From: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com (exotica-digest) To: exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: exotica-digest V2 #614 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 Thursday, February 3 2000 Volume 02 : Number 614 In This Digest: (exotica) More for Magnus (exotica) 101 Strings Re: (exotica)The Conet Project (exotica) Benito Urghu - Sexy Fonni Re: (exotica) Soothing Sounds (exotica) Re: The Conet Project! (exotica) 'Holy shit! We are going to sue you.' (exotica) A Sun story from Brad Bigelow Re: (exotica) Re: The Conet Project! (exotica) Fw: Be a Little Devil This Valentine Re: (exotica) 'Holy shit! We are going to sue you.' (exotica) More Tekkie Talk Re: (exotica) 'Holy shit! We are going to sue you.' (exotica) Si Zentner passes (exotica) Conet Project Hoax?//Ghost Orchid (exotica) [obits]Gary E. Cooper,Alex Kapral,Si Zentner,Willie B.,Lin Halliday Re: (exotica) 'Holy shit! We are going to sue you.' (exotica) Be a Little Devil This Valentine Re: (exotica) 'Holy shit! We are going to sue you.' ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 21:04:57 -0800 From: Jim Gerwitz Subject: (exotica) More for Magnus Magnus Sandberg wrote: > ...please make some suggestions on three new great >reissues that i can get from an internet dealer like >dustygroove or JD or amazon. I need something different and weird and funny. Or something thats so sweet it >just hurts. Maybe a french one, and a brasilian...> After a few days scanning digests, I've compiled a few of the list's recent faves - by title, (label) artist: 1. Uneasy Tempo Vol 11: Exotica Girls Like Ear-Splitting Music - (WinoRed) - V/A incl. Yma Sumac, Florence Foster Jenkins, Mrs. Miller, Jeannete McDonald, Diamanda Galas & Minnie Riperton 2. Metal Machine Music for Mamie - (Ike Records) The Three Suns 3. OST - The Incredible Shrinking Women - (Purge) with Calista Flockhart & Lara Flynn Boyle 4. 250 Miles An Hour On The Rims- The Jerry Rooyden Funk Mixes (Roadblock Records) - James Brown 5. Lemon Incest (Taboo Records) Frank & Nancy Sinatra 6. You Make Me Feel like A Nat Woman (Sunshine or Soft? Records) v/a 72 minutes of ba ba da ba by Mel Tillis, Barbara Walters & others 7. Deneuve, Bardot, Fonda,Fondle: The Bedroom Tapes (bootleg?) Roger Vadim 8. Best of Grateful Dead Unplugged (RCA Dying Stereo) - Dr. Jack Kevorkian 9. Calvert DeForest's Erotic Experience (Martini Records) - Calvert DeForest aka Larry "Bud" Melman from Letterman gets some! 10. The Three Tenors Live at CBGBs - (Enough Already Records) with Tom Waits, Hasil Adkins, & John Lithgow 11. World Wrestling Federation Hits Vol 5 - (Smackdown Records)v/a incl The Gentle People, The Wusses, The Wimps, The Pussies, the Twits & The Eunuchs 12. Divas 2000 Groove the Best of Blowfly (Tinnitus Records) - by Divas 2000 incl La Barbra, Jennifer Love, Rupaul, Kathie Lee G. & Nathan Lane 13. The Complete works of Carol Kaye & Hal Blaine (Bear Family Records) 7,249 Cd set, over 217,000 songs in special collectors mobile home. These should keep you busy, but because of brisk sales only one of the above is still available on the net. JB Le Noir # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 00:12:27 EST From: BasicHip@aol.com Subject: (exotica) 101 Strings I need to ask the audience on this one, using one of my lifelines. The Scamp Astro Sounds CD has a coupla bonus tracks, Whiplash and Instant Nirvana that must come from a reocrd other than "Sounds Of Love" (adult contemporary series with Bebe Bardon on cover) and "Sounds Of Today" (Karma Sitar, pyschedelic cover). What is the title of this LP and why is it so damn hard to find? You guys know the record I'm talking about? Anybody got a copy for CD-R trade or purchase? I'll pay $$$. If you can't help me out, I'll need to use my other lifeline, "call a friend". Get Ashley on the line, please. Thanks - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 00:27:10 -0500 From: Ross 'Mambo Frenzy' Orr Subject: Re: (exotica)The Conet Project Peter G wrote: >my friend was wondering about this. Its a collection of shortwave >transmissions used by spies and such... >[...] >http://www.foundrysite.com/i.conet.html > >Has anyone actually heard this stuff? Yes indeed. If you tune between the broadcast bands with a shortwave radio, it actually is not that uncommon to hear them. But all the ones I've experienced are the more vanilla types, where someone (or more likely, a voice synthesizer) robotically reads groups of numbers--perhaps punctuated by a dramatic flourish like saying "end" at the end. There are various fanciful unproved or semi-proved theories about their origins, but