From: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com (exotica-digest) To: exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: exotica-digest V2 #329 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 Tuesday, February 23 1999 Volume 02 : Number 329 In This Digest: (exotica) Ondioline (exotica) Dusty Re: (exotica) The City! Re: (exotica) Miss Toni Fisher Re: (exotica) Switchblade Sisters Re: (exotica) Dusty Re: (exotica) The City! (exotica) Peter Thomas "Warp Back To Earth" (exotica) Miss Toni Fisher (exotica) Ski-doodle (exotica) Barbarella, Bob Thiele and Bob Crewe Re: (exotica) Dusty (exotica) The Summitt Re: (exotica) Dusty Re: (exotica) Barbarella, Bob Thiele and Bob Crewe (exotica) Ondioline aka Pianoline aka Orcheline (exotica) "Mondo Bongos" playlist for Feb 24, 1999 (exotica) Ondioline hunt.... (exotica) Tom Waits does ALICE Re: (exotica) Switchblade Sisters Re: (exotica) Ondioline hunt.... Re: (exotica) Ondioline aka Pianoline aka Orcheline (exotica) RE Ondioline Hunt Re: (exotica) The Summitt (exotica) RE Ondioline Hunt Re: (exotica) Barbarella, Bob Thiele and Bob Crewe Re: (exotica) Happiness Is (was re: marrying a monster) Re: (exotica) Peter Thomas "Warp Back To Earth" (exotica) Machine Gun Brothers Re: Re: (exotica) Ondioline aka Pianoline aka Orcheline Re: Re: (exotica) Peter Thomas "Warp Back To Earth" (exotica) FS/Dino/SD Summit Cd - Follow Up (exotica) Re: Honda Tiki Commercial Re: [Peter Risser: (exotica) Rekkids] Re: (exotica) Switchblade Sisters/Blaxploitation Re: (exotica) Barbarella Re: (exotica) Ondioline hunt.... Re: (exotica) Barbarella Re: (exotica) Happiness Is (was re: marrying a monster) [none] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 10:11:07 -0800 From: Jack Subject: (exotica) Ondioline "Magnus Sandberg" Subject: Re: (exotica) Spartacus and the Ondioline before 1960 that featured the Ondioline The track watchamacallit by Esquivel on "Exploring new sounds in Hi fi" from 1959 features the ondioline. Magnus GOOD MAN, MAGNUS!!! JD # 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: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 13:47:31 -0500 From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) Dusty A review of Rhino's new Dusty Springfield re-issues: http://www.isd.net/mbayly/review13.htm I love that throwaway detail about her decking Buddy Rich! 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: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 10:45:43 PST From: "Magnus Sandberg" Subject: Re: (exotica) The City! I must add my voice to the fray. I found this, sans cover, at a thrift store and it is a good 'un. King of the Wild Frontiere, Brian Phillips The cover is great too. Unfortunately i managed to erase parts of the letter N in PAGAN when trying to remove a price sticker with my bottle of "model 23 SKIDOO Price Remover". Would like to know if the group "23 Skidoo" took there name from this funny fluid, or does "23 skidoo" mean something else? Magnus ______________________________________________________ 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: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 13:52:49 EST From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Miss Toni Fisher In a message dated 2/22/99 12:46:27 PM, chuckmk@yahoo.com wrote: >There was a great Disco remake of this song, "The Big Hurt" that came >out in 82/83. It was true to the spirit of the song. yes, but did it have phase shifting? (The Motel's version was godawful) # 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: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 14:01:15 -0500 From: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) Switchblade Sisters At 10:41 AM 2/22/99 -0500, laura.taylor@us.pwcglobal.com wrote: > >Mention of this movie reminds me that I had heard awhile back that his >holiness Les Baxter did the OST for this wunnerful flick! Am I alone in thinking that Les's instrumental contributions to the "Wild in the Streets" soundtrack were less than inspiring? Not exactly the height of fake hippy sitar rock. Now Stu Philips on the other hand, is a different thing. His instrumental pieces on the "Angels from Hell" soundtrack are amazing. If this hasn't been reissued, then it should be. 