From: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com (exotica-digest) To: exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: exotica-digest V2 #51 Reply-To: exotica-digest Sender: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes exotica-digest Monday, February 23 1998 Volume 02 : Number 051 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 09:59:33 -0500 From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) March on GROOVIE MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS > Everybody > is kung fu fighting to J. J. Johnson’s choppy-ass beats in CLEOPATRA JONES Coincidentally (as usual), TNT is airing "Cleopatra Jones" (1973) and "Cleopatra Jones And The Casino Of Gold" (1975) tonight at Midnight and 2:00 am, respectively (eastern standard times). But they also have basketball earlier in the evening, which often plays havoc with the air times. 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. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 14:31:34 -0500 From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) more Highway Hi-Fi info comes to light Got a surprise email from the list admin of an Imperial mailing list/car club - -- http://www.imperialclub.com/ -- who just found my "Highway Hi-Fi" piece. Anyway, they've got their own batch of material on both generations of players, including some good, detailed photos. Here's their index for that section (hope these incredibly long url's aren't a problem): http://www.imperialclub.com/TipsAndResources/ComponentParts/Accessories/AudioSys tem/HighwayHiFi/index.htm Best of all, they have a chapter from a book by Dr. Peter Goldmark, discussing his development of the CBS unit (he's also the developer of the 33-1/3 lp). Finally, I get the inside story: http://www.imperialclub.com/TipsAndResources/ComponentParts/Accessories/AudioSys tem/HighwayHiFi/1956To1959/InventorsStory.html Come to think of it, if one could find a copy of the book -- "Maverick Inventor" by Dr. Peter Goldmark, (c) 1973 by Peter C. Goldmark and Lee Edson -- one might find the answer to Robert's (good) question (the other day) of how the various record speeds were arrived at. 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. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 14:33:10 EST From: RoTone@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Jimmy Webb-Glen Campbell-Brian Wilson Anybody else have a copy of "Essential Glenn Campbell Vol 3"? It's got 4 of the Jimmy Web songs he did, including the One-Two punch of By the Time I Get To Phoenix and Wichita Lineman. What is most interesting, for me, about the CD is it has a song Brian Wilson wrote and produced for Glen Campbell shortly before Pet Sounds- It's easily one of my favorite Brian Wilson songs, it shows a definite Bachrach bent that he always talked about in his influences. Definitely worth checking out- Jon # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 22:14:36 -0500 (EST) From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) waxing historical At 11:34 PM 2/18/98 -0500, m.ace wrote: > >Here's a couple of links for the occasion (which reminds me -- where's Lou been >lately?)... Gee, it's nice to be missed. I was just down in Florida visiting my folks for over a week. All I can say is: OY! Anyway, I realize I should have asked this question before going down there, but since I couldn't find one record or tiki mug worth buying, can someone fill me in on where to look (for next time) in the Delray Beach/Boca Raton/Ft. Lauderdale area? When I came back home and checked the mail I found further proof that this Exotica/Lounge thing has permeated the culture. This is verbatim from a fund-raising mailing I got from my kid's school: WHICH WAY, DADDY-O? To the swingin'est scene at the EQUINOX Lounge Get Lunar, Baby! Kit McClure Band: Way out grooves and hip shakin' vocals by the Queens of Cool Silent Auction: Drop your names, cool cats and kittens, for Mucha Machachas Live Auction: Bossa nova bidding with a crazy beat gets you Mondo Masterpieces Shop: Coolsville, so far out, it's in Cocktails: Bottoms up, On the rocks Food: Eats a go-go Chicks & Daddy-os- let us know by March 13 Yes, I'm ready for the ultimate swingin' auction experience! Call me a ()Lounge Leopard tix@$75 ()Ultra Groovester tix@$100 ()Mambo Royale tix@$150 ()Hipster of Excellence tix@$250 Oh no, I can't do that voodoo that you do, but I'll send ___ crazy cash. Well, I'm either quite proud to send my daughter to this school, or deeply confused -- I don't know which! - --Ultra Lou (Dad for the 90s) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 22:14:30 -0500 (EST) From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) this