From: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com (exotica-digest) To: exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: exotica-digest V2 #201 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 Wednesday, September 2 1998 Volume 02 : Number 201 In This Digest: Re: (exotica) Alshire LP's/etc. Re: (exotica) Radio broadcasts from hell (exotica) Music to Hurricane By . . . George Cates -Reply (exotica) Radio broadcasts from hell (it was kinda hot!!!) Re: (exotica) Music to Hurricane By . . . George Cates -Reply Re: (exotica) Alshire LP's (exotica) California Poppy Pickers (exotica) Playlist for Jack (exotica) Re: Vern is taking hula lessons..... Re: (exotica) Radio broadcasts from hell Re: (exotica) Radio broadcasts from hell Re: (exotica) California Poppy Pickers Re: (exotica) Radio broadcasts from hell Re: (exotica) Radio broadcasts from hell (exotica) re: radio show from heck Re: (exotica) Radio broadcasts from hell Re: (exotica) Alshire LP's Re: (exotica) Radio broadcasts from hell Re: (exotica) Radio broadcasts from hell (exotica) too much monkey business (exotica) The Breeze & I (25versions) (exotica) Okay, My Playlist Re: (exotica) Radio broadcasts from hell Re: (exotica) re: radio show from heck Re: (exotica) Radio broadcasts from hell Re: (exotica) re: radio show from heck (exotica) Music to Wretch by Re: (exotica) Radio broadcasts from hell (exotica) Re:Radio Broadcast + anecdote ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 04:58:00 PDT From: "Ben Waugh" Subject: Re: (exotica) Alshire LP's/etc. >2.) The California Poppy Pickers: Hair/Aquarius (Alshire S-5153). > Yellow submarine, Back in the USSR, Oh happy day, Isrealites, etc. Yes. I picked this one up over the weekend. Some of the songs provide good campy, poppy fun - (such as Yellow Submarine, sung as "Yella Submarine"), Others are bland folky cheese. Also found Les Baxter's Moog Rock in the same bin. This turned out not to be what I had expected. As some probably know, there are no baxter originals on this album. Like "The Moog Strikes Bach...", Everything You Ever Wanted to Hear on the Moog...", it's a collection of classical/modern works performed on electronic instruments. Unlike the other two lps I mentioned, the alien sound of the Moog (accompanied by the Novachord) is not accentuated, but a more melodic effect is achieved. The songs are performed to a Latin beat. I was happy to find this one as the two attempts I have made to buy the bootleg CD never worked out. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com # 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: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 14:29:25 +0200 From: Sevo Stille Subject: Re: (exotica) Radio broadcasts from hell Charles Moseley wrote: > I don't mean to criticise or knock other people's ideas (which have > probably risen through their best intentions and desire to do good for > their fellow man) but isn't an hour and a half radio program that only > plays the same song (albeit different versions) a little scary. It seems to > shout pretension and self indulgence (as well as sheer boredom and tedium). Well, I've enjoyed stuff like that when it was new (some ten years ago). But I don't think that topical programming can still be done at such a basic level without getting boring - the time when any topical programming by non-educative criteria was a change from the usual artist or label portrait is over, especially where ideas as generic as "lets do an entire program of Song X cover versions" are concerned. Of course it will depend on the way it is done - just playing some thirty versions of one song probably will not get exciting no matter how smart the ordering and mixing is, but good text might make it worth while. But doing research and writing text at a quality level that could warrant listening to 90 minutes of Caravan won't be easy, IMHO. Sevo - -- Sevo Stille - Radio X sevo@inm.de # 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: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 09:00:34 -0400 From: "Nathan Miner" Subject: (exotica) Music to Hurricane By . . . George Cates -Reply I've got this album. I felt like most of the arrangement were "pedestrian" at best - with a few = enjoyable cuts. I wouldn't dare mention Cates in the same breath as Denny, etc. as Robert = did! An "okay" addition but not a "must have" by a long shot. - - Nate # 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: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 