From: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com (exotica-digest) To: exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: exotica-digest V2 #364 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, April 7 1999 Volume 02 : Number 364 In This Digest: (exotica) Frances Faye/Jimmy Vargas Re: (exotica) Demographics (exotica) Re: Hell's Belles Re: (exotica) Frances Faye/Jimmy Vargas Re: (exotica) Now, on to music I __dig__(longish) (exotica) Sheet Music books (exotica) Martian Benny ? ? ? ? (exotica) Should be a National Holiday! Re: (exotica) Martian Benny ? ? ? ? (exotica) Answer this pt.3 (exotica) Casino Royale Re: (exotica) UL Deletions? (exotica) "Mondo Bongos" playlist for April 7, 1999 (exotica) new Tiki siting (exotica) Big Jim Sullivan (exotica) Re:answer this! (exotica) obit: Red Norvo Re: (exotica) obit: Red Norvo (exotica) Fez (exotica) are you a musician, etc. Re: (exotica) obit: Red Norvo (exotica) Exotikitsch Tattoos (exotica) New eXotica Releases Overview Update (exotica) Free Association-The Yellow Balloon (exotica) [news] music giants make their move to the net Re: (exotica) Fez Re: (exotica) Now, on to music I __dig__(longish) (exotica) Ortolani/Legrand (exotica) Summertime and the listening is e-z Re: (exotica) Re:answer this! Re: (exotica) Sheet Music books Re: (exotica) Summertime and the listening is e-z ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 09:38:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Ben Waugh Subject: (exotica) Frances Faye/Jimmy Vargas Thought I'd mention these as I don't recall having seen either referenced here: Picked up a copy of Frances Faye, Caught In The Act (live at the Crescendo, 1963). Fantabulous! Sultry, boozy vocals, saucy/indelicate banter in between sets. Great version of Fever that morphs into Barney Google. Wow. And, though I don't really appreciate his various cha-cha efforts, Jack Costanzo hits the bongos here like a force of nature. More: http://www.jtsears.com/fayepage.htm Jimmy Vargas and the Black Dahlias CD: El Torchura. Has anyone heard (of) this? They are Australian, with the Black Dahlia murder as the context of their 40's torch/noir styled material (wonder if they may not be a bit like Dutch Boulevard of Broken Dreams?). http://www.ozemail.com.au/~macpet1/vargas/vargas.html Thanks, BW _________________________________________________________ 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: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 11:37:55 -0400 From: Will Straw Subject: Re: (exotica) Demographics My goodness, I bet a Jack Kirby list would have a more balanced gender ratio. Will - ------------------------------------------------- Will Straw Associate Professor and Director, Graduate Program in Communications McGill University http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/gpc/ # 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, 6 Apr 1999 13:47:53 +0200 From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: Hell's Belles At 08:06 -0600 99/04/05, DJJimmyBee wrote: >I just saw a newly minted OST copy LP of "Hell's Belles", music by Les >Baxter. Is this soundtrack worth buying? yes, i think so. Soulful "now" sound biker flick score. Lots of fuzzy guitar. Johan quiet@village.uunet.be | ) / \ | ) / \ | ) / \ | ) / \ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 13:23:57 -0400 From: Subject: Re: (exotica) Frances Faye/Jimmy Vargas Picked up a copy of Frances Faye, Caught In The Act (live at the Crescendo, 1963). Fantabulous! Sultry, boozy vocals, saucy/indelicate banter in between sets. Great version of Fever that morphs into Barney Google. Wow. And, though I don't really appreciate his various cha-cha efforts, Jack Costanzo hits the bongos here like a force of nature. >>>Ben, and *I* don't think I've ever seen the Frances Faye/Russ Garcia collaboration FRENZY on here, either! That's a cool record as well, lots of wild Garcia arrangements, she's a riot, and there's the coolsville songs like "Miserlu" on there! She looks crazed on the cover, truly in a FRENZY...Sorta like a drag queen, but she's a gal! Also, whilst we are on Garcia...SOUNDS IN THE NIGHT is a very cool thing too, lots of wordless vocals and a spacey, avant-feel... Jane Fondle, in and on space! # 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, 6 Apr 1999 17:01:03 -0500 From: Zach_Douglas@Dell.