LP is for the birds At 09:34 AM 2/18/98 EST, you wrote: >i'm now looking hard for: >THE CANARIES - The Songs of Canaries with Music by The Artal Orchestra >Jim Fassett's SYMPHONY OF THE BIRDS (manipulated tape, electronic sounding) >AMERICAN RADIO WARBLERS >...and any others like this Add this example of arctic avian exoticism to your list: (I've got it but can't describe it any better than John Schaeffer does [as follows] in his book New Sounds) Einojuhani Rautavaara: Cantus Articus - Concerto For Birds and Orchestra (Finlandia FA-328) Just what it says: Finland's Rautavaara takes tapes of Arctic bird songs and uses them as basic melodic material, occasionally changing the tape speed to bring the songs to the required pitch. The orchestral winds play counterpoint, while the strings have that typically open, brilliant sound we associate with Sibelius and other northern composers. A wonderful piece. - --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. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 18:03:51 +0100 From: MUV96TBD@Student2.lu.se (Chester W. Nimitz) Subject: (exotica) Nancy Sinatra/Pale Saints/Francis Lai A couple of years ago, The Pale Saints covered Nancy Sinatra's "Kinky Love", I've been trying to track the original version down, but, as they say on CNN :), to no avail...Anyone? The chorus is something like "Kinky love, I'm mad about you Kinky Love, I need you so much, I need you Kinky Love". I heard somewhere that the Pale Saints also covered a Francis Lai-song, is that true and if so what song? Chester W. Nimitz "Someone left the cake out in the rain, I don't think that I can take it, It took so long to bake it, And I'll never have that recipe again" # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 19:32:07 -0800 From: Pea Hicks Subject: Re: (exotica) this LP is for the birds Lou Smith wrote: > > > Add this example of arctic avian exoticism to your list: > (I've got it but can't describe it any better than John Schaeffer does [as > follows] in his book New Sounds) > > Einojuhani Rautavaara: Cantus Articus - Concerto For Birds and Orchestra > (Finlandia FA-328) well if Lou's allowed to mention Rautavaara on the list, then i suppose it should go without saying that anyone interested in birdsong should also check out the multitude of birdsong-influenced works by French composer Olivier Messiaen.... 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. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 12:25:57 -0000 From: "Phil Clark" Subject: (exotica) jason king hi yuz I heard that Creation/Revola are going to reissue the lone early 70s elpee by Peter Wyngarde, aka smooth-talkin' lounge-lizardin' TV detective Jason King, which sounds like a must-buy, but has anyone heard it? Is it any good? Does it score (as I suspect) 11/10 for kitsch alone? 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. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 12:21:18 -0000 From: "Phil Clark" Subject: (exotica) primal scream Hi all Chester W. Nimitz said: "For fans of Schifrin, I really urge you to pick up Primal Scream's new "If They Move, Kill 'Em" EP. Kevin SHields' (from My Bloody Valentine) remix of the title track is the coolest, most fantastic Schifrin-ish song I've heard in a long time!" I can also recommend Primal Scream's recent "Echo Dek" album for fans of wacked-out 1970s styleee dub (like me). It's an On-U-Sound re-recorded version of the band's last studio LP... I'm not a fan of the band themselves (except perhaps "Loaded") but there's precious little of them left in the dub plate version. :-) It also comes as five 7" singles in a box, which is great for the vinyl junkies. Can lay my hands on a spare copy if anyone wants it. inna dub styleee 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. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 11:42:00 -0500 From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) Goldmark book / more, more Morricone If you're interested, here's more info on that book: "Maverick Inventor: My Turbulent Years at CBS" by Peter C. Goldmark and Lee Edson. Published in 1973 by the Saturday Review Press/E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc. As mentioned, he is the father of the LP -- and if the whole book is as informative as the excerpt pertaining to "Highway Hi-Fi", it would be a good one to track down. I've already checked Amazon, but it just brings up their "out of print, maybe we can find a used copy" page (I didn't opt for it at this point). More Morricone scored movies coming up on the tube... "Investigation Of A Citizen Above Suspicion" (Bravo, Monday - 1:00 pm, 8:00 pm, 1:30 am (all times eastern standard time)). "Once Upon A Time In The West" and "The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly" (TNT, Saturday at Noon and 3:30 pm respectively). "Cinema Paradiso" (Bravo, March 2 - 4:30 pm / March 3 - 11:00 am) Also, TODAY, "Lolita", scored by Nelson Riddle (TCM, 5:25 pm) and "Return Of The Pink Panther", scored by Henry Mancini (AMC, 8:00 pm, 2:30 am). And for your hit of wakka-chakka guitar, there's "Shaft", "Shaft's Big Score!" and "Shaft In Africa" airing all in a row (TNT, Friday - starting at 11:00 pm, but likely to be pushed back by preceding basketball game). 