From: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com (exotica-digest) To: exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: exotica-digest V2 #623 Reply-To: exotica-digest Sender: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes exotica-digest Friday, February 11 2000 Volume 02 : Number 623 In This Digest: (exotica) Alan Tew Orchestra (exotica) Good-Lookin' Food That Stanks Re: Re: (exotica) Creed Taylor/Kenyon Hopkins: Setting the Record Straight (exotica) Good-Lookin' Food That Stanks Re: (exotica) Alan Tew Orchestra Re: (exotica) Which Martin Denny LPs to get? Re: (exotica) Exotica Videoze Re: (exotica) Quad Re: Re: (exotica) Exotica Videoze Re: (exotica) Yesterday's scores Re: Re: (exotica) Exotica Videoze Re: (exotica) Exotica Videoze (exotica) Optigans? (exotica) Speaking of Summer Samba... Re: (exotica) Optigans? (exotica) Kosinus Label Sale Re: (exotica) Which Martin Denny LPs to get? Re: (exotica) Exotica Videoze (exotica) tiki on a tooth (exotica) Exotica Mailing List FAQ (exotica) Re: Good-Lookin' Food That Stanks Re: (exotica) Which Martin Denny LPs to get? Re: (exotica) Which Martin Denny LPs to get? Re: (exotica) Optigans? Re: (exotica) Airports, airplanes, and the people who love them........ Re: Re: (exotica) Airports, airplanes, and the people who love them........ Re: (exotica) Completist collecting (was Yesterday's scores) (exotica) Optigans? Re: Re: (exotica) Airports, airplanes, and the people who love them........ Re: (exotica) Exotica Mailing List FAQ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 09:59:41 -0800 From: Scott Swanson Subject: (exotica) Alan Tew Orchestra Does anyone out there have an album by the Alan Tew Orchestra titled "This Is My Scene"? I've been trying to locate a copy for quite some time now. Oh, and along these same lines...does anyone out there have any recordings by the Charles Blackwell Orchestra? Thanks much, Scott (swandwn@agora.rdrop.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, 10 Feb 2000 14:13:19 EST From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Good-Lookin' Food That Stanks In a message dated 2/10/0 9:58:13 AM, you wrote: >If "Rapper's Delight" is a "cobbled together" hit, so be it I may have misspoken. The song was most likely a work of what Frank Zappa called "continuous continuity" developed in the killing fields of the local performance stage. It was probably a well-known jam in the Sugar Hill area where the gang performed (BTW, many black communities have a Sugar Hill section, one exists right here in the Roxbury section of Boston). When Flash, obviously a sturdier act, resisted Sylvia Robinson's arm-twist, she merely tapped into an already existing and locally known rap. I too love the rap, play it at every DJ gig I get regardless of where it is and who its for and it always gets people on the floor enjoying it. Just for good measure I mix it right out of Chic's "Good Times." You'd be surprised at how many people learn then and there that they are the same song! # 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, 10 Feb 2000 14:17:06 EST From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) Creed Taylor/Kenyon Hopkins: Setting the Record Straight >Brad Bigelow wrote: >> I wanted to pass on the following note to fans of "Shock!," "Panic!," and >> other Kenyon Hopkins/Creed Taylor albums: Would that also include the mighty mighty "Lonelyville: The Nervous Beat"? # 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, 10 Feb 2000 12:57:45 -0800 (PST) From: chuck Subject: (exotica) Good-Lookin' Food That Stanks Thanks to everyone for the insights on this great song. I saw it the other day for sale for 50 cents but passed on it since I already have a copy. One of my favorite rap songs ever was the Double Dutch Bus which I remember reading sold over 100,000 copies in NY alone. Any insights/info into this song are appreciated. Easy listening in the Big easy Chuck __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.