hi! Now I introducing myself (adviced my new friends). My name is Mutsumi. I'm live in Japan. I was born mid 60's, and I like 60's, 70's sounds, and 90's music. I like "pizzicato five".They eat 60's, 70's music, and create nice 90's sounds.Have you heard "pizzicato five"? Their music inspired 60's, 70's softrock, soundtrack, soul, funk, strange, exotic,jazz(taste of)music, but the sound is real 90's. $B"!"!"!(BMutsumi Nakatsu$B"!"!"!(B $B"!(Bmnakatsu@joho-shimane.or.jp$B"!(B - # 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: Marcus Kozica Subject: (exotica) Who's Freakin' on The Cromatic Bongos? Date: 09 Jan 1998 13:22:49 +0100 Hello, hope all's good. I did a radio show while in St Louis, MO. Here is the play list: Legend: Category/Dudes/Record/Song/Label Insects on Acid J.J. Perrey/Moog Indigo/Flight of The Bumblebee Music To **** In The Lounge By P. Umiliani/Sweden Heaven and Hell/Mah-na Mah-na/Ariel (Stereo) Poultry on Acid ?/Duck Wars/Close Encounters of The Third Kind/Peter Pan He's The MAN Jerry Goldshmidt/Our Man Flint/It's Gotta Be a World's [sic?] record/ 20th Century Fox (Stereo) Music To Beat Up Punks By Our Man Lalo/Bullitt/Ice Pick Mike/W7 (Stereo) Moog On Acid Dick Hyman/Turn It Up Or Turn It Loose/abc Black Shoe Shine In My White Face -OR- Primitive, My Ass Tak Shindo/M'ganga/The Mombasa Love Song/Edison International Music To Beat Up Punks By Mort Himself/Hawaii 5-0/Front Street/Capitol (Stereo) Disney On Acid Walt Himself/Mickey Mouse And His Friends/Mickey Mouse Mambo/ Disneyland Records Funky Hawaii Al Harrington/I Love This Land [!!!]/Love Calls/Maui Records (signed!) Blaxploitation Out There ?/Hell Up In Harlem/Easin' In/Eeehh, don't remember Santa And Rudolf Is Shroomin' Around F&T/Xmas Hi Fivories/Sleigh Ride/Westminster Moog ?/The Moog Machine/Spinnin' Wheel/Columbia ? Andre Popp/Delerium In Hi Fi/La Polka Du Colonel/Columbia Music To Flip Your Lid By (???) -Rather- To Expand Your Mind By Jerry Goldshmidt/Sebastian/The Trip/Dot (SCHTEREO!) Music To Beat Up The Rest Of The Punks By Hugo Montenegro/Lady In Cement/Tony's Theme/20th Century Fox Whistle Magic Fred Lowery/Walking Along and Kicking The Leaves/Sentimental Journey/Decca Smoke Music The Surfmen/Exotic Island/Luau/Sommerset (mono, shit) Well... (Bebe Kicks Ass) Les Baxter & 101/The Exotic Sound Of Love/Besame Mas/ A/S Surf The Bike Pete Ruggolo/The Sweet Ride/Lost Wages Brash/20th Century Fox (again) Moog E. Concept Orch./Moog Groove/Grazin' In The Grass/Limelight (Mercury) Drink! The Button Down Brass/Inflight Entertainment/Tequila/Deram (New) ? Lalo Shiffrin/Medical Center/Medical Center/? Them Shoes ARE Black Badder Than Evil/Gordons War/Super Shine #9/Buddah ? Esquivel/Infinity In Sound/Johnson Rag/RCA, (stereo) Hawaii S(w)ings Donald Ho/?/Ei Lei Ka Lei Lei/? Moog Dick Hyman/The Electric Eclectics of/The Moog and Me/abc Wordles Exotica Marty Wilson/Jung'ala/Taboo/WB The Pimp Is Pushing Roy Ayers/Coffy/King George/Polydor? Strings Are COOL Michel Legrand/Inflight Entertainment/Digeding/Deram (new) Music To **** In The Lounge By P. Umiliani/Sweden Heaven and Hell/Beer Gin and Vermouth/Ariel (Stereo) ? Jerry Goldshmidt/Sebastian/Sputnik Code/Dot (SCHTEREO!) Want list: Al Caiola, any or all Cal Tjader, any or all. Tace care, Marcus. - # 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: HEDCANDY Subject: (exotica) New To The Group... What Are We Listening To? Date: 11 Jan 1998 01:01:45 EST Hello, Names' Chris, 29, Male living in Tampa. New to the group. What platters are on peoples ears these day? I am enjoying some recent Hugo Montenegro Moog era finds... Tommy James old standard "Dizzy" redone by Hugo is too much. I also dig (in no particular order) Tommy Boyd Al Caiola Warren Barker Walter Wanderly Dimitri From Paris John Barry Arthur Lyman Martin & Juan Santo & Johnny Henry Mancini Joe Puma and his Puma All Stars Tony Mottola Don Sebesky Sounds Galactic 101 Strings CE Angelo Badalamenti I will try to post reviews of my thrift store finds as my time permits. Ciao' Chris - # 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 Subject: (exotica) Man in Space With Sounds Date: 12 Jan 1998 09:02:40 -0800 Hello again, Y'know. 1 would think being the executive producer of a CD release such as this, that I would know everything about it BUT I didn't AND I found out something super extra fantastic about the Attileo Mineo Conducts Man in Space With Sounds that I actually did not know and that is; When the LP was originally released at the Seattle State World's Fair, it was in 2 different releases. 1 LP with Spoken Word Introductions about "The Promise of The Future and The Space Age" and 1 LP without the Spoken Word Introductions, just the music. The 1st 12 tracks are the LP with the Spoken Word Introductions and then listed are Tracks 13-24 as Man in Space With Sounds These 13-24 tracks is the LP without the Spoken Word Intros What I didn't know is that BOTH are on this 1 CD, totaling over 63 minutes! Thanks for listening, 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: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Playlist Fantastica Date: 12 Jan 1998 16:47:58 +0100 Fantastica runs on Radio Scorpio, FM106, Leuven, Belgium, each Saturday 15-16 h. Fantastica # 45: Goldfinger * Carl Stalling: "Putty Tat Trouble Part 6 - Fragment" [CD: "The Carl Stalling Project"] * THREAD: John Barry & Cast: "Music, Dialogue & Sound Effects" [Film: "Goldfinger"] * John Barry Featuring Shirley Bassey: "Goldfinger" [soundtrack LP (CD): "Goldfinger"] * Hanna-Barbera: "Magilla Gorilla Underscore 2" [CD: "Hanna-Barbera Classics, Volume 1"] * Xaviera Hollander: "Tea And Crumpets" [LP: "Happily Hooked"] * Hanna-Barbera: "Magilla Gorilla Underscore 3" [CD: "Hanna-Barbera Classics, Volume 1"] * David Carroll: "Hell's Bells" [LP: "Percussion In Hi-Fi"] * Don Tiki: "Close Your Eyes" [CD: "The Forbidden Souds Of Don Tiki"] * George Coleman: "I Wish I Could Sing" [CD: "Bongo Joe"] * Hollywood Screen Orchestra: "The Green Leaves Of Summer" [LP: "Great Movie Themes"] * The Enoch Light Singers: "Hello I Love You" [LP: "Whoever You Are, I Love You"] * Hanna-Barbera: "Loopy De Loop Underscore" [CD: "Hanna-Barbera Classics, Volume 1"] * Buddy Cole: "I Wish You Love" [LP: "Modern Pipe Organ"] * Pascal Comelade: "Proud Mary" [CD: "33 Bars"] * Sir Julian: "Movin' At Midnight" [compil. CD: "Ultra-Lounge Volume 11: Organs In Orbit"] * Roger Roger: "Traffic Boom" [CD: "Grands Travaux"] * Spike Jones: "Frantic Freeway" [CD: "Spiked!"] * Hanna-Barbera: "Yogi Bear Underscore" [CD: "Hanna-Barbera Classics, Volume 1"] * Count Basie: "Trey Of Hearts" [LP: "Count Basie & The Kansas City 7"] * Command Presents: "Never On Sunday" [LP: "Persuasive Percussion 1966"] * Frankie Stein: "Chained" [compil. LP: "Real Gone Garbage"] * Hal Blaine: "The Invaders" [CD: "Drums! Drums! A Go Go"] * Hanna-Barbera: "Magilla Gorilla Underscore 1" [CD: "Hanna-Barbera Classics, Volume 1"] * Corduroy: "Electric Soup" [compil. CD: "The Best Of Totally Wired"] (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: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) REVIEW> Lucas & Friends: "Discover A World Of Sounds" Date: 12 Jan 1998 14:31:07 +0100 Lucas & Friends: "Discover A World Of Sounds" This is unlike anything I've ever heard on CD before. None of these recordings were ever made for public audience, so it feels a bit like reading a diary book, or looking throught the family snapshot album of people you don't know at all! Think Jack Mudurian and "The talent show", recorded by themselves or family, on primitive equipment, long before they were "discovered" by the good people of Arf! Arf!, alternating with spoken pieces by kids, like the "Jerks". These Jerks are a couple of annoying kids over-recording a Fisher Price "Discover A World Of Sounds" cassette, with all kind of insults and kid talk, most of it not easy understandable for me. My favorite pieces are the 5 christmas songs - very charmingly sung by little kids - and several other songs, brought very passionately by a whole, not very talented, family. Personally, I'd like a bit more music, and a bit less "Jerks", who tend to irritate after a while, but heck! that might just have been the whole purpose of this CD! (think "irritainment") This is a wonderful disc for DJ's and people who make compilation tapes. It was a good idea of the maker to include 38 track divisions, althought the whole CD runs in one continuous piece from start to end; that way, one can insert bits and pieces inbetween other records. Lucas & Friends "Discover A World Of Sounds" sounds more like a radio show than a "normal" music CD. You can't "listen" to this CD in the background, you must pay attention to it, as if it was some sort of radio play or document. After all, it IS a document! A document of, and a tribute to, the wonderful world of home recordings... and the sound of background noise. ;-) DETAILS: Lucas & Friends: "Discover A World Of Sounds" CD, Vinyl Communications VC-118, USA, 1997, 69:49 minutes Contact: Pea Hicks: e-mail: phix@adnc.com -- copyright Johan Dada Vis 1996 - 1998 All Rights Reserved Dada'quariums Exotica: - # 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: breithel@lund.mail.telia.com (Ingemar Breithel) Subject: Re: (exotica) Man in Space With Sounds Date: 12 Jan 1998 20:40:44 +0100 At 09.02 980112, Jack wrote: >Y'know. 1 would think being the executive producer of a CD release such as >this, that I would know everything about it BUT I didn't AND I found out >something super extra fantastic about the Attileo Mineo Conducts Man in >Space With Sounds that I actually did not know I just purchased said CD, and an amazing piece of music it is indeed! Definitely up there with "Fantastica" as one of the best of the genre. I was wondering if Jack or Stefan could supply some additional info. It was apparently recorded in the early 50s but not released until the 1962 Seattle world's fair. Under what circumstances was it originally recorded and why was it shelved for so long? Has Mr. Mineo been involved in any other recording projects, and how has he made a living over the years? Thanks to everyone involved (and especially to Attileo "Art" Mineo) for making this wonderful music available again. Ingemar - # 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: misanthropy Subject: (exotica) misanthropy 511 playlist Date: 12 Jan 1998 15:28:26 -0500 MISANTHROPY 511--p.o.box 23093--detroit, mi 48223 u.s. e-mail: misant@ic.net RADIO PLAYLIST ARTIST--TITLE--CD/CASS/LP--LABEL DECEMBER 22, 1997 THROBBING GRISTLE--white christmas--at the rat club--INDUSTRIAL TINY TIM--rudolph the red nosed reindeer--christmas album--DURTRO DOGS BLOOD ORDER--maldoror ceases to exist--dogs blood order--DURTRO R ROGERS & LIBRETTOS--santa goes modern--v.a. human breakdown--CARNAGE STEVE BRADLEY--tape measure--v.a. presence--CEC FRANCIS DHOMONT--engloutissement--regard d un soleil noir--EMPREINTES D MOOG MACHINE--jingle bells--christmas becomes electric--COLUMBIA NATIONAL LAMPOON--santa cupcakes recipe--best of n.l. radio 3--RHINO JOHN ZORN--trip coaster--cynical hysterie hour--TZADIK MINI POPS--sleigh ride--mini pops christmas--K TEL MAEROR TRI--landscape of visionary--emotional engramm--IRIS LIGHT SERGIUS GOLOWIN--die wiesse alm--lord krishna von goloka--SPALAT ASHLEY/STORY--laughter--drop--LEKTRONIC BORDER BRASS--we wish you a merry christmas--tijuana christmas--DESIGN THE RESIDENTS--santa dog 72--santa dog 88--UWEB MINI POPS--white christmas--mini pops christmas--K TEL SPIKE JONES--all i want for christmas--anthology--RHINO TINY TIM--all i want for christmas--christmas album--DURTRO DANIEL MENCHE--track 4--field of skin--SOLEILMOON W.S. BURROUGHS--a junkies christmas--spare ass annie--ISLAND MOUSE ON MARS--subnubus--instrumentals--THRILL JOCKEY RUNZELSTIRN&GURGLESTOCK--zerrhohe schlagpunkt--v.a. release 2--RELEASE KIRSTY MAC COLL/POGUES--fairytale of ny--galore--IRS RADIO MARABU-JANUARY 1998 PIANO HI-FI--skaters waltz--piano hi-fi--HALO TONY CONRAD--early minimalism:may 65--early minimalism--TABLE OF ELEM NURSE W/WOUND--dada--a missing sense--UNITED DAIRIES FOLKE RABE--what??--what?? --DEXTERSCIGAR PIERO PICCIONI--babylon i am coming--v.a. beat at cinecitta 2--CRIPPLED DICK FRANCIS DHOMONT--implosion--sous le regard d un soleil noir--EMPREINTES D RLW/IN BE TWEEN NOISE--vein.stem.is.calm--va tulpas--SELEKTION RLW/BARAKA[H]--mutilated monolith--va tulpas--SELEKTION MAEROR TRI--chymos--emotional engramm--IRIS LIGHT EGO PLUM--march of the maniacs--anthology of infection 1--EBOLA MUSIC WALLY BURKE--i am a ginsing digger--v.a. msr madness 4--CARNAGE PRESS PRODUCT--shift--stretch--RASTERMUSIC ASMUS TIETCHENS--mit buschen reden--v.a. digitale vertrauen--SOLEILMOON SHORTWAVE NUMBERS--lincolnshire poacher--the conet project--IRDIAL STILLUPPSTEYPA--example of measurements--v.a. bananafish--BANANAFISH MSBR/CRAWL UNIT--cruel summer--collabodestructivists--ISOMORPHIC MORTON GOULD--on the mall--brass & percussion--RCA JANUARY 5, 1998 GREG AND DAVES TOP TEN LISTS FOR 1997 GREGS TOP 10 10. NEIL DIAMOND--porcupine pie--7 inch--MCA 9. DECATUR PARK SINGERS--elvira--1981--SOUNDS FANTASTIC 8. FERRANTE & TEICHER--also sprach zarathustra--kill me softly--UNITED A 7. THE HI-LITES--you need hands/hava nagila--suttmillers presents--KING 6. CLAGUE SCHOOL CHOIR--echo song--midwestern conference 75--MARK 5. THE T-BONES--whats in the bag goose?--no matter what shape--LIBERTY 4. TOMMY COLLINS--if you cant bite, dont growl--kooky country--ERA 3. C.W. MC CALL--crispy critters--wilderness--POLYDOR 2. PETER KRAUS--tutti-frutti--v.a. die wilden 60 er jahre--STERN 1. THE MISANTHROPY PLAYERS--age of misanthropy--(unreleased) DAVES TOP 10 10. MARY JAYNE & BARBARA--he touched me--singing together--WORD 9. DEBBIE DRAKE--golden goddess--feel good, look great--EPIC 8. TONY MOTTOLA--chewy-chewy gum-gum--guitar factory--TOTAL SOUND 7. JEFF & JACK SHELLEY--american hustle--learn to hustle--GROOVE SOUND 6. THE 3 SUNS--out of this world--in orbit--TOPS 5. RACHMIEL LEVINE M.D.--number 1--early phases of diabetes--PFIZER 4. ESQUIVEL--whatchamacallit--exploring new sounds--RCA 3. JON TREVANNI--nude for love--im in the nude for love--CROWN 2. JOHN A. TARTAGLIA--i am the walrus--tartaglian theorem--CAPITOL 1. STAN FREBERG--lost in space/green acres--hey, look us over--CBS JANUARY 12, 1998 RON THOMPSON--switchblade--v.a. strummin mental pt.2--EFA MANDIBLE CHATTER--blessings from the kingdom--food for the moon--MANIFOLD FRANCIS DHOMONT--le moi divise--sous le regard d un soleil noir--EMPREINTES FRANCIS DHOMONT--allegro--frankenstein symphony--ASPHODEL NICO FIDENCO--supercolpo shake--v.a. beat at cinecitta 2--CRIPPLED DICK LUISTMORD VS. METAL BEAST--broadcast frequencies--vs.--SIDE EFFECTS COMPOST--tracks 5-10--compost--OHM EDITIONS RECTO VERSO--parcours scenographique--parcours scenographique--D.A.M.E. FAUST--aufbruch nach rumanien--wakes nosferatu--KLANGBAD EGO PLUM--necrobots--anthology of infection 1--EBOLA KOMET--still--flex--RASTERMUSIC BRUME--wish you were not here--v.a. elsieandjackandchair--E&J these are great times to be a misanthropist. Misanthropy 511 is broadcast on Sunday nights from mid-2am on CJAM 91.5 fm Windsor, Ontario Canada. CJAM can be heard throughout the Windsor/ Detroit Michigan area. Misanthropy 511 features from easy listening to moments of mayhem. Surrealism in living stereo. We would like to thank all who have sent us promos. It is greatly appreciated. Misanthropy 511 is also broadcasted monthly on Radio Marabu. Radio Marabu is based in Belm Germany and broadcast at various times on 13 different stations throughout Europe. It is also on shortwave throughout Europe. Write to Radio Marabu for more info and tell them Misanthropy sent you. Radio Marabu p.o.box 1166, 49187, Belm Germany . e-mail: radiomarabu@t-online.de web site: http://www.mediaDD/radiomarabu/ David Warmbier & Greg Hallock - # 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 Subject: Re: (exotica) Man in Space With Sounds Date: 12 Jan 1998 12:57:26 -0800 OK, Just got off the phone with Mr. Mineo and he says that George Whitney, who was the Director of the Seattle World's Fair asked Mr. Mineo if he had anything at all, if he could write something for The Bubbleator and that's when "Art" laid it on him. He never did anything with it initially because he really didn't think the world was ready for it. Aint' that the F******* truth -J At 08:40 PM 1/12/98 +0100, Ingemar Breithel wrote: > >At 09.02 980112, Jack wrote: >>Y'know. 1 would think being the executive producer of a CD release such as >>this, that I would know everything about it BUT I didn't AND I found out >>something super extra fantastic about the Attileo Mineo Conducts Man in >>Space With Sounds that I actually did not know > >I just purchased said CD, and an amazing piece of music it is indeed! >Definitely up there with "Fantastica" as one of the best of the genre. >I was wondering if Jack or Stefan could supply some additional info. >It was apparently recorded in the early 50s but not released until the >1962 Seattle world's fair. Under what circumstances was it originally >recorded and why was it shelved for so long? Has Mr. Mineo been involved >in any other recording projects, and how has he made a living over the >years? > >Thanks to everyone involved (and especially to Attileo "Art" Mineo) for >making this wonderful music available again. > >Ingemar - # 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: Mark Rosati Subject: (exotica) P5 On Cable Date: 12 Jan 1998 13:37:28 -0500 Hi All, Just heard the promo... Pizzicato Five is going to be on the next Viva Variety show on Comedy Central. It's on Tuesday night. Mark - # 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: peterp@inch.com (Peter Principle) Subject: (exotica) wednesday nights in NYC Date: 12 Jan 1998 17:42:54 -0500 Hi all... just a bit of shameless self promotion here for anyone in the New York area the Quad Squad presents PHASE 5 A Marvel in Sound a SWANK new weekly fandango every WEDNESDAY night from 9:00 till late... at LIQUIDS 266 east 10th street 212.677.1717 downstairs from the Russian Baths between 1st & A featuring the DJ stylings of PETER PRINCIPLE and ADAM LABOZ spinning music that will mix your drinks off and leave you feeling extremely seemly drop by and be very. . . cheers peter and for a list of similar events ni the New York area, visit In Hi-Fi NY http://www.inhi-fi.com/nyc/nyc-hom.htm - # 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: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) JAMtv on-line music DB Date: 12 Jan 1998 20:16:10 -0500 (EST) In addition to the All-Music Guide, there's another (presently inferior) music database online. JAMtv claims to have the most comprehensive artist database of discographies, biographies and interviews, but I think they've got a ways to go. Here's the URL: If you go up to the JAMtv home page you can also access original daily and weekly music editorials and a massive (they say) downloadable photo library of live concert shots. The Virtual Venue lets you see and hear state-of-the-art webcasts (streaming audio and video) of live and archived concerts. Their focus is Rock Music, not Music (but to them the terms are probably synonymous) -- don't be shocked if your fave artist ain't in the DB. FYI, Lou - # 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) REVIEW> Lucas & Friends: "Discover A World Of Sounds" Date: 12 Jan 1998 21:19:37 EST << Lucas & Friends: "Discover A World Of Sounds" --------------------------------------------- This is unlike anything I've ever heard on CD before. None of these recordings were ever made for public audience, so it feels a bit like reading a diary book, or looking throught the family snapshot album of people you don't know at all!>> i liked this CD alot and never publicly thanked pea hicks for his fine effort. very creative and ambitious project. ever since i received it, not a basic hip tape has been prepared without including some of the following "snapshots": jingle bells buttons and bows donuts pants fartin' partners pants new bulletins so many more, 38 in all, 70 minutes total. - # 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 Subject: Re: (exotica) JAMtv on-line music DB Date: 12 Jan 1998 21:58:26 -0800 >In addition to the All-Music Guide, there's another (presently inferior) >music database online. JAMtv claims to have the most comprehensive artist >database of discographies, biographies and interviews, but I think they've >got a ways to go.>Here's the URL: > This one is pretty damn amazing, at least for me;) http://www.tvguide.com/movies/database/ I've got it on my cool links page; http://www.jackdiamond.com/coolinks.htm -J - # 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 Subject: (exotica) Jazz, The 50's Date: 12 Jan 1998 23:17:15 -0800 This is cool; http://www.book.uci.edu/Jazz/JPRA2.html -J - # 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) Preston Epps Bongos ? Date: 13 Jan 1998 00:03:45 -0800 Who knows about Preston Epps "Bongo" rekkids ? Isn't it kind of 50's R & B-ish ? 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: Pea Hicks Subject: Re: (exotica) REVIEW> Lucas & Friends: "Discover A World Of Sounds" Date: 13 Jan 1998 01:41:55 -0800 BasicHip wrote: > > << Lucas & Friends: "Discover A World Of Sounds" > --------------------------------------------- > > This is unlike anything I've ever heard on CD before. None of these > recordings were ever made for public audience, so it feels a bit like > reading a diary book, or looking throught the family snapshot album of > people you don't know at all!>> > > i liked this CD alot and never publicly thanked pea hicks for his fine effort. well!! consider yourself publicly thanked for the public thanks!!! ;) .....and i hate doing this sort of thing, but i suppose this is an opportune time to reiterate to eveyone on the list that the "Lucas" CD is still available and relatively cheap!! ($10 postpaid) just send me email for details!!! thanks again! pea - # 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) Preston Epps Bongos ? Date: 13 Jan 1998 10:59:05 -0500 > From: Jack Diamond > Subject: (exotica) Preston Epps Bongos ? > > Who knows about Preston Epps "Bongo" rekkids ? > Isn't it kind of 50's R & B-ish ? I don't know about the albums, but the single, "Bongo Rock" (1959), seems to have been prime source material for the Surfaris' rendition of "Wipe Out". m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ (Movies Of The Week tv picks for Jan. 11 to 18 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: stefan@subliminal.se (Subliminal Sounds) Subject: Re: (exotica) Preston Epps Bongos ? Date: 13 Jan 1998 17:16:33 +0100 (MET) > >> From: Jack Diamond >> Subject: (exotica) Preston Epps Bongos ? >> >> Who knows about Preston Epps "Bongo" rekkids ? >> Isn't it kind of 50's R & B-ish ? I have one 45 "Bongola", don't have it here in the office so label and year eluds me for the moment. It's totally fantastic! Flip side is real good too. Stefan/Subliminal Sounds - # 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: mnakatsu@joho-shimane.or.jp (nakatsu) Subject: (exotica) scat & humming Date: 14 Jan 1998 01:20:43 +0900 (JST) Does somebody knows some nice scat & humming numbers? Like "seven golden men""a man and a woman""mah-na-mah-na" "swingle singers""bob thompson"......daba-daba-dah,or hum hum hum, or lu-lu-lu-, la-la-la etc.etc. I've found in some Italian movie soundtracks.But my colections are still poor.I want to know any more scats & hummings. Mutsumi Nakatsu mnakatsu@joho-shimane.or.jp - # 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: (exotica) Why I Like ????? Date: 13 Jan 1998 12:45:30 -0500 In hopes that this might help pull us out of our current doldrums, here's a thread proposal... Pick one of your favorite albums -- not necessarily your #1 favorite (who could pick that?!?), just *a* favorite -- and write a little something about it. Include a bit of description (especially if it's not so well-known), but primarily explain WHY you like it. This also strikes me as being a good way for our new members or silent lurkers to pop up and introduce themselves into the conversation. And hopefully, these pieces will set off further discussion. If we all throw in (Lazlo never *did* say how many of us there are), that would be a lot of good reading. You may not have the time right now, but please keep this in mind as something to do in the future. Maybe consider it an adjunct to the regular "finds" posts? Write up one of your favorites every month? Anyway, here's mine: Esquivel, His Piano & Group - "Four Corners Of The World" (1958) With time left over at the end of the "Other Worlds, Other Sounds" sessions, Esquivel's producer suggested that they record additional material -- resulting in this quickly improvised album of Senor E in a small combo setting (pno, gtr, flute, bass, drms, Latin perc). Many look on this as a minor work, lacking the complex arrangements of his orchestral albums. The Man himself seems to regret the album, for that same reason, as well as feeling it was too hurried and his playing suffered as a result. But I still like it. I really enjoy hearing him work in a more intimate setting. It provides another perspective on his musical vision. I also enjoy hearing his inventive piano playing in a less crowded environment. It may not be up to his own high standards, but it sure blows *my* mind. And given the rushed conditions, the arrangements are pretty interesting. Who can resist "Blue Danube" with a driving Latin percussion section? That section being Jack Costanzo, Luis Miranda, Rodrigo Sierra and Joe Pagone. And while naming names, session legend, Tommy Tedesco is the man on guitar. The recording quality is excellent -- a well detailed "real band in a real room" recording. True enough, it's not the kaleidoscopic, high octane production that his orchestral recordings are. But it is an opportunity to eavesdrop on the master in an informal, "after hours" kind of session -- and that's mighty fine. And like all of his records, it's filled with positive energy. Your move. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ (Movies Of The Week tv picks for Jan. 11 to 18 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) Re: Mirageman Date: 12 Jan 1998 20:06:41 +0100 At Thu, 01 Jan 1998 14:30:56 -0800, Jack Diamond wrote: >For me, the "Mirageman - Lightning" CD from Irma America is INFINITELY >better than the "Thunder and Lightning" it's called "Thrilling" ;-) 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: stylophone Date: 12 Jan 1998 20:37:39 +0100 NRBQ's "christmas wish" (mini-lp, rounder EP2501, 1985) has 2 excellent (though a bit short) stylophone tracks. the rest of the album is only so-so. 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: Stilgloria Subject: Re: (exotica) Preston Epps Bongos ? Date: 13 Jan 1998 13:39:03 EST In a message dated 1/13/98 8:27:22 AM, Jack@JackDiamond.com wrote: <> I have an original copy of Preston Epps "Bongo, Bongo, Bongo" is anyone's interested in a tape. Gloria # 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: Rcbrooksod Subject: Re: (exotica) scat & humming Date: 13 Jan 1998 13:35:50 EST Matsumi's english is actually pretty good. << "mah-na-mah-na" "swingle singers""bob thompson"......daba-daba-dah,or hum hum hum, or lu-lu-lu-, la-la-la etc.etc. >> Keep up with the posting Mati ! ! ! Robert # 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: Stilgloria Subject: Re: (exotica) Why I Like ????? Date: 13 Jan 1998 13:45:09 EST I'll have to pick two, but they're volumes I an II. They're called Impact! (I just scored a mint copy at the new Amoeba Record store in S.F.) and Impact II (or is it Double Impact?) Anyway, I'm a huge fan of spy jazz and these two albums are great! If you like your spy jazz 50s style, these two volumes are definitely it!! Included are Theme from Naked City, Rawhide, Richard Diamond, Perry Mason, M Squad, Sea Hunt (!), Waterfront, Highway Patrol and Peter Gunn, and that's just volume one!! Recorded in 1959, these records rule for a quick overview of the genre. There are, of course, loads of spy jazz albums. You can get an idea of what you like on these two volumes, then go out and search out the albums from which these themes come from. The search is half or more than half the fun!! Gloria # 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: Stilgloria Subject: (exotica) Record Swap Date: 13 Jan 1998 13:40:29 EST Is the KUSF record swap this Sunday, January 18? Gloria # 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: ChuckTFrog Subject: (exotica) Goin' to LA--need advice Date: 13 Jan 1998 13:59:36 EST Hello all- I'm headed to the NAMM show at the LA Coliseum (staying in Malibu) end of the month. Would appreciate any recommendations (record shops, lounge experiences, weirdness, etc.) I haven't lived there since '83, and I'm usually doing family stuff on recent visits---but this time going solo! Thanks! Chuck # 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) Irma America Date: 13 Jan 1998 21:08:37 UT # 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) Re:Irma America Date: 13 Jan 1998 21:47:09 UT Sorry about that. My editor goes buggy sometimes. What I would like to know is does anyone know of an internet distributor/resaler for Irma America. I can't find this stuff in Cincinnati, so I have to buy over the net. Does anyone know where I can do this? 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) More queries Date: 13 Jan 1998 22:21:58 UT All right, I've searched and once again do not know where to purchase the following CDs: L'Atome - The Flash of Light Gentle People - Soundtracks for Living Don Tiki - The Forbidden Sounds of... If anyone knows of any way to purchase this stuff without going to your local Tower records (because we have none), can they give me (and possibly other newbies) a hint? 