it seems indisputable that they are passing some kind of clandestine messages in code. your former shortwave geek, --Ross || Ross "Mambo Frenzy" Orr || Ann Arbor, Michigan USA # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 03:05:27 -0800 From: "mofo2148" Subject: (exotica) Benito Urghu - Sexy Fonni Has anyone on this list heard of "Benito Urghu" and a song he did called "Sexy Fonni"? I'm playing it next week on my radio show, but wanted to get more info if possible... and what better place to ask than here. It's a Very Very Hip Cut. With Benito shouting and talking in Italian and a woman moaning and saying, "je t'aime...." (among other words). Italian meets French erotic lounge music with the kind of easy funky bassline you can groove to. Is Fritz Jonker on this list? If you are please contact me regarding this cut... I heard it on one of your compilation tapes. thanks all, Otis - ------------------------------------------------- Mr. Otis F-Odder mofo2148@speakeasy.org Box 21104, Seattle, WA 98111 USA www.thebranflakes.com - ------------------------------------------------- Let's Take a Trip................ www.coolandstrange.com www.antennaradio.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: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 12:48:39 +0000 From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Soothing Sounds Peter Risser wrote: > Someone mentioned that Soothing Sounds for Baby is a > re-release. Had this thing actually seen the light of > day when Scott first made it? Is it a re-release? I think so; however it is very problematic to feature it for your Kahuna Award in the category "Best new album"... even if it wasn't released before, it's definitely not *new*. I didn't find all my favorite things in your nominee's list... Mo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 22:56:23 +1100 From: "Keith E. Lo Bue" Subject: (exotica) Re: The Conet Project! >>Has anyone actually heard this stuff? >>pg Yep! My best buddy got the set, and from the five discs (read: Too Much of a Good Thing!) I compiled a fanastic 70 minutes onto one CD. It is indeed otherworldly, and one of the truly effective late late night audio discs I own. It's totally mystifying and makes you realize that the world is very big and very deep go its secrets. Again, I'd only recommend the whole set if this sounds immensely compelling to you (the packaging is great and well annotated)...otherwise, hunt out a best friend who'll lend it to you!! Also on the same UK-based label (name escapes me) is "The Ghost Orchid: An Introduction to EVP". This CD will make your skin crawl and is by far the most creepy listen you could ask for. EVP stands for "Electronic Voice Phenomena" or put simply, voices from the dead speaking through radios. It's been called 'The Conet Project from beyond the grave!' You can read reviews of the CD here: http://parc.web.fm/december/evpreviews.htm I'd highly recommend it; but it won't get lots of playing time, unless you surreptitiously pop it into a multi-disc shuffle-play at your friend's next party. PS: If you've got the Stereolab "Transient Random Noisebursts..." record, you can hear a snippet from a voice from the Conet Project on the tune "Pause." Ciao, Keith **************************** http://www.lobue-art.com A virtual gallery and info site for the 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: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 13:07:43 +0100 From: Ton Rueckert Subject: (exotica) 'Holy shit! We are going to sue you.' m p 3 FREE-FOR-ALL The tiny Napster is shaking the music industry to its foundation. Napster the software program -- a downloadable application that lets users temporarily turn their computers into servers for the purpose of swapping MP3 files -- is growing faster than anyone could have imagined. To add to the excitement, Napster the company is now embroiled in a lawsuit with the notorious Recording Industry Association of America. http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/02/03/napster/index.html PS Money, money, money: Swedish '70s superstars ABBA have turned down a $1 billion offer to reunite and go on tour. "It is a hell of a lot of money to say no to, but we decided it wasn't for us," Benny Andersson told the Swedish paper Aftonbladet. His fellow band member Bjorn Ulvaeus agreed, "We have never made a comeback. Almost everyone else has. I think there is a message in that." *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** Ton Rueckert Mozartstraat 12 5914 RB Venlo The Netherlands *** *** mojoto@plex.nl http://www.plex.nl/~mojoto Ph 31/0 773545386 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ Beware! Your bones are going to be disconnected. ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/4264/music/Xbe3975.ram ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 04:54:11 -0800 (PST) From: spaceagepop@earthlink.net Subject: (exotica) A Sun story from Brad Bigelow Brad Bigelow thought you might be interested in this Las Vegas Sun (http://www.lasvegassun.com/) story: http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/archives/2000/feb/02/509794326.html Message from sender: Another sad passing--Si Zentner dead at 82. Brad - ------------------------- ================================================================== Famous trombonist, band leader dies in Las Vegas ASSOCIATED PRESS Trombonist Si Zentner, who started a highly successful big band years after the era had passed, died Monday at a Las Vegas hospital. He was 82. A Las Vegan the past 35 years, Zentner became well-known when he recorded the hit "Up A Lazy River" in 1961. He went on to record more than 30 albums and hundreds of songs for Liberty Records. He was frequently book at Disneyland's Carnation Plaza Gardens during a 25-year span. Born Simon Hugh Zentner June 13, 1917, the Brooklyn, N.Y. native played with the bands of Les Brown and Jimmy Dorsey before settling in Los Angeles as a session musician. In 1958 he began to rehearse his own big band, ignoring the fact that ballrooms were closing around the country and that Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly already had transformed the nation's teens into rock'n'rollers. Using a revised version of "Lazy River," Zenter recorded what he called "the first big-band record you could twist to." The song became a Top 40 hit and a Grammy Award winner. Zentner recorded hundreds of songs for Liberty, continuing his knack for recasting contemporary hits into a big-band sound aimed at older ears. During the James Bond craze he reworked the movies' themes, and when the Beatles exploded, he recorded a swinging version of "I Want to Hold Your Hand." At one point, Zentner claimed to have played 178 one-nighters without a night off. In 1965, Zentner moved to Las Vegas and his band played at the Tropicana's Blue Room. He later became conductor for the "Folies Bergere" show. He continued to perform at various Las Vegas venues and in California. Zentner had battled leukemia the past two years. He is survived by a son, Howard Zentner of Sandpoint, Idaho, and a daughter, Linda Berrow of Palmdale, Calif. 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If you no longer want to receive these messages, please contact the sender, not the Las Vegas Sun. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 14:33:59 +0000 From: dan hill Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: The Conet Project! >Also on the same UK-based label (name escapes me) is it's Ash International, "distributed" by Touch http://www.touch.demon.co.uk/ashrip.htm >"The Ghost Orchid: An >Introduction to EVP". This CD will make your skin crawl and is by far the >most creepy listen you could ask for. EVP stands for "Electronic Voice >Phenomena" or put simply, voices from the dead speaking through radios. >It's been called 'The Conet Project from beyond the grave!' You can read >reviews of the CD here: >http://parc.web.fm/december/evpreviews.htm and here: http://motion.state51.co.uk/reviews/413.html >I'd highly recommend it; but it won't get lots of playing time, unless you >surreptitiously pop it into a multi-disc shuffle-play at your friend's next >party. and it's great to dj with, mixed ... cheers, dan. - -- - ---+ dan hill [state51] ---+ new reviews on motion [3.2.2000]: < pita | ponga | the highlanders | modern music for motor vehicles | henry cowell | d'angelo > http://motion.state51.co.uk/ +--- # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 14:27:40 -0000 From: "Phil Clark" Subject: (exotica) Fw: Be a Little Devil This Valentine for all you londoners, dougee from the gentle people is hosting a nite on feb 12th : details follow - --------------------------------- > Be a little devil this Valentine's Tasty Treat! > > It's the long awaited return of Tasty Treat, at our faboo new venue "Club 29." > > Check into this love vibration and make that Valentine's Connection while > grooving to those sexy sounds provided by your DJ host Dougee Dimensional (Gentle People) > plus special CD set by Agent Cooper, and many more surprises! > > The Date:Saturday the 12th of February 2000AD > The Time:9pm to late > The Place:Club 29, 29 Maddox Street London W1 (Oxford Circus Tube) > The Price: 3 English Pounds donation for this one off