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Now, on to music I __dig__(longish) My first post, forgive me if it goes astray.......! I'm Zach, an Exotica fan for 3 or 4 years now since I bought a turntable at a garage sale and went completely berserk for Vinyl. I just wanted to enter in on the Sergi/Brasil 66 discussion. I have to agree.. '66 is one of my favorite albums in all of my 'exotic' collection.. it's really unlike any other albums I have. Some of Walt Wonderly's are _kinda_ similar but not really. No one has that _clean_ pop sound like on the '66 album. And as someone mentioned, almost all of the stuff that is >66 isn't very good and doesn't come close to the '66 sound. If anyone knows of other Sergio albums that do have 'that sound' let me know! Also any other artists that approach that sound would be welcome (other than old Herb himself, got all those of course!) Is anyone else postering their walls with Whip Cream and other Delights? My friend in Deleware is.. he has about 35 on his wall right now and brings in 2 or 3 each week usually. p.s. If this post doesn't turn up in the right place, forgive me. I'm subscribing to the digest to I'm just going to enter the original subject line and hope everyone gets it and it fits in with the thread. Later Zach D. # 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, 6 Apr 1999 19:28:24 EDT From: Pearmania@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Sheet Music books Speaking of sheet music books, I found this folio called Xavier Cugat's Tangos and Rhumbas. Between songs are some of Cugat's original drawings and they are quite good. They all depict scenes of Havana circa 1930-1950. Sean # 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, 6 Apr 1999 15:01:14 EDT From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Martian Benny ? ? ? ? From an ebay auction: "There's also a great parody of Martin Denny ("Martian Benny") called "Noisy Village!" Anybody heard this????? http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=87522387 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, 06 Apr 1999 14:09:59 -1000 From: Lloyd Kandell Subject: (exotica) Should be a National Holiday! My fellow exoticans- It's that time of year again... on April 10, the kahuna of the 88s, Martin Denny turns 88! So send your Birthday wishes to the list and I'll print 'em out and deliver them to him this weekend. He recently played a concert at 1 Kalakaua Center, a senior living center. Just him and a baby grand... very strong, energetic romp through his hits with great raconteuring between the tunes. A highlight was his interpretation of "Tiny Bubbles" as done in the style of Bach, Chopin, Rochmaninoff... Denny! Quite humorous, standing ovation at the end of his 1 hour concert. I'm pitching Bravo channel on a Denny Profile ala Booker T and Little Jimmy Scott, so stay tuned and get those cybercards in. alohaderci, Fluid Floyd Don Tiki/Taboo Records # 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, 06 Apr 1999 17:11:35 -0700 From: Pea Hicks Subject: Re: (exotica) Martian Benny ? ? ? ? Rcbrooksod@aol.com wrote: > > >From an ebay auction: > > "There's also a great parody of Martin Denny ("Martian Benny") called "Noisy > Village!" > > Anybody heard this????? um, why, yes!! :) that's my auction... "Noisy Village" was written by Rod McKuen (?!) and is basically a predictable Denny spoof. The music is denny sound-alike stuff which starts with bird calls and progresses to a noisy classroom atmosphere, etc... it's not *mindblowing* but it's funny nonetheless! lots of other weird stuff on that album... cheers! pea # 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, 6 Apr 1999 20:31:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Answer this pt.3 I've noticed a bunch of new sub-scribers and x-lurkers posting in the past few weeks. I'd just like to say "Howdy" and invite y'all to play a game called "answer this!" that some of us played back in '96 and again in July '98. This questionnaire was originally submitted by Jane Fondle (back when she was known as Lounge Laura). You can check the archives for the responses submitted by list-members back then. If you play the game this time, feel free to add/subtract or modify the questions to taste. -Lou From: "Laura Taylor" Subject: (exotica) answer this! Date: 10 Oct 1996 19:52:53 -0400 1. Are you a musician? Explain... 