From: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com (exotica-digest) To: exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: exotica-digest V2 #653 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, March 16 2000 Volume 02 : Number 653 In This Digest: (exotica) records/bachelorhood life/kids (exotica) records/bachelorhood life/kids (exotica) Louis Prima question (vague as can be!!) Re: (exotica) Wanteds & Up the Down Re: (exotica) Louis Prima question (vague as can be!!) (exotica) Wanteds Re: (exotica) records/bachelorhood life/kids Re: (exotica) Playlist for "The BackWard" March 15, 2000 (exotica) Heino-esque VB: (exotica) Louis Prima question (vague as can be!!) Re: (exotica) What to do with that spare quarter of a million... (exotica) shameless self promotion (exotica) Tito Rivera? Re: (exotica) Heino-esque (exotica) [obits] Richard Collier,Tommy Collins,Andrew Ghareeb,Mary Elliott Cummings, RE: (exotica) Heino-esque re: (exotica) Diana Dors Re: (exotica) Heino-esque Fw: (exotica) Re: Claus Ogerman (exotica) Fw: records and bachelorhood (exotica) message bounces/test re: (exotica) Diana Dors (exotica) TIKI Music On Mardis Gras Day ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 16:20:06 -0500 From: dciccone@inspex.com Subject: (exotica) records/bachelorhood life/kids Been scrolling thru the digests and wanted to comment on this thread. We've been married 21 years and the wife has noticed that I pick up obsessions and gradually drop them after a few years. So it's about time for me to get hooked onto something else. Out of consideration for our joint finances I have "leveled" off over the past 1/2 year. But back to the vinyl trough this weekend when I go thrifting with Think. ;') The thing the wife hates the most is the smell of the records so I only try to keep choice things I want to play regularly at home and on the show upstairs in the living room with the turntable. As for the kids. I stopped bringing them to the nearest used record place because the free range rude shopkeeper didn't want them playing with the toys she also sold. I say sold cause she closed up shop. These days I buy one or two records at a pop, for a dollar each or less if I can help it. Can't seem to get the 4 year old into exotica. She knows the lyrics to "baby do me one more time" or whatever it's called by Brittney Spears! She's into the current scene. My 14 year old listen to the top 40 rock stuff and was really into a disco type song called "blue" that was IMHO lounge teckno. For me it's been possible to have an record habit and a family. You just to balance it out. Domenic # 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, 15 Mar 2000 17:08:23 -0500 From: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) records/bachelorhood life/kids Well, it's just Madame and me, but for the times, my parents had a lot of records, but didn't play them too terribly often. They did have um...VARIED tastes, which is mostly my Mother's doing. Here is a smattering of disques du Mom et Dad: The Billie Holiday Story Tito Rodriguez My World - Jo Basile (one of the world's worst records. Just trust me.) The Living Voices of Christmas (sloooow version of the 12 Days of Christmas) Le Sacre du Savage - L' Baxter Le Sacre du Printemps - La Stravinsky What a Wonderful World - Jerry Vale Cesar Franck Symphony Music of the Near East Artistry in Rhythm - Stan Kenton Victoria de Los Angeles (one of my Mother's favorite singers) Orquestra Almendra (Dad dug this one) Cinderella (a two-sided 78 that ends with her going to the Prince's fancy Dress Ball! I really wanted to see this conversation at the record company: "Bob, we love duh fairy tale, but we gotta make some cuts. Foist, no glass slipper. It tested bad in Chicago. Second, we can't have her go back to rags again. Goils' hearts'll be broken...") Any rock and roll we had were on 45s. No albums. The earliest 45 we had was "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" by Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers. If any records were played my brother and I were playing them. When we had company, I remember that the turntable was commandeered by Dad to listen to Billie Holiday with a family friend. When we first bought that record, we listened to all of it and I was NOT amused, especially when he made us go back over certain cuts. Turns out I was wrong about that. Yeah, like you all were hip at nine years old. The whole subject of music in the living became rather depressing when some punk kids stole the receiver and one of the speakers. We never replaced them and the only turntables in the house were in my brother's room. So, for them the balance was almost no music at all, but a lot of records. On the occasional Sunday, Dad would make pancakes and turn the greasy, dusty Magnavox to the "classical" station. The moral of the story: if you want your kids to dig that type of music, feed them and keep the radio out of reach! 