private party! > > Email:gentlep@dircon.co.uk for more info. > > PS: Look for the transparent door!!! > Ciao and hope to see ya all there! > > Dougee Dimensional > The Gentle People # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 10:03:45 EST From: Thinkmatic@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) 'Holy shit! We are going to sue you.' In a message dated 02/03/2000 7:09:31 AM Eastern Standard Time, mojoto@plex.nl writes: << Napster the software program -- a downloadable application that lets users temporarily turn their computers into servers for the purpose of swapping MP3 files -- is growing faster than anyone could have imagined. To add to the excitement, Napster the company is now embroiled in a lawsuit with the notorious Recording Industry Association of America. >> Very interesting. Some 19 year old makes a computer program and he knows from the start that 80-90% of the people using it are using it for the distribution of copywrite infringing material and then as an afterthought he thinks that in rare instances his product can be used for the legal distribution of music. Now he's got an entire company behind him and investors a plenty trying to figure out how they can create an atmosphere of propriety for this bootlegging software and start shoveling in the profit. God Bless America where people will rally behind you for being a creative thief!!! And soon after, as it was written in prophecy, the End Time grew nigh and the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse rode into town and they told the people that every thief was Robin Hood and the people believed and the dark clouds rolled in and we all turned to cannibalism instead of visiting McDonalds. (it's not an old joke, now it's a running gag) - -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: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 10:11:16 -0500 From: "Brian Karasick" Subject: (exotica) More Tekkie Talk Nate wrote: > Anyone familiar with the Tascam CDRW-700 CD recorder?? > It's on sale for $549.00 Tascam makes upper end, semi-pro products. The CD players in our station are Tascams. They also make mixers, multi-track recorders etc. and (should be) a cut above the usual home market products like Pioneer, Sony etc. thus the higher price. I assume this is a stand alone unit. What I'd like to know is would a more expensive unit make a better CD copy? If all things digital are exact copies then in theory aren't they all the same? I was told by a tekkie type here that the playability of a recorderd CDR on an older player is not always related to the colour of the blank but to the burner that made it. This may expalin why some blue discs work fine for me but others don't at all. Someday I'm going to buy a burner. I was told the Yamaha is the best of the lot for computer units but I'd be curious to know how this Tascam is rated against other domestic variety stand alone units. > Also on sale is a gemini turntable for $170 - "direct drive" - does this = > mean it doesn't rely on a belt to turn the platter?? That's correct. The motor/spindle is all one piece. Gemini makes DJ stuff so I don't think this high ens audio somehow. Beware though, the advantage of the belt is no motor noise can be transferred through, and I believe most high end audio types insist on belt drive. I have this old Ariston Audio belt drive turntable and I scoured the world to find a belt a few years back. The company is from Scotland and long closed up. I lucked out in Boston with a store having one left of old stock . It's now time for a new one and I don't know where to start! If anyone has a source for a belt for an Ariston Audio - RD 11s, preferably in North America, I'd appreciate the info. Thanks, Brian Karasick Physical Planner McGill University Montreal, Canada # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 10:12:30 -0500 From: "Josh Renaud" Subject: Re: (exotica) 'Holy shit! We are going to sue you.' | | In a message dated 02/03/2000 7:09:31 AM Eastern Standard Time, | mojoto@plex.nl writes: | | << Napster the software program -- a downloadable application that | lets users temporarily turn their computers into servers for the | purpose of swapping MP3 files -- is growing faster than anyone | could have imagined. To add to the excitement, Napster the | company is now embroiled in a lawsuit with the notorious | Recording Industry Association of America. | >> | | Very interesting. | | Some 19 year old makes a computer program and he knows from the start that | 80-90% of the people using it are using it for the distribution of copywrite | infringing material and then as an