From: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com (exotica-digest) To: exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: exotica-digest V2 #258 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 Friday, December 4 1998 Volume 02 : Number 258 In This Digest: (exotica) page on Googie architecture Re: (exotica) The first Lounge Ring Re: (exotica) my weirdest records Re: Fw: (exotica) French weirdotica Re: (exotica) my weirdest records (exotica) ExoticaElivs! (exotica) Cates walks??? but looks like ??? (exotica) OBIT: Johnny Roventini (exotica) LP distortion (exotica) Roventini, Shapiro, Van Eps obits (exotica) Album Frames Re: Fw: (exotica) French weirdotica (exotica) Re: autochanger 'plop' Re: Fw: (exotica) French weirdotica Re: (exotica) my weirdest records (exotica) Kenyon and Kemosabe (exotica) My weirdest records Re: (exotica) my weirdest records Re: (exotica) my weirdest records Re: (exotica) LP distortion Re: Fw: (exotica) French weirdotica Re: (exotica) my weirdest records Re: (exotica) my weirdest records (exotica) Easy Tune Compilations Re: (exotica) my weirdest records (exotica) Bob Haggart obit (exotica) fwd: Teri Summers LIVE (exotica) Dual Deck CD-R recorder ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 19:04:11 -0600 (CST) From: Kerry Keane Subject: (exotica) page on Googie architecture Hey, I know that at least some of you people like design, esp. that of the fifties. Here's a new page on Googie. Has some tiki on it, too: http://home.fea.net/~cjepsen/Googie.htm - --- http://www.ripco.com/~dymaxia "Left alone in the country, the lad becomes maudlin - a callow lover of nature - and makes feeble attempts at verse. Returning to the city, he melts and unbosoms - the tender shaft of unknowable Eros has penetrated his heart." -- Louis Sullivan, _Kindergarten Chats_ # 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: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 02:33:41 +0100 From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) The first Lounge Ring > << This messagge is to inform you that a the first official "Lounge" Webring > has been created! I haven't read this in the first place. Any URLs to get into the ring? 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: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 19:49:20 -0600 (CST) From: Indulis R Rutks Subject: Re: (exotica) my weirdest records On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Jeffery Hess wrote: > Oh yeah? Here's a few of mine. > > Dr. Jack Van Impe-From Night Club To Christ One of my guilty pleasures is watching JVI & his wife Rexella on their TV show (as well as Benny Hinn & Peter Popoff). Did JVI used to be a night club act?? I need more info on that! - -Indy Rutks (rutks002@tc.umn.edu) # 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: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 03:05:47 +0100 From: Moritz R Subject: Re: Fw: (exotica) French weirdotica >I must recommend a recent purchase: (FGL, >France). It came out in 1993 and compiles 27 themes from French kids TV >shows from the 60s and 70s. Anybody know how to get this? 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: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 03:07:55 +0100 From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) my weirdest records Weird? Vader Abraham "Deine Monatsbinde" (a song about "your" sanitary napkin) G=FCnther Noris "Tophits eines PLUS-Jahrzehnts" (PLUS: "Prima Leben Und Sparen"- "Live Fine And Save", a really cheap Supermarket chain. Max Greger jr. "Tele-Ski mit Manfred Vorderw=FChlbecke" Ronald Reagan narrates "Freedom's Finest Hour" Anton "Neger" Antonius "Das =E4sthetische Gef=FChl der Hure Friedel" Bobbe Llynne "This Is My Home - San Jose" The Polystyrene Jazzband "Drano In My Veins" Jay Condom /Gary Panther "Durchfall Frum Der Colahaus" Joseph Beuys "Sonne statt Reagan" any Heino to name a few... 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, 02 Dec 1998 11:28:00 -0500 From: Subject: (exotica) ExoticaElivs! Time, now, for some random thoughts from the aging brain of Jane.... 1. I was recently "turned on" to some very-list-appropriate Elvis songs..."Edge of Reality" has great trippy lyrics and wah-wah guitar, appropriate(almost) for Sound Gallery-type comps...The other is the theme to CHARO...where Elvis goes Ennio! 2. Did the Earthmen ever put out a full-lenght anything? Waiting by the computer/phoneline, for all those responses... - ---------------------------------------------------------------- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. # 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 Dec 1998 10:35:33 EST From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Cates walks??? but looks like ??? Byron noted: << Looks like everyone needs a copy of George Cates' Polynesian Percussion >> I was amazed when I found this album a few months ago (and I sheepishly admit that I had never heard of him). I love it. He is sort of a combonation of Baxter and Denny. (The arrangements of Denny without the animal calls which is typical of Baxter). When I posted this tho, one some what critical exoticat labeled old George as too "pedestrian". One other comment worth (re)posting: Cates looks like our very own Otto! And even Otto admits the resemblance! 