From: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com (exotica-digest) To: exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: exotica-digest V2 #378 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 21 1999 Volume 02 : Number 378 In This Digest: Re: Re: (exotica) Life with Eartha (exotica) Lee Hazlewood interview (exotica) Black Orpheus and my mother's contribution to Exotica (exotica) [obit] Sr. Wences Re: (exotica) bringing new meaning to novelty records Re: Re: (exotica) Life with Eartha Re: (exotica) Satan In High Heels (exotica) Hey NY: brother cleve, the easy alohas, and michelle boule at in hi-fi this thurs. Re: (exotica) [obit] Sr. Wences Re: (exotica) Black Orpheus Re: (exotica) The forbidden sounds of Don Tiki (exotica) The Three Ring Circus (exotica) Johnny Cool Wants To live (exotica) NYC Dj gigs (exotica) Yma Sumac songs (exotica) Yma Sumac songs (exotica) [obits] John Broome,Flora Carabella,Gordon Hughes,Sr. Wences (exotica) Oriental Trading (exotica) Muzak Re: (exotica) The Three Ring Circus (exotica) Slut 4 free! (exotica) organ manuals?? Re: (exotica) The forbidden sounds of Don Tiki (exotica) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 09:26:35 PDT (exotica) CD finds.... (exotica) Re: CD finds.... (exotica) VOODOO! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 14:58:18 EDT From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) Life with Eartha In a message dated 4/20/99 2:48:05 PM, Rcbrooksod@aol.com wrote: >I have never like the term Diva. I loved the term when it was frequently applied to anonymous 70's disco singers who sang their guts out with virtually no recognition (Lolleata Holloway and Barbara Roy come IMMEDIATELY to mind), but when I hear it applied to Mariah, Cher, Tina, Celine, and Whitney, I know we need a new word..........Jimmy Botticelli # 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, 20 Apr 1999 21:10:21 +0200 From: "Arjan Plug" Subject: (exotica) Lee Hazlewood interview 5 pages recent interview can be found in the May issue of MOJO. Plus a not to kind review of his new "Farmisht Flatulence, Origam, ARF!!! And Me" album Arjan # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 15:22:40 -0400 From: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) Black Orpheus and my mother's contribution to Exotica Jane, in her attempt to make me blush (no easy feat), said: >While I we are on this, I __also__ thank Brian for suggesting that I watch >the film, which I did this weekend! For fans of the Jean Cocteau >"ORPHEUS", all I can say is in its gorgeousness and colour, it's a >Brazilian equivalent to the French! It's funny, because when I got the >soundtrack , I could just imagine what the film was like, and the music is >a beautifully illustrative! Welcome back, Brian, although you were never >really gone! ;0 Thanks, as always, JF! Two things I would like to re-point out about this film (for the newer folks on the list) 1. It has one of the greatest openings of any film I have seen. The first shot is of marble friezes and underneath very solemn soothing music is being played. After the credits, the friezes shatter and you see and hear a carnival scene. Can't be beat. Took me a year before I got to the rest of the movie(Gotta see that intro again)! Jobim and Luis Bonfa did a great job on the music! 2. My Mother, may she rest in peace (she's not dead, I just would rather her sleep in some place quiet than a noisy place, if I am given a choice), taught Marpessa Dawn (Eurydice) dance while they were attending high school (Marpessa Dawn gossip: her real name was Gypsy and she had a real "stage mother"). The school had an interesting setup, in the sense that the faculty saw an exceptional student and had her teach a class in dance! She did not pursue her dancing after that and she married. I was very loved, even though I was not um, expected by Mom and Dad and one of the most surprising things she has ever said to me was, "If I continued dancing, I never would have had you boys [my brother and I]." I would like all of you on the list to think on that. She was a great dancer, yet she raised two sons (partially on her own, when my Father and Mother divorced) and while she did still enjoy dancing and tried (unsuccessfully!) to get me to dance a little, what I quoted to all of you she never told me until I was well into my twenties and out of the house. Sexual and social mores of the 40's through '60's aside, I think that is a pretty amazing thing to do for someone. Thanks for letting me toot my Mother's trumpet, because so few people know about this and I think it deserves at very least, mention. One of these days I will tell you about my Aunt Lottie, who taught piano to one of the Nicholas Brothers. Oops, just did. 