afterthought he thinks that in rare | instances his product can be used for the legal distribution of music. Now | he's got an entire company behind him and investors a plenty trying to figure | out how they can create an atmosphere of propriety for this bootlegging | software and start shoveling in the profit. | | God Bless America where people will rally behind you for being a creative | thief!!! Their logic is that if a company makes something that the majority of users use for illegal reasons, they can sue the maker of that product, instead of each individual who uses it illegally. This being the case, why don't they sue makers of CD burners? Or how about makers of tape recorders? I would say that the vast majority of people who use the "record" feature on any tape deck use it to make copies of their music (mix tapes and such), which is the exact same crime as copying MP3 files. What they're really pissed about is that they think they've created such great security for all these things so people will never again be able to copy their media. When it turns out that its not so secure anymore, they turn into little brats and sue everyone in sight. They need to accept that they will never be able to stop piracy. They can only go after the individual pirates. JOSH # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 10:14:59 EST From: SLarry3595@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Si Zentner passes Si Zentner LAS VEGAS (AP) - Si Zentner, the Trombonist who started a highly successful big band years after the era had passed, died Monday. He was 82. Zentner became well-known when he recorded the hit ``Up A Lazy River'' in 1961. He went on to record more than 30 albums and hundreds of songs for Liberty Records. He played with the bands of Les Brown and Jimmy Dorsey before settling in Los Angeles as a session musician. Using a revised version of ``Lazy River,'' Zenter recorded what he called ``the first big-band record you could twist to.'' The song became a Top 40 hit and a Grammy Award winner. Zentner recorded hundreds of songs for Liberty, continuing his knack for recasting contemporary hits into a big-band sound aimed at older ears. During the James Bond craze he reworked the movies' themes, and when the Beatles exploded, he recorded a swinging version of ``I Want to Hold Your Hand.'' # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 10:29:04 -0500 From: Peter Gingerich Subject: (exotica) Conet Project Hoax?//Ghost Orchid GHOST ORCHID An Introduction to EVP (Ash International R.I.P.) 14.98 Essentially, The Conet Project From Beyond The Grave!! Huh? Peter Becker, who used to work for Asphodel (R.I.P.), has presented an interesting theory that The Conet Project (the awesome 4 cd documentation of shortwave radio "numbers stations") was nothing more than an elaborate hoax. While we think that he's mistaken and that plenty of evidence points to the validity of The Conet Project, here is a far more questionable recording, because you've got to believe in ghosts rather than a more corporeal conspiracy... The Ghost Orchid documents instances of something called "Electronic Voice Phenomenon", the paranormal appearance of strange voices (which at times sing and speak in multiple languages) on magnetic tape when there shouldn't be any voices there at all... Respected parapsychologists have postulated that these voices are those of dead people (i.e. ghosts) or possibly of extraterrestrial origin! Unlike The Conet Project, which cross referenced the audio tracks with written information, The Ghost Orchid presents these recordings with the audio commentary of one of several researchers (Nadia Fowler, Raymond Cass, and Lief Elggren - the Swedish performance/audio artist and a part time collaborator with the Hafler Trio), explaining the findings. These recordings are the findings of a number of parapsychologists including Dr. Konstantine Raudive, Friedrich Jurgenson, and Raymond Cass. While there is something wholly terrifying about these recordings, there is an absurd question about these ghostly voices that we have to ask...Why are the majority of these recordings in Latvian? Our resident Latvian, Byram, is unable to answer this question...but perhaps we will hear from him in the afterlife...at any rate, The Ghost Orchid manages to be both spooky and silly, and is definitely a fascinating listen from a pure sound perspective regardless of how disturbing and/or amusing you might find the alleged sound source itself...you might laugh at the voice of "Winston Churchill", for instance, spouting nonsense from the netherworld, but it's still a gripping, dark sound document. A word of caution, Jim's copy of this cd disappeared from its case on the Aquarius counter-top at 6:35PM on 5/8/99 and reappeared in puddle of ectoplasmic goo at 3:20 PM on 5/9/99. Haunting. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 10:32:29 -0500 From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) [obits]Gary E. Cooper,Alex Kapral,Si Zentner,Willie B.,Lin Halliday ROANOKE, Va. (AP) -- Gary E. Cooper, a longtime Roanoke radio personality, died Tuesday of an apparent heart attack. He was 62. Cooper spent 38 years as host of ``Swap Shop'' on WRIS until his retirement in May. On ``Swap Shop,'' people call to buy, sell or trade their personal belongings. Callers give a brief description of what they have to offer and leave a telephone number. From 1965 to 1981, Cooper made announcements at the Lee-Hi Drive-In. He spent three years in the Army before returning to Roanoke to work at WROV and later WRIS. - ---- *Alex Kapral TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- Alex Kapral, whose 150 patents included a quick-release glue used for diapers and name tags, died Jan. 23. He was 92. Kapral, a chemist who once wanted to be an actor, helped save the Czech Republic's sugar beet industry when it was thrown into doldrums by sugar cane. Beet growers had produced a low-priced livestock feed that proved popular among people. In 1931, Kapral found a way to make it repulsive to people while still palatable to animals. That won him a top post at Biochema Corp., a Czechoslovakian agricultural chemical company. He was the company's managing director in 1942 when he was arrested by the Nazis for aiding the Allied effort. Kapral's wife, Zdena, the daughter of a sugar beet farmer Kapral had met through his work, managed to free Kapral through underground channels about a year later. They moved to India in 1947 for a job but left for Australia when civil war broke out and later immigrated to the United States. He opened his own chemical engineering company in Chicago in 1957, pioneering an additive that kept cement from sticking to molds. After a number of other inventions, he devised a quick-curing silicone-release adhesive coating in 1969 while repairing a gumming machine at a paper mill in Menasha, Wis. He then bought the mill, renaming it Akrosil Corp. - ----- *Si Zentner LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Si Zentner, the Trombonist who started a highly successful big band years after the era had passed, died Monday. He was 82. Zentner became well-known when he recorded the hit ``Up A Lazy River'' in 1961. He went on to record more than 30 albums and hundreds of songs for Liberty Records. He played with the bands of Les Brown and Jimmy Dorsey before settling in Los Angeles as a session musician. Using a revised version of ``Lazy River,'' Zenter recorded what he called ``the first big-band record you could twist to.'' The song became a Top 40 hit and a Grammy Award winner. Zentner recorded hundreds of songs for Liberty, continuing his knack for recasting contemporary hits into a big-band sound aimed at older ears. During the James Bond craze he reworked the movies' themes, and when the Beatles exploded, he recorded a swinging version of ``I Want to Hold Your Hand.'' - -- From the Las Vegas Sun: Big-band leader Zentner dies at 82 Jazz trombonist made 30 albums, performed for 3 decades in LV By Ed Koch LAS VEGAS SUN In 1968 Si Zentner and his Orchestra burst into "Up a Lazy River" for the overture to the "Folies Bergere" at the Tropicana hotel. Jazz fans in the audience would smile, for they knew that the Hoagy Carmichael classic was not part of the French-themed cancan show, but rather was a No. 1 instrumental hit for famed jazz trombonist Zentner nine years earlier. "We only did it for a short time because we figured people knew who Si was and would appreciate it," said Maynard Sloate, the former Tropicana entertainment director. "Si had a recognizable sound. While Tommy Dorsey was a mellow trombonist, Si was robust. He was unique and certainly well respected." Si Zentner, who performed with the Les Brown, Jimmy Dorsey and MGM Studios orchestras and later as a bandleader and musician won two Grammy awards, died Sunday of leukemia at the University Medical Center. He was 82. There will be no services for the Las Vegas resident of 35 years. Valley Memorial Cremation is handling the arrangements. "Si had such a great command of the instrument -- he was a superb, talented man," said retired jazz saxophonist "Doc" Randal Grilott, who was performing with the Bob Crosby band when he met Zentner in 1939 and became his longtime friend. "He could play