10:42:48 EDT From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Radio broadcasts from hell (it was kinda hot!!!) In a message dated 98-09-01 08:15:11 EDT, a tiki flaming exoticat wrote: << . . . isn't an hour and a half radio program that only plays the same song (albeit different versions) a little scary. It seems to shout pretension and self indulgence (as well as sheer boredom and tedium). I know that if I tuned in to a radio station that did it, I would reach out for that dial asap. >> You would surely have to have a loyal listenership. It works for the Exotic Trilogy tho. Of course you can always turn off the CD. I have to admit, the format is interesting but I do prefer the variety of a show, say like The Retro Cocktail Hour. They do theme shows sometimes and occasionally play a variation on a tune. Anyway, I am sure the above quoted passage will generate a lot (of heat???) on our humble list. Contributing to the combustion, Robert (wearing an asbestos coated pair of gloves as I type) # 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: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 10:50:53 EDT From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Music to Hurricane By . . . George Cates -Reply In a message dated 98-09-01 08:57:15 EDT, Nate wrote: << I've got this album. (Polynesian Percussion -ed.) I felt like most of the arrangement were "pedestrian" at best - with a few enjoyable cuts. I wouldn't dare mention Cates in the same breath as Denny, etc. as Robert did! An "okay" addition but not a "must have" by a long shot. - Nate >> Please don't miss the point. Being a devout Denny fan I would never suggest Cates as equal status. The point of my post was to indicate that Cates positioned himself right between Baxter and Denny. The percussion of Denny and the melodic orchestration of Baxter. As for followers of Exotica. If you find this album in a Salvation record ben for 50 cents as I did I would say that it is a "must have". I helps round off a true exoticat's collection. Plus, you have a likeness of Otto on the back as a bonus. Robert # 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: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 11:56:25 EDT From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Alshire LP's Vern Stoltz wrote a fine article about the California Poppy Pickers in Cannot Become Obsolete in the last issue # 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: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 09:41:17 -0500 From: "Mark D. Head" Subject: (exotica) California Poppy Pickers Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 22:47:30 -0700 From: Dave & LeAnn Davidson Subject: (exotica) Alshire LP's 2.) The California Poppy Pickers: Hair/Aquarius (Alshire S-5153). Yellow submarine, Back in the USSR, Oh happy day, Isrealites, etc. This looked interesting to me, too - major disappointment - vapid vocals and insipid arrangements, not groovy at all, sorry to say.... - -- Mark D. Head _________________________________________________ TANSTAAFL! # 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: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 10:08:01 -0700 From: Jack Diamond Subject: (exotica) Playlist for Jack KFJC play list 8/2/98 for Jack Diamond Http://www.KFJC.org ARTIST TRACK ALBUM _________________________________________________________________________ The Planets Chunky Julius Watkins Sextet Linda Delia Dawn Label, Mid 50'S Charlie Rouse-Tenor Gildo Mahones-Piano Chino Pozo-Bongos Ron Jefferson-Drums Martin Rivera-Bass Lewis, Johnny Quartet Cissy Strut Shuckin' N' Jivin' LP Jerry Fielding Hide and Seek Underground Tipsy Grossenhosen Trip Tease Hugo Montenegro Lady in Cement 1968 Ost 18TH Century Concepts 18TH Century Dream Sidewalk, Mike Curb Shadowy Men Onna Good Cop Bad Cop Shadowy Planet Jim Gordon; Rites of Passage Plays Heavy My Music Bed Don Julian Where I'm Comin' From Savage Ost Gabor Szabo Summertime Jazz Raga West Coast Workshop T.T.B.C.Theme 2 Wizard of Oz Frontier Space Invaders Heater Gerry Mulligan Septet; Theme From "I Want to Live" Shelly Manne-Drums Frank Rosolino-Trmbne Bud Shank-Flute Pete Jolly-Piano Red Mitchell-Bass Art Farmer-Trumpet Koray, Erkin Cemalim Elektronik Turkuler Sir Adrian Boult; Mars, the Bringer of War Gustav Holst Orig. Philharmonic Westminster, 1956 Promenade Orchestra Adamson, Barry Jazz Devil As Above, So Below Gerald Fried Orch Reform School Dino Ost Martin Milner PSA for Drug Smuggling Ennio Morricone Sfinge Lesiman Padmina Future Sound of Lesiman Ken Nordine Spectrum Word Jazz Vol 2 Fireflies So and So Pierro Umiliani Open Space The Phantom Sound Trip Through The Catacombs Last Tango in Paris Last Tango...