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, 02 Dec 1998 09:37:13 -0500 From: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) OBIT: Johnny Roventini Bellboy who shouted 'Call for Philip Morris' dies Johnny Roventini December 2, 1998 WHITE PLAINS, New York (AP) -- Johnny Roventini, the pint-size bellboy who became one of the best-known figures in American advertising by shouting "Call for Philip Morris," has died. He was 88. Roventini died Monday at a hospital in Suffern, said a nephew, Philip Roventini. The cause of death had not been determined. In 1933, Roventini was 22 and being promoted by the New Yorker Hotel as "the smallest bellboy in the world" at 4 feet tall when he met advertising man Milton Biow, who had an idea for a cigarette ad. Biow gave him a dollar "to locate Philip Morris." "I had no idea that Philip Morris was a cigarette," he said later, and he strode through the hotel, shouting "Call for Philip Mor-rees." That began a career that brought Roventini a lifetime contract and a salary of up to $50,000 -- fabulous at the time. He was heard on popular live radio programs and on some of the most-watched television shows of the 1950s and 1960s, including "I Love Lucy," "Candid Camera" and the Red Skelton and Jackie Gleason shows. Darienne Dennis, a spokeswoman for Philip Morris Cos. Inc., said Roventini, who always appeared in his short-jacketed bellboy outfit, was the company's "living trademark." She said Roventini estimated that he called out the slogan more than a million times -- and shook hands with more than a million people. "I remember going out with him," his nephew said. "We'd go to the post office or something and they'd yell, 'Johnny, give us the call."' # 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: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 21:29:27 -0500 From: Mark Renwick Subject: (exotica) LP distortion Peter, I have heard distortion, especially on the inner grooves, on most recordings played on any turntable all my life. That's why I can't understand the disdain with which some "audiophiles" hold all CDs. As the record proceeds from the outer grooves to the inner grooves, the rate of groove linear distance passing the stylus decreases. Thus, the peaks and valleys of a given sound get closer together on the vinyl, and distortion set in. High frequencies are more susceptible to distortion, because the peaks and valleys are closer together in the first place. Even the best records I've heard, played on good systems, develop some noticeable level of high frequency distortion on the inner grooves. You may in fact have a stylus or cartridge problem contributing to the distortion you hear, but under the best conditions, you're going to hear some distortion , anyway. - --Mark Jacksonville, Florida, USA tibia@compuserve.com http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/tibia # 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 Dec 1998 10:06:31 -0600 From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Roventini, Shapiro, Van Eps obits WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) -- Johnny Roventini, the 4-foot bellboy who became one of the best-known figures in American advertising by yelling ``Call for Philip Morris,'' has died at 88. Roventini died Monday at a hospital in Suffern, said his nephew Philip Roventini. The cause of death had not been determined. In 1933, Roventini, touted by the New Yorker Hotel as the smallest bellboy in the world, met advertising agent Milton Biow, who had an idea for a cigarette ad and gave him a dollar to locate Philip Morris. Roventini strode through the hotel shouting ``Call for Philip Mor-rees.'' ``I had no idea that Philip Morris was a cigarette,'' he later said. The call began a career that landed Roventini a lifetime contract and a salary of up to $50,000, fabulous at the time. He was heard on popular live radio programs and on some of the most-watched television shows of the 1950s and 1960s, including ``I Love Lucy,'' ``Candid Camera'' and the Red Skelton and Jackie Gleason shows. Roventini, who always appeared in his short-jacketed bellboy outfit, was Philip Morris Cos. Inc.'s ``living trademark,'' company spokeswoman Darienne Dennis said. Roventini estimated that he called out the slogan more than a million times and shook hands with more than a million people, she said. ``I remember going out with him in Brooklyn,'' his nephew said. ``We'd go to the post office or something, and they'd yell, `Johnny, give us the call.' Absolutely everybody knew him.'' After his commercials went off the air, Roventini made personal appearances for Philip Morris. He retired in 1974. Roventini, who