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: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 15:39:44 -0500 From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) [obit] Sr. Wences NEW YORK (AP) -- Senor Wences, the master ventriloquist who delighted ``Ed Sullivan Show'' audiences with his puppet-head-in-a-box, Pedro, and his falsetto-voiced hand-puppet, Johnny, died Tuesday at 103. The Spanish-born Wences, whose real name was Wenceslao Moreno, died at his home in New York City. During the Golden Age of television, Wences bickered and bantered with his puppets while he drank, smoked and juggled. He conversed with Pedro, a head in a box (``S'OK?'' ``S'AWRIGHT). And he was defeated by Johnny, who boasted, ``Deefeecult for you; easy for me.'' Wences created Johnny by scrunching up his fist, drawing a mouth where thumb and index finger met, and draping a blond wig over the top. His character Pedro was a gravelly voiced head in a box, born out of necessity when Wences' ventriloquist's dummy was accidentally damaged and only the head was spared. Pedro wore glasses and a Dali-like mustache and beard. His voice became clearer as the door to his box opened, and muffled as it closed. Audiences forgot the sound was really coming from outside the box. Wences would talk to his puppets with his face right in theirs, as if daring the audience to watch his lips, which, of course, never moved. He would stuff a hankie in Johnny's mouth and have the puppet speak with a muffled voice while he himself smoked a cigarette. Then he would give Johnny a drag, and the puppet -- that is, Wences' hand -- would somehow emit perfect smoke rings. ``Most of us were in awe of Wences,'' ventriloquist Jimmy Nelson once said. ``He could get laughs just by saying, `S'AWRIGHT!' And I still don't know how he got those smoke rings out of Johnny.'' There were no jokes, just what one writer has described as ``bizarre, farcical, Spanish-accented patter.'' In between his many Sullivan show appearances, he entertained four presidents, toured with Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis, did a Broadway show with Danny Kaye, and played every casino in Vegas. He had a precise, economical act: 19 minutes with a one-minute encore. He would ask the promoter for only a card table and a glass of water. He continued touring into his early 90s. Wences was born in Penarada, Spain, and discovered his gift for mimicry amusing his classmates in grade school. In 1934, when he came to the United States, Wences was conventional -- ``another ventriloquist with a dummy,'' as he put it. But two years later, en route to Chicago, his act was transformed when his dummy, Pedro, was crushed in a baggage car accident. Wences bought a box, stuck the head inside, and -- on stage that day -- inquired if he was OK. Pedro replied, in a voice as gravelly as Johnny's was squeaky: ``S'AWRIGHT!'' A memorial service and burial will be held in Spain this weekend. # 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, 20 Apr 1999 15:51:22 -0400 From: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) bringing new meaning to novelty records >Come where my love lies screaming >The Green grass grew all around >One for my baby and one more for the road >Down in the valley >Ridin high >and... >Back in the saddle again Oof! I think I may have seen another record like this in Los Angeles. It showed two men facing each other (from the calves down and dressed) and the songs all had double-entendre titles leaning toward homosexual themes. I don't remember the titles, but I think this company issued several titles. Funny post, 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: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 15:55:53 -0400 From: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) Life with Eartha Re: Diva >but when I hear it applied to Mariah, Cher, Tina, Celine, and Whitney, I know we need a new >word..........Jimmy Botticelli OK. How about "Xtabay"? (Juuuuuuuuuuuuuuust kidding!) Xrian Xhillips # 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, 20 Apr 1999 15:56:29 -0400 From: Subject: Re: (exotica) Satan In High Heels >Jane should be a writer besides a music star! I couldn't agree with her assssessment of this cd any more then what she said. Its definitely not a boot and its available cheap. I like this cd alot. Thanks, Chuck-truck, but __my__ money's on Brian Phillips as the writer for Y2K...with that lovely essay on his mum! Now gang, isn't that nicer than all this,uh, crepitation?!? Jane Fondle, Mr. Clean - ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 14:51:09 -0400 From: Subject: (exotica) Hey NY: brother cleve, the easy alohas, and michelle boule at in hi-fi this thurs. In Hi-Fi is pleased to announce that in addition to our regular guest DJ, Michelle Boule, of WFMU's "Incorrect Music," we will be featuring several special guests from out of town. This Thursday, April 22, Combustible Edison's Brother Cleve (Boston) and the Easy Alohas (Amsterdam) will be joining Jack Fetterman at New York City's Bar d'O. The music begins at 7:00 p.m. There is no cover charge. Bar d'O is located at 29 Bedford Street, at the corner of Downing Street, just a block away from the intersection of Houston and 6th Avenue. Telephone is 212-627-1580. http://www.inhi-fi.com In Hi-Fi presents Exotic Cocktail Music every Thursday Evening at Bar d'O 29 Bedford Street New York City - ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 16:00:07 -0400 From: Subject: Re: (exotica) [obit] Sr. Wences Sigh...I am sure many a boy lost his virginity to Sr. Wences... I'M SORRY-COULDN'T LET THAT ONE GO BY!! That Naughty Eartha 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: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 17:06:49 -0400 From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Black Orpheus >While I we are on this, I __also__ thank Brian for suggesting that I watch >the film, which I did this weekend! Beautiful music and a wonderful (full of wonder) film. It feels like a dream, not a movie. Now *I've* gotta see it again. 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, 20 Apr 1999 15:21:45 -0700 From: "Kevin C." Subject: Re: (exotica) The forbidden sounds of Don Tiki Rcbrooksod@aol.com wrote: > > In a message dated 04/20/99 11:09:01 AM Eastern Daylight Time, > laura.taylor@us.pwcglobal.com writes: > > << Would > Martin Denny grace his presence on a bunch o' village posers?!?? COME ON! > Denny beautifully updates himself on "Exotica '97 >> > > You betcha!!!! I just love this cut. I have just about wore it out (if that > is possible with a CD) Would it be blasphemous to say I actually prefer the Don Tiki version over the Denny original??? Kevin Crossman The Search for the Ultimate Mai Tai http://www.kevdo.com/maitai/ # 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, 20 Apr 1999 17:46:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Fish Wich Subject: (exotica) The Three Ring Circus At a local record store I spotted a record by a group called The Three Ring Circus called Groovin' on the Sunshine on RCA from 1968. It's got a sort of scary psychedelic picture of a clown on the front cover. The arrangers listed are Ray Ellis and Robert Allen. According to the track listing, side 1 is vocals and side 2 is instrumentals. Anyone know anything about this album? Thanks. Mark _________________________________________________________ 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, 20 Apr 1999 18:59:12 -0700 From: James G Subject: (exotica) Johnny Cool Wants To live The Johnny Cool OST clocks in at just under 32 minutes of IMHO relatively lightweight cocktail-style music that I have plenty of. The two Sammy songs are ok, but if you want good Sam try the 20 song mid-price Cd on the canadian Pair label: some hits(thankfully not Bojangles or Candyman) but a killer version of The Tender Trap.(I used to live across the street from an SF bar called The Tender Trap - the italian bartender would get a heat on and croon Sinatra and Bennet songs through a mike and an amp, karaoke style - in 1971 !!) Meanwhile Johnny Mandel's I Want to Live RYKO OST is MUCH more bluesy crime jazz percussive weirdness with the bonus of the companion Gerry Mulligan small group jazz album based on the score, and clocks in at a wild and crazy 59 minutes. So now you know in case you forgot to ask. JB (looking at the Johnny Cool pics and remembering that Henry Silva was one weird lookin dude - think it was those beady eyes) # 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, 20 Apr 1999 23:19:50 EDT From: Ottotemp@aol.com Subject: (exotica) NYC Dj gigs Thursday, April 22 (this) at In Hi-Fi, we are pleased to present the "more better half" of WFMU's Incorrect Music program, Michelle Boule, providing subtle yet barbed musical pleasantries. Following, Brother Cleve (trudging all the way from Cambridge, Massachusettes) graces In Hi-fI with his brand of traditional and contemporary neo-subgenial combustible tone poems. How would we have anticipated that the blessing of Cleve's visitation would intersect with DJ friends from Amsterdam, the Easy Alohas? We couldn't, but that's the case... Michelle Boule, Brother Cleve, and the Easy Alohas this Thursday only at I n H i - F i . (the alohas will be at Mondo 107 on Wednesday, April 21, as well!) Jack * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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). 