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: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 17:32:28 -0500 From: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) Louis Prima question (vague as can be!!) I have forgotten all but some of the lyrics. It is a song cut with no vocals of his, but with a woman vocalist other than Keely Smith. It's a live cut and most of what is sung very fast, which really gets the crowd going. The antiphonal section has her singing with the band answering: Her: I Them: I Her: I want Them: I want Her: I want you Them: I want you Her: I want you to Them: I want you to Then the rapid fire vocals. What is the song and who is the singer? # 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, 15 Mar 2000 17:39:06 -0500 From: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) Wanteds & Up the Down At 02:59 PM 3/14/00 +0000, Charles_Moseley%MCKINSEY-EXTERNAL@mckinsey.com wrote: > >Are we really allowed to post our wants? I guess you are. And since some of your wants are in the same vein as some of mine, maybe you can tell me what you know about them and then they'll also become my wants. For instance: >Rajput and the Sapoy Mutiny - Flower Power Sitar >The Hellers - Singers, Talkers, Players and Doers >Berry Lipman - The Most Beautiful Girls in the World >The Mohawks - The Champ >Phillip Sarde - Max et les Ferraileurs soundtrack >Maurice Pop - Play Together Oh and btw, I have the Wozard record, mainly as a memento (momento?) of days of hash. I don't have a price but I would consider a trade. 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, 15 Mar 2000 18:01:29 EST From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Louis Prima question (vague as can be!!) In a message dated 3/15/0 5:33:46 PM, hagar@mindspring.net wrote: >Her: I >Them: I >Her: I want >Them: I want >Her: I want you >Them: I want you >Her: I want you to >Them: I want you to > >Then the rapid fire vocals. What is the song and who is the singer? I think its called "I Want You To Be My Boy" by The Exciters. The lead singer was Brenda Reid. They are best know for "Tell Him" ("I know something about love, you've gotta want it bad. If that guy gets into your blood, go out and get him." then the chorus "tell him that you never want to leave him, tell him that you're always gonna please him. Tell him, tell him, tell him, tell him right now.")...Hope that helps...JB/played obscure oldies for years # 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, 15 Mar 2000 18:02:34 EST From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Wanteds In a message dated 3/15/0 5:34:23 PM, bruno@yhammer.com wrote: >The Mohawks - The Champ Add that one to my wants as well..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: Wed, 15 Mar 00 15:21:18 -0800 From: "B.J. Major" Subject: Re: (exotica) records/bachelorhood life/kids >. . .So, for them the balance was almost no music at all, but a lot of >records. On the occasional Sunday, Dad would make pancakes and turn the >greasy, dusty Magnavox to the "classical" station. > >The moral of the story: if you want your kids to dig that type of music, >feed them and keep the radio out of reach! > >Brian Phillips Just to share a story that yours puts me in mind of: It drives me crazy when I have gone to my uncle's home to visit. No judgment being passed here because everyone is different, BUT: there was never, ever a drop of music played in that home, ever. So my three cousins grew up listening to no music in the home. Even to this day, they have never owned a stereo of any kind (either the piece of furniture [all-in-one] kind, an a/v receiver-home stereo system or even a portable "record player"). They have one radio, in the kitchen, that's the kind you see in most people's garages (portable, big handle on the top, one speaker mono). When it's on, it's always