From: exotica-owner@xmission.com To: exotica-digest@xmission.com Subject: exotica Digest V2 #2 Reply-To: exotica@xmission.com Errors-To: exotica-owner@xmission.com Precedence: exotica Digest Wednesday, 19 June 1996 Volume 02 : Number 002 In this issue: Re: command another un-exotic ? <-- Directional Sound --> Re: another un-exotic ? Re: Korla Pandit Film music suggestions Raymond Scott covers Origins of "Zu-Zu-Zu" Re: <-- Directional Sound -- Re: chicago? Re: Film music suggestions Re: <-- Directional Sound -- House of Games Playlist for 5/26/96 whasshappenin' ? Re: Film music suggestions Re: <-- Directional Sound - Re: Film music suggestions Popp! Re: another un-exotic ? Re: another un-exotic ? Re: <-- Directional Sound - HI-FI's Name The Dame philicorda See the end of the digest for information on subscribing to the exotica or exotica-digest mailing lists and on how to retrieve back issues. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Mark Koldys Date: Wed, 19 Jun 96 13:01:59 -0400 Subject: Re: command >The label is Directional Sound, and there is at least >one other by this same aggregation on that label. The band is John Evans and >his Orchestra, all of whom, including John, were members of Francis Bay's Big >Band, otherwise known as the Bay Big Band. This is a Belgian swing >orchestra, >very much dedicated to the swing band era ala Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, >Artie Shaw, etc. These releases are more than just members of Francis Bay's band...they ARE Francis Bay's Band, the same recordings that Omega issued, here falsely attributed to "John Evans" and his band. The players' names given on Directional Sound have all been slightly altered and Anglicized from their true monikers, and the sound has been reverbed and compressed. But otherwise these are the same recordings that Omega issued under their true names, in undoctored sound. - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- mkoldys@rust.net - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "If befriend donkey, expect to be kicked." --Charlie Chan - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ From: "Laura Taylor" Date: 19 Jun 1996 13:03:09 -0400 Subject: another un-exotic ? Because you all are more brilliant and better educated in obscure music than most, I'll pose this question...I have a *great* record by a woman vocalist, made sometime in the early '60s, on LONDON, called GEORGIA BROWN SINGS KURT WEILL...Does anyone have any info on her? Last time I checked the Weill home-page, I found nothing....Anyone else like Weill? Lounge Laura laura@wusf.usf.edu btw-my e-mail has been behaving badly, so if you've sent anything to me recently and I haven't replied, try again! ------------------------------ From: YBHL45A@prodigy.com ( ROBERT POWERS) Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 13:45:38, -0500 Subject: <-- Directional Sound --> - -- [ From: Rob Powers * EMC.Ver #2.10P ] -- I also highly recommend 'exotic percussion & brilliant brass' to all exotica lovers. The recording is certainly high quality and the threatening bird calls seem to be made by electronic means. Does anyone know when this album was made, or how, if it was made in the 50's, that they synthesized these bird calls and animal noises? Also, two songs, 'eso es el amor' and 'mambo inn' appear in the same versions on "The Sizzling Brass" on Spin-O-Rama, credited to 'the fascinating sizzling brass group". Is this just a blatant rip off or was the John Evans Orchestra actually involved in the sizzling brass. If so, which came first? ~The Ambassador~ ------------------------------ From: eaganca Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 14:49:11 -0400 () Subject: Re: another un-exotic ? Laura Taylor wrote: >Because you all are more brilliant and better educated in obscure music than >most, I'll pose this question...I have a *great* record by a woman vocalist, >made sometime in the early '60s, on LONDON, called GEORGIA BROWN SINGS KURT >WEILL...Does anyone have any info on her? Last time I checked the Weill >home-page, I found nothing....Anyone else like Weill? Weill there's no one else quite like Kurt Weill, you might want to ask the Harlem Globetrotters about Sweet Georgia Brown. EZ does it, Jeff Phillips eaganca@cleo.bc.edu ------------------------------ From: bstewart@ids2.idsonline.com Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 15:10:36 -0400 Subject: Re: Korla Pandit At 11:17 PM 6/18/96 +0000, you