2. Space-age/exotic LP/CD that turned you on to this? 3. This list could help you more by... 4. Other exotica/things you collect 5. Unrelated music genres/acts you like 6. What are you just dying to tell us? 7. Own a fez? If so, what color, texture and tassel color? Describe it or other lounge-wear of which you are proud? I think we added this last time around: 8. Shaken/stirred? # 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, 06 Apr 1999 21:09:56 -0400 From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) Casino Royale Attention spies, swingers and Bacharach fans... "Casino Royale" (1967) airs on Bravo - Sunday night, 9:30pm & 3:30am. Why, oh why couldn't they have shown this *before* their new commercial interruptions policy? Just a reminder -- I have many more TV picks on my "TV Scavenger" page. Including picks from TCM, which as JB so correctly pointed out, has quite a library on hand (not that I get to see it). 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: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 16:43:58 -0400 From: Subject: Re: (exotica) UL Deletions? >>>Newcomers to this music might want to get their hands on these (especially the RCA comps) before they disappear, if that's indeed what's happening. Jerry What, am I the only one posting today? And I've actually been busy at work! OK, also of cheap interest to ze newcomers is a bunch-o cut outs at Newbury Comics in MA. I've scored for well under $5 a half dozen SEQUEL comps, everything from now-sound stuff to British Rock Instrumentals to one put out by the curators of the Sound Gallery. For $7 I got a (shoot, what's that label that puts out ELECTRONIC TOYS, the BETTIE PAGE cds, etc)...sampler of that label, MUSIC FOR GRACIOUS LIVING...with a va-va-voom Russ Meyer star on the cover...and cuts from the aforementioned, plus a few others from that series! I also got RAMPATROUILLE(sp?) for $10..Kids, these new record stores can be like thrift shopping, and no, uh, knee-pads required! Jane "no-need-for-knee-pads" Fondle OK-now-ya'll post sometin'! # 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, 6 Apr 1999 17:23:31 -0400 From: "telstar" Subject: (exotica) "Mondo Bongos" playlist for April 7, 1999 Mondo Bongos can be heard every Wed at 9 am on CFRU 93.3 fm in Guelph, Ontario.Canada. Comments & questions welcome. Piero Umiliani - Le Ragazze Dell' Archipelago "Svezia - Inferno & Paradiso" Yank Lawson & Bob Haggart - A Taste of Honey "The World's Greatest Jazz Band of..." Henry Mancini - Big Noise from Winnetka "The Blues & the Beat" Mirageman - Raptus "Thrilling" Billy May - Mission Impossible "The Crime Scene" The James Taylor Quartet - In the Park "The Money Spyder" Mike Jackson & the Soul Providers - Unstoppable Oldsmobile "The Revenge of Mr Mopoji" Corduroy - Lovely, Lonely & Loaded "High Havoc" The Crown Royals - All Night Burner "Excellent 26 Estrus Sizzlers Sampler" Jimmy Smith - 1-2-3 "Got My Mojo Workin' " Nino Nardini & the Pop Riviera Group - Pop Riviera "Rotonde Musique" Bill 'Ravi' Harris - Look a Py Py "Funky Sitar Man" Mike Jackson & the Soul Providers - Disco Party "The Revenge of Mr Mopoji" Jerry Allen & His Trio - Blue Streak "House of Loungecore" Henry Mancini - Theme from Charlie's Angels "The Best of Henry Mancini Vol 3" Madame X - Love for Free "Excellent 26 Estrus Sizzlers Sampler" Thanks 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: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 23:48:41 EDT From: Ottotemp@aol.com Subject: (exotica) new Tiki siting This just in from The Islands (Honolulu, Hawaii, April 5, 1999) Tikis of Hawaii is proud to announce the opening of its new site on the web - WWW.TIKIS.NET. Tikis of Hawaii offers a full selction of authentic hand-carved Hawaiian Tikis and other Polynesian wooden sculptures. Check out all your favoites from Hawaii, Tonga, Maori (New Zealand), Palau, Raratonga (Cook Islands), Easter Island (Rapanui), Marquesas Islands and other exotic locale. All Tikis of Hawaii's offerings are certified Tiki News "Tiki Manefesto" compliant. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * This mailing list is brought to you by Slick.ORG at http://www.slick.org to remove yourself from the list, send e-mail to majordomo@slick.org and include the words "unsubscribe tikievents" in the message (not in the subject). For web-based help, go to: http://www.slick.org/cgi-bin/majordomo * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * # 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, 7 Apr 1999 09:52:13 +0100 From: "Charles Moseley" Subject: (exotica) Big Jim Sullivan My mint and as new copy of Big Jim Sullivan's Sitar Beat LP arrived on = my mat this morning at last. It has a cool cover but thats all I can say a= bout it at the moment because I haven't played it yet. I have to say though = that it is the most expensive record I have bought for a long time at =A330 = (is that $50?). Fuck! 