tuned to an AM 24 hr. all-news station. I bring this up because it contrasts SO much to the atmosphere I grew up in: either the FM radio was always on, always tuned to what were formerly 'easy listening' stations - OR - records were playing. Or there was a concert playing on tv (remembering the Leonard Bernstein 'Young Peoples Concerts' on CBS on Sunday afternoons). And we had musical instruments in our home, too, where none existed in any of our other relative's homes. It was just SUCH a contrast!! - --bj # 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, 15 Mar 2000 23:22:22 GMT From: "james brouwer" Subject: Re: (exotica) Playlist for "The BackWard" March 15, 2000 "The BackWard" can be heard every Wednesday mornings at 9 on CFRU 93.3fm in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Comments & questions welcome. Also available via RealAudio: http://www.uoguelph.ca/~cfru-fm/ A Man Alone - John Barry, from "The Ipcress File" OST A Spit in the Ocean - Fred Frith, from "The Best of Ralph" Shadows of the Night - Corbert & Grean, from "Dark Shadows" OST Radar Eyes - The Godz, from "Godz II" Valley of Death - The Whatever, from "Acid and Flowers" The Pass - Johnny Bond, from "That Wild Wicked but Wonderful West" Five Brothers - Marty Robbins, from "More Gunfighter Ballads" Rats - Syd Barrett, from "Barrett" I'll Sell My Soul - The Allies, from "Acid and Flowers" Ocean - The Velvet Underground, from "Loaded" (outtake) The Amine B Ring (exc) - Lou Reed, from "Metal Machine Music" Making The Nature Scene - Sonic Youth, from "Confusion is Sex" Draft Morning - The Byrds, from "Notorious Byrd Bros." Fotomodelle & Notte Di Mezza Estate - Piero Umiliani, from "Sweden Heaven and Hell" OST Rio Magic - Neil Richardson, from "Music for TV Dinners the 60's" Zoom! - Francis Lai, from "Live For Life" OST Inner City Blues - Marvin Gaye, from "What's Goin' On" Krautrock - Faust, from "Faust IV" - -jbrouwer ______________________________________________________ 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: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 19:17:22 -0500 From: Nat Kone Subject: (exotica) Heino-esque I think I may have just heard the most fascinatingly horrible record ever, in my obviously limited experience. I say that because I'm sure there are tons of records like this, especially in this genre. The artist's name is Tol Hansse and if you need more info, the label is CNR and this particular record is called "Moet niet zeuren". If I had to guess what language it is, I'd go for Dutch. But I wouldn't guarantee it. It reminds me of Heino, with a bit of a country and western influence. Anyway, it's truly awful. If country and western Heino doesn't paint enough of a picture, I don't think I can do any better. But if it was just awful of course, I wouldn't be writing here. It's awful but a bit of a "car-crash" too, in that you can't take your eyes off it. For moments here and there, you think "This is not THAT bad". Then moments later, you think "Wait, I spoke too soon". I imagine it would be great to turn on at a party when you want people to leave. But I'm scared that if I keep it, I might start to like it. I've grown to like so much that I never thought I'd like. It's good to hear something that I don't like. I probably should never play it again. Preserve the moment. 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: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 01:18:29 +0100 From: "JOACHIM TEVEBRING" Subject: VB: (exotica) Louis Prima question (vague as can be!!) >It is a song cut with no vocals of his, but with a woman vocalist other = >than Keely Smith. It's a live cut and most of what is sung very fast,=20 >which really gets the crowd going. What is the song and who is the singer? The song is I Want You To Be My Baby, sung by Keely=B4s succesor: Gia = Maionen. It=B4s on the Prima album "Lake Tahoe Prima Style" /Joachim # 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: 15 Mar 2000 18:46:15 -0800 From: bag@hubris.net Subject: Re: (exotica) What to do with that spare quarter of a million... At 02:25 PM 14-03-00 +0000, Robbie wrote: >http://www.45s.com/45-rpm-records/ultimate-collection.htm hmm. I bet they could get into trouble for selling the core of the collection. Most of the singles are probably promotional, which means the record company alone has ownership and selling is illegal. Theoretically. Still, they certainly know how to store a collection. I bet that's either a remodelled basement or garage. http://www.45s.com/images-music/collection-1.jpg http://www.45s.com/images-music/collection-2.jpg Byron Byron Caloz Portland, Oregon, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky Way http://www.hubris.net/zolac The Mr. Smooth site: http://www.hubris.net/zolac/smooth # 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, 15 Mar 2000 22:20:51 -0500 From: Nat Kone Subject: (exotica) shameless self promotion http://www.iprimus.ca/~klymkiw/vinyl.