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: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 22:31:36 GMT From: Peter Hipwell Subject: Re: (exotica) Alan Tew Orchestra > Does anyone out there have an album by the Alan Tew Orchestra titled "This > Is My Scene"? I've been trying to locate a copy for quite some time now. > Yes, I have it (mono copy rather than stereo). What do you want to know? All I can recall right now is that it has versions of Spanish Flea and These Boots Are Made For Walking, and a really great cover of psychedelic Carnaby St. plus Mr. Tew sitting on a stepladder looking stern in his sinister shades and shiny shoes. > Oh, and along these same lines...does anyone out there have any recordings > by the Charles Blackwell Orchestra? > Probably you already know this, but there was a feature on Charles Blackwell in "Record Collector" some moons again. IIRC, there were only ever a couple of singles; an album, set to be called "Those Plucking Strings" was shamefully cancelled. Cheers Pete H. # 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, 10 Feb 2000 17:48:53 -0500 From: Ross 'Mambo Frenzy' Orr Subject: Re: (exotica) Which Martin Denny LPs to get? Kevin wrote: >Now is probably the time to investigate newer albums only available on >LP (unless someone wishes to enlighten me...). Knowing that the quality >of some of the later material varied (due to ghosting, style >experimentation, etc.) I am not sure which albums to seek out on the >auction sites, used record shops, etc. One interesting one to look out for is 1982's _The Enchanted Isle_. Until someone tells me otherwise, I believe this is the real Martin Denny returning to the classic exotica style of his late-50s LPs. Nice album. cheers, --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, 10 Feb 00 16:46:24 -0800 From: "B.J. Major" Subject: Re: (exotica) Exotica Videoze > The recent discussion on Louis Prima (check out Disneys 'Jungle Book' >by the way) leads me to ask: Most definitely check out Disney's animated "The Jungle Book". Louie and Phil Harris' duet in the film is priceless and is one of the highlights of the film. > Can anyone suggest a source for exotica appearances in the moving >picture medium? > Do Denny, Esquival, Lyman, et. al. show up in films or concert videos? >Or for that matter Walter Wanderley, Mantovani, The Three Suns? I can tell you for sure that The Walter Wanderley Trio appeared both on The Tonight Show and on The Mike Douglas Show during the 60s. I don't have a month/yr. for The Mike Douglas appearance, but the one appearance on The Tonight Show was immediately following the summer of '66 when "Summer Samba" ruled the AM airwaves. I assume it was either a fall or early winter episode of the show. I have asked on television mailing lists for this particular episode of The Tonight Show, but no one had any copy of it or even knew it existed. I would give anything to see either of these appearances on video! 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. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Feb 00 17:07:08 -0800 From: "B.J. Major" Subject: Re: (exotica) Quad >One of the interesting issues about re-issuing quad LPs isn't >that the quad-mix/effect is preserved -- it's that the quad-mix is >used at all! It turns out that most quad encoded releases differed >from the stereo release by either having more sounds present, or by >using entirely different backing tracks. In some cases, the quad and >stereo mixes are completely different takes (shades of the mono/stereo >EXOTICA lps). What with the clarity of CD digital, and the >availability of SurroundSound encoding, it would be cool if more of >the quad mixes were made available when LPs are reissued. I haven't experienced Quad CD reissues of Quad LPs at all...I know for sure that Henry Mancini's Quad LPs (among them being the very recently reissued "Brass, Ivory and Strings" w/Doc Severinsen) were released in regular 2-channel stereo on CD [even though they reproduced the LP covers faithfully and put the "QuadraDisc" logo on the CD cover!]. And Quad and Dolby Surround Sound are not exactly compatible since Dolby Surround Sound includes a Center channel which Quad does not have (or use) and also, the surround channel is mono (both speakers), whereas Dolby Digital has the stereo surround channel--which would make it much more compatible w/Quad. 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. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 20:15:10 EST From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) Exotica Videoze In a message dated 2/10/0 7:48:36 PM, bjbear71@mindspring.com wrote: >I can tell you for sure that The Walter Wanderley Trio appeared both on >The Tonight Show and on The Mike Douglas Show during the 60s. I don't >have a month/yr. for The Mike Douglas appearance, but the one appearance >on The Tonight Show was immediately following the summer of '66 when >"Summer Samba" ruled the AM airwaves. Mr. Nit-Pick backatcha. I love "Summer Samba". I have versions by WW, Howard Roberts, Ramsey Lewis, Combustible Edison and am waiting for a 12'; remix. But Summer Samba did not "rule" the airwaves. It gained a respectable position, reaching #26 on the U.S. pop charts and was a nine week hit. Pretty good for an unknown organist from Brazil whose style has captured hearts and minds thru the ages. But being a vet '66-er, in all honesty, the Beatles reigned supreme with "Paperback Writer" b/w "Rain" that year, especially summer... JB/geezerness has its privileges # 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, 10 Feb 2000 20:38:17 EST From: Thinkmatic@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Yesterday's scores In a message dated 02/09/2000 9:32:26 PM Eastern Standard Time, BasicHip@aol.com writes: << But for every record that gets heavy bidding action and goes for big bucks, there are dozens and dozens of LP's that never receive a bid or are won by a single bidder who meets a very reasonable minimum. >> I'm with Mr. Hip. I've gotten some great stuff in great condition for $3.00 a pop, and most of the folks I've bought from have at least a few other cool albums that they'll sell you without going through eBay. - -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, 10 Feb 00 17:50:57 -0800 From: "B.J. Major" Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) Exotica Videoze >In a message dated 2/10/0 7:48:36 PM, bjbear71@mindspring.com wrote: > >>I can tell you for sure that The Walter Wanderley Trio appeared both on >>The Tonight Show and on The Mike Douglas Show during the 60s. I don't >>have a month/yr. for The Mike Douglas appearance, but the one appearance >>on The Tonight Show was immediately following the summer of '66 when >>"Summer Samba" ruled the AM airwaves. > >Mr. Nit-Pick backatcha. I love "Summer Samba". I have versions by WW, Howard >Roberts, Ramsey Lewis, Combustible Edison and am waiting for a 12'; remix. You haven't really heard "Summer Samba" until you've heard the Brazilian version that Walter recorded years before he hit the U.S. shores. It's a totally different arrangement, saxes have the melody, tempo is significantly "upped", and simply put--it sounds NOTHING like the one WW recorded in the U.S. Also significant is the arrangement of "Summer Samba" that WW recorded with Doris Monteiro (a well liked Brazilian singer) in the early 60s on one of her own albums in Brazil. And--WW never repeated himself. On "Brazil's Greatest Hits" (GNP/Crescendo), he offers yet another different arrangment of the tune and this time includes synthesizer. >But Summer Samba did not "rule" the airwaves. It gained a respectable >position, reaching #26 on the U.S. pop charts and was a nine week hit. Billboard chart positioning means very little to me when I remember how frequently it was played. In addition, please read the interview I did with Claudio Slon (Walter's drummer) on Page 6 of my WW site. He clearly states: "When the single "Summer Samba" was released, the radio stations started playing it solidly about 4 or 5 times EVERY HOUR!" If that ain't 'ruling the airwaves', I don't know what is... >Pretty >good for an unknown organist from Brazil whose style has captured hearts and >minds thru the ages. "Forgive them, Father, for they know not what they say..." to wit: Walter was NOT an unknwon organist. His recordings in the U.S. merely introduced him to a brand new audience. I can assure you that he was famous in Brazil for many years before he boarded that plane to come to the U.S. in '66. He was in his early thirties when he got to New York and had been a recording STAR in Brazil since the age of 18!!! Regards, - --bj The Walter Wanderley Pictorial Discography Added today: Interview with Bobby Rosengarden (Page 6) 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. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 21:04:32 -0500 From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Exotica Videoze > There was some exotica flicage awhile back at the Fez here in NYC >(sponsored by Irwin Chusid) but I missed out..... A Jay Schwartz / Secret Cinema screening to be precise. http://www.voicenet.com/~jschwart/ Mr. Nit-Pick II ecam@voicenet.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, 10 Feb 2000 22:13:38 -0500 From: cheryl Subject: (exotica) Optigans? Just curious - what is an optigan? Anyways, for all those interested (and able to pick up CBC FM on their radios), this weekend, Radio Sonic is running a show on it with former listmember Pea Hicks. Here's the blurb they sent me: On Sunday February 13, airing 6:30PM - 8:00PM, David Wisdom is pleased to present the creaky nostalgic sounds of the Optigan Lounge. What the hell is an Optigan? Well, tune in to find out. Producer James Booth does an interview with Optigan webmaster and member of the band Optiganally Yours, Pea Hicks. Hear music that contains the optigan from Blur, Sukia, The Wedding Present, Cibo Matto, Tom Waits, and many many more. cheryl # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 23:05:24 -0500 From: "Jack" Subject: (exotica) Speaking of Summer Samba... I have recently purchased the 1999 CD reissue of a long time favorite thrift L.P. discovery : Marcos Valle "Samba '68 " Verve 559-516 I Never thought that in a 1,000,000 years I would ... "The Answer" to the Samba is love. Jack from Cincinnati # 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, 10 Feb 2000 23:10:19 -0500 From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Optigans? >Just curious - what is an optigan? Anyways, for all those interested >(and able to pick up CBC FM on their radios), this weekend, Radio Sonic >is running a show on it with former listmember Pea Hicks. See Pea's site: http://www.optigan.com/ Short version: similar principle as the Mellotron (which used tape loops of real instruments for each note), but cheaper and used film-sound type technology, with transparent plastic discs containing the sounds. Primitive sampling. I'm not explaining it very well. Just go to Pea's site. 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: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 18:10:28 -0800 From: Jack Diamond Subject: (exotica) Kosinus Label Sale Hello Folks, I am blowing out all KOSINUS label Import CD's KOSINUS is a Library/Production Music label and that is ALL they are. That is all they do, BUT they don't sell these CD's. These CD's are NOT for sale to regular folks like you and me. They are to be "sold" only in the form of licensing each track, like for $200.00 each, to be used from anything like music for commercials to selling Ice Cream, to car commercials, intermission music for ballet, whatever, etc etc etc All that great music you hear in commercials was licensed, bought and paid for. 1 track or maybe they only used half of the track or maybe a certain phrase or coda of the track. BUT BE CERTAIN, they paid BIG BUCKS for it and I do mean "it" CERTAINLY not an ENTIRE CD, CHOCK FULL AND OVERFLOWING (Over 74 Minutes, each CD) WITH INSTRUMENTAL MOOG GENIUS from the likes of Jean Jacques Perrey and a new phenomenon, tremendously influenced by JJP, by the name of Laurent Lombard. So, about 1 year 4 months ago, I received a CD from the label itself, KOSINUS and the CD was the Jean Jacques Perrey-"Good Moog" CD. 40 Tracks taken from 7 rekkids on the famed Montparnasse rekkid label out of France. (Whip out your Incredibly Strange Music Books and read about JJ's recorded history) Musics ONLY licensed to people in "the industry" and NEVER EVER AVAILABLE to the likes of anyone such as you or I. I'm repeating myself, I know:-) So, Kosinus sent this to me, I then e-mailed Kosinus for about 2 months, every god damn day for 2 months and NOTHING, until 1 day I receive an e-mail from a Distributor in France telling me that they represent Kosinus for Exporting their label into the US. OK, GREAT, NO PROBLEM, LET'S DO IT. So, I bought 100 of the "Good Moog" CD's and then when the "Laurent Lombard-Happyland" CD was released by Kosinus, the distributor mailed me a copy and I ordered 60 of those. WHY ? BECAUSE IT IS THE STUFF THAT DREAMS ARE MADE OF IF YOU LOVE WEIRD QUIRKY POP INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC JINGLES, FEATURING THE MOOG SYNTHESIZER. that's