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, 7 Apr 1999 08:47:36 -0400 From: "Brian Tozer" Subject: (exotica) Re:answer this! Ok, I'll bite. I joined the list almost a year ago, & posted an intro, but I lurk more than post so I thought, well here's an opportunity! >>1. Are you a musician? Explain... Isn't almost everyone on the list? Yes, I toured with Canadian band Gaslight in the 70's, got a real job in the '80's and played in the lounges, and today I play in an (argh!) swing band. (Hey, it's better than endless ZZtop & Arrowsmith covers...if there are any K/W- Cambridge Ontario musicians on the list who want to do a space- age pop thing let me know!!) >>2. Space-age/exotic LP/CD that turned you on to this? "Bang, Baaroom & Harp" by Dick Schory >>3. This list could help you more by... It's great the way it is... >> 4. Other exotica/things you collect Old radios and stereos...goes with the music! >> 5. Unrelated music genres/acts you like Although I'm not currently listening to this stuff, I've always liked The Tubes, Thomas Dolby, Clannad, City Boy... >> 6. What are you just dying to tell us? The great thing about this list is the way, on a particular day, you can see posts about Zappa, Percy Faith, Johnny Mathis, Beck and who knows what else? I have always wished that my friends could be so open-minded about music. >> 7. Own a fez? If so, what color, texture and tassel color? Gulp, no fez. But I have a lava lamp. >> 8. Shaken/stirred? Stirred...but more often brewed. (There's the Canadian in 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: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 10:07:09 -0500 From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) obit: Red Norvo SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) -- Red Norvo, who performed with such greats as Charles Mingus and Frank Sinatra and is credited with introducing the vibraphone to jazz, died Tuesday. He was 91. Norvo died at the Fireside Convalescent Home, grandson Aaron Corlin said. ``He was a fabulous man,'' Corlin said. ``He was always thinking about music, it was his life. ... His position in jazz history says a lot for itself.'' Born Kenneth Norville in Beardstown, Ill., he taught himself how to play piano and xylophone. By age 17, he was touring with a vaudeville show and later joined the Paul Ash Orchestra. His last name changed to Norvo after Ash mispronounced it to a reporter and Norvo's manager decided the shorter name was more fitting. During Norvo's tenure with Paul Whiteman's Orchestra, which he joined in 1932, he met singer Mildred Bailey, whom he later married. By 1935, he formed his own sextet that was playing at New York City's Famous Door club. In subsequent years, Norvo and his wife formed several groups in New York and Chicago. Among their hits in the 1930s were ``Rockin' Chair,'' ``Please Be Kind,'' ``Says My Heart'' and ``Have You Forgotten So Soon?'' After World War II, Norvo joined the Benny Goodman orchestra. He played in several bands through the early 1990s, when he suffered a stroke that ended his public performances. Ms. Bailey, whose likeness was featured on a 1996 U.S. postage stamp, died in 1951. Norvo later married Eve Rogers, who died in 1992. Besides his grandson, Norvo is survived by his daughter, Portia. Funeral arrangements were pending. http://allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?p=amg&sql=B7242 # 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, 07 Apr 1999 10:11:40 -0400 From: Subject: Re: (exotica) obit: Red Norvo SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) -- Red Norvo, who performed with such greats as Charles Mingus and Frank Sinatra and is credited with introducing the vibraphone to jazz, died Tuesday. He was 91. >>Yuck! How sad! My fave rekkid of his is Music to Listen to Red Norvo By.... I hate to loose somebody with such good vibes...Gotta compose that Martin Denny birthday wish, now. The artiste formerly known as "Lounge Laura." p-s....gotta answer that Shaken or Stirred question: SHAKE!SHAKE!SHAKE! # 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, 7 Apr 1999 16:18:37 +0100 From: G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk Subject: (exotica) Fez I now have a Fez. A gift from a friend returning from a visit to Morocco. It seems a little large. How should they be worn? Perched on top like Ren? Resting comfortably above the ears? ___ | | | ( >) (Best viewed in Ariel, what a mess in courier) All advice gratefully received. El Maestro Con Queso djcheesemaster@yahoo.com grr@brighton.ac.uk http://www.sgillitt.dircon.co.uk/cheese/cheese.htm # 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, 07 Apr 1999 08:32:34 -0700 (PDT) From: christopher marks Subject: (exotica) are you a musician, etc. 1. Are you a musician? Explain... 2. Space-age/exotic LP/CD that turned you on to this? 3. This list could help you more by... 4. Other exotica/things you collect 5. Unrelated music genres/acts you like 6. What are you just dying to tell us? 7. Own a fez? If so, what color, texture and tassel color? Describe it or other lounge-wear of which you are proud? I think we added this last time around: 8. Shaken/stirred? 1. No. Although I love music, i have little talent and less patience. 2. The Mystic Moods Orchestra 3. People issuing a list of their favourite space age/exotic albums. 4. Books are the only other things that i collect...i have a difficult time with having too many things as i am a bit of a minimalist. 5. Frank Sinatra, the Velvet Underground, Miles Davis, Big Star, Grateful Dead. 6. Be careful of what you want, you just might get it (I think that it was more elegant when Oscar Wilde said it) 7. Only baseball caps. 8. Shaken. Chris spiritualized1@go.com __ http://www.go.com ____________________________________________________________ Get your Free GO Network Email address at http://mail.go.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: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 10:37:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Ben Waugh Subject: Re: (exotica) obit: Red Norvo A ripe old age, if there is such a thing - but what a loss. I have a Command Jazz Pickers lp, featuring Norvo on the vibes (and others, but this is my fav.). I have worn it down to a wafer and it will be doing hard time tonight. - --- Lou Smith wrote: SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) -- Red Norvo, who > performed with such greats as > Charles Mingus and Frank Sinatra and is credited > with introducing the vibraphone to jazz, died Tuesday. He was 91. _________________________________________________________ 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: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 10:44:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Ben Waugh Subject: (exotica) Exotikitsch Tattoos Way back in the dream time, someone had posted to the list an enquiry regarding exotic tattoos. This fine Spring morning, I received the a taunting/titilating/unsolicited amorous itinerary from one of my remaining bachelor cronies. Thought I'd share as far as pertinence & discretion allow (w/o "value added" commentary): "seeing gal tonight w/ two-foot long suburban 1950s lawn-barbecue-scene tattooed on her thigh. redhead. (...) Tattoo: It has a guy in a chef's hat flipping burgers in an apron, some other guy mowing a lawn." _________________________________________________________ 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: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 19:47:29 +0200 From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) New eXotica Releases Overview Update A new update to the eXotica Releases Overview is available. These are the most important recent additions, that where not yet announced here. (If you would like to receive the unabridged updates by e-mail, just let me know) - April 4: new (1999) releases, announcements & corrections - * Sergio Mendes And Brasil '66: "Equinox" LP, AML 902, UK, 1999 * Soundtrack: "Hell's Belles" [by Les Baxter] LP, Sidewalk ST-5919 (Bootleg), USA, 1999 * Soundtrack: "Rosemary's Baby" [by Christopher Komeda] LP, ? DLP25875, UK, 1999 * Various Artists: "2069 Spaced Oddity" LP, Grand Gruyere, UK, 1999 - April 4: other interesting finds I stumbled on - * Wilson Das Neves E Conjunto: "Juventude 2000" LP, ?, Brazil, 199? * Walter Wanderley: "Cheganca" CD, Verve, Japan?, 199? * Walter Wanderley: "Moondreams" CD, Verve, Japan?, 199? * Walter