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: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 23:12:32 -0500 From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) Tito Rivera? Now here's a record with a surprise up its sleeve. Tito Rivera & His Cuban Orchestra featuring Yo Yo Gonzales and Jose Morales "Cha Cha Cha" Golden Tone Stereo/Precision Radiation Instruments - 14042 Well, for one, it's practically an EP, with just 4 cuts per side. It appears to be a typical budget label cha cha-sploitation album, with it's obvious title and a cover photo featuring a very white dancing couple. Surprise! Side one is terrific, zero-anglo-content Cuban music (or maybe Puerto Rican, I'm not expert enough to say for sure). A small band, sparse and soulful... percussion, upright bass, small horn section, guitar (maybe replaced by tres on some cuts) and male vocals in Spanish. The tunes are down-tempo, minor-key and sinuously serpentine. Latin noir. The sort of stuff you would expect to find in Tom Waits' record collection. Very steamy and very cool at the same time. Side two, sadly, is watered-down. Two exploitation tracks: "In Old New York Cha Cha" and "La Cucaracha Cha Cha" sound like the work of a different band (definitely larger, definitely a different recording session). These sound more anglo... a bit like Perez Prado arrangements, but not as frisky. The two remaining tracks with the Side 1 band are also a bit of a letdown. "La Virgen De La Macarena" (no, no obvious resemblance to the recent fad song) sounds like something for the tourists -- a very different feel than the Side 1 songs. A cover of "Adios" sounds a bit stiff, like it was under-rehearsed and thrown together at the last minute to fill out a session. But that Side 1... whew! It's so good it makes my stomache hurt. So the question... has anyone heard of Tito Rivera, Yo Yo Gonzales or Jose Morales in another context? Or are these more budget label imaginary artist names? Also, I think there was a recent thread on Golden Tone and Precision Radiation Instruments. Would anyone like to refresh that? The technical quality is actually darned good and genuine stereo. The back cover has a listing of other Golden Tone releases, and it looks like pretty bland going, to be honest. Thanks, 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, 16 Mar 2000 13:21:01 +0100 From: Ton Rueckert Subject: Re: (exotica) Heino-esque >I think I may have just heard the most fascinatingly horrible record ever, >in my obviously limited experience. I say that because I'm sure there are >tons of records like this, especially in this genre. >The artist's name is Tol Hansse and if you need more info, the label is CNR >and this particular record is called "Moet niet zeuren". >If I had to guess what language it is, I'd go for Dutch. But I wouldn't >guarantee it. >It reminds me of Heino, with a bit of a country and western influence. >Anyway, it's truly awful. If country and western Heino doesn't paint enough >of a picture, I don't think I can do any better. >But if it was just awful of course, I wouldn't be writing here. >It's awful but a bit of a "car-crash" too, in that you can't take your eyes >off it. >For moments here and there, you think "This is not THAT bad". Then moments >later, you think "Wait, I spoke too soon". >I imagine it would be great to turn on at a party when you want people to >leave. >But I'm scared that if I keep it, I might start to like it. >I've grown to like so much that I never thought I'd like. It's good to >hear something that I don't like. >I probably should never play it again. Preserve the moment. Yes, Tol Hansse's Dutch and in translation the songtitle means "Don't whine", "Stop bugging me", something to that extent. His claim to fame is his hit "Big City", which is bad enough, but probably not bad enough by your