was born into an immigrant Italian family, lived with his mother until she died in the 1960s and never married. He is survived by a brother and two nephews. See also: http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/obit-roventini.html *Samuel E. Shapiro WILKINSBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Samuel E. Shapiro, who co-founded the National Record Mart chain with his younger brother, died Sunday of heart failure. He was 84. Shapiro died four months after his brother and business partner, Howard Shapiro, died at age 82. National Record Mart is now the nation's fifth-largest music retailer with 200 stores. In the late 1930s, the Shapiro brothers opened Jitterbug Record Mart in the downtown Pittsburgh area. Samuel Shapiro came up with the idea to sell records that jukebox operators no longer wanted. Samuel Shapiro built relationships with record companies to help the small chain get copies of new recordings early. He also persuaded WWSW radio to broadcast the latest hits from a National Record Mart store for one hour on weeknights. *George Van Eps SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) -- George Van Eps, a jazz guitarist who played with Benny Goodman, George Gershwin and Fats Waller, died Sunday of complications from pneumonia. He was 85. In the mid-1930s, Van Eps was one of the first to add a seventh string to his guitar. The innovation allowed Van Eps to play lead lines while accompanying himself with bass notes and harmonies. Other guitarists, including jazz-grunge player Charlie Hunter, have taken up the seven-string in recent years. Van Eps also worked with Freddy Martin and Ray Noble in the 1930s. # 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 Dec 1998 11:01:45 -0600 From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Album Frames At 10:46 PM 12/1/98 -0500, Peter wrote: >I've got a catalog from the Restoration Hardware store that lists album frames. >12 x 12 inch frames that are thick enough to house an album, record and all. > >Peter Funny you should mention RH. They opened a store across the street from my job this week. Looking through their windows, I want one of everything. At this point I'm afraid to go in...maybe tomorrow. Here's the URL for those LP frames: http://www.restorationhardware.com/index.htma?SCREEN=item&item=99 - -Lou # 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: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 22:00:43 EST From: BasicHip@aol.com Subject: Re: Fw: (exotica) French weirdotica << Anybody know how to get this? >> I asked Elisabeth (the original poster) and she gave me this URL: http://www.fnac.fr> (the web-order arm of the FNAC music stores, which is where I found the CD to being with) i checked it out, but I speak or read no French. Tried to feel out the search thingy and had no luck. then i wrote to the site's email asking to please sell this to me and have yet to hear a word. so, if i hear somethin' i'll let you know... # 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 Dec 1998 00:33:00 +0000 From: Hugh Petfield Subject: (exotica) Re: autochanger 'plop' Robert wrote: >And could you please keep it down, I'm trying to listen to my Captian and >Tenelle albums which I have transfered to cassette then to CD. And by the >way, is there a way to transfer CD back to vinyl? I miss stacking the records >and hearing them "plop". I'm sure someone could create a WAV file to put between tracks on burned CD's. It needs to have - - the dusty scrape of a runout - - the click of the lifting stylus - - that sort of geary sound when the arm is retracted - - the squeak of the record dropping down the spindle - - the plop of the falling disk hitting the previous record - - the bang of the landing stylus - - the dusty lead-in BTW, The Captain and Toenail sorry Tennille do a wonderfully exotic version of 'Happy Together' which transports the listener to the Casbah and back. Worth checking out. Hugh. # 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: Thu, 3 Dec 98 22:51:39 -0400 From: Elisabeth Vincentelli Subject: Re: Fw: (exotica) French weirdotica >I asked Elisabeth (the original poster) and she gave me this URL: > >http://www.fnac.fr> > >(the web-order arm of the FNAC music stores, > which is where I found the CD to being with) > >i checked it out, but I speak or read no French. Tried to feel out the >search >thingy and had no luck. I haven't used www.fnac.fr, but the friend who did (here in NY) told me they offer a selection of languages. He also recommends www.novalis.fr. Again I haven't used them, as I go to France regularly enough to pick up what I want there. Elisabeth # 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: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:25:05 -0500 (EST) From: Kevin William Greenlee Subject: Re: (exotica) my weirdest records Here are a few of my weird ones.... Plant Talk- Molly Roth ("Oh, fern, you're absolute dynamite!") The Juggling Comedian- Dieter Tasso (A good 