-Jazz Waltz Last Tango in Paris Coyle and Sharpe The Last Sleep :40 Secs Nino Rota La Dolce Vita La Dolce Vita Ost Titoli De Testa Canzonetta Buddy Defranco Qrt W/ Star of Africa 45 Rpm Mccoy's Swing Choir; W/ Sabu Martinez Art Blakely Pete Rugolo Orch Voodoo! Thriller Ost Taxi Driver (Soun Diary of a Taxi Driver Taxi Driver Helen Gurley Brown Keep Your Wife Seductive Lessons in Love Bernard Hermann Runs Underneath Helen Gurley Brown Keep Your Wife Seductive Greg Oliver and Seduction, Side 2 Copy Written By Lois Cooper-Voices Dr. Billy Rogers Music and Elec. Guitar By Del Staton Kenyon Hopkins Orch The Operation Panic, Son of Shock John Corgliano The Laboratory Experiment, Altered States Ost Jessup's Transformation, Collapse of the Laboratory Thurle Ravencroft You're a Mean 1, Mr. Grinch Lord Sitar Black Is Black Capitol Pete Rugolo Orch Diamond on the Move KFJC 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022 Http://www.KFJC.org # 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: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 13:50:44 -0400 From: itsvern@ibm.net Subject: (exotica) Re: Vern is taking hula lessons..... > > I saw a cute cartoon commercial the other night that starts out, "Vern is > taking hula lessons...." Well, my own name is Vern, and I was especially struck by the timliness of this commercial. I saw it for the first time the week after I threw my own personal tiki party. Of course, the 'cartoon' Vern was more rotund and more bald than I am, but overall I liked the spirit of the whole thing. One other good 'Vern' coincidence you might be amused by. About 12 years ago I went to visit family in Wisconsin for Christmas, and while there I bought an inflatable blue cow which was advertising the famous Wisconsin cheese. Of course, I told a few of my co-workers about it to humor them a bit. Two days later the Far Side cartoon in the newspaper featured two bulls sitting in a living room. One is blowing up an inflatable cow, while the other one is saying "She's Looking Good, Vern" My name seems to be a good name for cartoonish characters I guess Vern # 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: Tue, 1 Sep 98 14:34:17 -0500 From: recliner Subject: Re: (exotica) Radio broadcasts from hell >I don't mean to criticise or knock other people's ideas (which have >probably risen through their best intentions and desire to do good for >their fellow man) but isn't an hour and a half radio program that only >plays the same song (albeit different versions) a little scary. It seems to >shout pretension and self indulgence (as well as sheer boredom and tedium). >I know that if I tuned in to a radio station that did it, I would reach out >for that dial asap. Thank god I am on the other side of the world so that I >may be spared 90 minutes of Caravan. Why not try an hour and a half radio >program where you amusingly play your collection of songs about vomit? I'd >be interested in finding out what sort of nutter gave a 'good response' to >repeated renditions of More. First of all let me mention that this is Charles' second rather acid coment on a post of mine within the last week. So, I'm not all too sure if it's something personal. Actually I was going to comment on this reply but, after re-reading it I realize that it's far too idiotic a post the comment on. Really, songs about vomit? And how the hell am I being pretensious and self-indulgent? Plaese stop me before I burst in flames. Frank # 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: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 15:00:34 -0400 From: cheryl Subject: Re: (exotica) Radio broadcasts from hell Allow me to jump into the discussion (wearing my asbestos suit, of course). I must say that I have harboured the idea of doing a one-song show for quite a while. Of course, Space Bop is only one hour long, which would make it a lot easier to do. However, I would probably only end up doing about 6 versions of the same song, in all likelihood. For example, I have 6 or 8 versions of "These Boots Are Made For Walking", in a variety of languages, and some without vocals altogether. You could play all of them back to back, and marvel at just how different they all are! Of course, people can always change the dial if they don't like what they're listening to. That's their prerogative. Evidently, one wouldn't play weeks on end of one-show-only songs, but once would be a fun idea. 