why. I have sold them all along, ever since I got them, for $20.00 and they have sold regularly. I sold out of the Laurent Lombard and ordered 40 more about 4 months ago. Tuesday, I receive a phone call from a lady from Los Angeles, CA, who works for a Library/Production Music Licensing company and she tells me that THEY are the WORLD WIDE EXCLUSIVE licensers of all Kosinus material and these CD's I have and are selling ARE NOT to be sold as "regular music CD's" AND SHE IS LIVID AND __OUT__OF__HER__FREAKIN'___MIND___! I told her the story I just told you. That Kosinus sent them to me and then contacted a distributor to sell them for Kosinus and it's not that I don't believe her, but I did buy them legally and NO, I will NOT stop selling them and NO, I will NOT tell her who my distributor is in France. These are my business associates and I owe THEM long before I owe here anything. BUT I said this in a MUCH nicer and professional way I know it's hard for some of you to believe this last statement, but regardless... That I will call my distributor in France and find out what is up with what and get back to her ASAP, which I did today She tells me that she is going to send me a court order to "Cease and Desist" me selling all KOSINUS PRODUCT. I said, OK:) SO, if YOU, yeah, I'm talkin' to you, didn't get either or both of these CD's before at $20.00 + shipping, they are now available for $16.00 + shipping. AND if I have ANY left when I get this court order, I will then send everything I have back to France and get my money back, which the distributor has already agreed to. I have some MP3 sound samples of each that will give you more than a better idea of the greatness of both of these CD's of Library music that puts ANY other collection of Library Musics available to the general public to shame. Listen for yourself at these 2 locations: jackdiamond.com/catalog_pages/happyland.html jackdiamond.com/catalog_pages/goodmoog.html $16.00 plus shipping. Stock up for Christmas NOW. It's sooner than you think! HA! Jean Jacques Perrey's music from the 1960's and 1970's, only available in France AND only available to Advertising Agencies/Ballet/Film/TV/Radio Production Companies for use as music for commercials... If you are a fan of Jean Jacques Perrey and even more so, the LP he did with Harry Brauer "The Happy Moog" on the Pickwick label, then this is what you have been praying and dreaming about. A 40 track collection, taken from 7 LP's released on the Montparnasse Record Label Jean Jacques Perrey: GOOD MOOG; Astral Animations & Komputer Kartoons. Harry Brauer, percussionist and arranger extroirdinare, accompanies Jean Jacques, along with Vinnie Bell on electric guitar and more electronics in general as demonstrated in his work on the soundtrack of "Barbarella" (Dynavoice) as well as his electric guitar work on the Dick Hyman/Mary Mayo masterpiece "Moon Gas" LP (MGM) and at least 5,000 other records (you can believe it). If you like/love that, then this Import CD is going to rock your world, in the nuttiest, silliest, joyous and most fantastique way you NEVER heard Jean Jacques Perrey. Laurent Lombard-"Happyland" CD 99 Tracks of music for commercials with Moog/Electric Guitar, Spanish Classical Guitars, Bass/Fender Bass, Punching Horn Sections and many wild and weird percussive instruments, Cowbell, Timbales, Conga Drums and Bongo's etc etc etc used by Laurent Lombard for these super tight arrangements and very special recordings, from France. Excellent remastering. This 74 minute long cd are commercial jingles, many danceable on the Moog and Ondioline (French Moog) with a wild and zany percusssive background. There are 99 tracks and one track contains an added treat, the Sitar. The first 33 tracks are the 2 minute plus commercial jingles and the next 66 are samples used in these jingles with some great little 10 second snippets of melodies. Both on the Kosinus label, from France, this is your last chance to get either or both of these CD's, as they will NOT be available EVER AGAIN, period. Thanks and keep rockin' Jack Jack Diamond Music jackdiamond.com Tune in Jack Diamond's "House of Games" every Saturday and Sunday morning, from 9AM-11AM (PST), 10AM-Noon (MT) and 11AM-1PM (ET) and then a repeat of the same shows on Tuesday and Thursday mornings, from