75% of Dieter's act seems to be juggling- which does not translate well to vinyl. We get a lot of "watch this!' followed by a moment of silence Let My People Come- A Sexual Musical by Earl Wilson (tracks include such gems as "Take Me Home With You" and "Come in my Mouth") David Frost On Nursing Your Sons Are Leaving For Battle- Vladimir Vysotsky Confessions of Love- Passions in Prose by Mary Lee Fair (a breathy woman talks on and on about how swell love is) Sex is My Business (prostitutes talk about their lives) Children Are People- Tony Randall # 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: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 23:35:33 -0500 From: Nat Kone Subject: (exotica) Kenyon and Kemosabe Someone here told me that maybe I had a Kenyon Hopkins record but I just didn't know it. Well I didn't but NOW I DO. "Ping Pang Pong The Swinging Ball", by the Creed Taylor Orchestra. "Arrangements by Kenyon Hopkins". In the field of swinging percussion records, I'd say it's above average. Not quite Terry Snyder but close. The best part of the record are these two original compositions by Kenyon. "Argument" and "Lovers". They sound like classic crime jazz. The liner notes inform you that the two pieces were composed for "interpretive dance" pieces performed on the Perry Como Show. I can definitely see that. In fact if I could show you, I could probably do an imitation of the kind of moves those dancers must have made. I'd be willing to bet they were dressed like beatniks. Maybe they even carried bongos as props. In any case, those two compositions certainly whet my appetite for more originals by Kenyon. And by the way, for Brian and others... I didn't find it for 50 cents. It was eight dollars! Of course that's eight dollars Canadian. At the same store, also for eight bucks I found this record by "Kem-o-Sabe", subtitled "The Electric Indian". The store put on a post-it note calling it "Lounge, Native Style". Once it was Indian and now it's Native but either way, what a great record! How would I describe it?. "Spinning Wheel" and "Ma cherie Amour" don't sound too Indian to me but I guess the originals do have a bit of that "From a Wigwam" sound. It's got lots of percussion and vibes, horns and organ with a kind of funky organ jazz groove. (Not exactly Susan Aglugark, another inside joke for my fellow Canucks.) And speaking of funky grooves... There's this DJ who I know and he's always looking for that elusive and indescribable groove. I've heard him play. I figure I kind of know what he's into. "Mambo Parisienne" from the Mancini "Charade" soundtrack and stuff like that. So whenever I see him in record stores, I point out records I think might fit into his thing. But they're never right. At first I was kind of hurt, then baffled and then I gave up. So I saw him today at the store where I bought the Kenyon Hopkins and he actually recommended the Kemosabe record to me. He was standing there listening to stuff on headphones as I pulled out a Toots Thieleman "Whistler" record that I own. I showed it to him and pointed out this cut "Duke's Place" which I love and which I've put on a bunch of mixed tapes. So he listened to it... And lo and behold and Hallelujah, I got one! He liked it. He even bought it! So I guess Nat has the groove after all. 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: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 00:08:51 EST From: "Brian Karasick" Subject: (exotica) My weirdest records Oh I agree this will be a fun thread. I picked some for the names, some for the content and some for the lack of content. Not all "exotica" but all exotic in their own (special) way! Le Forte Four - Suburban Magic - from "Spin & Grin": 14 minutes of kitchen appliances overlayed with such suburban phrases as "pass the Tang" & "Hamburger again". Only from Southern California, only LAFMS! Boyd Rice & Daniel Miller - Cleanliness & Order - from the LAFMS compilation "Darker Scratcher": Trance-like hypnosis dialogue intended to play to kids while sleeping to hypnotize them into being clean. A personal favourite! Eine Kleine Diso Band - Disco Saturday Nacht: Well yes, it's what you would think, discofied Mozart with a little Turkish influence thrown in. It's saved a bit by the moog but... Paska - I'm Shit/Fuck Off-Sugar Sugar: Simple enough lyrics... I can't meet Phil Collins, I can't meet Mark Knoepfler, I can't meet Eric Clapton, I can't meet Charles & Diana, because I'm Shit... Then there's side b... If you don't want to fuck me baby, well then fuck off... Classic light fare from Finland's never easy Bad-Vugum label! Caresse & Sicmob - r.u. Experienced: Genesis & Paula P. Orridge's at the time VERY young daughter singing a duet with one of the PTV gang of the Hendrix hit! I saw her doing it live on stage a few years after this release. Really! Culturcide - Depressed Christmas/Santa Claus was my Lover: The music is "White Christmas" the lyrics... I'm having a depressed Christmas, just like