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. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 12:19:41 -0500 From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) Burt & Elvis Okay, here's some straight from the Costello's mouth details on the collaboration with Burt Bacharach: http://studentweb.tulane.edu/~mark/bacharach/bacharach_articles/mojo2.html 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. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 11:16:09 +1200 From: "Sadie" Subject: (exotica) dag >> The Australians have a word for such people, whom they call dags. A >> dag is actually a rather unpleasant thing, but to be called a dag is >> a compliment: it means that you're an individualist, >This may not be the place for semantic debate; still I always thought >a *dag* was more a wanker with a bad attitude than an proud >individualist. Speaking as an antipodean myself (although not as an Australian), I can say that a dag is the sheepshit that gets stuck in the wool around a sheep's bottom, and, oddly enough, if a person is called a dag, it means that they are quite funny and amusing ... but in a good way as opposed to being someone you'd laugh AT. A situation can also be a dag, as in an amusing, fun time. My father would always tell us to "rattle your dags" if he wanted us to hurry up. I suspect that this phrase, like many crudities of my father's, may have come from Barry Humphries via his character Barry McKenzie. Some of you may know Barry Humphries as Dame Edna. Barry McKenzie was a character he created to be the archetypal Australian (ocker) bloke. The first Barry McKenzie movie (which is hilarious, by the way) brought Aussie culture to the world. And tore shreds out of it. It also created a whole new dialect of colloquialisms like the above, which, if my father is anything to go by, have stuck around. (My father lived in London when the movie came out, and won a free ticket by guessing what the various phrases meant). There's a Barry McKenzie website if anyone's interested. Sorry if I'm off topic, but I figure Aussie culture is exotic to most of the list in any case. Sadie # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 11:14:37 +1200 From: "Sadie" Subject: (exotica) punk & pablo cruise Hi Michele and list, I realise I'm pretty behind the times here, having just read your question about musical roots, but, to contribute to your survey, yes, the first music I was into was Punk. (Unless you count my childhood listening to the Beatles, T-Rex, and Flutes of the Andes!). I've been wondering for a while what other music people on this list are into. Sorry if this subject has since been done to death or something. Well, my roots are in punk and also in NZ music, which is quite distinctive - kinda punky, kinda Velvet Undergroundish. Pavement have taken a lot of inspiration (and whole songs) from NZ bands, so that will give you an idea. Basically though, I've always collected oddball looking records. At first only for kitsch value and because I liked steel drums, but then in a more and more serious fashion. And then I found you guys and found there was a name to my collection: lounge! ... or is that exotica, or SABPM? I refuse to call anything I listen to Easy Listening. That just sounds too much like Richard Clayderman to me. I'm still into punk (mainly the good old stuff like the Buzzcocks, the Fall, etc), and NZ music, and Ska (which DEFINITELY leads on to lounge type music ... how many Ska James Bond covers are there?). These days I'm also into Rockabilly, Psychobilly, and Roots music. I even like a little bit of Country (& Western!) occasionally ... gasp! A bit of yodelling (a la Slim Whitman), and lotsa jazz, which I used to hate. I've always been into a bit of "authentic" ethnic music as well. Oh, and dub, and reggae, and stuff. So there you go. Some unscientific data! Oh, and yes, I know several punky types who are into Eartha Kitt, Tom Jones, and Shirley Bassey. (Who's seen, by the way, that bloke from the Red Army Choir performing with the