Midnight - 2AM (PST), 1AM-3AM, (MT) and 3-5AM (ET) on Go Ga Ga Free Form Eclectic Internet Only Radio. gogaga.com I know you would dig it:) Since August 199 # 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, 10 Feb 2000 20:51:37 -0800 From: Kevin Crossman Subject: Re: (exotica) Which Martin Denny LPs to get? Ross 'Mambo Frenzy' Orr wrote: > > One interesting one to look out for is 1982's _The Enchanted Isle_. > > Until someone tells me otherwise, I believe this is the real Martin > Denny returning to the classic exotica style of his late-50s LPs. > Nice album. I saw this LP earlier today on Ebay and thought the '82 copyright was a typo.... I guess not. Thanks, Kevin - -- *********************************************************** * Kevin Crossman kevin@kevdo.com * * http://www.kevdo.com - The Narrow Interest Portal * * Lip Balm Anonymous, Ultimate Mai Tai, Exotica Archive * *********************************************************** # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 00:09:43 EST From: LTepedino@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Exotica Videoze In a message dated 2/10/00 9:14:51 AM EST, peter.gingerich@wcom.com writes: << The recent discussion on Louis Prima (check out Disneys 'Jungle Book' by the way) leads me to ask: Can anyone suggest a source for exotica appearances in the moving picture medium? Do Denny, Esquival, Lyman, et. al. show up in films or concert videos? Or for that matter Walter Wanderley, Mantovani, The Three Suns? Has anyone compiled this info? Dedicated sites, database or mailing rings? Well stocked stores, compilation tapes, bootlegs? There was some exotica flicage awhile back at the Fez here in NYC (sponsored by Irwin Chusid) but I missed out... >> Martin Denny has one line, playing a nightclub piano player in the not very good 1959 film "Forbidden Island" which unfortunatley will pobably never make it to video. Denny also appeared on the Hawaii Calls TV program which I was lucky enough to get a tape of from someone on this list. Shot in the mid-'60s, this is not the classic line-up we are all used to from his seminal albums. Ashley # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 02:44:32 PST From: "Magnus Sandberg" Subject: (exotica) tiki on a tooth Look at this gruesome little fellow on a sperm whale tooth. http://auctions.yahoo.com/auction/12460699 ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 13:37:46 +0100 From: Moritz R Subject: (exotica) Exotica Mailing List FAQ To all new list members: The basic "Frequently Asked Questions" of this list are answered here: #Exotica mailing list FAQ: http://home.munich.netsurf.de/Moritz.Reichelt/exofaq.html Contains pics, links to other important sites and more. Mo - ----------------------------------------------------------- The Moritz R Museum has got a new entrance: http://moritzR.de "Reload", if you've been here before.... # 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, 10 Feb 2000 20:04:42 EST From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Re: Good-Lookin' Food That Stanks In a message dated 2/10/0 4:00:47 PM, chuckmk@yahoo.com wrote: >One of my favorite rap songs ever was the Double Dutch Bus which I remember >reading sold over 100,000 copies in NY alone. >Any insights/info into this song are appreciated. I don't know how exotic this all is, but the jam "Double Dutch Bus", done by a minor league Philly-International and later WMOT producer from the late 7T's/early 8T's, is based on the Double Dutch jumprope game popular among gyrrrls in Black neighborhoods, frequently on playgrounds, while the dudes play hoops. Double Dutch is played with two jumpropes, each going in opposite directions, with a gyrrrl on each end swinging both while one gyrrrl waits for the right moment to jump in. Those that can accomplish this for any respectable length of time (more that a minute or so) are often respected as having Skillz that pay Billz. I think Malcom McLaren made a record about this too...JB # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 08:52:55 -0500 From: "Nathan Miner" Subject: Re: (exotica) Which Martin Denny LPs to get? Speaking of Denny, I ran across his "Oriental Percussion" for $5 a couple = weeks ago. Is this a strictly "percussion" album or what...........? - - 