the one I had last year... The flip side overdubs Michael Jackson's Billy Jean with lyrics that seem to suggest something about Santa you don't want to repewt for the kids! Big Walter Solek - Polish House Party: I think you have to be a western Canadian to appreciate this one. It's really bad Polka music but the flower power cover might lead the unsuspecting to think it's actually cool... The Rosicrucian Order - Attaining Cosmic Consciousness: Everyone should have at least one of these records. A cult classic... and I do mean cult. They put out a Children's record too! Shakin Dudi - Zlota Plyt A.: What a name, what an album cover. No it's not very good but a friend brought it back from then communist Poland. What more can I say! Bobby Setter's Cash & Carry - Live At The Moog-O-Theque: I bought this one sight unseen just for the name. Remember that horrible K-Tel "Bird Dance" the one they claimed was a huge hit in Europe... Well it was a Bobby Setter tune called Tchip Tchip, which the record boasts as "the million seller hit". This is the self proclaimed "resident band of the Hilton Hotels and the American SHAPE base in Belgium". I think Johan must know this one! Now that was fun! Brian Karasick Physical Planner McGill University Montreal, Canada # 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: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 13:25:58 +0100 From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) my weirdest records Kevin William Greenlee wrote: > Children Are People- Tony Randall > And people are children... What's on it? Talk or music? 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: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 08:47:53 -0500 (EST) From: Kevin William Greenlee Subject: Re: (exotica) my weirdest records On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Moritz R wrote: > Kevin William Greenlee wrote: > > Children Are People- Tony Randall > And people are children... What's on it? Talk or music? > Mo It's music. Tracks like "Don't Talk To Strangers" ("If I do not know your name or your mom and dad, does that make you dangerous and someone who is bad?") and "They Said It" ("Who said that boys must fight? Who said boys that boys like war? Who that that tender moments a boy must always ignore?"). kevin # 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: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 09:01:43 EST From: SLarry3595@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) LP distortion One MAJOR cause of permanent distortion on LPs is if they are played on a turntable with TOO MUCH WEIGHT. This causes the stylus to actually cut a groove into the record. The awful thing about this is that these records can look beautiful -- even visual NM+ --- but then at home they are almost unlistenable. The same thing can be caused by a record being played with a SAPPHIRE stylus or a worn diamond stylus. If one is playing valuable LPs on one of those old turntables that does not use a cartridge, just a cheap replacement stylus (the kind of table found in beautiful "furniture style" cabinets) you are seriously damaging these records with every play. # 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: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 08:27:43 -0500 From: mimim@texas.net (Mimi Mayer) Subject: Re: Fw: (exotica) French weirdotica BasicHip wrote >i checked it out, but I speak or read no French. Tried to feel out the sea= rch >thingy and had no luck. >then i wrote to the site's email asking to please >sell this to me and have yet >to hear a word. Pour your email to FNAC into Babelfish, a web translator offering translations from English into French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian and vice versa. http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/translate Babelfish was made to translate web pages, but my mad scientist experiments have found many other uses for it. Anyone who likes to play with language should open their own Babelfish labs. Auf Deutsch: Viele dank Moritz und Lou f=FCr das F=FChren ich zur Site. MimiM # 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: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 08:26:26 -0600 From: grinderman@juno.com (Jeffery Hess) Subject: Re: (exotica) my weirdest records Indulis R Rutks writes: >> Dr. Jack Van Impe-From Night Club To Christ > >One of my guilty pleasures is watching JVI & his wife Rexella on their >TV show (as well as Benny Hinn & Peter Popoff). >Did JVI used to be a night club act?? I need more info on that! As the record tells, JVI's parents owned a night club when he was a child where he would play the accordian for the patrons. He started drinking at age 13. And it was he who was born again, sobered up and saved his parents. Rexella went from brunette to blond for the television show. Jeff ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] # 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: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 