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"Mambo", orchestra conducted by Billy May. # 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, 21 Apr 1999 09:59:31 -0500 From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) [obits] John Broome,Flora Carabella,Gordon Hughes,Sr. Wences *John Broome NEW YORK (AP) -- John Broome, a DC Comics writer whose 25-year career included the popular superheroes Green Lantern and Flash, died March 14 of a heart attack. He was 85. He died while traveling through Thailand with his wife Peggy. Broome, who wrote under his own name and the pseudonyms John Osgood and Edgar Ray Merritt, was responsible for the colorful writing in The Justice Society of America. The comic depicted the first team of superheroes, and Captain Comet, a character with great mental powers. Other comics Broome wrote included Detective Chimp, about a chimp who worked with a sheriff in a small town to solve crime. It was written from the chimp's viewpoint. He also wrote the comic Atomic Knights. Green Lantern, first created during the Golden Age of Comics in the 1940s, was revised by Broome in the '50s and '60s. He also wrote most of the stories of Flash, during the same period. Both comic characters survive into today. After retiring in 1970, Broome moved to Paris and later to Tokyo, where he taught English. *Flora Carabella ROME (AP) -- Actress Flora Carabella, the widow of Marcello Mastroianni, died Monday night after a long illness, Italian news reports said. She was 72. ``Flora was not just (Marcello's) wife. She was a joyful, committed, independent woman, always lively,'' said actress Sophia Loren. ``In the end, she couldn't bear the pain of Marcello's loss. Marcello was the man of her life.'' Carabella worked with the famed director Luchino Visconti at the beginning of her career. She married Mastroianni in 1948. They separated in 1970 but never divorced and remained friends until his death in 1996. *Gordon Hughes SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) -- Gordon Hughes, a director-writer who worked with such entertainers as Ronald Reagan, Frank Sinatra and Lucille Ball during a half-century stage, radio and TV career, died Monday of heart failure. He was 89. Hughes began his entertainment career in 1933 with stage productions in the Midwest and East Coast. He also directed Reagan in Des Moines, Iowa, at the Little Theatre. Hughes was the first radio director to receive NBC national credits on the air while directing Arch Obler's ``Lights Out.'' He later moved to Hollywood and directed the radio soap opera ``The Guiding Light.'' He also did shows for Sinatra, Miss Ball, Gene Autry and Steve Allen on the CBS radio network. Hughes then moved to television, where he produced, directed and wrote such shows as ``My Little Margie'' and ``Charlie My Boy.'' He wrote ``This is Your Life'' and ``Truth or Consequences'' shows. In alt.obituaries, lawrence@bga.com (Lawrence Person) wrote Senor Wences Memorial Haiku: >Senor Wences Dead >Lived to One Hundred and Three >Health Fad: Talk to hand > >Wences 'snot awright: >Handy ventriloquist gone >Long life for old schtick > >Talking to own hand: >"I call that a cry for help." >MST3K > >Ed Sullivan, fame >Vaudeville, TV, Presidents >Johnny now silent April 21, 1999 Senor Wences, Ventriloquist Who Was a TV Regular, 103 By RICHARD SEVERO, NYTimes NEW YORK -- Wenceslao Moreno, who started his career as an unsuccessful bullfighter in Spain and then became Senor Wences, a gifted ventriloquist who was able to transform his thumb and forefinger into a convincing dummy that endeared itself to millions of American television viewers in the 1950s and '60s, died Tuesday, his 103rd birthday, at his home in Manhattan. He and his wife, Natalie, had lived on Manhattan's West Side for more than 60 years. They also lived in Salamanca, Spain, Wences' hometown. In a career that lasted more than eight decades, Wences repeatedly proved himself a stellar part of the tradition that included Edgar Bergen, Paul Winchell and other popular ventriloquists