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: Hugh Petfield Subject: (exotica) 45 rpm question Date: 13 Jan 1998 22:38:55 +0000 Hi, Thanks for reminding me of the great Preston Epps. His "Bongo Rock" is a classic RnR instrumental and was the first US single I ever bought. It had a large centre hole and even when adaptors called spiders were invented, I never did get that record to sit centrally on the turntable. I never really understood why the held guitar chords wowed, yet the bongo sound came over ok unchanged.... Question: Is it still possible to buy an autochanger with a large spindle in the States, or does everyone now use an adaptor on a proper deck? Thanks, Hugh. # 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 Ledebur Subject: (exotica) New To The Group... What Are We Listening To? Date: 13 Jan 1998 22:11:32 -0500 HEDCANDY wrote: >Tommy James old standard "Dizzy" redone by Hugo >is too much. Not to pick nits, but it was Tommy Roe, not James. ----- Music for Better Living WZBC 90.3 fm -- Newton/Boston -- Wed.6-7pm http://members.aol.com/Hifibliss/mfbl.htm # 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) Why I Like ????? Date: 13 Jan 1998 14:41:26 -0500 At 12:45 PM -0500 1/13/98, m.ace wrote: >Esquivel, His Piano & Group - "Four Corners Of The World" (1958) > >With time left over at the end of the "Other Worlds, Other Sounds" sessions, >Esquivel's producer suggested that they record additional material -- >resulting >in this quickly improvised album of Senor E in a small combo setting There's a difference between the legend and the reality about this album, as I recently discovered. Esquivel stated in early interviews that "Other Worlds, Other Sounds" was recorded in 3 hours, and "Four Corners Of The World" was recorded in the 2 hours that was left in the time that had been booked. But, according to the sessionography documents that we were able to dig up in RCA's vaults last fall (thanks to Paul Williams),these sessions took place over a period of 5 days, not hours: i.e. "OW,OS" was actually recorded in 3 _days_, and "Four Corners....." was recorded in 2 days. Much of what is on "Four Corners....." is similar (and is probably the same charts) as Esquivel's "Piano Romantica" radio show, which was on XEW radio [Mexico City] nightly at 11PM for 15 minutes back in the 1950's; I've heard some tapes of this show, and it's very similar. Esquivel also performed this style at the Melody Room in Los Angeles in 1960, which were his first live engagements in the U.S. btw, I'm not accusing Juan of lying about his achievment; we must remember that he will be 80 years old next week, and that his memory of certain particulars, such as dates, is pretty fuzzy. And recording both of those albums in 5 days (done in two 3 hour sessions per day) is quite an accomplishment, indeed. 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: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) JGE's birthday Date: 13 Jan 1998 23:17:19 -0500 > From: Br. Cleve > Subject: Re: (exotica) Why I Like ????? > > btw, I'm not accusing Juan of lying about his achievment; we must remember > that he will be 80 years old next week Any particular (on-line) way we can all wish him a happy birthday? m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ (Movies Of The Week tv picks for Jan. 11 to 18 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: Re: (exotica) scat & humming Date: 13 Jan 1998 23:03:39 EST << Does somebody knows some nice scat & humming numbers? Like "seven golden men""a man and a woman""mah-na-mah-na" "swingle singers""bob thompson"......daba-daba-dah,or hum hum hum, or lu-lu-lu-, la-la-la etc.etc. >> the very first that comes to mind for me: Group 1 - "The Brothers Go To Mothers and Others" Mancini Music - Swinging Vocal Stylings not available on CD - one of my favorite LP's. Jazz, Mancini, wordless vocals all in one great package. in a "word", great. RCA LPM-3524 RCA LSP-3524 1966 or The Go-Go Music Of The Mark Wirtz Orchestra And Chorus available on CD # 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) Impact! & Impact II Date: 13 Jan 1998 23:30:44 -0500 > From: Stilgloria > Subject: Re: (exotica) Why I Like ????? > > Recorded in 1959, these records rule for a quick overview of > the genre. There are, of course, loads of spy jazz albums. You can get an idea > of what you like on these two volumes, then go out and search out the albums > from which these themes come from. So basically, these comps beat Rhino's "Crime Jazz" sets by about 38 years! Are there many other examples where old comps parallel current comps? Which reminds me of this 1964 vintage comp I've previously mentioned: "Oldies By Various Artists" (Wyncote/Cameo-Parkway). Does anyone know when the term "oldies" came into vogue? With its emphasis on novelty sort of tunes, this album could be seen as a parallel to the "Incredibly Strange Music" or "Only In America" discs. Thanks, m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ (Movies Of The Week tv picks for Jan. 11 to 18 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: loidlink@pixi.com Subject: Re: (exotica) More queries Date: 13 Jan 1998 18:53:29 -1000 >peter_risser@cinfin.com wrote: > > All right, I've searched and once again do not know where to purchase the > following CDs: > > L'Atome - The Flash of Light > Gentle People - Soundtracks for Living > Don Tiki - The Forbidden Sounds of... Say Hey Peter- Lookin' for Gentle People myself! As regards Don Tiki, you can get it direct from us for $15 + $3 for shipping by emailing Little Laff over at: pmp@lava.net You can also hear over the ether at Radio Vik's before buying: http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/radio/features.html Mahalo for your interest... Fluid Floyd/Don Tiki # 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: Ottotemp@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Goin' to LA--need advice Date: 14 Jan 1998 02:42:42 -0500 (EST) Record shops Record Surplus on Pico near the Fwy in West LA Strike works on Sundays (looks a bit like Malcom X) Atomic in Burbank area (818 area code) Steve owns it credentials: these two guys and myself put on Exoticon in 1995 they also co-produced the two recent Rhino CDs called Crime Scene. # 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: "Downie, William" Subject: (exotica) Travolta to play Sinatra Date: 14 Jan 1998 09:10:04 -0000 I quote this from TV Quick a British TV and Radio schedules magazine, " John Travolta fans may hear their idol play Frank Sinatra in a new Martin Scorsese biopic of Dean Martin's life. If he's picked, Travolta could be joining Jim Carrey as Jerry Lewis, Hugh Grant as Peter Lawford, and Tom Hanks who's tipped to play Dean! " # 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) Re: scat & humming Date: 14 Jan 1998 13:44:33 +0200 > << Does somebody knows some nice scat & humming numbers? > Like "seven golden men""a man and a woman""mah-na-mah-na" > "swingle singers""bob thompson"......daba-daba-dah,or hum hum hum, > or lu-lu-lu-, la-la-la etc.etc. >> Warren Kime's 2 brass LP's on Command records have cool wordless female vocals throughout. Chico Arnez and the Cubana Brass offer go-go Latin with groovy wordless female vocals. Ray Martin's crimey "Goldfinger" and "Thunderball" LP's also have very fetching wordless vocals throughout. There are some lovely kooky vocal bits on some Horst Jankowski too - like "Jankowski plays Jankowski". Then there's The New Classic Singers' debut (I think) with "Call me" on it. And of course early Ray Conniff - those wonderfully chirpy records with "in Rhythm" in the title. EZ 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: tosh@loop.com (Tosh) Subject: Re: (exotica) Travolta to play Sinatra Date: 14 Jan 1998 06:44:43 -0800 (PST) Tom Hanks playing Dean maybe true, but others are not cast yet. Martin Scorsese was interviewed recently and denied about the reporting of the cast. I still think it is up in the air. Personally, I think it would be better if they hired unknown actors for the roles. ----------------- Tosh Berman TamTam Books ---------------- # 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: mnakatsu@joho-shimane.or.jp (nakatsu) Subject: Re: (exotica) scat & humming Date: 15 Jan 1998 00:20:41 +0900 (JST) Thanks all, I'd like to try to search them. Today I recommend my favourites, 1)Trafic / Charles Dumont This is a Jacques Tati's movie soundtrack LP. I got it 3 years ago. du-du-b-du-dum....male, and la-la-la-...female wordless include. Feel relaxed music. 2)Blues a Volente / Barden Powell Cool Brazilian scat on duet. I don't know this original album. But you can hear it in "Brazilica!" compiled by Gilles Peterson, from Talkin' Loud (uk). 3)7 uomini d'oro / Armando Trovaioli Called in us "seven goldn men". A taste of Jazz & baroque,like "Swingle Singers". I cantori moderni were many many many worked in 60's Italian movies. Another I cantori moderni's goodies,"7 volte 7","Tiffany Memorandum". 4)Party Poop / Henry Mancini Soundtrack from "the Party".It's nice! My life time favourite. And I like "Breakfast at Tiffany",too. HIs dreamy orchestrations are nice to me. 5)Playgirl / Takeo Yamashita This is a female spy comedy in Japanese TV movie soundtrack. If you have a chance to listen it, you must fall in his music. Scat:Kayoko Isyu, her voices very very famous, but her name less known. # 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) Travolta to play Sinatra Date: 14 Jan 1998 17:25:00 +0200 Tosh Berman wrote: > Personally, I think it would be > better if they hired unknown actors for the roles. I can say amen to that! 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: "Br. Cleve" Subject: (exotica) Esquivel's birthday Date: 14 Jan 1998 10:54:10 -0500 If anyone would like to send a birthday greeting to Juan Esquivel (who will be 80 next Tuesday, the 20th), please email it to me privately and I will print and forward them to him. 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: Jack Subject: (exotica) Record Swap Date: 13 Jan 1998 15:00:53 -0800 > At 01:40 PM 1/13/98 EST, you wrote: > >Is the KUSF record swap this Sunday, January 18? > >Gloria > yes # 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 Subject: Re: (exotica) Impact! & Impact II Date: 13 Jan 1998 23:01:57 -0800 >> Recorded in 1959, these records rule for a quick overview of >> the genre. There are, of course, loads of spy jazz albums. You can get an >idea of what you like on these two volumes, then go out and search out the albums from which these themes come from. > >So basically, these comps beat Rhino's "Crime Jazz" sets by about 38 years! >Are there many other examples where old comps parallel current comps? Johnny Gregory did some _fantastic_ albums on Philips and Mercury Frank Comstock and Warren Barker on Warner Bros-Top TV Themes Mancini has a great from the mid 70's on RCA(best label, ever!) 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: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) 45 rpm question Date: 14 Jan 1998 13:17:26 -0500 > Question: Is it still possible to buy an autochanger > with a large spindle in the States, or does everyone > now use an adaptor on a proper deck? > > Thanks, Hugh I was waiting for someone more expert to comment, but I guess I'll have a go. As far as new turntables over here, there are various automatic, semi-automatic and manual varieties, but I think the "stacker" automatics are pretty much history. I guess we've all gotten too fussy about our records to take chances like that (I had a nasty stacker accident in my mid-teens and pretty much swore off that practice -- 2 or 3 albums scarred in one fell swoop, ouch). The current turntables generally include a little 45 adapter that sets over the lp spindle. As far as my memories of cheap stacker changers in the 70's, they usually included a tall 45 adapter which mated mechanically with the tall lp spindle. Some were tall cylinders, but we had one with a flat, rectangular sort of adapter. It worked (more or less). Is anyone out there still stacking their wax? m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ (Movies Of The Week tv picks for Jan. 11 to 18 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) Re: TTQ Date: 14 Jan 1998 19:43:56 +0100 hello Phil, read your post about JTQ with interest! could you tell me the tiltel of the mentioned - quote - >LP of crime jazz/TV soundtrack covers by JT and various >friends - end quote - ? Looking forward to hearing from you, 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: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) WNYC On-Line Date: 14 Jan 1998 14:22:46 -0500 (EST) New York's great public radio station, WNYC, has just set up a web site. List-members would be most interested in David Garland's Spinning On Air page. The URL is: David has written a short piece on the Lounge Revival that can be found at: Another show of interest is John Schaefer's New Sounds. Its URL is: --Lou # 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: "Jordana Robinson" Subject: (exotica) Mathar - Indian Vibes Date: 14 Jan 1998 11:22:39 PST I wrote: >> I have a 12" called "Indian Vibes" that is >> probably the one Ariel refers to. The group is >> called Mathar and "Phil Clark" wrote: >yep... doesn't it feature Paul Weller somewhere? >anyhow it's been reissued on a 12" single (and presumably a CD too) >here in the UK in the last few months. there are four versions: the >original and a bunch of dance mixes. Yes, Weller plays the sitar, apparently. It's been reissued already? I got mine when I was in London, circa winter 1995. It has an orange cover, and four versions including dance mixes sounds about right. The things that have never been cleared up for me are: 1. whether the song is a cover version of something older, maybe of 60s vintage, 2. whether "Mathar" ever released anything else. -Jordana ______________________________________________________ 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: Jonny.S@nyo.com (Jonny.S) Subject: Re: (exotica) Mathar - Indian Vibes Date: 14 Jan 1998 14:43:32 -0500 Jordana Robinson,eero67@hotmail.com,internet writes: > >2. whether "Mathar" ever released anything else. > > >-Jordana I bought it about the same time in NYC but my copy has one mix of Mathar on one side and a track called what is jazz on the flip which is just a loop of a beat which breaks down to a long horn stap and a man asking "what is jazz?" (not this track) But Mathar is great, I play it often and the crowd keeps dancing. This is the only record I have by Mathar. regards, Jonny Sender # 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: "zenara gardner" Subject: (exotica) 45 rpm's Date: 14 Jan 1998 15:39:30 EST At my current residing place we still have an old sterio system complete with 8-track player, stacking turntable, and radio. It is a rather large system that has a fold down top. Speaking from experience if you go to vintage shops and thrift stores you can usually find either a stacking turntable or an adapter for 45's easily and rather cheap as well. zenara ______________________________________________________ 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: Wayne Davidson Subject: (exotica) The Gentle People Date: 15 Jan 1998 08:29:00 +1000 There has been some interest in The Gentle People on this list over the past weeks, anyone keen to find out more should check out their web page at www.gentleworld.com Make sure to send them some email whilst you're there! Cheers Wayne # 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) The very term "oldies" Date: 14 Jan 1998 16:34:08 -0500 (EST) The first reference to "Oldies" that I knew of was the Little Ceaser and The Romans tune "Those Oldies But Goodies (Remind Me Of You)"...but that's probably not the first time the word had been used in a musical context....Jimmy # 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: "Sadie" Subject: (exotica) bongo + TV question Date: 15 Jan 1998 10:19:55 +1200 >Who knows about Preston Epps "Bongo" rekkids ? > >Isn't it kind of 50's R & B-ish ? I've only heard Preston Epps doing "Bongo Rock". Judging by this track, it sure ain't R & B - it's more like Surf. I love Bongo Rock. A friend of mine has a party trick of drumming the intro to Wipeout onto a table - apparently all schoolkids learnt how to do this on their desks, but I must have missed out there - I thought I should challenge him to learn the frenetic drumming from Bongo Rock. Anyway, I asked a friend of mine who knows lots and lots of pop culture trivia about that horse who travels in a wheel. This must be really obscure because he didn't know anything about it, but he's got a question himself which he asked me to put to you lot (because he thinks you're all "walking encyclopedias" based on some of the info I've forwarded to him). OK, he wants to know if any of you remember a scarey kids' programme called "Knock Three Times". Apparently this is set in the Mayflower type era. Any takers? And an idle question: what's the best version of Caravan, in your opinion? I'm pretty fond of the one on Batchelor Pad Royale, myself. You can't fail with Caravan really. Hey, and all this moaning about Ultra Lounge ... Hell, those are the ONLY lounge/exotica reissues we get over here! So count yourselves lucky. Arohanui, # 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: Wayne Davidson Subject: (exotica) Kahimi Date: 15 Jan 1998 08:50:00 +1000 Can anyone tell me more about Kahimi Karie, and especially where I can get her releases at non-astronomical prices. Cheers, Wayne # 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) bongo rock Date: 14 Jan 1998 16:57:45 -0500 (EST) File Under Preston Epps Thread: A soundtrack I came across last summer called "Summer Love" starring Jill St. John And ROD McKUEN~ features the bongo rock and gushy romance songs of Jimmy Daley and the Ding-A-Lings and contains some great late 50's white bread rock n rollsploitation..Titles like "Kool Breeze" "Theme For A Crazy Chick" "Boppin' At The Bash", and "Beatin' On The Bongos".... worth a good $10 is my bet # 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: Jessica Cameron Subject: (exotica) Budget Label Kenyon Hopkins? Date: 14 Jan 1998 18:01:46 -0500 A few weeks ago I got this Metro (MGM's budget label) comp LP of 4 James Bond themes, 2 Peter Gunn cuts, and 4 Kenyon Hopkins tunes (Red Eyed Rats, the Chase, Monster Meeting, Chamber of Horrors). Are these KH cuts from "Nightmare!"? Thanks for any help, Jessica ^_^ PS--thought I'd share this with the list--a friend just gave me a little EP for this toy globe (billed as "Mr Globe--the FIRST TALKING GLOBE"). Anyway, it has great spacy sound effects, and in the background during the "our moon" segment you can hear David Rose's "Forbidden Planet!" Just thought that was kind of neat. # 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 Subject: (exotica) Ding-Lings/McKuen/Mancini Date: 14 Jan 1998 14:35:10 -0800 At 04:57 PM 1/14/98 -0500, you wrote: > >File Under Preston Epps Thread: A soundtrack I came across last summer >called "Summer Love" starring Jill St. John And ROD McKUEN~ features the >bongo rock and gushy romance songs of Jimmy Daley and the Ding-A-Lings and >contains some great late 50's white bread rock n rollsploitation..Titles like >"Kool Breeze" "Theme For A Crazy Chick" "Boppin' At The Bash", and "Beatin' >On The Bongos".... worth a good $10 is my bet Jimmy Daley and the Ding-A-Lings if I'm not mistaken are also on "ROCK PRETTY BABY" along with Rod McKuen, scored by Henry Mancicni with the very same lineup and year as "Touch of Evil" 1957 http://www.jackdiamond.com/Touch_of_Evil.jpg http://www.jackdiamond.com/Wild_Side.jpg It was reissued on Jasmine so find it!!! It rips Sorry for that 2 timer Jimmy B:) 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: Jack Subject: (exotica) Caravan! Date: 14 Jan 1998 14:29:05 -0800 >And an idle question: what's the best version of Caravan, in your >opinion? There is no best, there are waaaaaaaaaaaay toooooooooooooooo many versions. It would only be someone's opinion:) Chico Hamilton Quintet, Roy Clark, Stanly Black(Exotic Percussion) Not in that order and that's just off the top of my head which is overwhelmed right at this exact moment @:-O Speakin' o' which, I always held hidden resentments against Esquivel for NOT covering that tune. You can add that to my birthday wish for the 'ol man Cleve;) 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: Pea Hicks Subject: Re: (exotica) Caravan! Date: 14 Jan 1998 16:53:50 -0800 Jack wrote: > > >And an idle question: what's the best version of Caravan, in your > >opinion? > Lenny Dee, hands down. pea # 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) Caravan! Date: 14 Jan 1998 21:37:37 -0500 One of my favorite Caravans is The Ventures live version, in Tokyo, 1965. They really burn their way through it. The drum solo is insanely overextended, but what the hey. The Three Suns version is a lot of fun too, in a totally different way. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ (Movies Of The Week tv picks for Jan. 11 to 18 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: "Michael Bennet" Subject: (exotica) Bongo Rock Date: 14 Jan 1998 23:36:22 -0500 Does anyone know anything about the Incredible Bongo Band who had a minor hit with Bongo Rock in the early 70s? Is this another version of the Preston Epps number that's been a recent topic of discussion? # 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) Budget Label Kenyon Hopkins? Date: 14 Jan 1998 23:26:06 -0500 Jessica wrote: > A few weeks ago I got this Metro (MGM's budget label) comp LP of 4 James > Bond themes, 2 Peter Gunn cuts, and 4 Kenyon Hopkins tunes (Red Eyed Rats, > the Chase, Monster Meeting, Chamber of Horrors). Are these KH cuts from > "Nightmare!"? Yes, all 4 K. H. tunes are from "Nightmare!!". In case you don't know, Kenyon Hopkins/Creed Taylor Orchestra releases have been reissued on CD. "Shock, Panic & Nightmare" (Fear Records F-203-2) contains the complete "Shock" & "Nightmare" lps plus 6 tracks from "Panic: the Son of Shock". Worth buying. Cheers, 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: "Sadie" Subject: (exotica) 45s Date: 15 Jan 1998 18:00:32 +1200 >Question: Is it still possible to buy an autochanger >with a large spindle in the States, or does everyone >now use an adaptor on a proper deck? And if they do, why do all singles coming from the USA still have the large hole? I thought maybe it was a jukebox thing. I can't get hold of an adaptor, so I can't listen to my Raunch Hands double single (if that makes any sense!). Sadie. PS I saw a book of poetry by Rod McKuen in the Sally Army shop the other day. Can't remember the title ... something like "hard times in ????" or something? I didn't buy it cos I thought it might give me a queesy stomach. I should never have given away that book of poetry and photos by Leonard Nimoy though, spew-worthy though it was. Oh well ... I gave away a Fall record once too .... Sigh. # 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: Ottotemp@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Exotic Surf in SF Date: 15 Jan 1998 02:42:54 -0500 (EST) Otto von Stroheim will spin Exotica ephemera between surf instro sets by Pollo Del Mar and psychedelic Pop set from St. Surreal Wednesday, Jan. 28 Cafe DuNord 2170 Market St. @ Sanchez # 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: Jay Schwartz Subject: (exotica) Preston Epps trivia Date: 15 Jan 1998 02:56:42 Mr. Epps can be seen doing his thing in the fabulous Ted Mikels movie GIRL IN GOLD BOOTS (1968). Also seen are a cool garage band called Chris Howard and the Third World...who play behind go go girls (much of the movie is a virtual orgy of '60s go go dancing). # 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) Caravan Date: 15 Jan 1998 10:46:05 +0200 > And an idle question: what's the best version of Caravan, in your > opinion? I'm pretty fond of the one on Batchelor Pad Royale, myself. > You can't fail with Caravan really. Blowing everything else away, is The Three Suns' version off the spectacular RCA LP Movin' and Groovin'. I think the track was included on the 3 CD-set "The History of Space Age Pop" about 2 or 3 years ago, maybe on the Stereo Action Dimension or Mallets in Wonderland. # 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) hip to be bland Date: 15 Jan 1998 11:07:46 +0200 Lou Smith wrote: > New York's great public radio station, WNYC, has just set up a web site. > David has written a short piece on the Lounge Revival that can be found at: > > quoted from the above: "the heady brew was quickly watered down when unimaginative record companies scrambled to profit from the fad by digging into their vaults for any vintage Easy Listening. I've wondered about the reaction some of the would-be jet-setters might have to the many multi-volume Cocktail/Space Age Bachelor Pad compilations that have come out in the last couple of years. So many of the collections have been filled with dross -- music that was, and always will be, conventional and bland. Surely disappointment must have convinced some buyers that the style and period were uninteresting. Either that or they accepted it, and were misled to think that it's hip to be bland." About "conventional and bland" and the hipness of blandness ... I don't give a hoot for the compilation issue, but I do love the very "blandness" of the music of Acker Bilk, Living Strings, Paul Mauriat, Johnny Pearson ... even Lawrence Welk and bits of Zamfir at times ... Although I hate the 90's post-modern "irony" bollocks, I do think there is something essentially subversive and very unconventional in the way this (elevator?) music sounds NOW - versus drum & bass etc. So it *can* be hip to be bland - and you don't even have to be ironic about it. EZ 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: dan hill Subject: Re: (exotica) Caravan Date: 15 Jan 1998 11:01:31 +0100 >> And an idle question: what's the best version of Caravan, in your >> opinion? I'm pretty fond of the one on Batchelor Pad Royale, myself. >> You can't fail with Caravan really. has anybody else heard the jimi tenor version on his album 'innervision' on warp records last year (hope its the same track we're talking about)? not exactly 'easy', as it features a frenetic electro-style rhythm and a wonderful distorto-organ-cum-stylophone-type-thing playing the melody ... and a 'knowingly-naive' (tm) percussion break which always makes me smile ... top version anyway dan. ---+ dan hill mailto:dan@state51.co.uk 91 brick lane, london e1 6qn ---+ the specialist record shop finder: http://www.state51.co.uk/motion/services/ +--- # 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: Brad Bigelow Subject: (exotica) Re: scat & humming Date: 15 Jan 1998 05:18:21 >mnakatsu@joho-shimane.or.jp (nakatsu) wrote: >Does somebody knows some nice scat & humming numbers? Although it's not strictly a scat number, one of the choice strings of scat syllables you'll ever hear comes at the start of Mel Torme's version of Joao Gilberto's "Ho-Ba-La-La" (not a bad in itself) on his 1963 Columba LP, "That's All." I couldn't do it justice here, but I've gotten a few laughs from a segue I put on one of my tape compilations, which precedes the tune with a cut from an instructional LP on the art of conversation, which ends with, "If you read the manual--as you listen--you will learn many new words and phrases." Brad Bigelow spaceagepop@earthlink.net # 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: Brad Bigelow Subject: (exotica) "TV's Biggest Hits" Date: 15 Jan 1998 05:33:09 A must purchase for any die-hard TV theme fans: TV's Biggest Hits The Story of Television Themes from "Dragnet" to "Friends" Jon Burlingame Schirmer Books ISBN 0-02-870324-3 $25.00 While Burlingame's writing style is on the level of your average Twayne's Authors volume, his book is in its own category as a history of TV music. Burlingame has interviewed countless TV arrangers and composers and includes photos of such uncelegrated greats as Hoyt Curtin ("Flintstones," "Jetsons," and "Johnny Quest"), George Dunning, and Walter Schumann. Even a photo of Tony Mottola playing guitar on the set of "Danger" with Yul Brynner. Burlingame goes through series genre by genre, starting with crime shows and ending with cartoons and made-for-TV movies. All your favorites are in there and many you've never heard or seen. My Space Age Pop website looks pitiful compared to this book. Get it! Brad Bigelow spaceagepop@earthlink.net # 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) viva John Gregory! Date: 15 Jan 1998 14:51:09 +0200 Jack wrote: > Johnny Gregory did some _fantastic_ albums on Philips and Mercury Yep! Apart from Gregory's very good and very swinging / pumping / funking versions of 60's and eary 70's TV and movie themes (usually of the crimey type), he recorderd some awesome, almost "authentic", brassy Latin records under the pseudonym "Chaquito" ... anybody with the faintest affection for cha cha, mambo etc. will love them. On the easy side, this brilliant and versatile arranger also brought us The Cascading Strings of John Gregory - for the exotically-challenged only. EZ 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: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) Caravan! Date: 15 Jan 1998 08:06:22 -0500 Well, I like Duke Ellington's! I have heard the original (credited to Barney Bigard and his Jazz-O-Paters, I think), however, my favorite versions is one that I cannot place. It is a live version and with the crowd talking in the background, it lends a nice air to that version. I also have a video of Ellington playing it, with Louis Bellson on drums and Ray Nance on violins. The most interesting version I saw was a fellow who I studied under. Mark Dresser played a solo version on the double bass. The only vocal version I know of is Johnny Mathis' from his first album, which may be the only song of his I like (before the flames start, my mother bought NINE albums of his and darned near drove me crazy with his voice, which is admittedly fine, but it's a teen growing up type thing). Incidentally, for you fiction readers out there, one great fan of Mathis' first is Harlan Ellison. 