wrote: >Heard a track or two from "Exotica 2000" on Friday... > >Has the man completely lost it or is he just possessed?! The organ >playing sounded almost demonic - has his music always been like this?!?! > > >Robbie, quaking in his boots... Can you tell me more about this one Robbie? When it was recorded and what label it is on. Thanks, Bryan ------------------------------ From: mark@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu (Mark Miester) Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 14:18:34 -0500 Subject: Film music suggestions I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for a project I'm working on. I'm trying to compile a tape with film music on it. The type of songs I'm looking for are lush, melodic, easy-listening pop. So far, some of the songs I've got are "Theme from a Summer Place," "Midnight Cowboy," "Moon River," "A Man and a Woman," "Song from the Moulin Rouge," "The Shadow of Your Smile," "Baby Elephnat Walk," "A Time for Us," "You Only Live Twice," "Summer of 42," and "Je T'Aime." Can anyone help me with suggestions for film music in this vein? Thank, Mark ------------------------------ From: Irwin Chusid Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 15:41:22 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Raymond Scott covers Addendum to previous post about Raymond Scott cover versions from the past few years: AQUA REGIA: "Big Band House" samples "The Toy Trumpet" (UK, Irdial Records, 1988) DON BYRON: will soon releasing versions of "Powerhouse," "War Dance for Wooden Indians," "Tobacco Auctioneer," "The Quintet Plays Carmen," "Siberian Sleighride," and "The Penguin" The following all nick, cop, borrow, steal and/or mutate riffs from Scott's "Powerhouse" ......... ARCHIPELAGO BREWING CO.: "Hindustan" (RRRecords, 1991) COWS: "Porky Pig Factory" (Treehouse, 1988) DEVO: "Fraulein" (Ryko, rec. 1975, rel. 1991) GWAR: "The Insidious Story of Skulhed Face" (Metal Blade, 1994) M.I.R.V.: "Learning Pipeline" (1994) RUSH: "La Villa Strangiata" (Mercury, 1978) THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS: "Rhythm Section Want Ad" (Bar/None, 1986) WEAPON OF CHOICE: cover of Soul Coughing's "Bus to Beelzebub" (Ichiban, 1996) ------------------------------ From: Irwin Chusid Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 15:50:26 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Origins of "Zu-Zu-Zu" From a letter received from indomitable Esquivel scholar and devotee Philip Riggio: Would you believe that "zu-zu-zu" got its start in Mexico as "dududu," intervocalic "d" in Spanish being pronounced as the "th" in English "the"? (One might transcribe it as "dh" to distinguish it from the "th" in "think.") "Unlisping" it to "z" enabled American singers to get close to the original instead of reading it as "th" in "think" or stumbling over an unknown "dh", though the sound is common enough in English. And that "Esquivel! 1968" a.k.a. title, "O piano, as vozes e o som de Esquivel!" is in Portuguese, indicating that RCA Victor released it in Brazil, too. ------------------------------ From: "Laura Taylor" Date: 19 Jun 1996 15:46:47 -0400 Subject: Re: <-- Directional Sound -- RE><-- Directional Sound --> 6/19/96 I concurr! That album just pure rocks, especially the screaming ape! lounge laura laura@wusf.usf.edu - -------------------------------------- Date: 6/19/96 3:35 PM To: Laura Taylor From: exotica@xmission.com - -- [ From: Rob Powers * EMC.Ver #2.10P ] -- I also highly recommend 'exotic percussion & brilliant brass' to all exotica lovers. The recording is certainly high quality and the threatening bird calls seem to be made by electronic means. Does anyone know when this album was made, or how, if it was made in the 50's, that they synthesized these bird calls and animal noises? Also, two songs, 'eso es el amor' and 'mambo inn' appear in the same versions on "The Sizzling Brass" on Spin-O-Rama, credited to 'the fascinating sizzling brass group". Is this just a blatant rip off or was the John Evans Orchestra actually involved in the sizzling brass. If so, which came first? ~The Ambassador~ ------------------------------ From: prospect@tt.net (Chris Strouth) Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 14:07:32 -0600 Subject: Re: chicago? >i will be popping into Chicago for a day this weekend with a little time to >do some record shopping. > >Do any fellow exoticans have suggestions where i should look in the city >for good used