From: TothMD@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Re: Lyricized Instrumentals Date: 01 May 1997 00:37:10 -0400 (EDT) Whew! I've been deluged with responses on this one and I'm still sorting it all out. I'll be back in touch soon with those of you who sent me info if I haven't already. Thanks, Michael David Toth TothMD@aol.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "kevin king" Subject: (exotica) Komeda Date: 01 May 1997 01:02:36 -0500 Not sure if it was someone on this list who recommended them, but I certainly wish I had heeded earlier. Terrific band! Jangly moog popster heaven... with a hefty beat! Infectious as hell. Amusing insert has pics of 20 or so record cover parodies with titles like Beat Beat, Bongo Frenzy, Bartok with a Beat and Clouded Room of Happiness that give away the variety of influence on their wonderful music - not for lounge purists ('rocket plane,' however, is bound to get you shimmying in the den), sort of a not so sickly sweet Cardigans, tho' the comparison isn't all fair. melodic and groovy. Yum yum! and speaking of Ellen.... hotdamn! what a show, finally whoop whoop whoop whoop oh... and, uh, the new Stereolab/Nurse with Wound 12" is worth getting (mail order only from http://www.roughtrade.com) if you're into 'em. basically different (and infinitely better) versions of 'The Long Hair of Death' - gloriously rich moog sounds that have never before emitted from my bottom-of-the-line speakers, just a bit Kraftwerkish and sooooo much better than Laetitia's side project, Monade which is ok but disappointing. working on my 6th toaster oven, kevin king xanadu@radix.net http://www.radix.net/~xanadu # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ottotemp@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Tipsy L.A. tip Date: 01 May 1997 02:05:59 -0400 (EDT) Also on the bill with Tipsy for their LA show May 3 at Encounter is Skip Heller (Yma Sumac, Wonderful World of Joey, and now with his own band with DJ Bonebrake) and a friend or two! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jonny.S@nyo.com (Jonny.S) Subject: Re: (exotica) Lounge Reading Date: 01 May 1997 01:34:16 -0500 Oh my gawd=21=21=21=21=21=21=21=21=21=21=21=21=21=21 Romesville is one of my most cherished albums, purchased over fifteen years= ago on east 7th street across from the Kiev restaurant (NYC) in a used bo= ok & record store for =240.25. I would love to find more records like this= one. I checked out a few Googi Ren=E9 45's a number of years ago but they = didn't live up to the tracks =22Romesville=22 or =22Ceaser's Pad=22 on th = LP. Any info about more of these kinds of jams would be greatly appreciate= d. Supa Love, Jonny Sender # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Pea Hicks Subject: Re: (exotica) Lounge Reading Date: 01 May 1997 02:25:18 -0700 Brian Phillips wrote: > > I recall a fellow named Lou Curtiss was compiling just such a book about 12 > years ago; don't know what became of it. I know Lou. He runs a record shop a few miles from my house (Folk Arts Rare Records, San Diego). I could ask him about it if you're interested...? -- Pea Hicks "Memory is my drug of choice." <---Realm 'O' The Optigan---> http://www.pilot.com/optigan Who will be the next to brave the *perils* of the VIRTUAL OPTIGAN??! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: keitha@Perigee.net (Keith Allison) Subject: Re: (exotica) Flint Destroys Exotica Date: 01 May 1997 08:28:18 -0400 I thought James Coburn's gong playing was up there with the time Andy Kaufman came out on the David Letterman show and played the bongos and chirped and squealed for several minutes. Are there any version sof THE PRESIDENT'S ANALYST with the original score intact? The copy I have on videotape says that most of the original music was replaced with a made-for-tv score, which is still okay stuff but much more like a Matt Helm soundtrack, and as fun as Matt Helm films can be, Dean Martin can't even touch the grand lord on high of swank, James Coburn. And for people who like the Flint and/or Matt Helm films, they're all for sale and rent most anywhere. I paid $12.99 for the Flint films and President's Analyst, and $8.99 for each of the Matt Helm films. The only problem, and this sort of relates to the record store categorization thread that was here a while back, is that the movies could be anywhere--comedy, action, adventure, (and if you're in Blockbuster--wild action, zany action, super action, crazy ass monkey action, etc.) You might as well throw OCEAN'S 11 into the shopping cart while you're there. King of the Rat Pack films, and it also makes the occasional appearance on AMC. -Keith, exiled from Florida for 3 more months # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Jim Gerwitz" Subject: Re: (exotica) Flint Destroys Exotica Date: 01 May 1997 05:47:33 -0700 ---------- Kevin King wrote:And > has anyone else heard the phrase 'in like flint' used colloquially > like 'made in the shade' or is that a washington thing? > This was probably a spoof on the famous self-explanatory phrase "In Like Flynn", as in Errol Flynn, he of the alleged two way bedroom mirror in the REAL swingin' bachelor pad he shared with Randy Randolph Scott in Hollywoodland. Now what happened to THOSE home movies ? . This is only my dim recollection from Charles Higham's scandalous and denounced bio of Flynn from 10 or 20 years ago. Jim # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) Flint Destroys Exotica Date: 01 May 1997 09:30:50 -0400 The copy that I have I taped off-air from KCOP in Los Angeles. I am usually sensitive to such matters such as soundtracks and it did not seem that the music had been altered. One of us may have ticked off the phone company. >Are there any version sof THE PRESIDENT'S ANALYST with the original >score intact? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Stilgloria@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Flint Destroys Exotica Date: 01 May 1997 10:17:47 -0400 (EDT) I've definitely heard "In Like Flint" here in San Francisco. On tv too. I don't think it's a regional thing. Gloria # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Steve Sando Subject: Re: (exotica) Flint Destroys Exotica Date: 01 May 1997 07:47:31 -0700 At 05:47 AM 5/1/97 -0700, Jim Gerwitz wrote: > > >---------- >Kevin King wrote:And >> has anyone else heard the phrase 'in like flint' used colloquially >> like 'made in the shade' or is that a washington thing? >> > >This was probably a spoof on the famous self-explanatory phrase "In Like >Flynn", as in Errol Flynn, I've always understood that 'In like flint' referred to a piece of flint that fits snuggly in a lighter. When Errol Flynn became popular, the phrase was adapted to describe his conquests. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) Flint Destroys Exotica Date: 01 May 1997 09:55:23 -0400 >From my perhaps equally dim recollection of David Niven's autobiography, there was a statuatory rape case against Flynn (from which he was acquitted), which spurred wags to utter the infamous phrase. [NOTICE: This message was delayed on its way to the list because it contained excess quoted text, which has been automatically removed. To prevent this from happening to your messages, be sure to include as little text as possible from the message you are responding to.] # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Robert P. Krajewski" Subject: Re: (exotica) J-J Perrey back in action Date: 01 May 1997 15:20:37 -0400 >these JJ Perrey tracks will be available later this week at the Source site >(http://www.caroline.com/associated/source/) when it launches. Hmm, I think MTV's AMP played an excerpt from a video for one on these last Saturday night... # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mturner@netcom.com (Mark Turner) Subject: Re: (exotica) J-J Perrey back in action Date: 01 May 1997 13:51:54 -0700 (PDT) > > >these JJ Perrey tracks will be available later this week at the Source site > >(http://www.caroline.com/associated/source/) when it launches. > > Hmm, I think MTV's AMP played an excerpt from a video for one on these > last Saturday night... No, that was the Fatboy Slim remix of "Eva," out now on BGP. -- Mark Turner mturner@netcom.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: viktrola@caroline.com Subject: (exotica) Source site opens Date: 01 May 1997 17:41:39 -0500 As promised, the Source site is up and running at http://www.caroline.com/associated/source/. Three Air tracks, the aforementioned JJ Perrey, Le Tone's homage to JJP, Dimitri FRom Paris and several more. cheers, Vik # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: rcb@easynet.co.uk Subject: (exotica) Spaced Out - major facelift/upgrade Date: 02 May 1997 00:19:52 +0000 Phew - well, after many hours and days' work, the Spaced Out WWW site is now looking a lot nicer (please excuse the immodesty!). Apart from just looking nicer I've spiced up the site with some Java in the form of: Java-enabled navigation buttons and a Java applet which enables you to generate discographies of any of the artists who recorded with Enoch Light. You can in fact also use the applet to search for *any* word in the discographies which might help you if you're trying to locate a particular track... Please have a look and let me know what you think. Any of you without Java-enabled browsers please ignore the above message! Robbie Spaced Out - the Enoch Light WWW Site ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~rcb/light/ ** ** # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Laura Taylor Subject: (exotica) moderne garage essentials Date: 02 May 1997 12:22:24 -0400 Re: Subsonics, 13 Frightened Girls If you don't buy the new SUBSONICS album - EVERYTHING'S FALLING APART and bug TJ O'Brien about getting a 13 FRIGHTENED GIRLS TAPE, then you don't rock. It's that simple. "It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."-Mr. Leslie Baxter Laura Taylor (813) 974-3733 ltaylor@wusf.usf.edu # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Ray Coffey" Subject: (exotica) Plink Plank Plunk Date: 02 May 1997 13:08:27 -0400 PLINK: The Life of Lounge Laura PLANK: What's with Austin Powers? I expect several erudite reviews. PLUNK: Richard Cameron (guest DJ) at Brother Cleve's Saturnalia was FABULOUS! The good Brother should be worried if he decides to move to the metropolitan Boston area... Thanks for having him spin, Cleve. Jet lag must improve a DJ's skills. Any offerings available from Mr. Cameron? Ray # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ken Freedman Subject: (exotica) WFMU Record Fair Date: 02 May 1997 13:15:01 -0400 (EDT) The WFMU Record Fair is upon us once again. It's a weekend chock full of amazing and unusual sounds of every stripe. It never ceases to amaze me the stuff that you can find at these things - there's tons of vinyl, 45s and CDs at both great and ridiculous prices. Here's the skinny: WHERE: 440 East 12th Street at the corner of 12th and Ave. A in NYC. WHEN: Saturday, May 3rd from 11am to 8pm Sunday, May 4th from 11am to 7pm. HOW MUCH: Admission is $5, and early vinyl addict admission at 10 am is $10. WFMU will be broadcasting live from the stage all day each day, and our entire Catalog of Curiosities is moving in for the weekend. We'll also be blowing out a lot of catalog stock at reduced prices. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: David Frame Subject: (exotica) Re: exotica Digest V2 #207 Date: 02 May 1997 11:18:03 -0600 > AMC showed both of James Coburn's Flint movies last weekend (Our Man > and In Like). It had been a while since I'd watched either, so I > figgered I'd check ut the music..... we were layin' around the house tryin' to figure out what to do and flippin' channels. once we spotted coburn, our problem was solved. there's a guy in denver selling a chair from "our man flint". not just any chair, but the one where he gets his shave while being persuaded to help save the world. nice. leopard print lounger that has the little compartment in back where the shaving cream was dispensed in the movie. speaking of 60s spy flicks, does anyone know where i could track down a videotape of "modesty blaise"? as it says on the movie poster, `nothing can faze modesty blaise'. looks to be something like a female flint, with monica vitti no less. dave -- David Frame Graduate School of Business Administration CB 419 University of Colorado Boulder, CO 80309-0419 Telephone: (303)492-5616 Email: framed@colorado.edu # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Lar E. Warner" Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: exotica Digest V2 #207 Date: 02 May 1997 11:01:53 -0700 (PDT) >speaking of 60s spy flicks, does anyone know where i could track down a >videotape of "modesty blaise"? as it says on the movie poster, `nothing >can faze modesty blaise'. looks to be something like a female flint, >with monica vitti no less. > >dave I wish I knew, and if you find out, please let me know. I have a color printout of Ms. Vitti's scene in the Op-art cage from that movie right here on the wall next to my monitor for inspiration. Yes, I am loony. I snagged it from this guy's page: http://www.inch.com/%7Ehepcat/movies.html See also http://www-personal.cs.umu.se/~kenth/modesty.html for info about the books, etc. Do you have the poster or an image of it? L # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Laura Taylor Subject: (exotica) rat pack undead! Date: 02 May 1997 14:49:01 -0400 SAMMY DAVIS JR. SETTLEMENT (Los Angeles) -- Sammy Davis Junior's widow is square with the I-R-S again. Altovise (al-toh-VEES') Davis says she's reached a settlement with the government. She wouldn't say what will happen to the seven (M) million dollar tax bill the agency says she owes. Davis says ''Sammy was a fighter'' and would've wanted her to reach a settlement instead of declaring bankruptcy. What would Anton Levey (sp?) have to say about this? "It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."-Mr. Leslie Baxter Laura Taylor (813) 974-3733 ltaylor@wusf.usf.edu # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: CitiGuy471@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Easytune Date: 02 May 1997 17:43:04 -0400 (EDT) It's very danceable, it incorporates lots of loungey/bossa/MOR values and the beat isn't the typical 130+BPM of House--those beats vary and Richard Cameron of Amsterdam spun some nice Easytune at Brother Cleve's "Saturnalia" spin last night..... # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bcleve@pop.tiac.net (Br. Cleve) Subject: Re: (exotica) Plink Plank Plunk Date: 02 May 1997 21:23:49 -0400 Ray Coffey was there, and then he wrote: >PLUNK: Richard Cameron (guest DJ) at Brother Cleve's Saturnalia >was FABULOUS! The good Brother should be worried if he decides to move to >the metropolitan Boston area... > >Thanks for having him spin, Cleve. Jet lag must improve a DJ's skills. > >Any offerings available from Mr. Cameron? On the Dutch label, Drive-In; distributed by Outland Easy Tune (Vol's 1-4) The Best of Easy Tune there is also a U.S. 12" single of Popcorn's "Tap Moi-La!" Look for a new album in August, entitled "All-In". It will be on Readymade Records from Japan, the new label run by the Pizzacato Five. Kanpai! br cleve # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bcleve@pop.tiac.net (Br. Cleve) Subject: (exotica) more Easytune Date: 02 May 1997 21:54:56 -0400 An addendum the the aforementioned Easy Tune/ Richard Cameron CD's and LP's Stereo Showcase -POPCORN CD ET 007 (Drive-In/Outland) Outland Records (+31) 20 420 7141 (The Netherlands) Also available in Japan: Stereo Showcase Tap La-Moi! CD EP The Best Of Easy Tune (out in June) Art Union - Fax - (+81) 3 3770 76 12 (Tokyo) br cleve # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jbtwist@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Modesty Blaise/Wild Party/May Coming Attractions Date: 02 May 1997 23:36:51 -0400 (EDT) In a message dated 97-05-02 13:43:02 EDT, you write: << speaking of 60s spy flicks, does anyone know where i could track down a videotape of "modesty blaise"? as it says on the movie poster, `nothing can faze modesty blaise'. looks to be something like a female flint, with monica vitti no less. d >> For you cable hounds Fox's "Fx" movie channel is showing this again on May 21. I watched some of it a few months ago and was unimpressed, despite the gorgeous color, art direction, and the presence of my favorite twisted Limey Dirk Bogarde. Monica is indeed loverly, and has a HUUUGGE bed, but even her luscious lips couldn't suck me into watching the whole thing. Maybe i'll give it another try. I think John Dankworth did the music, but he did a much better job on "Darling", which is well worth a look for the wild "Truth or Dare" party scene in swingin' 60's England, with Julie Christie, Dirk, AND Laurence Harvey. My favorite forgotten cable flick recently was 1956's "The Wild Party" on TMC, a cheapo with world's worst actor Tony Quinn and some grifters hanging out in a demimonde jazz joint talking tons of bad beatnik dialogue. Lots of music by the Buddy de Franco Quartet with piano solos by Pete Jolly (when one of the grifters plays the piano.) They kidnap some rich swells and the fun ensues. Its on Flix in May but I don't get that channel. And also: 5/7 Blow-Up on TCM - Jane Birkin anyone ? will Ted cut the muff scenes? 5/6, 16, & 17 Touch of Evil AMC 5/21 Mr. Buddwing TCM - Kenyon Hopkins again, R.I.P 5/26 Hatari on TCM 5/26 Mothra on Sci-Fi - We love you Peanuts, oh yes we do. JB Twist, too lazy to rent videos & hope i'm not overdoing this # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brad Bigelow Subject: (exotica) Die Neue Marlene Date: 03 May 1997 05:27:56 -0700 Found this oddity at the Salvation Army yesterday: Die Neue Marlene, a British EMI LP from 1964. Marlene Dietrich sings in German. Half of the songs are German, but the rest are translations of then-current U.S. hits. Marlene puts her special dry, world-weary spin on "Blowing in the Wind," "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?," and "Puff, the Magic Dragon." Except they're "Die Anwort Weiss Ganz Allein der Wind," "Sag Mir Wo die Blumen Sind," and "Paff, der Zauberdrachen." How did Rhino miss this one? Brad bbigelow@netrail.net # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Peter Hipwell Subject: (exotica) A Haul Date: 03 May 1997 12:28:19 +0100 In the bleary dreary grey light of a hung-over Saturday, I uncovered a few nice records, so here comes the gloatable list: Themes From Classic Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films (Varese Sarabande), featuring music from The Mole People, The Creature From The Black Lagoon, This Island Earth (yes!), The Incredible Shrinking Man, It Came From Outer Space, The Creature Walks Among Us, The House Of Frankenstein, The Horror of Dracula, Tarantuala, The Son Of Dracula, The Revenge Of The Creature, and last -- but almost certainly not least -- The Deadly Mantis! The music is by Mancini, Herman Stein, Hans J. Salter, and others. Woof. This is the kind of music I NEED. Thank You, Music Lovers -- Spike Jones. Original Soundtrack to "Hotel" -- Johnny Keating. As well, a couple of radio-show albums: W. C. Fields Original Radio Broadcasts, and The Official Adventures Of The Green Hornet. "Full Cast Live-Action Episodes In The Battle Against Crime by Britt Reid And His Faithful Valet, Kato" with the Green Hornet Theme Song. Which, I'm hoping, will the cause of much excitement this p.m. Plus: "Tom" -- Tom Jones; "Julie Is Her Name" -- Julie London; Kenton in Hi-Fi; The Astounding 12-String Guitar Of Glen Campbell; Tony Hatch with "Love Sounds" (heh heh); and "Drink No Rio De Janeiro" by Djalama Ferreira e seus Millionarios Do Ritmo. Not bad. Now all I've got to go is find some time to listen to them... I also saw a Xavier Cugat album called "Love, Bread and Cha Cha": didn't get it because it was priced too high for me at 4 quid, but it's got a great cover of Mr. Cugat (I presume) hugging a large loaf of French bread plus a glamorous lady in adjunction to him. Happy days, Pete. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) James Coburn, AMC, letterboxes, gongs, Tura Date: 03 May 1997 15:02:09 -0400 Got my first exotica digest yesterday -- very impressive. Have I finally found a mailing list that's on my wavelength? I hadn't planned on joining in so soon, but the James Coburn/Flint movies thread really grabbed me. AMC tends to show their letterbox versions in the late, late hours -- so if you see a movie that interests you listed in prime time, it's a good idea to check the overnight listings for a letterbox showing. TV Guide (print) usually indicates letterbox versions as such. AMC has been fairly generous with it: I've caught most of the movies discussed in this thread in letterbox via the AMC thriftshop (except the Matt Helm movies, which Turner probably has a lock on). A nice batch of 50's sci-fi as well. I second the opinion that Coburn was plugging "The President's Analyst" when he banged the gong on the Tonight Show. Besides the one his character kept in his office, I think (could well be mis-remembering) he got to bash one onstage in the psychedelic rock club scene. Big fun movie. I think AMC's print had the original music -- at least it sounded Lalo Schifrin-esque to me. This is probably common knowledge, but Tura Satana (Varla in "Faster Pussycat") plays both dancers in the Marseille club scene in "Our Man Flint". I don't know if that's her in the solarized title sequence. ??? m.ace ecam@voicenet.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Stilgloria@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) letterboxes Date: 03 May 1997 15:28:27 -0400 (EDT) What exactly is a letterbox version of a movie? Gloria # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brad Bigelow Subject: (exotica) "Happening" is Happening Date: 03 May 1997 16:53:47 -0700 Picked up a great Dick Hyman Command LP at Salvation Army yesterday: "Happening" Dick's on harpsichord, and doubles as a whistler on a swinging "now sound" cover of "The Ballad of the Green Berets." A must for the next tape compilation. Brad bbigelow@netrail.net # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "kevin king" Subject: Re: (exotica) letterboxes Date: 03 May 1997 17:56:15 -0500 Stilgloria@aol.com wrote: > What exactly is a letterbox version of a movie? Letterboxing preserves the original (intended) screen aspect ratio - width vs. height. Our tv screens weren't designed to fit pictures filmed in vistavision, panavision or any other wide-screen format. So, in order to utilize the largest area possible most films are panned and scanned for video (area of central action gets the frame). With films that are carefully composed, like the Flints, panning and scanning guarantees that you're not getting the full (intended) effect. In fact, it creates a considerably different experience. kevin king xanadu@radix.net http://www.radix.net/~xanadu # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: CitiGuy471@aol.com Subject: (exotica) audionet broadcasting Date: 03 May 1997 19:36:59 -0400 (EDT) while this may not be precisely on target for collectors, it may ultimately interest them. A friend wants to start up an audionet site and broadcast "different" music from mainstream hits! I need to find out advertising info from the point of view of a sales person. How does it work.. Also I need to get sales figures on re-released older music..any suggestions? Sorry for the interruption--Jimmy (by e-mail please) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Library record sale Date: 03 May 1997 23:08:03 -0400 (EDT) The Brooklyn Public Library is getting out of the LP storage business. The main branch at Grand Army Plaza will be selling off all vinyl during the month of May, for $1 per disk. The selection is best for classical discs. There's a bunch of soundtracks and cast recordings, and lots of spoken word stuff. Just don't expect to find Bas Sheva's Soul Of A People -- I got that one. --Lou # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jessica Cameron Subject: (exotica) Finds from the last two weeks... Date: 04 May 1997 14:02:16 -0400 I love Spring...birds start to sing, flowers start to bloom, records pop up everywhere.... ; ) Basie Meets Bond (I had the weirdo re-ish on Solid State but this is the original. I may keep both copies--after all, how many records have a drawing of Count Basie holding a gun on the cover?) Hollywood...Basie's Way The Seventh Veil by Artie Barsamian (Now I have the old veil and the new veil. Yay!!) Big Hits from the Fabulous 50s (Jayne Mansfield is on the cover) Let's Dance Again! by David Carroll (early hi-fi cash in moments--kinda nice) Far Away Places by Enoch Light With Bells On by Sid Bass (cute music and cover) The Joy of Living by Nelson Riddle Lazy Lively Love by Jackie Gleason (nice cocktais'n' cigarettes cover) Twistin' Time by Ernie Freeman Music for Cooking with Gas a La Carte (promo thingy) Adventure in the Sun by Percy Faith (Faithful Latin) Paris Swings by Elmer Bernstein and His Swinging Bon Vivants ^_^ We Like Brass by Jerry Fielding Around the World in Percussion by Billy Mure (I love this record!!!!) Warm, Wild, and Wonderful by Tony Mottola (with the Groovies) Watermelon Man by Mongo Santamaria Journey to the Moon (mix of newsreely narration and actual footage of the moon landing + wacky pseudo hippie space music. Some sitar, too) Paradise Found by Felix Slatkin (pretty pix of Hawaii, Hula Maids, etc) The Rock Version of the Lord's Prayer (cheap Pickwick version of the original that still sounds pretty good) Ingenuity in Sound by Buddy Cole (one of those Warner Bros Workshop LPs) Cugi's Cocktails by Xavier Cugat (cuchi, cuchi, cuchi!!) The Sound for a Picture Evening Series, volumes 1-4: These records are so neat! You get all these "mood" themes, sound effects, and "sound portraits" of touristy places. You're supposed to use 'em to make soundtracks for your slide shows and home movies. Two of them have these amazing outer space, electronic music that are supposed to be used for "abstact slides." Other cuts are delightfully generic. Does that sound funny? ^_^ Thunderball Soundtrack Hawaii by Martin Denny (later Denny with some great tunes--"Oro, God of Vegeance" is awesome!) Top of the Ladder by Byron Lee and the Dragonaires (cool calypso with a great poolside shot of Byron and his boys) The Oud by Aram Arakelian and His Ensemble At Home With the Barry Sisters (my first Barry sisters LP! And it has their wonderful version of "Hava Nagila" to boot!) A Salute to the Tijuana Brass (Living Stuff--I like this way more than I thought I would. I used to hate Tijuana sounds, but I'm really getting into them now. "Spanish Flea" is just too much to ignore--what other Herb Alpert rip-offs are worth a listen? Any ideas?) Strictly Belly Dancing vol. 4 by Eddie "The Shiek" Kochak Boris Karloff reads Hans Christian Anderson (_this_ is the Grinch???) ; ) Marcy sings Sunday School Songs (early Marcy album with the story of her tragically high-pitched voice on the back cover. Can you imagine having to talk like Marcy every single day of your life?) thanks for the space, Jessica ^_^ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jessica Cameron Subject: (exotica) Percussion Mania Date: 04 May 1997 14:02:30 -0400 Just two questions about percussion LPs and one of my favorite studio guys, Harry Breuer: 1) How many albums are there in the Strand Elite percussion series? I have these ones: Hawaiian Percussion Latin Percussion Explosive Vocal Percussion Around the World in Percussion There have to be more, right? ; ) 2) I was looking at my copy of "Blues with a Kick" by Bobby Hackett the other day, and it mentions that Phil Kraus and "Harry Brewer" are on perucssion. This is Harry Breuer, isn't it? And "Ping Pong Percussion" has a picture of him that's labeled "Harry Brener." They spelled it right in the personnel list, but mislabeled the photo. Poor Harry! No one could ever get his name right. : ( Thanks for any answers, record lists, or stories about Harry Breuer crying because no one could spell his name right, Jessica ^_^ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bag@hubris.net Subject: (exotica) Julie London info requested Date: 04 May 1997 20:51:32 -0700 (PDT) I just bought two additional LPs for my Julie London collection and decided to build a discography to figure out what is out there. Its a pretty good list, but I thought you might have info to help me fill in the gaps. 1. JL's last LP was Yummy, Yummy, Yummy in 1969. The last LP I have is Liberty LST 7546 "Easy Does It." Do you know of any releases between 7546 and Yummy? 2. The numbering on some of the early Liberty albums was a bit crazy, what with mono releases that were re-released in electronically created stereo. I noted that four original monos were re-released with different stereo numbers. Does this correspond to your info? 3. On Love Letters, the notes claim that is JL's 15th album. Yet, everything I have says that would be her 16th album. The nearest I can figure is that Calendar Girl messed up the calculations. Calendar Girl is the only LP that was numbered differently and doesn't appear to have a stereo reprocessed equivalent. Any ideas about this? 4. Julie London's last known recording was in 1983 for one selection on the soundtrack for Sharkey's Machine "My Funny Valentine." I take it this was a new recording and not simply a reissue of something she did earlier? Any thoughts? 5. Capitol put out a compilation CD in 1991 called Merry Christmas Baby which supposedly had a JL cut. What was the title? 6. Did any company other than Liberty release JL material (authorized or not)? I am not talking about re-releases of original Liberty material, I refer to stuff that never made it on Liberty. 7. My info on JL singles is lacking. Anyone have a source that goes beyond her only chart hitting single (Cry Me A River)? Oh well, those are enough questions for now. Thanks for your help. BTW, someone told me there was something on NPR last week about Julie London singing a commercial jingle. I may also have read something about this. Anyone know the full scoop: what ditty, what product, any recordings available of it? Byron Caloz # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ottotemp@aol.com Subject: (exotica) SF Tiki parties Date: 05 May 1997 02:34:22 -0400 (EDT) Sorry if you don't live in SF. The Lounge scene here has been rollin along with a couple of recent live shows from Tipsy and the Sense-O-Round djs back in business with gigs at The Hi-Ball on Broadway. Last week was Mr. Lucky Combo. Here's my itinerary for the month: Saturday, May 3 Tiki News' Otto & Baby Doe will join Mr. Lucky at the Encounter in LA for Lounge magazines' 3rd anniversary party featuring Tipsy, djs Easy Tunes (Amsterdam), Lucien Samaha (NYC) Johan Kugelberg (NYC) & DJ Orb (LA), along with author Bob Sloan. Wednesday, May 7 djing between sets for THIN @ Cafe Du Nord Thursday May 15 5th Tiki News party at Chameleon Club Jumbo Shrimp (featuring Klaus and Ray from Dead Kennedys) will play two sets of their twisted new wave instrumentals (yes, instro versions of some 80s NW hits) and power surf numbers (they have three guitarists!) between sets will be vintage BW surf and trash films and djing til two a.m. by dj "The Now Sound" All for only $3.00 Sunday, May 18 I may be djing a BBQ this day call or email me for details as they arrive Thursday, May 22 KALX dj "The Kalifornia Kid" celebrates his birthday (and Mister T's) with a Tiki/surf show at club Cocodrie on Kearny in North Beach Pineapple Princess will play along with a headlining band and hula dancers and a ukulele player. Tiki News will set up shop there selling mags and mugs. $5.00 entry May 24/25 We will be in LA for the Dionysus Demolition Derby # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Peter Hipwell Subject: (exotica) Finds from the last two weeks... Date: 05 May 1997 12:17:23 +0100 Jessica Cameron wrote: > The Sound for a Picture Evening Series, volumes 1-4: > > These records are so neat! You get all these "mood" themes, sound effects, > and "sound portraits" of touristy places. You're supposed to use 'em to make > soundtracks for your slide shows and home movies. Two of them have these > amazing outer space, electronic music that are supposed to be used for > "abstact slides." Other cuts are delightfully generic. Does that sound > funny? ^_^ Heh. I've got this great thing: a musical postcard from Ireland. Which is basically a flexidisc single kind of thing in the lamination of the card (which is the size of a 45 single). It's produced in association with Guinness, and, surprisingly, among the tourist sites visited in the narrative-soundeffect journey is the Guinness Brewery. > > A Salute to the Tijuana Brass (Living Stuff--I like this way more than I > thought I would. I used to hate Tijuana sounds, but I'm really getting into > them now. "Spanish Flea" is just too much to ignore--what other Herb Alpert > rip-offs are worth a listen? Any ideas?) > There's a couple of albums by the Torero Brass on Music for Pleasure, called "Tijuana Nursery Rhymes" and um, something like "Lennon and McCartney Tijuana Style". These are, I think, Alan Moorhouse creations in disguise, and are surprisingly good, if rather silly. The nursery rhyme album has a lot of blurb on the back about getting children back into traditional music rather than the Beatles -- by presenting it in the exciting new Tijuana style. Which is a wonderful leap of logic. There may well be more of these. (I had high hopes for "Tamla Meets Tijuana" by the Tequila Brass, but I was sorely disappointed). The Duke Ellington version of "Spanish Flea" is the top! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Peter Hipwell Subject: (exotica) La Fromagerie Date: 05 May 1997 12:37:11 +0100 This Thursday, 9pm till 1am, at the Meadows Bar in Edinburgh (on Buccleuch Street), we will be celebrating the first birthday of "La Fromagerie". Free entry, as always, and top quality cheese-laden sounds centring on easy, happy music, good for both dancing and drinking to, diverting around to pick up the odd few dozen pieces of lush stringery, high-class vocal delights, exotica, electronic burbling, percussive rat-a-tata, discoid pulsation, brass honking, theme music, country music, and whatever else manages to grab our limited attention spans and/or depraved senses of humour on the way. We start off nice and whip it up to a frenzy a little later on in the evening (sometimes we even get as far as a pandemonium). Cheers, Pete. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nbccw20@nbnet.nb.ca (nbccw20) Subject: (exotica) Austin Powers Date: 05 May 1997 12:01:31 +0000 I saw Austin Powers this weekend. I think maybe you guys would like it. I thought it was awesome. Any movie that opens with everyone dancing in the streets to "Soul Bossa Nova" by Quincy Jones has off to great start at least. Anyways, I recommend it. -Q # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Julie London info requested Date: 05 May 1997 10:11:14 -0400 (EDT) At 08:51 PM 5/4/97 -0700, Byron Caloz wrote: >I just bought two additional LPs for my Julie London collection and decided >to build a discography to figure out what is out there. Its a pretty good >list, but I thought you might have info to help me fill in the gaps. Here's the URL for the London entry in the All-Music Guide. You might find the info you need there. -Lou # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: peterp@inch.com (Peter Principle) Subject: (exotica) Casey Kasem Date: 06 May 1997 12:53:06 -0400 (EDT) >Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 20:00:49 -0700 >From: basic hip >Subject: (exotica) Astrology For Young Lovers > >I've heard that Casey Kasem did a record called "Astrology For Young >Lovers". Can >anyone supply any general info on this? Astrology For Young Lovers - the Horoscope for the Now Generation with Casey Kasem on Sidewalk Records T5905 narrated with 60's whitebred AM radio enthusiasm.. "Hey kids, astrology can be fun!!..." produced by Mike Curb (he of Freak Out USA fame). The back cover is filled with a list of the names of hundreds of "stars" (from Sammy Davis Jr. to Marianne Faithful via Sandy Koufax) listed by astrological sign wow Unfortunately ther is no musical accompaniment # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: peterp@inch.com (Peter Principle) Subject: (exotica) commercial musics Date: 06 May 1997 12:53:11 -0400 (EDT) >Jim Gerwitz wrote: >> > I also scored a >> Campbell's Soup promo EZ compilation, most notable for Lester Lanin's >> version of "M'm! M'm! GOOD!", starting out in a TJB mode, then on to mod >> rock, and then a xylophone and bongo-filled finale. Good cover of mommy >> and freckle-boy. > >This reminds me of an EP I have that was put out by Oscar Meyer. >Basically it's six different versions of the "I Wish I Were An Oscar >Meyer Wiener" song, done in different styles. Since it came out around >1970, there's the mod rock version, the TJB version, the sultry sexy >slow bossa version (w/ fake Brazil 66 vox- very nice), etc. Anyone else >have this or others like it? > >pea I've got a few of these, and a minute to spare... (I haven't read any digests since 158, but I am a list enthusiast) anyway, as this is an area in which there are few discographies (and in the hope that someday there will be a searchable option for the exotica archives so people can compile lists from the vast wealth of knowledge contributed by the esteemed polity here assembled) I offer these in no particular order 1. "The Rheingold Beat, Music to Sell Beer By" the Stanley Krell Orchestra on Gotham Records LP GRC 8345 produced by Foote, Cone and Belding this is an in house promotional pep talk to the sales force... 