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: "Waldo Muller" Subject: (exotica) Caravan (vocal versions) Date: 15 Jan 1998 15:20:15 +0200 Brian Phillips wrote: > Well, I like Duke Ellington's! > The only vocal version I know of is Johnny Mathis' from his first album... Ella Fitzgerald do a very nice vocal version on some old Verve record WITH Duke Ellington's orchestra. EZ 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: bpm0@interport.net (Peter Becker) Subject: (exotica) Lucas recommendation,Asphodel news, Arabic music Date: 15 Jan 1998 09:27:54 -0500 I have'nt posted for *months* so Hello everyone and Happy New Year! I must heartily recommend the "Lucas" CD by lister Pea Hicks also. full title: Lucas & Friends: "Discover A World Of Sounds" There was a recommendation on yesterdays digest from BasicHip. I must second that emotion and agree that ther is nothing *quite* like it that I've heard lately. I have'nt even thanked him yet, so thanks, Pea! Also, this isn't a plug as I don't even know Pea personally, I just think the CD is cool! news on the Asphodel front: **************************************************************************** ******************************************** Coming in late Feb: a most interesting project: Asphodel's first *country* record....well kinda. from the bio we are preparing: World Standard ( Haroumi Hosono ) "Country Gazette" on CD and LP: "That shopworn adjective 'ambient' is one way of describing the music, but it hardly does justice to the subtly arranged sounds that multi-instrumentalist Hosono has assembled." -Billboard Asphodel is proud to release an exciting new recording within it's notably unclassifiable musical canon. "Country Gazette" by World Standard is the work of producer Haruomi Hosono, an artist whose production transcends and exceeds the limitations and expectations of music listeners worldwide. "Welcome to the Virtual Country. This album no less reflects the inner space of a hobo easy rider than the outer space surrounding him. So it reminds me of a film by Monte Hellman, The Shooting, which is regarded as one of the strangest Western Movies in the late 60's. Like this film ( endless road Movie ) Country Gazette will take us to nowhere on the banjo sound. We can hear various intoxicated ambient sounds of a banjo (country gadget) from this disc. This record owes a lot to the Stereolab series of the Vanguard label and is especially inspired by John Fahey. He composed many requiems (great collage sounds ) for his fans. Country Gazette is also a requiem, for all kinds of 20th century popular music. " Mikado Koyanagi Country Gazette: with Sohichiro Suzuki, Larry Campbell, Mina and Haruomi Hosono Picture the Paris Texas soundtrack covered by a karaoke John Fahey in a dive bar in Tokyo while reruns of Twin Peaks play on the bar TV screen. you're getting closer... **************************************************************************** ******************************************** New Tipsy 4 song single coming out in March with 1 new song (2 versions) and 2 remixes of "Mr Excitement". One mix is by electronica whiz kid MU-ZIQ, the other by Austrian minimalist neo-lounger Curd Duca. New Tipsy full length LP coming out later in Fall '98.....it promises to be *different* than "Trip Tease" but surely will please the diehards. also, Tipsy just did a Pulp (Brit Pop ) remix....details later as they develop. **************************************************************************** ******************************************** Coming in late March, another one y'all exoticans might enjoy. best known for his "Eazy Listening" series, Austria's Curd Duca: from the bio: Asphodel is happy to release "The Best of Curd Duca", a compilation of selected works from an Austrian electronic composer whose name has thrived in the electronica underground for many years. The Best of Curd Duca chronicles choice selections from his "Easy Listening" series of 5 CDs. This music is finally available in America, lifted from the grip of import obscurity. In addition, with "The Best of Curd Duca" we are releasing the first Curd Duca vinyl of his "Easy Listening" series, in Asphodel's standard virgin vinyl, audiophile pressing. As with Asphodel's Tipsy, Curd Duca's music re-invents the dynamic of many styles of music and challenges many genre specific musical conventions. Lines blur between lounge, electronica, ambient, and lo-fi. We're convinced the purists won't mind. From the WFMU catalog 1995 : on Curd Duca: Easy Listening 3 "This Austrian cut-up artist (formerly of the group 8 OR 9) lays out a veritable buffet of familiar sounds and styles, all presented in ways never heard before; bossa nova, exotica and swing share equal space with Throbbing Gristle-ish drum machines, outer space sounds, Pet Sounds-era keyboards looped, and even wind." **************************************************************************** ******************************************** Personal advice: I know that many exoticans can appreciate musical venturings beyond the pure lounge/exotica dynamic, so help me out if ya' can. I have a great deal of Arabic/Middle Eastern music on LP and tape. I'm looking to build a *serious* collection on CD as it's something I know I will listen to for the rest of my life. For anyone in the New York City area, are there any Arabic specialist shops that sell a wide selection of this music *or* does anyone out there know of labels that have a high quality selection of this? I look mainly for classical Arabic, vocal or non vocal, religious or secular. Though I dig the modern stuff, I'm looking for traditional. Thanks for the read! Peter bpm0@interport.net Peter Becker: Distribution Manager, DJ Pool Honcho , Demo Tape Filter Asphodel - PO Box 51, Chelsea Station, NY NY 10113 ph: (212) 604-9362, FAX: (212)604-0783, http://www.asphodel.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: "Ben Waugh" Subject: (exotica) re:caravan Date: 15 Jan 1998 06:51:20 PST Lenny Dee does a great version(His version of Siboney is even better). Other favorites: The Three Suns, Les Paul, The Ventures. 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: Peter Hipwell Subject: (exotica) viva John Gregory! Date: 15 Jan 1998 15:20:24 GMT > From: "Waldo Muller" > Jack wrote: > > > Johnny Gregory did some _fantastic_ albums on Philips and Mercury > > Yep! Apart from Gregory's very good and very swinging / pumping / funking > versions of 60's and eary 70's TV and movie themes (usually of the crimey > type), he recorderd some awesome, almost "authentic", brassy Latin records > under the pseudonym "Chaquito" ... anybody with the faintest affection for > cha cha, mambo etc. will love them. I pikced up one the other week, just called "Latin Favourites", which contains a great Latin "The Little Engine That Could", complete with what has been come to be called a "Mel Blanc Mexican" voice (i.e. "I theeenk I carn, I theenk I carn"). The rest of it is excellent, too, not a duff spot. The best I've got is "That Swinging Chaquito Sound", complete with muchas maniac chunga action, and the theme to "Special Report". Nice! Seconded! Encore! > On the easy side, this brilliant and > versatile arranger also brought us The Cascading Strings of John Gregory - > for the exotically-challenged only. One of my fave tracks is "Teru-Teru Bozu" from "The Cascading Strings Play the Music of Japan" (Contour), which is outstanding. The rest of it is rather too elevatory for me. Elsecascasdewise, I've only got tracks on Phillips samplers, but there are some great arrangements there too. I want to hear the Cascading Strings version of "Light My Fire"... But was "The New Cascading Strings" also arranged by Gregory? # 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) John Gregory Date: 15 Jan 1998 17:38:39 +0200 Peter Hipwell wrote: > I pikced up one the other week, just called "Latin Favourites", which contains a great Latin "The Little Engine That Could". The best I've got is "That Swinging Chaquito Sound". These two LP's really do cook and The Little Engine was on my personal top ten for a few weeks. Another, slightly older LP, "Hot Cha Cha Cha" is also great and contains a song with an eerily contemporary title - "El Nino". > I want to hear the Cascading Strings version of "Light My Fire"... So would I, but at least I've got Astrud Gilberto's version to keep me going. > But was "The New Cascading Strings" also arranged by Gregory? Dunno! 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: Jeff Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) 45 rpm question Date: 14 Jan 1998 17:39:05 -0800 At 01:17 PM 1/14/98 -0500, "m.ace" wrote: >As far as new turntables over here, there are various automatic, semi-automatic >and manual varieties, but I think the "stacker" automatics are pretty much >history. I guess we've all gotten too fussy about our records to take chances >like that (I had a nasty stacker accident in my mid-teens and pretty much swore >off that practice -- 2 or 3 albums scarred in one fell swoop, ouch). The >current turntables generally include a little 45 adapter that sets over the lp >spindle. > >Is anyone out there still stacking their wax? I've a B-I-C Model 940 from the mid-seventies that stacks sans scratches. I think the main reason for scratched stacking situations is a cartridge with a needle that hangs really low. The only trouble with stacking is that there's always a pile of red Polynesians on the platter when I open the lid! Guess it's time to put away the Christmas music... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~ Jeffrey D. Phillips, Production Manager, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra ~ ~~~ 333 Market Street, Plaza Suite San Francisco, California 94105~2102 ~~ ~~~~ 415~495~7445 (phone) 415~495~7473 (fax) jphillips@philharmonia.org ~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # 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) Fwd:RE:GENTLE PEOPLE ALOHA! Date: 15 Jan 1998 13:06:08 UT This was in my mailbox this morning. I'm forwarding it for anyone else who is interested in the Gentle People. ____________________Forward Header_____________________ Author: gentlep@dircon.co.uk Hello Peter, I hope this message gets to you as my friend Wayne forwarded this onto me. My name is Dougee Dimensional and I am one member of The Gentle People. So, I hear you are trying to find our record out there. If you are in the US, which I reckon you probably are, I know there is a company on the net that deal with all of the Rephlex Records releases. They are in Baltimore and do mail order. They are called Modern Music and they are at www.modernmusic.com so give them a shout. Also, they might be able to help you find our other groovy stuff we have released in Japan. A compilation, a remix LP, and now in the UK as of next week, a new single called Groovin with you which will included in our next album which should hopefully come out around June of this year. Record label at this moment is unknown and we are taking offers so spread the word in case you have any A&R friends out there at any record labels. If you could add us to your list this would be fab. Thanks for your interest in Gentle People and email us at this new address when you get the CD or LP. Peace and Love, Dougee Dimensional The Gentle People gentlep@dircon.co.uk www.gentleworld.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: Jack Subject: (exotica) Pete The Beat! Date: 15 Jan 1998 10:42:38 -0800 Pete, Are you here ? I need to talk with you:) 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: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Caravan Date: 15 Jan 1998 14:27:10 -0500 (EST) I heard "Caravan" to death back in my "pure" jazz days (1973-79) and never cared that much for it.. Then one day last spring, BOOM, I find a sealed copy of Bert Kaempfert doing it on one of his LP's..Its killer, complete with fuzztone and those ever-so-always present background vocals humming away with their inimitable comb against wax paper style....For you young 'uns, wax paper was what our mommys used to wrap our sandwiches in before saran wrap and the Fugs were around~ # 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) Gentle People Date: 15 Jan 1998 13:59:27 PST EAR/Rational Music still lists "Soundtracks for Living" in their catalog at $18 or $19 I think. Check their website at www.xmission.com/~ear/index.html - BWY # 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: Re:(exotica) Chaquito (was: viva John Gregory!) Date: 15 Jan 1998 18:02:02 UT Chaquito has a fabulous track on that Mad Mad World of Soundtracks. Does anyone know of any reissues that might include this and/or any other stuff by him? (Mad Mad World of Soundtracks has some great stuff, but also, IMHO some real dreck.) Thanks, Peter ____________________Reply Separator____________________ Author: owner-exotica@xmission.com Jack wrote: > Johnny Gregory did some _fantastic_ albums on Philips and Mercury Yep! Apart from Gregory's very good and very swinging / pumping / funking versions of 60's and eary 70's TV and movie themes (usually of the crimey type), he recorderd some awesome, almost "authentic", brassy Latin records under the pseudonym "Chaquito" ... anybody with the faintest affection for cha cha, mambo etc. will love them. On the easy side, this brilliant and versatile arranger also brought us The Cascading Strings of John Gregory - for the exotically-challenged only. EZ 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. # 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) Caravan! Date: 15 Jan 1998 14:17:18 -0500 At 2:29 PM -0800 1/14/98, Jack wrote: >Speakin' o' which, I always held hidden resentments against Esquivel for >NOT covering that tune. > >You can add that to my birthday wish for the 'ol man Cleve;) He recorded it in 1948, in New York. It was released as a Mexican 78 on RCA. (I've never heard it) It is scheduled to be on my compilation of Esquivel's Mexican recordings, which hopefully BarNone will be releasing sometime this year. 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: "Phil Clark" Subject: (exotica) jtq/gentle people/ Date: 15 Jan 1998 23:18:50 -0000 Johan Dada Vis said hello Phil, read your post about JTQ with interest! could you tell me the tiltel of the mentioned - quote - >LP of crime jazz/TV soundtrack covers by JT and various >friends - - end quote - ? Looking forward to hearing from you, Johan I think it's called Scored 1-0 & is on JTI Records (ie JT's own label). Released summer last year and I happened to hear JT on Jazz FM here in London plugging the album aroudn that time. Sounded quite good from what I heard. TV themes done acid-jazz stylee. And re the Gentle People - hey, I work with one of them. groovily Phil # 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: the_curator@rawpaw.demon.co.uk Subject: (exotica) japanese imports Date: 15 Jan 1998 23:59:39 +0000 People Sojourned briefly in Japan at the turning of the year and I'd like to share news of my finds with you. Top of the list was 1. A Picture Disc 45 of Andy Williams singing adverts in Japanese for Ajinomoto - that's monosodium glutamate to you and me - that one's as thick as quite a thick thing (1963) 2. A very scratchy 45 of Ultraman TV themes 3. A book the size of a 45 with a hole in the middle, which has flexis inside as pages. You put the whole thing on your turntable and play it that way. (1960) 4. Theme from Antonioni's L'Eclisse by Colletto Tempia and his Orchestra - this is absolutely superb. The sassiest sax record i've ever heard. I'd love to hear more by this guy. Anyone know about him? 5. "Gorilla" CD by Mari Natsuki as heard on the Sushi 3003 comp. Sounds very promising. Has a version of Pizzicato 5's "I" renamed "All About Me". Very laid back. 6. Greatest Hits of Nana Kinomi CD including a vocal version of "Baby Elephant Walk" and "Go Kart Twist" co-written by certain Morricone. 7. "Tokimeki" by Peanuts (the tiny singing women in the film "Mothra") CD which features versions of Love Story, Vivre pour Vivre, Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, Soundo (sic) of Silence among others. 8. "Fantasma" CD by Cornelius, also featured on the Sushi comp, though nothing on this is as good as his track on that. There's a frighteningly good soundalike My Bloody Valentine track. Disappointing. Sad that it's so hard to find most of this music outside Japan. friendly Sem Sinatra Silencer: http://www.sonnet.co.uk/silencer ...."as if music mattered" # 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: the_curator@rawpaw.demon.co.uk Subject: (exotica) Lalo Schifrin in London Date: 16 Jan 1998 00:04:02 +0000 Friends Witnessed the man playing with and conducting the BBC big band just a few days ago. I was a bit apprehensive but it was great. First half was shorter pieces including Mannix, Bullitt and Mission Impossible. Second half was his Gillespiana Suite. Entrancing. friendly Sem Sinatra Silencer: http://www.sonnet.co.uk/silencer ...."as if music mattered" # 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) Budget Label Kenyon Hopkins? Date: 15 Jan 1998 21:09:55 EST In a message dated 98-01-15 00:19:44 EST, you write: << Yes, all 4 K. H. tunes are from "Nightmare!!". In case you don't know, Kenyon Hopkins/Creed Taylor Orchestra releases have been reissued on CD. "Shock, Panic & Nightmare" (Fear Records F-203-2) contains the complete "Shock" & "Nightmare" lps plus 6 tracks from "Panic: the Son of Shock". Worth buying. >> if any of you look for this, note that this is a "limited edition" reissue (read bootleg). a bunch of 'em hit the market a couple of years ago. so availability may be low. # 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: Lang Thompson Subject: (exotica) Caravan vocals Date: 15 Jan 1998 21:36:26 -0500 At 03:20 PM 1/15/98 +0200, you wrote: > > > >Brian Phillips wrote: > >> Well, I like Duke Ellington's! > >> The only vocal version I know of is Johnny Mathis' from his first >album... > >Ella Fitzgerald do a very nice vocal version on some old Verve record WITH >Duke Ellington's orchestra. > >EZ Waldo That's from the "Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook" album. Lambert Hendricks and Ross also do a vocal version on "Sing Ellington" (included on the double-CD "The Hottest New Group in Jazz"). Lang Thompson http://www.tcf.ua.edu/wlt4 New at Funhouse: Pazz & Jop Ballot, Overlooked Albums of 1997, expanded links. "I saw weird stuff in that place last night. Weird, strange, sick, twisted, eerie, godless, evil stuff. And I want in." -- Homer Simpson # 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: Lang Thompson Subject: Re: (exotica) Bongo Rock Date: 15 Jan 1998 21:39:28 -0500 At 11:36 PM 1/14/98 -0500, you wrote: > >Does anyone know anything about the Incredible Bongo Band who had a minor >hit with Bongo Rock in the early 70s? Is this another version of the >Preston Epps number that's been a recent topic of discussion? > Billed as Michael Viner's Incredible Bongo Band, their 1973 album Bongo Rock included the song "Apache" which has been sampled in dozens and dozens of rap songs. Lang Thompson http://www.tcf.ua.edu/wlt4 New at Funhouse: Pazz & Jop Ballot, Overlooked Albums of 1997, expanded links. "I saw weird stuff in that place last night. Weird, strange, sick, twisted, eerie, godless, evil stuff. And I want in." -- Homer Simpson # 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 Subject: (exotica) Playlist for Jack Date: 15 Jan 1998 19:32:57 -0800 KFJC play list 12/28/98 for Jack Diamond=20 ARTIST TRACK ALBUM The Planets Chunky Gerry Mulligan Sextet Nights at the Turntable Emarcy, 1956 With : Gerry Mulligan Original Bob Brookmeyer-Trombone Zoot Sims-Tenor Jon Eardley-Trumpet Peck Morrison-Bass Robert De Niro Diary of a Taxi Driver Taxi Driver Mel Brown Time for a Change Bluesway, 1970 Paul Lewinson-Moog/ Ananda Shankar-Sitar Metamorphosis Reprise, 1970 Johnny Keating Jesus Christ Supa-Star EMI/1972 Ennio Morricone Esplictamente Sospeso Il Sepente Johnny Keating Orch. Portrait of a Loser Robbery Ken Nordine Spectrum 1958/9 Mindexpanders Pul-Sation Satellite Singers Meet Space Pilot Jones 1958, Mono Only Johnny Richards Orch. Manzanita Chino Pozo- Bongos Piero Montanari Cobweb Scoctopus! The Electric Piano- Playground I Had Too Much to Dream... Bell Rekkids Bob Dorough D-O-G Ferlinghetti Poem Wray, Link She's that Kind of Woman Live at the Record Plant 1974 The Lewis Sisters But not for Me Liberty, 1958 West Coast Workshop Yellow Brick Trip Russ Case Orch. The Dagger Dance Vik, 1956 Mal Sharpe/Jim Coyle The Sloppy Dentist 1964 Ralph Platt-Whistler I Walked Today Where W/ Loren Whitney Jesus Walked Sacred Rekkids Jazz City Workshop W/ The Natives Are- =09 Jack Costanzo-Bongos Restless Tonight Bethlehem Marty Paich-Piano=20 Larry Bunker-Vibes, Herbie Harper-Trombone Billy Mure Hawaiian War Chant Strand Rod Mckuen Bearded Ladies Beatsville Moondog Conversation and Music At Prestige, 1956 51ST St. and 6TH Ave. Phil Moore Orch Night Bloomin' Trashman Frank Hunter Orch. Strange Echoes White Goddess Thurle Ravencroft You're a Mean 1 Mr. Grinch Larry Elgart Dancing Class Barefoot Ballerinas Babs Gonzalez Lullaby of the Dooooomed 1958 Barney Kessel-Gtr Larry Bunker-Bongos The Loooooose Cabooooose Breakfast at Tiffany=92s Mel Henke Commercial Chevrolet Folkswingers Along Comes Mary Bob Crewe Orch. Barbarella-Side 2; Entrance Into Sogo Thompson, Hunter S. Acquiring Equipment Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Shorty Rogers Orch. Los Primitivos Meets Tarzan Hollies/Peter Sellers After the Fox Burt Bacharach Link Wray Live R-U-M-B-L-E Record Plant, Sausalito,=20 K-S-A-N. Your Jive 95 Synthesonic Sounds House of the Rising Sun Easy Project Lord Sitar Blue Jay Way Attileo Mineo Around the World LP-55555 Chet Baker Look for the Silver Lining Pac Jazz Pete Rugolo Orch. Diamond on the Move Playlist for Jack Diamond 12-28-97 KFJC 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022 Http://www.KFJC.org Everything available on Compact Disc # 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) Bert Kaempfert's & Chaquito's Caravan Date: 16 Jan 1998 10:02:05 +0200 DJJimmyBee wrote: > I heard "Caravan" to death back in my "pure" jazz days (1973-79) and never > cared that much for it.. Then one day last spring, BOOM, I find a sealed > copy of Bert Kaempfert doing it on one of his LP's..Its killer, complete with > fuzztone and those ever-so-always present background vocals humming away with > their inimitable comb against wax paper style Bert's Caravan does get the thumbs up. It is not so obvious and zany as The Three Suns' - just very, very well arranged, subtly brilliant. (I think it's off the Polydor album "Love that"). Since Chaquito has been mentioned - I discovered his highly swinging Latin work-out of "Caravan" this morning on the LP Hot Cha Cha Cha. 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: "Waldo Muller" Subject: (exotica) Chaquito / John Gregory on CD Date: 16 Jan 1998 14:26:12 +0200 Peter wrote: > Chaquito has a fabulous track on that Mad Mad World of Soundtracks. Does anyone > know of any reissues that might include this and/or any other stuff by him? > (Mad Mad World of Soundtracks has some great stuff, but also, IMHO some real > dreck.) About 2 years ago a CD was released called "Mission Impossible" under John Gregory and His Orchestra. (I can find out the catalogue number if needed). The CD is a selection off his TV and movie theme LP's between the early 60's and mid-70's. It has about twenty tracks and contain some of the best versions of theme standards I know - from crime jazz ("Johnny Staccato", "The Untouchables") to funky 70's stompers like "The Six Million Dollar Man" and "Kojak". The percussion is especially strong, often with a slight Latin influence. There's also a Chaquito track on the Karminsky Experience's Inflight Entertainment CD. 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: loidlink@pixi.com Subject: (exotica) In-flight exotica Date: 16 Jan 1998 07:12:50 -1000 Aloha y'all- A while back, a list member noted cool tunes on Cathay Airlines in-flight channels. Thought you might want to know, if you're flying to da islands from the west coast on Hawaiian Airlines, my pardner Perry Coma programs their in-flight music with one whole channel devoted to exotica! Here's the new playlist: Flamingo/Martin Denny Junglero/Combustible Edison Friendly Island/Ethel Azama Hawaii 5-0/Arthur Lyman Polyamor=E9/Don Tiki Beach Samba/Walter Wanderly Eden's Island/Eden Ahbez Mambo Bardot/Joey Altruda Delicado/The Three Suns Mas Que Nada/Sounds Orchestral Latin-esque/Esquivel Babalu/Yma Sumac Caravan/80 Drums Around The World Cobra/Martin Denny Scheherezade/The Markko Polo Adventurers Diga Diga Doo/Bob Thompson, His Choir & Orchestra Orinoco/Robert Drasnin An Occasional Man/Don Tiki Tropicando/Les Baxter Ye Lai Sian/Arthur Lyman Leyte/Cal Tjader Enchanted Farm/The Forbidden Five So if you're heading this way... Book 'Em on Hawaiian Airlines! Alohadercci, Fluid Floyd/Don Tiki # 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 Subject: (exotica) Attileo Mineo Date: 16 Jan 1998 09:29:07 -0800 Ingemar had asked me what Mr. Mineo did after/before/his entire life as a livelihood. Just got off the phone with him and he told me he is going to send me ALL of the write ups, press clippings and whatever from day 1 I felt a little uncomfortable asking him because we had never really spoken about it. He was a musician, a composer and his entire life he has made a living with music. He played, composed, arranged and performed everything from jazz to pop to classical and opera and everything in between That's why he has thousands of "scores" all around his home in Tacoma, WA If you have read the liner notes, you will have read that he has been working on an opera and NOW he is ACTUALLY DOING IT, on the WEB and on his COMPUTER! with very real and great great vocalists and musicians. It's going to happen:) He told me he was with EPIC for awhile and in 1958 he had a great agent name of Leo Diamond!! I didn't know that, it's so funny, and this Leo Diamond (no, not the harmonica player exotique) signed him with some agency that I can't remember the name of:) I will find out more as time marches on and then of course, you all will find out more. Llllllllllllllllater, 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: "Ray Coffey" Subject: (exotica) Caravantage Date: 16 Jan 1998 13:07:42 -0400 > One of my favorite Caravans is The Ventures live version, in Tokyo, 1965. Is this from the Ventures On Stage album? Is it me, or is the audience response on this record a pathetic repeating loop of crowd noise? Why in the world would they do this? If they were going to dub it in, they could've at least made an attempt at realism. I think this is an unusual Ventures track in that there is a relatively free, flamboyant, and lengthy guitar solo. Jimmy B, you beat me to the punch with Bert K! The fuzztone guitar really makes this one work from the get-go. I'll put in a vote for Billy Mure's Supersonic Guitars' version, but it is more his general sound that I like. Ray # 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: What about the people that don't buy records Date: 16 Jan 1998 15:05:28 +0100 At 7:27 -0700 98/01/07, Jessica Cameron wrote: >They can all go to Hell! ^_- Seriously, I guess I was being a little harsh >last night. It just seems silly to shell out upwards of 15 bucks on stuff >that can be had for say, a buck (if you're willing to look around) i have said it here before, and'll say it again: you Yanks don't seem to realise how lucky you are! there ARE no 10 cent bins or thrift stores in most parts of the world!!! the USA is the only place with such an incredible amount of cheap records floating around! most CD's are actually CHEAPER than the original (rare) LP's for us Euro's, IF you can find the original at all! grunt grunt ;-)) 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) from Barely Breaken Even's catalog Date: 16 Jan 1998 15:07:49 +0100 email: benjolly@aol.com www.bbemusic.demon.co.uk BITE HARD the music de wolfe studio sampler (1972 -1980) The 10th album release on the BBE label comes from the soundtrack division within the company and represents a new direction for BBE. However, just as with all BBE releases, this is music without compromise. No fillers - just killers. Founded in 1909 by Meyer De Wolfe to cater for silent films, Music De Wolfe quickly established a high reputation. With the advent of radio and TV the company became a busy arena for talented young composers and musicians to showcase their innovative work.Their infamous session men (including Alan Hankshaw, Alan Parker and Nick Ingram) are now considered by many to be the true musical originators of their time. They experimented with a myriad of fresh techniques in the studio and contributed to many classic British television series such as The Sweeney, Whodunnit, Man About The House and The Professionals. Although the names of these tracks will probably not mean much to most, this music will be recognisable to all as the theme music to a generation of TV programmes. The descriptions should help those of you who are having trouble imagining. Cat no: BBE LP / CD 010 HARD HITTER (pacy, forceful) THE HAWK (earthy, driving, featuring synthesiser) POWER SURGE (mid-tempo, beaty, bass and drums) SPIRO (driving percussive with long dramatic notes) COLLECT (powerful active theme) MAIN CHANCE (moody, beaty, featuring synthesiser) HOGANS THING (tense, bluesy, medium slow) NIGHT MOVES (slow, furtive, moody) SUNKEN SHIP (deep, drifting, bubbling with percussion) ROCK BED 1(rock style, neutral) HOLD BACK (powerful, semi dramatic, medium slow) TRIP WIRE (dramatic, pulsing beat) CONDITION RED (ominous, mechanical, repetitive) HOT ICE (beaty, syncopated flute feature) SOUNDS UNUSUAL (funky, weird, semi mysterious) MANTARAY (slow, drifting into beaty, swirling atmosphere) Funky Sitar Man (Bill Ravi Harris And The Prophets) The combination of the sitar, a classical Indian instrument, with the contemporary raw funk sound of a James Brown style rhythm section may sound unlikely to some. However, anyone who has the experience of hearing Ravi Harris natural sound will be tempted to re-originate the sitar as an instrument rooted in the funk. This album is the product of a session that lasted days and resulted in over forty tracks being laid down. What appears here is the best of that work - original material mixed with funk classics. Harris material has remained unreleased (apart from one single) until now. Now is the time to give the music the chance it missed 20 years ago, so turn the lights down, turn the hi-fi up and turn yourself on to the long awaited groove of THE FUNKY SITAR MAN!!! Cat no: BBE LP / CD 002 PATH OF THE BLAZING SARONG / GIMME SOME MORE / HOT PANTS SOUL MAKOSSA / I DREAM OF JEANNIE / RAVIS THING / CISSY STRUT LOOK - A - PY - PY / LOST DRAGON OF THE SAHARA / PASS THE PEAS SEX MACHINE / FUNKY SITAR MAN / SAME BEAT # 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) Caravantage Date: 16 Jan 1998 14:54:48 -0500 > From: Ray Coffey > Subject: (exotica) Caravantage > > > One of my favorite Caravans is The Ventures live version, in Tokyo, 1965. > Is this from the Ventures On Stage album? > Is it me, or is the audience response on this record a pathetic repeating > loop of crowd noise? > Why in the world would they do this? If they were going to dub it in, they > could've at least made an attempt at realism. > I think this is an unusual Ventures track in that there is a relatively > free, flamboyant, and lengthy guitar solo. This version is from the 1995 EMI cd, "Live In Japan '65" which seems to be the entire March 5, 1965 Tokyo Kosei Nenkin Hall show in original sequence. I would say uncut, but you never know. It has a genuine live audience (even a polite scream of excitement in the middle of their INTENSE "Pipeline" cover). And between-song patter in English and Japanese by local club MC, Bing Conception (who also translated for a 15 minute Q&A session during intermission, according to the liner notes). If you want to hear the Ventures in a raw, "you are there on the stage" form, I really recommend this cd. It changed the way I look at them. They were a hell of a strong live act -- hitting as hard as any punk band ever did. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ (Movies Of The Week tv picks for Jan. 11 to 18 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: enjoy@singnet.com.sg (ENJOY) Subject: (exotica) help me please! Date: 17 Jan 1998 01:07:31 +0800 (SGT) Hello listees! i will be going to Tokyo in February and was wondering if there are any worthy places and record stores to visit. Thanks in advance! Bobby "All that glitters is your SOUL" # 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: jmperl@juno.com (Jonathan M Perl) Subject: (exotica) Hidden bargains Date: 16 Jan 1998 16:23:56 -0500 Just to prove that there even the most unlikely places can throw up bargains, a recent trip to HMV's 'revolutionary' Sale unearthed one of those Ennio Morricone Italian import 2 on one CDs on Beat records. (two s/ts from 1977). Plus an assortment of Blue Note CDs, including Gil Evans and Lou Donaldson. And some UK trip-hop compilation. All for $2.50 each. Hurrah! Regards Jonny # 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: Rcbrooksod Subject: Re: (exotica) In-flight exotica Date: 16 Jan 1998 18:14:24 EST That Enchanted Farm has gotta blow their minds! ! ! ! Great way to end the program. (See end of list below) Robert << Here's the new playlist: Flamingo/Martin Denny Junglero/Combustible Edison Friendly Island/Ethel Azama Hawaii 5-0/Arthur Lyman Polyamoré/Don Tiki Beach Samba/Walter Wanderly Eden's Island/Eden Ahbez Mambo Bardot/Joey Altruda Delicado/The Three Suns Mas Que Nada/Sounds Orchestral Latin-esque/Esquivel Babalu/Yma Sumac Caravan/80 Drums Around The World Cobra/Martin Denny Scheherezade/The Markko Polo Adventurers Diga Diga Doo/Bob Thompson, His Choir & Orchestra Orinoco/Robert Drasnin An Occasional Man/Don Tiki Tropicando/Les Baxter Ye Lai Sian/Arthur Lyman Leyte/Cal Tjader Enchanted Farm/The Forbidden Five >> # 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 Subject: (exotica) Wordless Vocals Date: 16 Jan 1998 16:54:01 -0800 I can't remember if anyone mentioned the new reissue release of "Svenzia Inferno E Paradiso", translated, "Sweden, Heaven and Hell" as it is overflowing with Wordless Vocals and what an incredible reissue it is with 12 unreleased tracks like 2 more versions of Man-Ha Man-Ha Throbbing Organs all over those glorious wordless vocals, killer electric guitars over more wordless vocals et al It's the S*** 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: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Attileo "Swinging Trees" Mineo Date: 16 Jan 1998 20:09:42 -0500 (EST) At 09:29 AM 1/16/98 -0800, Jack Diamond wrote: >Ingemar had asked me what Mr. Mineo did after/before/his entire life as a >livelihood. >He was a musician, a composer and his entire life he has made a living with >music. Here's Attilio Mineo's ASCAP Writers page: These are the song titles registered with ASCAP: ATTILIO BABY MINE CHAINED IT'S THE TIME IT'S THE PLACE ITALIAN WALTZ LENTO S BOLERO NON SAI SAVE THEM FOR ME SOLO PEI TE SOLO PER TE ONLY FOR YOU SOUNDS OF LOVE SWINGING TREES WALTZ OF LOVE YOU ARE EVERYTHING Anyone familiar with any of these? --Lou # 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: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Antoinette S. Mineo Date: 16 Jan 1998 20:49:16 -0500 (EST) Apparently Mr. Mineo wrote most of his tunes with Mrs. Mineo. Here's her ASCAP page and song titles: Title(s): AMONG THE STARS WITH LOPEZ ATTILIO BABY MINE CELESTIAL HOLIDAY CHAINED DANCE DREAM IT'S THE TIME IT'S THE PLACE ITALIAN WALTZ JUPITER'S BOLERO LENTO'S BOLERO LISTEN LOVE MARS GOES LATIN MONORAIL HOP CONTAINED IN M PLUTO'S DANCE RELAX REMEMBER RHAPSODY TWENTY ONE ROMANCE SATURN IN SATIN SAVE THEM FOR ME SOUNDS OF LOVE SWINGING TREES THRILL TOUCH OF VENUS WALTZ OF LOVE WALTZ OF THE GALAXIES YOU ARE EVERYTHING # 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: Philip Jackson Subject: Re: (exotica) Caravan! Date: 17 Jan 1998 14:27:51 +1100 (EST) Jack wrote.. > > Chico Hamilton Quintet, > Is this the version with Tony Bennet singing and Chico on drums or an instrumental. # 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: Taro HOSHIJIMA Subject: Re: (exotica) japanese imports Date: 17 Jan 1998 13:47:25 +0900 On Thu, 15 Jan 1998 23:59:39 +0000 the_curator@rawpaw.demon.co.uk wrote: > 1. A Picture Disc 45 of Andy Williams singing adverts in Japanese for > Ajinomoto - that's monosodium glutamate to you and me - that one's as thick > as quite a thick thing (1963) The one coupled with "Hawaiian Wedding Song" (no pun intended), right? I have one. It should be around 1969 or 1970 not 1963. I remember writing a letter to get the one from the sponsor at that time (it was a sales promotion item not for sale). If it had been 1963, I wouldn't have known how to write ;-) The household popularity of Andy Williams in Japan in the late 60s owed a lot to his weekly-aired TV show on NHK TV. (According to my source, "The Andy Williams Show" was aired here only in 1966, though.) Taro HOSHIJIMA email: wy9t-hsjm@asahi-net.or.jp alias: htaro@cool.email.ne.jp (forwarded to the above address) http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~wy9t-hsjm/ # 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) Chaquito / John Gregory on CD Date: 17 Jan 1998 11:08:04 EST In a message dated 98-01-16 07:28:44 EST, wmuller@dieburger.com writes: << About 2 years ago a CD was released called "Mission Impossible" under John Gregory and His Orchestra. (I can find out the catalogue number if needed). The CD is a selection off his TV and movie theme LP's between the early 60's and mid-70's. It has about twenty tracks and contain some of the best versions of theme standards I know - from crime jazz ("Johnny Staccato", "The Untouchables") to funky 70's stompers like "The Six Million Dollar Man" and "Kojak". The percussion is especially strong, often with a slight Latin influence. There's also a Chaquito track on the Karminsky Experience's Inflight Entertainment CD. >> There is also killer John Gregory on the Sound Gallery Vol 1. 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: studio@wayno.com (Wayno) Subject: (exotica) Kirby Stone Four - Missing Single Date: 17 Jan 1998 12:42:23 -0500 If anyone on the list has a copy of (or knows of a source for) the Kirby Stone Four's single "Who Parked The Car?" (45 preferred, 78 OK), please e-mail me off-list. Thanks, Wayno # 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: ChuckTFrog Subject: Re: (exotica) japanese imports Date: 17 Jan 1998 14:42:30 EST Hello- I was Andy's guitar player during that time. We worked at Expo '70 (in Osaka, and several other cities incl. Tokyo, Fukuoka, Hiroshima, etc.) and were entertained one night by several execs from Ajino-moto - an unforgettable night at a geisha house -- I believe he recorded those spots on that trip in or around May 1970.... Regards to all Chuck # 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) free dewolfe cd Date: 17 Jan 1998 20:47:18 +0100 if you live outside the US, don't bother to ask for their "free, no obligation DeWolfe Music Compact Disc.", because - quote - From: DEWOLFE4U Subject: Re: free, no obligation DeWolfe Music Compact Disc. I a very sorry, we do not service outside of the USA. - end quote - # 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) the eXotica Releases Overview has problems... Date: 18 Jan 1998 14:29:24 +0100 dear fellow eXoticans! Due to some technical (software) problems, there won't be an eXotica Releases Overview update on my web site this week. I'm fixing it as soon as possible. Sorry for any inconvenience! 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: bag@hubris.net Subject: (exotica) briefee on SF Date: 18 Jan 1998 23:27:58 +0000 I was in San Francisco last weekend and checked into the Salvation Army Thrift Store on Valencia (26th?). There: 50 cents a record. Very difficult to paw through. I had to fix the shelves to prevent them from bending the records underneath! Anyway, found a bunch of TIME LPs that may turn out to be interesting (I'll know when I get my package which I mailed last Monday). Community Thrift, at about 17th and Valencia, has half its records in nice bins and the other half in shelves underneath...roughly organized by genre (though you shouldn't trust this entirely: some records defy boundaries). Its a $1.50 a record. I found a great Edmundo Ros Phase 4 LP with Tiki artwork on the cover and some other interesting LPs. The Book Bay at Fort Mason Center still has some records...and they cost $1 each. Most are classical, but I found some interesting records mixed in. I found a Nat King Cole version of El Choclo I am interested in hearing. MacDonald's Books in the Tenderloin district looks really ratty, but I found some interesting records there in an only half hour search (these I brought back myself in the plane...da plane, da plane): Larry Elgart Music in Motion MGM SE 4028. Another one of those 21 Channel Sound records (I believe I have two others in the series). Not spectacular, but interesting. Si Zentner Music That's Going Places Liberty RC-1. An unusual number from the run of the mill Liberty releases because this must have been some promotional item for Royal Crown Cola, as this was marked "Royal Crown Cola Album of Hit Tunes." This is merely a compilation of stuff from seven Zentner Liberty releases being pushed at the time. Charles Magnante Roman Spectacular Vol. 2 Grand Award 374. Hey, with Terry Snyder and Dick Hyman, how can you miss? Its pretty good. I have another Magnante on the GA label and like his stuff. Now, I know I could have found these eventually in Portland...but the prices weren't TOO unreasonable and the condition for almost every LP I got was excellent. I guess I did want to prove something: it is possible to find interesting used records in SF that don't cost a lot. Oh, just an aside: my 386 SX-16's hard drive crashed...so I did what I have long wanted to do, get a new Pentium 233 mhz. However, I did lose my email info. Please feel free to email me with URL's you may have sent along to the list in the past...now that I can truly do some incredible web surfing (I just got off Jack Diamond's site...saw the whole thing faster than I would have believed...and on a vey nice 17 inch color SVGA display). Byron Byron Byron Caloz Portland, Oregon, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky Way # 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: the_curator@rawpaw.demon.co.uk Subject: (exotica) Eden Ahbez: "Echoes From Nature Boy" Date: 18 Jan 1998 23:25:34 +0000 People As a big fan of "Eden's Island" I'm very curious about this. Can anyone tell us what it's like: * Eden Ahbez: "Echoes From Nature Boy" CD, Accent, USA, 1997 friendly Sem Sinatra Silencer: http://www.sonnet.co.uk/silencer ...."as if music mattered" # 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: stefan@subliminal.se (Subliminal Sounds) Subject: Re: (exotica) Eden Ahbez: "Echoes From Nature Boy" Date: 19 Jan 1998 14:14:02 +0100 (MET) the curator wrote: >As a big fan of "Eden's Island" I'm very curious about this. Can anyone >tell us what it's like: >* Eden Ahbez: "Echoes From Nature Boy" > CD, Accent, USA, 1997 Odds and ends from the Natur Boy. The recordings that were in the Accent vaults. Most have synths etc...not so good but you can still hear his wonderful melodies. Most are instrumentals but Eden sings on a couple of tracks but not on Nature Boy. It was put togeteher and released by a catholic priest who sort of cared for Eden's soul. That's what he told me over the phone. The CD was done mainly to be sent out to Eden's friends over the world after he had passed away. Accent was going to distribute it but they never did. Now the most interesting things is that there will soon be a book out by Eden!!!! The publisher will be this same guy who released the CD: Golden World. If you really still want the CD I have it available in my mail-order list. Stefan/Subliminal Sounds # 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 Subject: (exotica) Jimmie Haskel's COUNTDOWN! Date: 16 Jan 1998 17:13:23 -0800 Just scored a 45 RPM that comes from Jimmie Haskel's COUNTDOWN lp and though it doesn't say this on the 12" I have, either the Stereo or Mono copy, mind you On the 45 it says as the credit's for Rockin' In The Orbit-Sub Titled as Space Satellite Written by "Big Jay Sputnik" The flip is Astrosonic-Sub Tilted as "Jet Rocket"(No Writer Credit) Oh yeeeeeeees, always learnin' new stuff about rekkids I have had for sooooooo long:) I LOVE IT!!! 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: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: James Taylor Quartet Date: 18 Jan 1998 20:30:33 +0100 JTQ's "Mission Impossible" CD (Acid Jazz label) track list: blow up; one mint julep; be my girl; Mission Impossible; untitled no. 1; goldfinger; the cat; Mrs Robinson; alfie; the stooge; untitled no. 2. 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: Ross Orr Subject: (exotica) Caravan and Beyond Date: 19 Jan 1998 15:21:55 -0500 I have to second the nomination of the Three Suns' "Caravan" as the most wigged version out there. But I want to mention one other dark-horse candidate: the version from _Electronic Organ_ by "Jack Anderson at the Baldwin Organ" (Audio Fidelity, 1958). This has an odd grunting bass line, cheesy nasal organ (plus chimes SFX), and a delightfully uncertain sense of timing. Irv Cottler's version from _Around the World in Percussion_(Somerset) is pretty rockin' too. But to bend the rules a bit, what I REALLY want to post about is another record I just brought home, which has the oddest version of "Quiet Village" I have ever heard. . . It's from _Lonely Harpisichord: Rainy Night in Shangri-La_ by Jonathan Knight (Viva Records). This record just has it all! Bird calls, pop dual harpischord instrumentals, even "Mystic Moods"-style thunderstorm sounds throughout! (Better make a stop in the restroom before putting this one on.) Dear friends, it's been too long since I've had one of Those Moments. . . you know, when you put on a new vinyl find. . . play a few bars. . . and just throw up your hands to the heavens and say, "Yessss!!! YESSS!!! Lord, smote me down right here, because it's all downhill after this!" But this was one of those moments. I also have Geroge Wright doing "Quiet Village" on the pipe organ. . . Any other memorable "QV" versions out there? Yours in Shangri-La, --Ross || Ross "Mambo Frenzy" Orr || Ann Arbor, Michigan 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: Jack Subject: (exotica) Oddest versions of anything! Date: 19 Jan 1998 12:49:00 -0800 >But to bend the rules a bit, what I REALLY want to post about is another >record I just brought home, which has the oddest version of "Quiet Village" >I have ever heard. . . > >It's from _Lonely Harpisichord: Rainy Night in Shangri-La_ by Jonathan >Knight (Viva Records). For me:) Hands down the oddest version of Quiet Village is on Lalo Schifrin's "Black Widow" LP/CD Totally un-iden-ti-fi-able...totally unidentifiable Totally Another totally unidentifiable version of a tune is "White Christmas" from the Three Suns and can be found on their "Have A Ding Dong Dandy Christmas" LP RCA I have listened to it IN DEPTH and it is not there! No melody for it at all...AT ALL! 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: Hugh Petfield Subject: (exotica) A-Z of Easy Listening Date: 19 Jan 1998 22:15:32 +0000 George Martin's 13 week musical trip along the A-Z of Easy Listening, after a very forgettable second part, reached some class acts this week. Included were 'Clair de Lune' by Martin Denny, which Martin played but didn't seem to like. His comment was: "I don't think that arrangement really does the original justice. for one thing I think the harmonies are a bit too distorted but Martin Denny, who's a pianist and nightclub attraction in Hawaii - I suppose he can put a smile on your face with that jazzy take of what's always been a lovely piece of music. Debussy's been better served, I think in the hands of people like Liberace and Richard Clayderman, what we might call candlelight pianists." However, the program ended with Denny's "Swamp Fire" and next week's part promises to include "E for Exotica: the work of Les Baxter". One useful piece in this week's show was a bit on the clarinet. I hadn't appreciated how differently this instrument could be played/made to sound. The Carpenters were also covered this week, and while Richard C's contribution was interesting, it didn't reveal anything new. Hugh. PS: I realled liked Martin Denny's "Clair de Lune" - is it available on CD? # 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) Feb. on GROOVIE MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS Date: 18 Jan 1998 16:08:17 -0800 Hey y'all! Still digging out those forgotten tunes from Hollywood's big butt! =================================================== February 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 31: February 1 Missing from the screen these days are mean-spirited satires like "LORD LOVE A DUCK" (66), whose theme by THE WILD ONES flips the bird at everything in sight. GALT Mc DERMOT’s old-school gangsta grooves move uptown when "COTTON COMES TO HARLEM" (70). Harlem comes to Hong Kong for a bloody culture clash in "THE REVENGE OF MISTER MOPOJI" (74), with a soul soundtrack by MIKE JACKSON. Also THE SANDALS’ tubular tunes from "THE LAST OF THE SKI BUMS" (69). SHOW 32: February 8 Composer JIM HELMS kicks up the dust for the giant desert biker brawl that is "ANGEL UNCHAINED" (70). ROD STEIGER’s lesson on Jewishness masks a torrent of self-hate in "THE PAWNBROKER" (65); QUINCY JONES’ music picks up the slack when the going gets rough. England’s crown prince of TV themes, RON GRAINER, packs a wallop with his opener from the long-forgotten BBC actioner "MAN IN THE NEWS" (c. 66). Plus game show god CHUCK BARRIS: talented tunesmith, too? SHOW 33: February 15 Love gone rancid is the theme of our half-assed stab at a Valentine’s Day special. WOODY is no BOGIE but he's funnier in the soundtrack from "PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM" (72), complete with an added laugh track that must’ve ruffled his red feathers. KENYON HOPKINS’ swampy, southern gothic funk adds to the agony of KARL MALDEN in his pathetic lust for teen bride "BABY DOLL" (56). But rare DAVIE ALLAN AND THE ARROWS surf tracks liven up the white trash comedy "WIFE CHILD" (68). SHOW 34: February 22 Pre-schmaltz JOHN(NY) WILLIAMS puts a wiggle in the walk of bikini-clad bank robber NATALIE WOOD in "PENELOPE" (66). "WILLIE DYNAMITE" (74) launches an all-out mack attack with a pimp-slappin’ score by J. J. JOHNSON. Aging mobster GEORGE C. SCOTT gets it up one more time with the help of soundtrack godfather JERRY GOLDSMITH in "THE LAST RUN" (71). And CORY McABEE’s psycho-lounge act known as "THE BILLY NAYER SHOW" celebrates the video release of its films. ==================================== Outside the Bay Area? Listen on the Internet! www.kusf.org 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: "Waldo Muller" Subject: (exotica) Quiet Village Date: 20 Jan 1998 10:28:42 +0200 > I also have Geroge Wright doing "Quiet Village" on the pipe organ. . . > > Any other memorable "QV" versions out there? > Lalo Schifrin does a enjoyable, smooth 70's funky version on his "Black Widow" LP. 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: "Waldo Muller" Subject: (exotica) John Gregory CD compilation Date: 20 Jan 1998 12:07:55 +0200 Hi there In response to the requests for info on the John Gregory CD compilation: It is called "Mission: Impossible and other TV themes" - Mercury 532 986-2, released in 1996. Compiled from the LP's "Channel Thrill" (1961), "TV Thrillers" (1972) and "The Detectives" (1976). 1. Mission Impossible 2. The Rockford Files 3. Cannon 4. Softly, Softly 5. Columbo 6. M Squad 7. A Man Called Ironside 8. Griff 9. The Untouchables 10. Mannix 11. Route 66 12. McMillan & Wife 13. Harry-O 14. Streets of San Francisco 15. The Six Million Dollar Man] 16. Hawai 5-0 17. It Takes A Thief 18. Theme From S.W.A.T. 19. I Spy 20. McCloud 21. Perry Mason 22. The Name Of The Game 23. Banacek 24. Johnny Staccato 25. Policewoman 26. The Sweeny 27. The Avengers 28. Kojak Apart from the great, great music ... what makes this 1996 release so special, is the marketing and sleeve notes - completely unlounge mentality. Very untrendy presentation. The picture and font on the CD sleeve is sort of late 80's with a photograph of a lit stick of dynamite. The sleeve notes are written by someone who does not try to push (or is even aware of) any hipness or hype - even though the tracks blow many of the very sauve and designer-cool Sound Gallery and Karminsky attempts away. There is no sales coercion along the lines of lots-of-cool-people-are-getting-down-to-this-retro-stuff-now. Towards the end of the notes, the author seems to forget she is writing about a CD when she starts praising the stereo on "this record" in all seriousness: "The entire record is a wonderful opportunity for stereo enthusiasts to demonstrate their sound system to maximum advantage". 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: peter_risser@cinfin.com Subject: (exotica) Scooby Date: 21 Jan 1998 01:00:20 UT Does anyone know who does those songs that they played sometimes during the Scooby Doo monster chase scenes and if any of them are available anywhere besides taping them off the Cartoon Network? I've got really crappy digitizations of them, and they are infernally catchy. I was wondering if anyone had any other info. 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: BasicHip Subject: Re: (exotica) Scooby Date: 20 Jan 1998 09:47:44 EST << Does anyone know who does those songs that they played sometimes during the Scooby Doo monster chase scenes and if any of them are available anywhere besides taping them off the Cartoon Network? Hoyt Curtain was the musical director for Hanna Barbera cartoons. there are a couple of HB discs out by Rhino, but i don't know if the underscores you ask about are on them - probably just main themes. # 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: Re[2]: (exotica) Scooby Date: 21 Jan 1998 03:19:45 UT << Does anyone know who does those songs that they played sometimes during the Scooby Doo monster chase scenes and if any of them are available anywhere besides taping them off the Cartoon Network?>> Actually, let me be more clear. I'm not talking instrumentals, I'm talking they had pop vocals, with some lyrics and I think one of the choruses was just "na na na na". So, I'm talking actual songs that might have been recorded by an actual band... 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: NATHAN MINER Subject: (exotica) Caravan and Beyond -Reply Date: 20 Jan 1998 10:32:56 -0500 >>> Ross Orr 01/19/98 03:21pm >>> <> Ross: I love that!!!!! (I'll second that Irv Cotler version of "Caravan") - 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: Ross Orr Subject: (exotica) More Command/Project 3 Date: 20 Jan 1998 10:47:59 -0500 Seems like a lot of Command and Project 3 stuff has been washing up here lately. . . some of it pretty scary. . . _Dimension 3_, Enoch Light and the Light Brigade (1964). I've noticed there is one particular gimmick that gets beaten to death in the later Command/Enoch stuff: It's the "stop-start" thing. They play a little snatch of the melody, answer it with a little bongo fill or a horn blast, then play another little bit of the melody, another answer, etc. . . Until you want to scream, "just play the damn song, willya?" Anyway, this one has way too much of that going on. But there's good Dick Hyman organ, and they do cut loose on "Carribe" and "Swamp Fire." _Spanish Guitar_, Tony Mottola (1962). Sorry, this one was a bit too tasteful and restrained for me. I'm keeping it mainly for "Tico Tico" (which is a hard one to wreck anyway). This version uses the pleasantly improbable combination of recorder and fat electric bass; frisky tambourine keeps it all moving along. _Charge_, Enoch Light and the Light Brigade (1972 Project 3--a Quad LP!). Imagine Enoch covering all the pop hits of Neil Diamond, James Taylor, Elton John, and even the Bee Gees. In short, excruciating. Occasionally some freaky Vinnie Bell guitar blip will float to the surface, but still I don't think I'm going to keep this one. _Enoch Light and the Brass Menagerie, Volume 2_ (1969 Project 3). Mercy, does this have a scary cover photo. . . a perky woman wearing blue sequins, white gloves and white go-go boots is dancing surrounded by brass instruments. She is waving a whip around, and has such heavy mascara that she looks like a satanic clown or something. . . Brrrrrr! Anyway, this one is a keeper, if only for the three Tuba-enriched cover versions of songs from "Hair." Then there's a pretty mind-bending version of "Gentle on My Mind," plus Dick Hyman's twisted "Stars and Stripes '69"--kind of a soft-rock/TJB remake of the Sousa march, complete with halftime-show whistles. . . wow. _Roman Guitar_, Tony Mottola (1960) While this was still fairly subdued, I liked it better than _Spanish Guitar_. There's a nice steady patter of bongos running through the whole thing, it's really sort of crypto-Latin. With the "ping pong" song introductions, you can feel the family relation to the original Command _Persuasive Percussion_ et al. _Young Lovers On-Broadway_, Ray Charles Singers (1965). OK, keep in mind that my personal idea of Hell is having perky young voices skipping through Broadway show tunes. . . Even so, this was really evil. I didn't think it could be done, but they even ruined "Mack the Knife." I just wanted to kill them all, and maybe then you could hear a little bit more of Dick Hyman. The only bright point was that this album still had a Business Reply Mail envelope inside, where you could write away to Command and get a sampler LP for $2.98. I always fantasize about there being some kind of time wormhole where you could actually send off a check and order products from 30 years ago, so this pleasant fantasy helped keep my mind off the singing, temporarily. Yours a Go-go, --Ross || Ross "Mambo Frenzy" Orr || Ann Arbor, Michigan 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: Joe Batutis Subject: (exotica) Celebrities and LSD Date: 20 Jan 1998 11:52:02 -0500 (EST) hey there, I just picked up a couple of CDs at a local CD store in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Nick Bougas Presents Celebrities... At Their Worst (DEC-5) Mad Deadly Worldwide Communist Gangster Computer God P.O. Box 420464, San Francisco, CA 94142 This is a two CD set of all the most infamous bloopers and celebrity cussing (Orson Welles, Casey Kasem, the Troggs) plus a bunch of lesser known magical moments. My favorite is the track that starts the collection; a drunken John Wayne addressing an ROTC group. In his words: "RE-GODDAMN-DICULOUS" Willard Cantelon LSD Battle for the Mind (DEC-3) (same as above) An LSD LP Two-fer. Featuring "LSD-Battle for the Mind" and "Instant Insanity Drugs" Lots of fun descriptions of people who think they can fly, plus the usual crazy mixture of sound effects and music to simulate the "trip". Mad Deadly Worldwide Communist Gangster Computer God also put out a CD of Criswell that I mentioned in a previous post. All their CDs are cheap, filled to the brim (long) and have good sound quality. Their name comes from some krackpot visionary. Anyone care to comment on these releases or know of other good sources for celebrity "curse" tapes? -ENOK LITE # 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: kevin@astsoft.com (kevin leeeee) Subject: (exotica) Switched On (LA happening) Date: 19 Jan 1998 19:11:06 -0800 hey all, i've been long gone, and i'm sure you all miss me. anyway, i want to let those of you in the greater los angeles area that dj's lance rock and hypnotique will be the regular wednesday night dj's at Goldfingers (6423 Yucca St. Hollywood (213) 962-2913). with your hostess ms. micki o. and usually some suprises. according to the flyer the musical modes that may constitute "Switched On" night include: moog grooves, bossa nova, latin jazz, spy soundtracks, classic a&m, project 3, french bonbons, italian softcore, 60's pop changeuses, and modern experimentalists.... (project 3 -? i don't know what that is.... i think i know what french bonbons are... and modern experimentalists i think includes the likes of pizzicatto 5, dimitri from paris, gentle people, etc...) there's free parking and a smoking patio too. please make a note of it. thanks and hope to see you there, kevin leeeeeeee ps jill mingo go fans note that she will be dj'ing the last wednesday of january at switched on. woo hoo! # 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: Mark Reed Subject: Re: (exotica) Impact! & Impact II Date: 20 Jan 1998 12:02:23 -0500 m.ace wrote: > Which reminds me of this 1964 vintage comp I've previously mentioned: "Oldies > By Various Artists" (Wyncote/Cameo-Parkway). Does anyone know when the term > "oldies" came into vogue? As I recall a song called "Those Oldies but Goodies Remind Me of You" by Little Caesar and the was one of the earliest mention of oldies. Urban format stations now sometimes refer to them as "dusties". # 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: Rolf Harris has a new record out right now... Date: 20 Jan 1998 19:07:52 +0100 At 5 Jan 1998 15:26:52 GMT, Peter Hipwell wrote: >Rolf has a new record out right now... and it sucks! i was expecting (hoping?) it would be as silly as his "rolf rules ok" covers cd, but it is an attempt to making "serious" covers, and it is o so boooooooooooring! 