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: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 14:03:29 EDT From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) California Poppy Pickers The thrust of Vern's story on the California Poppy Pickers was that it was total Hippy/California Lifestyle-sploitation project aimed at consumers who wanted to be groovy but hadn't either clue or personal taste... The buyer of the album bought the image--apparently the cover is sort of soft focus and kind of Peter Max-y in a vague way The Poppy Pickers themselves are wearing state-of-the-art California smiles, mod clothes and long hair and have that inexplicably ecstatic look so common on late 6T's facial expressions # 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: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 16:07:38 EDT From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Radio broadcasts from hell In a message dated 98-09-01 15:03:22 EDT, Cheryl of Space Bop writes: << Allow me to jump into the discussion (wearing my asbestos suit, of course). I must say that I have harboured the idea of doing a one-song show for quite a while. Of course, Space Bop is only one hour long, which would make it a lot easier to do. However, I would probably only end up doing about 6 versions of the same song, in all likelihood. For example, I have 6 or 8 versions of "These Boots Are Made For Walking", in a variety of languages, and some without vocals altogether. You could play all of them back to back, and marvel at just how different they all are! >> I think Cheryl has a somewhat middle ground approach. These older tunes (like Boots) are about 2.5 to 3.5 minutes long and six songs in a row would only last about 25 minutes max. Of course all my versions of "Vomit" are about 6 minutes long and I guess after about 25 minutes of listening to vomit music I would probably change stations. Now my "Puke" recordings are only about 3 minutes long so I guess I could listen to about 20 minutes of those. My "Dingleberry" songs (of which I do not like as much as my "Vomit" or "Puke" variations) are 4 minutes long but because of my lack of fondness for these I could only stand one or two versions. On the subject, I hear that there is a rare version of "Vomit" by Martin Denny that has the various animals and birds wretching in the background. Now I bet that is a good version of "Vomit". Feeling slightly nauseous, Robert # 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: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 17:48:13 EDT From: SLarry3595@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Radio broadcasts from hell In a message dated 9/1/98 8:15:11 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Charles_Moseley%MCKINSEY-EXTERNAL@MCKINSEY.COM writes: > Why not try an hour and a half radio > program where you amusingly play your collection of songs about vomit? That I would sincerely like to hear! Larry # 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: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 17:56:23 EDT From: SLarry3595@aol.com Subject: (exotica) re: radio show from heck Let me add to my earlier comment, I would truly ENJOY hearing 11/2 hours of good versions of "Caravan" and can see how it could be done to great effect...alternating a serious jazz version with a moog version followed by Lambert, Hendrics, and Ross then intermixing some sound bites from Ellington interviews, etc. I would still like to hear the vomit show, but for different reasons. Larry # 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: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 16:32:43 -0600 From: Jill Mingo Subject: Re: (exotica) Radio broadcasts from hell I've got to say that I have on several occasions played several different versions of the same song back to back to back when I am DJing out. Sometimes just to see if anyone is paying attention. Sometimes because I think they are all different and rather amazing. Sometimes to simply try to drive people nuts. But whenever I do it, I have a strong sense of purpose and rather enjoy it. And listening to something like this is the kind of thing that makes me smile. I wish more people did it. As long as the versions are good. Jill "Mingo-go" # 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: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 