Leningrad Cowboys and singing "Delilah"? That was great. You can't beat our Tom, though). And my parents were never into lounge - although my father is into dodgy comedy records from the '30s and '40s England, and '50s USA like no-one else! I think I like both punk and lounge because they are FUN and energetic and open to experimenting with different types of music. Also, both scenes seem less snobby and exclusive than some of those associated with other types of music - although I don't know about in the USA. By the way, I bought a record the other day because it had a track called "Denny" and had an appalling cover: a "jungle" scene with someone in a gorilla suit standing next to a stuffed monkey and 2 stuffed peacocks. On the back are the band - white guys with afros and polyester clothing. I STILL don't have my stereo unpacked, but when I mentioned the band name - Pablo Cruise - to a friend of mine, he told me that they are one of the worst bands - possibly THE worst band ever (cool!)! I must admit that that would confirm my gut feeling from looking at the cover, but I thought I'd get the opinions of you lot, just out of interest! Sadie # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 19:13:37 -0800 From: "V.Stoltz" Subject: (exotica) Fast Food Lounge...Part 1 Thought you all might want to read this article written by Glen P. Tolbert that was in the Feb. 19th issue of the Washington Post newspaper. FYI, "Roy Rogers" is a fast food chain, similar to McDonalds, named after the cowboy film star. Vern - ---------------------------------------------------- LA VALE, Md.=97It may be the only Roy Rogers restaurant in America with a lounge act. It may be the only lounge act in America with a star who's 91. He may be the only 91-year-old fast-food lounge act star who's an African American saxophonist who practiced his nightclub art for decades in the Jim Crow Appalachia of his youth, retired into factory and janitor jobs, and then suddenly in his old age taught himself to play a piano that appeared in a Roy Rogers. He'll say: "A man like me always had to do whatever it took. Work wasn't always steady with the groups and when that music faded out I pushed a broom for 17 years." Now he's a musician again, a noon-hour star of small but distinct wattage in a shopping mall near Cumberland, in the hill-country panhandle about 100 miles from Washington. Live long enough, it seems, and anything can not just happen, but it can happen again. This might account for the seen-it-all-before briskness of James Darr. "Morning, Mr. Darr, how are you today? Looking good," says a middle-aged white-haired woman as Darr opens the doors to the Country Club Mall, which sits atop a knoll of the Appalachian Mountains. He moves fast and dresses well, walking the walk of a man on a mission. "Hey, how you doing today?" asks a burly, red-bearded man. Sometimes Darr nods back and sometimes he fires off a curt "Morning" but always he keeps moving. The girls behind the Roy Rogers counter utter a chorus of "There he is!" He ignores them. He takes off his overcoat to reveal a charcoal-gray sport coat set off by a crisply positioned red tie. A man introduces himself, wants to ask some questions. "I can't talk to you right now, I've got work to do," he says. Meanwhile, this may be the only Roy Rogers in America that has an 88-year-old regular who wants to get here so bad he pays a nurse to help him. He comes not for the food but for the musician he's been listening to for more than half a century, starting when he was on the other side of the Jim Crow divide. "When he starts playing, it's like neither of us ever got old," Loman Bennett says. Bennett, a white businessman, heard Darr play the saxophone in the black jazz and swing bands that toured the region back in the 1930s and '40s: the Original Bellhops, the Black Diamonds, Bud Mills and His Orchestra, and the Broadway Serenaders. Bennett sits at the table closest to the piano. "Hey, Mr. Darr, do you remember one called 'The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi'?" A faraway look crosses Darr's face. He begins gently bobbing his head to some unheard melody. Then the fingers work the keyboard. (part 2 to follow) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 18:02:31 -0600 From: clean@tamboo.com Subject: (exotica) Radio Velvet: coast to coast PREMIERE SHOW TONIGHT! 2/22/98 King Kini's Radio Velvet every sunday night at 11p ET, 10p CT... on Beat Radio these cities/frequencies: New York City...WJDM 1660AM Philadelphia...WPWA 1590AM Los Angeles...KPLS 830AM Chicago...WAUR 930AM Phoenix...KIDR 740AM Denver...KKYD 1340AM Detroit...WCAR 1090AM Kansas City...KCAZ 1480AM Dallas/Ft. Worth...KAHZ 1360AM Minneapolis/St. Paul...WWTC 1280AM let me know if you hear it! 