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: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 14:01:06 EST From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Dusty In a message dated 2/22/99 2:47:59 PM, ecam@voicenet.com wrote: >A review of Rhino's new Dusty Springfield re-issues: I have both and found each to be surprisingly good. I already had Dusty In Memphis on vinyl, but its loaded with "bonus" tracks. Dusty In London is the more important one of interest to this list IMHO, but Memphis isn't just Stax revisited, its got a lush sweet sound. # 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: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 14:11:11 -0500 From: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) The City! Would like to know if the group "23 Skidoo" took there name from this funny fluid, or does "23 skidoo" mean something else? 23 Skidoo! is an exclamation like "Yahoo!" It dates back to the 1920's. # 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: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 14:14:25 EST From: Thinkmatic@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Peter Thomas "Warp Back To Earth" Have any of you insiders heard this one yet? It's a 2 CD set (also on vinyl) out on EFA- Caroline, with one CD of current artists ( Stereolab, Sons Of Silence, Tipsy, High Llamas, Coldcut and others ) playing around with the music of Mr. Thomas. The second CD is original old Thomas recordings. Does anyone know what songs are tinkered with by the current artists on this? Question #2 1/2: I didn't see Combustible Edison or Millionaire Mike in the line up of artists playing on this, which seemed odd. I haven't seen the liner notes so I'm unclear who brought this one all together. Did any of the hands of Com Ed fiddle with this release, in some way? - -Roy G. Biv # 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: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 11:20:55 -0800 (PST) From: chuck Subject: (exotica) Miss Toni Fisher Mucho mucho phase shifting and a pretty cool cover to boot! Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck - --DJJimmyBee@aol.com wrote: > > > In a message dated 2/22/99 12:46:27 PM, chuckmk@yahoo.com wrote: > > >There was a great Disco remake of this song, "The Big Hurt" that came > >out in 82/83. It was true to the spirit of the song. > > yes, but did it have phase shifting? (The Motel's version was godawful) _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.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: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 14:37:24 -0500 From: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) Ski-doodle Here is a post I found about that: When I lived in New York, I heard this explanation (though it may be an Urban Myth): The "Flat Iron Building" which is long and thin and triangularly wedge shaped, is on lower Broadway at 23rd St. Its distinctive shape causes some violently swirling winds which would tend to blow women's skirts up. The local men knew this and would loiter about at lunch hour for the free 'show'. The cops would then have to engage in enforcing the "23 Skidoo" - chasing the would be oglers from 23rd Street. I don't know if it's true, but it's a very New York story. # 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: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 14:38:39 -0500 From: Nat Kone Subject: (exotica) Barbarella, Bob Thiele and Bob Crewe I was watching Barbarella on TV the other night - the first time I've seen it since I was a kid - and I was kind of surprised to hear that the music was almost identical in spirit to the kind of "Now Sound" stuff that I've been marinating in lately. I really liked the music but I have to say that I thought it was fairly inappropriate for the film. Of course I can't say what I would have thought at the time but I think the film deserved a more spacey/trippy sound. Having said that, it reminded me in particular of a couple of records I picked up last week so that was just an introduction. Bob Thiele "Do the Love" and Bob Crewe Generation "Music to Watch BIRDS By" (my emphasis) I'm assuming some people here are familiar with Bob Thiele's "Light My Fire" record with Gabor Szabo and Bill Plummer on electric sitar. Like that record, this one also has Bob's "New Happy Times Orchestra". I love these names. On the "Light my fire" record, the chorus is called "The California Dreamers". On this record they're called "The Sunflower Singers". And instead of Gabor and Bill, "Do the Love" features special guest.... Steve Allen! There are a couple of covers but the highlight of the record are "Do the Love" which basically has the Sunshine Singers repeating those words over a pleasant Now Sound-y melody and "Jet me to Frisco" which has a few more lyrics. Having basically passed through an obsession with instrumental covers of sixties tunes, I'm now trying to move on to an obsession with music that has the same fake-sixties feel but doesn't cover familiar hits. What would I call that? "NOW-soundtrack" as opposed to "NOW sound"? The Bob Crewe record is a classic of that genre I just identified. (The Brass Ring would fit in there too but they do more covers.) Did Bob Crewe have any "hits" after "music to watch girls by"?? There's a great tune here called "Melancholy Serenade" which I think could have been a hit. But on the front cover it points out "featuring Winter Warm and Birds of Britain". Actually the writing credit on "Melancholy Serenade" is "Gleason" and the tune does have a kind of TV-theme show sound. So could this have been Jackie Gleason's TV-theme just made cooler? It does sound kind of familiar... Anyway, "Birds of Britain" has lyrics printed on the inside cover but no actual lyrics sung in the song. The first stanza goes like this: Chasin after chicks - is kicks But when I spend my time in England Here's the word I want a bird! That got me dreaming about Twiggy... at least until I saw Barberella. 