00:47:40 +0200 (MET DST) From: stefan@subliminal.se (Subliminal Sounds) Subject: Re: (exotica) Alshire LP's >1.) The California Poppy Pickers: Sounds of '69 (Alshire S-5152). >2.) The California Poppy Pickers: Hair/Aquarius (Alshire S-5153). >3.) The California Poppy Pickers: Today's Chart Busters (Alshire S-5163). >4.) John Bunyan's Progressive Pilgrims: Apricot Brandy and Albatross > (Alshire S-5154). >Anyone heard these? The covers look very cool and psychedelic. Yeah..."John Bunyan's Progressive Pilgrims" is the ticket. The only one that lives up to your psychedelic dreams although you have Wilson McKinley who did several ultra rare west coast psych LPs on guitar on some tracks on the Poppy Pickers. Stefan Stefan/Subliminal Sounds web-site: http://home6.swipnet.se/~w-64169/ e-mail: stefan@subliminal.se Subliminal Sounds Brannkyrkagatan 112 SE-117 28 STOCKHOLM SWEDEN fax/phone: +46 - 8 84 56 66 "Attilio Mineo Conducts Man in Space With Sounds" Now on CD! http://home6.swipnet.se/~w-64169/ http://www.jackdiamond.com/attilio.htm European Wholesale Distribution/Retail Sales Stefan Kery/Subliminal Sounds Stefan@subliminal.se Fax/Phone +46 8 694 86 66 web-site: http://home6.swipnet.se/~w-64169/ e-mail: stefan@subliminal.se Publicity by Motormouth Media (Hollywood, CA) Wholesale Distribution in the US: NAIL Distribution 1-888-Nail-Inc (Toll Free) http://www.bubblator@naildistribution.com/ OR Wholesale/Retail Sales: Jack Diamond Music Http://www.jackdiamond.com Fax/Phone (650) 325-2284 # 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: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 19:31:39 -0400 From: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) Radio broadcasts from hell Then, of course, there was the radio station that, as a stunt, played any available version of "Louie, Louie". That's about 10,000 + versions! # 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: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 20:59:10 EDT From: BasicHip@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Radio broadcasts from hell <<...but isn't an hour and a half radio program that only >plays the same song (albeit different versions) a little scary >> I don't think so at all. I can listen to Thunderball all day long. Then again, I also listen to field recordings of birds and insects, so whadda I know? I say play your show the way you wanna play it and if some people don't like it, the hell with 'em. # 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: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 21:09:02 -0400 From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) too much monkey business For Labor Day weekend, AMC is doing a marathon of all 5 "Planet Of The Apes" movies (soundtrack recently discussed here). It runs from early Sunday to early Tuesday. They have a strange pattern to the showings -- they're beginning with the last film and working their way back to the first. Then they run through them in the proper order. Then backwards again. Then forwards again! And they have a couple of "behind the scenes" documentary films thrown randomly into every cycle -- I think that's just to confuse us even more when programming the VCR. The letterbox format showings are reserved for the last cycle. Here's the details (eastern daylight times): SUNDAY 9:00am - Battle For The Planet Of The Apes (1973) 10:30am - Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes (1972) Noon - Escape From The Planet Of The Apes (1971) 1:45pm - Beneath The Planet Of The Apes (1970) 3:30pm - Planet Of The Apes (1968) 5:30pm - Behind The Planet Of The Apes (documentary) 7:30pm - AMC Behind The Screen (documentary) 8:00pm - Planet Of The Apes (1968) 10:00pm - Behind The Planet Of The Apes (documentary) Midnight - Beneath The Planet Of The Apes (1970) MONDAY 1:35am - AMC Behind The Screen (documentary) 2:05am - Escape From The Planet Of The Apes (1971) 3:45am - Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes (1972) 5:15am - Battle For The Planet Of The Apes (1973) 6:45am - Behind The Planet Of The Apes (documentary) 9:00am - Battle For The Planet Of The Apes (1973) 10:30am - Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes (1972) Noon - Escape From The Planet Of The Apes (1971) 1:45pm - Beneath The Planet Of The Apes (1970) 3:30pm - Planet Of The Apes (1968) 5:30pm - Planet Of The Apes (1968) Letterboxed 7:30pm - Beneath The Planet Of The Apes (1970) Letterboxed 9:15pm - Escape From The Planet