1 side is aimed at the white market and the other side is aimed at a spanish american demographic... the music is latinized and some of the copy is revealingly racist. The cover features a collage of beer images on the front in duotone and a B/W picture of Celeste Yarnall Miss Rheingold 1964 full screen on the back 2. "The Sound of Selling in the Sixties, the Years Most Effective Radio Commercials" Radio Advertising Bureau's Gold Record Winners 1963 this 10" EP on its own label is just what you would expect 12 national spots and 5 regional. winners include American Express Tavelers Cheques (Ogilvy, Benson and Mather), Kellogs (Leo Burnett Co.) General Motors and Coca Cola (both McCann Erikson) Cambells V-*, Mars Candy (both Needham Louis and Brorby) etc. 3. Lester Lanin and his Orchestra play "The Madison Avenue Beat" have fun listening and dancing to 58 radio and television commercial favorites... pretty self explainatory comes with an insert describing products and source music... everything from Anheuser Busch to Mr. Clean. on Epic LN 3796 cartoon on cover has exec in office with secretary on lap and cigar in hand... caption says "listen, their playing our song" 4. "Tune In and Turn On to the Hippest Commercials of the Sixties" by Benny Golson on Verve V?V6-8710 rather good interpretations of Cool Whip, Right Any Time of the Day, the Swinger etc. this is definitely of interest to lounge fans. from the liner notes "Madison Avenue, capitol of the advertising industry, has emerged as the moist creative force in Show Business. Television commercials are now rated by critics as fresher and bolderr than the programs that surround them. These days, we head for the icebox during the show. We'de rather miss a shoot-out at the Bar-X ranch than miss a bar of Happiness Is. this in 1967.. reminds one of Mr. Joyboys mother and her enthusiastic scene in "the Loved One". This one has a very forward looking cover (looks just like a Kenny Scharf) and is produced by Tom Wilson who worked with Dylan and the Soft Machine to name a few... 5. "Music to Sell Bread By Tastee That Is" an in house production on it's own label featuring 5 different Tastee Bread commercials and an instrumenatl version of one of them. Again from the liner notes (sorry to be so verbose, but the copy reveals a lot about the industries perceptions of itself in these times... please beaar with me on this) "Any patron of the record shops these days is aware of the New Approach in Album Titles. They're very functional. For example, if you hate excercise, you can cater to your prejudice very pleasantly with a disc called "Music For Not Doing Pushups." If you happen to be a housewife overcome by the monotny of housework, you can gain strength from a disc called "Music to Watch the Maid Ironing By." (a certain limber fingered jazz-guitarest has entered the lists with ana lbum titled, interestingly enough, "Music to Listen to a Certain Limber-Fingered Jazz Guitarest BY.") None, however, has been more hopefully conceived than the one you hold in your hand "Music to Sell Bread By." It's a record of the swingin'est session ever inspered by a loaf of bread. and dedicated to the proposition that a solid beat, a deft lyric, and a warm melody can do a lot to put our favorite bread over at the box office." etc. and soforth for another couple of hundred words... 5. "Music to MAke Automobiles By..." put out by the public relations department of Volkswagon of America, Englewood Cliffs NJ this is actually the soundtrack to an inhouse industrial film "The Right Hand of Plenty". The music is very swinging euro big band (by Hale Rood) and there are lots of machine sounds mixed in. this one is actually quite famous 6. "Bergstrom Paper presents Impressions In Color" by Bill Walker produced by Advertisers Music Inc. at Universal Studios, Chicago Illinois 1967 a similar recording to that above in that it has 6 pieces of music that integrate machine sounds and music. "My first step," Walker explained, "was to tape the presses running at different speeds. We recorded them at 1800 impressions an hour and 8000 impressions, moving our microphones around each press to get different effects in stereo." The music is very Enoch Light/Lew Davies influenced with similar descriptive notes "rhythm pattern which suggests Rock-n-Roll may really have been derived from a Harris Offset LTV press. There is strong emphasis on the bottom sound produced by the bass harmonica and bass guitar contrasted with the harp, piccolo, vibraphone and piano" etc. Gorgeous gatefold sleeve 7. "Music Used In Many Popular Television Commercials" on Folkways Records FX 6109 of all labels! a various artists comp that features expanded instrumental versions of commercial themes performed by the composers. includes Vic Flick "Guitarama" from a Coty Perfume spot for instance, as well as many auto product related commercials Zenith TV, Dannon Yogurt etc. 8. "The Name of the Game Is Go, The Pan Am Go Commercials" on Panam records... 1 side is 6 different american spots and a medley of foreign market ads, the other side features a long medley of collaged ad materials possibly from a short industrial film and 2 versions of "The Goin's Great" one by Sammy Davis Jr. and the other by Steve Allen. another gatefold sleeve includes all the copy to all the ads and many cartoon ads 9. "Buy, Buy, Buy" an in house sampler of Young and Rubicam spots from 1966 13 original spots for such divers clients as Gulf Oil, Tiparillo, Goodyear, Remington, White Owl (composed and played by John Barry Seven) etc. more Enoch Light alumnii on these bits... Dick Hyman, and Stan Free on keyboards for instance. from the liner notes yet again "Remington. the youngest piece of music on this record created for use in advertising the Selectro Shaver, the mood of this music was designed to tell a story without lyrics. Here, it is heard as a rocking Frug" also "Log Cabin the rarely heard sound of the ondioline is mated with percussion and a block string section to give us western'style rock. words like "Hully Gully" and "earthy insistant low down rock beat" aare liberally distributed throughout the very extensive liner notes/sales pitch. 10/11. and of course there are those Coca Cola in house records featuring so many famous pop groups doing Coke ads... I have an Australian one with the likes of Normie Rowe and the Playboys, Doug Parkinson, Brian Cadd, Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs, John Farrar and the Strangers, Glenn Sharrock and the Twilights, Larry's Rebels, the Groove, Sherbert and of course a bunch by the Easybeats, Little River Band etc., and another with Supremes, Aretha Franklin, Everly Bros and other american and english popstars which I think is currently available booted on a CD thanx for reading and I hope this wasn't too long cheers peter principle # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: dfrisby@mgm.com (Doug Frisby) Subject: (exotica) Trades?? Date: 06 May 1997 09:46:09 -0700 If anyone is interested in trading some vinyl for other vinyl (or CD's) please let me know (off the list). I just purchased a sealed copy of "Seven Golden Men" opened it, played it and am ready to trade it. I also have various other top quality stereo SABPM music that would feel happier being played in someone elses home. I don't like to sell, I like to trade (I'll even throw in a free Living Stereo copy of Infinity In Sound for free). So let me know if there's any interest. Doug # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: search@wavenet.com Subject: (exotica) hiya exoticats Date: 06 May 1997 11:06:53 +0000 max from hollywood, calif signing on been here a few, but little activity - ?? max holllywood 46, calif. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Paul Lewis Subject: (exotica) JJ Perrey Date: 06 May 1997 17:25:04 -0400 (EDT) Since each sound on albums such as The Happy Moog, Moog Indigo, etc. had to be crafted individually, does anyone know what Jean Jacques Perrey used to sequence the sounds? I know he did a lot of experimentation with tape splices, but did he do that for those early LPs? thanks, pablito! Paul Lewis lewis@netlab.texsci.edu Coordinator of Academic Computing (215) 951-2834 [office] Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science "We do it because we are compelled." -Alan Moore # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ghostown@ix.netcom.com Subject: (exotica) Julie London, some ugly truths Date: 06 May 1997 15:04:08 -0400 =A9 =A9 =A9 =A9 =A9 =A9 =A9 =A9 =A9 =A9 =A9 =A9 =A9 =A9 =A9 =A9 =A9 =A9 =A9= =A9 Byron Caloz wrote: > 6. Did any company other than Liberty release JL material (authorized o= r > not)? I am not talking about re-releases of original Liberty material,= I > refer to stuff that never made it on Liberty. After she became a star, four early tracks were released on Guest Star Records*, a cheesy budget line, on an album filled out with a bunch of unrelated Ted Comstock Orchestra tracks. Julie sang: "Foggy Day," "You're Blase," "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm," and "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child." Sound quality: D+. Lots of tape hiss. These were JL's original Bethlehem Records demos, which pre-dated her signing to Liberty. Her husband, Bobby Troup, set up the Bethlehem audition. She was rejected. She had previously been turned down by Capitol, Columbia, Decca and RCA. See my liner notes on TIME FOR LOVE: The Best of Julie London (Rhino 70737, 1991), for more details on her recording career. Most info came directly from several lengthy interviews I did with a very gracious and enthusiastic Troup.=20 JL, on the other hand, refused to be interviewed, and tried to get Rhino to abandon the project. I spoke with her briefly several times, and she was most uncooperative. I got the impression she was not proud of her work and just wished the world would go away and leave her alone. At one point, Troup had specially selected some unpublished JL photos for the Rhino package. Miss London found out and put the kibosh on that idea. --Irwin Chusid =20 ---------------------- *a product of Synthetic Plastics Co., Newark, NJ, harkening to a previous thread about Peter Pan Records =A9 =A9 =A9 =A9 =A9 =A9 =A9 =A9 =A9 =A9 =A9 =A9 =A9 =A9 =A9 =A9 =A9 =A9 =A9= =A9 * * * * * ACME PRODUCTS * * * * * "World's leading maker of spring-loaded coyote launchers since 1949" Visit the Raymond Scott Archives at: http://users.aol.com/DevilDrums # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: brian@headspace.com (Brian Salter) Subject: (exotica) Sense-O-Round 5/8 Date: 06 May 1997 11:33:52 -0800 This Thursday, May 8, The Sense-O-Round DJs will be spinning lounge music in the bar at the Cat's Alley Club starting at 9PM as guests of the Thursday night "Fencesitters Lounge" series. Resident DJ Monkey, who spins very eclectic and unpredictable sets, will be in the main room. The Cat's Alley Club is at 1190 Folsom at 8th in San Francisco; admission is $3-$10 sliding scale. See you there! -Brian ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Brian Salter brian@headspace.com / bsalter@slip.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Pea Hicks Subject: Re: (exotica) commercial musics Date: 06 May 1997 14:39:22 -0700 Peter Principle wrote: > > > thanx for reading and I hope this wasn't too long >sender. Wow- that was quite a list!! The only thing I can think to add at this point is this promotional record I have from the early 70's that the Air Force sent out to radio stations. Basically it's an assortment of jingles and musical beds. The cool thing is that it's actually just one jingle ("Fly away away/See the dawning of a new day/New horizons are on the way/In the Air Force USA"), done in a variety of different styles to target specific demographics. There's the Country version, the Latin version, the Soul version, the "Contemporary" version, the EZ Listening version, etc. And they all come in varying lengths. Unfortunately there's a run-out groove after each one which effectively stops the needle after each track. It'd be nice just to be able to listen to the thing all the way thru. I suppose I could put it on tape... Pea -- Pea Hicks "Memory is my drug of choice." <---Realm 'O' The Optigan---> http://www.pilot.com/optigan Who will be the next to brave the *perils* of the VIRTUAL OPTIGAN??! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tony Wilds Subject: Re: (exotica) commercial music - jingle jungle Date: 06 May 1997 18:24:24 -0400 The sound on the Benny Golson LP is pretty crumby; the Dart [Swinger] tune and Cool Whip are the only tracks I like much. Also there are: Two prized 78s by the Brown-Forman distillery "Drink, drink, drink and be mer-ry..." including a narrative thank you or pep talk or something from management to the lackeys. A 10" Zenith promo with a young Mike Wallace. There's lots of clips of various artists, including Lester Lanin I think, but the best is Wallace going on about the miraculous Zenith Hi-Fi set and addressing the ladies' concerns about decor. tony ______________________________________________ The Wilds Scene http://www.charm.net/~wilds/ LPs * Definitive EXOTICA * Sabu * Tiki Gallery "These songs, Tony, how can you do them like you doo wacka doo?" -- Judith Saylor # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Laura Taylor Subject: (exotica) Walker Brothers Date: 06 May 1997 13:54:49 -0400 Ga-head...call me a shmuck...but I just picked up THE WALKER BROS. anthology and I dig it...especially Scott's over-the-top gorgeous vocals and that Phil Spector-esqe production...Maybe I just love him too much that I am no longer objective...but it's damn good, esp. for e-z listening... However, I must say his cover of LOVE MINUS ZERO, NO LIMIT way sucks...Ah, well, gotta love Scott for diggin' Dylan. Lounge Laura "It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."-Mr. Leslie Baxter Laura Taylor (813) 974-3733 ltaylor@wusf.usf.edu # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: action+@sirius.com (Ursula Blind) Subject: (exotica) Portugese Washerwoman Date: 06 May 1997 16:30:48 -0800 Yesterday on what passes for SF's easy-listening AM radio station I heard the most amazing instrumental. Never heard it before in any arrangement--the tune was called "Portugese Washerwoman;" the artist was someone named Joe "Fingers" Carr, but I didn't catch who wrote it (2 men, I think, in the mid-50s). It had a very Enoch Light-like arrangement, only with fewer big bangs and swoops. The tune itself did this really cool major-minor shift that sounded both exotic and very homegrown American mid-20th-century-composer. It was quite a peppy number. Has anyone else ever heard this piece? Any idea who wrote it? Please share.... --Ursula # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bag@hubris.net Subject: (exotica) Thanks for Julie info Date: 06 May 1997 18:56:17 -0700 (PDT) Thanks so much for all the help regarding Julie London info. Most of the replies were already posted. It will take me a while to sort through the info, but I've learned a lot already: 1. There are some good websites with info specific to Ms. London and others that are, in general, good for music reference questions. 2. Ms. London did do a limited number of recordings for Bethlehem, with even one single released and these demo songs also released by a budget label on one side of an LP. (I believe I saw it at Django's the other day but felt skittish about it. The review I got justified my reluctance, but I may eventually buy it someday anyway! Apparently the sound quality was awful.) 3. Her recording of My Funny Valentine was original for Sharkey's Machine ST. I just hope I can find the record. Still haven't heard any specifics about her rendition of some commercial ditty. I'm sure the info is out there, because I believe I heard it or read it sometime last week and this was confirmed by someone else who said it was mentioned on NPR's All Things Considered. My extremely faulty memory says she sang a well-known jingle for a cigarette manufacturer. I will try to coordinate the info I got in the next two weeks. I appreciate all the help! Byron Caloz # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "kevin king" Subject: Re: (exotica) Portugese Washerwoman Date: 06 May 1997 22:50:08 -0500 Ursula Blind wrote: > Yesterday on what passes for SF's easy-listening AM radio station I > heard the most amazing instrumental. Never heard it before in any > arrangement--the tune was called "Portugese Washerwoman;" the artist > was someone named Joe "Fingers" Carr, but I didn't catch who wrote > it (2 men, I think, in the mid-50s). That piece is on Presenting Popp! and is credited to R. Luchessi and Andre Popp. -"in their most original version with the ondioline imitating a musical saw." I was just listening to this record today! kevin king xanadu@radix.net http://www.radix.net/~xanadu # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: basic hip Subject: Re: (exotica) Portugese Washerwoman Date: 06 May 1997 20:14:24 -0700 Ursula Blind wrote: > > Yesterday on what passes for SF's easy-listening AM radio station I heard > the most amazing instrumental. Never heard it before in any > arrangement--the tune was called "Portugese Washerwoman;" the artist was > someone named Joe "Fingers" Carr, but I didn't catch who wrote it (2 men, I > think, in the mid-50s). > Has anyone else ever heard this piece? Any idea who wrote it? Please share.... I've got an Astrud Gilberto (backed by the Walt Wanderley Trio) CD with that tune on it and the credits go to Roger Lucchesi....and....(drum roll)....ANDRE POPP!!!!! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jbtwist@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) hiya exoticats Date: 06 May 1997 23:33:18 -0400 (EDT) Hiya Hiya Hiya ? Froggie Gremlin I presume? Sometimes the postings seem adrift in the doldrums, waiting for the lost sailors to read their digests or make their thrift scores. Other times its typhoon season in the Far East, crashing waves of words from the ridiculous to the sublime. As has been recommended before, on a slow day you can always go into Fearless Leader Lazslo's exotica archives and catch up on a year and a half of the digest drivel, piffle, and arcane wisdom of the ancients and young turks. The volume of info available is indeed daunting, and should be available in a slick coffee-table book by the milennium, when we are all taking our soma to John Tesh albums. JB # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mighty@wavenet.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Walker Brothers Date: 06 May 1997 17:59:31 +0000 > Ga-head...call me a shmuck...but I just picked up THE WALKER BROS. > anthology and I dig it...especially Scott's over-the-top gorgeous vocals =================================================== you don't ever have to sheepish 'bout digging the WB's in my book, laura. they are superb ! paul / mighty # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jeff Kopp Subject: (exotica) Re: moderne garage essentials Date: 06 May 1997 23:00:19 -0600 Laura Taylor wrote: > > From: Lounge Laura, former music critic and chanteuse in transition: > To: You garage-freaks > Re: Subsonics, 13 Frightened Girls > > If you don't buy the new SUBSONICS album - EVERYTHING'S FALLING APART and > bug TJ O'Brien about getting a 13 FRIGHTENED GIRLS TAPE, then you don't > rock. It's that simple. Been there, done both. Actually, Everything's Falling Apart came out last year, so it's not exactly new, but it *is* great stuff! kopper -- ===================================================================== | Kopper & Jaimz | Enormous Horsepower Productions | | The Wayback Machine | Bands wanted for shows in the | | KDHX FM 88.1/St. Louis | St. Louis area. | | Monday nights 12-2am CST | (garage punk, surf, rockabilly) | | http://www.kdhxfm88.org/ | Email for more info! | ===================================================================== # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bag@hubris.net Subject: Re: (exotica) Portugese Washerwoman Date: 06 May 1997 23:00:24 -0700 (PDT) At 04:30 PM 5/6/97 -0800, Ursula Blind wrote: >Yesterday...I heard the most amazing instrumental..."Portugese Washerwoman...." >Has anyone else ever heard this piece? Any idea who wrote it? Please share.... The authors have already been noted. While others have recorded the music, only Carr managed to get the top radio play. The recording you heard was the A-side of a single and Joe Fingers Carr's only hit. It reached #19 on the Billboard pop charts on July 28, 1956 and was charted for 16 weeks that year. The instrumental had roughly the same popularity that year as tunes from Elvis Presley, Russ Morgan, Mitch Miller, Pat Boone, Gloria Mann, The Highlights and Sarah Vaughn. You can find it on the Capitol label. (all this according to Joel Whitburn's Pop Annual, 1955-1982, Record Research, Inc., Menomonee Falls, WI, 1983) Byron Caloz # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Jim Gerwitz" Subject: Re: (exotica) Portugese Washerwoman Date: 06 May 1997 21:43:32 -0700 Ursula Writes: > > Yesterday on what passes for SF's easy-listening AM radio station I heard > the most amazing instrumental. Never heard it before in any > arrangement--the tune was called "Portugese Washerwoman;" the artist was > someone named Joe "Fingers" Carr, but I didn't catch who wrote it (2 men, I > think, in the mid-50s). > > > Has anyone else ever heard this piece? Any idea who wrote it? Please share.... > Astrud Gilberto sings it on her Verve 'Look to the Rainbow" Cd, one of 5 tracks where she's backed by Walter Wanderly. Writer credits? None other than Andre Popp and Roger Lucchesi(?). Im sure lots of other artists have done it too, but Astrud and Wally are fine with me. And you must be referring to KABL, The Station of The Stars, where its a pleasure to hear Jim "Dating Game" Lange in morning drive time (when Howard gets too annoying). Decent variety, primarily vocals, Mills Bros, Rosie Clooney, Sergio, Santo & Johnny, Elvis, Nat, Vic Damone, Basie, TJB, Marty Robbins, and an "off-the-wall" song of the day, which is never really too unusual. Lange recently mentioned that the younger generation was discovering these great old songs. But giving away Phyllis Diller show tickets to the 7th caller will not induce me to get a cel phone. Jim "Lange Gang" G # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: LTepedino@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Portugese Washerwoman Date: 07 May 1997 08:32:22 -0400 (EDT) In a message dated 97-05-07 00:43:32 EDT, action+@sirius.com (Ursula Blind) writes: >Yesterday on what passes for SF's easy-listening AM radio station I heard >the most amazing instrumental. Never heard it before in any >arrangement--the tune was called "Portugese Washerwoman;" the artist was >someone named Joe "Fingers" Carr, but I didn't catch who wrote it (2 men, I >think, in the mid-50s). > >It had a very Enoch Light-like arrangement, only with fewer big bangs and >swoops. The tune itself did this really cool major-minor shift that sounded >both exotic and very homegrown American mid-20th-century-composer. It was >quite a peppy number. > >Has anyone else ever heard this piece? Any idea who wrote it? Please >share.... > >--Ursula > > > > > I believe Andre Popp wrote this one. I know that the Baja Marimba Band and even Walter Wanderely (w/ Astrud Gilberto on wordless vocals) do this a swell. It's a very jaunty little song that has a very interesting sound to it no matter who does it. Ashley # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: the_curator Subject: (exotica) Buying portable DAT in Japan. Date: 07 May 1997 17:24:58 +0100 Apologies for this off the subject message, but can anyone tell me if a portable DAT bought in Japan will be usable in the UK or will it require a huge transformer and a legion of mice to use it? thanks friendly Sem Sinatra # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Indulis R Rutks Subject: (exotica) Bettie Page repeat Date: 07 May 1997 15:45:50 -0500 (CDT) For those that missed it the first time around (myself included), E! is showing the Bettie Page special again this Saturday, May 10, at 6:00 pm Central time. -Indy Rutks (rutks002@tc.umn.edu) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Buying portable DAT in Japan. Date: 07 May 1997 17:11:28 -0400 > Apologies for this off the subject message, but can anyone tell me if a > portable DAT bought in Japan will be usable in the UK or will it require a > huge transformer and a legion of mice to use it? > thanks > friendly > Sem Sinatra I think you should be okay as long as it's a portable DAT recorder using batteries and/or an external AC-to-DC adapter. You'll probably have to get the suitable "wall wart" transformer in the UK (unless you WANT to go broke on batteries). A lot of music equipment (including non-portable stuff) is designed that way these days (as opposed to a hardwired AC power cable running to an internal power transformer) because then the manufacturer doesn't have to worry about building different versions for different power standards. They just supply the suitable external transformer -- or drop the task in your hands. In the US at least, this also saves them regulatory costs -- devices that run on low DC power don't need UL approval or something like that. The transformer should not be huge and no mice should be necessary, unless you want to train them to clean the heads for you. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: riviera@tiac.net Subject: (exotica) Disco Exotica Date: 07 May 1997 22:58:48 -0400 (EDT) Greetings Exotiques.... I just got back from the New Orleans Jazz Fest and upon my return received a present from Com Ed's tour manager, Dr.Kurt Stern, that I found so amazing I had to run to the computer to share it with you. It's a 45 of The Ritchie Family ("The Best Disco In Town") performing "Quiet Village"! Over the opening riff, they chant "You sexy baby turn me on/ Keep rockin' steady all night long" before the melody is taken over by an exotic Moog, all to a throbbing disco beat. The flipside,"Voodoo" at times sounds like a disco version of an outtake from "Tamboo", but was in fact written by Jacques "the Puppetmaster behind The Village People" Morali. Has anybody heard this record? The best thing is,it's really good! Between this and the revelation that Peter Thomas ,along with his associates Giorgio Moroder and Keith Forsey,discovered Donnas Summer, I have a whole new perspective on the Exotica/Disco connection. I felt like I had discovered the coelacanth or the top quark when this disc was put into my hands! Boogie-oogie-oogie, Thee Millionaire # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: riviera@tiac.net Subject: (exotica) Disco Exotica Date: 08 May 1997 00:13:57 -0400 (EDT) Greetings Exotiques.... I just got back from the New Orleans Jazz Fest and upon my return received a present from Com Ed's tour manager, Dr.Kurt Stern, that I found so amazing I had to run to the computer to share it with you. It's a 45 of The Ritchie Family ("The Best Disco In Town") performing "Quiet Village"! Over the opening riff, they chant "You sexy baby turn me on/ Keep rockin' steady all night long" before the melody is taken over by an exotic Moog, all to a throbbing disco beat. The flipside,"Voodoo" at times sounds like a disco version of an outtake from "Tamboo", but was in fact written by Jacques "the Puppetmaster behind The Village People" Morali. Has anybody heard this record? The best thing is,it's really good! Between this and the revelation that Peter Thomas ,along with his associates Giorgio Moroder and Keith Forsey,discovered Donnas Summer, I have a whole new perspective on the Exotica/Disco connection. I felt like I had discovered the coelacanth or the top quark when this disc was put into my hands! Boogie-oogie-oogie, Thee Millionaire # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Trick Velour, TV Eye" Subject: Re: (exotica) Disco Exotica Date: 08 May 1997 00:42:00 -0400 > > The best thing is,it's really good! > > have a whole new perspective on the Exotica/Disco connection. I felt >like I had discovered the coelacanth or the top quark when this disc >was put into my hands! > > > Boogie-oogie-oogie, > > Thee Millionaire OH DEAR SWEET MOTHER OF GOD, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! I just know it! The next ComEd album is gonna end up being a disco album! That's it, I can't take it! If anybody needs me I'll be in the kitchen with my head in the oven. Lovin' Soul, Diggin' Funk, and *STILL* Not Likin' Disco, Trick Velour, TV Eye # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mingo@cqm.co.uk (Jill Mingo) Subject: (exotica) Baywatch tikis? Date: 08 May 1997 03:57:12 -0600 I live in the UK, and I'm sure Baywatch is about 2 years behind the States, but has anyone else seen the episode that MTV does some sort of Beach games to raise money for the Special Olympics? Well, if you haven't, there are several tikis on the "set" of the games, including a dancing tiki man! They were pretty fab. PLEASE don't ask what I was doing watching Baywatch! It was a pretty bad weekend on the social front..... Jill "Mingo-go" # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mingo@cqm.co.uk (Jill Mingo) Subject: Re: (exotica) Disco Exotica Date: 08 May 1997 04:06:02 -0600 >Between this and the revelation that Peter Thomas ,along with his >associates Giorgio Moroder and Keith Forsey,discovered Donnas Summer, I >have a whole new perspective on the Exotica/Disco connection. I felt like I >had discovered the coelacanth or the top quark when this disc was put into >my hands! If this sort of sound is your cuppa, you should really check out the new LP from the MERRICKS, "The Sound of Munich". Not quite full on disco, but that lovely 70s Munich production sound - except a 1997 record. It is on Sub-Up Records, Munich. Also might want to mention a fab Peter Thomas remix on German label L'Age D'Or. It is on a remix project called THEMELADEN 2. I don't know what the orginal track sounds like, but the Peter Thomas orchestra does it a proud remix. Could be hard for Yank Exoticats to find, but worth it... Jill "Mingo-go" # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Paul Lewis Subject: (exotica) Past Month's finds Date: 08 May 1997 12:26:47 -0400 (EDT) here are some bargains I've picked up over the past month: $2 and under ------------ Bobby Christian and his Orchestra: "Strings for a Space Age" The first side is pretty much standard orchestral fare with a little 'sci-fi soundtrack'-type flourishes added, but the real stuff is on the second side. "Space Suite" cycles through different moods... some of it in powerful overtures and others of an ethereal, cosmic manner. I was pleasantly surprised by this record (can't beat finding this in a flea market bin in great shape). Gershon Kingsley: "Switched-On Gershwin" Disclaimer: I am a Moog nut. Picked this up for a buck at a Bach society record sale. Another disclaimer: I'm a sucker for Rhapsody in Blue (is that why I fly American???). The first side is fourteen minutes of RiB with Gershon and another guy on piano (Leonid Hamsho or something like that) alternating between a straight piano rendition and interesting but mild Moog fare. The second side contains selections from Porgy and Bess and is 100% Kingsley. There is some really interesting Moog stuff here... I don't know these songs in their original form, but my guess is that they are loose renditions, sort of along the lines of Hayman's "Latin Love Machine" (but without the psych sound). I like this record. $5 and under ------------ The Surfmen: The Sounds of Exotic Island Had no idea who the Surfmen were until I read the liner notes (big time group of jazz guys, I think Alvino Rey is one, other names escape me now). Real bird calls, Denny-esque arrangements, wordless vocals. Some standards such as Quiet Village, Mountain High Valley Low, Taboo, etc. This is a very good record. The cover alone is terrific, but the music is A-1. pablito! Paul Lewis lewis@netlab.texsci.edu Coordinator of Academic Computing (215) 951-2834 [office] Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science "We do it because we are compelled." -Alan Moore # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Laura Taylor Subject: RE: Re: (exotica) Disco Metal Date: 08 May 1997 13:03:10 -0400 "It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."-Mr. Leslie Baxter Laura Taylor (813) 974-3733 ltaylor@wusf.usf.edu Trick Velour, TV Eye wrote: >> >> The best thing is,it's really good! >> >> have a whole new perspective on the Exotica/Disco connection. I felt >like I had >discovered the coelacanth or the top quark when this disc >was put into my hands! >> >> > Boogie-oogie-oogie, >> > Thee Millionaire > >OH DEAR SWEET MOTHER OF GOD, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! > >I just know it! The next ComEd album is gonna end >up being a disco album! That's it, I can't take it! > >If anybody needs me I'll be in the >kitchen with my head in the oven. > >Lovin' Soul, Diggin' Funk, >and *STILL* Not Likin' Disco, >Trick Velour, TV Eye > Ya'll aint' heard nuttin' until you've heard the disco version of WHOLE LOTTA LOVE, on an album called STAIRWAY TO LOVE by...? Can't remember... # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Laura Taylor Subject: (exotica) Outta me 'ead Date: 08 May 1997 13:07:06 -0400 May 9th is my last day on-line, perhaps for a month, possibly forever. I just want to say you all have enriched my life musically and personally, and I'll miss this daily routine, that prevented me from doing work ;0, and for getting to know some of you. Gotta cry now, Lounge Laura p-s: snail and #s if you have not already! "It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."