who delighted audiences from the 1920s well into the television age. What set Wences apart from everyone else was that his main character was not carved out of wood, as were Bergen's Charlie McCarthy and Winchell's Jerry Mahoney. Johnny, Wences' dummy, was simply formed by his right hand. He painted lips on his thumb, draped a ridiculous orange wig across his fist, stuck eyes on the side of his hand, just below the wig, and let the hint of a body dangle below. As soon as he began his act, this unlikely creation came to life as Johnny, a lovable, impertinent little boy, not unlike the boy Wences had been. It was shortly after the turn of the century in Spain that Wenceslao Moreno found that he could imitate others and throw his voice. In school, when one of his classmates was absent, he would answer for him, and the teacher would mark the missing student present. In those days, he had a friend named Paulo who lived next door. The friend's mother would appear at an upstairs window and call for her boy to come home. "No, Mama," a voice sounding like Paulo would say. "I refuse to come into the house." When the mother demanded that her son obey, the voice would continue in defiance: "Mama, you attend to your own business, and I will attend to mine." Poor Paulo got the dickens on several occasions, until it was discovered that he had not been the culprit. Other times Wences successfully imitated the voice of the mailman, telling the tenants of his apartment house that the mail was there and ready for distribution. (There were no mailboxes.) All of the tenants would dutifully come down the stairs and assemble at the front door, only to find that no mailman was there. In one instance, an angry tenant dumped a pail of water on the real mailman's head to teach him not to trifle with the residents of that building. The little sprite of a voice and impish personality emerged to a widespread audience decades later, in the United States in 1948, when Wences made his television debut and introduced Johnny to virtually the nation's entire television audience, which assembled on Tuesday nights to watch Milton Berle's variety hour. Shortly thereafter he made the first of 48 appearances on Ed Sullivan's show. Neither Sullivan nor his audience ever tired of Wences. Wences' Johnny was not a rake or a wise guy, like Charlie McCarthy. He was a disembodied insurrectionist whose single-minded purpose was to nettle Wences in little ways, as small boys are wont to do. And so, if Wences announced to his audience that a certain trick was going to be "very difficult," Johnny's little voice would insist that it was "easy." If Wences gave Johnny a dirty look, Johnny would add, "Difficult for you, easy for me." In the conversations that ensued, Johnny would seem to be a completely separate being from Wences, quite capable of saying anything. There were no jokes, per se. Just snippets of silly but strangely eloquent conversation. And the exchanges were always polite, gentle; segments ended with kisses between Johnny and Wences. Johnny was not the only star Wences developed. The other was Pedro, a talking head in a covered box. Pedro was grouchy, imperious, raspy. He almost did not become part of the act. Originally, Pedro had a body that was crushed in a train wreck near Chicago. Wences, salvaging the head, put it in a box. At first, those who booked the act resisted; they did not think people would relate to a head in a box. Wences prevailed and Pedro proved almost as big a hit as Johnny. Whatever happened in the act, whatever pandemonium there might be, Wences would always open the box and say to Pedro, "You all right?" Pedro would always respond, "S'all right," to which Wences would say, "Very good." If Wences presumed too much and opened the box when Pedro preferred privacy, Pedro would demand, "Shut the door!" When Pedro and Johnny were simultaneously in action, it seemed a wonder that Wences could get through his shows in full control. He had a palpable Spanish accent and there were times when some found it difficult to understand him. The laughs came just the same; his timing and the gentleness of his message were such that he transcended the bounds of language. Wences, who was also a formidable juggler, started out as a young torero in local bull rings near Salamanca. After several bulls got the best of him, he turned to ventriloquism and juggling. By the 1920s his renown in both fields was such that he was in demand in Europe and Latin America. He first came to New York in 1935, where he appeared at the Club Chico in