Of The Apes (1971) Letterboxed 11:00pm - Behind The Planet Of The Apes (documentary) TUESDAY 1:00am - Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes (1972) Letterboxed 2:30am - Battle For The Planet Of The Apes (1973) Letterboxed 4:00am - Behind The Planet Of The Apes (documentary) 6:00am - apes out, Buster Keaton in - Seven Chances (1925) 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: Wed, 2 Sep 98 01:04:28 -0500 From: recliner Subject: (exotica) The Breeze & I (25versions) Thank you all for all the recent input on = multiple-versions-one-song-shows. Tonight I had my first as part of a = regular first Tuesday of the month feature show. I made a point of soliciting listener input and the response was = overwhelmingly positive! I chose the song The Breeze and I as topical because of recent = hurricane activity and a local freak wind storm last week. The 25 = version dovetails nicely to the stations celebration of it's 25th = anniversary and by being careful of my announcing time I hope to be = able to do 25 each time. The Breeze & I Playlist Charles Magnante/Romantic Accordion Eddie Layton/No Blues on this Cruise David Carroll/ House Party Discotheque Leo Diamond/ Exciting sounds from far away places Don Costa/ Echoing Voices & Trombones Terry Snyder/ Persuasive Percussion George Cates/ Hit Songs-Hit Sounds 50 Guitars of T. Garrett/ Maria Elena Ted Auletta/ Exotica Robert Maxwell/ Shangrila Arthur Lyman/ Percussion Spectacular Percussion Espa=F1ol/ Al Caiola et. al. Don Alessi/ Guitar Spectacular Earl Grant/ Fly Me to the Moon Ruth Welcome/ Latin Zither Sonny Lester/ After Hours Spain Jo Ann Castle/ Accordion in Hi Fi Henry Mancini/ The Versitile ... Buddy Cole/ Organ Moods in HiFi The Three Suns/ Twilight Time Ted Heath/ Latin Swingers Marty Gold/24 Pieces of Gold Ferrante & Teicher/ Sound Proof The Rhythm Rockers/ Soul Surfin' Buddy Merrill/Latin Festival I took my usual four or five breaks to announce, I say this because I = think that some of the downer thoughts on this kind of show was with = the mistaken belief that the versions would be a continuous flow with = no little islands of respite.... I must say that the averall sound of the mix was pretty good. Sure = there were a few weaker cuts but there were no overtly "bad" versions. Stand out versions were the Eddie Layton (I love it when organ = players make wind sounds), Leo Diamond a multiple harmonica arrangement, Ferrante and Teicher in = their very early days sounding like John Cage and The Persuasive = Percussion natch. The Breeze and Frank My Vinyl Recliner - Music from the in-seam of the 50's and 60's Every Tuesday night from 10 - 11:30 on WMPG 90.9fm, Portland Maine! # 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: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 22:15:36 -0700 From: "Carl Russo" Subject: (exotica) Okay, My Playlist Well since everybody's gettin' into da act, here's my playlist for 9/1/98 on KUSF, 90.3 FM, San Francisco (www.kusf.org). Of immediate interest to this group is THE FUTURE SOUND OF LESIMAN (Right Tempo) and PHASE SIX SUPER STEREO (Plastic), both Italian re-issues of funky production music. (Though LESIMAN is a shitty keyboardist, his rhythm section and effects make it a near-must-have. And PHASE SIX is a lesser continuation of the STOROBOSCOPICA comp.) Exotic moments on CALEXICO (featuring members of FRIENDS OF DEAN MARTIN maybe?) and new Japanese releases from TAKAKO MINEKAWA and NEO TROPIC. ________________________________________________________ * = new release ** = re-issue LOS CANARIOS "3 - 2 - 1 Ah" (Exitos a Go-Go compilation) ** JESSAMINE "Pilot Free Ignition" * ADAM F (#1 - #3)* TAKAKO MINEKAWA "Turntable Tennis" * APOLLO 100 "Exercise in A Minor" UNSCRUBBED "Video Kid" * DANIELSON FAMILE "Potty Mouth" * PAUL ANKA / GEORGE HAMILTON IV "Teen Commandments" ACME ROCKET QUARTET "Battle Royal" * WALLMEN "Xanthoma Morning" PINEAL VENTANA "He Said 'She Won't Dance'" (Our Heat compilation) * ECHO PARK (#2) * NATHAN DAVIS "Tragic Mule" (Luv 'n' Haight, vol. 1 compilation) ** DJ SPOOKY / DJ GRAZZHOPPA "Subconscious" * NEO TROPIC "Vacetious Blooms" (Funkungfusion compilation) * AQUAMEN "Panty Raid" * HILLBILLY HELLCATS "Road Rage" * DAVID NUDELMAN "Don't Buy Drugs Off the Street" ** NEGATIVLAND "Happy Hero" * RECLOOSE "Welcome" * STRANGULATED BEATOFFS "Oh, My Favorite!" * PETE DRAKE AND HIS TALKING STEEL GUITAR "Abilene" EPIC TRASH "Party God" (Spontaneous Consumer Combustion compilation) CALEXICO "Fake Fur" * JOE