From: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com (exotica-digest) To: exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: exotica-digest V2 #164 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 Sunday, July 26 1998 Volume 02 : Number 164 In This Digest: Re: (exotica) Rollcall (exotica) English only? (exotica) Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 00:07:07 -0700 Re: (exotica) cocktail parties for Dummies Re: (exotica) Rollcall Re: (exotica) Dave Pike (exotica) Re: English only? Re: (exotica) Esquivel bootleg Re: (exotica) Esquivel bootleg Re: (exotica) English only? Re: (exotica) Augie Colón - LPs Re: (exotica) Esquivel bootleg Re: (exotica) Re: Esquivel bootleg / Ron's limited project (exotica) Re: Misfits (was: Supermarket Music) (exotica) Re: Augie Colon - SOPHISTICATED SAVAGE (exotica) New eXotica Releases Overview Update (exotica) Ultra-Lounge Video Re: (exotica) Esquivel bootleg Re: (exotica) Rollcall (exotica) Beware the blunted needle! Re: (exotica) Rod McKuen/Slide (exotica) Smithsonian Folkways Recordings Re: (exotica) Smithsonian Folkways Recordings (exotica) Grantby Re: (exotica) Beware the blunted needle! (exotica) Needles Re: (exotica) Rod McKuen (exotica) Brenda Lee/ Chinese Bootlegs (exotica) Danielson and Nordine Re: (exotica) Ultra-Lounge Update and Swing Article ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 02:45:54 EDT From: Subject: Re: (exotica) Rollcall In a message dated 98-07-22 15:14:07 EDT, Moritz.Reichelt@munich.netsurf.de writes: << Mein Gott! Laszlo, what are you doing with all that knowledge that you collect? I hardly find time just to read the postings of the Exotica list! >> I agree!!! I can barely find any time for school anymore because I am so busy communicating with all of you and reading these dang posts! - - Michele # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 02:46:07 EDT From: Subject: (exotica) English only? In a message dated 98-07-23 08:09:21 EDT, Moritz.Reichelt@munich.netsurf.de writes: << Weil du sonst vermutlich kein Wort von dem verstehen würdest, was ich dir zu sagen habe! Richtig? >> Well, there you go!!! Now lets see if anyone responds..... - - Michele # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 01:02:17 -0600 From: "Blazerfan" Subject: (exotica) Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 00:07:07 -0700 > >Now I brag: I bought it for 25 cents. I got it at a church rummage >sale. I also got Edie Adams "Those Swingin' Doors." We don't know much >about Edie yet, besides the fact she was featured on > She was Ernie Kovaks wife til time of his car crash and death. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 03:03:34 -0400 From: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) cocktail parties for Dummies At 04:40 PM 24/07/98 -0500, Lou Smith wrote: > >I guess it was inevitable that the Dummies book series would get around to >swankitude. > >I've just noticed that there's a Cocktail Parties for Dummies book written >by Jaymz Bee. > >Can someone with direct experience of this volume give a thumbs up/down? I have direct experience of Jaymz Bee himself and his actual cocktail parties. But I don't know much about the book. If you're interested in a book like this, I bet you'd be interested in this book. Jaymz is pretty thorough if nothing else. I can't really imagine a whole book on this subject myself but if someone could fill it up - and do it enthusiastically - - I suppose Jaymz could. Nat # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 00:52:11 +0100 From: Ron Grandia Subject: Re: (exotica) Rollcall Micheleflp@aol.com wrote: > Who all is actually here? All we have to do is jot down all the email names > that appear in any one day's post - do a survey of it over say a 7 day period > and those who appear on average x-y-z times, they are the real posters. > > - Michele The posters are easy to count. The lurkers are not.It was assuming lurkers would stand up and be counted. The number of 329 accounts only for the number of subscribers. I bet many people never bother to unsubscribe and stop receiving the messages or just ignore/filter them. I'm so sorry I ever mentioned it. Really I am. Please forgive me everyone. I've learned a valuable lesson. Now let me forget this bone-brained idea of mine by never mentioning it again. Thank you, Thank you very much. : ) If anything has come of this goofy-assed thread is the fact that some lurkers came up to say hi. That was nice. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 11:43:53 +0100 From: "Robbie Baldock" Subject: Re: (exotica) Dave Pike I picked up a copy of "Pike's Peak" recently on CD but took it back almost immediately. I'm a sucker for vibes but I found Dave's "humming" along to everything unbearably distracting - wouldn't have been too bad if he could hum in tune... Does he do this on every album? Robbie - ---------------------------------------------------------- ** ** ** * Spaced Out - the Enoch Light Website * ** ** ** ** ** ** * http://www.rcb.easynet.co.uk/light/ * ** ** ** - ---------------------------------------------------------- # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 15:37:42 +0000 From: Moritz R Subject: (exotica) Re: English only? Micheleflp@aol.com wrote: > Well, there you go!!! Now lets see if anyone responds..... > > - Michele They did already. MO # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 11:05:57 EDT From: Subject: Re: (exotica) Esquivel bootleg In a message dated 98-07-21 19:18:00 EDT, sfunk@pop.adn.com writes: << I disagree that bootlegs necessarily stifle the legitimate release of the same material. They cater to a relatively small, specialized audience. This same audience will willingly shell out money for a superior legit issue of the same record, principles or no principles. >> All reissues already sell to a very select audience so any bootlegs do seriously endanger legit reissues....I'm talking from experience! Ashley # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 11:09:39 EDT From: Subject: Re: (exotica) Esquivel bootleg In a message dated 98-07-21 23:13:57 EDT, wlt4@mindspring.com writes: << There's nothing stopping you or any bootlegger from actually paying royalties, though it obviously would need to be done in some anonymous way. In fact, I know of at least three (all releasing blues recordings if that matters) that have done so. >> Excuse me, but you must be dreaming! Do you seriously think someone who bootlegs records is going to send an anonynous check to the record company (especially with his bank account info!) get real! ashley # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 17:25:08 +0200 From: Ton Rueckert Subject: Re: (exotica) English only? ><< Weil du sonst vermutlich kein Wort von dem verstehen w=FCrdest, was ich= dir >zu > sagen habe! >=20 > Richtig? > >> > >Well, there you go!!! Now lets see if anyone responds..... Het moment, misschien, om niet voortdurend te blijven lurken,=20 maar ook eens iets van mij te laten horen. Vooruit dan maar. Ik ben een vroege veertiger met een brede muzikale belangstelling, heb vooral een voorkeur voor muziek die ik niet ken of waar een rare=20 draai aan zit, en heb een simpele kijk op de muziekpraktijk die zich voortreffelijk laat verenigen met mijn muzikale vaardigheden.=20 Ik zit vooral op deze lijst om te leren, wat nog een hele klus is,=20 want ze is vergeven van de knappe koppen en de warhoofden en soms is het=20 niet helemaal duidelijk wie tot de enen behoort en wie tot de anderen. Meer bij gelegenheid. De hartelijke en welgemeende groeten, Ton *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** Ton Rueckert Mozartstraat 12 5914 RB Venlo Netherlands *** *** mojoto@plex.nl http://www.plex.nl/~mojoto Ph 31/0 773545386 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ "We're quite lazy" - Trubshaw ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~jackson/trubshaw.htm ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ =20 =20 =20 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 11:24:23 EDT From: Subject: Re: (exotica) Augie Colón - LPs In a message dated 98-07-24 02:36:54 EDT, sophisticated_savage@yahoo.com writes: << When Augie Colón wasn´t busy playing bongo and mimicking birds with the Martin Denny group, he recorded solo material. I have two records with Augie, "SOPHISTICATED SAVAGE" LRP-3101 (thank you, Magnus!) and "CHANT OF THE JUNGLE" LST-7148, "Sophisticated Savage" display a more Latin side than usually Denny records and "Chant of the Jungle" is more hmm... jungle like, but both are great exotica! Is this the complete catalog or is there any more Augie solo LP´s out there? >> That's the whole listing Ashley # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 12:54:44 -0400 From: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) Esquivel bootleg At 11:09 AM 25/07/98 EDT, LTepedino@aol.com wrote: >Excuse me, but you must be dreaming! Do you seriously think someone who >bootlegs records is going to send an anonynous check to the record company >(especially with his bank account info!) get real! Well I don't know about sending anonymous info but friends of mine, on occasion, have searched the globe, looking for ANYONE associated with a record they were interested in reissuing. They talked to anyone who maybe once knew them, anyone from the same town, anyone with the same last name. And when they couldn't find anyone to pay... well they went ahead. This is a kind of strange debate given that there are bootlegs and then there are bootlegs. I have to say that while I can imagine situations where a bootleg might interefere with the interests of the artists - at least their financial interests - in general I've always thought of bootlegs as this totally separate thing that exist in their own universe. There are people who want the band's legitimate releases. And then there are people who want the legitimate releases AND the bootlegs too. Maybe the Allman Brothers don't like the fact that a group of their fans have tapes of every single concert they've ever given but I don't really see how that interferes with their livelhood. And once again, I have to wonder how the moral questions surrounding bootlegs end up as such a hot topic for debate given the fact that a great many of us here buy most of our records USED. And how many people who are railing against bootlegs get countless complimentary CD's sent to them for free? And how many of them trade them in and get other used CD's they want, thus allowing me to go buy the CD's they didn't want? Ultimately what's the moral difference between buying a used CD and buying a bootleg? What's the difference between making a bootleg and making a tape for a friend? The tape could make your friend start buying the legitimate releases.. or they might be satisfied with the tape. Nat # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 14:27:50 +0200 From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Esquivel bootleg / Ron's limited project Ron Grandia wrote: >I was hoping to be able to find a way to afford some nice packaging >and professional reproduction. as Ron knows already, there are now round CD size stickers on A4 sheets, that can be printed upon with any inkjet; stick it onto the CD, and you've got something looking almost professional. Johan quiet@village.uunet.be | ) / \ | ) / \ | ) / \ | ) / \ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 14:44:21 +0200 From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: Misfits (was: Supermarket Music) nancy novotny wrote: >I did discover, however, that there is a track by The >Lorraine Bowen Experience on a compilation called "Misfits," put out, methinks, >by those Volume CD/Magazine people. found this a hugely disappointing cd. i bought it becasue it has that infamous Georgina Dobson version of "The message" - she's a very old woman, obviously without any real teath, and it's hilarious to hear her rap! i found the rest of it very boring... maybe i should listen again one time... Johan quiet@village.uunet.be | ) / \ | ) / \ | ) / \ | ) / \ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 15:10:25 +0200 From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: Augie Colon - SOPHISTICATED SAVAGE Peter C wrote: >I have two records with Augie, "SOPHISTICATED SAVAGE" LRP-3101 wasn't this one scheduled for reissue by Scamp? Johan quiet@village.uunet.be | ) / \ | ) / \ | ) / \ | ) / \ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 19:34:26 +0200 From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) New eXotica Releases Overview Update Due to web space limitations, I had to temporarely remove the direct links to labels web sites. I'll move my site to a bigger place soon. Stay tuned! ________________________________ A new update to the eXotica Releases Overview is available. These are the most important recent additions, that where not yet announced here: - July 25: new (1998) releases & announcements - * Laurindo Almeida: "Heritage Series" CD, Concord Jazz, USA, Announced For End August, 1998 * Esquivel: "Loungecore" (budget compilation) CD, Camden 74321 578152, UK, 1998 * Stan Getz: "The Ultimate Stan Getz" CD, Verve, USA, Announced For End August, 1998 * Peggy Lee: "Mink Jazz" CD, Capitol, USA, Announced For End August, 1998 * Robert Mitchum: "Tall Dark Stranger" CD, Bear Family BCD 16223, Germany, 1998 * Ennio Morricone: "Canto Morricone Volume 1: The 60's" (The Ennio Morricone Songbook) CD, Bear Family BCD 16244 AH, Germany, 1998 * Ennio Morricone: "Canto Morricone Volume 2: Western Songs & Ballads" (The Ennio Morricone Songbook) CD, Bear Family BCD 16245 AH, Germany, 1998 * Ennio Morricone: "Canto Morricone Volume 3" CD, Bear Family, Germany, Announced For Autum, 1998 * Ennio Morricone: "Canto Morricone Volume 4" CD, Bear Family, Germany, Announced For Autum, 1998 * Soundtrack: "Blacula" [by Gene Page] CD, Razor & Tie, USA, Announced For End August, 1998 * Soundtrack: "Get Carter" [by Roy Bud] CD, Castle, UK, Announced, 1998 * Soundtrack: "Paris Blues" [by Duke Ellington] CD, Rykodisc RCD 10713, USA, 1998 * Soundtrack: "The Night Of The Hunter(Narrated By Charles Laughton)" [by Various Artists] CD, Bear Family BCD 16263 AJ, Germany, 1998 * Tito Puente: "Heritage Series" CD, Concord Jazz, USA, Announced For End August, 1998 * George Shearing: "Heritage Series" CD, Concord Jazz, USA, Announced For End August, 1998 * Frank Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim: "Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim" CD, Wea/Warner Brothers 46948, USA, 1998 * Stereophonic Space Sound Unlimited: "The Fluid Soundbox" CD, Dr. Dream, USA, Announced For August 11, 1998 * Mel Torme: "Heritage Series" CD, Concord Jazz, USA, Announced For End August, 1998 * Various Artists: "Jungle Jive" (Jungle Exotica, R&B Twist And Vegas Lounge Music) CD, Del-Fi, USA, Announced For September 15, 1998 - July 25: old but interesting finds I stumbled on - * George Harrison: "Electronic Sound" CD, EMI, UK, 1996 * Various Artists: "Nice'N Easy" CD, Telstar, GB, 1996 The eXotica Releases Overview is part of "Dada'quariums Exotica": http://bewoner.dma.be/Dada/ Johan Dada Vis quiet@village.uunet.be # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 14:25:49 EDT From: Subject: (exotica) Ultra-Lounge Video Whilst in Chicago this week, I visited the downtown Borders, where they had an Ultra-Lounge display promoting a free U-L VHS videotape with the purchase of any U-L title. The tape is a 30-minute in-store loop, playing one-minute clips from "Theme from Route 66," "Beat Girl" or "Holiday for Strings," to name a few. The visual footage behind it seems to be a mix of stock footage, '50s shorts and Scopitone-type images. Brief, but not bad for free. It comes packaged in a leopard-skin box that opens up like a pack of cigarettes. It also includes an insert that shows the cover of the upcoming "Tiki Sampler" (which apparently will be culled from tracks off Vols. 13-18 and the two "On the Rocks" discs). It also advertises retailer POP, such as U- L posters, which I'd love to have, but are unavailable to the general public. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 14:35:31 -0400 From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Esquivel bootleg > From: Nat Kone > Subject: Re: (exotica) Esquivel bootleg > > And how many people who are > railing against bootlegs get countless complimentary CD's sent to them for > free? And how many of them trade them in and get other used CD's they > want, thus allowing me to go buy the CD's they didn't want? As virtually the only one here to criticize bootlegs, I have to assume that this is aimed at me. My lifetime score of freebies: 1 LP and 4 or 5 CDs. Ooh, send me to the guillotine. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 12:37:08 -0400 From: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) Rollcall At 12:52 AM 26/07/98 +0100, Ron Grandia wrote: >The number of 329 accounts only for the number of subscribers. >I bet many people never bother to unsubscribe Maybe somebody can tell me this. There's this certain other interest of mine and I found a chat room for it and a couple of websites and even a mailing list. Then little by little I realized there were like a hundred chat rooms dedicated to it. And more than thirty mailing lists and forget about the number of websites. So what about the subject of OUR mailing list here. Are there 20 chat