standards. If you think Tol is truly awful, then we have much more in store for you, look for Frans Bauer, Gerard Joling, Andre Hazes, Koos Alberts, to name just a few. And Lee Towers, a former crane driver discovered by talkshow host Willem Duys, who's perceived as the Dutch Sinatra, but swings, well, as a crane driver, but fills a small stadium with ease nevertheless. Last but not least, Vader Abraham, who can be considered truely awful after he gained respectability, whatever that means in this context, but started off as a producer and performer of (soft) erotica schlagers, now that is dehors categories. Luckily that material seems to be extremely obscure nowadays, so you won't run too great a risk of spoiling your sex life for good. 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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, 16 Mar 2000 11:48:07 -0500 From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) [obits] Richard Collier,Tommy Collins,Andrew Ghareeb,Mary Elliott Cummings, *Richard Collier LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Richard Collier, a character actor who appeared in more than 1,000 television shows and such movies as ``Hello, Dolly!'' and ``Blazing Saddles,'' died Saturday. He was 80. Collier, whose credits include the children's television show ``Mr. Giggles,'' died at the Motion Picture & Television Hospital, where he had been living since April. A Boston native, Collier performed in theaters and clubs in Massachusetts before an Army stint during World War II. After the war, Collier began acting. He appeared in early TV shows such as ``Playhouse 90,'' ``Lux Video Theater'' and ``Philco Theater,'' and had had guest spots on ``Bonanza,'' ``The Andy Griffith Show,'' ``Batman,'' ``The Beverly Hillbillies'' and ``The Big Valley.'' Collier played Dr. Sam Johnson in ``Blazing Saddles,'' and Walter Matthau's barber in ``Hello, Dolly!'' - -------- *Tommy Collins ASHLAND CITY, Tenn. (AP) -- Tommy Collins, who wrote country music hits for Merle Haggard, George Strait and other singers, died Tuesday of complications from emphysema. He was 69. His hits included ``If You Ain't Lovin' (You Ain't Livin')'' by both Strait and Ferlin Huskey, and Haggard's ``Carolyn.'' Haggard wrote his 1981 hit ``Leonard'' in tribute to Collins. Born Leonard Sipes in Oklahoma City, he was renamed Tommy Collins by Huskey after the Tom Collins cocktail. Collins helped craft the Bakersfield Sound of country music in California during the 1950s before moving to Nashville. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in September. *Andrew Ghareeb CHICOPEE, Mass. (AP) -- Andrew E. Ghareeb, who translated the works of the Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran into English, died Sunday. He was 101. Ghareeb came to Springfield in 1913 from his native Lebanon and discovered Gibran's writing in a Lebanese magazine in 1918. His first translation of the poem ``My Soul Counseled Me'' was published in the Springfield Republican newspaper in 1926. Ghareeb sent the translation to Gibran, who was living in New York City. It was the start of a friendship that lasted until Gibran's death, and the poet gave Ghareeb permission to translate all of his Arabic writings into English. Ghareeb's translation of ``The Prophet'' sold more than 8 million copies. The most famous of his translations, ``Prose Poems'' was published in 1934 and is in its 31st printing. - ---- L.A. Times -- Tuesday, March 14, 2000 Mary Elliott Cummings; Film Star, Actor's Ex-Wife Mary Elliott Cummings, 82, third wife of the late actor Robert Cummings and a starlet in her own right. A native of Gaffney, S.C., she grew up singing and dancing and was named state Azalea Queen. She began her entertainment career in New York, where she understudied Betty Grable in Broadway's "Dubarry Was a Lady" and later appeared in "My Sister Eileen." The beautiful, blond Elliott also sang in night clubs and, as a model, appeared on the cover of Collier's magazine and publicized the first rubber swimsuit for Goodyear Tire Co. She later had film contracts with Paramount and MGM and during World War II entertained troops in the North Atlantic and South Pacific theaters. Among her films were "Girl Crazy," "Thousands Cheer" and "A Guy Named Joe." She was introduced to the actor Robert Cummings by portrait photographer Paul Hesse, and married Cummings in Riverside's