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: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 11:42:25 -0800 (PST) From: chuck Subject: Re: (exotica) Dusty Dusty in memhis is simply terrrific all the way through whether you're a dusty fan or just getting introduced to her. The soul standards are remade in dusty style and it works! She takes her wonderful voice and interprets these songs in a soft dusty pop way that won't let you down if you like vocals. Her box set is cheap at BMG music service if you are a brand new member. ecam@voicenet.com wrote: >A review of Rhino's new Dusty Springfield re-issues: _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.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: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 14:39:23 -0500 From: Subject: (exotica) The Summitt http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/Entertainment/Reuters19990222_1408.html WIsh I'd been there....Jane Fondle - ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 12:02:38 -0800 (PST) From: mighty65@pacbell.net Subject: Re: (exotica) Dusty FYI, If anyone here wants info on a rather intelligent hardcore Dusty Springfield Mail List, let me know. I've been subbed to it sporadically. I might mention that Dusty herself I understand is ill with I believe some sort of cancer. Don't recall details. Paul Moshay Btw - Also have details on two other list servs; - The Phil Silvers Mail List - The Dick Van Dyke Show Mail List # 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: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 15:09:47 -0500 From: "Dom Ciccone" Subject: Re: (exotica) Barbarella, Bob Thiele and Bob Crewe >Actually the writing credit on "Melancholy Serenade" is "Gleason" and the >tune does have a kind of TV-theme show sound. So could this have been >Jackie Gleason's TV-theme just made cooler? It does sound kind of familiar... Jackie Gleason did write the song. It's been a long time but I believe it's the theme to "The Honeymooners". He was almost proud of the fact he could not read music but could compose songs. The arrangements on all those LP's he did are all his. According to the liner notes of the Capitol 2 CD set he would hire a "longhair", the name used in the notes, to write out the charts to his specifications. It sounded like he was very hard to work with. But he paid well. # 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: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 16:08:02 -0600 From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Ondioline aka Pianoline aka Orcheline >"Magnus Sandberg" >Subject: Re: (exotica) Spartacus and the Ondioline >>before 1960 that featured the Ondioline >The track watchamacallit by Esquivel on "Exploring new sounds in Hi fi" >from 1959 features the ondioline. The Ondioline page at the "120 Years of Electronic Music" site points out that the instrument (invented in 1938) was also available under the names Pianoline and Orcheline. Has anyone seen _these_ names in any liner notes?? - -Lou http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/machines/ondioline/index.html The Ondioline became a popular instrument in Europe, used widely in film and theatre music as well as in light music and cabaret. The Ondioline was marketed in Germany as the "Pianoline" and in The Netherlands as the "Orcheline" and made a notable appearance during the Brussels World Fair (1958) when it was played on top of the Atomium building. (Here's 2 Atomium pages: http://www.ib.be/atomium/e/indexen.htm http://www.skypoint.com/members/jkm/atomium.html ) # 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: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 15:59:00 -0500 From: "telstar" Subject: (exotica) "Mondo Bongos" playlist for Feb 24, 1999 Mondo Bongos can be heard every Wed at 9 am on CFRU 93.3 fm in Guelph, Ontario.Canada. Comments & questions welcome. The Barry Gray Orchestra - Hijacked "No Strings Attached" The Ray McVay Sound - Revenge "20 Loungecore Favourites" Armando Trovajoli - Blazing Magnum "Beretta 70" [thanx C & B!] Isaac Hayes- Theme from Shaft "Blaxploitation" Roy Budd & his Orchestra - The Car Chase "House of Loungecore" The Clifford Gilberto Rhythm Combination - Skippy's First Samba Lesson "I was young & I needed the money" The Clifford Gilberto Rhythm Combination - Earth vs Me "I was young & I needed the money" Jan Jankeje - South Indian Line "Nitrogen" The Dave Pike Set - Got the Feelin' "Got the