-Mr. Leslie Baxter Laura Taylor (813) 974-3733 ltaylor@wusf.usf.edu # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bcleve@pop.tiac.net (Br. Cleve) Subject: Re: (exotica) Disco Exotica Date: 08 May 1997 13:44:24 -0400 The Millionaire wrote: > a 45 of The Ritchie Family ("The Best Disco In Town") performing "Quiet >Village"! ..... I >have a whole new perspective on the Exotica/Disco connection. I just found a record Ashley hipped me to months ago - it's by MFSB (The Sound of Philadelphia), the group that did the original Soul Train Theme. On this eponymous LP from '73, they do a glorius 'bump' version of "Poinciana" (for those too young to remember the bump, think "Rock Your Baby", "Rock The Boat" or "Clean Up Woman"). The cover art features a syringe in a coffin. As host of an EZ/exotic dance club, I've seen patrons getting down and enjoying EZ Disco. Ray Conniff's late 70s records have lots of this stuff (his version of "I Will Survive" is, um, well, amazing; or unique, to say the least). Mancini's LP's from this era are littered with the style as well. The grandaddy of all this stuff is the Boston Pops "Saturday Night Fiedler", which features a 17-minute medley of songs from the Travolta film, mixed in with things like "Night On Bald Mountain". Excellent for DJ's who need to hit the rest room and get a fresh drink. For high camp, nothing succeeds like excess. br cleve # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Tura Date: 08 May 1997 13:58:09 -0400 > > This is probably common knowledge, but Tura Satana (Varla in "Faster > > Pussycat") plays both dancers in the Marseille club scene in "Our Man > Flint". I > > don't know if that's her in the solarized title sequence. ??? > I started this thread, and didn't know Tura was the dancer. > knows? So please feel free to share these tidbits as you see fit. > > JamesBR@wco.com Okay. Tura also appeared in (oh, heck, might as well list 'em all) "Irma la Douce", "Who's Been Sleeping In My Bed", "Faster Pussycat", "Our Man Flint", "The Astro-Zombies" and "The Doll Squad". Also TV appearances on "Hawaiian Eye", "Burke's Law", "Valentine's Day", "The Greatest Show On Earth", "Ben Casey", "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." and "The Girl From U.N.C.L.E." Never mind Elvis -- TURA is everywhere! This info comes from a very long 2 part interview with Tura in issues 5 & 6 of Tease! magazine. She's got a LOT of great stories. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bcleve@pop.tiac.net (Br. Cleve) Subject: RE: Re: (exotica) Disco Metal Date: 08 May 1997 14:04:05 -0400 Lounge Laura wrote: >Ya'll aint' heard nuttin' until you've heard the disco version of WHOLE >LOTTA LOVE, on an album called STAIRWAY TO LOVE by...? Can't >remember And don't miss the excellent EZ Funk version of the same song on Deiter Zimmermann and His Orchestra's "My World". (also features an incredibly bizarre EZ version of "Honky Tonk Women" that you wouldn't recognize if the song title wasn't listed). Another incredible discovery by Ashley "Boogie Oogie Oogie" Warren. gettin down on it, br cleve # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "J. Diamond" Subject: (exotica) Jack Diamond Music Date: 08 May 1997 11:30:48 -0700 Hello, My name's Jack and I sell high quality previously enjoyed records from primarily the late 1940's through the 70's, specializing in BUT not limited to; Exotica, Space Age Pop, West Coast Jazz, Beatnik Poetry, Spoken Word, Steel Guitars, 60's Instrumental Guitar, TV and Film Soundtracks, Easy Listening, Beatnik and Private Eye Jazz, Outer Space Exotica, Wordless Vocals, Male and Female Jazz/Jazz Pop Vocals, Moog, Musique Concrete, Electronics, Psychedelic, Blues, R & B, Jump, Rockabilly, Country Jazz, Theremin, Nude/Cheesecake Album Covers, Jungley Tropical Rhythms Pounding Out Voodoo Beams of Love and Erotica AND much much more;) Much of the music that I play on my radio show at KFJC-FM (http://www.kfjc.org) KFJC now has an Audio Feed at their web site and you just may be able to pickj us up through your computer! It's a god dman miracle Some of the LP's are expensive and some are not but 1 thing is for sure is that I don't sell junk. All killer no filler I have an e-mail mailing list in which I send out lists of LP's I have for sale that are graded Goldmine Collecting Standards *strict*, that have extensive "Liner Notes" describing the sounds that lie within the grooves leaving nothing to the imagination ;) Those people see my lists long before they get to the marketplace newsgroups Do you want to be on my e-mail mailing list ? If so then just reply with a "Hey Jack! Please add me to your mailing list dude" or some reasonable facsimile there of;) If not, then just don't. Thank you very much for your time and bye for now. Sincerely, Jack Diamond # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tony Wilds Subject: Re: (exotica) Disco Exotica Date: 08 May 1997 15:50:05 -0400 >for those too young to remember the bump, think "Rock Your Baby", "Rock The Boat" or "Clean Up Woman"). Think "Bertha Butt Boogie" (or Troglodyte) by DC's Jimmie Castor Bunch. Ah, the thrill of the Augusta, GA roller rink in 1974-5. >enjoying EZ Disco. Sandy Nelson did one in 1975 that has Rock the Boat in a medley plus some other goodies; it has that "SWAT-theme" waka-waka guitar sound (only reason to revisit the '70s). Perhaps the cheesiest (except for Br Cleve's own Swingin' Erudites, which is also the best) is New Jersey's King Henry and the Showmen's disco Goldfinger and More or something. But enough. Disco still sucks, whether ambient or jackhammered. Maracas in a twist, tony ______________________________________________ The Wilds Scene http://www.charm.net/~wilds/ LPs * Definitive EXOTICA * Sabu * Tiki Gallery "These songs, Tony, how can you do them like you doo wacka doo?" -- Judith Saylor # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Laura Taylor Subject: (exotica) FWD: disco/zep Date: 08 May 1997 15:57:02 -0400 "It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."-Mr. Leslie Baxter Laura Taylor (813) 974-3733 ltaylor@wusf.usf.edu Ya'll aint' heard nuttin' until you've heard the disco version of WHOLE LOTTA LOVE, on an album called STAIRWAY TO LOVE by...? Can't remember... i have that...it is the Wonder Band..i have the 12" i also have in a gadda da vida by the Disco Circus. keep it cuming.... BuMp Defective Records pje@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu http://www.welch.jhu.edu/~geh/defective.html # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Pea Hicks Subject: Re: (exotica) Disco Exotica Date: 08 May 1997 13:06:02 -0700 Br. Cleve wrote: > The grandaddy of all this stuff is the Boston Pops "Saturday Night > Fiedler", which features a 17-minute medley of songs from the Travolta > film, mixed in with things like "Night On Bald Mountain". Excellent for > DJ's who need to hit the rest room and get a fresh drink. For high camp, > nothing succeeds like excess. > Plus, the cover of that one is truly priceless... Let's not forget Enoch Light's disco double album. There's no "exotic" standards on it, and the arrangements don't sound anything like older Enoch Light stuff, but it's worth having because it was certainly one of the very last albums he produced. I suspect he farmed off most if not all of the work, but he did apparently pen the liner notes, in which he expresses his love for disco (Carol Channing introduced it to him!!).... anyway... -- Pea Hicks "Memory is my drug of choice." <---Realm 'O' The Optigan---> http://www.pilot.com/optigan Who will be the next to brave the *perils* of the VIRTUAL OPTIGAN??! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Tura Date: 08 May 1997 18:22:04 -0400 (apologies for the mess, but my email's a little screwy and this came back to me the first time I tried sending it -- apologies in advance if Take 1 got through anyway, somehow, and you now wind up with duplicates) > > This is probably common knowledge, but Tura Satana (Varla in "Faster > > Pussycat") plays both dancers in the Marseille club scene in "Our Man > > Flint". I don't know if that's her in the solarized title sequence. ??? > I started this thread, and didn't know Tura was the dancer. > So please feel free to share these tidbits as you see fit. > > JamesBR@wco.com Okay. Tura also appeared in (oh, heck, might as well list 'em all) "Irma la Douce", "Who's Been Sleeping In My Bed", "Faster Pussycat", "Our Man Flint", "The Astro-Zombies" and "The Doll Squad". Also TV appearances on "Hawaiian Eye", "Burke's Law", "Valentine's Day", "The Greatest Show On Earth", "Ben Casey", "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." and "The Girl From U.N.C.L.E." Never mind Elvis -- TURA is everywhere! This info comes from a very long 2 part interview with Tura in issues 5 & 6 of Tease! magazine. She's got a LOT of great stories. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: CitiGuy471@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Julie Julie Julie do ya love me? Date: 08 May 1997 18:20:24 -0400 (EDT) To Byron--thanks for bringing up Julie London's Marlboro commercials--"You get a lot to like with a Marlboro, filter, flavor, flip-top box". That was my only exposure to her until the early 8T's when I bought one of those poorly made re-issues of her work. I was intrigued by her smoky sultriness in the ad, but had no idea she was SOMEBODY.......Jimmy # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: CitiGuy471@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Ritchie Family Date: 08 May 1997 18:23:20 -0400 (EDT) Funny you should bring the Ritchie Family up, Thee. I just re-discovered them on saturday duringr a mobile DJ gig. "Quiet Village" is on The Best of Disco 1977 on Rhino, and I had to get a 13 year-old at the Bar Mitzvah to read me the author because the print was too small. (Always something there to remind ye:) the Ritchie Family had a radio hit in 1975 with "a disco-fied "Brazil" # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tony Wilds Subject: (exotica) Blue Note Sabu and more at Wilds Sounds Date: 08 May 1997 18:25:51 -0400 Wilds Sounds -- Exotic & Space-Age Records has new stuff every week. Shop on the Web at your leisure, bookmark it, or just research. Also enjoy the full-tilt record lore and exotemporium of the Wilds Scene. _Major_ categories are marked "*" below; major artists and idioms follow. Other artists are in the "Misc" (miscellaneous) sections. EXOTIC LIST ----------- *Calypso: "The Big Bamboo," Talbot Bros, Misc Calypso *Exotica: Adventures in Sound, Les Baxter, Martin Denny, Arthur Lyman, Alvino Rey, Roy Smeck, Yma Sumac, Surfmen, Misc Exotica, Polynesian video *Hawaiian: 49th State and Hula Records, Hal Aloma, Misc Hawaiian, Luau Special *Africa/Orient: Sabu Martinez, Misc African/Oriental/Israeli *Latin: Francis Bay, Xavier Cugat, Carmen Miranda, Perez Prado, Tito Rodriguez, Edmundo Ros, Walter Wanderly, Misc Latin ATOMIC LIST ----------- *Jazz: Cal Tjader, Misc Jazz (and crime) *Keyboards: Misc Moog, Misc Organ *Space-Age Pop: Esquivel, Mickey Katz, Heino, Henry Mancini, Ennio Morricone STs, Nino Rota STs, Stereo Action Series, theremin, Bob Thompson, Dance Rock/Twist, Misc Instrumental Pop *Torch Singers: Ann-Margret, Eartha Kitt, Abbe Lane, Della Reese, Misc Female Vocal ECLECTIC LIST ------------- *Golden Throats, Bawdy Songs, Gypsy, drum instruction, sitar *Rock and Soul: Ventures, Misc Rock/Rockabilly/Hot Rod/Surf, Misc Soul/Funk/New Orleans/Blues *Soundtracks: Bible-epic, secular *Modern Records *Compact Discs *78 rpm *Sheet Music Tony Wilds Wilds Sounds http://www.charm.net/~wilds/WSounds/ ______________________________________________ The Wilds Scene http://www.charm.net/~wilds/ LPs * Definitive EXOTICA * Sabu * Tiki Gallery "I just received the goods. They're GREAT." -- another satisfied Wilds Sounds shopper # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: CitiGuy471@aol.com Subject: (exotica) DJ action Date: 08 May 1997 18:26:40 -0400 (EDT) Attention Boston people. Brother Cleve and myself are alternating Sunday evenings at Bella Luna in Jamaica Plain's Hyde Square on alternating Sundaze beginning on May 18. Starting at 9 on the 18th will be Cleve with his mix, Memorial Weekend is off, and I start June 1 at 9 with mine's. There WILL be a disco connection---Jimmy Botticelli # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: CitiGuy471@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Julie Julie Julie do ya love me? Date: 08 May 1997 18:31:51 -0400 (EDT) To Byron--thanks for bringing up Julie London's Marlboro commercials--"You get a lot to like with a Marlboro, filter, flavor, flip-top box". That was my only exposure to her until the early 8T's when I bought one of those poorly made re-issues of her work. I was intrigued by her smoky sultriness in the ad, but had no idea she was SOMEBODY.......Jimmy # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tony Wilds Subject: (exotica) Julie London promo poster Date: 08 May 1997 18:43:15 -0400 >I was intrigued by her smoky sultriness in the ad but had no idea she was SOMEBODY Local LP-store man told me today about a Smirnoff Vodka(tm) and Julie London promotion. Evidently it's a mock gatefold with several "paper LPs" one would stick up on the wall. The best part, he says, is a fold-out poster of Ms. London -- "mint," he says proudly. But not liking vodka, I'll stick with the Lady in Red (dear Abbe Lane) -- the only LP jacket on my wall, and only partly bc it's an extra. sunday morning fever tony ______________________________________________ The Wilds Scene http://www.charm.net/~wilds/ LPs * Definitive EXOTICA * Sabu * Tiki Gallery "I just received the goods. They're GREAT." -- another satisfied Wilds Sounds shopper # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ross Orr Subject: Re: (exotica) Disco Exotica Date: 08 May 1997 18:44:07 -0400 >I >have a whole new perspective on the Exotica/Disco connection. I felt like I >had discovered the coelacanth or the top quark when this disc was put into >my hands! I've posted about this before, but you folks really MUST hear Ferrante and Teicher's 1979 LP _Classical Disco_. It is one truly mindbending experience. --Ross p.s. Trick. . . >If anybody needs me I'll be in the >kitchen with my head in the oven. Can I have your records? I asked first!!! --Ross || Ross "XXXXo Frenzy" Orr || Ann Arbor, Michigan USA # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "J. Diamond" Subject: (exotica) KFJC Listener Appreciation Party Date: 08 May 1997 23:11:21 -0700 The KFJC (89.7FM) Listener Appreciation Party will be happening at Camino Bowl in Mountain View, CA at 2025 El Camino Real on Saturday Mayhem 24th, 1997 At KFJC we call the month after April MAYHEM, because much of our regular programming is pre-empted due to tremendous amounts of other worldly music specials. Tonight for example was a 3 hour special on the MOOG hosted by Eeyore. Please peruse by at your leisure http://www.kfjc.org and check out what non-commercial radio 24 hours a day 7 days a week 365 days a year is all about like you have never experienced in all of your wildest dreams. Check out the immense and insanely informative KFJC Music Database Keyword Search or the hundreds if not thousands of CD, LP and 7" vinyl reviews by a bevy of lovely and attractive (smart too) KFJC rekkid/cd reviewers The KFJC Listener Appreciation Party will include FREE BOWLING for a minimum of 6 hours, hopefully some food/munchies as well as supplying audio delights in the form of its on air staff as well as the LIVE entertainment of country jazz guitar great Jim Campilongo (a cross between Jimmy Bryant/Barney Kessel/Roy Lanham), Noisician; Miss Mergatroid and her very fucked up accordian and then of course there is Tipsy. Gonna be a happenin' thang on Saturday, MAYHEM 24th at Camino Bowl in Mt View, CA starting at 7PM. Please stop by and say hello if you can Thank you for listening, Jack Diamond # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ghostown@ix.netcom.com Subject: (exotica) Ms. (?) Julie London Date: 09 May 1997 02:20:33 -0400 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * > Byron Caloz wrote: > 1. There are some good websites with info specific to Ms. London and others > that are, in general, good for music reference questions. Calling her "Ms." Julie London is surely a misnomer. Certain grande dames of song were always popularly known as "Miss," including Edie Adams, Peggy Lee, Della Reese, and London. This was not derogatory, as these ladies were never competing with men or making a political statement about equality. They were, unquestionably, BETTER than most men, and didn't need feminist dogma to prove it. --Irwin Chusid P.S. For a real stunner, check out Julie's sultry rendition of "The Mickey Mouse Club Theme" on the album NICE GIRLS DON'T STAY FOR BREAKFAST. She sounds deliriously potted. I don't think Disney would have wanted his Mouseketeers to hear this gimlet-eyed version. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Cherie Davis Subject: Re: (exotica) Disco Exotica Date: 08 May 1997 17:14:59 -0400 (EDT) Everyone needs to listen to the Ethel Merman Disco Album...If you haven't heard "Everything's Coming Up Roses" to a disco beat, you haven't lived >Let's not forget Enoch Light's disco double album. There's no "exotic" >standards on it, and the arrangements don't sound anything like older >Enoch Light stuff, but it's worth having because it was certainly one of >the very last albums he produced. I suspect he farmed off most if not >all of the work, but he did apparently pen the liner notes, in which he >expresses his love for disco (Carol Channing introduced it to him!!).... and as for the "Disco Sucks" crew...No music sucks, it just isn't what one would prefer at that point. There are few greater mindless pleasures than an ABBA album (my release of ABBA Gold on CD came with its very own gold mirror ball keychain) How could that suck? I would think that most of us on this list would have a sense of humor about music in general. Cherie amycamus@interport.net www.chaoskitty.com Women of Exotica, Lounge & Easy Listening # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jbtwist@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Disco Exotica Date: 09 May 1997 08:39:43 -0400 (EDT) And on Wall Street the value investor buys what is currently out of favor at bargain prices. I dont buy music for investment purposes, but keep reading about a while back when record store bargain bins were filled with Esquivel, Baxter, Denny, et al. Now when I go to my store with the $.99 for one, 10 for $20 bargain bins, once ive found 5 or 6 dollar LP's I might as well buy 20. Gotta find something else, so often end up with a few disco LP's, esp those with cheesecake covers. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ross Orr Subject: Re: (exotica) Disco Exotica Date: 09 May 1997 09:21:03 -0400 >I >have a whole new perspective on the Exotica/Disco connection. I felt like I >had discovered the coelacanth or the top quark when this disc was put into >my hands! I've posted about this before, but you folks really MUST hear Ferrante and Teicher's 1979 LP _Classical Disco_. It is one truly mindbending experience. --Ross p.s. Trick. . . >If anybody needs me I'll be in the >kitchen with my head in the oven. Can I have your records? I asked first!!! --Ross || Ross "Mambo Frenzy" Orr || Ann Arbor, Michigan USA # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Laura Taylor Subject: (exotica) Last minute important biz Date: 09 May 1997 11:13:44 -0400 1. Rest easy, those of you kind enough to like the bands I've been in, I have something *almost* completely set up in Boston. I'm not going to describe the genre, as it may pigeon-hole us. But here's what we'll be using: THEREMIN, MOOG, HAMMOND, KURZWEIL, and of course, guitar, bass, and this gal singing and making screaming, uh, orgasm sounds. WE NEED A DRUMMER. So if you live in the Boston area and are a drummer, or just look like one, or play one on TV-I NEED YOU! Serious inquiries only! I haven't told my bandmate/boyfriend that I'm posting this, so I'm not very comfortable giving out his # at this time. So, what you could do cheaply is send a post-card to 3515 W. SAN PEDRO ST. TAMPA, FL 33629 TAMPA, FL 33629 or write Exotique Elaine: sftso@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us and she could tell me. 2. ATTN: SAN FRAN: My paramour and I are contemplating a visit there this fall. Please someone give me a way that we can do cool lounge stuff and see giant tikis, etc...I s'pose the Tonga Room is still swingin'... What I can also do for a forwarding address is give it to some on-line Boston friends and they could post it for me. "We can work it out." All my lovin', Lounge Laura Lennon "It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."-Mr. Leslie Baxter Laura Taylor (813) 974-3733 ltaylor@wusf.usf.edu # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Disco Exotica Date: 09 May 1997 15:32:42 -0400 > and as for the "Disco Sucks" crew...No music sucks, it just isn't what one > would prefer at that point. > > I would think that most of us on this list would have a sense of humor > about music in general. > > Cherie > amycamus@interport.net > www.chaoskitty.com > Women of Exotica, Lounge & Easy Listening Indeed! As I babble on at my (not ready yet) website... Art is not good or bad. It simply is what it is and we have a subjective reaction to it. That reaction can be different every time, too. So don't judge -- just experience (sez the guy who can't stand other people's radios). m.ace ecam@voicenet.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jonny.S@nyo.com (Jonny.S) Subject: Re: (exotica) Disco Exotica Date: 09 May 1997 15:47:34 -0500 I've been collecting cheez-ze Euro disco for about eight months now ( as distinct from underground disco classics) and let me tell you its out there! Look for Brazilian productions with sexy female vocals for ex. I don't have my records infront of me at the moment but I'll try to post a few titles in the near future. I don't know the Ritchie family track, but you've now sent me on a hunt. thanks for the info. Jonny Sender # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jonny.S@nyo.com (Jonny.S) Subject: Re: (exotica) Disco Exotica Date: 09 May 1997 16:20:34 -0500 Tony Wildssez But enough. Disco still sucks, whether ambient or jackhamm= ered. Unfortunately (and this is not directed necessarily to you ,tony) I think t= hat a lot of the =22disco sucks=22 attitude of which I, myself was once a p= arty to back in 1977-'78 when I was 16 years old ( I liked fusion, argh=21)= grows from a misinterpretation of what and where disco comes from. I will now suggest a short personal listening list. You may throw it in th= e trash if you see fit, check it out or find that you already know a number= of these songs and possibly even like them=21=20 Give it Up Turn It Loose - James Brown Don't Leave Me This Way & Bad Luck - Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes Love Is the Message ( 12=22 edit) - MFSB =0A The Ghetto ( Live and studio ver.) - Donny Hathaway The Bottle - Gil Scott Heron I Get Lifted - KC & the Sunshine Band Bra - Cymande Who Is He and What Is He To You - Creative Source P.S. This may be old news to some of you but I just had to put my two cent= s in. This is music I love and still play constantly every week when I D.J= . and they still pack the floor. Jonny Sender # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subject: (exotica) Disco Octopus! Date: 09 May 1997 17:05:20 +0100 Beatles easy/disco..... A Pioneer Stereo demonstration record from Japan..... Made in the seventies..... A nicely drawn cover with cute octopusses and a little japanese with=20 moustach and a headset. I HAVE IT - HAVE YOU?? God made Exotic Disco for good people like y=B4all! Have a nice weekend! Magnus # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: stefan@subliminal.se (Subliminal Sounds) Subject: (exotica) Disco Sucks Date: 10 May 1997 00:26:08 +0200 (MET DST) Since the disco fever seems to be catching on I would like to know if anyone= =20 knows if the soundtrack to Rudy Ray Moore=B4s priceless PCP movie "Disco=20 Godfather" was ever put on vinyl or CD? And if so; anyone got a spare copy? Stefan/Subliminal Sounds & Stuff=20 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Mark A. Welsh" Subject: Re: (exotica) Bernard Herrmann Date: 10 May 1997 02:18:48 -0500 ccarlson@valsmtp.riag.com wrote: > > We just got back from London where we found the time to see > Hitchcock's 1958 "Vertigo" at the wonderful Lumiere cinema. Brand new > print (probably the cleanest print I've seen of *any* movie), 70mm, > and that Herrmann score! It literally took my breath away. My favorite Hitch movie,favorite Herrmann score. Just bought the CD. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: TheR0Coco@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Art subjective? Date: 10 May 1997 10:30:25 -0400 (EDT) One of our group wrote: << Art is not good or bad. It simply is what it is and we have a subjective reaction to it.>> Well, I have to disagree!! Music tends to be more subjective than other art forms, I think -- however, there really IS good and bad art! There are some objective standards. Think of REALLY derivative music - or painting!! Think of poor musicianship, poetry full of cliches and stilted emotionalism. Remember the sculpture in "Beetlejuice" or Richard Dreyfus playing the "gay Richard III" in "Goodbye Girl." These all are BAD ART!!! Disco is NOT bad art. Disco is art that some people don't like. As is blues, German opera, Gershwin, ska, zydeco, punk, etc. One of the great benefits of learning about art is that it broadens your views about the world around you, don't you think? Carolyn # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Pea Hicks Subject: Re: (exotica) Art subjective? Date: 10 May 1997 09:29:23 -0700 TheR0Coco@aol.com wrote: > > One of our group wrote: > > << Art is not good or bad. It simply is what it is and we have a subjective > reaction to it.>> > > Well, I have to disagree!! Music tends to be more subjective than other art > forms, I think -- however, there really IS good and bad art! There are some > objective standards. Think of REALLY derivative music - or painting!! Think > of poor musicianship, Think of The Shaggs, or anything else in the so-bad-it's-good category. Context is everything. -- Pea Hicks "Memory is my drug of choice." <---Realm 'O' The Optigan---> http://www.pilot.com/optigan Who will be the next to brave the *perils* of the VIRTUAL OPTIGAN??! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: TheR0Coco@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Art subjective? Date: 10 May 1997 19:21:35 -0400 (EDT) And another writer: << Think of The Shaggs, or anything else in the so-bad-it's-good category. Context is everything. >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Well, actually, in art, context is hardly anything!! It may be so-bad-it's-fun, so-bad-it's-a-hoot, so-bad-it's-campy, so-bad-it's-trendy -- but in strict artistic terms, there AIN'T NO SUCH THING as so-bad-it's-good. Is Velveeta as "good" as a beautifully aged Brie? No, it may be what you prefer occasionally, but it will never be as "good." I love some really awful movies ("From Hell It Came" "The Killer Shrews") -- but are they "good?" Absolutely NOT!! They're fun, they make me laugh, but they're crap, no doubt about it. Just because we like it doesn't mean it's good!! Just because we don't like it doesn't mean it's not art! There really, really ARE objective standards in art -- and to deny that fact is (and there is no tactful way to say this) to show an ignorance of what art is. Is this another one of "those" topics?? Carolyn # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jonny.S@nyo.com (Jonny.S) Subject: Re: (exotica) Art subjective? Date: 10 May 1997 18:38:27 -0500 TheR0Coco=40aol.com,internet writes: Well, I have to disagree=21=21 Music tends to be more sub= jective than other art forms, I think -- however, there really IS good and bad art=21 There are = some objective standards. ... One of the great benefits of learning about art is that it broadens your views about the wor= ld around you, don't you think? Uh-huh, i have to agree. Jonny Sender # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Art subjective? Date: 10 May 1997 21:44:57 -0400 < Is this another one of "those" topics?? If you mean, squishy and amorphous, I would say yes, it sure seems that way (blind men and elephants come to mind). Or how about, the "subjectivity of art" is itself subjective? I don't think that we're really in that big a disagreement here -- we all seem to feel that an open mind is a good thing and that one should not dismiss any artwork hastily. We just have some differences in our approach to the issue. < Think of The Shaggs, or anything else in the so-bad-it's-good category. Actually, I don't believe in "so bad it's good" either. It seems like a way of holding yourself above the work in question. If I like something, I try to embrace it without irony. And if someone thinks I'm stupid for liking it, OK -- I'm stupid, but at least I'm direct about it. > Just because we like it doesn't mean it's good!! Just because we don't like > it doesn't mean it's not art! There really, really ARE objective standards > in art -- and to deny that fact is (and there is no tactful way to say this) > to show an ignorance of what art is. Good points that I partially agree with, except I have trouble with the objective standards bit. Because standards have a knack for changing through time. Works that were considered crap at the time of their creation can become masterpieces in later centuries, while works that were the hot zoot when created, wind up in the dust bin. In either case this may be just or unjust. And it may change again in another century. I'm supposed to hang my hat on these liquid standards? "What art is?" Art is that which is produced by the artist's mediation between his/her inner and outer worlds. > One of the great benefits of learning about art is that it broadens your > views about the world around you, don't you think? 100% agreement. > Remember the sculpture in "Beetlejuice" or Richard Dreyfus playing > the "gay Richard III" in "Goodbye Girl." These all are BAD ART!!! These are interesting examples in that they are (gosh, how to phrase it?) sort of "fictional" art nested in larger artworks -- and to fulfill their function in the "host" work, were designed to conform to commonly accepted cliches of "badness." Hmmm. Can anyone think of other examples (THAT MIGHT BE MORE ON-TOPIC)? To save space here on the list (too late?), here's a link http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/nobad.html to an article I have at my website. It blabbers on about avoiding good/bad categories in a more detailed and organized manner than I can manage here. It should really give you a laugh. The website around it is not up to strength yet, but you're welcome anyway. It's still painfully thin on content and graphics (although I kinda like the low-bandwidth), and way too much of it is by me (a situation that will change with time, I hope, hint). So drop on by if you wish. Site feedback (quite welcome) should probably be kept off-list. I'm enjoying discussing these issues, but I'm afraid of getting too off-topic (and I'm definitely going on too long -- VERY SORRY), although we aren't off-topic at all, in a sense. These were my subjective opinions on subjectivity. Your own are also valid. Anyway, I always thought Marcel Duchamp blew the categorical walls out in 1913 with "Roue de Bicyclette". m.ace ecam@voicenet.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Pea Hicks Subject: Re: (exotica) Art subjective? Date: 10 May 1997 20:04:52 -0700 TheR0Coco@aol.com wrote: > > And another writer: (my name is Pea, by the way) > > << > Think of The Shaggs, or anything else in the so-bad-it's-good category. > Context is everything. >> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Well, actually, in art, context is hardly anything!! It may be > so-bad-it's-fun, so-bad-it's-a-hoot, so-bad-it's-campy, so-bad-it's-trendy -- > but in strict artistic terms, there AIN'T NO SUCH THING as so-bad-it's-good. > > > Is Velveeta as "good" as a beautifully aged Brie? No, it may be what you > prefer occasionally, but it will never be as "good." I love some really > awful movies ("From Hell It Came" "The Killer Shrews") -- but are they > "good?" Absolutely NOT!! They're fun, they make me laugh, but they're > crap, no doubt about it. > > Just because we like it doesn't mean it's good!! Well, that obviously depends on how you define "good." If it makes you laugh or invokes pleasure in some way, I have a hard time seeing how that's not "good." I don't want to belabor the semantic issues here, but... I'll sum up my view of "art" by saying that I respond to art in primarily two ways- intellectual and visceral. Most people might say that a visceral reaction or interest/disinterest in art is the only "valid" one, but I disagree. I'm *hugely* interested in a vast range of music that doesn't really float my boat as groove-out-while-driving-in-my-car type music. My interest in such things (alot of 20th century art music, for example) is predominently intellectual. I have an aesthetic attraction to the inner workings and social contexts that gave rise to such works and ideas. Other kinds of music evoke a purely visceral response in me- that's the kind of stuff that I'll put on tape to listen to in the car. I don't overanalyze it- I just like it. For me the ultimate musical experiences are ones which involve equal parts intellectual and visceral enjoyment. The Shaggs would be a good example- the situation surrounding the genesis of that music satisfies my intellect (not just my sense of humor), and the music itself evokes a very pleasant visceral response in me. At the end of the day- it wouldn't matter where that music came from- I just really like it. It's very funny but also can be very haunting. All of these things combined make it, for me, a textbook example of a "successful" piece of "serious" art. Hence, "good." The thing I like about the phrase "so bad it's good" is that it mixes meanings. the terms "bad" and "good" don't come from the same areas in this usage. The phrase doesn't necessarily imply that "good" be used as a synonym for "funny" or "ironic." more often than not, for me the term "good" here is synonymous with "haunting." I've often used this same phrase to describe things like pre-Baroque keyboard tuning systems (ie non-equal tempered systems) used to play pieces from the period because, to our modern western ears, that stuff can sound *really* out of tune, or very "badly" tuned, but of course the music was written with these tunings in mind and so the net result is that it sounds really "good," unless of course you don't have the patience or inclination to get inside the music. Maybe that's not a crystal clear or perfect example of what I'm talking about, but I don't want to drag this on too long either, so.... -- Pea Hicks "Memory is my drug of choice." <---Realm 'O' The Optigan---> http://www.pilot.com/optigan Who will be the next to brave the *perils* of the VIRTUAL OPTIGAN??! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "J. Diamond" Subject: (exotica) Playlist for Jack, 4-27-97 Date: 10 May 1997 21:58:59 -0700 KFJC play list 4/27/97 for Jack Diamond ARTIST TRACK ALBUM ____________________________________________________________________________ __________ Planets Chunky Howard Rumsey Jimmy Guiffre,Shorty Rogers Frank Patchen Lighthouse Milt Bernhart,M.Ferguson 1953, 1ST Lp,Live All Stars Four Others 101 Strings Blues for the Guru Sound of Today John Barry A Man Alone Ipcress File Harry Breuer TV Funeral March George Cates Orch. Quiet Village Rex Garvin Strange Happenings George Duning Suzie Wong Blues World of Suzie Wong Hot Butter Pop Corn 1972 Group One Fallout Wordless Vocals Riz Ortolani La Croisette Women of the World Esquivel Aqua De Beber Genius Of... Gabor Szabo Paint It Black Jazz Raga Fabulous Jokers Saturnus! Don Tiki with Exotic Sounds of Martin Denny! Exotica '97 Don Tiki June Christy W/ This Is My Theme 1947 Jack Costanzo & Stan Kenton Orchestra Ray Heindorf Orch W/ Sam Hoffman-Theremin Spellbound The Burned Hand Lyle Murphy Octet Lost in a Fugue 10", Red Vinyl Ferrante & Teicher Bye Bye Blues Quincy Jones Aftermath Slender Thread Ananda Shankar Snow Flower 1970 Elec. Concept Orch Rock Me John Kay Tune Jerry Fielding Orch Hide and Seek Underground Scorpio Leda Annest/Phil Moore/Portrait of Leda Pt 2 Columbia Mary Osbourne I Let a Song Go Out... Warwick, 1959 Jack Kerouac Abraham Hanover Fortune Tellers Spaghetti Twist Kapp Ken Nordine What Time Izzzzit????????? Word Jazz, 57 Ennio Morricone The Odds Malamondo Vicki Carr The Silencers Phil Moore Orch Night Bloomin' Trashman N.Y.Sweet Leith Stevens Orch W/ Paul Frees-Spoken Word Exploring the Walter Schumann Voices The Comets Unknown, 1955 Chim Kothari Cast Your Fate to the Wind Sitar Kenny Burrell Bye and Bye 1961 Wendy and Bonnie The Winter Is Cold Skye Lalo Schifrin The Shadow Mannix Del Close/John Brent The R I F F How to Speak Hip Lambert,Hendricks,Ross/1 O'clock Jump Lloyd Green Green Strings Nashville, 66 Davey Allen/Arrows The Ghost Story Devils Angels Rod Mckuen R.S.V.P. Beatsville David Amram Switchblades on Parade Young Savages Bernard Herrmann Day the Earth Stood Still (3 Cues)1974 Leith Stevens The Thin Man Pete Rugolo Diamond on the Move KFJC 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022 (Studio) 415-325-2284 Click on DJ Playlists; http://www.kfjc.org # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "J. Diamond" Subject: (exotica) KFJC Studio Line Date: 10 May 1997 22:42:51 -0700 Addendum to KFJC Studio Line; 415-941-2500 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "J. Diamond" Subject: (exotica) Lalo Schifrin-Quiet Village Date: 10 May 1997 22:46:38 -0700 I just listened to THE MOST unrecognizable and INSANE FUNK version of Les Baxter's Quiet Village I ever heard! It's on an LP called Black Widow on CTI. Circa 1974 Gonna play it tomorrow morning for sure;-)> Jack # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tony Wilds Subject: Re: (exotica) Disco Exotica Date: 11 May 1997 13:41:32 -0400 >Give it Up Turn It Loose - James Brown Hey, it's my old neighbor, (JB)! Okay, this is the kind of fish I was[n't] baiting for. Truly, I thought ironically referring to the '70s bumper sticker would be safe, but apparently the "sense of humor" crew *remember* only the mirrored ball, not the sick-of-it, make-it-stop-finally reaction. The history of dance music, need I remind non-fans of the Buddy Deane show and calypso, is competitive, restless, and always on the prowl for the next thing. "Bomp, bomp, bubba-domp...the Bertha Butt Boogie was now the thing to do..." Funk (as in Meters) is the kind of "disco" I like, although what a small section it is compared to the decades of dance music before [that flash in the pan]: discotheque music (twist, frug, monkey, swim...), the many varieties of Latin, samba, boogaloo, hula, calypso, etc. Then there were all those rock things: stroll, slop, shag... Of course, most of those required actually learning how to dance... There's an inordinant emphasis on "cold" music (electronic, modern, CD, club) for a list that is ostensibly about exotica (warm, passionate, foreign, ethnic, historic). If you're bored with exotica, dance. Fine. Make mine 3 Mustaphas 3 at the Krazy Loquat. But it is possible to blend exotica and dance very successfully using unusual records. A great DJ in Baltimore* spins African music and wild sambas (if not the gamut of the African diaspora), even mixing in rarest Sabu. It's very exotic, contemporary enough for bass-heavy club sound systems, and compelling enough to get the naive and fearful dancing to unfamiliar tunes.* Then again, nothing beats a live, exotic party band, such as the beturbaned Swingin' Swamis pounding out the "Tighten Up" or the dobro and string bass spectacular that is the Hula Monsters doing "Ode to Billy Joe." Support your local musicians. Oops, forgot to have a sense of humor! Better duck. *to DJ Bump: (Alan Rutberg at the Spot) -- Bump is another exotica club leader here. Wilds in the City of Charm ______________________________________________ The Wilds Scene http://www.charm.net/~wilds/ LPs * Definitive EXOTICA * Sabu * Tiki Gallery "That's why I live in Baltimore. Everyone doesn't have to be so damn witty all the time." -- John Waters, TONY 4/17/97 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Art subjective? Date: 12 May 1997 11:20:31 -0400 To TheROCoco, Today it suddenly occurs to me that a bit of my last message might be misinterpreted as me yelling at you to stay on-topic. No, no, no. I was only yelling at myself. In my writing, I have a goofy habit of splitting off a second voice that critiques the primary voice via parenthetical comments. Still, I apologize for creating the possibility of this misinterpretation and any annoyance it may have caused. Also, I've come up with an interesting argument against my "art is not good or bad" thesis. What about propaganda artworks that serve an evil cause? This whole subjective/objective topic is quicksand. Sorry, m.ace ecam@voicenet.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Paul Lewis Subject: (exotica) Weekend Finds Date: 12 May 1997 11:57:08 -0400 (EDT) Here's some weekend finds.... $5 and Under ------------ Gil Trythall: Switched on Nashville (Country Moog) NM-/NM- Claude Denjean: MOOG! NM-/NM- I passed on a "Delirium in HI-FI" in VG+/VG+ for $3... although I realized later that I should have snagged it. (I'm turning into such a condition freak). also snagged Walter Carlos "Switched on Bach II" NM-/NM- and "By Request" NM-/NM- for a bit over $5 I passed on some inexpensive Esquivels because I just couldn't part with the cash. I respect Juan, but there's so much more I'd rather have. (I'm not saying Moog records are better than Esquivel, so don't get in a tizzy). good hunting! pablito! Paul Lewis lewis@netlab.texsci.edu Coordinator of Academic Computing (215) 951-2834 [office] Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science "We do it because we are compelled." -Alan Moore # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tony Wilds Subject: (exotica) Frances Lai belly dance, NORAD Beatnik Date: 12 May 1997 13:05:57 -0400 New LPs FYI, The NORAD Band (North Am Air Defense Command), mentioned in ISM for tracking Santa and "all man-made objects in space" according to these liners, does a crime-jazzy number called "The Beatnik" on NORAD Band Presents a Mountain of Music, c. 1968. Also Shangri-La, Zorba, Toboggan, Flirty Flutes, Jet Stream, and others. Nifty program insert (two extra). A 1975 Lebanese import, Hassan Abou Seoud's "Viva Belly Dance," is one of the best of its kind. It has the mid-east organ very prominently a la Prado, even a synth-sounding track suggestive of Oriental Moog. Covers of western tunes include El Bimbo, Lai's Love Story, Viva Espana, and Borriquito. Very danceable, excellent exotic disco. Cheetah is one of those new "model" clubs in mid-town NYC -- expensive, tacky, and dull ("I Will Survive" it no doubt will not). But, according to the great liners on this "Where It's At" Audio Fidelity LP, it used to be a famous psychedelic dance club in the footsteps of the Peppermint Lounge. Anyone know about it? LP has the Thunder Frog Ensemble and others live. Included an inflatable Cheetah pillow (Cheetah pet?) -- now that's value. Finally, some *news* program on ABC ran a segment on lounge culture last night. LA came off VERY WELL, with the Derby (is that it?) and lots of people really dancing and having lots of fun. For bands they showed the Squirrel Nut Zippers and something laboriously named Big Bad Voodoo Boy or something, but they seemed to be doing it well. For the "dark side" of the story (hey, it's TV news on the Disney network), they showed the 9s in Manhattan, which predictably looked like a Nosferatu cast party, only more evil. "Definitely about style over substance" was the closing. tony ______________________________________________ The Wilds Scene http://www.charm.net/~wilds/ LPs * Definitive EXOTICA * Sabu * Tiki Gallery "That's why I live in Baltimore. Everyone doesn't have to be so damn witty all the time." -- John Waters, TONY 4/17/97 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subject: (exotica) RE:Lalo Schifrin-Quiet Village Date: 12 May 1997 20:06:03 +0100 >I just listened to THE MOST unrecognizable and INSANE FUNK version of Les >Baxter's Quiet Village I ever heard! >It's on an LP called Black Widow on CTI. >Circa 1974 As I have mentioned earlier on the list I have the 12"-single from Black= =20 Widow. Included are "Jaws", "Flamingo" and "Quiet Village" in Disco=20 versions. And I agree, totally unrecognizable! I could never have guessed=20 the tunes if they were not listed. (Well perhaps the beginning of "Jaws") Its a nice record though. Magnus # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ryan Matheson Subject: Re: (exotica) Art subjective? Date: 12 May 1997 12:32:25 -0700 (PDT) On Mon, 12 May 1997, m.ace wrote: > Also, I've come up with an interesting argument against my "art is not good > or bad" thesis. > What about propaganda artworks that serve an evil cause? This may open up the proverbial semiotic can(s) o' worms, but... We can probably all agree on certain standards of "evil", so let's ignore the possibility that evil is subjective. Have you ever seen "Triumph of the Will"? It's Nazi propaganda, but it's incredible film-making, too; it's scary how beautifully made that movie is. It's hard (I hope) to look at something like "Triumph of the Will" without a sense of horror about its motives and an acute sense of foreboding, but if you can divorce the craftsmanship from the message, "evil" art can be "good" art (aesthetically speaking), too. I hope that's clear enough. I mean, this is a potentially volatile subject I'm bringing up in a thread which started due to the Ritchie Family's "Quiet Village" so I hesitate to continue. (Also, the idea that I'm using the internet to defend the artisitic merit of Nazi propaganda sorta scares me, so I'll just shut up now--The Shaggs are about as controversial as I wanna get.) --Ryan # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: basic hip Subject: Re: (exotica) Weekend Finds Date: 12 May 1997 12:30:38 -0700 > also snagged Walter Carlos...."By Request"... lay the needle down on track two, side two of the above LP for a totally wacked out and f%#$ed up version of "What's New, Pussycat?" # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: brian@headspace.com (Brian Salter) Subject: Re: (exotica) Disco Exotica Date: 12 May 1997 13:53:53 -0800 > >There's an inordinant emphasis on "cold" music (electronic, modern, CD, >club) for a list that is ostensibly about exotica (warm, passionate, >foreign, ethnic, historic). If you're bored with exotica, dance. Fine. Give me a friggin' break! IMO, it's _no one's_ place to throw cold water or negative attitude at other people's musical tastes on this list. I'm growing very fatigued of this thread. What's more, I roll my eyes and disagree heartily with this tired notion of "cold" vs. "warm" music... I say this as someone who has studied and played music for 20 years, and makes a living in the field, and never even owned an instrument that used electricity until 5 years ago. There can be just as much warmth and humanity in music created with plastic and silicon as there is with metal, wood, and flesh... I've done both, and so I find the type of distictions outlined above to be irritatingly provincial and sentimental. I am not interested in hearing about what music people hate, unless it is a constructive criticism of a specific song or album. The recent posts on "disco exotica" have been fun and informative, so I say keep 'em coming! sorry I don't have any "sense of humor" to offer with this post. It's a very grouchy Monday morning... ;) thanks for the bandwidth, -Brian ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Brian Salter brian@headspace.com / bsalter@slip.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Ray Coffey" Subject: (exotica) Re: ovens Date: 12 May 1997 16:48:13 -0400 Hello all (exceptions to be made later), >If anybody needs me I'll be in the >kitchen with my head in the oven. Don't forget to blow out the pilot light first. What WAS that Sylvia Plath tune? (Cleve? They were a Boston band) Turned on the gas And completely forgot about lighting a match No one ever did anything with half as much class as Sylvia Plath Ross? Can I get dibs on your rejects? This oven thread is a funny thing... I had a 45 (Batman Theme - Nelson Riddle) in the oven last week between two heavy books to take out a warp. Apparently 200 degrees was too low to soften the vinyl enough. What is the optimal oven temperature for pressing records? I mean pressing them as one would flowers, not pressing NEW records. Doy hic! I assume there is variability due to different chemical composition. But what is a good temperature benchmark? Or is there a better method than the hot book press? Hoping the needle will still track... I remain, Ray (Hot Riddle's Riddler) Coffey P.S. Snagglepuss is pinker than that panther... # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: ovens Date: 12 May 1997 19:47:48 -0400 > From: Ray Coffey > Date: Monday, May 12, 1997 4:48 PM > > What WAS that Sylvia Plath tune? (Cleve? They were a Boston band) > Turned on the gas > And completely forgot about lighting a match > No one ever did anything with half as much class as > Sylvia Plath The song was called, aptly, "Sylvia Plath" by Peter Laughner of Cleveland. He worked under his own name as well as with several bands (Cinderella Backstreet, Rocket From The Tombs, very early Pere Ubu, Friction, Peter & The Wolves). I don't exactly where you would find it. I find mention of a 1982 album on the Koolie label called "Peter Laughner" that's supposed to include it. It's probably made it onto cee-dee somewhere also. Laughner died in 1977 of acute pancreatitis. Philly garage-pop band, The Johnsons, did a cover of it in the late 80's. Probably others have also, by now. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: cabelo@iis.com.br Subject: (exotica) Mancini+Sexadelic Date: 13 May 1997 01:46:02 -0300 Good evening, my name is Rodrigo, i'm new to this list, liked everyting i've read until now and need some help: i'm looking for the OST of "The Party", by Henry Mancini, i've tried to find around www, but had no clue about. I wonder if it was re-release in cd format... And i'd like to ask about Manfred Hubler&Siegfried Schawb works, i've got the "Vampyros Lesbos" cd and it's cool... I'm from Brazil, and my country, friends, is a place where you find the sounds you apreciatte... sorry about my bad english, See you, Cabelo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: jjones@richnet.nospam.net (John Jones) Subject: (exotica) Peter Laughner Date: 13 May 1997 04:49:12 GMT Yeah....it is on CD =46uckin' incredible disc It's called "Take The Guitar Player For A Ride" Peter Laughner & friends Tim Kerr Records P.O. Box 42423 Portland, Oregon 97242 =46or those who want to know about some pre-punk punk, grab this disc, as well as the Pere Ubu box set (a band Laughner was originally in) god....I gotta put this disc in now!!!!......;) John --=20 I hate spam, don't you? remove the "nospam" from my e-mail address to contact me. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: basic hip Subject: (exotica) That elusive Mancini title Date: 13 May 1997 06:12:17 -0700 Rodrigo wrote: > Good evening, my name is Rodrigo, i'm new to this list, liked > everyting i've read until now and need some help: i'm looking for the OST of > "The Party", by Henry Mancini, i've tried to find around www, but had no > clue about. I wonder if it was re-release in cd format... I've been after that one for a long, long time. I'm constantly checking out newsgroups, web sites, collector's lists, Goldmine ads, used record shops and swaps. Been doing this for almost three years!! I saw it on a list ONCE and it was long gone when I immediately called. Sadly, my Mancini collection remains party-less and to this day, I have to be content with gazing at a scan of the cover, which you can also view by clicking: http://www.kfjc.org/diamond/covers/party.jpg I've also checked out hard-to-find soundtracks on CD and have come up dry. No high priced Japanese import, as far as I know. Too bad. Sorry for the discouraging news - now watch a fellow list member find a near mint copy at a thrift store for 50 cents - hee hee. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: HOUSEOBOB@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Torme - Now? Date: 13 May 1997 10:56:00 -0400 (EDT) Anybody heard the Mel Torme CD "Right Now"? Contains lots of pop tunes like "Secret Agent Man". Personally, I love his versions of"Sunshine Superman" and "Games People Play "that I've got on compilations. I assume this one has more of the same but haven't heard it at all. Bob # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: dfrisby@mgm.com (Doug Frisby) Subject: (exotica) The Party on CD Date: 13 May 1997 10:38:11 -0700 Cabelo wrote: >i'm looking for the OST of >"The Party", by Henry Mancini, i've tried to find around www, but had >no clue about. I wonder if it was re-release in cd format... Yes "The Party" is available on CD from Japan. (RCA BVCP-1030) It occasionally turns up in Tower Records, but you'll be expected to pay $35.00 You can also find "Hatari", "Mr. Lucky", "Mr. Lucky Goes Latin", "Gunn", More Music From Peter Gunn" and a few other soundtracks on various import labels. As I mentioned before, a book called "CD International" is a great reference guide for those obscure CD reissued gems that can be easily special ordered. You can find the book in most Tower Records. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: dragstr@earthlink.net (David Schafer) Subject: Re: (exotica) The Party on CD Date: 13 May 1997 16:51:05 -0700 (PDT) > > Cabelo wrote: > >i'm looking for the OST of > >"The Party", by Henry Mancini, i've tried to find around www, but had > >no clue about. I wonder if it was re-release in cd format... I found 'The Party' listed with Footlight Records in NY http://www.footlight.com/ PARTY, THE MANCINI RCA (JAPAN) 1030 $36.95 _________________________________ David Schafer e-mail: dragstr@earthlink.net tel/fax: 213-954-1654 541-1/4 N. Sycamore Ave. Los Angeles, California 90036 USA # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Art subjective? Date: 13 May 1997 20:45:38 -0400 > From: Ryan Matheson > To: exotica@xmission.com > Subject: Re: (exotica) Art subjective? > Date: Monday, May 12, 1997 3:32 PM > > On Mon, 12 May 1997, m.ace wrote: > > > Also, I've come up with an interesting argument against my > > "art is not good or bad" thesis. > > What about propaganda artworks that serve an evil cause? > I mean, this is a potentially volatile > subject I'm bringing up in a thread which started due to the Ritchie > Family's "Quiet Village" so I hesitate to continue. Yeah, I suppose the counter-argument would be that the artwork is only an object or vehicle. The evil exists only in the minds of the creator or audience. The NRA approach: art doesn't kill people, etc, etc. But this is slippery ground, eh? This whole topic is quicksand. And we've even been oversimplifying with basic good/bad, like/dislike poles. Really, our reactions are a lot more complicated and multi-directional than that -- with both intellect and emotions involved together. Art is like life (I would guess that for a lot of us on this list, art IS life) -- each situation is unique and we improvise our way through it. I just try to avoid a judgemental attitude, in favor of an open, inclusive attitude -- learning, enjoying (whatever) anything I can from the art. I've got to go watch "Santo y Blue Demon contra los Monstruos" now. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jbtwist@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Trendoids Date: 13 May 1997 22:29:51 -0400 (EDT) Someone predicted a new trend last year when Vampyros Lesbos and Schulmadchen came out, and today the USA got into the act. I saw a new CD called Sex-O-Rama, 12 themes from famous golden-age porn films like Deep Throat, Green Door, Misty Beethoven, etc. No outside label info on artist, OST or rerecording status. Any of you on the promo mailing lists heard this one ? I didn't pay much attention to themes or background music in those days, but it wouldnt surprise me if some bands did music just to hang out on the set for a while to watch the shooting. I vaguely recall Mike Bloomfield being involved in an early Mitchell Brothers' short, but i saw this while on the ''70's San Francisco A to Z Bar Tour (the M. Bros were the "X") and my memory is extremely suspect. JB Twist - "Art for Art's Sake, Money for God's Sake" - 10CC or whoever # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ghostown@ix.netcom.com Subject: (exotica) Julie Andrews Sings Moondog Date: 13 May 1997 23:22:32 -0400 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - a friend e-mailed me: > > Hey, irwin, do you know of the Julie Andrews record called "Tell it Again" > on which all the songs were written by Moondog? No, I don't. Is she kidding? Does such a record exist? Any info? --Irwin Chusid - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ingemar.breithel@bbb.se Subject: (exotica) M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E Date: 14 May 1997 17:23:44 +0100 Irwin Chusid wrote: >P.S. For a real stunner, check out Julie's sultry rendition of "The >Mickey Mouse Club Theme" on the album NICE GIRLS DON'T STAY FOR >BREAKFAST. She sounds deliriously potted. I don't think Disney would > >have wanted his Mouseketeers to hear this gimlet-eyed version. This is so great! One wonders what could have possessed Miss London to round off the album with that particular track. The tune seems to have spawned several bizzare versions: another favorite of mine is the Lennon Sisters' "Mickey Mouse Mambo", where the girls really rip it up, complete with awkward shouts of "Uh!". And for more mouse mania, check out Mickey Mouse's version of "St. Louis Blues" (official Mickey Mouse Club 45). Yes, it's him playing both piano and clarinet, it says so on the label. Vocals are supplied by a scat-singing Minnie Mouse, and it has a spoken intro where Mickey says he'll do his imitation of Ted Lewis, although I would say the over-all effect is closer to Sun Ra. There must be more gems like this out there. Any former Mouseketeers on the list? Ingemar # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jonny.S@nyo.com (Jonny.S) Subject: Re: (exotica) Julie Andrews Sings Moondog Date: 14 May 1997 10:53:46 -0500 ghostown=40ix.netcom.com,internet writes: do you know of the Julie Andrews record called =22Tell it = Again=22 > on which all the songs were written by Moondog? Truly exotic=21=21 Yo, I need that record. Jonny Sender # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) Santo Soundtrack Date: 14 May 1997 12:13:17 -0400 Besides having more monsters than you could shake a stick at (and Santo tried beating El Ciclope with a stick), "Santo y Blue Demon Contra los Monstruos" (1969) featured a fairly interesting soundtrack. The credits listed "Director Musical: Gustavo Cesar Carreon" and "Orquesta de Filarmonicas del S.T.P.G." It was a small ensemble: electric organ (Hammond or something similar), a little piano, electric guitar (clean, jazz tone), vibes and plenty of percussion. There were floating, atmospheric passages; crashing martial bits for the fights; gothic spook show organ; pretty, melodic cues which sounded mighty fine with the vibes/guitar/organ combination; and dissonant organ wash sfx-type stuff for the mad scientist's lab scenes (a little reminiscent of some of the stuff from Toho's monster movies). Unfortunately, this one didn't include an outright musical scene, like a lot of Santo movies -- just a few seconds of a mariachi trio at one point -- who were immediately attacked by the monsters. No, I don't think it happened quite like that. The action is a bit of a blur today -- so many monsters, so many fights. The Frankenstein's Monster with stringy mustache & goatee does stand out, though. Viva Santo! m.ace ecam@voicenet.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Alex V. Cook" Subject: Re: (exotica) M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E Date: 14 May 1997 11:22:06 -0700 ingemar.breithel@bbb.se wrote: > And for more mouse mania, check out Mickey Mouse's > version of "St. Louis Blues" (official Mickey Mouse Club 45). > Yes, it's him playing both piano and clarinet, it says so on > the label. Vocals are supplied by a scat-singing Minnie > Mouse, and it has a spoken intro where Mickey says he'll > do his imitation of Ted Lewis, although I would say the > over-all effect is closer to Sun Ra. There must be more > gems like this out there. I know Sun Ra was into Disney music ina big way. He had a track on the Stay Awake CD and I think there exists an album of the Arkestra doing Disney tunes. When he played N.O. Jazz Fest back in '88, he and the group played a suprise lunch recess gig, in full Egypto-Alien regalia, on the playground of one of the harsher inner city New Orleans grade schools, and he led all the attendees in a march around the yard to the "Mickey Mouse Club Theme" I've seen a video of it, and it was beautiful. embracing the mouse within, alex -- voodooboy@geocities.com http://www.geocities.com/soho/1274 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: dfrisby@mgm.com (Doug Frisby) Subject: (exotica) Re: Trendoids Date: 14 May 1997 10:24:56 -0700 Alex wrote: >I saw a new CD called Sex-O-Rama, 12 themes from famous golden-age >porn films like Deep Throat,Green Door, Misty Beethoven, etc. Boing! As a young impresssionable lad, I had the opportunity to witness (hell, .. memorize) the film "Opening Of Misty Beethoven". Besides all the crafty camera angles and new ways to exploit mangoes, I heard music that stayed with me years after. The "Beethoven" soundtrack has a classical piece in it but there's the main theme that plays throughout which has wordless vocals and is very mod and cocktailish. It's along the lines of "Mah-Nah Mah-nah". It's quite good. I'll definitely have to pick the CD up. If you can't find the CD, then maybe you should rent the movie which is considered a classic. Warning: Most scenes contain "acts" of adult nature. Viewer discretion advised. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Darrell Brogdon Subject: (exotica) Sex-o-Rama Date: 14 May 1997 13:30:02 -0500 "Sex-o-Rama: Music from Classic Adult Films" is due to be released May 20 from Oglio Records. Their phone number is 310-798-2252. Contains themes from "Debbie Does Dallas", "Taboo", "Behind the Green Door", "The Opening of Misty Beethoven", etc. DARRELL BROGDON # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mingo@cqm.co.uk (Jill Mingo) Subject: (exotica) Sexy music Date: 14 May 1997 14:08:58 -0600 More sexy film music from Crippled Dick Hot Wax out now. A compilation of Italian porn flick music - or so it claims. I haven't seen the films. It's called Beat at Cinecitta. Music from the likes of Riz Ortolani, Bruno Nicolai, Roberto Pregadio, Piero Piccioni, Franco De Gemini, and Francesco De Masi. About a quarter of it is amazing, the rest is typical jazzy, funky, beat crippled dick stuff. There are 5 tracks of about 18 that are stunners. It is all new to me though. Also on the Italian tip, it seems that the Easy Tempo folks have re-released Piero Umilani's Svezia Inferno e Paradiso -or Sweden Heaven or Hell - the famed soundtrack which features Mah Na Mah Na. WOW!!! This one is fanfuckingtastic IMHO. Three main theme tracks done in about 40 different ways. 28 trax in all. There are a couple bonus trax too. Some are silly. Most are bossa sounding - cocktailesque. Some are kinda psychedelic. ME LOVES EM! Both on double vinyl and CD. Ciao! Jill "Mingo-go" # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Schlock! Subject: (exotica) Burt Bacharach on PBS tonite Date: 14 May 1997 13:28:53 -0700 PBS's "Great Performances" is doing a program on Bacharach tonight at 8 pm (PST, at least in San Diego). Just thought people on the list would dig this....John # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: viktrola@caroline.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Sexy music Date: 14 May 1997 17:56:30 -0500 >More sexy film music from Crippled Dick Hot Wax out now. A compilation of >Italian porn flick music - or so it claims. I haven't seen the films. It's >called Beat at Cinecitta. Music from the likes of Riz Ortolani, Bruno 3 tracks featured in the Featured Albums section of Radio Vik (in Real Audio 2.0 and 3.0) http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/radio/radiovik.html # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mturner@netcom.com (Mark Turner) Subject: Re: (exotica) Sexy music Date: 14 May 1997 16:22:16 -0700 (PDT) > > Also on the Italian tip, it seems that the Easy Tempo folks have re-released > Piero Umilani's Svezia Inferno e Paradiso -or Sweden Heaven or Hell - the > famed soundtrack which features Mah Na Mah Na. WOW!!! This one is > fanfuckingtastic IMHO. Three main theme tracks done in about 40 different > ways. 28 trax in all. There are a couple bonus trax too. Some are silly. > Most are bossa sounding - cocktailesque. Some are kinda psychedelic. ME > LOVES EM! > Then you'll probably want this too: Piero Umiliani-MahNa MahNa Rmx- 12" I HOU MET201 Easy Tempo / Taken from the Album Release " Svezia Inferno e Paradiso " / feat. Brasil House Remixes of this Sesame Street Classic [taken from the Groove Attack Productions new release list] -- Mark Turner mturner@netcom.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Jim Gerwitz" Subject: (exotica) The Gentle People vs. Tipsy at the dentist Date: 14 May 1997 19:55:04 -0700 My dentist has walkman cassette players for his patients. During a 2 hour bridge replacement last week, I took tapes of both the above groups, and must recommend the simply gorgeous Gentle People (see Vik's) for a very relaxing experience, enhanced of course by the nitrous oxide. The spaciousness of the recording was wonderful. I also like Tipsy, but there wasn't the relaxing flow or ambience of the GP, who have joined Julee Cruise, Jackie Gleason, Baxter's "Jewels of the Sea", and many others on my "music to send me to dreamland" shelf. Since i gave up most of my bad habits many years ago, i now look forward to dental work for that nitrous nostalgia. If you're not already groovin to headphones at your dentist, give it a whiiirrrrllll....... Jim G "I Love the Gentle People" - My favorite CD of 97 JamesBR@wco.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jbtwist@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Sabu Sightings Date: 14 May 1997 23:19:09 -0400 (EDT) In the SF Borders' today I spotted Japanese import CDs of Sabu's "Palo Congo" $27, Vols 1 & 2 of Art Blakey & Sabu's "Orgy in Rhythm" (forget the price,maybe $27), plus Blakey's "Drum suite" with Sabu on half the cuts ($17). Also in Virgin Megastore was a circa 48 Chano Pozo import with lots of vocal credits, which i don't always like in latin music. (I love the Sabu cut on the Passions boot -shhhh.) So Tony, where do I start? Anything look good, or do i go for the "Nick at Night Lounge Music" comp ? I kid you not about that last one. JB "Turning Japanese" Twist # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Peter Hipwell Subject: (exotica) Xylos Inc.? Date: 15 May 1997 16:54:23 +0100 I just picked up yet another Polydor Easy Listening Compilation (double vinyl): this one, from the early 70s, is called "The A-Z Of Easy Listening". They stretched a little further than usual to cover the 26 letters. Thus, we find in place tracks such as "Sacrifice Of The Moon (In Four Parts)" by Ultimate Spinach, which sounds like cheesy listening crossed with Krautrock. The most interesting piece, though, is a frenzied dance-inducing version of "Walk On By" by Xylos Inc. This is taken from an album called "Percussion Party" and is heavily bongo-laden (and other ratata-laden). Does anyone have any information on this group? Are there "well-known" evil masterminds behind it? (The other great thing about this album is that I now have a crackle-free version of the Augusto Alguero classic, "Boccaccio Soul". Woof!) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jonathan Perl Subject: (exotica) Mancini's 'The Party' Date: 15 May 1997 18:26:00 +0100 Intoxica records in London has a copy of 'The Party'. It's 60 pounds, so pick it up if you're feeling flush and ready for a bit of Hank. They are online at http://www.demon.co.uk/intoxica/ I picked up the German reissue of 'more music from Peter Gunn' on CD yesterday. Fantastic. I love the guy. The extra tracks are also good - one each from Peter Gunn, Mr Lucky, Mr Lucky goes Latin and Experiment in Terror. Jonny # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "J. Diamond" Subject: (exotica) The Party on CD Date: 15 May 1997 09:47:36 -0700 For 35 - 38 bucks for a cd PLUS postage and maybe even tax you might as well get the rekkid Jack # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ross Orr Subject: (exotica) Re: back in the oven Date: 15 May 1997 15:42:15 -0400 >Apparently 200 degrees was too low to soften the vinyl enough. > > What is the optimal oven temperature for pressing records? Now THIS is a thread I can get behind! I have this 1966 Living Guitars LP, "Ring Dang Doo and Other Au Go Go Favorites" which I idiotically warped in the car trunk. The warp is so severe that it throws the sylus right out of the groove during "Get Off My Cloud" (!!), but I can hear enough of it to know that I MUST find a way to flatten it again. . . Anyone have a safe but sure-fire technique? --Ross P.S. Ditto on that UBU box set, it's swell. P.P.S. Did you guys notice Herb Alpert on that Bacharach show? He looks TOTALLY different now, like some groovy European filmmaker. --Ross || The Macintosh Witch Doctor: Ross Orr (313) 998-2546 || || "The personal-computer industry is now just ending its twenty-first year. || The 21st year of the automobile industry was 1908--the year Henry Ford || introduced the Model T." # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jessica Cameron Subject: Re: (exotica) M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E Date: 15 May 1997 15:50:44 -0400 >And for more mouse mania, check out Mickey Mouse's >version of "St. Louis Blues" (official Mickey Mouse Club 45). >Yes, it's him playing both piano and clarinet, it says so on >the label. Vocals are supplied by a scat-singing Minnie >Mouse, and it has a spoken intro where Mickey says he'll >do his imitation of Ted Lewis, although I would say the >over-all effect is closer to Sun Ra. There must be more >gems like this out there. Any former Mouseketeers on the >list? The official soundtrack album to Walt Disney Land/Disneyland is worth picking up for the (long) version of "Baroque Hoedown," which has a medley of Disney faves ("Mickey Mouse Club March," "Whistle while You Work," "Zip a dee do da," etc) tacked on to the end. "Baroque Hoedown" is a Perrey and Kingsley song, isn't it? There's no credit given to them on the LP. Anyhoo, this particular version is the background music for the Mainstreet Electrical Parade. The album also has "The Enchanted Tiki Room." There's also a soundtrack album from Disneyland that has the entire Enchanted Tiki Room show on one side and the narration and music from the Jungle Cruise on the other. Nice pictures of those robotic parrots, tikis, and gorillas, too! ^_^ PS--The "Stay Awake" tribute album is worth finding just for Sun Ra and Yma Sumac's cuts. There are plenty of other worthwhile moments, too. ; ) PPS--Does Disneyworld still do the Tiki Room program? Some parts of it seem pretty racist by today's standards. Is there a new script, or can Disney still get away with ethnic stereotypes? (sorry if I just opened a can of worms). Thanks for the space, Jessica # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mingo@cqm.co.uk (Jill Mingo) Subject: Re: (exotica) M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E Date: 15 May 1997 17:32:19 -0600 The album also has "The Enchanted Tiki Room." There's >also a soundtrack album from Disneyland that has the entire Enchanted Tiki >Room show on one side and the narration and music from the Jungle Cruise on >the other. Nice pictures of those robotic parrots, tikis, and gorillas, too! Yeah, I got this in a Miami thrift store last month. It is fab. Wild as hell version of the "Hawaiian War Chant". Great one to play out when DJing. >PPS--Does Disneyworld still do the Tiki Room program? Some parts of it seem >pretty racist by today's standards. Is there a new script, or can Disney >still get away with ethnic stereotypes? (sorry if I just opened a can of >worms). As far as I know, the Tiki Room is still in LA. My friends were raving on about it. I also scored some great Walt Disney World Polynesian World tiki head glass goblets in Miami. They are well tribal and cool. Jill "Mingo-go" # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bruce Rhodewalt Subject: Re: (exotica) M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E Date: 15 May 1997 17:12:14 -0700 Jill Mingo wrote: > > The album also has "The Enchanted Tiki Room." There's > >also a soundtrack album from Disneyland that has the entire Enchanted Tiki > >Room show on one side and the narration and music from the Jungle Cruise on > >the other. Nice pictures of those robotic parrots, tikis, and gorillas, too! > > Yeah, I got this in a Miami thrift store last month. It is fab. Wild as hell > version of the "Hawaiian War Chant". Great one to play out when DJing. > > >PPS--Does Disneyworld still do the Tiki Room program? Some parts of it seem > >pretty racist by today's standards. Is there a new script, or can Disney > >still get away with ethnic stereotypes? (sorry if I just opened a can of > >worms). > > As far as I know, the Tiki Room is still in LA. My friends were raving on > about it. I also scored some great Walt Disney World Polynesian World tiki > head glass goblets in Miami. They are well tribal and cool. > I can't speak for Florida, but the Enchanted Tiki Room in Anaheim is alive and kickin'. I was there a few months ago. The show seems identical to the one I saw soon after the thing opened in the mid-'60s. It's really pretty embarrassing, but how could I not attend? Bruce Rhodewalt kahuna@tikipub.com Tiki Publishing http://www.tikipub.