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: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 08:55:29 EST From: LTepedino@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Which Martin Denny LPs to get? In a message dated 2/11/00 8:51:26 AM EST, nminer@jhmi.edu writes: << Speaking of Denny, I ran across his "Oriental Percussion" for $5 a couple weeks ago. Is this a strictly "percussion" album or what...........? >> It is pretty much the same as his other albujms although there are no bird calls if i remember correctly. The percussion is just slightly more pronounced on some tracks, but otherwise it is typical Denny. Ashley # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 10:04:18 -0600 From: dymaxia@ripco.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Optigans? "m.ace" wrote: > > >Just curious - what is an optigan? Anyways, for all those interested > >(and able to pick up CBC FM on their radios), this weekend, Radio Sonic > >is running a show on it with former listmember Pea Hicks. > > See Pea's site: > http://www.optigan.com/ > > Short version: similar principle as the Mellotron (which used tape loops of > real instruments for each note), but cheaper and used film-sound type > technology, with transparent plastic discs containing the sounds. Primitive > sampling. I'm not explaining it very well. Just go to Pea's site. > Optigans turn up on e-bay every so often, believe it or not. - -- Kerry # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 11:05:33 -0500 From: "Br. Cleve" Subject: Re: (exotica) Airports, airplanes, and the people who love them........ At 10:21 AM -0500 2/9/00, Nathan Miner wrote: >And what's with this airplane worship? It relates to the golden age of the Jet Set, when air travel was a much more exclusive and luxurious way to get around, when the rich and the beautiful would escape to the beaches, the mountains, and to exotic capital cities. The design element - the logos, the travel bags, advertising posters, the various acoutrements - exemplifies the Modern look of that era (Scandanavian/Italian/American furniture, pop/op art, atomic futurism, etc) so popular with graphic artists today. br cleve # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 13:44:49 EST From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) Airports, airplanes, and the people who love them........ In a message dated 2/11/0 11:27:30 AM, bcleve@pop.tiac.net wrote: >The design element - the logos, the travel bags, advertising >posters, the various acoutrements - exemplifies the Modern look of that era >(Scandanavian/Italian/American furniture, pop/op art, atomic futurism, etc) >so popular with graphic artists today. OK Cleve, tell 'em the story of your Air Italia bag from the 6T's and how the DJ on the NYC station asked you about it...Go on, tell it! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 12:09:06 -0500 From: mimim@texas.net (Mimi Mayer) Subject: Re: (exotica) Completist collecting (was Yesterday's scores) At 3:59 PM 2/9/0, Nat Kone wrote: >>From zero to three Esquivels in one afternoon. Suddenly your collection >seems a bit more complete. You got it. Still blissed out with the finds. >I know what you mean about the mono but as long as you don't hear the >stereo versions, you should be happy. When I got some of my exotica >classics, I didn't even know they'd come out in stereo too so I was pretty >satisfied... till I heard the stereo. ... I think of exotica and >sabp as made for stereo. Yeah, me too. That's why I wavered before picking up Other Worlds, Other Sounds. Now the record sits in the Rancho Deluxe stereo pit on display for all to admire, no regrets. And I still enjoy the arrangements. Plus I have most of the cuts on CD. Which brings up a question: Anyone know if the any disks on Stereo Action series (Capitol?) were ever released in hifi/mono versions? Now that seems bone stupid to me. Except maybe Movin' and Groovin', The Three Suns. If this music was recorded to exploit stereo action, then why have hi-fi versions...unless you dig the arrangements, which is why M&G makes my must-have list, or unless you're a completist, which I'm not. Y'all, care to list other Stereo Action records that are must-haves in any form? >As far as the price goes. It's not cheap and it's not a gouging price >either. I would have expected a bit more gouging in a hip