CUBA SEXTET "Bang Bang" SPOI 2 (#6) * FRESHNESS "Friends, Lovers and Family" (State of Nu Art compilation) * FUNDAMENTAL "Blood in Transit" * HASIDIC NEW WAVE "Men Trinkt Mashke" (Hasidic New Wave compilation) * KABLE "Everything in its Place" * DURWOOD DOUCHE "Merrilou (When I'm Sitting on Your Face)" JAD AND DAVID FAIR "Big Foot" * THE IN CROWD "Speed Queen" (Madness Invasion compilation) ** (UNKNOWN) "Walk Like an Egyptian" (Hopelessly Devoted to You compilation) * DUB NARCOTIC "Out of Your Mind" * MIRANDA JULY "I Can--Japan" * LESIMAN "Traffico d'armi" ** DOC WOR MIRRAN "Wet, Sweat and Breasts" BRUNO BATTISTI D'AMARIO" Mas Que Nada" (Phase Six Super Stereo compilation) ** THE JOYRIDE "Big Bright Green Plastic Machine" JOHN'S CHILDREN "Smashed Blocked" (Unknown Legends of Rock 'n' Roll) ** TADPOLES "Jaded Jean" * JAIME FIELDING "Home Brewing" * SKEPTIX "Rumble on a Mission" (United States of Drum 'n' Bass compilation) * SPIN-17 "Pebbles and Bam Bam" * PAUL HUMPHREY "Baby Rice" XAO SEFFCHEQUE "Kassa Bubu" SENOR SOUL "Don't Lay Your Funky Trip on Me" (Tell It Like It Is compilation) ** C. "Ratso" Russo c_russo@mns.com # 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: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 23:17:17 -0700 From: Dave & LeAnn Davidson Subject: Re: (exotica) Radio broadcasts from hell At 08:59 PM 9/1/98 EDT, BasicHip wrote: >I say play your show the way you wanna play it and if some people don't like >it, the hell with 'em. Well put! I second this emotion. Back when I was in college radio, I sometimes played maybe five or six versions of a song - the most well known version, some well-known artists covering the same song, then celebrity oddities, and finally some loungey versions. You can't imagine the irate calls I would get from drunk frat boys. >Then >again, I also listen to field recordings of birds and insects, so whadda I >know? I just saw a CD of North American frog field recordings on the Smithsonian Folkways label, orginally released in 1958, "digitally remastered from the original master tapes." Woah! You guys take those animal noises seriously! Dave # 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: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 01:33:40 -0400 From: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) re: radio show from heck At 05:56 PM 01/09/98 EDT, SLarry3595@aol.com wrote: > I would truly ENJOY hearing 11/2 hours of >good versions of "Caravan" and can see how it could be done to great >effect...alternating a serious jazz version with a moog version followed by >Lambert, Hendrics, and Ross then intermixing some sound bites from Ellington >interviews, etc. Isn't it kind of inevitable that collecting exotica is going to lead you to notice that there are a couple of dozen tunes, of which at least one is bound to show up on every single record you own? And it's inevitable that some of the collectors will take special note of all these different versions. And it's inevitable that a few of them will devote entire tapes or radio shows to these "classics". I've never really heard an exotica radio show but I suspect that if I turned on such a show and had it on in the "background", it would probably take me at least a half hour before I noticed that they were playing different versions of the same song repeatedly. And after I noticed it, I'd probably forget it soon enough. I suppose it could get tiresome but it's the arrangements and the "sounds" that draw me to this music, not the melodies per se. If it was a great tune like Caravan and the arrangements were varied enough I'm sure I'd enjoy an hour or so. But the bigger point is that I can't believe someone on this list is criticizing someone else on the list for exhibiting whacked-out or obsessive behaviour or for exhibiting strange musical taste. I'm sure an occasion will arise again for me to write one of my "I can't believe you like that crap" postings but the truth is that with all the crap I've listened to in the last few years - all the while telling myself that I'm trying to ferret out the few hidden gems - I really have lost all standing to ever again question anything anyone does when it comes to buying or playing records. But don't remind me I said that the next time someone mentions Arthur Lyman or Edmondo Ros. BTW, I haven't seen it mentioned here so I'll report that the new issue of WIRED with John Fahey on the cover, has an article which appears to be about exotica, Martin Denny, Yma Sumac, Arthur Lyman and how the music was influenced by Hawaii or some such thing. With all the crappy records I'm buying, I can't afford magazines. 