historic Mission Inn on March 3, 1945. Elliott abandoned her career to rear their five children. The couple separated Oct. 25, 1967, and the actor sued his wife for divorce. She countersued for separate maintenance. Their divorce, granted Jan. 15, 1970, was one of the first finalized under California's "no-fault" divorce law. In her charitable activities, Mary Elliott Cummings served as president of the ARCS Foundation and worked extensively with the National Charity League. On March 5 in Beverly Hills of cancer. - -- From Variety --- Bill Lewis Downer Bill Lewis Downer, a major figure in American music publishing for four decades, died Feb. 26 of heart failure at his home in Los Angeles. He was 86. Downer rose through the music-publishing ranks in the 1940s as head of Decca Records’ Northern Music satellite, a position he retained after the firm merged with Universal Pictures and later MCA Music. At MCA, he acquired the rights to several hundred major copyrights. A longtime friend to jazz artists, he nurtured and provided material for such performers as Billie Holiday, Carmen McRae, Al Hibler and Louis Jordan. He also worked with such performers as Rosemary Clooney, Sammy Davis Jr., Bing Crosby, Perry Como, Jo Stafford and Doris Day. Among his publishing accomplishments, Downer promoted Victor Young and Edward Heyman’s “When I Fall in Love,” and Jay Livingston and Ray Evans’ “Tammy,” as well as numerous compositions of Henry Mancini and Rod McKuen. He also packaged a group of songs that Brenda Lee turned into hits, including “I’m Sorry,” “Dum Dum” and “Break It to Me Gently.” In his spare time, Downer was a horticulturist who contributed frequently to the Los Angeles Times and the Brooklyn Horticultural Society. He is survived by a sister. - ----------- From today's Daily Telegraph --- Mary Maskelyne Last performer in a dynasty of magicians MARY MASKELYNE, who has died aged 94, was the last performing member of the Maskelyne family of magicians. She was the grand-daughter of John Nevil Maskelyne, who had established the family tradition of stage magic in 1873. By the 1930s a strong feature of the Maskelyne show was an act by Mary and her brother Noel. In one of their illusions Mary was seated on a chair at centre stage covered with a cloth. Noel would have cards selected by members of the audience and Mary from beneath the cloth would identify them. When it came to the last card Noel would whip away the cloth to show that Mary had vanished - only for her to reappear immediately at the back of the theatre carrying the final chosen card. Mary Maskelyne was born in London on 29 May 1905. Her grandfather and a friend, George Cooke, had opened the Egyptian Hall, a theatre dedicated to magic, in Piccadilly in 1873. They took a three-month lease on the theatre but stayed for 31 years. An early poster proclaimed: "Patronised by Royalty, Nobility, Clergy, Gentry and the Public." One aspiring performer whom John Nevil Maskelyne rejected was Harry Houdini, though later he became a good friend of the family. After Cooke's death in 1905 John Nevil Maskelyne moved to St George's Hall, near Oxford Circus. His new partner was David Devant. No family outing to London was complete without a visit to Maskelyne's Mysteries. John Nevil Maskelyne's eldest son, Nevil, followed in his footsteps. Nevil had four sons and a daughter, Mary. She made her debut at St George's Hall in the autumn of 1927. She soon became assistant to her brother Jasper, and later another brother Noel, in their magic acts. In 1930 she toured South Africa with Oswald Williams in a magic show called Hey Presto. Mary Maskelyne was an imposing woman of strong personality. As a woman magician, she attracted much newspaper comment, and herself wrote articles on fashion and etiquette. When Maskelyne's Theatre finally closed in 1935, Mary continued to supply acts for social events. In 1934 she married T C Sterndale Bennett, the tenor who, the year before his bride was born, had begun his tour twice round the world with the Westminster Abbey Glee and Concert Party. The wedding reception was held at the Maskelyne theatre between the matinee and evening performances, in which the bride performed. Sterndale Bennett, a regular guest artist at Maskelyne's, died in 1942. Mary Maskelyne later joined the Players' Theatre Club in London, where she became a popular stage manager and wardrobe mistress. # 