music-conscious >spot like Austin. Then again, maybe the Esquivel thing has levelled out a >bit. Agreed. At the Austin Record Convention in October, Esquivels were going for $25 and up, and I use the prices I saw there as default buying guides. I've hunted for Esquivels in thrifts for several years now--never found one. Had the agonizing experience of finding an empty sleeve for More Other Worlds, Other Sounds in a New Mexico thrift--tore the stacks apart and no disk. I almost wept in frustration. And bought the sleeve for 50 cents as a good luck charm, voodoo to guarantee the record would come to me eventually. Silly. But it seems to have worked. The Esquivels I got were on consignment, like much of the stock at Antone's. Perhaps that also explains why the prices were $15. >Nice to see someone happy to find new music. Sometimes I think I'm a bit >too focussed on just adding it to the pile. That's why I still hesitate before labeling myself a collector. Probably the only categories where I'm a completist are 1) covers of Nino Rota music or the actual OSTs he scored and 2)...well, there's not really a 2). I don't buy records just to have them. Still remain ruthless is culling out the stuff that doesn't satisfy me. But I know lots of completists post here. Do any of you have deep thoughts to share on the completist compulsion...that's negative, sorry: how about the drive to have every record by an artist you love? Nat, what did you pick up from the collectors you interviewed for Vinyl? TIA, Mimi # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 11:41:42 -0800 (PST) From: chuck Subject: (exotica) Optigans? For those who like modern soft pop, I can't recommend Pea Hick's cd, "Optigonally Yours" enough . This is fabulous soft quirky pop tunes with the added bonus of the wonderful sounds of the Optigan. The optigon was a fun little toy organ. Check out Pea Hick's web site for great information on it and sound samples. http://www.optigan.com Really I just think this is a great great fun modern soft pop classic! Lucas and Freinds while not about optiagans is an amazing cd discussed on this list before and its about making a cd of found tapes at garage sails where kids recorded their voices doing rediculous stuff. Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck - --- cheryl wrote: > > Just curious - what is an optigan? Anyways, for all those interested > (and able to pick up CBC FM on their radios), this weekend, Radio Sonic > is running a show on it with former listmember Pea Hicks. Here's the > blurb they sent me: > > On Sunday February 13, airing 6:30PM - 8:00PM, David Wisdom is pleased > to present the creaky nostalgic sounds of the Optigan Lounge. What the > hell is an Optigan? Well, tune in to find out. > Producer James Booth does an interview with Optigan webmaster and member > of the band > Optiganally Yours, Pea Hicks. Hear music that contains the optigan from > Blur, Sukia, The Wedding Present, Cibo Matto, Tom Waits, and many many more. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.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: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 14:46:46 -0500 From: "Br. Cleve" Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) Airports, airplanes, and the people who love them........ At 1:44 PM -0500 2/11/00, DJJimmyBee@aol.com wrote: >OK Cleve, tell 'em the story of your Air Italia bag from the 6T's and how the >DJ on the NYC station asked you about it...Go on, tell it! You mean the one my wife found in the trash on our street that the DJ told me they were selling for over $500 in a Soho boutique. Or would sell for a cool grand or two in Tokyo? THAT story? br cleve # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 11:46:17 -0800 (PST) From: chuck Subject: Re: (exotica) Exotica Mailing List FAQ What a gorgous site Mo! I am proud to be on a list with you Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck - --- Moritz R wrote: > > To all new list members: > > The basic "Frequently Asked Questions" of this list are answered here: > #Exotica mailing list FAQ: http://home.munich.netsurf.de/Moritz.Reichelt/exofaq.html > Contains pics, links to other important sites and more. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! 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