09:44:57 -0500 From: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) my weirdest records At 11:25 PM 12/3/98 -0500, Kevin William Greenlee wrote: > > >Here are a few of my weird ones.... > >Let My People Come- A Sexual Musical by Earl Wilson (tracks include such > gems as "Take Me Home With You" and "Come in my Mouth") I have this one and I've put that "Come" song on a bunch of tapes for friends. My weirdest records. That's really got me stumped. What exactly is a weird record? You'd have to make it more specific for me to list my weirdest ones. I think Heino's weird but I'm sure someone thinks my Smog CD's are weird. I have the Spiro Agnew record that someone mentioned but for the people who bought it at the time, it was the voice of truth. Five years ago, I would have thought those bird calls on Martin Denny records were weird. I guess I still do but I like them. And if Yma Sumac isn't weird, I don't know who is. I think a truly weird record would have to have been weird the day it came out. If you include everything that's weird now, with some critical distance, then you'd have to include "Mrs.Brown you've got a lovely daughter". Actually I thought that was weird the day it came out. Same with "Winchester Cathedral". I guess I'm just whining because this is a thread I should be able to respond to but for the life of me, I just can't figure it out. I have a box full of obscure Canadian country records. I think they're the weirdest records I have but I bet their families didn't think so. I think Lee Hazelwood is weird. And that Leonard Cohen/Phil Spector record. And does anyone have that Tex Ritter /Stan Kenton record? He sings "September Song" like he's literally about to die before the last note is played. By my criteria, the most consistently weird records are country records. Ever heard "Hit it with a stick" by Freddy Hart? There's this country compilation out now called "God less America" I think, by the same people who brought you Las Vegas Grind. If you want weird, check out "Ed's Place" by a certain Horace Heller. Or "Please don't go topless Mother" by Troy Hess. Don't make me list all my spoken word records. Okay just one. "Teaching your daughter about sex". Satisfied? One more? "The New World Money System". Sorry. 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: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 10:14:48 -0500 From: cheryl Subject: (exotica) Easy Tune Compilations Hi all; I'm debating ordering Easy Tune volumes 3 and/or 4, but I haven't been able to find out anything about what's on them. Does anyone have any information on them, and/or recommendations? thanks, 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: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 09:24:40 -0500 From: mimim@texas.net (Mimi Mayer) Subject: Re: (exotica) my weirdest records The Fourth Reich, the Communazis Exposed by Their Own Words, Revolution Today in the USA (yup, that's the title). Sidney O. Field patches together Hitler's rhetoric with speeches from the Black Panther Party's National Revolutionary Conference for a United Front Against Facism, held the summer of 69. Starring Bobby Seale, Bobby Bacon, Jeff Jones, William Kunstler, Bob Avakian, Marlene Dixon, Archie Brown, etc. Men and Rubber, the Story of Business. The drama and romance of the rubber industry as related by Harvey S. Firestone. "Much more a story of men than of rubber." Cassette. Recently sent a 7-inch 78 of abnormal heart beats to a dj pal, who's toying with its creative potential. Still pondering that Hartz Mountain record someone (Ron?) listed: train your parakeet to do what? MimiM # 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: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 10:22:10 -0600 From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Bob Haggart obit December 4, 1998 Bob Haggart, 84, Jazz Bassist and Arranger By PETER WATROUS, NYTimes Bob Haggart, a bassist and arranger who performed with an extraordinary variety of jazz groups during his nearly 70-year career, died Thursday in a hospital in Venice, Fla., after collapsing on his way to the post office. He was 84 and lived in Venice. Haggart's long and varied career demonstrated his own vitality as well as that of the music. Not only did he record with some of the greatest black jazz musicians, including Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughan and Charlie Parker, but he was a mainstay in some of the great white bands as well. And by the end of his life he had not only participated in the bands and recordings of figures like Bob Crosby, Eddie Condon, Muggsy Spanier, Wingy Manone, Jess Stacy and Jack Teagarden, but had become an important part of the neo-traditionalist movement that he helped start by forming the World's Greatest Jazz Band in 1968 with the trumpeter Yank Lawson. Through the mid-1990s, Haggart was still playing and recording with musicians like Kenny Davern, Bob Wilber, Jane Jarvis and