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: KEIRK@vax2.concordia.ca Subject: (exotica) Ferrante and Teicher review, 1963 Date: 20 Jan 1998 17:42:31 +0000 (HELP) Just came across this _Billboard_ review of F&T's _THe Keys to Her Apartment_ (United Artists 6247), from Feb. 23rd, 1963: "Dealer's can't go wrong with this album; it's bound to become a favorite with the "Playboy" set, as well as F&T fans, for it contains a smoothly arranged dozen "mood" standards such as "Love Walked In" and "Embraceable You." The tune title, incidentally, suggests the storyline of a romantic evening, concluding with "Goodnight Sweetheart." Sound is lush and dreamy . . . and successful." Can anyone confirm this...? From BossaNovaVille, Keir # 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: Darrell Brogdon Subject: (exotica) Jungle Girl Date: 20 Jan 1998 17:18:43 -0800 Anybody see this latest Betty Page release from QDK Media, the follow-up to their earlier "Danger Girl"? This one's sub-titled "exotique music", though it's not particularly exotic--more of a mixed bag of big band exotica, mambos, crime jazz, beatnik bongos, etc. plus another booklet of Betty Page cheesecake, albeit jungle cheesecake. First-rate stuff! Got mine at Footlight Records. "Betty Page: Jungle Girl" (QDK Media CD 17) 1 Rumbanita Roger Roger 2 Fly By Night Roger Webb 3 Jungle Jazz Nino Nardini 4 Visit to Florida Jack Arel/Jean Claude Petit 5 X Cert Johnny Hawksworth 6 Let's Go ??? 7 Bianca Blanca Roger Roger 8 Bongos, Bass'N'Beat ??? 9 Industrial Samba Robert Farnon 10 Lucky Mambo Eric Delaney 11 Mambonanza Howard Shaw 12 Man from Malibu-Latin ??? 13 Man from Malibu-Ending ??? 14 Moon Over Rio Robert Farnon 15 Roger Mambo Roger Roger 16 Breaking Point Malcolm Lockyer 17 Crimes Haralt Winkler 18 Detective Theme Frank Cordell 19 Jane Bond Theme Johnny Hawksworth 20 Softly Sally Roger Webb 21 Swinging City John Barry (same as Beat for Beatniks on Barry Yrs Vol. 1) 22 Attente Camille Salvage 23 Sweet Danser John Cacavas 24 Sun Girl ??? # 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) Dusties Date: 20 Jan 1998 19:49:32 -0500 (EST) Oldies these days are frequently referred to as dusties especially on black stations where a "dusty" show is part of their weekly programming line-up....I have a radio drop-in I use a lot where a Black DJ buddy 'o' mine with a reeel deep soul bro' type voice says "Straight from the vault....A Musty Dusty"....Jimmy/programmed Ultra-Musty Dusty Soul for a while # 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) Pizzicato 5 Date: 20 Jan 1998 19:57:00 -0500 (EST) Not to beat a dead horse, but the relatively new P-5 LP is the joint....... # 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 Subject: (exotica) Man in Space With Sounds Date: 20 Jan 1998 20:02:48 -0800 Byron, Hi:) So are you into that super cool cool outer space age pop electronica exotic thing at all ? Do you know of any super cool CD/CD Rekkid stores where you live that you think would like to carry my and Stefan Kery's CD; Attileo Mineo Conducts Man in Space With Sounds Did you see that on my New Arrivals page when you went there on your brand spankin' new Microsoft Internet Explorer. I just downloaded 1 too as I have been with NETSCAPE forever and ever It's fast all right, but weird as all of MS products are I'm about to upgrade to Front Page '98 for my web site and am getting another web site that will be only for art/rekkid covers and such, soooooooooooooo many more to go! So please let me know about any stores "up there" that you think I might want to contact that would want to carry the "Man in Space CD" and thanks! # 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 Hipwell Subject: Re: (exotica) Celebrities and LSD Date: 21 Jan 1998 11:46:04 GMT > From: Joe Batutis > > Mad Deadly Worldwide Communist Gangster Computer God also put out a CD of > Criswell that I mentioned in a previous post. All their CDs are cheap, > filled to the brim (long) and have good sound quality. Their name comes > from some krackpot visionary. > Francis E. Dec. See http://www.teleport.com/~dkossy/dec.html # 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: (exotica) Dusty Springfield on teevee Date: 21 Jan 1998 11:51:04 -0500 This coming Sunday night (Jan. 25), Bravo is airing a British documentary on Dusty Springfield at 8:00 pm and again later at 1:05 am (eastern standard times). I've seen it before, and it's pretty darned good with a lot of rare old footage -- even some of The Springfields (the pre-solo folk trio with her brother, Tom). Of course, Mr. Burt B. appears in old and new footage. It would actually make a good double-bill with the PBS Bacharach documentary that aired not so long ago. Oh yeah, it also has some goofy footage of Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders interviewing Dusty -- sort of spurious, but amusing. Yes, this is the show that the Collectors' Choice catalog was selling as a video a little while back. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # 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) Desperate Question Date: 21 Jan 1998 09:19:58 PST Just because it may be worth a shot: would anyone have an extra jacket for Les Baxter's Ports of Pleasure lp to sell or trade? I found a copy of the lp in great condition. Usually it's empty jackets... Thank you, Waugh ______________________________________________________ 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: NATHAN MINER Subject: Re: (exotica) Celebrities and LSD -Reply Date: 21 Jan 1998 12:24:11 -0500 Joe wrote: Their name comes > from some krackpot visionary. That wasn't just some krackpot (that's crackpot BTW) visionary(!!) no, no. That was the one and only Criswell, infamous for introducing what's been called (but it's not really by far, I've seen MUCH MUCH worse!!!) "The worst movie ever made" - yes, you guessed it all you trendy Gen-Xer's out there: Plan 9 From Outer Space!! Criswell had his own (radio I think-TV?......somebody clarify that?) show, predicting who, what, when, and how would happen. I think he also put out a book. He was also in Night of the Ghouls, and me thinks Orgy of the Dead - all concocted by that maestro in Angora - Ed Wood, Jr. - 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: NATHAN MINER Subject: (exotica) Hugo Winterhalter (SP ??) Date: 21 Jan 1998 12:29:23 -0500 Okay, what's the poop on this guy? His "South of the Border" LP kicks ass - and the cover's a hoot as well (he obviously loves the wymmen since he's got another ridiculous cover for "Wish You Were Here" - this one's got a rough looking blonde on a mock island in a nightie with her white undies tied to the coconut tree as the "SOS" flag). "Wish You Were Here" was a big disappointment after hearing "South," although there are a few winners (Slow Boat to China, and a blues number "Goodbye Blues" or something?......). What else is out there, and do all his covers feature a fetching female?? - 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: MUV96TBD@Student2.lu.se (Chester W. Nimitz) Subject: (exotica) The 5th Dimension/Jimmy Webb/Van Dyke Parks Date: 21 Jan 1998 19:27:26 +0100 Three questions - three artists :), I got a tape which has a song by The 5th Dimension called "Up Up And Away" (thanks again, DanielA :)), I really like it and I wonder if their other stuff is just as good? What records should I start out with? There's a Best Of album which was released recently, is that a good introduction? Anykind of info... I think Jimmy Webb wrote Up Up And Away. Now, I've heard some of his songs which were good but they were basically recorded with only a single piano and vocals; has Webb or any related artist (Glen Campbell?) released any records with really orchestrated songs, y'know with lots of strings or brass or whatever, bigger productions, simply?? Finally, to my surprise I found out yesterday that Van Dyke Parks starred in Twin Peaks as a character called Jack Racine!! I'm a really big TP-fan but I can't for the world remember this character...anyone know who he was, if he was a, erm, hero or villain?? He supposedly entered the plot in episode #10...but I can't remember Van Dyke's face at all from Twin Peaks! Anyone?? Chester W. Nimitz "Up up and away in my beautiful, My beautiful balloon" # 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: Kerry Keane Subject: Re: (exotica) The 5th Dimension/Jimmy Webb/Van Dyke Parks Date: 21 Jan 1998 13:24:26 -0600 (CST) On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Chester W. Nimitz wrote: > I got a tape which has a song by The 5th Dimension called "Up Up And Away" > (thanks again, DanielA :)), I really like it and I wonder if their other > stuff is just as good? What records should I start out with? There's a Best > Of album which was released recently, is that a good introduction? Anykind > of info... I think the Best Of looks pretty good to me, but try and track down the l.p.'s if you can, especially _The Magic Garden_, which is a Jimmy Webb-composed concept album about a hippy guy who falls in love with some society woman with whom he plays telephone tag, so he assumes she dumped him and winds up living inside a "Paper Cup". Melodrama at its finest! The "Up, Up and Away" album also has a number of Webb compositions on it, and that, too is a really fine album, if you like the 5D. > > I think Jimmy Webb wrote Up Up And Away. Now, I've heard some of his songs > which were good but they were basically recorded with only a single piano > and vocals; has Webb or any related artist (Glen Campbell?) released any > records with really orchestrated songs, y'know with lots of strings or > brass or whatever, bigger productions, simply?? > Oh, my god, the two worst records I've ever heard in my life are also by Webb (whom I adore, otherwise). They're the two Richard Harris solo albums, which are reeeaaally pretentious and drenched with strings and such. But by god, stay away. Now someone is going to post that they actually like those things, but they are beyond the pale in my revisionist world. And they're not even good for a laugh, like that bad Sonny Bono solo record. _________________________________ Kerry L. Keane http://www.ripco.com:8080/~luddite # 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) The 5th Dimension/Jimmy Webb/Van Dyke Parks Date: 21 Jan 1998 14:56:28 -0500 I rather like "Carpet Man" and "The Magic Garden" also by Webb. I suppose the best of is a good place to start as any. "Carpet Man" has the most wonderful sitar at the end. Webb also wrote "Macarthur Park". The Richard Harris version is very well orchestrated, all seven minutes of it! He may have also written "The Yard Went on Forever", which is also lushly orchestrated. # 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: Hugh Petfield Subject: Re: (exotica) The 5th Dimension/Jimmy Webb Date: 21 Jan 1998 21:28:40 +0000 Chester W Nimitz asked >Three questions - three artists :), >5th Dimension Few of their records come close to "Carpet Man". Such a good record. >has Webb or any related artist (Glen Campbell?) released any >records with really orchestrated songs, y'know with lots of strings or >brass or whatever, bigger productions, simply?? How about "MacArthur Park" by Richard Harris (and numerous others)? Productions (and songs) don't come much bigger than that!!! Hugh # 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) Up Up And A 101 Strings Date: 22 Jan 1998 11:38:01 +0200 > I think Jimmy Webb wrote Up Up And Away. Now, I've heard some of his songs > which were good but they were basically recorded with only a single piano > and vocals; has Webb or any related artist (Glen Campbell?) released any > records with really orchestrated songs, y'know with lots of strings or > brass or whatever, bigger productions, simply?? My memory might be failing me and I can't check because my record collection is not here at work, but - I think there is quite a rocking, big production "Up, Up and Away" on 101 Strings' sitar-tinted "Sounds of Today" ... which is a great, slightly flipped out LP from roughly the same time as "Astro Sounds". Both LP's are from the period after their once very straight-laced producer (Monty something?) seemed to have had a LSD-spiked cup of tea. 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: "Waldo Muller" Subject: (exotica) Up Up And An Ooops Date: 22 Jan 1998 14:32:50 +0200 A red-faced reply to my own posting... I wrote: > My memory might be failing me and I can't check because my record > collection is not here at work, but - I think there is quite a rocking, big > production "Up, Up and Away" on 101 Strings' sitar-tinted "Sounds of Today" Er, well, I was wrong. I confused "Sounds of Today" with er ... "Mantovani Today" - which contains an mid-tempo, high-EZ version of "Up, Up and Away". There's also a pleasantly twee twang-twang version by Enoch Light's Guitar Underground. But avoid the solo violin massacre on "The Sensational Sounds of Zacharias". 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: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) RIP- Jack Lord Date: 22 Jan 1998 13:08:32 -0500 (EST) HONOLULU, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- The actor best known for his staccato ``book 'em, Danno'' on television's ``Hawaii Five-0'' program has died of heart failure at the age of 78. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Steve McGarrett on the island-based cop show for 12 years, ending in 1980. During that time, actor James MacArthur played his sidekick, Danny ``Danno'' Williams. Most of the show's 284 episodes ended with McGarrett nabbing criminals and saying to Williams, ``Book em, Danno!'' After filming of ``Hawaii Five-0'' came to an end, Lord and his wife Marie elected to stay in the islands, where he died at his home on Wednesday night. Family members say that at Lord's request, there will be no funeral. Lord was born in New York City on Dec. 30, 1930. He studied art and earned a bachelor's degree at New York Univerity. His art has been displayed at several museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art. He appeared in many feature films, including ``The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell,'' ``God's Little Acre'' and ``Dr. No.'' On television, Lord appeared on the drama anthologies ``Playhouse 90'', ``Studio One'' and ``The U.S. Steel Hour.'' He had dozens of guest-starring roles in TV series, including ``Have Gun Will Travel,'' ``The Untouchables,'' ``Naked City,'' ``Rawhide,'' ``Bonanza'' and ``The Fugitive.'' In the 1962-63 season, he starred in the TV western ``Stoney Burke'' as a professional rodeo rider. ``Hawaii Five-O'' premiered in 1968. Filmed entirely on location in Hawaii, the police drama brought exotic scenery into viewers' living rooms in prime time. In addition to starring in ``Hawaii Five-O,'' Lord also directed many episodes of the show. # 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: ChuckTFrog Subject: Re: (exotica) The 5th Dimension/Jimmy Webb/Van Dyke Parks Date: 22 Jan 1998 12:50:54 EST I rather like "Carpet Man" and "The Magic Garden" also by Webb. I suppose the best of is a good place to start as any. "Carpet Man" has the most wonderful sitar at the end. Webb also wrote "Macarthur Park". The Richard Harris version is very well orchestrated, all seven minutes of it! He may have also written "The Yard Went on Forever", which is also lushly orchestrated. >> He did write "Yard" and all the tunes on it. Harris recorded 3 albums with Webb (who wrote all the songs on the first & second) AFAIK A Tramp Shining, Dunhill DS-50032 The Yard Went On Forever Dunhill DS-50042 My Boy Dunhill DSX-50116 Regards Chuck # 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: ChuckTFrog Subject: Re: (exotica) The 5th Dimension/Jimmy Webb Date: 22 Jan 1998 12:44:15 EST Jimmy Webb was (is?) a songwriter in the tradition of the great craftsmen of music. In a 60's-70's sort of way, he is the logical descendant of Berlin, VanHeusen, Richard Rodgers, Jerome Kern, with a grasp of melody, harmony, voice-leading, dynamics, and orchestration (assuming he did them all) that has rarely been approached, never mind equalled, especially in the 90's power- chord culture. IMHO, all the 5th Dimension-Webb collaborations, and all the Richard Harris-Webb are masterpieces of the aforementioned (to various degrees, of course), and don't ignore the excellent Thelma Houston "Sunshower" album on "Dunghill" DS-50054 which includes "Everybody Gets To Go To The Moon" and other great Webb tunes, e.g., Pocketful Of Keys). Just about everything else these artists did is crap. All the good stuff was by Webb. Regarding lyrics, that's another matter. I don't get into that. "MacArthur Park" has been widely panned by non-musicians but I believe ONLY because of the lyrics. (I rarely listen to lyrics, and in fact have trained myself to not hear lyrics.) Another GREAT album is "Wings" by Michel Colombier A&M-SP3503 (reissue), full of incredible musical ideas, orchestral writing and questionable lyrics/vocals by Paul Williams and others. This is definitely one of my stranded-on-a- desert-island selections. Cheers Chuck # 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: Hugh Petfield Subject: (exotica) Bell Record Date: 22 Jan 1998 19:48:31 +0000 Anyone know anything about a series of 45rpm single records from the late 50's on the Bell Record label? They appear to be cheap not particularly brilliant covers of hits e.g Bell 133 Not one minute more - Lee Bennett c/w Running Bear - Mark Devon. Record has a noticeably wide lead in, and a very thin centre section - normally singles are thicker where the label is, these are only slightly so. They all have picture covers, with two-colour printing (e.g. red and blue) and the covers are 7" wide and 8" tall: the extra half inch each end is a stripe saying 45rpm 49 cents in Canada 59c (both titles here) 133 Each song has its own illustrated side of the sleeve. One side of the sleeve says "Distributed by Pocket Books, Inc". It's as if they were sold from a browser or box, so you could flip through them quickly. Were these sold by a particular store or chain of stores please? And was this Bell Record label the precursor of the later Bell label? Thanks, Hugh. # 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) 5th Dimension Date: 22 Jan 1998 15:09:27 -0500 (EST) If you liked "Up, Up And Away", I think you will most likely like nearly EVERYTHING they recorded...They did a number of Laura Nyro tunes and added a nice pop flower-power sound to 'em. Also some later nice stuff like "Puppet Man" and Bachrach's "One Less Bell To Answer". Check out track 4 on Pizzicato 5's "Happy End Of The World" CD..There's a strong 5th Dimension/Association tribute sound in there..They also seem to be influenced by Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66.......Jimmy # 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: KEIRK@vax2.concordia.ca Subject: (exotica) Les Baxter _'Round the World_ Date: 22 Jan 1998 15:13:05 +0000 (HELP) I just came across this LP for sale, at a terrible www vinyl site with zero info. Does anyone have label/year/track listing for this? Is it any good? From BossaNovaVille, Keir # 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) Lounge Laura Sighting Date: 22 Jan 1998 15:28:08 -0500 (EST) It happened in Boston...Brother Cleve presented an evening of Swank on Wed, Jan 21 at Bill's Bar where the invitees were treated to DJ tunes by Brother Cleve, videos of Dino, Serge Gainsbourg, and people actually frugging to Iron Butterfly (we think! ). Additionally there were 2 performances by "Astroslut"--Lounge Laura's band..Laura is known as Jane Fondle and they played a nice assortment of 7T's Porno Soundtrack/Blaxploitation-Influenced tunes and were outfitted with a Moog Synth and some other vintage-looking stuff...Kudos to Cleve........Jimmy (oh ya--I got to introduce the band) # 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) crackpot visionaries on LSD Date: 22 Jan 1998 14:53:29 PST Joe B. wrote: >>Mad Deadly Worldwide Communist Gangster Computer God also put out a CD of Criswell that I mentioned in a previous post. All their CDs are cheap, filled to the brim (long) and have good sound quality. Their name comes from some krackpot visionary.<< A couple of weeks ago I bought a budget used copy of "Psychic TV Presents Ultrahouse" on Wax Trax and one of the tracks on the disc is loaded with samples of what can only be the crackpot "visionary" mentioned above. He goes on and on about the "mad deadly worldwide communist gangster computer god" like a true megalomaniac. I was wondering who it was, and now I know, thanks to the exotica list. -- 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: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Jimmy Webb Date: 22 Jan 1998 17:21:29 -0500 (EST) All the chatter on Jimmy Webb sent me into my CD library where I dug up "The Best Of The Three Degrees" on Epic's Legacy Series...Included on that CD is the official 1971 "live" smoky supper-club rendition of Webb's "Everybody Gets To Go To The Moon" exactly as it was seen and heard in "The French Connection" when Popeye Doyle made his inevitable call on the nightclub...The best part of it is the exaggerated ooh's and yeah's that the Three Degrees affect as they belt out a swingin' arrangement of this Webb tune...Its a killer..cheeseball AND swingin' # 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: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) crackpot visionaries on LSD (francis e. dec, esq.) Date: 22 Jan 1998 17:34:17 -0500 (EST) At 02:53 PM 1/22/98 PST, Brad Yost wrote: > >Joe B. wrote: >>>Mad Deadly Worldwide Communist Gangster Computer God also put out a CD of >Criswell that I mentioned in a previous post. Their name comes >from some krackpot visionary.<< > >A couple of weeks ago I bought a budget used copy of "Psychic TV Presents >Ultrahouse" on Wax Trax and one of the tracks on the disc is loaded with >samples of what can only be the crackpot "visionary" mentioned above. Critters Buggin' also sampled Doc's rendering of the Dec rants on their cut "Bill Gates". You make the call...yep, too easy!! --Lou # 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: clean@tamboo.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Les Baxter _'Round the World_ Date: 22 Jan 1998 18:09:01 -0600 you can see a cover scan and track listing for "'Round the World..." (and many other Baxter LPs) on the Les Baxter portion of my site: http://www.tamboo.com/BaxLP1.html . It was a Capitol release, but not one of his "exotic" LPs. The discography is arranged cronologically (more or less), so you can get an idea of when it came out. I'm not sure of the exact date. Hope it helps. - King Kini >I just came across this LP for sale, at a terrible www vinyl site >with zero info. Does anyone have label/year/track listing for >this? Is it any good? > >>From BossaNovaVille, >Keir visit... +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ King Kini's C L U B V E L V E T http://www.tamboo.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: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Jimmy Webb Date: 23 Jan 1998 00:08:40 -0500 (EST) At 12:44 PM 1/22/98 EST, ChuckT wrote: >Jimmy Webb was (is?) a songwriter in the tradition of the great craftsmen of >music. In a 60's-70's sort of way, he is the logical descendant of Berlin, >VanHeusen, Richard Rodgers, Jerome Kern, with a grasp of melody, harmony, >voice-leading, dynamics, and orchestration (assuming he did them all) that has >rarely been approached, never mind equalled, especially in the 90's power- >chord culture. >Cheers >Chuck Here's a cute story from Mark Evans' 1975 book Soundtrack: The Music Of The Movies: At one studio, producers engaged Jim Webb, a successful songwriter, to score a film. When musicians arrived for their first recording session, they found miniature scores by Bach and other baroque composers waiting for them; Webb had decided to use this music as part of "his" score. The studio then refused to accept the score, declared Webb persona non grata, and hired a replacement. The new composer refused to accept the job unless it was completed in Europe. So the studio ended up paying a standby orchestra in Hollywood (which didn't record at all) as well as the French orchestra that ultimately recorded the new score. --Lou # 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: Dlsmay Subject: Re: (exotica) The 5th Dimension/Jimmy Webb/Van Dyke Parks Date: 23 Jan 1998 00:15:39 EST How funny, I've been thinking about writing a piece on the Van Dyke/Nilsson/Randy Newman troika at Warners/Reprise in the late 60s (prompted by Gene Sculatti's excellent liner notes for Harper's Bizarre's Greatest Hits collection). Van Dyke's song "High Coin" gets a sumptuous treatment by Harper's. And my next project is to work on a Jimmy Webb piece, giving his hits a once over (done in tandem with another writer covering Jimmy's coked out solo albums of the early 70s). I know a lot of folks think the Richard Harris version of "MacArthur Park" is the most abominable thing in pop history (one reason alone to cherish it), but I think "Wichita Lineman" redeems anything... --David # 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) Psychic TV Date: 23 Jan 1998 10:05:00 +0200 B. Yost wrote: > A couple of weeks ago I bought a budget used copy of "Psychic TV Presents > Ultrahouse" on Wax Trax ... No, no, no. Psychic TV is evil. Genesis P. Orridge is the Anti-Easy, the Anti-Swing, the Anti-Exoticat. His name brings back horrific visions of my late teens and my gloomy, self-imposed prison sentence of Swans, Diamanda Galas, Current 93 and other gothic torture devices. Waldo Guess-what-I-was-in-the-80's # 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) Les Baxter _'Round the World_ Date: 23 Jan 1998 07:29:21 -0500 >you can see a cover scan and track listing for "'Round the World..." (and ...may I just add that "Melodia Loca" is one of my favorite Les Baxter songs (I have it on the flipside of Theme from "Foreign Intrigue") # 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: stefan@subliminal.se (Subliminal Sounds) Subject: Re: (exotica) Psychic TV Date: 23 Jan 1998 14:33:36 +0100 (MET) Waldo Muller wrote: >No, no, no. Psychic TV is evil. Genesis P. Orridge is the Anti-Easy, the >Anti-Swing, the Anti-Exoticat. His name brings back horrific visions of my >late teens and my gloomy, self-imposed prison sentence of Swans, Diamanda >Galas, Current 93 and other gothic torture devices. Now I'm not the right person to defend Psychic TV or Genesis P. Orridge but his pre-Psychic TV band Throbbing Gristle was some of the first to pay homage to Martin Denny in the 1980s with at least one LP sleeve and mentions of him in interviews etc. So what ever, but to brand him Anti-Exoticat just because of your bad childhood musical experiences is incorrect. I think Throbbing Gristle got a lot of people interested in Exotica in the first place. Stefan/Subliminal Sounds # 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) Throbbing Denny Date: 23 Jan 1998 16:28:05 +0200 Stefan/Subliminal Sounds wrote: > I think Throbbing Gristle got a lot of people interested in Exotica in the first place. As the Xhosa people say here in Africa: Aikona! ("Definately not!) No really, I think the Martin Denny Throbbing Gristle connection would rather put a majority of people off. I can really imagine many recent Denny devotees NOT being so receptive for our man Martin if they had to now - in the nineties - hear about the Throbbing Gristle connection. Something like: "What?! Genesis P. Orridge was also into him? Then it must suck!" EZ 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: Kerry Keane Subject: Re: (exotica) The 5th Dimension/Jimmy Webb/Van Dyke Parks Date: 23 Jan 1998 08:53:12 -0600 (CST) On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, Dlsmay wrote: > Harper's. And my next project is to work on a Jimmy Webb piece, giving his > hits a once over (done in tandem with another writer covering Jimmy's coked > out solo albums of the early 70s). Whoa....more details please. _________________________________ Kerry L. Keane http://www.ripco.com:8080/~luddite # 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: stefan@subliminal.se (Subliminal Sounds) Subject: Re: (exotica) Throbbing Denny Date: 23 Jan 1998 16:31:03 +0100 (MET) Waldo Muller wrote: >I can really imagine many recent Denny >devotees NOT being so receptive for our man Martin if they had to now - in >the nineties - hear about the Throbbing Gristle connection. Something like: >"What?! Genesis P. Orridge was also into him? Then it must suck!" I dont care about your personal crusade against Mr. Porridge. I'm just stating facts as I know them and I know a lot of people in Sweden who got into Exotica through the Throbbing Gristle connection. Stefan/Subliminal Sounds # 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) Throbbing Denny Date: 23 Jan 1998 12:31:20 -0500 Considering this thread got started with crackpot theories, I may as well throw in my own crackpot theory at this point. That being... industrial and gothic are simply cranky descendants of classic exotica. Of course they bear almost no surface resemblance, but how many kids do you know who are exactly like their great-grandparents? Time jumbles the elements, and the genres emerged in totally different musical/social environments. But they do share the escapist impulse and an interest in atmosphere, color and texture (totally different choices in such, indeed). Now before anyone gets het up, relax. I'm not suggesting goth & industrial should be regular exotica list elements. I am suggesting that despite its "buried" nature, exotica has been a lot more influential than many would imagine -- and not just the last few years, either. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # 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: (exotica) Space Ghost Date: 23 Jan 1998 12:31:56 -0500 I haven't seen it mentioned here yet, so... Rhino has just released a Space Ghost cd on their Kid Rhino imprint. It's called "Space Ghost's Musical Bar-B-Que". I haven't heard it myself, but friends say it's pretty wacky. Maybe a good new example of the (sadly) almost extinct novelty record genre? m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # 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) Psychic TV Date: 23 Jan 1998 12:42:55 -0500 Waldo wrote: > > No, no, no. Psychic TV is evil. Genesis P. Orridge is the Anti-Easy, the > Anti-Swing, the Anti-Exoticat. His name brings back horrific visions of my > late teens and my gloomy, self-imposed prison sentence of Swans, Diamanda > Galas, Current 93 and other gothic torture devices. LOL. I am so relieved to know that I was not alone in my doom & gloom! Speaking of the anti-easy/etc, another bad-vibes source that led me on to Exotica would be Boyd Rice whose "Music, Martinis & Misanthropy" is the very height of cruel fun. And by the way (correct me if I'm wrong), but didn't "Tipsy" began as a splinter of the group "Rhythm & Noise"? It is a bit odd to realize that the whole lounge/exotica revival began because of Re/Search's "Industrial Culture Handbook". Aloha, 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: Chris Strouth Subject: Re: (exotica) Throbbing Denny Date: 23 Jan 1998 12:12:11 -0600 >I can really imagine many recent Denny >devotees NOT being so receptive for our man Martin if they had to now - in >the nineties - hear about the Throbbing Gristle connection. Something like: >"What?! Genesis P. Orridge was also into him? Then it must suck!" Actually I got reintroduced to Exotica just throughout that industrial connection, I grew up hearing it (mom was an easy jazz radio DJ in the 60's) but it wasn't until the Psychic TV interview in the industrial culture handbook that ReSearch put out, when i started to listen to it for real and research it out more. The fact that the ultimate in DE constructionists TG were into it, but also so were techno smarty pants Yellow Magic Orchestra . That i figured there must really be something there. And no I am not suggesting regular darkside commentary but it definitely had an effect on the music(although a relatively subliminal one) and even though my tastes have broadened over the years, I still will put on Throbbing Gristles greatest hits, or the divine "Jack The Tab" record by Psychic TV . It's some truly deviant pop music. Chris (who hasn't posted for over eight months!) E N D O F T R A N S M I S S O N... # 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: Will Straw Subject: (exotica) Throbbing Denny Date: 23 Jan 1998 13:14:46 -0500 As someone who has Genesis P. Orridge in his closet, too, I can't stay out of this one. On first glance, of course, industrial and gothic are the anti-lounge. Like most bad art, they take shape around the idea that audiences must work to listen to them, and that this is somehow character-building or will produce positive political effects (i.e., once the shock recedes, we'll be full of insights about the human condition.) The liner notes to "The Industrial Story" talk about how industrial music will counter the mainstream record industry's "deliberately diluted and safe visions of a comfortable, distracting, glamorous culture". I'll take the deliberately diluted versions of musique concrete that turn up in sf film soundtracks and the distracting and glamorous any day of the week . Nevertheless, there was a turn, in Psychic TV, into a moody psychedelia that I liked just fine until it had to answer for being one of the influences that spawned so much bad ambient music over the last decade. Will Will Straw Associate Professor Graduate Program in Communications McGill University 3465 rue Peel, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1W7 email: cxws@musica.mcgill.ca Phone: (514) 398 7667; Fax: (514) 398 4934 http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/gpc/ Director, The Centre for Research on Canadian Cultural Industries and Institutions http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/gpc/crccii/ # 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: buMp Subject: Re: (exotica) throbbing denny Date: 23 Jan 1998 13:28:50 -0500 (EST) for what it is worth i will have to second this emotion... as well as allan's. mentioning the Boyd Rice and Tipsy connection was going to be my two cents worth and also the x-throbbing gristle duo Chris and Cosey. they even entitled an ep called Exotika with a cover sporting 60's women lounging in the surf by an unknown photographer. i come from the industrial gothic age as well and still have fond memories of it, especially Skinny Puppy. as far as Genesis P. being EVIL. i say lets get out of the witch burning mentality that pervades this country and start exorcising your own demons. try to look and listen to things differently and not take it so personally.i was definitely one of the gloomiest people walking around in the 80's and if it was not for this music i would probably be in the AIR FORCE right now! thank god for the gothic/industrial movement. i think Genesis is a pretty funny guy if you listen to the lyrics. some of Throbbing Gristle music is very exotic, if not the first electronica. i believe it is their Greatest Hits album that is dedicated to Martin Denny. along with Chris and Cosey and Coil,they will always have a revered place in my collection. sorry i just had to speak up .....bump >Waldo Muller wrote: >>No, no, no. Psychic TV is evil. Genesis P. Orridge is the Anti-Easy, the >>Anti-Swing, the Anti-Exoticat. His name brings back horrific visions of my >>late teens and my gloomy, self-imposed prison sentence of Swans, Diamanda >>Galas, Current 93 and other gothic torture devices. > >Now I'm not the right person to defend Psychic TV or Genesis P. Orridge but >his pre-Psychic TV band Throbbing Gristle was some of the first to pay >homage to Martin Denny in the 1980s with at least one LP sleeve and mentions >of him in interviews etc. So what ever, but to brand him Anti-Exoticat just >because of your bad childhood musical experiences is incorrect. I think >Throbbing Gristle got a lot of people interested in Exotica in the first >place. BuMp Defective Records pje@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu http://www.welch.jhu.edu/~geh/defective.html # 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) easy-jazz radio Date: 23 Jan 1998 13:41:11 -0500 (EST) A digest member's mother was described as an easy-jazz radio dj in the 6T's...Out of curiousity, what was easy-jazz in the 6T's in terms of artists and songs?? # 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) Throbbing Denny Date: 23 Jan 1998 12:14:15 -0500 >I dont care about your personal crusade against Mr. Porridge. I'm just >stating facts as I know them and I know a lot of people in Sweden who got >into Exotica through the Throbbing Gristle connection. Stefan is absolutely correct here. While the connection musically between TG and Denny is tenuous at best, P.Orridge was an early champion of Denny : the graphics to Throbbing Gristle's "Greatest Hits" was a take on Denny's "Exotica" album, featuring TG member Cosey Fanny Tutti in the guise of "Exotica Girl" Sandy Warner on the front cover. The album is dedicated to Martin Denny. I personally know a number of folks who had never heard of Denny but began searching out his records due to this reference. Many of these same people became hooked on exotica as a result. The correlation between exotica/space age b-pad and industrial, psychedelica, electronica, etc is that they are all left field, non-mainstream, predominantly instrumental styles of music that capture and evoke certain moods, and are often enhanced by a variety mind altering stimuli by many of it's fans and preponents (although not necessary to the simple enjoyment of it). 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: Chris Strouth Subject: Re: (exotica) throbbing denny Date: 23 Jan 1998 14:42:08 -0600 >for what it is worth i will have to second this emotion... >as well as allan's. mentioning the Boyd Rice and Tipsy connection was going >to be my two cents worth and also the x-throbbing gristle duo Chris and >Cosey. >they even entitled an ep called Exotika with a cover sporting 60's women >lounging in the surf by an unknown photographer. Corect me if I am wrong, but i think that record was put together in full or at least in part by now transplanted list member Jill Mingo! Chris (wow 2 posts in one day, yikes!) E N D O F T R A N S M I S S O N... # 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: MUV96TBD@Student2.lu.se (Chester W. Nimitz) Subject: Re: (exotica) The 5th Dimension/Jimmy Webb/Van Dyke Parks Date: 24 Jan 1998 01:46:40 +0100 >How funny, I've been thinking about writing a piece on the Van >Dyke/Nilsson/Randy Newman troika at Warners/Reprise in the late 60s (prompted >by Gene Sculatti's excellent liner notes for Harper's Bizarre's Greatest Hits >collection). Van Dyke's song "High Coin" gets a sumptuous treatment by >Harper's. I listened to this in the recordstore today, I hadn't heard Harper's Bizarre before but they were fantastic! Actually it has *two* Van Dyke songs, another one called something like Come In The Sunshine (or something like that). Brilliant album, but for some reason I didn't end up buying it... Instead I picked up Bacharach's Lost Horizon soundtrack LP (that sleeve is like a piece of art!) and Dick Hyman's "Moog:The Electric Eclectic Sounds Of..." plus those Bristol lo-fi noise/drone-makers Flying Saucer Attack's "Outdoor Miner EP", all three records are really good. Chester W. Nimitz "Up up and away in my beautiful, My beautiful balloon" # 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 Subject: (exotica) Dr. Samuel J. Hoffman Date: 23 Jan 1998 20:47:12 -0800 Here you go; http://www.137.com/hoffman/ # 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: Shangri-la Subject: RE: (exotica) The 5th Dimension/Jimmy Webb Date: 24 Jan 1998 23:25:01 +-200 >has Webb or any related artist (Glen Campbell?) released any >records with really orchestrated songs, y'know with lots of strings or >brass or whatever, bigger productions, simply?? Well, firstly to those that might have missed me, HI I'm back! I recently bought an OC Smith record (Help me make it through the = night). It is beautifully orchestrated: strings, brass, funky early = seventies beats, and some wordless(at times) female vocals. I found = myself playing this more than I expected at first listen. This rarely = happens, because I work in a CD shop and I usually saturate very quickly = If I play something too often.=20 He also covers Bobby Goldsborough's "Watching Scotty grow" very well. = Does anyone know more about him? # 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: Shangri-la Subject: RE: (exotica) Throbbing Denny Date: 24 Jan 1998 23:41:48 +-200 I must say I like White Nights by Psychic TV (an old favourite) and = their house music is still quite listenable. Jack the Tab really changed = my view on house when I first heard it and the two Infinite Beat CD's = must be some of the house I played most at the time, not to mention = Ultrahouse. When digging up old music I find however that Pop seems to = mature better. F.e. I'd rather listen to the Cure than The Orb if that = old feeling comes along. Maybe it relates better to the pop structure of = my retro music, not to mention the unintensity. I mean Esquivel might = have powerful brass bursts, but at least the same burst does not repeat = itself for 10 minutes. Now, I hope this didn't fire up the old you know = what debate.... # 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) OC Smiff Date: 24 Jan 1998 16:58:08 -0500 (EST) OC Smith--Born Ocie Lee Smith on 6/21/36 in Mansfield, Louisiana.To L.A. in 1939. Sang in the Air Force 1953-57. First recorded for Cadence in 1956. With Count Basie 1961-63....Biggest three hits were : "The Son Of Hickory Holler's Tramp"('68), "Little Green Apples"('68) and "Daddy's Little Man" ('69)...He hit the r&b charts with a total of 17 hits between 1968 and 1987. Best known on the pre-5-Letter Disco dance floors for 1974's neighbor-waker "La-La-La-La Peace Song".....Jimmy # 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: Jbtwist Subject: Re: (exotica) Psychic TV's Date: 24 Jan 1998 18:02:26 EST I saw that new show last night at 3:00 AM, where transvestites RuPaul, Charles Pierce, Lypsinka, Sylvester, the Cockettes/Angels of Light, Jim Bailey, Milton Berle, Geraldine and J. Edgar Hoover teamed up to give Dionne Warwicke a run for her money in the TV Psychic prognistication biz........with Marv Albert as announcer, natch....... JB # 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 Subject: (exotica) NEW Jean Jacques Perrey Date: 24 Jan 1998 15:45:15 -0800 Hello all! I'm here to announce that Jean Jacques Perrey has been working hard in the studios of France and the result is a new record!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's right kids! A New Record and New Recordings from the great Jean Jacques Perrey!!! It was done with the extreme help of a young man by the name of David Chazam who I received an e-mail from, who is staying with a good friend of his in San Francisco. David lives in/is from France. Not available yet in any store or anywhere for that matter, the 2 copies I have are promos only, with just a plain white cover. It is ab-so-lute-ly brilliant shit just like the old days:) Yeeeeeeeee Haaaaaaaaaaa! Titles; What's Up Duck ?, Analog Dialog, Doc Tequil, Clones War, An Elephant On The Roof, Cyberbugs Time Machine, Neutronia. The LP is called E C L E C T R O N I C S Awesome-ness abounds Next week on 89.7FM, KFJC is Hog Wild/Free Form week and I will be playing the entire record as well as interviewing Mr. Chazam on my show around the 11AM hour, so tune in or lose out! Http://www.KFJC.org Sorry, no MACS Most sincerely, Jack Diamond # 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: "Robbie Baldock" Subject: (exotica) Industrial-otica Date: 25 Jan 1998 00:13:00 +0000 Will Straw wrote: >As someone who has Genesis P. Orridge in his closet, too, >I can't stay out of this one. I think there are a lot of us out here! I too was a TG/PTV/C+C fan though sadly I got into TG just as they split up. However, my one claim to fame during this era was, as a member of TOPY I was invited to a small private PTV party where Genesis was DJing! - and I was offered DRUGS! The shame of it... Chris Strouth wrote: >Corect me if I am wrong, but i think that record was put together in >full or at least in part by now transplanted list member Jill >Mingo! You could be right there - I remember her mentioning being involved with C+C at one point. Weird the way things go around! BTW, list members might like to know Jill is currently in Hollywood (alright for some eh?) DJing occasionally at Claudine (if it's still running!) but is due back in Scotland mid-April and I'm sure will be back on the list very soon thereafter! Robbie ** ** ** * Spaced Out - the Enoch Light Website * ** ** ** ** ** ** http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~rcb/light/ ** ** ** # 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: Eb Subject: (exotica) Re: Harris Date: 24 Jan 1998 16:30:02 -0700 >From: ChuckTFrog > >Regarding lyrics, that's another matter. I don't get into that. "MacArthur >Park" has been widely panned by non-musicians but I believe ONLY because of >the lyrics. (I rarely listen to lyrics, and in fact have trained myself to >not hear lyrics.) No, not just the lyrics. Actually, I think it's just as much due to the song's overpadded length, and all those silly incongruous instrumental vamps between verses. Not to mention Harris' rather, er, idiosyncratic vocal style, and the wacky juxtaposition of that thin trembling wail against those enormous swamping arrangements. Does everyone remember the Dave Thomas impression on SCTV of Harris performing "MacArthur Park"? Oh MAN, that was funny. That said, I own *five* Richard Harris albums: A Tramp Shining, The Yard Went On Forever, My Boy, Slides and (now here's the major endurance test) I, In the Membership of My Days. I think they're all garbage, but they're just so hilariously overwrought that I get a kick out of having them around. You haven't truly *squirmed* until you've heard the spoken poems on I, In the Membership of My Days. "I/ Who was sin/ Began committing myself/When bread was first broken/On the pubic altar of my greed...." OOF. And you've *trained* yourself not to hear lyrics? And you're apparently PROUD of that achievement? :/ >From: "m.ace" > >Industrial and gothic are simply cranky descendants of classic exotica. Uh...this statement is perhaps just a weeee bit oversimplified. Eb Cuddle Up with Claudine Longet: http://users.deltanet.com/~gondola/longet/longet.html # 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 Subject: (exotica) NEW Jean Jacques Perrey Title Date: 24 Jan 1998 19:00:29 -0800 Hello all again OK. So there is a TYPO on the label of this here new JJ Perrey rekkid and I do mean REKKID The REAL title is; "E K L E C T R O N I C S - VINTAGE '97" I'm not going to even try and figure out what LABEL it's on, unless 1 of you 2 want to help me out there @:-O Jacques Diamante # 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) reviews of used LPs Date: 24 Jan 1998 20:07:12 +0000 Here are some records I ran across this month that I had some reason to like: Ebb Tide Leo Diamond Harmony HS 11328 Not as interesting as other of his albums, but I was intrigued by the harpsichord (I think) and harmonica combination with a swinging version of "By the Waters of the Minnetonka" and a bongo echo in "Moon River." Relaxin' With Frances Faye(with Frank Hunter's Orch.) Bethlehem BCP-62 The title is purposely misleading, a joke really. Frances Faye really belts out the tunes here. Great colourful caricature of Ms. Faye on the cover. Arriba Edmundo Ros London SP 44080 The usual Ros approach to music, but not as good as his other albums. It has a great cover, though (large tribal face masks) and an unusual range of selections (for instance, Hello Dolly, Holiday for Strings, Oye Negra and, my favorite, "The Laughing Samba" which is so bad it's good). Keys Ala Carte (various) Warner Brothers WB 1101 I knew I wouldn't care for most of it, but it did allow me to sample ten different albums. All but one album I would probably not buy, however I did discover one guy who's record sounds promising: Geri Galian. He does a version of Oye Negra and also a selection called Danza Negra from WB WS1229 "Come Closer to Me." Everything else on the two record album bored me to tears, but his cuts were alive. After Hours Spain Sonny Lester Time Records S/2094 After all day of going through way too many string section dominated selections, I was prepared to face some more on this one. Not at all! Thanks probably to the percussion work of Ted Sommer et al and Organist Moe Wechsler (why do I suspect it was a pseudonym for Dick Hyman?) EVERY tune sounds like I've never heard it before, bouncy and new. Loco Motion Joe Loco Columbia CL 760 I bought a bunch of records last week in Portland, but I consider only this one worthy of mention here. He has some good cha chas here. His music shows good progress, although I like his later stuff better. Very colorful and interesting cover...one of those cartoonish life size standup scenes in which people can insert their heads into. This scene features a man and woman dancing to a pianist playing a mambo (I know what he's playing because there is a sign above the piano player's head which says "MAMBO"). Byron /- / '\ / ___> ; ; ; _ ;__ / \ [ | /"- / () | ) <}-___/_/(_|/ \_(__/\/| (_______ ___< -_/ Byron Caloz Portland, Oregon, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky Way # 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) empty album covers Date: 24 Jan 1998 20:07:24 +0000 I am not sure if this is an okay topic, so I will just let interested people respond to me: I have some empty album covers which would like to be reunited with records which have no covers! I would gladly send anyone who has an orphan record the cover for it. For some of them, of course, I would rather get the record so that *I* can have the entire album. Either way, if you are interested, email me and I will send you a short list (17). Byron /- / '\ / ___> ; ; ; _ ;__ / \ [ | /"- / () | ) <}-___/_/(_|/ \_(__/\/| (_______ ___< -_/ Byron Caloz Portland, Oregon, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky Way # 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) Re: Harris Date: 24 Jan 1998 23:28:28 -0500 > >From: "m.ace" > >Industrial and gothic are simply cranky descendants of classic exotica. > > Uh...this statement is perhaps just a weeee bit oversimplified. > > Eb Yup. m.ace ecam@voicenet.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: DaveHiFi Subject: (exotica) Recent thrift scores Date: 25 Jan 1998 00:13:58 EST I just picked up my first whistling disc today! Pretty eerie and cool stuff. "A visit with RALPH PLATT in God's great outdoors...Where the birds of the forest sing to the pipe organ music of LORIN WHITNEY" It's all pipe organized christian tunes with this amazing guy doing birds calls and great atmospheric whistling bits. I like it a lot. Another weird find from last week : "CONEY ISLAND IN STEREO - The Thrilling Sounds of the World's Greatest Amusement Park" I saw this record in mint condition and thought it might be marginally interesting, then I perused the track listing. Side 2 track 1 - "Freak Show Barker"! Unfortunately, I was to find that there was nothing remotely freakish about this track at all - just generic midway carnie barker rap. As a consolation, however, there is a lot of great, nightmarish calliope music on this record. Some other great finds from the last couple of weeks : Dick Schory's New Percussion Ensemble - Wild Percussion and Horns A'Plenty Charles Magnante - Roman Spectacular Volume 2 George Wright - The Wright Touch Marty Gold and His Orchestra - Sounds Unlimited Fabulous Sounds of the Pipe Organ and Percussion The Lever Camboulas Steel Band - Live at the New Clay House Inn Bermuda Artur Murray's Music for Dancing Enoch Light and the Light Brigade - Pertinent Percussion Cha Cha's The DiMara Sisters - Cha Cha Italiana Xavier Cugat - Cha Cha Cha Luis Mendoza and his Orchestra - Mambo Cha Cha Cha Let's Cha Cha Cha in 'Stereo' Al Stefans and his Orchestra - Rhumba Favorites Bob Freedman and his Group - The Big Bossa Nova Edmundo Ros - Hi Fi-esta Rudy Macias and his Pachanga Orchestra - Pachanga if You Please It was a heckuva cha cha week. About Caravan - besides the Three Suns and Sir Julian versions (which I love) I also really dig Michel Legrand's take from "Legrand in Rio" and Charles Magnante's great accordian interpretation from his Moods for Moderns lp. # 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 Subject: (exotica) Joing List from AOL Date: 24 Jan 1998 21:38:58 -0800 I have someone who is on AOL, trying to join the list When they leave the "Subject" blank in their mail program, a message box comes up and says they have left the blah blah blah and will not send the mail. Can you help them in another way than by telling them to get off of AOL ? :) Thanks, 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: Jay Schwartz Subject: (exotica) The 5th Dimension/Jimmy Webb Date: 25 Jan 1998 03:35:50 >Jimmy Webb was (is?) a songwriter in the tradition of the great craftsmen of >music... everything else these artists did is crap. All the good stuff was >by Webb. The Fifth Dimension did a lot of great Laura Nyro songs. # 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: Jay Schwartz Subject: (exotica) The 5th Dimension/Jimmy Webb Date: 25 Jan 1998 03:35:50 >Jimmy Webb was (is?) a songwriter in the tradition of the great craftsmen of >music... everything else these artists did is crap. All the good stuff was >by Webb. The Fifth Dimension did a lot of great Laura Nyro songs. # 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: Joe Batutis Subject: (exotica) Sammy Davis Live '68 Date: 25 Jan 1998 21:16:32 -0500 (EST) Hi there- I just got a new 2CD set called Sammy Davis - Live at the Sands hotel 1968. (CDFR 0506) It's an import from Italy on the Fremus label. Seems to be a recording that was supposed to become an album on Reprise. Was the album ever released? What was it called? It does swing incredibly. Sammy's in top form! I got it at Footlights Records, here in NYC. -Enok Lite ps- What's everyone's favorite "Live from Vegas" album? # 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) reviews of used LPs -Reply Date: 26 Jan 1998 08:59:19 -0500 Byron wrote: <> Byron this is an uderstatement! This album simply kicks ass an offers some of the best treatments of those tired old "Spain" tunes you've heard millions of times on sub-par records. The tempo is FAST and the organ player goes insane - guaranteed to put a smile on yer face! Everyone needs this album! (Mine was once a part of a Catholic church library collection - those nuns must've rocked!). BTW - Has anybody heard Sonny Lester's "Paris" album?? (A genre that's produced some LAME LAME tunes......) - 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: "Ben Waugh" Subject: Re: (exotica) Recent thrift scores Date: 26 Jan 1998 07:26:32 PST Someone has been unloading a decent vibes/percussion collection off at my favorite local thrift shop recently. I can tell it's the same guy because of all the wonderful pencil marks and notes along the track listings ("sweet melody"; "too fast", etc). I always wonder if, when I reach the twilight of my life and dump all the 70's stuff from my teens, some as yet unfashioned pogue on an extended lunch hour will silently shriek "Yes!" as s/he comes across that unpicked over vein of Sabbath/Aerosmith/etc lps... Anyway the youthful tastes of my unknown benefactor shamed mine, are near pristine condition and include: Martin Denny: Primitiva Tak Shindo: Accent On Bamboo Harry Breuer: Mallet Mischief Gary Burton: Who Is... (vibraphone) H. Nakamora: Rainy Night In Tokyo, Japanese Pop Music Arthur Lyman: Greatest Hits Gene Rains:? Gamelan music (Nonesuch) I left behind a copy of the Fairfax High School Marimba Band, "64, with the same pencil markings and a particular, but obscure, head circled. Additional finds: Sir C. Scott: Switched On Bacharach 2 F&T: Hi Fi Fireworks The Big Sound of Billy Strange: Secret Agent Man (?) Enoch Light: (Can't remember the title, but there is a disturbing rendition of "Over, Under, Sideways, Down"). Andre Popp:? June Christy: Something Cool ______________________________________________________ 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: (exotica) exotica on the twonky Date: 25 Jan 1998 11:15:31 -0500 A few more movies this week with list relevance (eastern standard times, bla bla bla)... "The Andromeda Strain" on Bravo. Today (Jan. 25) 1:40 pm; Tuesday night through Wednesday afternoon (Jan. 27, 28) 8:00 pm, 2:00 am, 3:00 pm. Seems to be airing in widescreen format. This features an "out there" electronic score by Gil Melles. "Cobra Woman" on AMC. Friday morning (Jan. 30) 11:00 am. As discussed the other month. "Spellbound" on AMC. Friday afternoon / early Saturday (Jan. 30, 31) 5:00 pm, 3:00 am. Score by Miklos Rozsa, with Dr. Samuel Hoffman on theremin. Also, besides tonight at 8:00 pm and 1:05 am (on Bravo), the Dusty Springfield documentary also airs Thursday night / early Friday (Jan. 29, 30) 7:00 pm, 4:00 am. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # 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: misanthropy 511 playlist Date: 26 Jan 1998 13:46:56 +0100 each time one of these is posted, i wonder: what's the relevance of it in this group... 90% of it is not exotica at all... just my opinion, nothing else... 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: cee dee's: Get Easy Vol. 3 -- The French Pops Collection Date: 26 Jan 1998 13:46:56 +0100 At Tue, 6 Jan 1998, BasicHip wrote: >Would someone who is familiar with the recordings below please offer a short >"review"? (the included descriptions were supplied by the dealer) > >1) Various -- Get Easy Vol. 3 -- The French Pops Collection >Motor (Germany), Late 60's/1997 >Simply fantastic! An amazingly insane assortment of groovy groovy French >vocal pop from the 60's, with tracks that will make your ears pop out when you >hear them. Soaring vocals, groovy guitars, and arrangements that have quirky >little edges that make Serge Gainsbourg sound soft. Stellar stuff from people >like France Gall, Nicoletta, Brigitte Bardot, Eddie Barclay, Les Parisiennes, >Jacques Dutronc, Andre Brasseur, Daniel Gerard, and sooo many others. Great >package, great notes, and the kind of stuff that we always dream about, but >have never been able to find. Amazing stuff all the way through, and a real >treat for your groovy groovy ears! this proves that they didn't listen to the cd really careful ;-) 18 out of the 22 tracks are vocal, the other 4 are instrumental. they're not all really insane either, just some good and interesting french 60's pop, and a lot of mediocre stuff. i liked it better though than i had expected from just seeing the track list. if you like BB, France Gall and Katerine, then you'll like this cd too, i guess, but a lot depends upon where you live. i guess that people from outside europe, even outside france and other french speeking countries, will like it better, because this french pop has something "exotic" for them. the package is not great at all, it looks ugly and cheap to me, others might call it "retro"... liner notes are in german. there's 1 track you might already have, by Francis Lai called "marseileise generique", on BB's "disque d'or"lp/cd AND one of the "inflight entertainment" comps i _think_ my rate: +++ = good if you want to hear some *really* groovy, trippy, insane French (instromental) pop, try to find the "Orchestral Party (act 1...)" comp cd (i think Vik has a page on it) i'm currently listening to vol 4, "the german pops collection", and i like it a lot better than the french one up till now; later more about that one! 