vinyl? Any vintage stores with a selection of lounge stuff i >should check out? Ok this suggestion isn't a record shop but it is still pretty boss, The place is called Athenian Candle , it is located in Greek Town. It is a story that sells all sort of Santa Terina stuff, as well as all your general vodoo supplies(Controling people soap, Candles, More Money Spray, etc) a musy see Chris END OF TRANSMISSION... ------------------------------ From: "Laura Taylor" Date: 19 Jun 1996 16:38:00 -0400 Subject: Re: Film music suggestions RE>Film music suggestions 6/19/96 Mondo Cane is good... laura@wusf.usf.edu - -------------------------------------- Date: 6/19/96 4:16 PM To: Laura Taylor From: exotica@xmission.com I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for a project I'm working on. I'm trying to compile a tape with film music on it. The type of songs I'm looking for are lush, melodic, easy-listening pop. So far, some of the songs I've got are "Theme from a Summer Place," "Midnight Cowboy," "Moon River," "A Man and a Woman," "Song from the Moulin Rouge," "The Shadow of Your Smile," "Baby Elephnat Walk," "A Time for Us," "You Only Live Twice," "Summer of 42," and "Je T'Aime." Can anyone help me with suggestions for film music in this vein? Thank, Mark ------------------------------ From: sax therapy Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 15:56:44 -0600 Subject: Re: <-- Directional Sound -- Laura Taylor wrote: > > RE><-- Directional Sound --> 6/19/96 > > I concurr! That album just pure rocks, especially the screaming ape! > lounge laura > laura@wusf.usf.edu > - -- > > > I also highly recommend 'exotic percussion & brilliant brass' to all > >exotica lovers. The recording is certainly high quality and the > threatening bird calls seem to be made by electronic means. Does anyone I believe that it's Chaino, the percussionist who makes those bird sounds and btw has anyone heard his Jungle Mating Rhythms on Verve? > know when this album was made, or how, if it was made in the 50's, that > they synthesized these bird calls and animal noises? > Also, two songs, 'eso es el amor' and 'mambo inn' appear in the :| :| <::< .::\ \:/ :::| :::| :~~/ :::| .::\ :::\ :\:| >::> `::| /:\ :| :|:| :::, :| `::| :::/ `::| saul smaizys/saxmania@ripco.com :| .,:' .........................web page=http://pages.ripco.com/~saxmania .............................voice (312)907.8229 fax (312)907.8521 - -- ------------------------------ From: dyemund@best.com (Jack Diamond) Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 14:23:34 +0000 Subject: House of Games Playlist for 5/26/96 The House of Games w/ Jack Diamond airs every Sunday from 9AM - 12 Noon on 89.7FM, KFJC Los Altos Hills, CA Please visit out web site at http://www.cygnus.com/kfjc and please fill out our survey where we ask YOU!!!!!!! Do you want KFJC-FM live on the internet ? Fuck yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! KFJC play list 5/26 for Jack Diamond's House of Games Planets - Chunky Bill Holman Orch. W/Jack Sheldon,B.Holman, F.Rosolino,H.Geller,C.Candoli-NoHeat(ANDEX/58) Carlo Rustichelli - Quarrelsome Moments - Birds,Bees and The Italians Bob Thompson Orch. - Always - RCA 1960 Kayton Roberts - Stompin' at the Savoy Dudley Simpson - The Tomorrow People (BRIT/72/TV) Richard Hayman - Dansero (COMMAND/60'S) Esquivel - Amor Amorm (67/RCA) Bobby Christian Orch. - Strings for a Space Age (SUITE62/ST) Kenyon Hopkins - The Hustler(Paul Newman) Earle Hagen - Needle Stickin' Blues (New Interns) Claus Ogerman/KennyBurrell-Stingray (RCA/65 Watusi Trumpets) Cecil Holmes Orch. - Superfly(C.Mayfield) Folkswingers - Dona, Dona Ferrante and Teicher - Soundproof,Dated 1956, African Echoes Lalo Schifrin - The Sniper w/Bill Plummer, Harpsicord/Sitar Ken Nordine - What Time Is It ????????????57/DOT/Word Jazz Vinnie Bell - You Showed Me (Glittering Gtrs) Dick Hyman/Mary Mayo - Desafinado (Moon Gasssssssssss) Ennio Morricone - Twist of the Spinsters(Malamondo) Barry Gray Orch - Joe 90 (Brit TV) Buddy Morrow Orch. - Rawhide (RCA/59/IMPACT) John Buzon Trio - Mambo Rock (Liberty) Freddie Roach,K.Burrell - Blues in the Front Room (Blue Note) Armando Travajoli - 7 Golden Men Underground,Brick Top Neal Hefti - The Mafista (Batman) Esquivel - My #1 Love (Mono, Exp. New SoundsIn Hi Fi) George Russel W/B.Galbraith,A.Farmer,Hal Mckusick - Night Sound (Jazz Workshop RCA/ 57) Ben Wright,Music By Jack Montrose Orch.Composition By Dylan Thomas1958/ Pac Jazz Mel Henke - It's Sooooooooooo Nice (62/WB) Joe Green - The Boozer (63On Her Bed of Roses) Dick Hyman - Maid of the MoonMoon Gasssssssssssssss Billy May Orch. W/Sam Hoffman-Theremin The Darkness Gives Me You Again (Peace of Mind10") Stanley Myers - A Present for Daddy (Kaleidescope) Quincy Jones - Seduction (In Cold Blood) Bas Sheva - Despair (PASSIONS/10") Quincy Jones - Lonely Bottles Del Close/John Brent - The Loose Wig Lloyd Green - Cool Steel Ferrante and Teicher - Out of this World (Heavenly SoundsIn Hi-Fi) Mancini - Something for Cat (Breakfast atTiffany's) Nelson Riddle - Untouchables Theme (T V Score) Pete Rugolo - Diamond on The Move ------------------------------ From: dyemund@best.com (Jack Diamond) Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 14:25:02 +0000 Subject: whasshappenin' ? Lazlo, I just received my 1st exotica digest in quite a while. What's goin' on ? Keep up the good work, Jack ------------------------------ From: bstewart@ids2.idsonline.com Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 17:37:51 -0400 Subject: Re: Film music suggestions At 02:18 PM 6/19/96 -0500, you wrote: >I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for a project I'm working on. >I'm trying to compile a tape with film music on it. The type of songs I'm >looking for are lush, melodic, easy-listening pop. So far, some of the >songs I've got are "Theme from a Summer Place," "Midnight Cowboy," "Moon >River," "A Man and a Woman," "Song from the Moulin Rouge," "The Shadow of >Your Smile," "Baby Elephnat Walk," "A Time for Us," "You Only Live Twice," >"Summer of 42," and "Je T'Aime." > >Can anyone help me with suggestions for film music in this vein? > > One suggestion I can make is the re-issue of the Francis Lai's original soundtrack to "A Man and a Woman" that has the great la,la,la theme. That theme was more famous than the film itself, considering it won Best Foriegn Film Oscar and was a Cannes Grand Prix winner, 1966. It was just recently put out on CD by DRG. Bryan ------------------------------ From: "Laura Taylor" Date: 19 Jun 1996 18:10:55 -0400 Subject: Re: <-- Directional Sound - RE>><-- Directional Sound -- 6/19/96 yes, Chaino is on there...and while I haven't heard the aforementioned album, I have heard NIGHT OF THE SPECTRE..does anyone know why its on Tampa Records(or anything about that label?) I live in Tampa, FL, but I'm pretty sure the label isn't based there... - -------------------------------------- Date: 6/19/96 5:56 PM To: Laura Taylor From: exotica@xmission.com Laura Taylor wrote: > > RE><-- Directional Sound --> 6/19/96 > > I concurr! That album just pure rocks, especially the screaming ape! > lounge laura > laura@wusf.usf.edu > - -- > > > I also highly recommend 'exotic percussion & brilliant brass' to all > >exotica lovers. The recording is certainly high quality and the > threatening bird calls seem to be made by electronic means. Does anyone I believe that it's Chaino, the percussionist who makes those bird sounds and btw has anyone heard his Jungle Mating Rhythms on Verve? > know when this album was made, or how, if it was made in the 50's, that > they synthesized these bird calls and animal noises? > Also, two songs, 'eso es el amor' and 'mambo inn' appear in the :| :| <::< .::\ \:/ :::| :::| :~~/ :::| .::\ :::\ :\:| >::> `::| /:\ :| :|:| :::, :| `::| :::/ `::| saul smaizys/saxmania@ripco.com :| .,:' .........................web page=http://pages.ripco.com/~saxmania .............................voice (312)907.8229 fax (312)907.8521 - -- ------------------------------ From: bcleve@tiac.net (Brother Cleve) Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 19:13:04 -0400 Subject: Re: Film music suggestions Mark Meister wrote: >Can anyone help me with suggestions for film music in this vein [lush, >melodic, easy-listening pop]? "Live For Life", "Barbarella", "In the Arms of Love" (from 'What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?'), "I Will Wait For You" ('Umbrellas of Cherbourg'), "Strangers in the Night" ('A Man Could get Killed'), "Alfie", "More" ('Mondo Cane'), "La Dolce Vita", "All" ('Run for your Wife') br cleve ------------------------------ From: "kevin king" Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 19:25:02 -0500 Subject: Popp! I don't remember anyone posting info about this one before, so... Found this yesterday: Paris - 1925 on Columbia (Adventures In Sound) features Zizi Jeanmaire, Roland Petit, Les Freres Jacque and Andre Popp Popp and