Greenwich Village. But it was not until he got on television that he became truly famous. In addition to his appearances on the Berle and Sullivan shows, Wences also appeared with Jack Paar, Steve Allen, Perry Como and Jack Benny. He was seen in a specialty act in the 1947 movie "Mother Wore Tights," starring Betty Grable and Dan Dailey. In 1963 he toured with Danny Kaye's International Revue. In 1996, Wences received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Comedy Hall of Fame for his devotion "to entertaining generations of audiences and bringing countless hours of joy and happiness to millions throughout the world." He was also honored by New York City, which erected a blue street sign alongside the Ed Sullivan Theater designating a block of West 54th Street from Eighth Avenue to Broadway as Senor Wences Way. He remained vigorous well past his prime and was still working in 1986, when he toured with Mickey Rooney and Ann Miller in "Sugar Babies." His wife, who is his only survivor, said he got that job because she was able to convince the producers that he was a mere 75 years old, 15 years younger than he really was. # 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, 21 Apr 1999 10:16:45 -0500 From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Oriental Trading I just received the Summer catalog from Oriental Trading Co. You can request a copy of your own at: http://www.oriental.com/cgi-bin/otc_cat_rqst.cgi At least 16 pages of the catalog have tropical and Luau-related items. They carry stuff like Tiki light strings, plastic Tiki mugs, coconut-bodied ukuleles, grass skirts, tropical drink umbrellas and straws, decorations, etc. - -ls # 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, 21 Apr 1999 11:48:46 -0400 From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) Muzak Last night I finished Joseph Lanza's book, "Elevator Music" (worth a read). And thought, hey, I really should check for Muzak on the web. Here it so obviously is: http://www.muzak.com/ And a surprisingly hip looking site it is. I'm surprised no one here has linked it before -- perhaps Muzak is too scary even for us? Here's the less spiffy looking site of competitor AEI: http://www.aeimusic.com/ m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 12:11:21 -0400 From: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) The Three Ring Circus At 05:46 PM 4/20/99 -0700, Fish Wich wrote: > >At a local record store I spotted a record by a group called The Three >Ring Circus called Groovin' on the Sunshine on RCA from 1968. It's got >a sort of scary psychedelic picture of a clown on the front cover. The >arrangers listed are Ray Ellis and Robert Allen. According to the >track listing, side 1 is vocals and side 2 is instrumentals. > >Anyone know anything about this album? Thanks. I don't know anything except that it's one of the "best", most curious records of that kind that I own. I say "of that kind" but I'm not sure what I would compare it to. The instrumental cuts have the feel of spacey, electronic psychedelia and the vocal cuts are mostly the same tunes sung in a kind of "Fifth Dimension" style, which almost seems inappropriate but somehow works. I love the vocal version of the song "Lovin Machine", even the lyrics. I'm glad I own this record is really all I can say. I brought it home hoping it was a certain kind of record and lo and behold, it was. I haven't listened to it straight through that often but a few of the cuts have made it onto a whole load of mixed tapes and they always get the reaction of "What is this???" 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, 21 Apr 1999 12:19:42 -0400 From: Subject: (exotica) Slut 4 free! Should you happen to be in the teaming theatre district of Boston this Saturday night, April 24th, AstroSlut would LOVE to have you! We are doing a free show around 10pm, at the Charles Playhouse Lounge, a swank 'lil spot. Also, I will be soon using a new email address on these lists: jane_fondle_69@yahoo.com...although I haven't converted my subscriptions yet! Somebody test this out, please! :) xoxo - ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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, 21 Apr 1999 15:05:36 -0400 From: Nat Kone Subject: (exotica) organ manuals?? I need help from the musicians on the list, particularly the keyboard players. The composer for my film has bought this not-that-old organ, a Technics U-50. (I pray I got that right) Anyway, it looks like we'll be using it extensively for the film but the problem is that he can't