others. Haggart's success came in part from his ability to perform in all sorts of different contexts, from small jazz groups to larger pop ensembles designed for singers. He worked with the string orchestra of Charlie Parker, and in the large ensembles that backed Sarah Vaughan. In the small groups his buoyant, swinging playing came to the forefront; at his several appearances at New York's 92nd Street Y in the 1990s, Haggart's playing always enlivened the band, making the music swing harder than it otherwise might have. His first significant work in jazz was as a bassist with the Bob Crosby band, to which he added not just his bass work but arrangements that often proved to be classics, including "What's New," "South Rampart Street Parade" and "The Big Noise from Winnetka," a duet for bass and drums. That number, which he composed and recorded with the drummer Ray Bauduc in 1938, opens with drums, has stop-time sections, slapped bass and a rare musical virtuosity. Haggart whistles, Bauduc taps on the bass strings with his sticks, and the effect is casual brilliance. In 1942 he left the Crosby band to freelance in New York, working in recording studios and in radio and television. During the 1940s Haggart was one of New York's most sought-after musicians, recording and playing with such artists as Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald. His playing with Armstrong is recorded on the "The Complete Town Hall Concert" of 1947. For the next few decades Haggart drifted in and out of the studios. He worked occasionally with Bob Crosby reunion groups, and recorded with the saxophonist Bud Freeman in 1962. Born in Manhattan, Haggart, whose full name was Robert Sherwood Haggart, grew up in Douglaston, N.Y. He started playing guitar as a teen-ager and then switched to the double bass when he was 17. He is survived by a son, Bob Haggart Jr. of Sarasota, Fla., and a sister. In 1968 he formed the World's Greatest Jazz Band with Lawson, a group that in many ways provided inspiration for an entire movement of neo-traditionalists that came to fruition in the 1980s and '90s. In the '90s Haggart recorded regularly with the clarinetist Kenny Davern and the saxophonist Bob Wilber, along with the pianist Jane Jarvis and the saxophonist Rick Fay. In July 1996, he performed in Japan with the World's Greatest Jazz Band. He was also an accomplished painter in oils and watercolors and found a ready market for his work. # 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: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 11:30:16 -0600 From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) fwd: Teri Summers LIVE From the AS/PMA website: Teri Summers Live at Sweet Basil The song-poem world is abuzz with news of Teri Thornton's upcoming five-night engagement at New York's Sweet Basil nightclub, from December 1 through 5. Under the songpoemanym "Teri Summers," Thornton recorded the song-poem classics "City Hospital's Patients," "Somebody Else" and "More On Ode To Billy Jo," as well as several other standouts currently in the reissue pipeline. The winner of the 1998 Thelonious Monk Vocal Competition award, Teri Thornton is a superlative performer and a unique stylist. For her Sweet Basil appearance, she will be fronting a quartet featuring herself on piano and vocals, Pat Kelly on piano, Lonnie Plaxico on bass and Louis Hayes on drums. For further information about Thornton's upcoming appearance and an interesting summary of her legit career, check out Sweet Basil's website. You can also make on-line reservations there. The club's phone number is 212-242-1785. # 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: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 12:45:31 -0600 From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Dual Deck CD-R recorder Remember those dual cassette decks that allowed high-speed dubbing from one tape to another? Apparently Philips has done the same thing with one of its CD-R decks. This sounds like the type of item for someone who wants to bypass their PC in the CD-R recording process. Now everyone can record a couple of their favorite weird records and sell the resulting CD-R for $25! - -Lou http://www-us.sv.philips.com/sound/cdr/products/range/765/ Dual deck Audio CD-Recorder Double speed recording (disc) 2-disc simultaneous playback/2-disc random playback Separate output for CDR and CD Records and plays digital Audio CD-R and CD-RW discs Plays all Audio CDs (120mm + 80 mm discs) Records from all home stereo analogue and digital sources (44.1 kHz) Optical input Digital coaxial input & output Automatic or manual track numbering CD-synchronized auto start recording from all digital sources (disc/track) 1 bit Analogue-to-Digital converter SCMS Serial Copy Management System Max. 30-track program on both CDR and CD deck Gold plated headphone connection Remote control Color: Black (Silver optional) # 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 #258 *****************************