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: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 10:24:44 +0000 From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Radio broadcasts from hell I remember spending a new years night in this bar on a boat at the kay of the river Rhine in Dusseldorf, called "Koller's Kahn", when the DJ started to play the same record (Gentle on my mind) over and over again for like one and a half hours. It was a tremendous success, people went absolutely crazy, sang along and danced on the tables and by the time it was midnight almost smashed the whole place in excitement. It was as if since the music wouldn't play its role as the background entertainment anymore people would be challenged to do something of their own, become active and take entertainment into their own hands. Well, the late seventies were a good time for pranks of all kinds anyway... today... I dunno. 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: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 07:13:29 EDT From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) re: radio show from heck In a message dated 98-09-01 17:59:07 EDT, you write: << I would still like to hear the vomit show, but for different reasons. Larry >> Keep your pants on Larry -- I'm working on it (baaaaaaaaaaalllllllllllllaaaaaaaaaahhh) Robert # 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: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 07:27:08 EDT From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Music to Wretch by In a message dated 98-09-01 19:28:26 EDT, Brian wrote: << Then, of course, there was the radio station that, as a stunt, played any available version of "Louie, Louie". That's about 10,000 + versions! >> Yeah, but after about 5 versions of that I am pretty drunk and don't know the difference anyway. I prefer Caravan sober. Now when I listen to "Vomit" I usually have a large meal consisting of raw meat (and lots of it), raw eggs, pepper, mustard and anchovies. Robert # 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: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 12:37:57 +0100 From: "Charles Moseley" Subject: Re: (exotica) Radio broadcasts from hell So just in case there's any confusion on the list: Self indulgent - Using one's allotted opportunity in the public eye to entertain oneself rather than one's public. i.e., playing fucking untold versions of Caravan because its clever (when really, one's listeners would far rather hear some entertaining music) I also liked this quote: 'I say play your show the way you wanna play it and if some people don't like it, the hell with 'em' - quality. I'm DJing tomorrow and I'm looking for suggestions for the most annoying set I could play. I'm not sure that I could top an hours worth of Caravan or even an amusing collection of songs about vomit but I think I could definately get people's backs up with a well-chosen set. I'm only in a South London pub so lets really let fly and I'll take the piss and then let you all know the result. Charlie # 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: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 07:47:52 EDT From: SLarry3595@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Re:Radio Broadcast + anecdote In a message dated 9/2/98 4:27:41 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Moritz.Reichelt@munich.netsurf.de writes: > he DJ > started to play the same record (Gentle on my mind) over and over again > for like one and a half hours. It was a tremendous success, people went > absolutely crazy OK, this is a true story. My roommates held a party for me on the occasion of my 21st birthday. In keeping with the tradition of the 21st birthday party I perhaps overindulged on the alcohol. After the guests left I played the song "Turtles And Trees" by Bobby Sherman over and over on the stereo, quite loudly. This went on for atleast 3 or 4 hours. The following morning Jeanette, one of my roommates, said I was lucky she had not killed me. Be gentle with the flames, this was well over ten years ago. "turtles and trees are friends to me help me keep my sanity turtles and trees are friends to me keep on movin' I wanna be free" Larry # 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. ------------------------------ End of exotica-digest V2 #201 *****************************