Wanderley: "When It Was Done" CD, Verve, Japan?, 199? >>> Additions & corrections are more than welcome! >>> The XRO is a discography, NOT a sale catalog! For the online version of the eXotica Releases Overview, visit "Dada'quariums Exotica": http://bewoner.dma.be/Dada/ Johan Dada Vis quiet@village.uunet.be # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 13:24:21 -0700 (PDT) From: chuck Subject: (exotica) Free Association-The Yellow Balloon Another nice '60's easy pop album, recently released on cd by Sundazed (1998), is "The Yellow Balloon" s/t. It is very similar to 65/66 Beach Boys and the Free Design, Harpers Bizarre. I have always enjoyed my 45 hit single of the same name and its flip side (same song played backwards). The album is a pleasant surprise, nothing as wonderful as their single but its full of bright up pre Pet Sounds beach boy pop. Other contemporary bands such as Sagittarius explored the later '66/67 Beach Boy sound. Great liner notes capture the connectivity of the California music scene of that time. Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck _________________________________________________________ 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: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 17:04:19 -0500 From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) [news] music giants make their move to the net NEW YORK, NEW YORK, U.S.A., 1999 APR 7 (NB) -- By Martin Stone, Newsbytes. Seagram Co. Ltd.'s [NYSE:VO] Universal Music Group and Bertelsmann AG's BMG Entertainment joined forces today to create an Internet content and commerce alliance aimed at cornering the lucrative online music market. The joint venture will be known as GetMusic, and will create communities of music fans, promote artists and sell CDs online. The offering will consist of online music channels and an e-commerce site, http://www.getmusic.com . The union is seen as an attempt to regain control over the digital distribution of music on the Web. Copying and distribution of digitally recorded music has posed a threat to recording copyrights and revenues. The specialized channels hope to establish closer links between artists and fans, create awareness of new music, and help to drive sales through all channels of distribution. Dennis Petroskey, BMG Entertainment's corporate communications spokesman, told Newsbytes, "The strategy is to gather music fans based on genre of music." Visitors to Universal and BMG individual artists' sites on the music channels will have a "one-click-away" ability to purchase those artists' recordings for mail order delivery through getmusic.com, which will also offer titles from other music companies. The network of genre-based music channels is seamlessly linked to getmusic.com. For example, visitors to peeps.com who want to purchase R&B and Hip-Hop music can click on the "buy" button go directly to the peeps.com section of the getmusic.com online store. Petroskey explained that each of the genre-oriented sites will stand alone, but will be linked to getmusic.com as well. Likewise, each individual site will be shown as hot links from the getmusic.com site. The getmusic.com site will also offer about 250,000 albums from other companies, both new titles and a substantial repertoire of catalog. Hard-to-find recordings will be accessed through the store's search function that classifies titles by genre, artist, and album. Those who prefer to buy through traditional retail outlets can use a search function of their nearest retail outlets. A number of initiatives to drive traffic to the sites are planned and include both online and traditional marketing such as print and broadcast advertising; printing URLs for the appropriate sites on CDs, and "connected CDs" that, once loaded into computers, will launch users directly to the artist's site. BMG, Universal, and their record labels collectively represent nearly 200 artists whose latest album releases have each sold more than 1 million copies worldwide. The channels will build on the foundation of BMG's existing genre-based music Web sites. Each of the sites has built significant traffic, recording as much as 60 percent monthly audience growth. Universal and BMG hope to capitalize on the momentum by adding access to a deep roster of Universal artists, developing new channels, and equipping the sites with a range of community-building tools including chat, interactive