figure out all the stuff it probably does and what all those buttons do. Even though it has that old organ "look", I don't think it's that old and there are indications it could even be from the eighties. We went to the Technics website but couldn't find a manual for it. Can anyone help? Anyone actually have a manual for this or any Technics organ? Do you know some mammoth music store that might have stuff like this catalogued? Anything online? Or does anyone actually know how to play this thing? It shouldn't surprise you that we're looking for the cheesiest sounds we can get. Right now our model for the soundtrack is the Three Suns version of "Third Man Theme" from "On a Magic Carpet". Actually we're trying to get the rights but probably won't. Any help appreciated and to the rest of you, this could have been a record acquisition report, so what does "relevant" really mean? 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, 21 Apr 1999 15:09:30 EDT From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) The forbidden sounds of Don Tiki In a message dated 04/20/99 6:22:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time, kevin@kevdo.com writes: << Would it be blasphemous to say I actually prefer the Don Tiki version over the Denny original??? >> If you have to ask . . . . . . . . . yyyyyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssss! # 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, 21 Apr 1999 13:15:42 -0600 From: "Albert Fish" Subject: (exotica) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 09:26:35 PDT Hello, I found an lp called "Voodoo" by R. Hayman. It's $20, which is about $19 more than I like to spend on serrendipitous lp finds. Does anyone recommend this lp? Is it worth $20? Also, I'v been looking for Monique Van Vooren's lp. Anyone know if it's worth the trouble to find? Thanks heaps KDjr. (I've always wanted to use "serrendipitous" in a sentence. Forgive my posing). _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.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, 21 Apr 1999 15:33:32 -0400 From: "Nathan Miner" Subject: (exotica) CD finds.... Went on a very rare excursion out of the Hopkins confines to the local = used CD joint and came across a couple of interesting titles...... 1. Los Amigos Invisibles - "The New Sound of the Venezuelan Gozadera" I haven't read the liner notes, so have no idea what "gozadera" is but = it's probably something like "club music" or "disco." Interesting mix of = jazzy/latin sound with the expected dance rhythm. Fast and slow songs, = some sounding very "loungy." =20 2. "Tune in Turn On to the Hippest Commercials of the 60's w/Benny Golson" On the Verve label, I guess these are all theme songs from various = commercials (duh! really?) used as a springboard for cool jazz interpretat= ion by Benny. Wordless vocals and upbeat tempos abound. I guess you = would call this the "now sound?" I'm not versed in all of these sub, sub = categories. Some songs are "Fried Bananas, Cool Whip, and No Matter What = Shape (Your Stomach's In). The cover is a pic of a barren, cracked, earthen landscape with a wildly = painted "hippy" TV set sitting in the center. - - Nate # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 14:50:02 -0600 From: kingkini@tamboo.com Subject: (exotica) Re: CD finds.... both of these are great... i couldn't stop listening to Los Amigos Invisibles last summer!! and you check out the golson LP cover here: http://www.tamboo.com/clubvelvet/lp/Selections134.html - - kk >1. Los Amigos Invisibles - "The New Sound of the Venezuelan Gozadera" >2. "Tune in Turn On to the Hippest Commercials of the 60's w/Benny Golson" visit... +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ King Kini's C L U B V E L V E T http://www.tamboo.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, 21 Apr 1999 15:45:29 -0400 From: Subject: (exotica) VOODOO! Depends on where you live...I once lived in FL, where my brother got that record for $1, vg+..I now live in Boston, and was given that as a gift, for under $20..but not much less. Is it primo-exotica-YES! Will you be disappointed and feel ripped-off, NO! Is it mint-y? Those are some considerations for you...from Ms. Consideration herself, Jane Fondle Hello, I found an lp called "Voodoo" by R. Hayman. It's $20, which is about $19 more than I like to spend on serrendipitous lp finds. Does anyone recommend this lp? Is it worth $20? - ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ------------------------------ End of exotica-digest V2 #378 *****************************