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: Arthur Lyman Pop Date: 26 Jan 1998 13:46:56 +0100 David Retief wrote: >>I noticed a Rykodisc release of Arthur Lyman's Sonic Sixties >>... and was wondering >>whether the treatment of the standards made them worthwhile? At Tue, 6 Jan 1998, bag@hubris.net wrote: >I'd say if you don't like Dave Brubeck, you wouldn't like it. If you dig >cool jazz, this does very well. i'm afraid the mentioning of Mr. Brubeck _might_, repeat _might_ , scare off people who don't like "real" jazz (take note of the quotes there, OK?!) i'd say Lyman's jazz sounds very much "pop", as opposed to difficult, which a lot of jazz IS. Sonic Sixties is very relaxed and easy "cocktail" jazz, i absolutely looooooooooove that cd! 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: Attileo Mineo Conducts Man In Space With Sounds Date: 26 Jan 1998 13:46:56 +0100 congratulations, Jack & Stefan, and thanks for making this rerelease happen! if you have Russ Garcia's "Fantastica", then imagine about 10 times as much weird electronic sound fx, and the orchestra being put more way in the background, et voila: "Man In Space With Sounds". the really nice thing is that the cd contains a complete lp version WITH and one WITHOUT the spoken introductions from the Seattle State Worlds Fair. excellent stuff! 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: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) Happy Birthday, Skitch Henderson Date: 26 Jan 1998 14:01:15 -0500 He's 80! # 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: Will Straw Subject: (exotica) French pop Date: 26 Jan 1998 14:08:44 -0500 Here in Montreal, one of the best 2nd-hand music stores has brought out a CD compilation, "Ultra Chicks: Filles in the Garage Volume 1", which looks quite illegal (there are no production credits, label addresses or anything else). It has 24 tracks from mostly-unknown female performers of the 1960s, and I assume it's divided somehow between French and Quebecois. But it's a very nice record, and worth trying to get. Any comments on "Sexopolis: 9 tracks from the 70s French funky pop scene," a comp on Fantomas which grooves along quite nicely? Will Will Straw Associate Professor Graduate Program in Communications McGill University 3465 rue Peel, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1W7 email: cxws@musica.mcgill.ca Phone: (514) 398 7667; Fax: (514) 398 4934 http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/gpc/ Director, The Centre for Research on Canadian Cultural Industries and Institutions http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/gpc/crccii/ # 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: (exotica) exotica on the twonky Date: 26 Jan 1998 11:57:30 -0500 I posted this Sunday morning, but it seems like Xmission had another bout of indigestion, and it hasn't turned up yet. I know it'll probably make it through eventually, but by then it may be too late (some is already irrelevant), so... -------------------------- > A few more movies this week with list relevance (eastern standard times, bla > bla bla)... > > "The Andromeda Strain" on Bravo. Today (Jan. 25) 1:40 pm; Tuesday night through > Wednesday afternoon (Jan. 27, 28) 8:00 pm, 2:00 am, 3:00 pm. Seems to be airing > in widescreen format. This features an "out there" electronic score by Gil > Melles. > > "Cobra Woman" on AMC. Friday morning (Jan. 30) 11:00 am. As discussed the other > month. > > "Spellbound" on AMC. Friday afternoon / early Saturday (Jan. 30, 31) 5:00 pm, > 3:00 am. Score by Miklos Rozsa, with Dr. Samuel Hoffman on theremin. > > Also, besides tonight at 8:00 pm and 1:05 am (on Bravo), the Dusty Springfield > documentary also airs Thursday night / early Friday (Jan. 29, 30) 7:00 pm, 4:00 > am. > > m.ace ecam@voicenet.com > OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # 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: (exotica) exotica on the twonky Date: 26 Jan 1998 11:57:30 -0500 I posted this Sunday morning, but it seems like Xmission had another bout of indigestion, and it hasn't turned up yet. I know it'll probably make it through eventually, but by then it may be too late (some is already irrelevant), so... -------------------------- > A few more movies this week with list relevance (eastern standard times, bla > bla bla)... > > "The Andromeda Strain" on Bravo. Today (Jan. 25) 1:40 pm; Tuesday night through > Wednesday afternoon (Jan. 27, 28) 8:00 pm, 2:00 am, 3:00 pm. Seems to be airing > in widescreen format. This features an "out there" electronic score by Gil > Melles. > > "Cobra Woman" on AMC. Friday morning (Jan. 30) 11:00 am. As discussed the other > month. > > "Spellbound" on AMC. Friday afternoon / early Saturday (Jan. 30, 31) 5:00 pm, > 3:00 am. Score by Miklos Rozsa, with Dr. Samuel Hoffman on theremin. > > Also, besides tonight at 8:00 pm and 1:05 am (on Bravo), the Dusty Springfield > documentary also airs Thursday night / early Friday (Jan. 29, 30) 7:00 pm, 4:00 > am. > > m.ace ecam@voicenet.com > OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # 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: Shangri-la Subject: RE: (exotica) Recent thrift scores Date: 26 Jan 1998 22:25:30 +-200 ---------- Sent: 26 January 1998 05:26 The Big Sound of Billy Strange: Secret Agent Man (?) Ive got a Billy rekkid where he does a track combining Hava Negila and = Tequila...as Hava Tequila. It's perfect for playing inbetween seperate = versions of the two songs to confuse a dancefloor a little or to make = those olives sway wildly... June Christy: Something Cool I found this recently too. It's got a beautiful fifties cover = with her face and a really tasty lemonade. I really enjoyed it but it = was just a little too scratched for my ear. A pity..... # 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: Hugh Petfield Subject: Re: (exotica) Harris Date: 25 Jan 1998 10:32:40 +0000 There's been a lot of comment, mostly surprisingly unkind, about 'MacArthur Park'. Anyone noticed what sounds like studio staff voices faintly at the start of one of the instrumental passages in this record? Also, out of curiosity, did a cover version of this track ever appear on a cheap "Hits of 1968" supermarket-type album? Although I like the real record, it would seem difficult for anyone else to sing the song and it not be an improvement on Richard Harris. Hugh. # 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 Subject: (exotica) More NEWS about JJ Perrey Date: 26 Jan 1998 16:08:23 -0800 David Chazam will also have news of what's happening with Jean Jacques >at present: Today Jean Jacques Perrey is preparing to return to America, >to undertake a lecture-demonstration tour of universities, prior to >recording new material with the creative team who designed 'Moog Indigo' in >1970. At home in Vichy, central France he is patiently transferring >magnetic tape to Zip Drive, digitising his life's archive of far out field >recordings & musique concrete. 'e k l e c t r o n i c s' is released this >month. With a young generation now beginning to discover the exotic moods & >deliciously weird breaks of Jean Jacques Perrey, another chapter in this >life of many adventures, is about to begin. Sent to me by Jean Jacques British Representative, Desmond Hill 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: Jack Subject: (exotica) MacArthur Park Date: 26 Jan 1998 16:11:31 -0800 I just played MacArthur Park from Hugo Montenegros MOOG POWER yesterday on my show and that tune RULES!!!!!!!!! But that's just me;-) -J # 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) Al Caiola Date: 26 Jan 1998 16:29:32 PST One item I forgot to include in my Thrift post, that I have to mention (as it spins on the hi-fi): Al Caiola and Orchestra: Guitars, Woodwinds and Bongos: UA WW 7503, "Wall To Wall Sound." This is by far the best Caiola lp I have. Now to find the Stereo version.... ______________________________________________________ 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: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: scat & humming Date: 26 Jan 1998 13:46:56 +0100 mnakatsu@joho-shimane.or.jp (nakatsu) wrote: >Does somebody knows some nice scat & humming numbers? Peter Thomas has several of those, with a male voice (James Atterly) doin' "pubadubbadoo", but i can't remember song titles... the "Raumpatrouille" soundtrack cd has at least one cut, i think each album of his has several of those... check that man out if you haven't done so already! BTW: the "100% cotton" double cd/lp is truly fantastic! or did you expect anything else? ;-) almost no duplicates with the "easy loungin" or "film muzik" cd's! i recommend getting the cd, as there are many many miniature tracks on it. 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: Schlock! Subject: Re: (exotica) MacArthur Park Date: 26 Jan 1998 17:13:56 -0800 (PST) > >I just played MacArthur Park from Hugo Montenegros MOOG POWER yesterday on >my show and that tune RULES!!!!!!!!! I saw Buddy Greco do it LIVE in Vegas a couple of years ago. Not a dry eye in the place! JC # 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: tosh@loop.com (Tosh) Subject: Re: (exotica) French pop Date: 26 Jan 1998 16:58:10 -0800 (PST) Two things: Has anyone heard the Les Fantomas cd? and second: I am publishing a novel by Serge Gainsbourg, and I am looking for Ms. Bardot, Jane Birkin, France Gall and others' addresses. I want to write to them to see if I can get a blurb for the book. If anyone has any leads, please backchannel the info to tosh@loop.com best, tosh ----------------- Tosh Berman TamTam Books ---------------- # 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: Stilgloria Subject: Re: RE: (exotica) Recent thrift scores Date: 26 Jan 1998 20:02:06 EST In a message dated 1/26/98 11:39:06 PM, shangrila@new.co.za wrote: <> <> I have a 12" of this and a 10" of this. The cover is really wonderful. I noticed on one of the web sites that someone has a COLOR cover of this. I'm assuming this is on a CD, is that correct? The cover is the best!! I've got them both on my wall, one under the other. Love that Pete Rugolo is the band leader. Gloria # 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: riviera@tiac.net Subject: (exotica) Genesis P.Denny changed my life Date: 26 Jan 1998 20:38:41 -0500 Just wanted to ante up my two cents....way back in '82 or so, a friend played a baffling,uncategorizable record for me that moved me,excited me,and in a way,fundamentally changed the way I heard music...it was Denny's "Quiet Village", and my friend had gotten into through the TG connection.Thank you Genesis! I've always seen a confluence between the musical worlds of Exotica,Psychedelia and Industrial music; a profoundly psycho-active quality being one (but not the only..)characteristic they share. Incidentally,I've played TG's "Exotica" track on numerous occasions at my sporadic DJ gigs,with nary a raised eyebrow from the crowd! And as for Genesis P. being evil,well...everybody knows that EZ listening is the devil's music. Diabolically, The Millionaire # 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) Jean Jacques Perrey Talks About Musique! Date: 26 Jan 1998 20:01:24 -0800 Go here! http://www.fly.co.uk/jjp.html # 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: ChuckTFrog Subject: Re: (exotica) Happy Birthday, Skitch Henderson Date: 26 Jan 1998 23:05:09 EST In a message dated 98-01-26 14:26:28 EST, you write: << He's 80! >> Real name: Sidney Ferguson!! # 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: HOUSEOBOB Subject: (exotica) MacArthur Park Date: 27 Jan 1998 00:05:39 EST I have to say that when I was younger, I thought that "MacArthur Park" was the most god-awful record in the world. I have inexplicably grown to love it and one of my favorite versions is by the 101 Strings. # 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: Hugh Petfield Subject: Re: (exotica) Harris Date: 27 Jan 1998 05:52:07 +0000 There's been a lot of comment, mostly surprisingly unkind, about 'MacArthur Park'. Anyone noticed what sounds like studio staff voices faintly at the start of one of the instrumental passages in this record? Also, out of curiosity, did a cover version of this track ever appear on a cheap "Hits of 1968" supermarket-type album? Although I like the real record, it would seem difficult for anyone else to sing the song and it not be an improvement on Richard Harris. Hugh. # 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 Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Attileo Mineo Conducts Man In Space With Date: 26 Jan 1998 11:15:57 -0800 Johan and all, The LP was originally released in 2 different versions. 1 w/ Spoken Word Introductions about "The Promise of The Future and Welcome To Century 21" et al and 1 without Spoken Word Intros. 2 different catalog #'s on the LP's Funny story: Neither Stefan nor I knew this very real fact until I sent my catalog # 66666 LP to Sweden for the mastering, as there are no master tapes. Once Stefan got my LP, he e-mailed me to let me know that his copy is cataog # 55555 WITH spoken word intros. So for the 1st 12 tracks of the CD is the #55555 LP and for the tracks 13-24 is the #66666 LP We are re-doing the back liner and this very important and interesting info will be there. Some people like the spoken word and others like it without and you actually have a choice as to which version you can listen to. I know people that have had this LP for 15 years and NEVER KNEW there were 2 different releases. Mr. Mineo didn't even know! Jack At 01:46 PM 1/26/98 +0100, you wrote: >congratulations, Jack & Stefan, and thanks for making this rerelease happen! >if you have Russ Garcia's "Fantastica", then imagine about 10 times as much >weird electronic sound fx, and the orchestra being put more way in the >background, et voila: "Man In Space With Sounds". >the really nice thing is that the cd contains a complete lp version WITH >and one WITHOUT the spoken introductions from the Seattle State Worlds Fair. >excellent stuff! # 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) Harris Date: 27 Jan 1998 07:26:40 -0500 >There's been a lot of comment, mostly surprisingly unkind, about >'MacArthur Park'. I still like the record, because the middle part sounded like a spy movie when I heard it as a boy. I always used to think that there was a special show on when they played it(it's pretty long). Outside of Donna Summer, I believe that the Four Tops did a version of this as well. # 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: ChuckTFrog Subject: Re: (exotica) Harris Date: 27 Jan 1998 11:00:48 EST In a message dated 98-01-27 07:22:58 EST, you write: << Outside of Donna Summer, I believe that the Four Tops did a version of this as well. >> Also the Templeton Twins did a hilarious old-timey version that is terrific! # 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: Mark Reed Subject: (exotica) MacArthur Park Revisited Date: 26 Jan 1998 19:15:06 -0500 Try the version of MacArthur Park by Waylon Jennings and the Kimberlys. Yes it's country, but it is, IMHO, the best version. # 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: (exotica) Hal, Jimmy & Richard Date: 27 Jan 1998 12:28:59 -0500 Just to throw in a bit on the Webb/Harris thread, I'll note that Hal Blaine's book, "Hal Blaine & The Wrecking Crew" (Mix Books) includes a chapter on Webb, The Fifth Dimension, Harris and related stuff. Good book, lots of interesting stories (and now that I've plugged it, hopefully they won't mind me quoting a few paragraphs). Blaine talks about being whisked off to London to work with Webb & Harris (the immigration officer turns out to be a fan, who treats Hal like a king): "I was met by Richard's chauffeur, who took me to the Belgravia apartment that Richard kept in London. I was invited into the palatial flat by his maid, Maria, and given coffee and rolls. By 7:30 am I was ready to head for the studio and get to work. "By 10 I had finished my fifth cup of coffee and was anxiously awaiting some instructions. A voice that shook the walls called out 'Marrria!' She went running off with a glass and a bottle of Pimm's. Pimm's was Richard's 'wake up' in those days; it looked like pink champagne. "A few minutes later, Richard Harris strode into the room wearing a terrycloth robe that opened all the way down to his navel. With his arm outstretched, he vigorously shook my hand while his manhood swung from side to side. Quite an introduction. He asked me about the flight and I told him that everything had been wonderful, especially meeting the immigration agent. 'Funny, they don't treat me that well,' he said." As it turned out, there were no sessions scheduled -- it was a Webb scheme to make Hal take a vacation. After which, they all flew back to Hollywood and recorded "MacArthur Park" at Sound Recorders. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # 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: "David J. Strauss" Subject: (exotica) McArthur Park Date: 27 Jan 1998 12:34:37 -0500 (EST) EVERYONE did "McArthur Park". I'd have to say my favorite, after the Harris version is Sammy Davis, Jrs. After the cake is left out in the rain, he let's out an "Ohhhhhhhhhh, noooooooooooo!!!!" over the orchestral passage that must last 45 seconds without a breath. It's on the mostly Mike Curb generated _Sammy Davis Now!_, which everyone on this list must own by now, what with the Isaac hayes produced "John Shaft" and "I'm Over 25, But You Can Trust Me". Why not more talk about the truly strange career of Sammy on this list? DS djs2852@is.nyu.edu # 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: KEIRK@vax2.concordia.ca Subject: (exotica) June Christy`s Masterpiece Date: 27 Jan 1998 13:28:30 +0000 (HELP) Oh yeah, _Something Cool_ is one of my all-time favourite LPs - brilliant from beginning to end, the title track, "The Night We Called< It A Day", Kurt Weill and Langston Hughes`s "Lonely House" - it does not get any moodier than this! The difference between the original monochrome cover (10", 153-54) and the colour version is between mono and stereo versions; around 1958, Capitol had June re-record the album in stereo, and made a new, full colour cover with June`s eyes open instead of shut (because, of course, stereo is the "sound your eyes can follow..."). The early 90s CD re-issued the 1980s Japanese CD version`s colour cover, even though in both cases it contained the 1953-54 sessions from the original. From BossaNovaVille, Keir # 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: Shangri-la Subject: (exotica) MacArthur Park Date: 27 Jan 1998 21:42:28 +-200 I just played MacArthur Park from Hugo Montenegros MOOG POWER yesterday on my show and that tune RULES!!!!!!!!! But that's just me;-) -J No it isn't!. That's the version I use for DJing and yes it rules! Those papapapa voices really punch! Charl # 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) MacArthur Park Revisited Date: 27 Jan 1998 15:21:43 -0500 > Try the version of MacArthur Park by Waylon Jennings and the Kimberlys. > Yes it's country, but it is, IMHO, the best version. I would suggest that best version would be the toy-town/electro-reggae version on the lp "Hybrid Kids" (Apex Records APL 1701). "Hybrid Kids" was a fake compilation masterminded by Morgan Fisher, on which the listener is treated to EZ pop & punk cover versions. Other standouts include hilarious versions of Rod Stewarts "D'ya think I'm sexy" & Sun Ra's "Enlightenment". Cheers, 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: Jack Subject: Re: (exotica) June Christy`s Masterpiece Date: 27 Jan 1998 15:07:06 -0800 June Christy's masterpiece *for me* is on Stan Kenton's LP "Progressive Jazz" from 1947!!! in which she does a spoken word beatnik prose/poetry piece predating Kerouac by tons of years called "This Is My Theme" It's THE S***! 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: Ross Orr Subject: (exotica) Pianos In Paradise Date: 27 Jan 1998 18:13:56 -0500 A friend recently lent me Ferrante and Teicher's _Pianos In Paradise_ . . . Her mother has nearly every F&T LP sold, and as she had heard some idle talk that I "liked" them, she nabbed the one with the goofiest cover to lend me (dusky maiden holding a fern frond over her face), figuring I'd be insanely grateful. Well I was appreciative, but I did tell her that unfortunately the later F&T was probably going to be boring (in fact, I had seen that disk several times in the bins and passed on it, despite the cover art). Then I promptly forgot all about it for a few weeks. Au Contraire! This one is worth having! While there certainly are some syrupy downers here, it also has a driving "Jungle Drums/Rhumba", and a brisk "The Breeze and I." And you completists of "Prepared" F&T should note that their blocks and wedges come clonking out of retirement on "Taboo" and a great "African Echos." Unfortunately, now I have to give this back. . . A big thanks to "Jacques Diamante" (hee hee!) for getting me to put on the _Moog Power_ version of "MacArthur Park" again. . . that's a good one all right! Kind of the "Mission Impossible" version. . . But if you think Richard Harris is overblown, a friend of mine once played me a version by some German opera singer, with full orchestral backing. Damn! It was positively frightening. (I'll try and get the info on this one from him, if anyone cares.) Happy trails, --Ross || Ross "Mambo Frenzy" Orr || Ann Arbor, Michigan 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: Michael Jemmeson Subject: (exotica) Laila France/Air Date: 28 Jan 1998 10:41:27 +0000 Anyone else heard this? Was wondering what other people thought... Personally i think it's great... Laila France: Orgonon (also no mention of Air: Moon Safari since it came out...) # 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: "Downie, William" Subject: (exotica) Laila France : Orgonon Date: 28 Jan 1998 11:05:27 -0000 >Anyone else heard this? Was wondering what other people thought... >Personally i think it's great... > Laila France: Orgonon >(also no mention of Air: Moon Safari since it came out...) Is this a new band/artist? I'm always interested in new bands. I have yet to purchase Air : Moon Safari but I have heard the latest single - Sexy Boy and I like 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: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) Pianos In Paradise Date: 28 Jan 1998 07:13:04 -0500 At 06:13 PM 1/27/98 -0500, you wrote: > >A friend recently lent me Ferrante and Teicher's _Pianos In Paradise_ . . . I second that! Actually, I previoused that, as it was one of the wonderful thrift store finds that I had made last year. Paradise for a dollar. Whoopee! # 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) Pianos In Paradise -Reply Date: 28 Jan 1998 08:50:33 -0500 I'd totally agree with Ross' review of "Pianos in Paradise." There are a few clunkers thrown into the mix, but overall you've got a very enjoyable platter of "exotic rhythms." (Plus that great goofy cover.) Get it!!!! - 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: Vik Trola Subject: Re: (exotica)Air Date: 28 Jan 1998 09:24:41 -0500 >(also no mention of Air: Moon Safari since it came out...) those wishing to preview the AIR before buying should check out http://www.space.caroline.com/air/ the full album is up in Real Audio as well as a Real Video stream for the "Sexy Boy" vid. the official AIR site is http://associated.caroline.com/source/air/ cheers, Vik "some call me tool of the record biz, others don't" Trola # 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: Vik Trola Subject: (exotica) ooops... Date: 28 Jan 1998 09:33:53 -0500 >>(also no mention of Air: Moon Safari since it came out...) > >those wishing to preview the AIR before buying should check out >http://www.space.caroline.com/air/ ACTUALLY...it's at http://space.caroline.com/air/ geez...you'd think i could get it right, eh? toodles, Vik "there goes this week's bonus" Trola # 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: dan hill Subject: Re: (exotica) Air Date: 28 Jan 1998 15:08:20 +0100 >>>(also no mention of Air: Moon Safari since it came out...) >>those wishing to preview the AIR before buying should check out >>http://www.space.caroline.com/air/ >ACTUALLY...it's at http://space.caroline.com/air/ there's also a little bit on The Raft (Virgin UK's 'alternative' site) ... http://raft.vmg.co.uk me, i reckon that 'they're not as good as they used to be before they signed to a major' (muso cliche eh?) ... but its true ... there's a few tracks on the album which are great ... but their previous 12"s (on source and mo wax) are even better (modular, cassanova 70) ... so perhaps they rushed it under pressure from virgin to cash in on the 'french invasion' ... dunno ... but yeah, all in all i think they're fantastic ... just wish they'd steered clear of some of those ELO records ... a bit TOO fromage in places ... first 3 tracks are top though dan ps. hey vik - is that you, frank davis? ---+ dan hill mailto:dan@state51.co.uk 91 brick lane, london e1 6qn ---+ the specialist record shop finder: http://www.state51.co.uk/motion/services/ +--- # 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: Vik Trola Subject: Re: (exotica) Air Date: 28 Jan 1998 11:21:49 -0500 >>>>(also no mention of Air: Moon Safari since it came out...) >>>those wishing to preview the AIR before buying should check out >>ACTUALLY...it's at http://space.caroline.com/air/ >there's also a little bit on The Raft (Virgin UK's 'alternative' site) ... >http://raft.vmg.co.uk >me, i reckon that 'they're not as good as they used to be before they >signed to a major' (muso cliche eh?) ... so perhaps they >rushed it under pressure from virgin to cash in on the 'french invasion' actually, they are still on Source. Virgin has only licensed the album. the difference in sound betwwen earlier releases and Moon Safari is simply reflective of Nicolas and JB's love of experimentation. some of the latest sounds from them (yet unreleased) sound nothing like Moon Safari. then there's the track with Francoise Hardy which borrows from "Stairway to Heaven." >... just wish they'd steered clear of some of those ELO records ... rumour mill time: "Kelly, Watch The Stars" was inspired by Jacilyn Smith's "Charlie's Angels" character. take from that what you will... >ps. hey vik - is that you, frank davis? i can neither confirm or deny said allegations. a beintot, Vik "great work if you can get it" Trola # 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) Re: French Pop / Gainsbourg Date: 28 Jan 1998 19:36:59 +0100 Can anyone recommend a good Serge Gainsbourg compilation for me please? Have the odd track scattered over various compilations but probably am missing a lot... Thanks, 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: "Arjan Plug" Subject: (exotica) Dimensions in Sound Date: 28 Jan 1998 19:52:14 +0100 Picked up vol.3 in a series called "Dimensions in Sound : a sonic search for the ultimate musical mindflip.. !" (TrIP records, trip 6203) over the weekend. from the sleevenotes: "Here is a good madness and everything on sexy 70's porn soundtrack, jerk beat rythm with the 60's groovy style, also the funky drumbeat is perfect for the sample, exciting and crazy instrumentals mood music with many weired noise from electronics!" etc. As this label speaks of Dimenziones in Sound it looks like one of those dodgy Italian compilations. A psychedelic groovy compilation as it says in the sleevenotes is probably a good description. Particular like The Godfather by Ettore Stratta and his Orchestra (funky version with strings) and Gerhard Trede & his electronic Instruments - Signals so far. Anyone know if vol. 1 and 2 are worth picking up? 