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. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 19:22:17 -0800 From: "V.Stoltz" Subject: (exotica) Fast Food Lounge .... Part 2 (this is the second of two parts of a recent Washington Post article) Bennett first heard Darr play at the Riverside Casino in Ridgeley, W.Va. That was before a flood of the Potomac washed the place away. Bennett would listen and drink. Darr would play and thirst. It was one of the rules of Jim Crow. Darr says, "We could play in the clubs and the white people would sing and dance to our music. But we couldn't buy a drink and they weren't allow to buy us a drink even during intermission. We opened up nightclubs all over the East Coast. It was quite a life, quite a life." They toured around in seven-passenger cars with instruments tied to running boards and rooftops. There were few black-owned hotels, so boardinghouses and friends' extra cots were the accommodations. "It brings back memories to all of us here when Mr. Darr sits down at that piano," Bennett says. Some of Darr's best tips come from old favorites: "Let Me Call You Sweetheart," "Miss You" and "If I Had My Way." "Sometimes I'll suddenly remember some tune from 50 years ago and it just comes out," Darr says. "I never learned to read music. The guys who could read music in our bands weren't always the best players because they were used to reading too much and not feeling enough. And I'm not even a piano player. I'm a sax man who has trouble getting enough wind these days to play my favorite instrument. I just decided to pick up the piano like this when they put this thing into the Roy Rogers a few years ago." He takes the bus every day but Sunday from his downtown Cumberland apartment for the 20-minute ride to the Roy Rogers. "It gives me something to do. I can't sit in my apartment every day. It's like being in jail. So I get dressed up nice, come here and meet the folks and play for them. And once in a while I make a tip or two," he says. He plays the piano from noon to 2. He says: "I never made it to the big time like my daughter did. She was an international star." He flips through his wallet until he finds a publicity shot. "Her name is Alice. Alice Darr. She played instruments and sang on stages in New York and Europe. She's in her sixties now and doesn't talk to anybody because her arthritis has got her crippled up and she doesn't want anyone to see her that way." He's 91 and still working. Darr won't buy into the idea that work and life as an African American in Appalachia decades before the civil rights movement was any worse than it was in any other part of the country. "It was tough, real tough. But it was tough everywhere. It still is tough. It's just that now everyone wants to make out like everything is easier for us black people. But it isn't." He is done performing for the day. The crowd has been friendly but small and there's only $4 on top of the piano. "I'd probably have made more if you weren't talking to me so much," he says to a reporter. With that he gets up from the bench and with the dignity and dress of a man heading for a chauffeured ride he heads toward the door. "I can't talk to you anymore right now," he says. "I'll miss my bus." # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 20:17:43 EST From: BasicHip@aol.com Subject: (exotica) what's in, what's out when the record money is low and ya gotta have your fix, you trade. OUT 3 volumes of RCA's History Of Space Age Pop - I have accumulated most of the originals, so it was time to set them free 3 Ultra Lounge volumes Space Capades, Mondo Exotica and Bachelor Pad Royale - leaving me with only TV Town (for the Munsters theme) and the Mambo one because i don't go much for cha cha, but figured i should have something Flying Nun Soundtrack (LP) - i wanted to fall in love with it, but it just didn't happen Several Estrus label (and the like) lo-fi garage / modern surf 45's by such groups as The Makers, Mono Men, Mummies, Dirty Rotten Finks, Apemen, Trashwomen, etc. - You outgrow this stuff, what can i say? 2 Nirvana picture discs - sorry, kurt IN Jimmy Smith - Crazy Baby! [CD] - can't go wrong with any Blue Note Jimmy Smith Various Artists - The Cocktail Shaker [CD] - space age kitsch done the modern way. with new mixes of Mah Na Mah Na, E.V.A. and Miss Lily doing Bluebeard Montefiori Cocktail [CD] - old news to some. i remembered the good reviews and gave it a shot. have not listened to it much, but what i hear, i like very much. Living Guitars - San Franciscan Nights [LP] RCA Camden - mind expanding now sounds of the Haight Ashbury era. Hot pink cover with purple flower-power lettering and green sitars frame a photo of the Golden Gate Bridge. Lots of sitar through and through. Better than I had hoped - MUCH better!! Jimmy's gonna love it. Hugo Montenegro - Moog Power [LP] RCA Victor - long on my moog hit list, side one came up short. side two got better, but, overall, this record was NOT as good as i had expected. Dizzy and MacArthur Park are my favorites. Touch Me is really struggling. Chim Kotari - Sound Of Sitar [LP] Deram - Pop sitar, heavy sitar. Thick, fat sitar that is right up in your face. Strangers in the Night, Winchester Cathedral, Downtown, Eleanor Rigby and others plus a couple of originals. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 15:58:10 +0100 From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) annotated Playlist Fantastica: Beatles exotica 2 Fantastica runs on Radio Scorpio, FM106, Leuven, Belgium, each Saturday 15-16 h. Fantastica # 49: Beatles exotica 2 - ---------------------------------- * Schroeder And Lucy: "Introduction" [CD: "Snoopy's Beatle Classiks On Toys"] * Eliminators: "Eleanor Rigby" [compil. CD: "Instrumental Diamonds Volume 3: Out Of This World"] the best one in this series of 3! * Marty Gold: "Day Tripper" [LP: "Moog Plays The Beatles"] excellent Moog arrangements! (the series "The exotic Beatles" has a track from this LP, but the performing artist is called "the Moog Beatles"...) * Claude Denjean: "Come Together" [LP: "Moog"] funny and groovy Moog covers of 60's classics * Upper Class Beatles Fans: "Beatles Welcome Song" [compil. CD: "The Exotic Beatles Part Two"] * Don Sebesky: "Lady Madonna" [LP: "The Distant Galaxy"] outer space Moog rock * John Keating: "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" [LP: "Space Experience 2"] outer space Moog pop * Peggy Lee: "A Hard Day's Night" [compil. CD: "Ultra-Lounge On The Rocks Part 1"] the best volume of the 2, highly recommended, all covers of pop classics, lots of "now" sound * Sam Chalpin: "Michelle" [LP: "My Father The Pop Singer"] twice as hilarious as Mrs. Miller, I'm not kidding you! * Hysteric Beatles Fans: "We Love You, Beatles" [compil. CD: "The Exotic Beatles Part Two"] * Sesamstrasse: "Im Garten Eines Kraken (An Octopus' Garden)" [CD: "Die Schonsten Lieder Mit Ernie Und Bert Und Ihren Freunden"] Sesame Street covered several Beatle tracks, but this is the only one on CD I've discovered so far. * Arthur Mullard & Hylda Baker: "Get Back" [LP: "Band On The Trot"] 70's disco/rock pastiche: Mullard & Baker are the British equivalent of Sam Chalpin & Mrs. Miller * Edmundo Ros: "Hey Jude" [LP: "Heading South Of The Border."] very bright, uptempo and fun latin arrangement * Snoopy's Classiks On Toys: "Here Comes The Sun" [CD: "Snoopy's Beatle Classiks On Toys"] highly recommended novelty/children's album in a series, both funny and heavenly beautiful, all virtuoso played on toy instruments, mostly instro, 3 vocal tracks by the "Peanuts" gang * George Martin & His Orchestra: "Can't Buy Me Love" [LP: "Off The Beatle Track"] big band jazz(y) arrangements * The Sandpipers: "And I Love Her" [LP (CD): "Greatest Hits"] I've only recently started to appreciate the Sandpipers... this one is sung in Spanish * Bugs & Friends, Featuring Daffy Duck: "Yesterday" [CD: "Bugs & Friends Sing The Beatles"] great novelty album, of the kind that is almost extinct; done by Rhino of course. the voice characterisation is not as brilliant as Mel Blanc's alas... * Alan Copeland: "Mission: Impossible Theme/Norwegian Wood" [compil. CD: "Golden Throats 4: Celebrities Butcher Songs Of The Beatles"] THE surprise track for me on this comp; it's exactly what the tile says: a combination of the 2 songs in ONE, and extremely well done, brilliant! * Untalented Beatles Fans: "She Loves You + Yellow Submarine" [compil. CD: "The Exotic Beatles Part One"] * Arthur Lyman: "With A Little Help From My Friends" [CD: "Sonic Sixties"] Lyman did lots of EZ jazz versions of pop hits in the 60's, and I simply LOVE them! * Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66: "The Fool On The Hill" [7": "The Fool On The Hill"] * The Portsmouth Sinfonia: "A (Slightly Faster) Day In The Life" [LP: "20 Classic Rock Classics"] they play incredibly bad, but they say the do try! their 2 other LP's are classical massacres only, but this one is filled with 60's Rock Classics (CD) = exists on CD the radio pages on my web site: http://bewoner.dma.be/Dada/radioq/radioq.htm Johan Dada 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. ------------------------------ End of exotica-digest V2 #51 ****************************