Feelin' " Bill 'Ravi' Harris & the Prophets - Lost Dragon of the Sahara "Funky Sitar Man" Ashwin Batish - Casbah Shuffle "Sitar Power" Unitone Hifi - Listen...or Ya Dead "Boomshot" Unitone Hifi - F-Roti "Foxy Frotter" Thanx for reading, Allan # 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: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 17:02:36 +0000 From: "Keith E. Lo Bue" Subject: (exotica) Ondioline hunt.... >>Still, I wonder if anyone on the list can think of other recordings in >>or before 1960 that featured the Ondioline The ELECTRO-SONIC ORCHESTRA by Dick Jacobs from 1958 is drenched in ondioline...any earlier, folks? Keith - -- http://www.lobue-art.com +++++++++++++++++++++ A Virtual Gallery and Info Site for the Found-Object Artwork and Workshops of Keith E. Lo Bue +++++++++++++++++++++ # 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: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 17:08:50 +0000 From: "Keith E. Lo Bue" Subject: (exotica) Tom Waits does ALICE >For the academy's 1995 Next Wave Festival, he composed a libretto for the opera ``Alice,'' which was based on Lewis Carroll's ``Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' and ``Through the Looking Glass.'' Composer Tom Waits and director Robert Wilson collaborated on the project. Tom Waits doing "Alice in Wonderland"!!! Somebody tell me more! Yep, you heard it right...I saw it. Fantastic. I've still got the beautiful book put out to accompany it. Very much along the 'Black Rider' lines, even with most of the same cast (Thalia Theatre, Germany). The blackest fairy tale you ever did see. Keith - -- http://www.lobue-art.com +++++++++++++++++++++ A Virtual Gallery and Info Site for the Found-Object Artwork and Workshops of Keith E. Lo Bue +++++++++++++++++++++ # 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: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 17:45:52 -0500 From: Bump Subject: Re: (exotica) Switchblade Sisters >Mention of this movie reminds me that I had heard awhile back that his >holiness Les Baxter did the OST for this wunnerful flick! OK, is it true, >anyone? When I heard that, I thought perhaps the source was getting that >mixed up with Les' fab HELL'S BELLES OST... Apparently he did! and other 70's exploitation/horror include Cry of the Banshee Dunwich Horror =46rogs Torture Chamber of Baron Blood Devil and Leroy Bassett and another Jack Hill flick The Big Doll House there are probably more cuz the source i got these from does not mention Hells Belles... why this pricks my ears up is that i had the fortunate pleasure of meeting and hearing Jack Hill speak at a Blaxploitation convention in NY last weekend. got him to sign my Coffy lp! along with Jack i got to rub elbows and listen to Fred "The Hammer" Williamson, Richard "Shaft" Roundtree, Antonio "Huggy Bear" Fargas, Gloria Hendry, and Dolemite, Rudy Ray Moore who is now the Hip Shakin' Poppa. he did his act for us and he is as sick as ever i am happy to report. from Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Edy Williams and Cynthia Meyers were there as well... Life is Good. =A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9= =A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9 Bump Universal DJ Defective Records bumpy@megsinet.net http://www.defectiverecords.com "Dig the Music, Kids" -- JONNY ALUCARD # 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: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 15:05:54 -0800 From: cscheffy@kinglet.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Re: (exotica) Ondioline hunt.... The French composer Olivier Messiaen composed a few pieces for Ondes Martenot (Ondioline), both solo and with orchestra. His piece "Turangalila" was composed in 1948 for Ondes Martenot and orchestra. I don't know of any recordings from that time, but I have an LP on the MHS (Musical Heritage Society) label that has some of his solo Ondes Martenot pieces on it. The LP is from the 60s. The recording I have, of solo Ondes Martenot, is amazing stuff. Early recordings of "Turangalnla" may exist... I've never seen one. Clark At 05:02 PM 2/22/1999 +0000, you wrote: > >>>Still, I wonder if anyone on the list can think of other recordings in >>>or before 1960 that featured the Ondioline > >The ELECTRO-SONIC ORCHESTRA by Dick Jacobs from 1958 is drenched in >ondioline...any earlier, folks? # 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: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 15:15:21 PST From: "Magnus Sandberg" Subject: Re: (exotica) Ondioline aka Pianoline aka Orcheline - ----Original Message Follows---- >>> The Ondioline page at the "120 Years of Electronic Music" site points .... http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/machines/ondioline/index.html >> On this site one early ondioline recording were mentioned: ""Del Shannon using the Ondioline on the 50's pop hit "Runaway". " ______________________________________________________ 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: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 15:34:57 PST From: "Magnus Sandberg" Subject: (exotica) RE Ondioline Hunt On this site one early ondioline recording were mentioned: ""Del Shannon using the Ondioline on the 50's pop hit "Runaway". " Is it "that" Runaway? The "Run-run-run-run-a-runaway" Runaway? Magnus ______________________________________________________ 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: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 15:59:46 -0800 (PST) From: mighty65@pacbell.net Subject: Re: (exotica) The Summitt >http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/Entertainment/Reuters19990222_1408.html >WIsh I'd been there....Jane Fondle Well, Miss Fondle (et al) Buy this cd and you'll feel damn close to it! Its been around as a quasi-legit hard to find two cd release for a year or two, and is a-m-a-z-i-n-g ! I must have taped it for half a dozen friends I'd played it to. They pestered me to death. Frank, Dino, Sammy...in a small club sized room for near two hours roastin' each other and singing songs and bits of songs. Run don't walk, to pick this up if you have even a remote curiousity ! A must ! Paul Moshay Toluca Lake, Calif. # 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: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 19:13:55 -0500 From: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) RE Ondioline Hunt Is it "that" Runaway? The "Run-run-run-run-a-runaway" Runaway? Yes-yes-yes-yes, that Runaway. His keyboard player, Maximillian also released a solo recording called "Twistin' Ghost" Brian Phillips # 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: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 19:26:48 -0500 From: cheryl Subject: Re: (exotica) Barbarella, Bob Thiele and Bob Crewe Nat Kone wrote: > > I was watching Barbarella on TV the other night - the first time I've seen > it since I was a kid - and I was kind of surprised to hear that the music > was almost identical in spirit to the kind of "Now Sound" stuff that I've > been marinating in lately. > I really liked the music but I have to say that I thought it was fairly > inappropriate for the film. Of course I can't say what I would have > thought at the time but I think the film deserved a more spacey/trippy sound. > Having said that, it reminded me in particular of a couple of records I > picked up last week so that was just an introduction. > > Bob Thiele "Do the Love" and Bob Crewe Generation "Music to Watch BIRDS By" The Barbarella soundtrack has just been reissued on lovely red vinyl. (Dusty Groove has it in stock, or at least they did last time I checked) And wouldn't you know it - Bob Crewe did the soundtrack (which would explain why it reminded you of "Music to Watch Girls By"! I personally think the soundtrack suits the movie, but I think we had this soundtrack "discussion" a while back, so I'm not going there again... ;-) 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: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 11:32:45 -0800 From: Jeff Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) Happiness Is (was re: marrying a monster) Tiki Bob wrote: > And on the monster note, in "Happiness Is" they sing to "A monster, it'= s > something weird, weird, weird." Or at least that is what I think they = say. > What does this mean or in reference to? Nothing more than monsters themselves being weird, methinks. Something was needed to rhyme with a beatnik's beard, beard, beard (not BEER, as you previously intimated). EZ does it, Jeff - --=20 Director of Concert Production |=AF( http://www.philharmonia.org Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra | \ jphillips@philharmonia.org 333 Market Street, Plaza Suite | =BA \ phone (415) 495-7445 San Francisco, California 94105 |=86=86=86=86| fax (415) 495-747= 3 # 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: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 15:30:59 EST From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Peter Thomas "Warp Back To Earth" In a message dated 02/22/99 2:19:37 PM Eastern Standard Time, Thinkmatic@aol.com writes: << Did any of the hands of Com Ed fiddle with this release, in some way? -Roy G. Biv >> Cleve might not be back on the list just yet. He unsubscribes when CE is on tour. 