Webcasting, and message boards. Petroskey said new channels will be added as demand and interest commands. Strauss Zelnick, President and CEO of BMG Entertainment, says the timing is right for BMG and Universal to unite to build bridges between artists and music lovers and generate record sales with the click of a mouse. Edgar Bronfman, Jr., who heads up Seagram Company Ltd., Universal's parent, calls the venture a major step in building the interactive music channels of the future. The Internet, he says, offers tremendous opportunities to build the entire market for music by reaching new consumers and by offering deeper catalog that is hard to find in traditional outlets. "The Internet's interactivity and immediacy will change the way fans find, share and relate to music and artists." Music sales on the Internet will grow to $3.93 billion by 2005 from $28.7 million in 1997, according to London-based researchers Market Tracking International. The industry enjoys annual total sales of about $38 billion, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. BMG Entertainment grossed $4.1 billion worldwide, and owns more than 200 record labels in 53 countries, including Arista Records, RCA Records and Ariola Music. BMG also owns a music club, one of the world's largest music publishing companies, and has interests in home video, television, and compact disc and cassette manufacturing. Universal Music Group has wholly-owned record operations or licensees in 59 countries around the world. Its businesses also include Universal Music Publishing Group and Universal Concerts. # 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, 07 Apr 1999 14:06:42 -0700 From: Jeff Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) Fez El Maestro Con Queso wrote: > I now have a Fez. A gift from a friend returning from a visit to > Morocco. It seems a little large. How should they be worn? Perched o= n > top like Ren? Resting comfortably above the ears? Your fez should be worn early and often. By all means, perch it proudly atop your pate, definitely above the ears but not so high as it gets mistaken for a yarmulke. It should fit snugly enough to withstand several martinis. EZ does it, Jeff Phillips - --=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: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 16:32:25 -0400 From: Subject: Re: (exotica) Now, on to music I __dig__(longish) >>> No one has that _clean_ pop sound like on the '66 album. And as someone mentioned, almost all of the stuff that is >66 isn't very good and doesn't come close to the '66 sound. If anyone knows of other Sergio albums that do have 'that sound' let me know!Also any other artists that approach that sound would be welcome (other than old Herb himself, got all those of course!) Welcome to the list, Zach! IM-never-really-H-O, I'd say you could start with a cat I just brought up, Chris Montez, also on A&M. It's what you seek, pal. Also, just about any Astrud Gilberto work from that time period, and zillions of Brasilian and bossa records! They're easy to find and in-print many of them! Speaking of which, the astounding album by Frank Sinatra and Tom Jobim rarely gets enough props, so it gets a biggun from me, ol' Jane Fondle.... # 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, 7 Apr 1999 14:56:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Ben Waugh Subject: (exotica) Ortolani/Legrand I picked up a copy of his Ortolani's score to a film I had never heard of, but will now seek out: Ecco ("An Incredible Orgy of Sights and Sounds. Side 1 is drippy waltzes, but 2, for the most part is bluesy, swinging stuff (some of which reminds me of Rugolo's Richard Diamond ST): memorable tracks include Twist 84, The Hungry Beat, The Steam Bath, He Or She (?), The Rites Of Sex. I saw a J-L Goddard film a few weeks back. I stuck around to catch the composer and was surprised to see Michel Le grand's name. The music to this film was wild menacing beat jazz: I had never heard anything by Legrand that went at this pace and was free of sugary strings. I have forgotten the name of the film and the rental shop swears they not only do not stock it now, but have never had a Goddard film in stock. The basic story involved two youngish petty thug types who meet a girl in an English clash and lure/strongarm her into a shabby scheme to burglarize the rooms of her guardian (who is accidentally killed in the botched job). I go