his orchestra play four instrumentals and back up the vocal tracks all in his trademark whimsical style. The instrumentals are: My Blue Heaven, Oh Miss Hannah (with singing saw), Hallelujah! and Avalon. The latter two are covered on the Musique qu fait... cd. It was released after Delerium In Hi-Fi and before Presenting Popp! worth looking out for. kevin ------------------------------ From: bob.frable@juno.com (Bob Frable) Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 20:08:54 EST Subject: Re: another un-exotic ? On 19 Jun 1996 13:03:09 -0400 "Laura Taylor" writes: >Because you all are more brilliant and better educated in obscure >music than >most, I'll pose this question...I have a *great* record by a woman >vocalist, >made sometime in the early '60s, on LONDON, called GEORGIA BROWN >SINGS KURT >WEILL...Does anyone have any info on her? Last time I checked the >Weill >home-page, I found nothing....Anyone else like Weill? >Lounge Laura >laura@wusf.usf.edu I seem to recall the original (London??) cast recording of "OLIVER!", and she was the female lead (for some reason the rest of the cast's identities escape me ;-/ ) BOB ------------------------------ From: bbigelow@netrail.net (Brad Bigelow) Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 21:05:05 -0400 Subject: Re: another un-exotic ? >Because you all are more brilliant and better educated in obscure music than >most, I'll pose this question...I have a *great* record by a woman vocalist, >made sometime in the early '60s, on LONDON, called GEORGIA BROWN SINGS KURT >WEILL...Does anyone have any info on her? Last time I checked the Weill >home-page, I found nothing....Anyone else like Weill? Georgia Brown is an English singer who has mainly appeared in stage musicals in London and New York. She did a few films, I believe, but her main claim to fame was originating the role of Nancy in the musical "Oliver!" As for Weill, he certainly contributed an exotica standard with "Mack the Knife." Taken individually, his songs are better than his musical plays, since like Brecht, his tone could grow a little strident. Dudley Moore, I think, did a killer send-up of Weill (and Lotte Lenya's interpretations) on one of the "Beyond the Fringe" albums. Brad Bigelow bbigelow@netrail.net ------------------------------ From: bbigelow@netrail.net (Brad Bigelow) Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 21:11:19 -0400 Subject: Re: <-- Directional Sound - >yes, Chaino is on there...and while I haven't heard the aforementioned album, >I have heard NIGHT OF THE SPECTRE..does anyone know why its on Tampa >Records(or anything about that label?) I live in Tampa, FL, but I'm pretty >sure the label isn't based there... Tampa was an LA-based label in the mid-to-late 1950s. Tampa mostly released Latin and West Coast jazz LPs--people like Mike Pacheco and Oscar Moore. I doubt it stayed in business more than 3-4 years. A few of their albums are available on Fresh Sounds and VSOP CDs. Brad Bigelow bbigelow@netrail.net ------------------------------ From: viktrola@usa.nai.net Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 23:32:39 -0500 Subject: HI-FI's Name The Dame ok cats and kittens, the swinging folks at Ryko have let Vik know you are sending those names for the Shaken Not Stirred Dame, but...everyone's being just a little too politically correct. to quote: "lotsa replies for name the dame, but no one is thinking ian fleming: pussy galore, goldfinger, midnight delight, c'mon, get zip out of the pc suit and get lusty in your monikerizations!!!!!" so head on back to the casino (http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/casino.html) are show your true swankness! i remain... Vik Trola Vik Trola's Lounge Of Self Indulgence http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/lounge.html ------------------------------ From: poulus@xs4all.nl (Poulus Bliek) Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 07:50:54 +0200 (MET DST) Subject: philicorda A few days ago I bought a record with Philicorda music. A Philicorda is a sort of Hammond. Does somebody know something about this instrument ? CU Poulus Easy Tune Homepage: http://www.zeelandnet.nl/people/poulus/easytune.htm ------------------------------ End of exotica Digest V2 #2 *************************** To subscribe to exotica Digest, send the command: subscribe exotica-digest in the body of a message to "majordomo@xmission.com". 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