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: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 22:12:08 EST From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Machine Gun Brothers In a message dated 2/22/99 6:57:56 PM, bumpy@megsinet.net wrote: > a Blaxploitation convention in NY last > >weekend. Which reminds me, this weekend was "Blacksploitation" weekend for yours truly. I got the following OST's Hell Up In Harlem Across 110th Street Truck Turner Let's Do It Again Tough Guys Sweet Exorcist I have to say that Isaac Hayes stuff is consistently the best of what I found. (I also have a few others) ..........along with mint LP's by The JB's, Afrique (good moog there), Johnny Griffith, El Chicano, Ramsey Lewis, Tower of Power, M.G's, Black Heat, The Counts, El Coco, and lots of sweet-soul groups. A former record man in Boston emptied his basement and I was first in line. BTW, what's a Blacksploitation Conference like anyway.........Jimmy/curious # 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: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 22:14:48 EST From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) Ondioline aka Pianoline aka Orcheline In a message dated 2/22/99 7:17:37 PM, bellybongo@hotmail.com wrote: >"Del Shannon using the Ondioline on the 50's pop hit "Runaway". " Del Shannon topped the pop chart in the U.S. with "Runaway" in March, 1961 # 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: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 22:17:34 EST From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) Peter Thomas "Warp Back To Earth" In a message dated 2/22/99 11:15:38 PM, Rcbrooksod@aol.com wrote: >Cleve might not be back on the list just yet He hasn't returned yet. We're waiting for him up here # 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: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 20:44:12 -0800 (PST) From: mighty65@pacbell.net Subject: (exotica) FS/Dino/SD Summit Cd - Follow Up Just listened to part of the new "The Summit" CD and it is indeed a different show from the one that's been circulating all these years. The sound is also marginally better, BUT-- and it's a big one-- Dino's hilarious monologues have been totally deleted from his set, and the official release is altogether less satisfying than the unexpurgated double disc set. The original two cd 'set' (sold separately, mind you) is on Jazz Hour. Some may still be "out there" at retail. Stores with deep stock and low volume may be the ticket. Felt I needed a follow up, as I trumpeted how amazing *the original release* was...assuming the re-release would be the same show, unedited. Spoke too soon. Paul Moshay # 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, 23 Feb 1999 01:50:38 EST From: Micheleflp@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Re: Honda Tiki Commercial In a message dated 99-02-19 11:09:35 EST, you write: << I just saw the ad again and it's Tiki tan, not Tiki Dan, the guy has brochures for his tanning booth. >> Oh, Mike screwed that up! But there really is a Tiki Dan out there with a personalized plate that says "TikiDan" and I saw him on the 10 freeway one day - - in like a 4-door Hyundi car.... then Reverend Al of the Cacophony Society emailed me and says he ran across a "Tiki Dan'" website when he was looking up stuff and says it is pretty substantial. Well, even if it isn't Tiki Dan, it's still "tiki" something though. - - 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: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 02:59:28 EST From: Ottotemp@aol.com Subject: Re: [Peter Risser: (exotica) Rekkids] the Bud Shank - Michelle is not as good as it looks but is as good as most Ray conniff lps I'd say $3 is pretty good for that one # 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, 23 Feb 1999 10:25:46 +0000 From: "Charles Moseley" Subject: Re: (exotica) Switchblade Sisters/Blaxploitation As we're on the subject of Blaxploitation, does anybody on the list know if the 'Black Belt Jones' soundtrack was ever available? I have the theme tune on a rereleased 12" along with other groovy numbers, but I'm wondering if I could ever find the complete soundtrack. Thanks 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: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 11:49:00 +0100 From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Barbarella Nat Kone wrote: > I was watching Barbarella on TV the other night - the first time I've seen > it since I was a kid - and I was kind of surprised to hear that the music > was almost identical in spirit to the kind of "Now Sound" stuff that I've > been marinating in lately. > I really liked the music but I have to say that I thought it was fairly > inappropriate for the film. Of course I can't say what I would have > thought at the time but I think the film deserved a more spacey/trippy sound. and Cheryl: > I personally think the soundtrack suits the movie, but I think we had > this soundtrack "discussion" a while back, so I'm not going there > again... ;-) > I haven't read that discussion and I agree with Cheryl here. The film tells a fairy tale and puts the emphasis on the poetic things of a space saga. A more"spacey" soundtrack (more Theremin, Moog etc.) might have been too technical and also too redundant in the end. A more trippy score on the other hand might have taken away the film's main stream