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: "Ben Waugh" Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: French Pop / Gainsbourg Date: 28 Jan 1998 11:11:31 PST I've really enjoyed "Serge Gainsbourg, 25 Ans". Tracks include Je T'aime...Moi non plus, Dr. Jekyll et Mr. Hyde, Nazi Rock. I can get more specific information for you later, if you'd like. Regards, BW Can anyone recommend a good Serge Gainsbourg compilation for me please? Have the odd track scattered over various compilations but probably am missing alot... Thanks, Arjan ______________________________________________________ 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: Stilgloria Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) Air Date: 28 Jan 1998 14:18:34 EST I always get the monthly magazine CMJ which comes bundled with a CD. It has a song by around 15 different groups. Air's Moon Safari is featured on this CD. I'm looking forward to listening to it after reading the accompanying article on them. Gloria PS: This magazine is well worth the $4.95 each month. I discovered Squirrel Nut Zippers on one of the CDs. # 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 Subject: Re: (exotica) Dimensions in Sound Date: 28 Jan 1998 11:45:10 -0800 >and Gerhard Trede & his electronic Instruments - Signals so far. Gerhard Trade has a RIPPIN' cool electronic instro on the ELECTRONIC TOYS CD So I say GET IT NOW!, but that's just me@;-O 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: otto Subject: (exotica) Madame Wu's, L.A. Jan 31 Date: 28 Jan 1998 14:42:16 -0900 For those of you not in Los Angeles please accept my apologies as my = mailing list is not sorted by city Here's the Madame Wu's update for Saturday, January I will be arriving Friday night and will be at The Encounter at LAX = from midnight til closing. Saturday day I will be attending and spinning at Se=F1or Amor's = housewarming party from 4-6 pm For more details contact Se=F1or at 213/965-1933 THEN I will be hightailing it over to Wu's to arrive by 7:30 Tony said they have been closing early at 10 even on Friday and = Saturday and they have been very busy so to allow for more quality = time during Wu's final hours I've decided to arrive there as early as = possible. I hope that you decide to join me there. Madame Wu's is on Wilshire near 21st in Santa Monica call = 310/828-5656 if you wish to have dinner. Tschau Otto ps. this is an experimental email address. Please reply to this = address but do not save it. My AOL address is still my primary address. # 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: tosh@loop.com (Tosh) Subject: (exotica) Serge Gainsbourg Date: 28 Jan 1998 21:11:32 -0800 (PST) >All I do is listen to Gainsbourg, since I am publishing his novel. I > >recommend the three collections: > > du jazz dans le ravin > couleur cafe > comic strip > > They pretty much capture the style and genius of the Gainsbourg mind. If > you like what you hear, then go into his various albums. He also wrote > songs for France Gall, Jane Birkin, Bardot, etc. > > He is really an amazing figure! ----------------- Tosh Berman TamTam Books ---------------- # 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: "Jim G" Subject: Re: (exotica) Serge Gainsbourg Date: 28 Jan 1998 22:19:36 -0800 > >All I do is listen to Gainsbourg, since I am publishing his novel. I the style and genius of the Gainsbourg mind. If > > you like what you hear, then go into his various albums. He also wrote > > songs for France Gall, Jane Birkin, Bardot, etc. Don't forget the songs he wrote and sang with his and I believe Jane's cute teenage daughter Charlotte, on the french CD "Lemon Incest". "Oh Daddy, Oh Daddy,Oh !" Amazing !!! Jim G # 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: PRAESIDENT Subject: (exotica) Gainsbarre encore Date: 29 Jan 1998 01:20:46 EST Hi everybody I'm new on the list! Actually Gainsbourg was a great guy What he did the best was to choose the greatest partners, arrangers and musicians to complete his projects for instance he worked with Michel Colombier, great arranger that also worked on "Messe pour le temps present" de Pierre Henry great stuff With le grand Serge he made ANNA, the soundtrack of a tv movie in which gainsbourg directed Anna Karenine, it contains "Sous le soleil exactement" You can find it between all the CD's of the big compilation published by Phonogram De Gainsbourg a Gainsbourg Has anyone heard about some other projects involving Michel Colombier? Avec tendresse electronique Chazam # 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: dan hill Subject: Re: (exotica) Air Date: 29 Jan 1998 11:18:10 +0100 vik said: >actually, they are still on Source. Virgin has only licensed the album. the >difference in sound betwwen earlier releases and Moon Safari is simply >reflective of Nicolas and JB's love of experimentation. some of the latest >sounds from them (yet unreleased) sound nothing like Moon Safari. then >there's the track with Francoise Hardy which borrows from "Stairway to >Heaven." well, i'm all for experimentation too ... vive la difference (yes those terrible puns on 'the raft' are mine) ... what does the new stuff sound like? >>ps. hey vik - is that you ***** *****? (blanked out to preserve alleged >>true identity) >i can neither confirm or deny said allegations. hmmm ... even clinton is managing to issue stronger denials than that ... dan. ---+ dan hill mailto:dan@state51.co.uk 91 brick lane, london e1 6qn ---+ the specialist record shop finder: http://www.state51.co.uk/motion/services/ +--- # 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) Dimensions in Sound Date: 29 Jan 1998 08:42:30 EST In a message dated 98-01-28 13:58:31 EST, ajplug@bart.nl writes: << Anyone know if vol. 1 and 2 are worth picking up? >> Vol 1 of Dimensions in Sound isn't bad, Vol2 while, having a couple of nice tracks is overall disapointing. Is Vol 3 really as good as the description. By the way, anyone notice that the latest thing in these style of compilations is to give a far more interesting description than what the contents really are...this is especially applicable with Beat At Cincecitta Vol2 which leads one on to through the graphics to believe there is lots of sleazy sexy Italian soundtrack music when there is actually just music to a few far less than sexy comedies and not even remotely soft core films of middling quality -- nothing approaching the provocative come ons of the photos. 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: Vik Trola Subject: Re: (exotica) Air Date: 29 Jan 1998 08:58:54 -0500 >>there's the track with Francoise Hardy which borrows from "Stairway to >>Heaven." >what does the new stuff sound like? the Francoise Hardy collaboration will be up in Real Audio starting tomorrow at http://space.caroline.com/air/ under the "Rare Safari" adventure. that gives a bit of an indication of the new material (there will also be "Sexy Boy" remixes from Cassio and Etienne De Crecy as well as remixes for "Le Soleil est Pres De Moi: and "J'ai Dormi Sous L'eau"). i would say the new stuff is radically different (tho i also don't think Moon Safari is a tremendous departure)...just more like a progression... >>>ps. hey vik - is that you ***** *****? (blanked out to preserve alleged >>>true identity) >>i can neither confirm or deny said allegations. >hmmm ... even clinton is managing to issue stronger denials than that ... he can afford better spin doctors... au revoir, Vik "shillin' for the man" Trola # 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 Subject: Re: (exotica) Air Date: 29 Jan 1998 07:28:41 -0800 >actually, they are still on Source. Virgin has only licensed the album. the >difference in sound between earlier releases and Moon Safari is simply >reflective of Nicolas and JB's love of experimentation. some of the latest >sounds from them (yet unreleased) sound nothing like Moon Safari. then >there's the track with Francoise Hardy which borrows from "Stairway to >Heaven." They just sent me that and what a wunnerful rekkit that is, I looooooove it If anyone cares and can pick up KFJC, 89.7FM, Los Altos Hills, CA San Francisco bay area. http://www.KFJC.org(internet broadcast) It's free form week at the station and I'm going to be on the air for a "different mix", Friday 6AM-10AM I'm going to be playing the heck outta the new Jean Jacques Perrey/David Chazam, Air and whatever else like Black Sabbath! -J # 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 Subject: (exotica) Who played on what Date: 29 Jan 1998 08:37:05 -0800 Just found out some supa interesting info that I didn't know about Jean Jacques Perrey's MOOG INDIGO rekkit in that I *always thought* that it was ONLY Jean Jacques who played and performed all of the music and sounds on his rekkits when in fact that was not true! For example on Moog Indigo, for starters, it was Vinnie Bell on Electric Guitar/ Effects and Buddy Rich, BUDDY RICH!!! on Drums Now! Who the hell are the Mindexpanders ??? @:-O Awesome. More to come lllllllllllllater, 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: Ariel Tagar Subject: (exotica) indian vibes Date: 29 Jan 1998 13:00:46 +0200 I finally found it on the cd: "Indian Vibes remixes" It has the original version of the track and than 6 incredible (some more some less) remixes. it's a 1994 virgin edition. I have found peace. Ariel Tagar. # 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: Vik Trola Subject: (exotica) first the rat pack...now esquivel Date: 29 Jan 1998 12:27:39 -0500 Leguizamo Bandleader For 'Esquivel' By Chris Petrikin HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - John Leguizamo is attached to star in the lead role in a movie about Juan Garcia Esquivel, the famed Mexican bandleader who pioneered space age bachelor pad music. ``Esquival'' is set up at Fox Searchlight, the arthouse division of 20th Century Fox,and will be written and irected by Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman, the duo behind the documentary ``Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's.'' Leguizamo, who will get a producer's credit, was seen last year in New Line's ``Spawn,'' and currently is starring in his one-man show ``Freak,'' which makes its Broadway bow Feb. 12 at the Cort Theater. ``Esquivel'' is set in the 1960s and will chronicle the life and career of the Mexican composer, producer and band leader. His recordings were sprung from obscurity in late 1994 when the Bar None label issued ``Space Age Bachelor Pad Music,'' a term that had been applied to the hi-fi music he pioneered in the 1960s. Coupled with reissues on other labels, Esquivel soon became the sultan of exotica and was reinstated, as Variety had reported in the 1960s, ``as being to pop music approximately what Aaron Copland is to serious music or what a John Coltrane is to jazz.'' Born in Mexico in 1918, Esquivel moved to the U.S. in 1957 to record for RCA Victor. His arrangements took full advantage of the stereo phenomenon through bongos,glass-shattering brass, worldless vocals, sparkling xylophones and steel guitar. As his arrival coincided with the birth of rock 'n' roll, Esquivel was in essence the last great big band leader; although he was able to work into the 1970s in Las Vegas and Reno showrooms, he returned to Mexico, where he now lives, and retired in the '80s. He also arranged and wrote for television and film and his work has been featured in more than 400 TV episodes. Reuters/Variety # 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: =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=FCnter?= Ertl Subject: (exotica) "The Hipster -Jazee Joos" Date: 29 Jan 1998 17:04:19 +0100 this is special to Vik: first of all Vik I love your selections---got a lot of my own allready and I=B4m improving my collection

this is one i aquired two weeks ago
the description is of Dusty Groove(thanks)

Various -- Hipster: Jazee Joos . . . CD . . . $15.99
Partners In Crime (Italy), 1997 Condition: New Copy
15 jazzy groovers, with a sound and a feel that you haven't really heard in other comps before (except for the now hard-to-find
Priceless classic.) Tight hard modal tracks, with lots of strident rolling piano lines, cool flute and sax solos, and free-wheeling rhythm
sections. Cuts include "The Hipster" by Harold McNair, "Clean Up" by Harold Alexander, "JM Cobra" by Dan Seepers Soul, "Mr.
Buzz" by The Flying Dutchmen, "Love for Sale" by Kanako Higuchi, "Orange Boom" by Jazz Hip Trio, and the great "Howlin' For
Judy" by Jeremy Steig, a great Beastie Boys sample classic!

I=B4m tired of making internet  searches ----looking for the releaser " Discomagic" and the label  "Yellowstone records" and the record beeing selected by " Partners of Crime"---I=B4ve not found any  result.
Have you guys heard  from this record or from discomagic?

stay tuned

 # 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: Shangri-la Subject: (exotica) Gainsbourg Date: 29 Jan 1998 22:12:58 +-200 Well, three reissues that I know off and know are: the pop one , the = latin one and the jazz one. They are all worth having. I'm a fan so = your'e actually asking the wrong person. Then there is the late = seventies reggae album with Sly and Robbie. Only three things hold these = together: his voice, French, and the (mostly) pop structured songs.=20 I want to know more too. Did he explore other genres? On the latin album = there is some African stuff that is groovy. # 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: LABUSH@DELTA.IS.TCU.EDU Subject: (exotica) Re: gainsbourg Date: 29 Jan 1998 14:43:05 -0500 (CDT) I know this compilation has been mentioned before, but to get a good taste of Gainsbourg compositions, listen to the several Gainsbourg-composed tracks on the "Best of BB" Brigitte Bardot comp on Philips. Lisa *** labush@student.tcu.edu*** ***Mono Lisa's Metropical Page and More -- http://delta.is.tcu.edu/~labush*** p.s. i wrote and essay on M. Gainsbourg for my French class last semester! It was very rudimentary, though -- the class was about depictions of faces in French lit, and we were to write an essay on someone's face and personality. p.p.s. Does anyone know which Gainsbourg imports are the creme de la creme?? There are soooo many at the Virgin Megastore....yikes! # 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: Shangri-la Subject: RE: (exotica) Gainsbourg Date: 29 Jan 1998 23:16:47 +-200 Well, three reissues that I know off and know are: the pop one , the latin one and the jazz one. I forgot to add these are compilations... # 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: buMp Subject: RE: (exotica) Gainsbourg Date: 29 Jan 1998 17:07:22 -0500 an aside.... Speaking of Serge, i recently saw him in a Hercules movie i recently acquired. It is called "The Fury of Hercules" 1961. and he is not bad! BuMp Defective Records pje@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu http://www.welch.jhu.edu/~geh/defective.html # 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: tosh@loop.com (Tosh) Subject: Re: (exotica) first the rat pack...now esquivel Date: 29 Jan 1998 17:46:44 -0800 (PST) >Leguizamo Bandleader For 'Esquivel' >By Chris Petrikin > Oh god! This is the best news I heard today. ----------------- Tosh Berman TamTam Books ---------------- # 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: otto Subject: (exotica) Star Esquivel Date: 29 Jan 1998 15:42:34 -0900 Leguizamo Bandleader For 'Esquivel' By Chris Petrikin HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - John Leguizamo is attached to star in the lead role in a movie about Juan Garcia Esquivel, the famed Mexican bandleader who pioneered space age bachelor pad music. "Esquival" is set up at Fox Searchlight, the arthouse division of 20th Century Fox, and will be written and directed by Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman, the duo behind the documentary "Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's." Leguizamo, who will get a producer's credit, was seen last year in New Line's "Spawn," and currently is starring in his one-man show "Freak," which makes its Broadway bow Feb. 12 at the Cort Theater. "Esquivel" is set in the 1960s and will chronicle the life and career of the Mexican composer, producer and band leader. His recordings were sprung from obscurity in late 1994 when the Bar None label issued "Space Age Bachelor Pad Music," a term that had been applied to the hi-fi music he pioneered in the 1960s. Coupled with reissues on other labels, Esquivel soon became the sultan of exotica and was reinstated, as Variety had reported in the 1960s, "as being to pop music approximately what Aaron Copland is to serious music or what a John Coltrane is to jazz." Born in Mexico in 1918, Esquivel moved to the U.S. in 1957 to record for RCA Victor. His arrangements took full advantage of the stereo phenomenon through bongos, glass-shattering brass, worldless vocals, sparkling xylophones and steel guitar. As his arrival coincided with the birth of rock 'n' roll, Esquivel was in essence the last great big band leader; although he was able to work into the 1970s in Las Vegas and Reno showrooms, he returned to Mexico, where he now lives, and retired in the '80s. He also arranged and wrote for television and film and his work has been featured in more than 400 TV episodes. Reuters/Variety -- Byron Werner hotwire@d2.com Residing in the Incubator (No Mule Needed) Digital Domain 300 Rose Ave. Venice, Ca. 90291 310 314-2800 ext. 2056 # 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: ccarlson@greennet.net (Craig Carlson) Subject: (exotica) Re: playlists Date: 29 Jan 1998 23:50:59 -0800 Johan wrote: >each time one of these is posted, i wonder: what's the relevance of it in >this group I wonder too...all the playlists, actually. If they contain some comments by the author about the music, they're great. Otherwise, it's just kind of a laundry list. Same goes for the thrift scores; editorial comment makes it interesting. Also, just MO. Craig ccarlson@greennet.net # 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: "David J. Strauss" Subject: (exotica) Carlos Rustichelli? Date: 30 Jan 1998 00:01:47 -0500 (EST) I've recently been delving into many an Italian soundtrack from the 1960s, and this Carlos Rustichelli guy is amazing, my discovery of the year thus far. Does anyone here know anything about him? DS djs2852@is.nyu.edu # 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 Jemmeson Subject: (exotica) Air/Laila France Date: 30 Jan 1998 09:52:47 +0000 Re: Air: Moon Safari - I'm glad it's not just me that thinks it's *very* ELO influenced... but I can't be the only ELO fan here? surely? Laila France: Orgonon (Bungalow records) I'm sure many ppl will say it's nothing new, and it's certainly not groundbreaking, but still rather good. Produced by Momus (although I haven't heard any of his albums). Sleevenotes: 'By listening to this record by Miss Laila France, the new Thai-Parisian Supergirl you are not just gaining an introduction to Trance Cocktail Music. But are contributing to the level of Orgasmatronic Orgone Energy in the world' How can you resist? # 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: jmperl@juno.com (Jonathan M Perl) Subject: (exotica) Gainsbourg items Date: 30 Jan 1998 09:13:31 -0500 I've been obsessed by Gainsbourg for several years, and find his music so compelling that I found no need to look beyond the 2 volume french 'gainsbourg a gainsbarre' complilation until recently. However, I soon realized that I had been incredibly stupid to pass up on those three Phillips/mercury compilations ('the pop one , the latin one and the jazz one'). Actual titles are 'comic strip', 'couleur cafe' and 'du jazz dans le ravin'. Like everyone else, I saw them on the racks for probably a year or more, but didn't buy them, perhaps because the song titles they chose as names are not amongst my favourites. But they are absolutely brilliant releases. I picked up the Jazz one a few months ago, and it is one of the best CDs I have ever bought, and an excellent example of how valuable CDs can be (although I will look, I am unlikely ever to find the vinyl). The other two followed soon after. Many of the tracks on 'du jazz dans le ravin' are from 10" singles, while I've never found the albums 'gainsbourg percussions' and 'confidentiel' anywhere. Judging from how many DJs I know who play them, they should have released those three compilations on vinyl. Oh well. Re: Ashley's comments on Beat at Cinnetia Vol II, I would agree that the cover art misrepresents the content, but I actually still think it's a good compilation. Again, these things are so much more valuable when they contain stuff you are never going to hear otherwise. In particular, that first song by Pierre Piccioni (Mr Dante Fontana) is unbelievable. regards Jonny PS I have the BB compilation; is there a France Gall one with mainly her Gainsbourg stuff on it? _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] # 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@aol.com Subject: (exotica) commercials Date: 30 Jan 1998 09:33:03 EST does anyone have any suggestions for locating vintage (50's, 60's) TV and Radio commecials on CD, besides the TeeVee Toons release? i usually tape 'em off of videos and wish there was a better way. Also radio spots, Public Service Announcements, jingles - anything like that i am interested in finding. I know about PAMS, but that is about it. any suggestions would be appreciated. thanks # 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: Q Subject: (exotica) Esquivel movie Date: 30 Jan 1998 11:22:01 -0000 Hey, I just came across this. Maybe you guys didn't know about this so I thought I'd mention it. They're making a movie about Esquivel. http://www.mrshowbiz.com/news/wire/980129/5_26_4.html Q Quentin Matheson Multimedia Developer Renaissance Interactive Studios Inc. ___________________________________ q@ri-studios.com www.ri-studios.com tel. (506) 458-8254 # 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: ghostown@ix.netcom.com Subject: (exotica) Esquivel film project Date: 30 Jan 1998 10:38:56 -0500 LEGUIZAMO BANDLEADER FOR 'ESQUIVEL' By Chris Petrikin HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - John Leguizamo is attached to star in the lead role in a movie about Juan Garcia Esquivel, the famed Mexican bandleader who pioneered space age bachelor pad music. "Esquivel" is set up at Fox Searchlight, the arthouse division of 20th Century Fox, and will be written and directed by Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman, the duo behind the documentary "Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's." Leguizamo, who will get a producer's credit, was seen last year in New Line's "Spawn," and currently is starring in his one-man show "Freak," which makes its Broadway bow Feb. 12 at the Cort Theater. "Esquivel" is set in the 1960s and will chronicle the life and career of the Mexican composer, producer and bandleader. His recordings were sprung from obscurity in late 1994 when the Bar/None label issued "Space Age Bachelor Pad Music," a term that had been applied to the hi-fi music he pioneered in the 1960s. Coupled with reissues on other labels, Esquivel soon became the sultan of exotica and was reinstated, as Variety had reported in the 1960s, "as being to pop music approximately what Aaron Copland is to serious music or what a John Coltrane is to jazz." Born in Mexico in 1918, Esquivel moved to the U.S. in 1957 to record for RCA Victor. His arrangements took full advantage of the stereo phenomenon through bongos, glass-shattering brass, wordless vocals, sparkling xylophones and steel guitar. As his arrival coincided with the birth of rock 'n' roll, Esquivel was in essence the last great big band leader; although he was able to work into the 1970s in Las Vegas and Reno showrooms, he returned to Mexico, where he now lives, and retired in the '80s. He also arranged and wrote for television and film and his work has been featured in more than 400 TV episodes. Reuters/Variety # 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@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: playlists Date: 30 Jan 1998 09:27:06 EST << I wonder too...all the playlists, actually. If they contain some comments by the author about the music, they're great. Otherwise, it's just kind of a laundry list. Same goes for the thrift scores; editorial comment makes it interesting. Also, just MO. >> to me, playlists are a great way to "advertise" what we individually collect and want to share with others. I find them to be quite helpful in learning and gaining more exposure to new artists and titles. i post them myself, and often receive numerous private replies afterwards requesting further information or a tape trade. next time i do a list, i'll try to add some comments this list has a lot of lurkers, by the way....*wink* # 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) first the rat pack...now esquivel Date: 30 Jan 1998 11:33:36 -0500 > >Leguizamo Bandleader For 'Esquivel' > > > Oh god! This is the best news I heard today. > > Tosh Berman Yeah -- thank god they didn't cast Charlton Heston in the part. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # 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: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Zorn List Digest V2 #218 Date: 30 Jan 1998 13:09:53 -0500 (EST) Here's a post from the Zorn-list that may be of interest here. --Insky >From: owner-zorn-list-digest@lists.xmission.com (Zorn List Digest) >Zorn List Digest Friday, January 30 1998 Volume 02 : Number 218 >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 00:23:19 PST >From: "John Q Citizen" >Subject: Re: Zorn>>>Baxter>>>Ra >> >>Zorn's Top 10: >>Herbie Nichols - The Complete Blue Note Recordings (Blue Note) >>Sonny Rollins - Sonny Meets Hawk! (RCA Victor) >>Jimmy Giuffre 3 - Free Fall (Columbia) >>Kim So-Hee - P'ansori II Saeng (Jigu) >>Frank Sinatra - The Reprise Years (Warner/Reprise) >>Les Baxter - The Exotic Moods Of Les Baxter (Capitol) > >I've read Zorn lionising Baxter's work before; I know its become easy to >dismiss him as part of that whole retro-kitsch fad, but Baxter did some >great stuff - coupla records of *jungle jazz*, lotsa soundtracks. I >guess Baxter might've been using the same West Coast session jazz-men as >Esquivel; and at least some of Baxter's work employs that same kind of >block-structure that Zorn has noted in the work of Esquivel, Stallings >and Stravinsky. > >Don't know hardly anything about it myself, but I'm intruiged by this >'50s West Coast jazz connection - some really fantastic stuff was >recorded; v cinematic, louche, noirish, etc. I've always reckoned the >edits in Zorn's "Spillane" are anticipated by the cuts in the jazz >sequences of "The Man With The Golden Arm" S/T. I think Skip Diamond's >"Mike Hammer" Lp has been re-issued by RCA in Spain; but I can only >guess at how that might relate. > >As for Baxter's exotica; I've always reckoned Sun Ra was listening to >Baxter's early LPs - the whole roots of the Saturn aesthetic are there - >electronics, crypto-tribal percussion, chants (well, sort of - choral >stuff at least), *strange strings*, not to mention (but most important >of all) Baxter's foregrounding of >electronics-as-the-sounds-of-outer-space aesthetic. Just discovered (in >Szwed's Ra survey in an issue of the Wire last year) that Ra covered a >Baxter tune (that had Harry Revel on theremin) for one of his own >earliest LPs. > >Unnh; dunno if anyone really cares about this stuff - sorry if I've >wasted your time. # 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: Re: (exotica) Re: playlists Date: 30 Jan 1998 13:11:37 -0500 (EST) i like play lists because that way you can know what people are playing # 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 Subject: (exotica) test Date: 30 Jan 1998 17:14:41 -0800 is this thing working ? 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: BasicHip@aol.com Subject: (exotica) 4 four 1 Date: 31 Jan 1998 12:04:49 EST finally got myself a bee-yoo-tee-ful Harpo Marx LP. great great great. satisfys all my needs. 1) gorgeous photograph of Harpo on the cover 2) Harpo is a wonderful harpist 3) background music supplied by the eight piece Fred Katz Orchestra 4) special bonus: whistling on a number of tracks, no credit given to who it is...maybe Muzzy Marcellino? # 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 Subject: (exotica) Harpo Date: 31 Jan 1998 09:27:59 -0800 Ford, I think that *maybe* it's Harpo who is whistling. Didn't "he whistle" in any Marx Bros. movies Jack At 12:04 PM 1/31/98 EST, BasicHip@aol.com wrote: > >finally got myself a bee-yoo-tee-ful Harpo Marx LP. great great great. >satisfys all my needs. > >1) gorgeous photograph of Harpo on the cover >2) Harpo is a wonderful harpist >3) background music supplied by the eight piece Fred Katz Orchestra >4) special bonus: whistling on a number of tracks, no credit given to who it >is...maybe Muzzy Marcellino? # 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) Harpo Date: 31 Jan 1998 14:35:48 -0500 > I think that *maybe* it's Harpo who is whistling. > Didn't "he whistle" in any Marx Bros. movies > > Jack Harpo whistled in all of their movies, I think. It was one of his speech substitutes. Can't recall "musical" whistling for sure (offhand) but I wouldn't be surprised. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # 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 Subject: (exotica) just another list of scores Date: 31 Jan 1998 14:54:22 -0800 mindexpanders - what's happening (stereo and mono, both mint) ost barbarella (stereo, 2 mint) jimmie haskel orchestra - countdown (stereo and mono, both mint 4 copies each) enoch light - spaced out (stereo and quad, both mint) tom dissvelt and kid baltan - "song of the 2nd moon" (limelight, stereo) the elektrosonics - electronic music (phillips, stereo and mono, both mint) dick hyman/mary mayo - moon gassssssssss ( stereo and mono, 3 mint copies each) roy ayers - ost, coffy (stereo, mint) quincy jones - ost they call me mr. tibbs (stereo, mint) leo diamond - the skin divers (mono, mint) michel magne - tropical fantasies (mono and stereo, 2 mint copies) burt bacharach - ost after the fox(stereo, mint) ken thorne - ost, inspector cleuseo (sp?)(stereo, mint) gerald fried orch/markko polo players - orienta (stereo and mono, both mint) dean elliot orch. - zounds what sounds (stereo, mint) russ garcia orch - fantastica (stereo and mono, both mint) hal blaine - psychedelic percussion (stereo, 2 copies, both mint) beaver and krause - nonesuch guide to electronic music (box, 2 lp's, 4 box sets all with book, stereo, mint) fifty foot hose - cauldron (stereo, mint) damon - song of a gypsy (mono, 4 mint copies) ost the caine mutiny (mono, mint, 2 copies) gerald fried - ost, dino (mono, mint) boogaloo joe jones - right on (mono, mint) o'donel levy - dawn of a new day (stero, mint) o'donel levy - simba (stereo, mint) mel brown - the wizard (stereo, mint) bill plummer and his cosmic brotherhood (stereo, 3 sealed copies) the surfmen - exotic island (stereo, 2 sealed copies) 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: BasicHip@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) just another list of scores Date: 31 Jan 1998 19:42:59 EST In a message dated 98-01-31 17:58:59 EST, you write: << ost the caine mutiny (mono, mint, 2 copies) >> i've been looking for that record everywhere. is it rare? # 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@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) just another list of scores Date: 31 Jan 1998 19:42:59 EST In a message dated 98-01-31 17:58:59 EST, you write: << ost the caine mutiny (mono, mint, 2 copies) >> i've been looking for that record everywhere. is it rare? # 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.