into all this in hopes someone out there knows this film and can help me land the ST. Thanks _________________________________________________________ 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: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 17:09:26 -0400 From: Subject: (exotica) Summertime and the listening is e-z With apologies to several folks fo my subject line, I pose the probing question of you... Does anybody else like to sorta reserve their exotica music records for the warmer months(this would apply to areas where there are indeed _seasons__...when I lived in Tampa, Fl, it was hot all year_)? In the AstroSlut pad, we like to wait until it gets warmer here in Boston to pull out the Baxters(exotica ones) Dennys, Surfmen, Chaino, etc(we positvely have enough to last all Summer)...and just sorta soak in the jungle primal aspect of it all. That doesn't mean I wouldn't WANT to hear this stuff all year 'round, nor does it mean these records don't see the light of day in Winter, but I think of it as a tropical treat, at a time of year when mangoes are in season and begging to be mixed with rum in tiki mugs. And hey, when you like on the third floor with NO a/c...you gotta do SOMETHING to delude yourself! Hotly(well, not yet, it's still 40s in Boston)- Jane Fondle # 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, 07 Apr 1999 18:07:45 -0400 From: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) Re:answer this! At 08:47 AM 4/7/99 -0400, Brian Tozer wrote: > >>>1. Are you a musician? Explain... >Isn't almost everyone on the list? Yes, I toured with Canadian band >Gaslight in the 70's, I have to ask. Gaslight. Was that an Ugly Ducklings tribute band? If so, are you going to the see the Ugly Ducklings reunion concert? I wouldn't mind seeing Luke and the Apostles again but I'm not sure I want to see Lighthouse again, if they're playing too. (I'm trying to come up with some kind of "exotica content" vis a vis legendary Ontario rock bands of the sixties. Well, there was the Laurie Bower Singers.) And by the way, I'm not a musician. But I'm sure that you can find someone in one of the thousand polka bands in Kitchener to moonlight in a space-age pop band. (Sorry, had to say that. It's a responsibility that goes with living in Toronto.) 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, 7 Apr 1999 20:16:05 EDT From: Pearmania@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Sheet Music books >I don't assume it's still in print!??!?! No, this was a used thrift store item Sean # 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, 07 Apr 1999 16:58:03 -0700 From: Jeff Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) Summertime and the listening is e-z Jane Fondle wrote: > Does anybody else like to sorta reserve their exotica music records for= the > warmer months(this would apply to areas where there are indeed > _seasons__...when I lived in Tampa, Fl, it was hot all year_)? In the > AstroSlut pad, we like to wait until it gets warmer here in Boston to p= ull > out the Baxters(exotica ones) Dennys, Surfmen, Chaino, etc(we positvely > have enough to last all Summer)...and just sorta soak in the jungle pri= mal > aspect of it all. That doesn't mean I wouldn't WANT to hear this stuff= all > year 'round, nor does it mean these records don't see the light of day = in > Winter, but I think of it as a tropical treat, at a time of year when > mangoes are in season and begging to be mixed with rum in tiki mugs. A= nd > hey, when you like on the third floor with NO a/c...you gotta do SOMETH= ING > to delude yourself! Yes indeedy, Jane...I used to live very close (on Verona between Carolina and Child in JP) to where I believe your current pad is, and I can attest that even the second floor was Aitsh Oh Tee HOT! On Wednesday evenings we'd fire up the balcony grill and attempt to chill to the suave sounds of Peter Lebedur's Music For Better Living, and reserve the Polynesians for the weekend. Remember, the best deals in Boston to be had on limes and mangos for your rum cocktails are at Hi-Lo Foods on nearby Centre Street! It's fun to try to block out the noise of the T (or simply pretend it's Hawaiian Airlines overhead) and make believe you're on the veranda in Kahului. EZ does it, Jeff Phillips - --=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. ------------------------------ End of exotica-digest V2 #364 *****************************