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, 16 Mar 2000 09:37:12 -0800 From: Erik Hoel Subject: RE: (exotica) Heino-esque Ton Rueckert [mailto:mojoto@plex.nl] wrote: > >I think I may have just heard the most fascinatingly > horrible record ever, > >in my obviously limited experience. I say that because I'm > sure there are > >tons of records like this, especially in this genre. > >The artist's name is Tol Hansse and if you need more info, > the label is CNR > >and this particular record is called "Moet niet zeuren". ... chop ... > Yes, Tol Hansse's Dutch and in translation the songtitle means "Don't > whine", "Stop bugging me", something to that extent. His claim to fame > is his hit "Big City", which is bad enough, but probably not bad enough > by your standards. If you think Tol is truly awful, then we have much > more in store for you, look for Frans Bauer, Gerard Joling, Andre Hazes, > Koos Alberts, to name just a few. And Lee Towers, a former crane driver > discovered by talkshow host Willem Duys, who's perceived as the Dutch > Sinatra, but swings, well, as a crane driver, but fills a small stadium > with ease nevertheless. Last but not least, Vader Abraham, who can be > considered truely awful after he gained respectability, whatever that > means in this context, but started off as a producer and performer of > (soft) erotica schlagers, now that is dehors categories. Luckily that > material seems to be extremely obscure nowadays, so you won't run too > great a risk of spoiling your sex life for good. Tol Hansse, whose real name is Hans van Tol, was a trash-artist from Amsterdam who became famous overnight with the hit single "Big City". His popularity is mainly due to the fact that he can't sing and is a louzy musician and record-producer and does nothing to hide it. This blended very well with the rebellious atmosphere in A'dam at the time. I can see the c&w aspects of this, I'm having trouble with the Heino part, but that's probably a language issue. Arguably more funny than his music was his appearance. Over 7 feet and extremely skinny he always reminded me of a walking broomstick making a screetching noise as it sweeps the stage. This to me is the Las Vegas effect. Things being so ugly and out-of-place that they become attractive. The good part is that otherwise mediocre music sounds a lot better after sitting through Moet Niet Zeuren. Erik - -- Erik Hoel mailto:ehoel@esri.com Environmental Systems Research Institute http://www.esri.com 380 New York Street 909-793-2853 (x1-1548) tel Redlands, CA 92373-8100 909-307-3067 fax # 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, 16 Mar 2000 12:31:15 -0500 From: dciccone@inspex.com Subject: re: (exotica) Diana Dors From Paul: > I've been looking for _any_ cds available by Diana Dors. You've heard her on the "Sex Kittens in Hi-Fi? It's on loan to a friend so I can't check to see if it's on the "Blonds" or "Brunettes" CD. Which song did she do? The Rollercoster one? "Your mouth's a rollercoaster and I want to take a ride" ;') Great song! Right up there with April Stevens.... Domenic # 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, 16 Mar 2000 19:32:41 +0100 From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Heino-esque Ton Rueckert wrote: > Last but not least, Vader Abraham, who can be considered truely awful That reminds me: I'm still looking for Abraham's "Deine Monatsbinde". So if any of the Dutch members occasionally runs into that song, either on LP or as a Single, please get it for me. Will be extremely grateful! 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, 16 Mar 2000 19:39:17 +0100 From: "Marco \\\"Kallie\\\" Kalnenek" Subject: Fw: (exotica) Re: Claus Ogerman > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Johan Dada Vis > To: > Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 2:29 PM > Subject: (exotica) Re: Claus Ogerman > > > > i'm just telling what someone else told me, a guy who works at > > german radio WDR 4, he'scalled Suitbert Kempkes, his program is called > > "Zauber der Melodien", wednseday, 21h. > > Well worth listening to! I heard about Suitbert about 2 years ago, when he > was a guest on a Dutch radioshow ('Instituut Schreuders' for all you > Dutchies out there), but I only found out about his show on WDR 4 a couple > of weeks ago. Where else do you hear Esquivel, Al Caiola and Michel > Legrand in one radioshow? > > Marco > > # 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, 16 Mar 2000 19:41:09 +0100 From: "Marco \\\"Kallie\\\" Kalnenek" Subject: (exotica) Fw: records and bachelorhood > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Nat Kone > Subject: (exotica) records and bachelorhood > > > > In the last two weeks, I haven't been quite the bachelor that I've been > for > > the last number of years. > > And I find myself thinking about records way way less often. > > Being in love is more than enough to make you forget about records, CDs, > cassettes, DAT-tapes, MP3s, books, magazines, computers, Bill Clinton, > cars, food, tv,.... And boy, do I know it. Spring is in the air!! > > Marco > (still the bachelor that he's been for the last number of years - but who > knows what happens in the next couple of months...) > # 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, 16 Mar 2000 19:44:58 +0100 From: "Marco \\\"Kallie\\\" Kalnenek" Subject: (exotica) message bounces/test I am having some problems posting to the list. That's why the formatting of my last two posts was a bit erm... exotic. Marco Marco "Kallie" Kalnenek +------------------------------------------+ Record Collector's Heaven http://weirdomusic.freeservers.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, 16 Mar 2000 19:45:17 +0100 From: Ton Rueckert Subject: re: (exotica) Diana Dors >> I've been looking for _any_ cds available by Diana Dors. > >You've heard her on the "Sex Kittens in Hi-Fi? It's on loan to a friend so >I can't check to see if it's on the "Blonds" or "Brunettes" CD. If it's on the Brunettes CD, I'll eat my skating cap. Ton *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** 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, 16 Mar 2000 14:58:57 -0800 (PST) From: chuck Subject: (exotica) TIKI Music On Mardis Gras Day So Its mardis Gras Day in New Orleans and Mondo Kayo Carnival Club has started its parade at 7:45 am to the sounds of Jungle Madness off the Hypnotique album by Denny. After more Denny, some cuts from , Le Guepe 3, some mambo & some sitar(Jumpin Jjack Flash and moog (Cluade Denjean's Venus) and tons of Soca, Soukous, Zouk, and Chutney mixed with mambo, surf, esquivel, shibuya-kei we play near the mayors stand, the good ole version of the Tiki Tiki Tiki room followed by a toast with Jungle Cruise playing in the background followed by Veggie Veggie Fruit Fruit follwed by Mucha Mucha Cha Its hard to imagine what the crowd thinks of 150 - 175 people parading down the street, dressed tiki-tropical throwing real home grown golden bananas, with a sound system loud enough to set off car alarms it passes with the Tiki Room blaring from the speakers. It was Mondo Kayos (pronounced k-eye-yo) 17th parade and the first time the carnival day streets were exposed to the Tiki Room. I hope to play the Tiki Room at carnival for many years to come. Viva la Tiki Room!!!!! Sign the petition! Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck - --- Moritz R wrote: http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Boulevard/1877/friendsoftiki.html > > The site of Chris Wingert who has been organizing a campaign against the > closure of the Enchanted Tiki Rooms for years. It's possible, that the Tiki > room would already be history without Wingert. I have posted this site 2 or 3 > times here and I call everyone again to sign the petition. > Yeah! ...in the tiki tiki tiki tiki tiki room, in the tiki > tiki tiki tiki tiki room all the birds sing words and the flowers croon > in the tiki tiki tiki tiki tiki room! > welcome to a tropical hide-away, you lucky people you!.... > in the tiki tiki tiki tiki tiki room, in the tiki > tiki tiki tiki tiki room all the birds sing words and the flowers croon > in the tiki tiki tiki tiki tiki room! in the tiki tiki tiki tiki tiki room, in > the tiki > tiki tiki tiki tiki room all the birds sing words and the flowers croon > in the tiki tiki tiki tiki tiki room! in the tiki tiki tiki tiki tiki room, in > the tiki > tiki tiki tiki tiki room all the birds sing words and the flowers croon > in the tiki tiki tiki tiki tiki room! in the tiki tiki tiki tiki tiki room, in > the tiki > tiki tiki tiki tiki room all the birds sing words and the flowers croon > in the tiki tiki tiki tiki tiki room!!!!!!!!!!! > > Mo __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? 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