rooms on IRC and I just haven't found them. Could I be spending my nights actively debating Arthur Lyman in real time instead of spending yet another night in fruitless frustrating cybersex? Is there another exotica mailing list? Is there another mailing list, not dedicated to exotica exactly but with the same loose boundaries that we have here? I could see another mailing list existing which starts from a different spot on the map but ends up covering pretty well the same territory that we do. I'm just wondering why only 329 people. It makes me think that somewhere in a Bizarro parallel universe, there are at least another 329 people discussing essentially the same issues. Nat # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Jul 98 16:52:02 PDT From: "B. Yost" Subject: (exotica) Beware the blunted needle! A sort of boring "shop" topic, but, those of you that listen to a fair amount of vinyl, how long do your needles generally last? I listen to maybe 15 LPs in a week, and my needle starts sounding ragged in about 9 months. To me, this seems like a pretty short life-span, so it makes me wonder whether there could be something more sinister wrong with my turntable. Or is a lifespan like that not unreasonable? And I'm actually medium-fussy about the condition of records that I play. Another question: do more expensive needles last longer than the cheaper ones? I've just been using $30 Audio Technica cartridges, almost like one would use disposable razors, because they're cheap. But if more expensive needles actually last longer, I might upgrade next time. Those of you who listen to CDs-only can stop chortling now. :-) - -- Brad # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 17:14:44 -0400 From: "Br. Cleve" Subject: Re: (exotica) Rod McKuen/Slide At 6:16 PM -0500 7/24/98, Lou Smith wrote: >Does anyone know what Rod's connection was to the homoerotic disco "band" >Slide? His name is all over the composer credits for Easy In Disco and one >vocal sounds like no one else but Rod. A search at gemm.com turns up these >Slide titles - my bet is there's more than one group with the same name, but >some titles (Down so long;Saturnalia;Why is it a crime) sound like they'd >fit the same concept as Easy In Disco: > >SLIDE: DOWN SO LONG > EASY IN DISCO > FLINT > FORGIVING BUCKNER > SATURNALIA > SEARCH > WAKING UP TO CHAOS > WHIPDANG ! > WHY IS IT A CRIME Wow, here's a mixed up thing - "Slide......Easy In" is a homoerotic disco album by Rod McKuen. It was discussed on the list a few years ago in our Rod McKuen discussion of the time (started when we spotted McKuen in attendance at a ComEd show in L.A., followed by the quick release of his EZ compilations on Laserlight). The "Slide......Easy In" album has a notorious album cover featuring a fist emerging from a can of Crisco....except that the word Crisco has been changed to Disco. EASY IN (DISCO) is the title track, a Barry White rip off track with the sound of a guy's orgasmic moaning and panting over it. Or is that de-panting? Maybe it's Al DePantu from the Tube Bar. FORGIVING BUCKNER and WHIPDANG ! are album's by a Boston band called Slide. Their sound is a mix of The Band meets New Orleans funk. They are friends of mine, and they used to hang out at my Saturnalia party I used to DJ. I don't know what the other titles are; they are not on the Slide albums or the McKuen record. br cleve # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 19:57:17 EDT From: Subject: (exotica) Smithsonian Folkways Recordings If you are into Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Paredon or Folkways recordings, then this is the site for you. http://www.si.edu/folkways Insect, frog and bird sounds all fall under the category of exotic if ya ask me. here is a example of some of the titles: The Human Voice - - Vox Humana: Alfred Wolfsohn's Experiments in Extension of the Human Vocal Range (1956) F-6123 (cassette, $10.95; CD, $19.95) Sound - - The Science of Sound Bell Telephone Laboratories (1958) 2-cassette set or 2-CD set. F-6007 (2-cassette set, $21.90; 2-CD set, $39.90) - - The Science of Sound Bell Telephone Laboratories (1990) Reissue of F-6136 from 1960. Short version of 6007. SF-45038 (cassette, $8.50; CD, $19.95) - - Sounds of Frequency (1954) F-6100 (cassette, $10.95; CD, $19.95) Aircraft - - Voices of the Sky: Propellers and Jets (1957) C-1075 (cassette, $10.95; CD, $19.95) The American Southwest - - Sounds of the American Southwest (1954) F-6122 (cassette, $10.95; CD, $19.95) Animals - - Playing Music with Animals Jim Nollman (1982) F-6118 (cassette, $10.95; CD, $19.95) - - Sounds of Animals (1954) F-6124 (cassette, $10.95; CD, $19.95) Auto Racing - - Sounds of the Annual International Sports Car Grand Prix of Watkins Glen, N.Y. (1956) F-6140 (cassette, $10.95; CD, $19.95) Bird Songs - - The Birds' World of Song (1961) F-6115 (cassette, $10.95; CD, $19.95) - - The Lyrebird: A Documentary Study of Its Song (1966) F-6116 (cassette, $10.95; CD, $19.95) Carnival - - Sounds of Carnival (1955) F-6126 (cassette, $10.95; CD, $19.95) City Sounds - - Cable Car Soundscapes (1982) F-6129 (cassette, $10.95; CD, $19.95) - - Here at the Water's Edge: A Voyage in Sound-NY Harbor Documentary (1962) F-6161 (cassette, $10.95; CD, $19.95) - - Sound Effects, Vol. 1: City Sounds recorded by Tony Schwartz (1958) F-6170 (cassette, $10.95; CD, $19.95) - - The Sounds of London (1961) F-5901 (cassette, $10.95; CD, $19.95) Documentary Sounds - - Documentary Sounds (1962) F-6181 (cassette, $10.95; CD, $19.95) Frogs - - Sounds of North American Frogs (1957) F-6166 (cassette, $10.95; CD, $19.95) Home Movie Backgrounds - - Background Music for Home Movies, Vol. 1 (1964) F-6110 (cassette, $10.95; CD, $19.95) - - Background Music for Home Movies, Vol. 2 (1965) F-6111 (cassette, $10.95; CD, $19.95) The Human Voice - - Speech after the Removal of the Larynx (1964) F-6134 (cassette, $10.95; CD, $19.95) - - Vox Humana: Alfred Wolfsohn's Experiments in Extension of the Human Vocal Range (1956) F-6123 (cassette, $10.95; CD, $19.95) Insects - - Sounds of Insects (1960) F-6178 (cassette, $10.95; CD, $19.95) The Ionosphere - - Ionosphere (High Altitude Sounds) (1955) C-5013 (cassette, $10.95; CD, $19.95) Junk Yards - - Sounds of the Junk Yard (1964) F-6143 (cassette, $10.95; CD, $19.95) Mechanical Musical Devices - - The Christmas Music Box (1950) C-1011 (cassette, $10.95; CD, $19.95) - - Music Boxes, Carousels, and Hand Organs (1950) C-10120 (cassette, $10.95; CD, $19.95) - - Music of the Carousel (1961) F-6128 (cassette, $10.95; CD, $19.95) - - Nickelodion and Calliope (1950-53) C-10350 (cassette, $10.95; CD, $19.95) Medicine - - Sounds of Medicine (1955) F-6127 (cassette, $10.95; CD, $19.95) - - (See also Psychology and Health.) Morse Code - - The International Morse Code: A Teaching Record Using the Audio-Vis-Tac Method (1962) F-6141 (cassette, $10.95; CD, $19.95) The Office - - Sounds of the Office (1964) F-6142 (cassette, $10.95; CD, $19.95) The Sea, and Sea Creatures - - Sounds and Ultra-Sounds of the Bottle-Nose Dolphin (1973) F-6132 (cassette, $10.95; CD, $19.95) - - Sounds of Sea Animals (1955) F-6125 (cassette, $10.95; CD, $19.95) - - Sounds of the Sea, Vol. 1 (1952) F-6121 (cassette, $10.95; CD, $19.95) - - The Voice of the Sea (1954) C-5011 (cassette, $10.95; CD, $19.95) Sound - - The Science of Sound Bell Telephone Laboratories (1958) 2-cassette set or 2-CD set. F-6007 (2-cassette set, $21.90; 2-CD set, $39.90) - - The Science of Sound Bell Telephone Laboratories (1990) Reissue of F-6136 from 1960. Short version of 6007. SF-45038 (cassette, $8.50; CD, $19.95) - - Sounds of Frequency (1954) F-6100 (cassette, $10.95; CD, $19.95) South African Homestead - - Sounds of a South African Homestead (1956) F-6151 (cassette, $10.95; CD, $19.95) Space Exploration - - Man in Space (1964) F-6201 (cassette, $10.95; CD, $19.95) - - Voices of the Satellites (1958) F-6200 (cassette, $10.95; CD, $19.95) Steam Locomotives - - Rail Dynamics: Steam Locomotives and Train Sounds, New York Central, Hudson River Lines (1950-54) C-1070 (cassette, $10.95; CD, $19.95) - - Sounds of Steam Locomotives, Vol. 1: Steel, Steam and Action (1956) F-6152 (cassette, $10.95; CD, $19.95) - - Sounds of Steam Locomotives, Vol. 2: Make Up of a Train (1957) F-6153 (cassette, $10.95; CD, $19.95) - - Sounds of Steam Locomotives, Vol. 3: Colorado Narrow Gauge (1958) F-6154 (cassette, $10.95; CD, $19.95) - - Sounds of Steam Locomotives, Vol. 4: The Great New York Central-Hudson, Mohawk, Niagara (1958) F-6155 (cassette, $10.95; CD, $19.95) - - Sounds of Steam Locomotives, Vol. 5: The Stack Music Spectacular (1976) F-6156 (cassette, $10.95; CD, $19.95) Storms - - Voices of the Storm (1957-58) C-1077 (cassette, $10.95; CD, $19.95) Summer Camp - - The Sounds of Camp: A Documentary Study of a Children's Camp (1959) F-6105 (cassette, $10.95; CD, $19.95) TV Commerical Music - - Music Used in Popular Television Commercials and Their Sponsors: Bosworth Ensembles (1974) F-6109 (cassette, $10.95; CD, $19.95) Tropical Rain Forest - - Sounds of a Tropical Rain Forest in America (1952) F-6120 (cassette, $10.95; CD, $19.95) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 20:53:15 -0400 From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Smithsonian Folkways Recordings > Insects > - Sounds of Insects (1960) F-6178 (cassette, $10.95; CD, $19.95) > > Junk Yards > - Sounds of the Junk Yard (1964) F-6143 (cassette, $10.95; CD, $19.95) I recall (perhaps inaccurately) a 1980ish column by Lester Bangs where he mentioned the above two albums being popular with some New York No Wave musicians as good sources to steal licks from. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 21:52:41 -0400 From: Nat Kone Subject: (exotica) Grantby This isn't really up my alley but I don't think I've heard it mentioned here and I know that for some of you, this is exactly the kind of thing you'd be interested in. So this is the rare Nat/public service post. There's an article in the local music paper about a musician from London, real name Dan Grigson but going under the name "Grantby", inspired by the villain of the same name from the film "The Ipcress File". "While working in a used record shop, Grigson was turned onto the world of film soundtracks, in particular the work of British composer John Barry..." The label is called "Cup of Tea". His new compilation is called "Coffee Table Music" and it's described as an "homage to film music, set upon a cool bed of contemporary beats". Apparently his previous EP, "Time Booth", used samples from John Barry's "Space Capsule" theme, which it says here is from Diamonds are Forever. (I feel like I'm doing a book report here.) In addition, they ask him for his favourite soundtrack picks and he chooses "The Quiller Memorandum" (Barry), "Police Python 357" (George Delerue), "The Thomas Crown Affair" (Legrand) and "Belly of an Architect" (Mertens, Branca). Don't say I never did nothing for ya. I think I'd actually like to hear this myself. Nat # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 22:29:35 -0400 From: cheryl Subject: Re: (exotica) Beware the blunted needle! B. Yost wrote: > do more expensive needles last longer than the cheaper > ones? I've just been using $30 Audio Technica cartridges, almost like one > would use disposable razors, because they're cheap. But if more expensive > needles actually last longer, I might upgrade next time. I'm not an expert, but I am pretty fussy about the quality of sound on my turntable. There is no question that the more expensive a cartridge, the better the sound (up to a certain extent, over which it's probably not noticeable to the average person). And going to something like a moving coil or moving magnet cartridge will be like day and night (assuming your system can handle it). A typical cartridge lasts me for quite a few years. I guess it depends on your system, but if you have decent quality components, and a good turntable, it's worth paying more for a quality cartridge. Your vinyl will thank you! Another possible problem might be that your tonearm is tracking at too heavy a weight, which is wearing down both the needle and your vinyl! Hope this helps. cheryl # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Jul 98 22:54:17 Pacific Daylight Time From: darren hutton Subject: (exotica) Needles I have a $90 radio shack record player, and I replace the needle every six months. The booklet says to do it every year, but I play my records 18 hours a day. Darren. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 00:33:53 EDT From: Subject: Re: (exotica) Rod McKuen My bosss (editrix), Kim Cooper, at Scram wrote an excellent piece on Rod's _Beatsville_ LP two issues ago. Well worth tracking down (both the article and the LP). - -David # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 23:30:19 +0100 From: Ron Grandia Subject: (exotica) Brenda Lee/ Chinese Bootlegs about that box of records I bought that had bootleg material: I originally reported them as being Japanese. They are in fact Chinese. All are on colored vinyl. Some red, some orange. A few have nemes of record companies: Chung Hua, Fir Sit, Tai Cheng. Some of the mispelled are priceless. Brenda Lee - By Bye Blues My Greatest Song Connie Francis - Golden Hits Happiness Doris Day - Sentuimental Journey Greatest Hits Bert Kaempfert - Bye Bye Blues Blue Midnight Henry Mancini - Golden Album The Academy Award Songs Vol. II # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 11:04:37 +0200 From: "Arjan Plug" Subject: (exotica) Danielson and Nordine Picked up the new (third) album by Danielson, "Tri-Danielson", (on Tooth and Nail records) yesterday. On it is a strange cover of Ken Nordine's "Flesh", a rhythmbox version with the brothers and sisters reciting the lyrics. Otherwise the album is the same unique blend of gospelfolkpunk (!?), though a bit toned down from the previous two. Arjan # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 08:47:52 EDT From: Subject: Re: (exotica) Ultra-Lounge Update and Swing Article In a message dated 98-07-25 14:27:56 EDT, you write: << shows the cover of the upcoming "Tiki Sampler" (which apparently will be culled from tracks off Vols. 13-18 and the two "On the Rocks" discs). >> I checked the Ultra Lounge site and there is (as usual) no information about the upcoming release(s). Also interesting, the UL Site refers you to Music Boulevard now if you want to "Buy The Music". At Music Boulevard there was this interesting article from SPIN magazine on . . . you guessed it: The Swing craze. He is a copy of the article: Swing Shift Now that swing music is being used to sell khakis, can it also help record companies shift their back catalog? That's what several labels releasing swing compilations in the coming months are anticipating. Responding to the flourishing West Coast scenes and the popularity of contemporary swing bands like Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and Cherry Poppin' Daddies, labels such as Capitol and Universal are digging into their vaults and pumping out spiffed-up swing reissues and compilations packaged to appeal to the same retro-crazed hipsters who helped turned lounge into its own section at the record store. Compilations include this month's Hipsters, Zoots & Wingtips: The '90s Swingers (Hip-O), which features new and old compositions by modern swing bands. Hipsters, Zoots & Wingtips: The Original Swingers--classic versions of swing standards--will follow in October. Rhino's two-CD set Hipster Swing (due next February) includes music by both new artists such as Royal Crown Revue and old-school cats such as Les Elgart. GRP's Swingsation series, released in June, is a five-CD set of samplers culling material from Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, and others. "We're trying to give people the next step," says Michael Kauffman, GRP's national director of sales. "Here are the original sultans of swing." But will they sell? Possibly, if promoted and packaged right. RCA/Victor's youth-targeted Fabulous Swing compilation, which came out last February, has sold a respectable 30,000 copies. However, no company has branded retro music as a youth-oriented trend more effectively than the creators of EMI-Capitol's Ultra-Lounge series. The Grammy-winning 25-CD set has sold more than 700,000 units collectively, in part because of the eye-catching appeal of its faux-cheetah fur covers, kitschy vintage sleeve photos, and liner notes offering "Cocktail Hints." Marketing retro cool is like selling real estate: It's about lifestyle, lifestyle, lifestyle. "The music is only one component of lounge's appeal," says Phil Sandhaus, head of strategic marketing for EMI-Capitol. "The generation that's into this scene is smoking the right cigars and buying hip kinds of dishes for the house. It's people having a large party, dressed the way they're dressed, with our music playing in the background." Sandhaus has done cross-promotions for Ultra- Lounge with Jim Beam, Urban Outfitters, and Pottery Barn. But the swing crowd, which tends to be older and more sophisticated than its lounge counterpart, may resist blatant attempts to sell it a lifestyle. GRP's Kauffman disagrees. "They're primarily postcollege young professionals who are looking to go out and have an upscale good time," he says. "They're making an investment in swing." 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