appeal and could have turned him into a B-Movie. I think good film music never illustrates a movie 1 to 1; it rather adds the things that you cannot see, sometimes to an extend that it literally becomes the opposite of what you see. The way Barbarella sounds it is the ultimate "camp" film and I can't quite see how this could be managed with one of the musical alternatives you suggest, Nat. - -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: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 12:09:31 GMT From: Peter Hipwell Subject: Re: (exotica) Ondioline hunt.... > From: cscheffy@kinglet.Berkeley.EDU > > The French composer Olivier Messiaen composed a few pieces for Ondes > Martenot (Ondioline), both solo and with orchestra. His piece > "Turangalila" was composed in 1948 for Ondes Martenot and > orchestra. I don't know of any recordings from that time, but I have > an LP on the MHS (Musical Heritage Society) label that has some of > his solo Ondes Martenot pieces on it. The LP is from the 60s. > > The recording I have, of solo Ondes Martenot, is amazing stuff. > Messiaen is great. He transcribed lots of birdsong, too, and arranged it for orchestra, which I suppose is marginally relevant to the list. The Ondes Martenot isn't the same instrument as the Ondioline, though. The Ondes Martenot was invented 1928 by Maurice Martenot, the Ondioline in 1940 by George Jenny (not to mention the Ondium Péchadre, 1930, H. Péchadre). See http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/ Messiaen also composed pieces for multiple Ondes Martenot, and as I've mentioned before, if anyone knows titles of these or recordings, I'd be grateful to find out. I heard 'em a few years back on Radio 3, but I think that was a concert performance. - -- Pete. # 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, 23 Feb 1999 12:17:43 GMT From: Peter Hipwell Subject: Re: (exotica) Barbarella > > I personally think the soundtrack suits the movie, but I think we had > > this soundtrack "discussion" a while back, so I'm not going there > > again... ;-) > > > I haven't read that discussion and I agree with Cheryl here. The > film tells a fairy tale and puts the emphasis on the poetic things > of a space saga. A more"spacey" soundtrack (more Theremin, Moog > etc.) might have been too technical and also too redundant in the > end. A more trippy score on the other hand might have taken away the > film's main stream appeal and could have turned him into a > B-Movie. I think good film music never illustrates a movie 1 to 1; > it rather adds the things that you cannot see, sometimes to an > extend that it literally becomes the opposite of what you see. The > way Barbarella sounds it is the ultimate "camp" film and I can't > quite see how this could be managed with one of the musical > alternatives you suggest, Nat. > An interesting side-thingummy to this discussion is provided by the liner notes of Frank Zappa's "You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 5" (I think), in which he mentions that he had a meeting with Vadim to discuss the possibility of him supplying the music for Barbarella. I've been trying to imagine it... I can't. - -- Pete. # 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, 23 Feb 1999 07:28:08 EST From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Happiness Is (was re: marrying a monster) In a message dated 2/22/99 10:15:24 PM Eastern Standard Time, jphillips@philharmonia.org writes: << Something was needed to rhyme with a beatnik's beard, beard, beard (not BEER, as you previously intimated). >> Man, I thought it was beer. Of course that is happiness to me! # 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: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 19:00:25 From: Brad Bigelow Subject: [none] > wrote: > >Hot-diggidy-dang! I heard a great record last night (one in our collection >that had just alluded me until then)...that I want to "hip" ya'll to...THE >CITY by LARRY ELGART and BOB SMITH...It's a great crime-jazz-esque-noir >record, one of those "tone poem conceptual" rekkids! Bob's a pretty dang >smooth and rockin[ jass Arrgghh! It's Bobby SCOTT, one of the most under-recognized talents in the business. Bobby was a performer (had first Top 20 hit of "Chain Gang"), composer (viz. the above), arranger (for Les & Larry Elgart's "Girl Watchers" LP, among many others), pianist (on most of Quincy Jones' LPs from 1960 on), songwriter (most notably the 60s space age pop standard "A Taste of Honey"), producer ("Sunny" by Bobby Hebb, "He Ain't Heavy" by the Hollies, many others), and A&R man (Jesse Colin Young (not big on my list, but hey, he sold well)). But yes, this is a great record. Almost makes up for all those "Hooked on Swing" records Larry went on to do. 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. ------------------------------ End of exotica-digest V2 #329 *****************************