everything from jazz to symphony. Si always had a desire to take his music to higher levels." Chuck Diamond, a veteran musician and bassist for the Royal Dixie Jazz Band, said: "Si was an incredible musician whether in the studio or onstage. He was a champion guy." Zentner moved to Las Vegas in 1965, the year Sloate hired him and his then-road orchestra to back up Mel Torme at the opening of the Tropicana's Blue Room, a 500-seat lounge. Three years later Zentner was music director for the "Folies Bergere," a position he held until 1971. For the next 29 years he performed regularly in Las Vegas and worldwide. "While trombonists were not known much for their longevity in the business, Si was an exception," said longtime Sun entertainment columnist Joe Delaney. "And he was even playing well to the end of his career." Zentner last performed at a musicians convention at a Strip resort last July. Born Simon H. Zentner on June 13, 1917, in New York City, Zentner started learning the violin at age 4 but soon switched to the trombone. He began his professional career as a classical musician but in the late 1930s switched to more commercially popular music. In 1940 he joined Les Brown's band and a few years later became a member of the Jimmy Dorsey band. From 1949 to 1955 Zentner was a member of the MGM band. His trombone can be heard in the classic motion pictures "A Star is Born" and "Singing in the Rain." In 1957 Zentner started his band, which won 13 straight Downbeat Jazz polls. Zentner also was named 11 times to the annual Playboy Jazz Readers' Poll all-star band. In 1959 Zentner got a contract with Liberty Records and that year released five albums -- "Thinking Man's Band," "Big Band Plays Big Hits," "Desafinado," "The Stripper and Other Big Band Hits" and "Up a Lazy River," which produced the hit. single. During his career Zentner made 30 albums, including "Si Zentner & His Orchestra, Alive in Las Vegas" in 1992. From the 1970s through the '90s Zentner and his band performed at major resorts, on cruise ships and at colleges, including UNLV and the Community College of Southern Nevada. He was a member of the Masons and numerous music unions throughout the United States. He was a past vice president of the Musicians Local 369 in Las Vegas. He was working on his memoirs at the time of his death, friends said. Zentner is survived by a son, Howard Zentner of Sandpoint, Idaho; a daughter, Linda Berrow of Palmdale, Calif.; and five grandchildren. http://home.earthlink.net/~spaceagepop/zentner.htm http://allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?UID=9:55:23|AM&p=amg&sql=B25413 http://317x.simplenet.com/albums/z/sizentner/card.html http://www.bigbandrecordlibrary.com/szentner.html http://boneswest.org/photos.htm http://www.boneswest.org/vegas.htm http://www.afm.org/369/ http://nfo.net/.WWW/z1.html http://www.cruisefan.com/themes.html http://bsnpubs.com/libertyb.html http://www.americanmusicclassics.com/music_z.htm http://looksmart.infoplease.com/ipa/A0150541.html http://www.personal.riverusers.com/~debed/guitmag.htm Look for these videos: Meet the bandleaders. [videorecording]. v.102, Harry James, Ray McKinley, Si Zentner. Indianapolis, IN: Kartes Video Communications, c1984. (52 min.) THE BIG BANDS: HARRY JAMES, RAY MC KINLEY, SI ZENTNER, RALPH MARTERIE, M 1365 .H3, 1965 54 min. - ---- *Willie B. ATLANTA (AP) -- Willie B., the Zoo Atlanta gorilla who spent 27 years in isolation with only a caretaker and a television for company before being introduced to other gorillas and finally becoming a father, died Wednesday. He was 41. Willie had been sick since early January, when he caught the flu and then contracted pneumonia, which caused stress on his heart. The silverback gorilla, named for former Atlanta Mayor William B. Hartsfield, was captured in Africa and spent more than two decades in a concrete-and-steel-bars cage at the former Atlanta-Fulton County Zoo. Besides a caretaker, his only companion was a TV set on a shelf in the corner of the cage. He played on a tire swing. Willie was one of the first gorillas released into the new habitat in early 1988. - --- http://nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/obit-g-kane.html Gil Kane's NYTimes obit - --- Chicago Tenor Saxophonist Lin Halliday Dies At 63 Tenor saxophonist Lin Halliday, who started his professional career in the late 1950s but wouldn't achieve wider notoriety until later in life, died Tuesday (Jan. 25) in Chicago of natural causes. He was 63. Continued at:http://elvispelvis.com/linhalliday.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: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 10:41:07 EST From: Thinkmatic@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) 'Holy shit! We are going to sue you.' In a message dated 02/03/2000 10:14:25 AM Eastern Standard Time, josh@jabscoinc.com writes: << This being the case, why don't they sue makers of CD burners? Or how about makers of tape recorders? I would say that the vast majority of people who use the "record" feature on any tape deck use it to make copies of their music (mix tapes and such), which is the exact same crime as copying MP3 files. >> I don't think it's as much about the copying, as it is about the free and instantaneous dissemination of the music. To use a CD burner, tape recorder, VCR, mini disc player you need to buy blanks and you need to physically pass the copy on to another person. It's a time consuming and costly way to spread music. So I don't think it poses so much of a worry. Software like Napster allow a shitload of people access to the music fast and at little to no cost in time or recording media. That's what scares the record company folks, understandably. And with the growth of high bandwidth cable modems people can send better then CD quality mp3s along with all the linernotes and graphics from the CD, in a couple of minutes. Like I've said before, I'm glad the folks on this list are into piracy the old fashion way. Not on a global level, but on a case by case basis.:-)(-: - -R.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: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 14:16:48 +0000 From: mailshot@gentleworld.com Subject: (exotica) Be a Little Devil This Valentine Be a little devil this Valentine's Tasty Treat! It's the long awaited return of Tasty Treat, at our faboo new venue "Club 29." Check into this love vibration and make that Valentine's Connection while grooving to those sexy sounds provided by your DJ host Dougee Dimensional (Gentle People) plus special CD set by Agent Cooper, and many more surprises! The Date:Saturday the 12th of February 2000AD The Time:9pm to late The Place:Club 29, 29 Maddox Street London W1 (Oxford Circus Tube) The Price: 3 English Pounds donation for this one off private party! Email:gentlep@dircon.co.uk for more info. PS: Look for the transparent door!!! Ciao and hope to see ya all there! Dougee Dimensional The Gentle People ******** to unsubscribe from the Gentle People mailing list, simply send an email to mailshot@gentleworld.com with "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the subject line # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Feb 00 08:41:55 -0800 From: "B.J. Major" Subject: Re: (exotica) 'Holy shit! We are going to sue you.' >Their logic is that if a company makes something that the majority of users >use for illegal reasons, they can sue the maker of that product, instead of >each individual who uses it illegally. This being the case, why don't they >sue makers of CD burners? Or how about makers of tape recorders? I would say >that the vast majority of people who use the "record" feature on any tape >deck use it to make copies of their music (mix tapes and such), which is the >exact same crime as copying MP3 files. Not only that, but swapping an MP3 file with someone privately via email isn't illegal in and of itself; it's the same thing as trading a tape or CD-R with someone. If there is no money involved in the trade, copyright issues aren't involved. It's only in the public broadcast of said file (as in downloading or streaming from a server that has connected links to a public accessible website or in charging money for copies that's a direct violation, AFAIA). >What they're really pissed about is that they think they've created such >great security for all these things so people will never again be able to >copy their media. When it turns out that its not so secure anymore, they >turn into little brats and sue everyone in sight. They need to accept that >they will never be able to stop piracy. They can only go after the >individual pirates. When I was in contact with someone who is a computer programming and technology engineer by trade, he used to tell me stories of how it doesn't matter what a company comes up with, there will always be codebreakers and people who can reverse engineer a product out there and that it's really a tremendous waste of money, time, and effort to think you are actually going to stop these folks! Regards, - --bj The Walter Wanderley Pictorial Discography http://bjbear3.freeservers.com/Wanderley/main.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. ------------------------------ End of exotica-digest V2 #614 *****************************