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: search@wavenet.com Subject: Re: (exotica) M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E Date: 15 May 1997 22:19:24 +0000 > As far as I know, the Tiki Room is still in LA. My friends were raving on > about it. I also scored some great Walt Disney World Polynesian World tiki > head glass goblets in Miami. They are well tribal and cool. ============================================================= here's a great site for others like myself that are interested in such questions. this guys' site 'yesterland' is quite telling, or reflective of pop cultures' changing face. basically, what its about is an exhaustive account of the suprisingly transitory 'attractions' at disneyland. i stumbled upon it when i was trying to find out myself if 'the enchanted tiki room' still was an operating attraction at disneyland. i suspected it was not, because on my infrequent disneyland visits in the 80's, it was always 'closed for repairs' . here goes link this http://www.mcs.net/~werner/yester.html link for a very interesting site ! max calvada # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Alex V. Cook" Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Trendoids Date: 14 May 1997 13:12:22 -0700 > Alex (not this Alex) wrote: > >I saw a new CD called Sex-O-Rama, 12 themes from famous golden-age > >porn films like Deep Throat,Green Door, Misty Beethoven, etc. > on that topic, I have an 8-track of Los Indios Tablajaras (sp?) called "Plays Movie Themes" which has "Love Theme From Deep Throat". Rather lackluster, but will get someones attention when listed on a mix tape. quitting my job to become a porn movie pizza-man, alex -- voodooboy@geocities.com http://www.geocities.com/soho/1274 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ross Orr Subject: (exotica) But Seriously Folks Date: 16 May 1997 07:22:56 -0400 Now contestant, for the Pontiac Bonneville and the lifetime supply of Stouffer Stovetop Stuffing-- A: This music was created when talented, creative people attempted to cash in on short-lived musical fads. . . . Q: What is "Exotica," Bob? DING DING DING DING DING!!!!! The whole topic of good art vs bad is complicated by the fact that sometimes when people set out to create High Art they often create dreck; while sometimes when people are just trying to create commercial product, they make works which distill the essence of their time, and which are cherished by later generations. Examples which I've trotted out before with some of you include Film Noir and Art Deco hotel architecture. The key thing is to avoid applying your own generational predjudices (like which music was associated with the 'wrong' people in your high school) and assume they have a universal validity. . . yours in HiFi, --Ross || Ross "Mambo Frenzy" Orr || Ann Arbor, Michigan USA # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tim Taylor Subject: (exotica) Korla Pandit Date: 16 May 1997 08:09:24 -0400 Dear all: I'm an academic who studies popular music and am writing a chapter on K. P. for a book on exotica. I would appreciate any and all suggestions you might have about where to find info; I haven't had much luck so far (aside from the Re/Search article). Thanks a lot! Tim # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Michael Jemmeson Subject: (exotica) Re: exotica Digest V2 #211 Date: 16 May 1997 15:14:23 +0000 >Subject: Re: (exotica) Disco Exotica >Okay, this is the kind of fish I was[n't] baiting for. Truly, I thought >ironically referring to the '70s bumper sticker would be safe, but >apparently the "sense of humor" crew *remember* only the mirrored ball, not >the sick-of-it, make-it-stop-finally reaction. The history of dance music, some also *remember* the fact that it was an anti-black, anti-gay reaction... make it stop? How long do you think it went on for? The main reaction was from ppl who felt 'proper' music was threatened... of course most of the music on this list could not be considered 'proper' - low sales often, unconventional instruments and arrangements, lack of respect for tradition (i.e. dodgy covers of classical tunes etc)... >There's an inordinant emphasis on "cold" music (electronic, modern, CD, >club) for a list that is ostensibly about exotica (warm, passionate, >foreign, ethnic, historic). If you're bored with exotica, dance. Fine. Make Surely the value in the music that *we* like (i.e. on this list) is that it was new, original, non-traditional, and exploring new emotions, at least when it came out... the fact that it's old is not important (although there is the fun/challenge of record shopping etc) and any music that fulfils these criteria is worthy of our time... As for 'exotic' and 'foreign' these are purely subjective (i.e. not necessarily foreign to the ppl making it) and not really valid reasons for listening to music...only 'good' music is worth listening to, and music can be good wherever it's made... 'ethnic' is not really a valid concept...(trust me, I'm a geographer... :) >Oops, forgot to have a sense of humor! Better duck. Watch it... I *Guarantee* that my 'sense of humour' is worse than anyone else on this list, so don;t make me use it! ------ >What's more, I roll my eyes and disagree heartily with this tired notion >of "cold" vs. "warm" music... I say this as someone who has studied and >played music for 20 years, and makes a living in the field, and never >even owned an instrument that used electricity until 5 years ago. There >can be just as much warmth and humanity in music created with plastic >and silicon as there is with metal, wood, and flesh... I've done both, Off topic, but interesting: When the piano was invented ppl at the time said that it would be impossible to get any emotion out of it since there was no physical contact with the strings and it was all mechanical... try telling that to a concert pianist... Any instrument is dismissed by ppl who feel superior yet threatened by the new arrival...especially true of the reaction against 'dance' music ('electronica' in the US! that still makes me laugh...) by ppl weilding oh so revolutionary guitars that have lost all their value (which came from their contemporary looks and sound in the 50s) >I am not interested in hearing about what music people hate, unless it >is a constructive criticism of a specific song or album. The recent >posts on "disco exotica" have been fun and informative, so I say keep >'em coming! I say that anything which would (should?) be liked be others on the list be discussed... there's no superiority gained by the age of music...I realise that the sounds this list is interested in are rarely made, except in a 'revival' sense, but it's no reason why they can't be made, and so any unusual record is a worthwhile topic... (providing it fulfils certain criteria, e.g. unusual instrumentation etc...) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Michael Jemmeson Subject: (exotica) Re: exotica Digest V2 #211 Date: 16 May 1997 15:14:23 +0000 >Subject: Re: (exotica) Disco Exotica >Okay, this is the kind of fish I was[n't] baiting for. Truly, I thought >ironically referring to the '70s bumper sticker would be safe, but >apparently the "sense of humor" crew *remember* only the mirrored ball, not >the sick-of-it, make-it-stop-finally reaction. The history of dance music, some also *remember* the fact that it was an anti-black, anti-gay reaction... make it stop? How long do you think it went on for? The main reaction was from ppl who felt 'proper' music was threatened... of course most of the music on this list could not be considered 'proper' - low sales often, unconventional instruments and arrangements, lack of respect for tradition (i.e. dodgy covers of classical tunes etc)... >There's an inordinant emphasis on "cold" music (electronic, modern, CD, >club) for a list that is ostensibly about exotica (warm, passionate, >foreign, ethnic, historic). If you're bored with exotica, dance. Fine. Make Surely the value in the music that *we* like (i.e. on this list) is that it was new, original, non-traditional, and exploring new emotions, at least when it came out... the fact that it's old is not important (although there is the fun/challenge of record shopping etc) and any music that fulfils these criteria is worthy of our time... As for 'exotic' and 'foreign' these are purely subjective (i.e. not necessarily foreign to the ppl making it) and not really valid reasons for listening to music...only 'good' music is worth listening to, and music can be good wherever it's made... 'ethnic' is not really a valid concept...(trust me, I'm a geographer... :) >Oops, forgot to have a sense of humor! Better duck. Watch it... I *Guarantee* that my 'sense of humour' is worse than anyone else on this list, so don;t make me use it! ------ >What's more, I roll my eyes and disagree heartily with this tired notion >of "cold" vs. "warm" music... I say this as someone who has studied and >played music for 20 years, and makes a living in the field, and never >even owned an instrument that used electricity until 5 years ago. There >can be just as much warmth and humanity in music created with plastic >and silicon as there is with metal, wood, and flesh... I've done both, Off topic, but interesting: When the piano was invented ppl at the time said that it would be impossible to get any emotion out of it since there was no physical contact with the strings and it was all mechanical... try telling that to a concert pianist... Any instrument is dismissed by ppl who feel superior yet threatened by the new arrival...especially true of the reaction against 'dance' music ('electronica' in the US! that still makes me laugh...) by ppl weilding oh so revolutionary guitars that have lost all their value (which came from their contemporary looks and sound in the 50s) >I am not interested in hearing about what music people hate, unless it >is a constructive criticism of a specific song or album. The recent >posts on "disco exotica" have been fun and informative, so I say keep >'em coming! I say that anything which would (should?) be liked be others on the list be discussed... there's no superiority gained by the age of music...I realise that the sounds this list is interested in are rarely made, except in a 'revival' sense, but it's no reason why they can't be made, and so any unusual record is a worthwhile topic... (providing it fulfils certain criteria, e.g. unusual instrumentation etc...) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: Taping Tech Date: 16 May 1997 18:40:12 +0200 >From: basic hip (snip) >I've been meaning to get a mixing board so i can have a seamless >transition from one selection to the next or mix things together. Johan's >"Fantastica" >shows (which he offers for trade) are outstanding examples of this mixing >technique... thanx for the nice words, Ford, but i don't use a mixing board, you know; i used to simply use some wire splits, you know, a cable with one input at the one end, and 2 outputs at the other? combining them, i mixed 2 or 3 sources ;-) nowadays, i use a mac for my mixes. Johan Dada@dma.be = Dada@bewoner.dma.be --- # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: search@wavenet.com Subject: (exotica) lounge / mod post Date: 16 May 1997 22:24:08 +0000 wish you all could hear this amazing track ! herb alpert & tijunana brass - "hurt so bad" (from 'summertime' lp a&m # sp-4314) total amphetamine paced ska-marimba instrumental version of this pop soul song. wild ! i'm on my 20th consecutive play ! max # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: the_curator Subject: (exotica) Sabu Date: 18 May 1997 00:49:34 +0100 >In the SF Borders' today I spotted Japanese import CDs of Sabu's "Palo Congo" >$27, Vols 1 & 2 of Art Blakey & Sabu's "Orgy in Rhythm" Anyone care to describe what Sabu is like? Never heard him. Sem Sinatra # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: basic hip Subject: (exotica) Julie Andrews and Moondog Date: 17 May 1997 19:55:47 -0700 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - a friend e-mailed me: > > Hey, irwin, do you know of the Julie Andrews record called "Tell it Again" > on which all the songs were written by Moondog? No, I don't. Is she kidding? Does such a record exist? Any info? - --Irwin Chusid Jonny Sender says: Yo, I need that record. To all: I scored this record just today - although I most likely would have flipped right by it had it not been for the recent posts above. Here is a brief description, fire away with any ???'s if you need more info: Julie Andrews and Martyn Green "Tell It Again" - Songs of Sense and Nonsense Julius Baker, Flute Moondog, Music and Percussion Produced by Julie Laurence (Young Record World) for Angel Records Bascically, this is a children's record. Andrews and Green engaging in spoken word pieces, reciting nursery rhymes and singing songs in the foreground, Baker's flute and Moondog's percussion in the background. A complete text of rhyme and song is inside the record jacket. Titles are: Favorite Nursery Rhymes, School Days and Learning Songs, Songs of Fun and Nonsense, Puzzles, The Animal World, Bedtime Songs and Lullabies. The cover of the LP has a very young, beaming Julie Andrews seated in a gold throne with red velvet cushion and wearing a powder blue dress. She looks like a princess. The back has good liners and black and white photos of Andrews, Green, Baker and Louis Hardin (Moondog). I have not listened all the way through, just bit n pieces. No gimmicks, no sound fx, just sweet and pure Julie Andrews reading to us her favorite nursery ryhmes alternating with Green. The typical Moondog touch is a peculiar, but effective addition. Tell it again, tell it again, Tell it just the same, The very same people, The very same story, And call it the very same name. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) Nigel explains Edmundo Date: 18 May 1997 14:48:06 -0400 With things kind of slow right now, I thought these liner notes might make for relaxing Sunday reading. From "High Fi-esta (Perfect for Dancing)" by Edmundo Ros and his Orchestra (London Records LL 3000) Liner notes by Nigel Hunter: "This album marks a further memorable step in the career of Edmundo Ros. It is the first to include dances other than those from Latin America, which he has done so much to popularize since arriving in Britain from Venezuela in 1938. "Edmundo has been receiving numerous requests to record a selection such as this for some considerable time. He and his famous orchestra have long ceased to qualify as merely another group playing Latin American dance music. They are now star attractions in their own right; and are regarded as such by millions in Europe, America, Australia and many other lands. "Consequently, a widespread desire arose among enthusiasts of the Edmundo Ros Orchestra to hear a collection which would extend in scope beyond Latin America and include other dance rhythms as well. The result of these requests is contained within this album. "The cardinal rule which underlies all the music of Edmundo Ros has been applied to this album as well. Each item has had to pass the same test: Is it a good melody, and is it reasonably familiar to the ear of the public? Like all competent and intelligent bandleaders, Edmundo concluded long ago that Mr. and Mrs. Public, whether dancing or listening, will always derive the utmost enjoyment and satisfaction from tunes which have become universal favorites due to the durable excellence of their melodic lines. Each tune in this collection emphasizes the wisdom of this conclusion." [Long section examining the album track by track] "This album demonstrates once again the competent versatility of Edmundo's musicians. It cannot fail to please dancing enthusiasts with its variety and immaculate tempos. It enlarges the recorded repertoire of Edmundo Ros by including two waltzes and two quicksteps, but it does not forsake Latin America by any means. It's perfect for dancing and perfect for listening; in short -- it's perfect." m.ace ecam@voicenet.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Vik Trola Subject: (exotica) On The Air with Radio Vik Date: 18 May 1997 18:30:40 -0500 Two new shows broadcasting from Radio Vik. Kansas may not be crime central, but Darrell Brogdon and the KANU Retro Cocktail Hour cook up some swinging lounge noir sounds with a one hour "Crime Jazz" special. Peter Gunn, A touch of Evil, The Naked City and more delivered in two half hour sets or one full hour soak. You'll find it in Global Radio (http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/radio/global.html). In addition to the Exotica Tiki Beach Extravaganza with Don Tiki and Martin Denny, Radio Vik's Specials features Jack "one half of In Hi-Fi" Fetterman's oh so swinging Cocktail Music For Robots. Tasty mood music from Denny, Baxter, Maxwell, Diamond, Esquivel and more sure to oil the gears of modern day robots everywhere. Two easy to compute slices or one big chuck of data...you choose at http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/radio/specials.html All Radio Vik broadcasts are in Real Audio 2.0 and 3.0 formats are require the RealPlayer from Progressive Networks (http://www.prognet.com) waking up in the city that never sleeps, Vik Vik's Lounge http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/lounge.html Space Age Bachelor Pad Music http://www.chaoskitty.com/sabpm/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bag@hubris.net Subject: (exotica) Warped Sounds and Records Date: 18 May 1997 19:04:33 -0700 (PDT) Well, another weekend and another voyage of disk-covery for moi. I found some great sounds with my kind of warped exoticism...alas the warm temps warped $18 worth of my finds (Actually my fault. I could have got them out of the car when I first got home, but didn't want to go back outside to empty the trunk because of a lurking panhandler. I thought "Oh, I'll just remember to bring then in tommorrow morning." I didn't remember and they baked today while I was out). The worst part was, these were $2 records (my most expensive of the day): At the Saint Moritz with the Irving Fields Trio ABC-Para. 187 It had some pretty good latin tinged numbers. Themes from the Great Foriegn Films, Leo Diamond Reprise R9 6009 Pretty routine, but a couple cuts have that special LD twist I enjoy. The Pop Classics Go Latin, Orchestra Del Oro Somerset SF-19200 Neat idea, well executed (classical music with congos, bongos). Music of the Near East, Ali Beirut's Orientales Pirouette FM-16 This is real world music, which is not what I had hoped for (don't get me wrong, I like world music. My former girlfriend was a big fan of it and I like it, but it just isn't my favorite genre). Of course, the album cover got me (exclusive photo of Neila Ates, famous dancer), so the warp wasn't a total loss. Latin and American Piano Rhythms, Barclay Allen Tops L-1597 Not really inspired music making and I'm bothered by the title (Brazilians, for instance, are just as American as U.S. citizens). I do like the cover. Billy May and his Orchestra, Time S/2064 I like the Time records, so thought this would be neat. It wasn't very good. However, other cheaper try outs did well for me...and were not warped! I paid anywhere from 10 cents (the Saint Vincent de Paul's as-is store) to $1 (the Multnomah County Library big record and furniture sale) for these gems. Big Band Percussion, Ted Heath and His Music, London SP 44002 I'm always wary of recordings that proclaim "percussion" because they often use percussion as a token gesture to hype sales. Not so here. Percussion is incorporated throughout and is a central part of the arranging. As the album notes put it "Big band fun at its best!" A New Concept of Great Cole Porter Songs, Enoch Light Command RS 879SD Great stuff! This ranks as one of my favorite Enoch Light recordings now. All instruments have a say and are used well in these arrangements. Italian Guitars, Al Caiola Time 52023 With so many guitars (11) and mandolins (12) I thought this would not meet my expectations. Still, with "The Woodpecker Song" and "Volare" I had to try. I'm glad I did. There is more going on than strumming guitars, believe me. The recording more than met my concept of how I thought it would sound. Exotic Percussion, Stanley Black London SP 44004 Much the same review as for Ted Heath, only better! This is another Phase 4 stereo recording with the gatefold cover. Love is a Swingin' Word, Sid Ramin and His Orchestra RCA LSP-1924 All tunes with the word "Love" somewhere in the title. My copy was not in top shape...but probably because it deserved playback many times. Good stuff! Big Band Bossa Nova, Fred De Denise and His Orchestra Spinorama S-113 Well recorded and interesting, but the music is not always well performed (the flutist is not always in tune) and their idea of percussion is "follow the same rhythmic pattern from start to finish." Better than the average Spinorama release, I'll say that for sure. Around the World in Percussion, Irv Cottler Somerset SF-13900 Pretty straight stuff from the same folks that released a million different 101 Strings albums. They follow the same percussion routine as the above record, but its still a keeper. Bossa Nova, Sam Most et al International Award Series AK-215 Another "true monophonic" recording from IAS. There are some recognizable jazz names on the personnel list, but the arrangements are pretty straight... save Sam Most's improvizations. This is more jazz than exotica, but it still earns the "paper sleeve award." (a note of explanation) The Byron Caloz Paper Sleeve Award goes to any record I deem worthy of me searching out a paper sleeve to help protect the LP. Records that don't get this award or any other get their existing sleeve taken away or don't get one at all! These records I usually donate away. Better recordings get the "lined sleeve award" and the best get the "plastic cover award." Thus, my favorite records have all sorts of "protection." Peg O' My Heart, Jerry Murad's Harmonicats Columbia CL 1637 You've got to admire a trio of harmonica players which puts together a whole album without a supporting cast! However, their renditions are so well done they have "classical music" written all over them, even on selections not usually identified in that genre. Therefore, its a keeper, but also doesn't get into the Mr. Smooth collection. Peg O' My Heart, Eddy Manson and The Lavaliers RCA Camden CAL-810 There is more going on here than just a trio. Some of the tunes are pretty laid back, but others have interesting arrangements. As I have one exotica album by Eddy Manson, I plan to keep this around. Alas, I got the mono version... but only for a dime! Latin Songs and Rhythms of Puerto Rico, National Orchestra and Singers Ultraphonic/Halo 50336 (c) 1958 This is authentic stuff, so it goes with my world music. Pretty good recording with a variety of different songs and styles. Million Sellers, Lew Raymond and The Hollywood Studio Orch. Tops L1647 Believe it or not, I am keeping this one for Mr. Smooth. Raymond does a pretty good copy of Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White. Besides, Mr. Smooth likes keeping available the cover which features Mary Tyler Moore from her first modeling assignment. As Mr. Smooth would put it "C'est bon, le leggs." Others yet to be reviewed: Soundtrack: Hatari, Henry Mancini RCA LPM-2559 Soundtrack: Baby Doll, Kenyon Hopkins Columbia CL 958 (excellent shape!) Lazy Lively Love, Jackie Gleason Capitol SW 1439 Jacqueline Francois at the Plaza, Columbia WL 152 (Adventures in Sound) Show Stoppers from The Fabulous Fifties, David Carroll Mercury 60060 The Best of Los Indios Tabajaras RCA LSP-4007 Jack Wilson Plays Brazilian Mancini Vault 9001 (c) 1965 Folk Swingin' Harpsichord, The Sidewalk Swingers WB WS1532 The Latin King, Edmundo Ros London SP 44169 Molto Italiano! Vol. 3, Johnny Puleo Audio Fidelity AFLP 1883 The Musical World of Oliver Pacini, Cordak 1002 Thats it for record buying for awhile! I did not list all of the classical, big band and jazz records I also got. If I was married I'd be facing divorce right now with all this vinyl strung about. Byron Caloz Portland, OR # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mighty@wavenet.com Subject: Re: (exotica) M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E Date: 16 May 1997 14:25:33 +0000 > Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room is going strong at Disneyland. > I went this year in mid-March. A few years ago, the attraction's > sound system was upgraded. More recently, Disneyland chopped out > one on the musical numbers (the Offenbach piece, I believe) to > shorten and tighten the show. I guess our attention spans today > aren't what they were thrirty years ago. > > -- Werner Weiss > ** A Visit to Yesterland ** > http://www.mcs.net/~werner/yester.html > > ** Werner's Unofficial Disney Park Links ** > http://www.mcs.net/~werner/links.html ===================================================== thanks werner for the info ! cc:d to the 'exotica' list serv where orig. mentioned.. best, max # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Pea Hicks Subject: (exotica) Future Exotica standards.... Date: 18 May 1997 22:43:25 -0700 Awhile back there was a thread more or less to the effect of "what kind of lame music today might be considered 'hip' or at least 'ironic' in the future." Well, while shopping at Food 4 Less tonite, I *know* I heard at least one song that meets this criteria. I don't know who it was (how come they never announce the artists on grocery store muzak systems- damn!!), but it was an R&B duet ballad in the tradition of "Endless Love" or "Beauty & The Beast." It was called "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus." (as in, of course, the best-selling book). Boy was it amazing. The opening line was some Whitney Houston wannabe singing something like "Everytime I try to talk to you baby/You just retreat into your cave" and then the Peabo Bryson wannabe comes back with some similar kind of psychobabble (probably taken verbatim from the book) and then you get the chorus- "Men are from Mars/Women are from Veeeee-nus." I almost keeled over laughing in the frozen foods section... I missed most of the lyrics because of this... pea -- Pea Hicks "Memory is my drug of choice." <---Realm 'O' The Optigan---> http://www.pilot.com/optigan Who will be the next to brave the *perils* of the VIRTUAL OPTIGAN??! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Peter Hipwell Subject: (exotica) 7 Golden Men Date: 19 May 1997 12:00:02 +0100 I can't remember who it was talking about "7 Golden Men" (thankyou masked (wo)man, whoever you are!), but I picked up a copy of the video this weekend at my friendly neighbourhood charity shop simply because I'd heard it mentioned here. I was surprised to see it, sitting there on its lonesome. Great soundtrack, great film! Truly ridiculous bankrobbing, right up there with "The Italian Job" (...but was there ever a sequel?). -- Pete # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: basic hip Subject: Re: (exotica) 7 Golden Men Date: 19 May 1997 05:23:34 -0700 Peter Hipwell wrote: > > I can't remember who it was talking about "7 Golden Men" (thankyou > masked (wo)man, whoever you are!), but I picked up a copy of the video > this weekend at my friendly neighbourhood charity shop simply because > I'd heard it mentioned here. I was surprised to see it, sitting there > on its lonesome. Great soundtrack, great film! Truly ridiculous > bankrobbing, right up there with "The Italian Job" (...but was there > ever a sequel?). the last post i recall on Seven Golden Men had what sounded like a disappointed list member who had given the record a listen and was now offering it for sale. I was surprised, because I'm with you - I love this Armando Trovajoli score. I just chalked it up to the personal taste thing. Anyway, yes, there is a sequel: Seven Golden Men Strike Again. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Vernon Stoltz Subject: Re: (exotica) M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E Date: 19 May 1997 02:51:59 GMT Thank you Exotica members for creating one of the few places where one can discuss both Sex-O-Rama Porn Flick Themes and the Disneyland Tiki Room/Mickey Mouse March. Sadly, I don't have anything to contribute to the Sex-o-rama thread, but can provide another Disney reference. One very common thrift store record is Disney's "It's a Small World" (I have a 1964 version with a booklet inside). My first reaction? What a highly obnoxious record, with it's endless repetition of that exceedingly cheerful melody over the entire two sides of the record. But with a closer look, there are some perhaps classic 'exotica' moments on the record, particularly on side 2. Here we find Middle Eastern tambourines, Snake Charmers from India, the Jungle Drums of Africa accompanied with hyena laughs and other animals, South American birds, Rio's Copacabana, Mexican mariachis.... Hey, they even throw in the Antarctic Penguins, Belgium Geese and percussion via Dutch Wooden shoes! What Sounds!! "It's A Small World" can be a nice cheerful song, just as long as my future Sex-O-Rama partners refrain from whistling it constantly in bed :-) Vern . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vern Stoltz Cannot Become Obsolete PO Box 1232 Lorton, VA 22199-1232 . . . . . . . . . . . . . # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ross Orr Subject: (exotica) My Faith Restored Date: 19 May 1997 10:23:21 -0400 Heya exotics-- Did a long trawl of western Michigan flea & antique stores Saturday. We found very little vinyl for sale at all (we did get, um, 4 toasters); but while I just got a handful of LPs, 3 of them turned out to be killer: Alvino Rey _Swingin' Fling_. This dude does those little "Zwing! zhwiing!!" console guitar accents you've heard in dozens of Esquivel arrangements (as well as on my fave _Polynesian Percussion_). Some of the brass arrangements get a little Vegas-y (and this copy got mauled by--???--some clawed animal?), but this one is WAY cool. Edmundo Ros _Hollywood Cha Cha Cha_. This is my favorite Ros LP of 5 or so I've heard so far. I find that Edmundo LPs often dissapoint--he seems to have one foot in the big band era still. This one maintains the nice edge that all the songs are vaguely familiar yet oddly mutated in order to cha-cha-ify them. The "Third Man Theme" Cha Cha is the real standout. Also this is a nice stereo copy, more forward-sounding than some of those early London LPs, but without the unnatural multitracking of the later Phase 4 recordings. Leo Addeo _The Music Goes 'Round and 'Round_. My first "Stereo Action" LP (cover w/cutout), and it's a winner! I already was a Leo Addeo fan, for his very bizarre Hawaiianized covers like "Sheik of Araby." This one is more in the perky, Three Suns direction, though it still uses steel guitar. Needless to say all the instruments are dizzyingly sloshing around the soundstage like it's the Poiseidon Adventure. But the thing the really puts it over the edge is that the featured lead instrument is. . . Ocarina! I love it. The weather seems to finally be breaking here in the midwest, and I'm getting a good feeling about this summer's hunting. . . Hope you all got good scores this weekend too, --Ross P.S. I went to FL Disney World's "Polynesian Village" in '92: Seemed to me like the performers were a lot of long-suffering Tongan college students. . . that was the Disney racket throughout all the "Ethnic" attractions in WDW. . . --Ross || Ross "Mambo Frenzy" Orr || Ann Arbor, Michigan USA # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jonathan Perl Subject: (exotica) seven golden men Date: 19 May 1997 16:29:00 +0100 basic hip wrote: >I just chalked it up to the personal taste thing. Anyway, yes, there is a sequel: Seven Golden Men Strike Again. Incidentally the music to the sequel, contained on the CAM CD twofer of both films, is pretty disappointing compared with the main soundtrack. Pretty different style. I haven't seen either film actually, although they look funny from the pictures... Jonny # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "J. Diamond" Subject: (exotica) Sabu and beyond! Date: 19 May 1997 07:40:02 -0700 >In the SF Borders' today I spotted Japanese import CDs of Sabu's "Palo Congo" >$27, Vols 1 & 2 of Art Blakey & Sabu's "Orgy in Rhythm" Sabu was/is a tremendous talent in the bongo/conga/percussion field of whatever genre you want to "label" him in. Art Blakey was/is a tremendous talent in the composing/playing field of JAZZ drumming/percussion as well as composing music for other non-percussive jazz music instrumentation. Re; Reeded and Brass instruments Both these guys are phenomenal so in a word... GET THEM BOTH!!! Orgy in Rhythm was originally released on Blue Note in 1957 and I can't find any listing for Palo Congo BUT that don't mean nuhthin'! Blakey's primary label was Blue Note but he did record for a number of other labels Sabu's last name by the way is Martinez. I spoke with my musical mentor yesterday(Mickey McGowan)and he told me he found a Sabu record that he never saw before. I love when that shit happens. This guy has a personal collection of 15,000 records and has been into this for over 25 years and is still finding stuff that he never knew existed There is ALWAYS more to find when 1 thinks "they have it all" So who here has the Mindexpanders-What's Happening or the Electric Seeds-The Electric Piano Playground on Bell or Night of The Spectre by Chaino ? You will never have it all, believe it! Jack # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Darrell Brogdon Subject: Re: (exotica) 7 Golden Men Date: 19 May 1997 09:54:12 -0500 At 12:00 PM 5/19/97 +0100, you wrote: > >I can't remember who it was talking about "7 Golden Men" (thankyou >masked (wo)man, whoever you are!), but I picked up a copy of the video WHO released this on video? I've searched everywhere for a "7 Golden Men" video without success! Is it available from any stateside video distributor? Couldn't find a listing for it in any of the major video guides. Any information much appreciated! DARRELL BROGDON # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Peter Hipwell Subject: Re: (exotica) 7 Golden Men Date: 19 May 1997 16:42:13 +0100 > At 12:00 PM 5/19/97 +0100, you wrote: > > > >I can't remember who it was talking about "7 Golden Men" (thankyou > >masked (wo)man, whoever you are!), but I picked up a copy of the video > > WHO released this on video? I've searched everywhere for a "7 Golden Men" > video without success! Is it available from any stateside video > distributor? Couldn't find a listing for it in any of the major video > guides. Any information much appreciated! > I haven't got the box here, but I'm pretty sure that it's "Interglobal Video". The video itself seems to be pretty old: the cover of the box is pretty knackered, though the tape is fine. I'll try to remember to grab details (if any) from the box, and I'll grab any more VHS PAL copies I see (relevant smiley not included here due to ideological grounds). -- Pete. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Will Straw Subject: (exotica) New Acquisitions Date: 19 May 1997 10:46:33 -0400 I just received a stupendous gift from Allan Zweig, a Toronto-based filmmaker who is editing a documentary on record collectors entitled "Vinyl." Allan interviewed me last year, and we've kept in touch, and he called me last week to say he was sending up a box of records for me. I picked them up in Ottawa, where I rendez-voused, at a film studies conference, with the producer of the film. I'm just starting to go through them, but one of the gems is a Capitol record "Rockin' Tokyo: American 'Top 40' Hits Sung by Japan's Record Stars". Kayoko Moriyama's version of "Johnny Angel" is tops! Will Will Straw Associate Professor and Acting Director, Graduate Program in Communications McGill University 3465 rue Peel, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1W7 Phone: (514) 398 7667; Fax: (514) 398 4934 http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/gpc/ Director, The Centre for Research on Canadian Cultural Industries and Institutions http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/gpc/crccii/ Co-editor. Topia: A Journal of Canadian and Cultural Studies http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/gpc/topia/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Peter Ledebur Subject: (exotica) Playlist: Music for Better Living Date: 19 May 1997 12:06:25 -0400 I'm back from vacation with a buncha newly thrifted albums (including a = handful of Command LPs, an Yma Sumac 10", Denny, Mancini). The suprise = purchase? Bert Kaempfert's rendtion of Caravan! I was expecting EZ but = there's a wicked fuzz guitar, a "These Boots" bass line, wordless = vocals, punchy brass and more! Outtasite!! *** 5/18/97 *** Soul Bossa Nova -- QUINCY JONES (v/a - Cocktail Mix Vol.2) Caper at the Coffee House -- WARREN BARKER (77 Sunset Strip) Jungle Beat -- HUGO MONTENEGRO (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) Mean & Nasty -- MAXWELL DAVIS (Theme from Batman) Marseillaise Generique -- BRIGITTE BARDOT (Le Disque D'Or) Theme for Pussy Galore -- BILLY STRANGE (The Big Sound of...) Bing Bang Conga -- LOS ALBINOS (v/a - Another Crazy Cocktail Party) Food Glorious Food -- FRANK OWENS (Oliver! Ole!) Son of a Gun -- PEREZ PRADO (Exotic Suite of the Americas) Caravan -- BERT KAEMPFERT (...Love That...) Tonight -- STAN KENTON (West Side Story) Music to Watch Girls By -- ROGER WILLIAMS (Roger!) The Tiber Twist -- HENRY MANCINI (The Pink Panther) Baby Elephant Walk -- LIVING BRASS (A Henry Mancini Tribute) Mrs. Robinson -- THE BRASS RING (Best of....) This Guy's in Love with You -- RONNIE ALDRICH (This Way "In") Teach Me Tiger -- APRIL STEVENS (v/a - Cocktail Capers) Cheerful Little Earful -- LEW DAVIES & HIS ORCHESTRA (A Cheerful Earful) Allah's Holiday -- THE THREE SUNS (The Happy Go-Lucky Sound) The Wild One -- MARTIN DENNY (A Taste of Honey) The Carioca -- SKIP MARTIN (Perspectives in Percussion Vol.1) Everyday is Ladies' Day -- JOSE CUBANO ORCHESTRA (Cha Cha Cha) On the Street Where You Live -- PEGGY LEE (Latin ala Lee) Girl Chase -- JOHNNY WILLIAMS (Penelope) Theme from the Sundowners -- ENOCH LIGHT & HIS ORCHESTRA (Far Away = Places) I Can See for Miles -- LORD SITAR (v/a - Rock & Roll Hits on the Rocks = Vol.2) Daniel -- THE BRITISH LION ORCHESTRA (Girl on a Motorcycle) Fly Me to the Moon -- BILLY MURE'S SUPERSONIC GUITARS (Teen Bossa Nova) Go-Go Theme -- WALTER WANDERLEY (Brazilian Blend) Coffee Time -- THE KIRBY STONE FOUR (The "Go" Sound) Morticia -- COMBUSTIBLE EDISON (Schizophonic) Incacho -- YMA SUMAC (Inca Taqui) Danger -- TONY MOTTOLA (Guitar...Mottola) In a Persian Market -- THE MEXICALI BRASS (Zorba the Greek & Tijuana = Taxi) Le Temps de L'Amour -- FRANCOISE HARDY (Tous les Garcons et les Filles & = Other Hits) Mountain Greenery -- THE ERNIE FREEMAN COMBO (v/a - Cocktail Capers) Hora Staccato -- WERNER MULLER & HIS ORCHESTRA (Wild Strings) Pele -- DALIDA (s/t) Whatchamacallit -- ESQUIVEL (Space Age Bachelor Pad Music) Grand Tour -- SOUNDS GALACTIC (v/a - A Musical Tour Around the World... = and Beyond) --- Music for Better Living Sundays 6-8pm -- WZBC 90.3 FM Newton/Boston http://members.aol.com/Hifibliss/mfbl.htm # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Peter Hipwell Subject: [Peter Hipwell: Re: (exotica) 7 Golden Men] Date: 19 May 1997 17:18:59 +0100 > > I haven't got the box here, but I'm pretty sure that it's "Interglobal > Video". The video itself seems to be pretty old: the cover of the box > is pretty knackered, though the tape is fine. I'll try to remember to Three "pretty"s in two sentences. I'm going to drown myself, then I'm off down the road to the Hubbard Academy of Stylistic Inadequacy for some pretty severe knuckle-rapping. Right. Off-topic. G'Bye Y'all. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: BGlennii@aol.com Subject: (exotica) The Mike Flowers Pops Date: 19 May 1997 12:35:13 -0400 (EDT) Hi, kids -- Run, don't walk, to your favorite record store and pick up "In a Groovy Place" by The Mike Flowers Pops! This new British group has captured that "up, up and away" sound with integrity and perfection. The backup singers are tops, too. The Mike Flowers Pops also has contributed one track -- a cover of "Call Me" -- to the "Austin Powers" soundtrack. You're gonna love this!!!!! I do! Ben Washington, DC # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Alex V. Cook" Subject: Re: (exotica) Sabu and beyond! Date: 19 May 1997 10:05:14 -0700 > > So who here has the Mindexpanders-What's Happening or the Electric > Seeds-The Electric Piano Playground on Bell or Night of The Spectre by > Chaino ? I have the Mindexpanders - What's Happening, on a somewhat extended borrow from a fellow collecta. It gets an almost weekly airing on my show. "Sensory Overload" is the best straight up song on there, with "Pictures at a Psychedelic Exhibition" being the trippiest. Did the Mindexpanders exist as a band, or was it some studio project thing. Brilliant album all over. Even beats Kai Winding's "Mondo Cane #2" for bugged out post garage bliss. flying the expanded flag, alex [NOTICE: This message was delayed on its way to the list because it contained excess quoted text, which has been automatically removed. To prevent this from happening to your messages, be sure to include as little text as possible from the message you are responding to.] -- voodooboy@geocities.com http://www.geocities.com/soho/1274 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jeffrey Boyd Subject: (exotica) Flattening warped records Date: 19 May 1997 09:10:54 -0700 (PDT) I too have experienced the disappointment of finding a great record and returning home to find that it's warped and that only two tracks are playable. I recently had this problem, and found a pretty good remedy... Use a hair dryer! I was at my girlfriend's house, and she has a huge arsenal of hair care products. So, I grabbed one of her hair dryers, laid the LP on the (clean) counter, and blasted it for a minute or so. You don't want to do this for too long; you just want to get to the point where the vinyl is just pliable enough to flatten. I would reccommend using some big, heavy books to set on top of it for a few minutes to get it as flat as possible. I hope I'm not irresponsibly spreading bad advice here. All I know is that my record was playable and sounded perfect once I had done this. If anyone knows that this is detrimental to your records, then my apologies. Either way, this sure beats having a warped, unplayable record. 'til next time, __ ______ ___ __ __ / /__ / _/ _/ / _ )___ __ _____/ / / /_/ / -_) _/ _/ / _ Subject: (exotica) misanthropy 511 playlist Date: 19 May 1997 15:17:49 +0000 MISANTHROPY 511--p.o.box 23093--detroit, mi 48223 e-mail: misant@ic.net PLAYLIST ARTIST--TITLE--CD/CASS/LP--LABEL MAY 12, 1997 CHICK FLOYD--my little grass shack--little grass shack --LIBERTY NURSE W/WOUND--window poss. organic dev.--terra serpentes--WORLD SERPENT FAUST--sixty-sixty--you know faust--RECOMMENDED CHRISTOPH HEEMAN--retrace(side b)--7 inch--SONARIA WALTZ TIME--meet tonight in dreamland--soft lights soft music--TIARA BOYD RICE EXPER--sndk pearls before swine--terra serpentes--WORLD SERPENT PEGGY LEE--everyday people--v.a. on the rocks pt.2--CAPITOL TINY TIM--garden of your heart--v.a. terra serpentes--WORLD SERPENT JOHNNY MANN SINGERS --heart full of soul--v.a. on the rocks pt.2--CAPITOL COIL--heartworms--v.a. terra serpentes--WORLD SERPENT CHICK FLOYD--bali hai--little grass shack--LIBERTY BRANDON LABELLE--track 3--prima materia--UNIQUE ANCIENT ILLUSION OF SAFETY--track 1--mort aux vaches--STAALPLAAT PAUL SCHUTZE--deus ex machina--deus ex machina--TONE CASUALTIES HILDEGARD WESTERKAMP--cricket voice--transformations--DIFFUSION I MEDIA KLUSTER--25:30 (edit) --eruption-- MARGINAL TALENT RAYMOND SCOTT--crew experim rocket--home w/dorothy & raymond--CORAL CHRIS & COSEY --put yourself in los angeles--collectiv two--CTI CHRISTIAN MARCLAY--dis composition #23--v.a. state of the union--ZOAR STOCKHAUSEN--zyklus--zyklus--MAINSTREAM MARTIN D. JAGOOK--lato side a--tempo furisos--CRAMPS LOST JOCKEY--hoovering the beach--lost jockey--CREPUSCULE ORGY OF THE DEAD--some college initiation--orgy of the dead sndk--STRANGELOVE LITTLE PRINCESS--forever tube--forever tube--DAVIES PROD MAY 19, 1997 MARTIN DENNY--m gambo mambo--primitiva--LIBERTY E.A.R.--track one--the koner experiment--SPACE AGE STEREOLAB/NURSE W/ WOUND--simple headphone mind--s h m--DUOPHONIC JLIAT--16:05:94--16:05:94--JLIAT MARTIN DENNY--beyond the reef--hawaii tattoo--LIBERTY JONATHAN AZANDE--opaque misery--v.a. extreme music africa--SUSAN LAWLY BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA--germinal crawler--bled out--MALSONUS 2 ASSIST DEPUTY MINISTERS--overtones--v.a. undergr canada--MOTHER SAVAGE DISINFORMATION--national grid --stargate--ASH ROROGWELA--death lullaby--v.a. extreme music africa--SUSAN LAWLY MARTIN DENNY--la pampa la puna--romantica--LIBERTY BERNARD GUNTER--untitled iv/92--un peu de neige salie--TABLE OF ELEMENTS RYOJI IKEDA--#13--v.a. night passage demixed--DOROBO M/S + T. TSUNODA--ful (edit)--ful--SELEKTION RLW--reise--atmosphere--TABLE OF ELEMENTS THE ALADDINS--intro- mondo topless--mondo topless sndk--QDK ANTONIN ARTAUD--exch bet. roger blin & i--have done w/judgement god--SUB ROSA MARTIN DENNY--yellow bird--a taste of india--LIBERTY BIG CITY ORCHESTRA--journey through madonna--bob hope fruit loop--AUDIOPHILE TUXEDOMOON--seeding the clouds--half-mute--RALPH DAVID PRESCOTT--lefty improv #4--v.a. pure & painless pleasures--JOHN DOE BUILDING BALANCED CHILDREN--side 1--jan 08, 1986--S.O.C. MARTIN DENNY--my tane--exotic percussion--LIBERTY I.KANTOR/W.LOOSE--cherry, harry, & raquel--cherry, harry, & raquel sndk--QDK RADIO MARABU JUNE,1997 LUEBECK SAILORS--long time ago--sea chanties --VOX CRAWLING W/ TARTS--end loop haiku--i am telephoning a star--ASP STEREOLAB/N.W.W.--tripping the birds--simple headphone mind--DUOPHONIC W. LOOSE/I. KANTOR--heavy sounds wasted--good morning & goodbye sndk--QDK CURRENT 93--frolicking--v.a. terra serpentes--WORLD SERPENT EXP AUDIO RESEARCH--track 5--the koner experiment--SPACE AGE CRAWL UNIT--history of tears--1993 ep--POVERTECH HARRY HORLICK--el rancho grande--exotica--DESIGN MERZBOW--voice pie--merzbow/bastard noise--RELEASE K2/RUNZELSTIRN&GURGELSTOCK--swell junk minds--noise tourn 4--IMVLUSS RYOJI IKEDA--headphonics 0/1--+/---TOUCH PAUL GRIFFIN--swing low sweet chariot--soul sauce--SOMERSET ILHAN MIMAROGLU--agony--electronic music--TURNABOUT STOCKHAUSEN--prozession (edit)--prozession--CANDIDE PIERRE SCHAEFFER--study for whirligigs--panorama musique concrete--LONDON PIERRE HENRY--the veil of orpheus--panorama musique concrete--LONDON VLADIMIR USSACHEVSKY--wireless fantasy--electronic & older instr--CRI ALFRED NEWMAN--whispering wind--ports of paradise--CAPITOL these are great times to be a misanthropist!! look for the upcoming #summer of misanthropy# and #prom of the apocalypse# Misanthropy 511 is broadcast on Sunday nights from mid-2am on CJAM 91.5 fm Windsor, Ontario Canada. CJAM can be heard throughout the Windsor/ Detroit Michigan area. Misanthropy 511 features from easy listening to moments of mayhem. Noises of the modern world in spectra-sonic sound. We would like to thank all who have sent us promos. It is greatly appreciated. Misanthropy 511 is also broadcasted monthly on Radio Marabu. Radio Marabu is based in Belm Germany and broadcast at various times on 13 different stations throughout Europe. It is also on shortwave throughout Europe. Write to Radio Marabu for more info and tell them Misanthropy sent you. Radio Marabu p.o.box 1166, 49187, Belm Germany . e-mail: radiomarabu@t-online.de web site: http://www.dma.be/p/amphion/sztuka/Marabu.htm A special edition of Misanthropy 511 can still be heard at the web site for Vik Trola’s Lounge of Self Indulgence using Real Audio. The lounge is found at: http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/lounge.html Also check out the Misanthropy 511/ The Hearing Trumpet site under works within Viks Lounge at: http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/hearing.html The performance side of Misanthropy, The Hearing Trumpet, have a 60 minute cassette release on Destroy All Music called #Heart of a Leaf#. It is the first release recorded entirely in our home studio. Destroy All Music can be reached at e-mail: pchavez@delphi.com for ordering info and catalog. The Hearing Trumpet has been described by others as #hallucinogenic soundscapes#, #ambient noise#, & #distant rumblings#. The Hearing Trumpet has 2 additional cassettes available. #Songs of Mystery and Magnetics# is a 45 min. cass featuring 2-20 min. pieces recorded live in the CJAM studio. #Collected Stories# is a 60 min cass featuring several shorter pieces all recorded live for our radio show. Write for more info or ordering. David Warmbier & Greg Hallock # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: CitiGuy471@aol.com Subject: (exotica) impact of pornography Date: 19 May 1997 15:48:07 -0400 (EDT) Just returned from a vinyl excursion and thought I, too, would report: "Impact" under the direction of Buddy Morrow--TV themes, 1959 "Double Impact"-Buddy Morrow again--more TV themes 1960 "Sounds For Spies And Private Eyes"-Al Caiola, 196- "Schulmadchen Report"-Gert Wilden & Orchestra, 1968-72 German Porno series on Schoolgirls (on CD) ALSO--got a copy of "Sex-O-Rama"--mainly re-recorded, but claiming to be faithful to the original instrumentation. I found it a bit bass-heavy, and found the music good--not great--good. Tried to visualize watching it and hearing the tunes......Gotta go now! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: david.trezza@etak.com (David Trezza) Subject: (exotica) Prima records Date: 19 May 1997 14:08:43 -0700 (PDT) Does anybody have any idea how many records Louis Prima put out on his [or his brother's] label Prima Records? They are post-Keely live performances with Gia Maione and Sam B & the Witnesses. I've found the following so far: "King of Clubs" "Prima Show at the Sahara" [Maybe Sands or Casbah, not sure right now.] Any help will be appreciated. Thanks! Dago Most oddball find recently: A .25 copy of "Other Worlds, Other Sounds" tucked into a box of mainly 70's country a la Dolly Parton, Kenny Rodgers at a garage sale. Fish outta water finds: A vein of excellent+ Denny discs [Exotica I, II, Primitive, Forbidden Island, Live] at a legitimate "Barn sale" smack in the middle of nowhere California. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Cyberia Edinburgh 7 Subject: (exotica) hoot-man!!!! Date: 19 May 1997 20:56:26 +0100 Hello guys and gals, well... my first internet fix in over a week - am logging in from not-so-sunny edinburgh. picked up quite a few discs in london, including the not-to-be-missed Space Patrol soundtrack and a new crippled dick compilation of 60's,70's italian porn (beat at cinecitta) which is fab! haven't seen too much of the london lounge 'scene' which i understand has waned considerably and will unfortunately miss a planned night out at madame jo-jo's.... the collection of vinyl at intoxica is impressive if pricey... well, just thought it'd be 'fun' to send a holiday e-card - one more week of shenanigans then it's back to whatever. and PLEASE don't respond to this address. from cyberia, kevin king --- This mail message has originated from the public machines at Cyberia, 88 Hanover Street, Edinburgh. The views expressed herein are not necessarily those of CyberSurf Ltd. Please report inappropriate use to support@cybersurf.co.uk. If you wish to reply to this message, please mark it for the attention the person who has sent it to you. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: legalrender@kinn.com Subject: (exotica) Home Page Update! For sale lists! Date: 19 May 1997 17:58:00 -0800 Greetings Exoticats and Kittens! Just a note to let everyone know that my ISP has finally gotten it together (knock wood) and I've been able to update my various for sale disposal lists including the Exotica/Lounge/blah, blah, blah section. Also, there is an new $2.00 blowout section of Exotic stuff that I really want to leave my premises, like now! So take a look if you get a chance. Thanks, Kevin King legalrender@kinn.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: clean@bitstream.net Subject: Re: (exotica) Home Page Update! For sale lists! Date: 19 May 1997 21:22:47 -0600 >Greetings Exoticats and Kittens! > >Just a note to let everyone know that my ISP has finally gotten it >together (knock wood) and I've been able to update my various for sale >disposal lists including the Exotica/Lounge/blah, blah, blah section. >Also, there is an new $2.00 blowout section of Exotic stuff that I >really want to leave my premises, like now! So take a look if you get a >chance. > >Thanks, > >Kevin King >legalrender@kinn.com URL? visit... +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ King Kini's C L U B V E L V E T http://www2.bitstream.net/~clean +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bag@hubris.net Subject: Re: (exotica) Prima records Date: 19 May 1997 20:02:25 -0700 (PDT) At 02:08 PM 5/19/97 -0700, Dago wrote to the Exotica listserv: >Does anybody have any idea how many records Louis Prima put out >on his [or his brother's] label Prima Records? I'm curious as well, being a Prima fan. If you have info, maybe you can post it? Thanks, Byron Caloz Portland, OR # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: rcb@easynet.co.uk Subject: (exotica) Announcing the CD issue of Electric Eclectics! Date: 20 May 1997 13:26:31 +0000 Hi all - For those of you who haven't spotted it already - Dick Hyman's classic "Moog - Electric Eclectics" has just been issued on CD by Varese (VS5788)! It also has three bonus tracks from Dick's other Command Moog LP "Age of Electronicus". Time to get a crackle-free copy of this album? Robbie Spaced Out - the Enoch Light WWW Site ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~rcb/light/ ** ** # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jbtwist@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E Date: 20 May 1997 08:49:46 -0400 (EDT) < One very common thrift store record is Disney's "It's a Small World" (I have a 1964 version with a booklet inside >> Been to Disneyland twice in the past 4 years, and ALWAYS force my family to ride "Small World" - the ethnic music changes as you round each turn to a new part of the world, and the cacophony is quite trippy. Even ran my camcorder throughout much of the ride. And that song! Takes days to get it out of your brain, and most people groan when you mention it. The Enchanted Tiki Room is also wonderful, a cool respite from the frenetic pace outside, and MUCH better than waiting for hours for the lame-o Indiana Jones ride. Dig those singing, swinging Tikis, and The Lion King Parade is a bit of Afro-disney exotica too. Finally one of my favorite album covers is "Date Night at Disneyland", loaded with 50's teen prom night dorks. Never listened to the LP, but the cover is priceless. JB Twist, trying to get that damn Small world song out of my head by thinking of "Happiness Is" # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: legalrender@kinn.com Subject: (exotica) Oops! The URL! Date: 20 May 1997 06:03:42 -0800 Hello again! Sorry to waste everyones' time but as several pointed out, my post yesterday concerning the availability (again!) of my for sale lists on my homepage, failed to give the URL. Well, I said my ISP had gotten it together, NOT ME! Oops! So here it is: www.kinn.com/cameron/index.html Also, failed to mention that I've been posting lists to vinyl for sale newsgroup if you access that. So, basically, I'm just a failure! Thanks again, Kevin King legalrender@kinn.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bruce Rhodewalt Subject: RE: (exotica) Oops! The URL! Date: 20 May 1997 06:47:01 -0700 Kevin, You're more than a failure; you're a nincompoop and a scalawag. Please = (everyone) include the protocol in URLs so it's easy to click on them in = most modern browsers. For example: http://www.tikipub.com/bdr9.html Now, isn't that nice? Bruce -----Original Message----- Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 1997 7:04 AM Hello again! Sorry to waste everyones' time but as several pointed out, my post yesterday concerning the availability (again!) of my for sale lists on my homepage, failed to give the URL. Well, I said my ISP had gotten it together, NOT ME! Oops! So here it is: www.kinn.com/cameron/index.html Also, failed to mention that I've been posting lists to vinyl for sale newsgroup if you access that. So, basically, I'm just a failure! Thanks again, Kevin King legalrender@kinn.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original = sender. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jessica Cameron Subject: (exotica) Tony Bennett, Sabu, and Candido Date: 20 May 1997 15:56:39 -0400 Think of this as a sequel to the "Julie Andrews and Moondog" thread.... I just found this record at the flea market called "The Beat of my Heart" by Tony Bennett. I don't know if this was a percussion craze cash-in or what, but it's a classic. Tony croons backed by Sabu, Candido, Chico Hamilton, Jo Jones, Art Blakey, and Billy Exiner (never heard of this guy). It sounds like he just wandered into the middle of a Afro-Cuban jazz session. ^_^ I love it! Thanks for the space, Jessica ^_^ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "GUERRERO, Ernie" Subject: (exotica) RE: WKPS Lounge Show Date: 20 May 1997 15:44:00 PST Can you tell me how things are going with your radio show? the jetset hifi one and the other one you were planning called chemistry set?? I'd love some info --- also, where are you located? ernie # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tony Wilds Subject: (exotica) Re: Sabu Date: 21 May 1997 02:04:46 -0400 >Orgy in Rhythm was originally released on Blue Note in 1957 and I can't >find any listing for Palo Congo BUT that don't mean nuhthin'! Palo Congo was Sabu's first solo LP -- Blue Note 1516. It also was reissued on vinyl in Japan. Both volumes of Orgy are great, as are all the Blakey/Sabu collaborations. >Sabu's last name by the way is Martinez. Louis is his first. He succeeded Chano Pozo and got around in quite a few other ways. >I spoke with my musical mentor yesterday(Mickey McGowan)and he told me he found a Sabu record that he never saw before. Bet it was Jungle Percussion, Safari with Sabu, or Afro Temple (booted). There are others my Sabu mentor and I are working on. For 4 long pages (33 KB) of some liner notes, track listings, and discographies of both solo and session work (in progress -- more all the time), plus some photos and scans, see the Sabu tribute at the Wilds Scene. Sabu speaks in Nat Hentoff's liners to Cu-Bop! Many or most of the Sabu LPs are [serious] collector items with 3-figure jazz-book values, and the rest are just plain rare. It's not because they're soundtracks or something. wilds ______________________________________________ The Wilds Scene http://www.charm.net/~wilds/ LPs * Definitive EXOTICA * Sabu * Tiki Gallery "Rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul." -- Plato # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: BuMp Subject: (exotica) my buddy Date: 21 May 1997 04:02:04 -0400 hello everyone. i would like to know if anyone out there thinks Buddy Greco is the greatest (cheesiest) lounge singer of all time? like i do.... second place goes to Sammy Davis Jr. cuz at least Buddy can sing.... i am looking for MORE i have about 5 lps and i have a list of the others (that i know of)... if anyone has some BUD...i will pay or trade stuff on cassette until i find the real thing... thanx bump from baltimore BuMp Defective Records pje@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu http://www.welch.jhu.edu/~geh/defective.html # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ccarlson@valsmtp.riag.com Subject: (exotica) Mind Expanders, Who is Tammy? Date: 21 May 1997 07:27:19 -0400 Hey Jack Here's another copy of the Mind Expanders album, and another request for personnel on the record; was there a Dot house band perhaps? Was this Pat Boone's foray into psychedelia? It is a great addition to any mix tape, absolutely. To the Group I recently picked up two records at the flea that feature "Tammy" who seems to be a Barbie-doll knock off. They are dated 1965. I haven't listened to them yet, but they have very surreal puppet/toy/Viewmaster type covers. The best one ("Sing Along with Tammy") features a very shiney doll den with jukebox, tiny records, etc. So the question is, can anyone tell me anything about Tammy? In the same score: The Corporation on Command w/ Vinnie Bell and Al Cassamenti. Was this really the first recording of a guitar using wah-wah (or "Wow" guitar as the liner notes have it)? Songs of Couch and Consultaion - Katy Lee All for less than $3.00. Keep looking! To folks North of Boston WUNH (91.3) has added a lounge/exotica show on Friday nights 10 - 11. The host, Ricardo, is into the music, so that's good. Craig # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Michael Jemmeson Subject: (exotica) Mike Flowers Pops take US Date: 21 May 1997 15:10:07 +0000 Have you only just got Mike Flowers in the US? Have you heard the cover of Oasis' 'Wonderwall'? Pretty interesting live band too. Also check out 'The Mike Flowers Pops Meets The Aphex Twin Downtown' 12" [Lo Recordings] for some remix action... mind you, not as weird as you'd expect...(unfortunately!) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) Tony Bennett, Sabu, and Candido Date: 21 May 1997 10:19:30 -0400 >Think of this as a bizarre adjunct to the "Julie Andrews and Moondog" thread.... Big Brother and the Holding Company issued a single with a song called "All Is Loneliness", credited to Louis Hardin. The other side? "Blindman"(!) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mighty@wavenet.com Subject: (exotica) DMQ/Super Diamond at the Croc Date: 21 May 1997 03:36:00 +0000 The Dudley Manlove Quartet and Super Diamond The world's greatest Neil Diamond tribute band @ the Crocodile Cafe 2nd and Blanchard, Seattle Sunday, May 25 9pm $9 Advance tickets available at the Croc Other DMQ news: Saturday, June 14: Release party for DMQ's live cd, "The Dudley Manlove Quartet...ARE GO!!!" at the Backstage in Ballard. $10 at the door/$8 advance. Tickets available through Ticketmaster and the Backstage ticket office. PRE-ORDER DMQ'S LIVE CD BEFORE JUNE 10 FOR ONLY $10! For ordering information, visit http://www.hidwater.com/dmq/arego.html DMQ T-SHIRTS AND COASTERS NOW AVAILABLE! For ordering information, visit http://www.freerange.com/bands/newstuff.html # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) Tony Bennett, Sabu, and Candido Date: 21 May 1997 07:49:33 -0400 >Think of this as a bizarre adjunct to the "Julie Andrews and Moondog" thread.... Big Brother and the Holding Company issued a single with a song called "All Is Loneliness", credited to Louis Hardin. The other side? "Blindman"(!) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tony Wilds Subject: (exotica) Cannot Become Obsolete Date: 21 May 1997 12:08:27 -0400 Way overdue, but here goes: Vernon Stoltz is doing great things in the print medium. If your zine tastes run to the homespun and humorous, mostly ad-free and labor-of-loveish, you'll like "Cannot Become Obsolete." How can it not be eternal and wonderful? It's written from the home of the U.S. Capitol's FEDERAL PRISON and GARBAGE DUMP: Lorton, VA. (Sorry, Vern, but you know the score.) Vern actually drove all the way up to the Mongrel Prom Tiki Party and witnessed the debauchery of the Swinging Swamis driving crazed theatre students into an orgiastic frenzy. I no longer subscribe to any zine that isn't about old records. Obsolete reminds me a little of Glen Burnieland, which was hysterical, but this one is ALL about records, mostly WACKY ones. Vern and [separately] Brad Bigelow obviously are turning over every stone in Northern VA and finding some real treasures (plus dogs I'm happy just to read about). Oddly, both did a special Christmas "concept" publication using old records and a sackful of creativity -- both are pretty far-out. "Cannot Become Obsolete" digs deep into LP psychology without getting tedious or preachy (just like the records) -- a great zine to play records by. Send Vern $2 for an THICK xeroxed sample issue, or maybe swap him your best comps. (Mine's coming, Vern, hang on.) Brad, be sure to get that holiday issue. Cannot Become Obsolete PO Box 1232 Lorton, VA 22199-1232 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: your lps 4sale Date: 21 May 1997 18:45:58 +0200 hi Michael, i guess i'm a bit too late, but are these still available? >- - RAY MARTIN - Excitement, Incorporated (RCA Stereo Action VG+/VG+ >TTTITYA) [few scratches on outside die-cut silver sleeve, small split >seam bottom/middle inner sleeve] >- - EDMUNDO ROS - Hair Goes Latin (London Phase 4 Stereo M/NM+) [SS on 3 >sides] >- - BOB THOMPSON - Just For Kicks! (RCA Mono NM-/NM+ TTTITYA) [some glue >"air bubbles" under front cover image and TTTITYA prevent this from >having an uncannily bright M- cover] Looking forward to hearing from you, Johan Dada@dma.be = Dada@bewoner.dma.be --- # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Hugh Petfield Subject: (exotica) Stateside assistance sought.. Date: 19 May 1997 15:18:15 +0100 Hello good people, I see by the postings that there is a lot of browsing and purchase of pre-owned vinyl goes on in the USA. I'm anxious to track down an album called "The sound of Applause". It is a multi-artist sampler on the (then) newly-launched Applause! label: issued early 80's. I'd also be interested to know anything about the label itself: it appears to have been started with good intentions, but seems to have overstretched itself. Many thanks, Hugh. PS I'm missing Laura... # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) wah-wah (aka mind expanders, who is tammy?) Date: 21 May 1997 15:04:42 -0400 > From: ccarlson@valsmtp.riag.com > To: exotica@xmission.com > Subject: (exotica) Mind Expanders, Who is Tammy? > Date: Wednesday, May 21, 1997 7:27 AM > > The Corporation on Command w/ Vinnie Bell and Al Cassamenti. Was this > really the first recording of a guitar using wah-wah (or "Wow" guitar > as the liner notes have it)? Speedy West was doing wah-type effects on his steel guitar back in the fifties, maybe earlier. I think other steel guitarists were doing likewise at an early date. I can only cite Speedy definitely as I was just listening to him yesterday. The steel players may have been using the tone knobs right on the guitar. If you're talking strictly wah-wah pedal -- I think I read something recently... Found it. Session player Del Casher (who played some with The Three Suns in the late 50's -- toured Japan with them, even. He sez, "I saw about 2,000 people waiting at the arrival area, and when I asked why, I found out they were waiting for The Three Suns!") recorded a demonstration record with Vox's prototype wah-wah pedal in February 1967. This was a plastic-coated cardboard semi-flexi disc, "New From Vox...The Wah-Wah Sound." He later used it on soundtrack jobs for "The Shakiest Gun In The West", "The Ghost And Mr. Chicken" and "Don't Make Waves". I think those were all with Vic Mizzy. I don't know where that fits in chronologically with your Corporation album. And I don't know offhand if any other brands predated Vox. But I THINK Vox was the real ground-breaker there -- certainly as far as marketing the sound. Or probably some gizmocrat did an earlier one-off which made it to vinyl with less fanfare. You never really know. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Kristen Anne Hatfield" Subject: (exotica) trying to get off list! Date: 21 May 1997 15:23:51 -0400 (EDT) i've been trying unsucessfully to get of this list for awhile...i'm not going to be able to check my e-mail for a couple of months and don't want to have to sort thru gazillions of messages when i come back....please take me off!! :) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Darrell Brogdon Subject: (exotica) Ultra-Lounge on NPR Date: 21 May 1997 15:13:18 -0500 Anybody hear the review of Capitol's Ultra-Lounge series on NPR's Fresh Air today? I only got to hear the last minute or so, but it was clearly a very, very negative review. The critic--and I do mean CRITIC--was Milo Miles. I did hear him describe lounge music/exotica as "repugnant". He played excerpts from the John Buzon Trio's "Caravan", Muzzy Marcellino doing "Willow Weep for Me" and some other stuff. Slammed Martin Denny pretty good, too. Argh. DARRELL BROGDON # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Joe Kilmartin Subject: (exotica) What IS out there? Date: 21 May 1997 15:31:55 -0400 Is there a quick and simple way of determining exactly what EXOTICA/LOUNGE/COCKTAIL music is available now, on CD either in reissue o= r original release? In the name of brevity, Joe in Toronto Sometimes a man can learn more from another man=92s dreams than from his = own. You should come visit me sometime Sir, if you wish to improve your educa= tion. -Charles Halloway, Something Wicked This W= ay Comes # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ottotemp@aol.com Subject: (exotica) SF Exotica, Thursday Date: 21 May 1997 16:32:24 -0400 (EDT) This Thursday May 22 in San Francisco 9:00 pm - 12:30 California Kid in conjunction with KALX 90.7 fm present TIKI FEST '97 at Club Cocodrie, 1024 Kearny Street @ Broadway 415/474-1391 live Slack Key guitar, Hula dancing Ukulele rock from Pineapple Princess 60s surf from Portland's Boss Martians SFs premiere Surf Party band The Aquamen and Tiki goods for sale from Tiki News magazine! ALSO free punch and fruit to celebrate Cali Kid's Birthday!!!! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ottotemp@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Otto's L.A. Itinerary Date: 21 May 1997 16:31:34 -0400 (EDT) For those of you not in LA for Memorial Day Weekend, my apologies ____________________________________________ we will be in town starting at about 9 or 10 til 11:30 at Madame Wu's in Santa Monica for the best Polynesian cocktails courtesy of former Don the Beachcomber bartender Tony Ramos. Then Saturday May 24 we reveal the Tiki News Room at the Dionysus Demolition Derby at 4 pm for a presentation of sights and sounds in the realm of the Tiki. Movies, live music, educational slide lecture, and Tiki goods for sale. This event is at Hollywood Moguls at 1650 North Schrader south of Hollywood Blvd. in the heart of Hollywood club phone is 213/465-7449 additional info can be had by calling Tiger Mask at 909/0773 (I will email a schedule with times tomorrow) Sunday morning at noon we will be at the Calif. Heritage Museum at Main Street & Ocean Park in Santa Monica for their Hawaiiana Culture exhibit which contains submissions from Oceanic Arts of Whittier who are also providing the Tikis for our Tiki News Room. Sunday night is part two of Dionysus Demo Derby Monday is swimming pool party! In between we hope to squeeze in trips to LA's best Tiki bar - Tiki Ti, dinner at Monsoon on the Promenade in Santa Monica or The Encounter at LAX, and if we were staying til Wednesday we'd be visiting E L I P T I C on the Promenade - the only smoke free djing nightclub in town. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: kevin@astsoft.com (Kevin Lee) Subject: (exotica) les and larry elgart? Date: 21 May 1997 14:26:23 -0700 i don't know if they've been mentioned here in the past, but... i picked up a les and larry elgart greatest hits and it was pretty great! very fun and enjoyable arrangements. harlem nocturne had some killer horns cutting into the mellow seedy bass. music to watch girls by was very groovy. fun jazzy stuff. i recommend it. also picked up a Living Marimbas: Georgy Girl pretty kickin' stuff too. are all the Living ... (strings, marimbas, guitars, etc...) done by the same arranger or people? over kevin leeeeee # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: kevin@astsoft.com (Kevin Lee) Subject: (exotica) sampling ethics Date: 21 May 1997 14:40:34 -0700 question: i was under the impression that TIPSY used mostly samples. but someone told me they thought it was mostly done live. can anyone confirm this? subject: so what are people's thoughts on sampling exotica type stuff? as a musician i feel a certain amount of guilt at doing this. and i've discussed this with other composers. guilt because i'm "stealing" someone else's work and creativity. but at the same time i think it's not wrong at all to do so. that everything is up for grabs and that given sampling technology and digital editing programs and whatnot that we shouldn't hold back... in other words that sampling is itself a valid form of creativity. at least it CAN be when in the right hands. but i still hesitate. perplexed, kevin # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Keith Allison Subject: (exotica) zu zu zu Date: 21 May 1997 14:34:30 -0700 (PDT) Can anyone tell me the first song or arranger to use the "zu zu zu" vocals? I'm trying to correspond their emergence with some sort of UFO phenomenon, because I'm convinced they are secret words from space. _____________________________________________________________________ Sent by RocketMail. Get your free e-mail at http://www.rocketmail.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brad Bigelow Subject: Re: (exotica) les and larry elgart? Date: 21 May 1997 16:36:05 -0700 Kevin Lee wrote: > > also picked up a Living Marimbas: Georgy Girl > pretty kickin' stuff too. are all the Living ... (strings, marimbas, > guitars, etc...) done by the same arranger or people? Nope. Check the back. All the "Living ..." series list the producers and arrangers. However, most stuck to one type within the series: Living Brass--Ray Martin on the early ones, I forget who on the last few Living Marimbas--Leo Addeo Living Guitars--Al Caiola Living Jazz--Phil Bodner Living Strings--Johnny Douglas Living Voices--(I'm drawing a blank . . . Al Copeland?) Brad # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: HOUSEOBOB@aol.com Subject: (exotica) 8 tracks, anyone? Date: 21 May 1997 18:46:20 -0400 (EDT) Just in case someone needs 'em, Academy Records (18th St. bet 5th and 6th, NYC) has a couple of boxes full of sealed blank 8 track tapes, 25 cents a piece. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: HOUSEOBOB@aol.com Subject: (exotica) i'm a winner, thanks Date: 21 May 1997 18:50:03 -0400 (EDT) Thanks to whoever alerted us to the Cool & Strange Strip Tease CD contest, because I won and, to be honest, i never win anything. (haven't listened to it yet - i'm waiting for the appropriate mood) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Vik Trola Subject: Re: (exotica) Cannot Become Obsolete Date: 21 May 1997 19:05:03 -0500 i've gotta agree with Mr. Wilds here (oh please...don't look so shocked), Cannot Become Obsolete is a rare gem in the zine world. not simply a mag about old records, Vern uses this music as a starting point to give the reader glimpses into his life. like reading someones diary (but without the guilt), and the holiday issue is a stroke of genius. do yourself a favor and get all the issues. other zines to look for...Cheeseball (from Boston) - cocktail hipness meets a bit of the indie rock world from the lovely mind of Miss Stacy...Thrift Score - your guide to the wooly world of thrifting...Beer Frame - comsumer products from the fringe (pork brains in gravy, scented crayons, a drink called sweat and more)...Murder Can Be Fun - twisted demented and noir, a fave of stalkers everywhere. And for you fez-o-philes (psycho or otherwise), the latest issue of Lounge magazine is an all fez issue. heaven help us all... great pate mom, but i gotta motor if i'm going to make the funeral, Vik Vik's Lounge http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/lounge.html Space Age Bachelor Pad Music http://www.chaoskitty.com/sabpm/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Lar E. Warner" Subject: Re: (exotica) sampling ethics Date: 21 May 1997 16:12:09 -0700 (PDT) My understanding was that Tipsy sampled a bunch of stuff, then when enthusiasm to cut an album waxed, they hired musicians to cover the tunes so that the actual playing would be original. Musicians such as Rob Berger and Joe Gore of Oranj Symphonette fame, e.g. L # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bruce Rhodewalt Subject: RE: (exotica) sampling ethics Date: 21 May 1997 16:16:50 -0700 On the subject of sampling, look at all the clip art used in print in = the late '70s and online in the '80s and '90s. In a lot of cases, the = work is pretty dang original. Bruce Rhodewalt kahuna@tikipub.com http://www.tikipub.com This month's contest: "Islands of Fire/Islands of Spice" at = http://www.tikipub.com/contest.html -----Original Message----- Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 1997 2:41 PM question: i was under the impression that TIPSY used mostly samples. but someone told me they thought it was mostly done live. can anyone confirm this? subject: so what are people's thoughts on sampling exotica type stuff? as a musician i feel a certain amount of guilt at doing this. and i've discussed this with other composers. guilt because i'm "stealing" = someone else's work and creativity. but at the same time i think it's not wrong = at all to do so. that everything is up for grabs and that given sampling technology and digital editing programs and whatnot that we shouldn't = hold back... in other words that sampling is itself a valid form of = creativity. at least it CAN be when in the right hands. but i still hesitate. perplexed, kevin # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original = sender. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Will Straw Subject: RE: (exotica) sampling ethics Date: 21 May 1997 18:38:21 -0400 Wasn't Tipsy's story recounted on this list or on one of the family of websites related to this list? My understanding was that they turned to redoing the music when they realized the cost/complications of clearing rights was too much. But I can't remember where I read this. Will Will Straw Associate Professor and Acting Director, Graduate Program in Communications McGill University 3465 rue Peel, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1W7 Phone: (514) 398 7667; Fax: (514) 398 4934 http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/gpc/ Director, The Centre for Research on Canadian Cultural Industries and Institutions http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/gpc/crccii/ Co-editor. Topia: A Journal of Canadian and Cultural Studies http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/gpc/topia/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: TothMD@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Call for club DJs: synergistic E. Light event Date: 21 May 1997 20:04:34 -0400 (EDT) Hey there, folks. My friends and I are making plans for a follow-up to last summer's "Enoch Light Birthday-a-Go-Go Discotheque Dance Party," which we held at a small bar in Enoch's birthplace of Canton, Ohio. We're aiming to do the "memorial birthday happening" again on the Saturday (8/16/97) closest to the late EL's birthday (8/18), with the following new angle: Enoch was born in Canton, and then moved out to traverse the continents, spreading his music wherever he went. Just like Enoch the man, Enoch the party, born in Canton, leaves his birthplace to travel the world with his music! Presenting...the first Enoch Light INTERNATIONAL Birthday-a-Go-Go Discotheque Dance Party, happening simultaneously (give or take time zones) on one night in cities across the globe! Here's the scoop: so far we've got Cleveland, Ohio and Edinburgh, Scotland (home of Robbie Baldock of the EL Spaced Out Web site), so, technically, we've already met the qualifications for an international event. But to make it REALLY cool, we'd love to get as many of these going on in as many cities as possible. If you (or someone without Net access you know that you can tell about this) DJ the sort of music on this list in your locale, and you've got the records (the Enoch Light Discotheque LPs plus other upbeat EL and/or other Discotheque/Go-Go LPs to fill up an evening), we encourage you to join in the fun. The theme we're shooting for is more toward the mod, danceable stuff than EZ/Lounge. (It's scary how increasingly *trendy* this mid-60s mod thing has gotten since last August, with everything from Austin Powers to those Hullaballoo/Shindig-esque Beck videos, etc.) We will help with promotion in the following ways, but all other promotion and logistics of pulling off the event are totally up to you: - A central event Web site, with a listing of your city/venue - A cool 11"x17" poster and 8.5"x11" event flier with your city/venue information featured prominently and all the other cities/venues and the Web URL listed at the bottom; I'll send you master copies from which you can print/photocopy as many as you need - If you have the budget for it, I've also got a set of 100 incredible-looking slides (done right with a copy stand) of Enoch and related Command/Project3/etc. covers to fill a slide carousel and run continuously all night on auto-advance. They add fabulously to the mod ambience when projected on walls, screens, go-go dancers, etc. If you're interested in a set for yourself, I can provide one for essentially the cost of slide duplication and shipping. (Last I checked, slide duplication around here averages a dollar per slide) A self-proclaimed "technogeek" friend of mine has volunteered to set up a live Partycam at the Cleveland event, which will update every few seconds and post to the Web. If anyone else is interested in doing other live Web stuff (Real Audio, etc.) and you have the capabilities, let me know. For more biographical info on Light (and a scrapbook from last year's party), check out Spaced Out - the Enoch Light WWW Site at http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~rcb/light/ For more on Enoch, the Discotheque genre and my particular fascination with it, also be sure to check out my article in the new issue of Dana Countryman's COOL & STRANGE MUSIC! MAGAZINE. E-mail me if you want in on the international synergistic fun or have any other questions, Michael David Toth TothMD@aol.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: cscheffy@kinglet.Berkeley.EDU (Clark Scheffy) Subject: (exotica) sampling et al Date: 21 May 1997 17:29:42 PDT Here's what I heard - can niether confirm nor deny: Tipsy taped all the sources and then sampled the tapes (A loop-hole, pun intended - in the regulations). Then, they played over the samples to create new textures. To answer some questions, though, they *definitely* sampled - most people on this list could I'm sure pick out quite a bit of the sources. Clark # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: brian@headspace.com (Brian Salter) Subject: Re: (exotica) sampling ethics Date: 21 May 1997 17:33:17 -0800 >My understanding was that Tipsy sampled a bunch of stuff, then when >enthusiasm >to cut an album waxed, they hired musicians to cover the tunes so that the >actual playing would be original. Musicians such as Rob Berger and Joe Gore >of Oranj Symphonette fame, e.g. > >L > Despite the presence of a number of live musicians, there are lots of samples on the album as well. Tons of 'em... Someone on the list remarked a while back that it would be a fun game to throw on Tipsy and play "name that sample"; I've stumbled across Tipsy samples on records I own by Sir Julian, Enoch Light and David Carroll; and recently, a friend played me Dick Hyman's Moon Gas, in particular the track "Bye Bye Blues", whose intro forms the basis of "Nude on the Moon" (I think that's the track). If fact minus a barrage of sound effects and Joe Gore on guitar, the sample is practically the whole song! Not to knock Tipsy, which I love, but hats off to Dick Hyman for getting it right 30 years earlier! -Brian ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Brian Salter brian@headspace.com / bsalter@slip.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: basic hip Subject: Re: (exotica) Sexy music Date: 21 May 1997 17:52:33 -0700 jill wrote: > Also on the Italian tip, it seems that the Easy Tempo folks have re-released > Piero Umilani's Svezia Inferno e Paradiso -or Sweden Heaven or Hell... Jill, or anybody...can you please confirm the above? where? how? I tried Ishtar at Right Tempo...no listing and no answer...so, wuz da deal? I want it. OLD NEWS finally picked up the Morricone-Argento trilogy...wonderfully frightening. Better late than never. Be careful who you play it around. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bag@hubris.net Subject: Re: (exotica) Ultra-Lounge on NPR Date: 21 May 1997 18:18:06 -0700 (PDT) At 03:13 PM 5/21/97 -0500, Darrell Brogdon of Lawrence, KS wrote: >Anybody hear the review of Capitol's Ultra-Lounge series on NPR's Fresh Air >today? I only got to hear the last minute or so, but it was clearly a very, >very negative review. The critic--and I do mean CRITIC--was Milo Miles. If I remember correctly, this isn't the first time he has called into question "our" music. My general approach is to listen to his reviews, then take the opposite point of view. If he says "don't buy it," I buy it. If he says "its the best thing since sliced bread", I avoid it like the plague. If WHYY got a better diversity of critics on board, they would better serve their audience. The world needs intelligent analysis of new recordings, not someone whose purpose in life is to keep people from learning and listening more! Byron Caloz Portland, OR # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jessica Cameron Subject: (exotica) Now Sounds (E-Z, that is) Date: 21 May 1997 22:53:52 -0400 With all the talk about that oh-so special late 60s sound lately, I thought I'd chime in with some mini-reviews of my all time favorites. I hope no one minds, but since I get so much info from the list I thought I'd play show and tell for a change, as kind of a trade back. ^_^ Now that school's out I finally have the time! OK, here goes....Jessica's Mini-Showcase of Late 60s Easy Listening albums...... Living Percussion--The Beat Goes On This is the only Living Percussion album I've ever seen, and is the first "Living" album I ever bought. I used to look down my nose at them. Shameful, huh? Anyway, the arrangements are by Dick Hyman (courtesey of Command records) and Phil Kraus. It has some great cuts, including "Quiet Village," "Jungle Fantasy," and "Green Tambourine." Good liner notes too, with a cute quote from the Goddess of RCA Camden, Ethel Gabriel. Is she still alive? Someone should interview her! (PS--this album has sitar--this is one of the minor qualities that helps me decide if I keep a record or not. Just so you know...) ^_^ The Mystic Moods Orchestra--Highway One This is more 70s than 60s, but it's still great. I think it was made to capitalize on the success of the "Earth/Water/Sky" series on Warner Brothers by Anita Kerr and Rod McKuen. It's typical Mystic Moods type music, but they got a DJ to recite scary poetry over the sound effects and music. I'll say here that my all time favorite Mystic Moods LP is "Emotions." Great tunes, good use of sound effects, and even a little moog (played by Paul Beaver). "Extensions" is worth picking up too, for the great "There's a Good Earth Out Tonight" (wacky poem and moog) and the scary pod-woman cover. The best Mystic Moods cover (IMHO, that is) is "English Muffins," but I'm sure some people prefer those peek-a-boo reissues. ^_- Pipes of Blue--Kossie Gardner This isn't really easy listening--I don't know what to call it. It's really funky organ versions of rock hits like "Fire" and "Magic Carpet Ride." Not one bad cut on the whole album. For Dot records, this is wild! In another case of "you'll never know where you'll find something good," this gem turned up in the heavy metal bin. Go figure. I guess the record dealer looked at the cover (showing pipes of blue--the plumbing kind) and thought it was an postmodern industrial rock thingy. Another reason why you should look through every bin, even if it's labeled "Dixieland," or "Metal" or "Krap." ^_^ That's the moral of the story. Organo Melodico, volume 7--Juan Torres I bought this in a Goodwill 'cause I recognized the cover from the last issue of "Exotica/Et Cetera." It has the wrong record in the sleeve : ( But the record inside _was_ in the Organo Melodico series. This guy is great! I hope to find more from this Mexican Lenny Dee. Anyone else ever hear of him? He does a wicked "Conoces El Camino a San Jose?" ; ) Measure in the Valleys--The Keith Textors Singers This is the same Keith Textor who did those two stereo action LPs, isn't it? Even if it isn't (the name made me buy the album) there's a great easy-moogy version of "Yesterday" on this LP. Hey Jude--The Sounds of Our Times (produced by George Cates for MOD productions ^_^) George can never go wrong, can he? I love the versions of "Light my Fire" and "Elvira Madigan" on this album. Is that an organ or an electric piano playing? Or are they the same thing? Just a question from a tin-eared music lover. ; ) I think I've gone on long enough...I was going to mention Vinnie Bell's great LPs "Good Morning Starshine" and "Airport Love Theme," but Jack Diamond does a better job describing Mr. Bell's style in his price lists. ; ) All I can say is this: don't pass them up for ANYTHING!! (esp. "Good Morning Starshine") He's the best! Thanks for the (tons) of space, Jessica ^_^ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jessica Cameron Subject: (exotica) Living Marimbas! Date: 21 May 1997 22:53:41 -0400 >also picked up a Living Marimbas: Georgy Girl >pretty kickin' stuff too. are all the Living ... (strings, marimbas, >guitars, etc...) done by the same arranger or people? Another Living Marimbas LP worth looking for is "Love is Blue." It has great versions of "Theme from Mission Impossible," "Valley of the Dolls," "In the Heat of the Night," and "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly."(!!!) It would be neat to see a list of the pecussionists featured on the Living Ms' albums. I was sort of hoping Harry Breuer would be on them, but was he still doing session work in the late 60s, or was he mainly writing tunes? Anyone? Thanks for the space, Jessica ^_^ (who loves Harry Breuer!!) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: basic hip Subject: Re: (exotica) sampling ethics Date: 21 May 1997 19:54:57 -0700 Brian Salter wrote: > Despite the presence of a number of live musicians, there are lots of > samples > on the album as well. Tons of 'em... Someone on the list remarked a while > back that it would be a fun game to throw on Tipsy and play "name that > sample"; > I've stumbled across Tipsy samples on records I own by Sir Julian, Enoch > Light > and David Carroll; and recently, a friend played me Dick Hyman's Moon > Gas, in > particular the track "Bye Bye Blues" Add Ferrante and Teicher, a whistling segment from Seven Golden Men and Esquivel. can't put my finger on the sci-fi intro to Space Golf... # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Dlsmay@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Steelin' the Beatles Date: 22 May 1997 00:30:17 -0400 (EDT) Since the conversation has drifted towards Steel Guitars, I'll note that Bay Area Steel guitar master, Joe Goldmark has a new CD out titled STEELIN' THE BEATLES. I nabbed his last CD ALL OVER THE ROAD which had some fascinating covers, including Hendrix's "Third Stone From the Sun," Zappa's "Peaches En Regalia" and "Theme From Route 66." My favorite, however, was the gorgeously Santo-and-Johnny-like, "Spanish Moon." Joe plays regularly in Jim Campilongo & His Ten Gallon Cats here in SF. Always worth checking out if you dig that swinging, Speedy West/Jimmy Bryant or Bakersfield sound. btw, did anybody notice that's Jack ("Conjunction Junction") Sheldon singing that new Pepcid AC commercial (Cab Calloway's "Everybody Eats at My House" Have a tomato, Plato etc..)? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Dlsmay@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) sampling ethics Date: 22 May 1997 00:33:45 -0400 (EDT) The Tipsy project does reflect some interesting solutions to the Sampling Problem. Basically, the two main guys in Tipsy had access to Vale's (of RE/Search) record collection, which they sampled into something like the Tipsy CD. Sampling clearance was impossible after the fact, so they got talented local musicians to recreate the original samples, then they sampled those. Apparently some cultural penumbra/shadow/echo was lost, but musically it's basically the same. (though I'd love to hear the original tape) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Jim Gerwitz" Subject: (exotica) Lola albright/Dean Elliott & Misc. Blondes Date: 21 May 1997 21:44:38 -0700 I saw a mid-price CD today by Lola Albright called "Lola Wants You," with her staring out from a reclining pose on some pillows. A few Gershwin and Porter tunes, with others credited to Miller-Elliot, and DEAN ELLIOTT is listed as musical director, so he must have written the tunes, right? Web search turned up Lola as starring in Peter Gunn, as well as some 50's and 60's B-movies. Because of my "Zounds What Sounds" boot the Elliot name sorely tempted me, but I somehow resisted. Anyone know if this is listenable, or whether she's just another actress who put out a bad record ? (would that matter when I already have Joey Hetherton, Cheryl Ladd, and even the Lisa Whelchel LP's?) I am a fan of female cheese and sleaze, but my web search said she was married to that obnoxious alleged comic Jack Carter, which kind of turns me off. Now if i ever see Diana Dors "Swinging Dors" there will be no hesitation. Double D's "Roller Coaster Blues" on the DCC "Sex Kittens in Hi-Fi - the Blondes" is worth the price of admission. And where oh where are the Connie Stevens reissues ? Connie looked GREAT in "Back to the Beach" last weekend, so maybe i'll watch her infomercial over the holiday, and then finally get around to listening and reviewing the recent overpriced Jayne Mansfield compilation. Jim G # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "J. Diamond" Subject: (exotica) KFJC-FM Party! Date: 21 May 1997 22:47:55 -0700 Hello all, Your attendance is requested. This Saturday Mayhem 24th starting at 7PM at Camino Bowl, 2025 El Camino Real Mountain View, CA, KFJC-FM will be having it's 1997 Listener Appreciation Party Free Bowling for a minimum of 6 hours so all of you that are NOW attending get out that 'ol bowling ball and start shinin' 'er up 'cause it's party time!!! Prize giveaway's including CD's "of all your favorite music" said in my best sarcastic-like Frank Zappa voice, T-Shirts etc etc etc KFJC Dj's doing their "sound" include; Anubis, Arno X, Big Myke Destiny (Footstompin' Guitars), Uncle, Al, Robert Emmett (Soundtracks), Pandora Box, John Goldfarb (Blues), Ann Arbor, Spiderman (Hip Hop), Earl Grey and your's truly in the main part of the alley. Live entertainment in the Camino Bowl Bar with; Country Jazz guitar great, Jim Campilongo and His 10 Gallon Cats featuring Joe Goldmark on Steel, Ska/Reggae artist Eddie Def, Dreadboy, Tipsy and the inimitable Miss M, Miss Murgatroid and her insanely brilliant screwed up accordian noise. All for $0.00 Nuhthin, zip, nada, zero money Doors open at 7PM Hope to see you there, Jack Diamond # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: BuMp Subject: (exotica) Re:sampling exotica Date: 22 May 1997 01:54:41 -0400 hello i am fairly new here and i have been a big fan of exotica since my dad sat me in his lap and played his new cugat, denny, alpert, elgart and light albums in the early sixties...but to compare the originals to the new technotica is pretty silly and downright snobby. i have been in a electronic duo, making records since 1991 and co-owning an independent electronic music label since 1994 and the foundation of all our music is samples. (at least my band, "Glitch") being a non-musician, i feel grateful for having affordable technology available to make "music" with. making music with samples is like making a sonic collage. like taking bits of other peoples photographs to make your own. i would love to hear the original Tipsy tapes, i read they wanted to put out the total sampled version of their album but were worried about copyright laws and lawsuits...we, "Glitch" were worried about that at first, after the De La Sol/Turtles lawsuit and all. we sampled some star trek dialog and sound effects. we discussed it with a lawyer. the law is still fuzzy and there is no real answer to that "should i sample question" except that if you plan to make lots of $$$$ on your record, you should get permission. if not, go for it...i can live with that. if one of our records sold a million, i think i could share it with those that helped me do it. and even so i would only get permission if the sample is recognizable, i like to use them in a more creative way than how they exist for real. i feel if something is put out there to the public, then we can do whatever we want to it. i would feel honored if someone thought enough of my music to sample it. hopefully i will. to end i would just like to say if you are a real fan of exotica and the like, you should be happy this stuff is being incorporated into new music. you are getting to hear it in a new way and it is turning it on to a whole new generation of people and in turn it is making more of it available. its a win win situation, that is unless you no longer feel special about being one of the few in the know....the cat is out of the bag, baby. bump BuMp Defective Records pje@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu http://www.welch.jhu.edu/~geh/defective.html # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Mark Reed Subject: (exotica) WSJ Article on Lounge Culture/Music Date: 22 May 1997 08:50:40 -0400 (EDT) ALERT! The Wall Street Journal in today's edition (22 May 1997) has a column on lounge music and culture on A13. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: BGlennii@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Mike Flowers Pops take US Date: 22 May 1997 09:46:17 -0400 (EDT) Actually, the Mike Flowers Pops CD has not been issued domestically in the US -- my copy is a British import. So, this group has not yet made a splash here. We're missing out! Ben Washington, DC # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jonathan Perl Subject: Re: (exotica) Sexy music Date: 22 May 1997 16:45:00 +0100 > Also on the Italian tip, it seems that the Easy Tempo folks have re-released > Piero Umilani's Svezia Inferno e Paradiso -or Sweden Heaven or Hell... >>Jill, or anybody...can you please confirm the above? where? how? I tried >>Ishtar at Right Tempo...no listing and no answer...so, wuz da deal? I want it. It definitely exists, as I got a copy the other day and can confirm its quality. I noticed that Intoxica are selling it (see http://www.demon.co.uk/intoxica/sex.htm ) Pretty steep at 16 pounds though Get it if you can though. Swinging, varied stuff Jonny # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: webgeek@dns.caroline.com Subject: Re: (exotica) sampling ethics Date: 21 May 1997 18:12:53 -0500 >question: >i was under the impression that TIPSY used mostly samples. but someone >told me they thought it was mostly done live. can anyone confirm this? there a some (very few samples) blended into the most stellar playing from some of the finest west coast studio talent. too difficult to get clearances for all the smaples. they hired musicians, recorded the sessions and then sampled the new recordings. still...it sounds amazingly similar to the original "all sample" demo... # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mighty@wavenet.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Ultra-Lounge on NPR Date: 21 May 1997 19:30:59 +0000 > At 03:13 PM 5/21/97 -0500, Darrell Brogdon of Lawrence, KS wrote: > >Anybody hear the review of Capitol's Ultra-Lounge series on NPR's > Fresh Air today? I only got to hear the last minute or so, but it was clearly a > very, very negative review. The critic--and I do mean CRITIC--was Milo Miles. ============ npr people are a bunch bond-fide nerds anyway sober, droll, tweedy types that earn about $6.00 an hour fuck 'em, that's what their opinions are worth ! paul / mighty recording co. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jonny.S@nyo.com (Jonny.S) Subject: Re: (exotica) sampling ethics Date: 22 May 1997 10:48:47 -0500 Kevin Lee,kevin@astsoft.com,internet writes: >subject: >so what are people's thoughts on sampling exotica type stuff? as a >musician i feel a certain amount of guilt at doing this. and i've >discussed this with other composers. guilt because i'm "stealing" someone >else's work and creativity. but at the same time i think it's not wrong at >all to do so. that everything is up for grabs and that given sampling >technology and digital editing programs and whatnot that we shouldn't hold >back... in other words that sampling is itself a valid form of creativity. >at least it CAN be when in the right hands. I think sampling is part of a larger artistic movement which has been going on for a number of decades. You can see a line going back to the early Twentieth Century. Duchamp's Urinal piece. ( I don't know the correct title) The Art world is running wild with appropriation/ referencing, "sampling" for over the last ten years. Disco songs were always quoting each other left and right, borrowing a string or synth line, until sampling technology made the practice obsolete. Jamaicans have always seen a "Rhythm", (the rhythm track to a song) as something to be shared and reused over and over again sometimes stretching on for twenty years. I can think of three points that need to be considered. 1. Western Art puts value and emphasis on the worth of the individual artist. The work an artist creates then "belongs" to her/him and is something to be proud of, hold as their personal property and involves one's own ego and the artist's comparative relationship to other Art and artists. What if art was communal. The Asmat tribe of New Guinea create spectacularly beautiful Totems worked on by over twenty people which look like one cohesive piece. (No jokes about Exoticism in Art...) How would we feel about such a work practice in our own lives? I'm not sure I'd like it, I ( and my ego) enjoy being acknowledged for the music I write. 2. I feel that my creative practice, the state of mind comparable to a meditative state which I am always trying to put myself in when I play music is the most factor in my work. If I choose to sample a Hugo Montenegro String & Synth flourish or a Meter's kick and snare drum that these are tools to use in my creative practice. (My personal choice is to have samples be pretty unidentifiable.) I heard a poet whose name escapes me say that 'I'm not trying to write anything new, just do what's been done over again.' Isn't it our own 'voice' which makes it personal and our own? 3. Although a whole industry has grown up in the wake of sampling with sampling clearing houses and somewhat established fees for sampling rights, ( check out the back of most hip-hop records and you'll find the sample, the Author and the publisher all listed.) I wish that the business of administration could be taken over by ASCAP, BMI & Harry Fox and out of the hands of the record and publishing companies. I would bet that both the musicians sampling and being sampled would be better served. Sorry to go on and on ... but just trying to respond . Thanks, Jonny Sender # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "J. Diamond" Subject: (exotica) Stealing/Sampling/Tipsy Date: 22 May 1997 09:10:57 -0700 >question: >i was under the impression that TIPSY used mostly samples. but someone >told me they thought it was mostly done live. can anyone confirm this? >subject: >so what are people's thoughts on sampling exotica type stuff? as a >musician i feel a certain amount of guilt at doing this. and i've >discussed this with other composers. guilt because i'm "stealing" = >someone >else's work and creativity. >My understanding was that Tipsy sampled a bunch of stuff, then when enthusiasm >to cut an album waxed, they hired musicians to cover the tunes so that the >actual playing would be original. Musicians such as Rob Berger and Joe Gore >of Oranj Symphonette fame, e.g. >Wasn't Tipsy's story recounted on this list or on one of >the family of websites related to this list? My understanding >was that they turned to redoing the music when they realized >the cost/complications of clearing rights was too much. But I >can't remember where I read this. >Despite the presence of a number of live musicians, there are lots of >samples >on the album as well. Tons of 'em... Someone on the list remarked a while >back that it would be a fun game to throw on Tipsy and play "name that >sample"; >I've stumbled across Tipsy samples on records I own by Sir Julian, Enoch >Light >and David Carroll; and recently, a friend played me Dick Hyman's Moon >Gas, in >particular the track "Bye Bye Blues", whose intro forms the basis of >"Nude on >the Moon" (I think that's the track). If fact minus a barrage of sound >effects >and Joe Gore on guitar, the sample is practically the whole song! The way I see sampling is that it is stealing. It's someone else's original music. Did you get permission to use it ? No ? Then you stole it, plain and simple. Not too difficult to comprehend, is it ? Just call a spade a spade 'cause that's what it is. There's no way around it Tipsy's "Nude on the Moon" IS Dick Hyman's very real own recording of "Bye Bye Blues" from his Moon Gas lp on MGM. Nude on the Moon would not exist with Mr Hyman's original recording. These guys are not anywhere near that original or creative. Another 1 is from the beginning of the Glittering Guitars of Enoch Light, another 1 is the whistling part from the soundtrack to "Seven Golden Men" and on and on and on dozens and dozens of times and I DO MEAN DOZENS and DOZENS of times. They are lurkers on this list y'know, the producers of the release. I'm sure Eric Gilbert of Asphodel is also on the list in 1 form or another as I know a man named Peter is a part of the list. I think he's from the Sales" aspect, maybe "Publicity" is more the correct wording. The way I understand it from talking with "them" is that when they found out how much money it was going to cost them to "pay" for the "samples" they decided it was WAY TOO MUCH and just simply decided not to mention it to anyone, the "samples" that is. I personally think that "sampling" is "stealing" if one does not get permission in 1 way or another to use someone else's work so I do understand 1 person's concern with feeling guilty about using samples. The executive producers name is Naut Human. Business is business man, isn't it ? Just like Chevron only alot smaller, it's still business He has a favorite line he uses that I think is quite ironic "We like to give credit where credit is due" I know it's a "line" because he said it to me at least 4 times in the few times that we spoke. He wanted my record collection on DAT. I reviewed Tipsy for our station and gave it a great review BUT that was before I found out that they didn't pay a dime to anyone or give anyone the "nod of thanx" at any level. Ever since that point I have been anti-Tipsy I don't see anything anywhere on the lp or cd that says Thank You to anyone, do you ? They wouldn't even have a god damn rekkid if it weren't for all of the "samples" they "used" Jack # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "J. Diamond" Subject: (exotica) The 1st Wah Wah guitar Date: 22 May 1997 09:44:08 -0700 I have a killer guitar record by an un-be-lieve-a-ble player name of Mel Brown, actually have a couple of his records BUT thhe 1st one he released solo wise was in 1967 and it was my understanding that he was the 1st to use a wah wah. It's on Impulse I've got the soundtrack to "Don't Make Waves" and that does have some tremendous stuff on it and yes you were right, it is composed by Vic Mizzy Pretty great record. Mel Brown is still around, Austin Texas. He backed up everyone who was anyone in the Blues field of the 50's and 60's Must have started when he was 10 years old;) He is so unbelieveable a player, if you EVER get the chance to see him play, RUN THERE Jack # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: Another Crazy Cocktail Party Date: 22 May 1997 19:01:57 +0200 >From: Darrell Brogdon >"Another Crazy Cocktail Party" (RCA 74321-39147-2) >mostly swinging '60s and '70s instrumental pop. Lots of Latin stuff, some >EZ, even a >couple of crime jazz-like tunes! Think "Espresso Espresso" meets "The >Sound Gallery". >Appears this might have been released in 1996 on RCA Belgium, though this >release is >1997. i haven't seen it here in belgium (yet), though BMG belgium _did_ release a rather good, budget (only $10, which is absolutely cheap here!) comp cd called "Crazy Cocktail Party" (74321 379972) in 1996, with 15 different tracks all together, that fit Darrell's description. "Bing Bang Conga - Los Albinos" is on it too. Johan Dada@dma.be = Dada@bewoner.dma.be --- # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jonathan Perl Subject: (exotica) RE: synergistic Enoch Light event Date: 22 May 1997 18:06:00 +0100 I am starting a mega stressful new project at work with a deadline on Aug 11th, so unfortunately won't have time to organise a London event. But if anyone else is planning one and would like some DJing/promotional help, please get in touch. I love those records to death. Jonny # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: RE: (exotica) sampling ethics Date: 22 May 1997 14:01:42 -0400 > On the subject of sampling, look at all the clip art used in print in the late '70s > and online in the '80s and '90s. In a lot of cases, the work is pretty dang original. I'm not taking ANY sides here, but clip art is a little different in that it was created specifically to be appropriated (it also dates back further than the 70's -- the 20's or even earlier maybe?). Purchase of a book or portfolio of clip art included the right to use it in print. I guess an audio equivalent would be sound effects or generic film music libraries. > Duchamp's Urinal piece. ( I don't know the correct title) "Fountain" by "R. Mutt" (1917) > I wish that the business of administration could be taken over by ASCAP, BMI & > Harry Fox and out of the hands of the record and publishing companies. I would bet > that both the musicians sampling and being sampled would be better served. That's the sticky point for me. It's hard to believe that the money is actually getting back to the original artists, with so many corporate filters to pass through along the way. Especially with older, more obscure material. Especially when the sample is some little percussion fill by a session player whose name may have been lost decades ago. I don't sample, 'cause I'm lazy. It just seems easier to bash something out myself. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Kerry Keane Subject: Re: (exotica) Stealing/Sampling/Tipsy Date: 22 May 1997 12:49:41 -0500 (CDT) I suppose at this point we could all get into a heady discussion about what constitutes originality. In most ethnic/folk musics, tunes are borrowed and adapted freely, without much crowing about originality, since you'd have to go back to the cave to find the source anyway. Even in pop and rock music, there is much stealing going around; the only difference is that one is expected to feel ashamed of it. Certainly, in art, collage has been around for more than 100 years. I look at sampling in much the same way. That is not to say that all sampling constitutes good collage--much of it is simply re-hash (remember Vanilla Ice?). However, this kind of tired re-hash did not begin with sampling. I would say that a good collage or sampling piece takes the familiar elements and toys with our familiarity with them (recontextualization is the academic term). Certainly, pastiche is not new in music or any other art form. The thing that disturbs people about sampling, I think, is that it is a reproduction of the thing. The reaction is very similar to people's response to photography in the nineteenth-century. On Thu, 22 May 1997, J. Diamond wrote: [NOTICE: This message was delayed on its way to the list because it contained excess quoted text, which has been automatically removed. To prevent this from happening to your messages, be sure to include as little text as possible from the message you are responding to.] # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: cscheffy@kinglet.Berkeley.EDU (Clark Scheffy) Subject: (exotica) sampling Date: 22 May 1997 11:49:26 PDT It seems we've had this discussion before about a year ago... Anyway, I am of two minds about the issue of sampling. i think it is valid, but that the original artists deserve credit - if only recognition in the liner notes. But, let's not forget that much of the music we talk about on this list in some way or another owes its popularity to how it, in fact, "borrowed" or "stole" (depending on your side of the fence) from other genres. The entire concept of "exotica" means middle-aged white guys genre-hopping their way to the bank... I mean, what does Martin Denny know about Quite (ooops) Quiet Villages, and what the hell is "Jungle Jazz?" There are few exceptions - few "authentic" artists in the overall exotica genre. They do exist, but mostly they are session players on someone else's idea of "exotic." All art feeds on other art, no art is created in a vacuum. Sampling just distills that truth to an extreme. Clark # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) Announcing the CD issue of Electric Eclectics! Date: 22 May 1997 14:50:10 -0400 Thank you for posting about this. I have a story about this. My mother bought the single of "The Minotaur". The other side is "Topless Dancers of Corfu". I was young enough not to know what the implication of "topless", so I had vision of a faraway island where bunches of legs were dancing. Since the label credited "Dick Hyman and his Electric Eclectics", I also had a vision of a group of secretaries (The Eclectics) helping Mr. Hyman on the record. I don't know why I thought of secretaries, I do know that synthesizers were able to monopolize a room at the time. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Pablito! Subject: Re: (exotica) Announcing the CD issue of Electric Eclectics! Date: 22 May 1997 15:40:32 -0400 (EDT) > Thank you for posting about this. I have a story about this. My mother > bought the single of "The Minotaur". The other side is "Topless Dancers of > Corfu". I was young enough not to know what the implication of "topless", > so I had vision of a faraway island where bunches of legs were dancing. > > Since the label credited "Dick Hyman and his Electric Eclectics", I also > had a vision of a group of secretaries (The Eclectics) helping Mr. Hyman on > the record. LOL :) I remember being young and seeing the cover to The Graduate soundtrack and thinking that the movie was some raunchy adult fare based on the appearance of Mrs. Robinson's nylon-clad leg over Dustin Hoffman's head. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: CitiGuy471@aol.com Subject: (exotica) assorted reactions Date: 22 May 1997 16:03:42 -0400 (EDT) -Wanted to re-second that emotion for Vern Stolz's "Cannot Become Obsolete" How else would I have learned that Glen Close was with the "Up With People" organization. On the serious tip, Tony got it Right with his view of the zine... -Regarding Larry Elgart--Brother Cleve offered Mr. Elgart as an example of "Wife-Swapper" Jazz when I recently asked after a thrifty purchase....... -Lounge Laura Spotting--Browsing through the Lounge/EZ section of Mars Records in Cambridge yesterday, I found myself competing with a tall blonde in lime-green short bell bottoms for first "dibs" on looking. We got to talking and--- you know the rest...She's comfortably ensconced (sp.?) here and will be back as soon as possible. She sends her best to all.................Jimmy Botticelli # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Ben Waugh" Subject: Re: (exotica) i'm a winner, thanks Date: 22 May 1997 16:17:22 -0400 You and I both. Trax 21 & 22 are pretty decent surf/guitar instrumentals. [NOTICE: This message was delayed on its way to the list because it contained excess quoted text, which has been automatically removed. To prevent this from happening to your messages, be sure to include as little text as possible from the message you are responding to.] # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Sevo Stille" Subject: Re: (exotica) Stealing/Sampling/Tipsy Date: 22 May 1997 22:41:49 +0200 ---------- > From: J. Diamond > To: exotica@xmission.com >... > The way I see sampling is that it is stealing. It's someone else's > original music. > Did you get permission to use it ? No ? Then you stole it, plain and = simple. > Not too difficult to comprehend, is it ? >=20 > Just call a spade a spade 'cause that's what it is. > There's no way around it But then we get the problem: What is original music? Tunes and = compositions=20 have been ripped off from time immemorial - indeed, the whole notion of = a copyright=20 does not date back further than the 18th century.=20 Remember: Much of the music we are discussing on this list consists of = stolen=20 bits and pieces from the work of more "serious" composers. Where are the = original bits in the products of 1001 Strings, if it comes to that? Much = of the=20 excitement out of exotica or exploitation music comes from all the = familiar tunes=20 and sounds creeping up in the unlikeliest possible settings. =20 Just because it has for the first time in the history of man become = possible to=20 recycle entire interpretations just as it used to be possible with a = tune, this=20 does not make it more or less stealing than, say, Enoch Light lifting a = handy tune=20 out of somebody elses composition.=20 Sevo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bruce Rhodewalt Subject: RE: (exotica) Announcing the CD issue of Electric Eclectics! Date: 22 May 1997 15:38:38 -0700 You and 50 million other horny 12-year-old boys. (Guilty.) Bruce -----Original Message----- Sent: Thursday, May 22, 1997 12:41 PM Cc: exotica@xmission.com > Thank you for posting about this. I have a story about this. My mother > bought the single of "The Minotaur". The other side is "Topless Dancers of > Corfu". I was young enough not to know what the implication of "topless", > so I had vision of a faraway island where bunches of legs were dancing. > > Since the label credited "Dick Hyman and his Electric Eclectics", I also > had a vision of a group of secretaries (The Eclectics) helping Mr. Hyman on > the record. LOL :) I remember being young and seeing the cover to The Graduate soundtrack and thinking that the movie was some raunchy adult fare based on the appearance of Mrs. Robinson's nylon-clad leg over Dustin Hoffman's head. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Brian Carling (Radio G3XLQ / AF4K)" Subject: (exotica) Bands & artists Date: 22 May 1997 18:42:12 +0000 Hey dude - how have you been? Tell me some other not-so-well-known bands and artists that you remember from the 1950-1970 era, OK? You were EXCELLENT at identifying some of them a while back! Do you remember Jett Black and Tony Meehan? How about "Heinz?" Or "The KIng Bees?" I think they were just a local college blues/rock band in about 1962-64 Cambridge! Bry ************************************************* * Brian Carling in Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA * * E-mail: bry@mnsinc.com * * http://www.mnsinc.com/bry/ * ************************************************* Thought for the day: REAL radios glow in the dark # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: cscheffy@kinglet.Berkeley.EDU (Clark Scheffy) Subject: (exotica) horny boys Date: 22 May 1997 16:31:04 PDT Oh! Did someone say 12-year-old horny boys? oops, wrong list... a BIG :-) to all! Clark # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Z-Man" Subject: (exotica) Horny - Gunter Norris Date: 23 May 1997 09:13:29 +0000 This might be a long shot, but: I just taxed a copy of "Gunter Norris - Horny" last night, for twenty cents. Groovy record - brass led versions of "Apache", "A Taste of Honey" and other such 60's staples. Also includes an incredible saxaphone version of "Popcorn" arranged in a 70's blaxploitation style, (all funky guitars and cooing girls). The whole thing gives the impression of a 70's porn soundtrack, complemented by the cover: a girl with blue eyeshadow and a diamente string bikini shot in soft focus as she toots on a sax, the words "Horny" emblazoned in letraset on the top left hand corner. And on the back cover? Gunter himself - with the type of cheesy smile and shellacked blonde hair-helmet-cum-toupee that Mike Flowers could possibly be imitating. The whole package a masterpiece of cover design that justifiably earnt itself a "display place" in my collection. The most tantalizing part? The liner notes explain this is Volume 1 of 3! So, has anyone out there sighted Vols 2 or 3? Any history of to who Gunter was? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: action+@sirius.com (Joe Gore) Subject: Re: (exotica) sampling ethics Date: 22 May 1997 18:09:04 -0800 >The Tipsy project does reflect some interesting solutions to the Sampling >Problem. Basically, the two main guys in Tipsy had access to Vale's (of >RE/Search) record collection, which they sampled into something like the >Tipsy CD. Sampling clearance was impossible after the fact, so they got >talented local musicians to recreate the original samples, then they sampled >those. Apparently some cultural penumbra/shadow/echo was lost, but musically >it's basically the same. (though I'd love to hear the original tape) heh-heh... wanna buy some prime farmland in the Florida Keys? --JG # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: action+@sirius.com (Ursula Blind) Subject: Re: (exotica) Ultra-Lounge on NPR Date: 22 May 1997 18:20:02 -0800 >npr people are a bunch bond-fide nerds anyway > >sober, droll, tweedy types that earn about $6.00 an hour > >fuck 'em, that's what their opinions are worth ! > >paul / mighty recording co. Good thing Lounge Laura's offline or she'd spear you with a 5" stiletto for calling her "tweedy!" --Ursula # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "J. Diamond" Subject: (exotica) Erotica, The Rhythms of Love Date: 22 May 1997 22:30:51 -0700 I've seen this CD for a little while now and have held it in my hands _seriously_ thinking of buying it BUT still haven't. It's cover is red and in whatever other light color it says somethin to the effect of "EROTICA, THE RHYTHMS OF LOVE" and it's on this no-name label. It reminds me ALOT of this rekkid I have called Music for Sensuous Lovers by "Z" The music is realized, composed and arranged by Mort Garson. The cover is the same on both sides as it is also in RED with I suppose white lettering. What the record is though is this pop bubbly noodling of electronics with the very real sounds of a very real sexy sounding woman having a very real orgasm Side 1 is Climax 1 and side 2 is Climax 2. Runs about 28 minutes I suppose Pretty damn great I WANT THIS CD to be the same thing... It's actually a budget job too at I think 8 or 9 bucks but I'm just not willing to take the chance. Did anyone here take the chance and has this cd I'm talking about ? Jack # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Sevo Stille" Subject: Re: (exotica) Horny - Gunter Norris Date: 23 May 1997 11:02:40 +0200 ---------- > Von: Z-Man > An: exotica@xmission.com > Betreff: (exotica) Horny - Gunter Norris > Datum: Freitag, 23. Mai 1997 11:13 >=20 > This might be a long shot, but: >=20 > I just taxed a copy of "Gunter Norris - Horny" last=20 > night, for twenty cents. Groovy record - brass led versions of=20 > "Apache", "A Taste of Honey" and other such 60's staples. Also=20 > includes an incredible saxaphone version of "Popcorn" arranged in a=20 > 70's blaxploitation style, (all funky guitars and cooing girls). >=20 > The most tantalizing part? The liner notes explain this is Volume=20 > 1 of 3! So, has anyone out there sighted Vols 2 or 3? Any history=20 > of to who Gunter was? Might be an anglicized version of G=FCnter Noris. He rivalled James Last = as=20 a TV personality in Germany in the early seventies, and was leader of = the=20 Bundeswehr big band - whose TV show appearances playing JL'esque=20 music in full uniform made for some of the most ridiculous moments in=20 my childhood TV reminescences. Sevo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ariel Tagar Subject: (exotica) Tony Bennett and me. Date: 23 May 1997 12:35:52 +0300 (IDT) I met Tony Bennett about 3 years ago in Paris at the Hard Rock Cafe. They had this PR party for a reissue or something for him and a freind invited me. when I came to talk to him, a croud of photographers started shooting him madly and he was so obssesed with being photographed, he didn't even notice me(!) (even after I touched his shoulder for some attantion). that was the sad part. BUT, Couple of days later, paris papers had a big picture of tony at the party with me in the back!!! (next month on the EZ page- the picture I took!) That's it. Ariel The EASY PAGE, Easy listening and lounge culture. http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/3076 Ariel Tagar # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: basic hip Subject: Re: (exotica) Erotica, The Rhythms of Love Date: 23 May 1997 05:49:04 -0700 J. Diamond wrote: > > I've seen this CD for a little while now and have held it in my hands > _seriously_ thinking of buying it BUT still haven't. > > It's cover is red and in whatever other light color it says somethin to the > effect of "EROTICA, THE RHYTHMS OF LOVE" and it's on this no-name label. I've got a record of the exact same title on the FAX label. Could this be it??? Early sixties, "an experimental high fidelity recording featuring the sounds and rhythms of erotic love." There are no tracks - each side is nothing more than a sqeaking bed, bongos and a lot of moans and groans from a couple. That's about it, really. Then there is EROTICA, THE SONGS OF LOVE, which is a collection of (pretty lame, I think) songs with sexual references lightly thrown in. one or two stars on a scale of five, in my book, Jack. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Ray Coffey" Subject: (exotica) Laura Wah R U? Buying tweed capri pants? Date: 23 May 1997 11:25:35 -0400 YO! 'tsup? Laura where are you...? JP? E-mail me. We have to talk. Thanks to my old friend Tim who gave me a Vox Wah-Wah pedal he got at a garage sale. Now to find all the Vox equipment to go along with it... and the money for it. Does anyone want info I can glean from the cover plate printing on the bottom? Those recording types... always wearing jeans and T- or sweatshirts, and earning ?/hour. But hey, he said what he said (and that's all what he said) and was defending us against Milo's verbal assault and helping to build knee-jerk pride for Exotica and ilk. (What the hell does the above mean?) I'll try to read Milo (buy a transcript? ?) and see what he says. I mean, I really doubt he's a moron, and he may have some points to make. But if it is merely a matter of taste, I readily admit that mine is far from top shelf. If he doesn't agree, oh well. Then he won't be buying it, and I'll enjoy! And what does the person in charge of music beds for ATC think of Milo? They must have had a fistfight. Also, didn't he file that report from WBUR? Or did he really go to Philly (WHYY)? Just wondering. Bon weekend a tout! Et a tout, un bon weekend! Ray (Pidgin French) Coffey # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: TothMD@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Ultra-Lounge on NPR Date: 23 May 1997 12:20:05 -0400 (EDT) mighty@wavenet.com wrote: > >> At 03:13 PM 5/21/97 -0500, Darrell Brogdon of Lawrence, KS wrote: >> >Anybody hear the review of Capitol's Ultra-Lounge series on NPR's >> Fresh Air today? I only got to hear the last minute or so, but it was clearly a >> very, very negative review. The critic--and I do mean CRITIC--was Milo Miles. >============ > >npr people are a bunch bond-fide nerds anyway > >sober, droll, tweedy types that earn about $6.00 an hour > >fuck 'em, that's what their opinions are worth ! > >paul / mighty recording co. Gosh, if I could point to any one thing that, at least around here, has had the greatest impact in proliferating this sort of music, I'd have to say it's NPR. The first I heard about this whole odd corner of pop music was when Irwin Chusid and Juan Esquivel were on Fresh Air, plugging the first Bar None CD. (I could also swear I caught the end of a clip w/ Irwin on Morning Edition at that time, but he'd have to confirm that one) The first copy of that CD I'd seen was purchased by a guy at work who also happened to be listening to that show, and immediately ordered it through the "NPR Music Store" mail order thingie. I didn't see a copy on a retail shelf for a couple more months, when it was obviously catching on. I, in turn, turned on a bunch of other friends to the music, who...well, you get the idea. If this is any indication of what was going on elsewhere in the US, that broadcast, followed by word of mouth of people realizing how genuinely wonderful this stuff was, had a LOT to do with Esquivel becoming such a hit. When the first wave of Ultra-Lounge CDs was released, All Things Considered did a big story on the series. The next day I went to the local CD retailer I frequent (and often special order from), and the manager, with this look of desperation in his eyes asked me, "WHAT is going on? We've just been flooded the past couple days with people asking for these Ultra-Lounge things, which we obviously under-ordered. I can usually see trends coming, but I have NO idea what's happening out there. Help me, please!" I wager I probably would have stumbled across this stuff anyway through my more esoteric media circles, but I still think NPR has played a major role in attracting new listeners in droves and expanding it beyond a secret music clique. I still haven't heard what this Milo guy had to say, but he's certainly entitled to not understand or appreciate this stuff. (His loss! ;-) But *I* don't even care for ALL the stuff on those Ultra-Lounge CDs.) But I suppose a rebuttal was only fair and balanced to their prior PRO-lounge coverage. NPR may be far from perfect, but it's some of the better media on the airwaves, IMO. Michael David Toth TothMD@aol.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: dfrisby@mgm.com (Doug Frisby) Subject: (exotica) Blast Off and Cugie! Date: 23 May 1997 10:23:03 -0700 As of May 13th, Varese Sarabande released Ferrante & Teicher's "Blast Off!" with four bonus tracks from "With Percussion". They also released an Xavier Cugat Decca records stereo compilation called "Cugie A-Go-Go". The third in the series of "off-beat" Lounge releases was the aforementioned Dick Hyman Moog album. You can find them on the web at www.footlight.com/newcoolsounds.shtml OR at most record stores around the country. I highly recommend these (partially because I co-produced the first two) but mostly because they're quite fun. Do yourself a favor (as well as the future of Lounge re-issues) and plop down the $9 to $11 if you can afford it. I'll back my recommendations with a limited time guarantee. If you're not satisfied with the Cugat or Ferrante & Teicher CD, contact me personally and I should be able to compensate you for the cost. Thanks for your support. Doug # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: Another Crazy Cocktail Party Date: 23 May 1997 19:08:52 +0200 forgot to include the track list of that first "Crazy Cocktail Party" cd (74321 379972): Reg Owen and his Orchestra Kazoo The Peter Loland Orchestra Pink Suite Los Mayas Maria Magdalena Jean Claude Pelletier et son orchestre Saint Averty's Blues Willy Albimoor and his Orchestra Tender Passion The Golden Dream Orchestra Are You Afraid The Waikikis Sugar Moon Los Albinos Bing Bang Conga Jack Say and his Orchestra Allahabad Peter Kreuder and his Copacabanas Argentine Serenade Nico Gomez and his Orchestra Manhattan Mambo The Mertens Brothers Panama Patrol Ruben Calzadeo and his Latin Orchestra Harlem Nocturne David Bee and his Orchestra Ballet Mambo Teddy Mertens, His Trumpet And His Orchestra Lonesome Heart Reg Owen and his Orchestra Jack The Ripper Johan Dada@dma.be = Dada@bewoner.dma.be --- # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Sampling Quagmire Date: 23 May 1997 14:32:28 -0400 I really didn't want to get drawn into this any further, but I guess I've got a weak will. I don't feel that music's age-old swipe tradition is exactly the same as sampling. Sure, ALL music builds on what has gone before. Even wild innovators usually have something in common with the vocabulary of the past. But this is not exactly the same as sampling. 'Cause even if they're trying to do a perfect imitation, the swipers involuntarily add something of themselves to the new version -- another link of (at least slight) variation in the music chain. Sampling can manipulate sounds, which could be seen as an additive element, but you're still not getting a new biological presence in the music. Sorry, Can't Resist Dept: I don't think the Asmat tribe of New Guinea is creating their totems by sawing up other folks' completed totems and glueing the pieces together. But, honest, I don't really object to sampling (especially if they credit their sources). I'm just saying it's a totally different animal than traditional music making (swipes and all). Listening to some sample pieces is like watching a jigsaw puzzle come to life. I can kind of see sampling as deejay-ing taken to a level of microscopic detail. It can also be seen in the tradition of Edgard Varese's tape compositions (as well as other early electronic composers). Unfortunately, most artists don't get that creative, but that's another story. Sampling brings up a whole lot of interesting possibilities and (witness this thread) obviously throws big challenges at our conceptions of music -- which is a healthy thing. At this moment I'm thinking that while sampling may be a dead-end as far as the biological music DNA chain, it does serve as an interesting laboratory for ideas -- which can feed back into the biological chain. Don't mind me -- I've watched way too many mad scientist movies. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Vik Trola Subject: Re: (exotica) Cannot Become Obsolete Date: 23 May 1997 15:12:38 -0500 >Man, that's pretty depressing that you did not think to include Tiki News in >your top 6 favorite fanzines figured everyone already know about tiki news...plus it was simply an oversight. always beautifully illustrated and chock full of swell tikis... great pate mom, but i gotta motor if i'm going to make the funeral, Vik Vik's Lounge http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/lounge.html Space Age Bachelor Pad Music http://www.chaoskitty.com/sabpm/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jbtwist@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) WSJ Article & Kon-Tiki Date: 23 May 1997 18:37:21 -0400 (EDT) The 5/22 Wall Street Journal article mentioned was short but sweet, focusing on the Ultra Lounge reissues as bringing back music that was bought by milllions, but ignored and eventually forgotten in the giant shadow cast by rock and roll. While mentioning the theory that GI's returning from the Pacific helped fuel the exotica craze, the author also credited the huge 1947 best-seller Kon-Tiki (y'know, the raft trip from South America to Polynesia) as significantly raising the USA's exoti-consciousness. Coincidentally, last week my local PBS station had shown the Kon-Tiki movie filmed by the crew. I noticed just a smidgeon of music behind a few giggling polynesian dancing girls at the end of the journey, but the film was truly fascinating and quite an adventure, well worth an hour of your time if it pops up in your area. I'm neither an anthropologist or a sailor, but the film gave some real-world context to the spirit of the exotic music we all love. JBTwist, breakfasting on the flying fish that landed on my raft overnight # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: tosh@loop.com (Tosh) Subject: Re: (exotica) Bands & artists Date: 23 May 1997 17:53:45 -0700 >Jet Black and Tony Meehan were at one time members of The Shadows. Heinz >was a member of The Tornandos, and went solo with the help of Joe Meek. In >fact, Meek killed his landlady and himself with Heinz's rifle. ----------------- Tosh Berman TamTam Books ---------------- # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Lar E. Warner" Subject: (exotica) Ipcress File Date: 23 May 1997 18:06:46 -0700 (PDT) I'm looking for the soundtrack to this movie, you know the one, with Michael Caine as the sneering Harry Palmer. I think it was a John Barry score. Please let me know if you've seen it around - L "listen to me..." # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bag@hubris.net Subject: Re: (exotica) Ultra-Lounge on NPR Date: 23 May 1997 18:41:36 -0700 (PDT) At 12:20 PM 5/23/97 -0400, Michael David Toth wrote: >The first I heard about this whole odd corner of pop music was when Irwin >Chusid and Juan Esquivel were on Fresh Air, plugging the first Bar None >CD. (I could also swear I caught the end of a clip w/ Irwin on Morning >Edition at that time, but he'd have to confirm that one) I have a cassette tape of that story from ME which aired in 1994. At the time, it was my only reference to Esquivel. In 1995, I wanted to air a program with music by Esquivel and others and went back to that tape to get the name of the release. When I called the Public Radio Music Source (1-800-75-MUSIC) to order it, they had no idea what I was talking about. "There is no Barn-un listing and nothing under Es-kee-vell." So I gave up...that is, until I got the Incredibly Strange Music books from RESearch (not quite sure I have the titles right). Then I called again and ordered with written information to rely on. Since then, independent record stores became "experts" on the music and chain record stores at least stocked some of the Ultra Lounge series. I would have to agree, the NPR news organization has done well for this kind of music. You must remember, though, that Fresh Air is not directly produced by NPR News, but by WHYY. While affliates of NPR News can subscribe through NPR to get Fresh Air, it is really a very separate editorial body. And just because someone is on FA doesn't mean the decision to put them on was due to WHYY's interest in the music. Often guests are put on to allow Terry Gross to challenge them on the airwaves, not to showcase their product. WHYY is not in charge of the Tonight Show. It is non-commercial radio which has really pushed the music envelope to allow more people to get interested in this kind of music. With programs such as Darrell Brogdon's "Retro Cocktail Hour" at KANU in Lawrence, Kansas and other local shows, people began listening and wondering "Where do I get this music?" These stations, mostly NPR affiliates, knew a good thing and pursued it. Record companies which service these stations noticed the trend and began putting out more. Add to this people like Quentin Tarentino in the movie industry and the various proponents who were connected with the recording industry, and you create a nationwide trend. Obviously, the re-emergence of this music did not start with NPR or public stations. It did not even start with record companies. Most likely, it started on the club scene with some enterprising djs and grew from there. However, its the media, including NPR, which brought the interest to a nationwide audience. Anyway, critics who blast anything usually do nothing to dissuade people from buying. People often go out to at least test the critic's assumptions and will ask others about their opinions or even buy a sample of the music. The review simply raises consciousness, which can only be good for good things. A bad review is better than no review. Byron Caloz Portland, OR # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Pea Hicks Subject: Re: (exotica) Sampling Quagmire Date: 23 May 1997 19:03:08 -0700 Here's my 2.5 cents on the sampling issue... To me it's an extension of the folk music process. Instead of borrowing words or chord patterns or feels from musical *performance* traditions, you're borrowing (and referencing) those same things from the tradition of *recorded* music. For alot of people making music today, that's the closest thing to a "folk tradition" that they know- radio and records. Alot of kids doing electronic music today just don't relate to the live music medium- they only really know recorded music. It often seems hard for us to realize that until relatively recently the only way you could hear and participate in music was to either go see someone play it or learn how to play it yourself. The upright piano used to be the rough equivilent of the home stereo. So if we're talking about two separate folk traditions here- live music and recorded music- there are two separate ways to look at the issue of influence or borrowing. The only way to borrow from the live music tradition is to imitate, with varying degrees of exactness. An appropriate (though not the only) way to borrow from the recorded music tradition is to sample, with varying degrees of editing and customization of the audio. When you hear a James Brown sample in a hip hop track, the reference is very specically being made to a *recording* and not really to just a song, riff, drum pattern, vocal style, melody, chord pattern, etc. That specific recording is the cultural artifact being referred to by the artist doing the sampling. Obviously, if nothing creative is done with the sample, it can be really boring and derivitive. But with a little creativity, alot of new light has been shed on alot of tired old recordings through sampling/collage techniques. At any rate... it's a debate that's been debated to death already. I suppose the bottom line for me is, if I didn't know how to make music other than with samples, I'd feel pretty restricted and lame. Since I have a choice, often times that approach is pretty intriguing. It's just another form of collaboration. Some folks collaborate with other musicians, some with chance processes, some with drugs/alcohol, some with history, some with samples, some with "God," etc. It's another way of introducing that vital element of mystery into a project that often can allow you to see it more objectively and remove the self-conscious edge. It's like how it's much easier to enjoy someone else's music than it is for you to enjoy your own music, even though theoretically what most musicians try to create is their idea of a "perfect" piece of music. yada yada yada... pea -- Pea Hicks "Memory is my drug of choice." <---Realm 'O' The Optigan---> http://www.pilot.com/optigan Who will be the next to brave the *perils* of the VIRTUAL OPTIGAN??! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: basic hip Subject: Re: (exotica) Ipcress File Date: 24 May 1997 06:20:50 -0700 Lar E. Warner wrote: > > I'm looking for the soundtrack to this movie, you know the one, with > Michael Caine as the sneering Harry Palmer. I think it was a John Barry > score. Please let me know if you've seen it around - John Barry at his best...bright red cover with a black revolver and the words "Top Secret" on it. I have not seen the vinyl advertised much on collector's lists or in used record stores, but it is well worth finding. If you get tired of searching for it, fear not. I've spotted it at a Virgin CD Store - but it's a thirty dollar import. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bcleve@pop.tiac.net (Br. Cleve) Subject: (exotica) spy electronica Date: 24 May 1997 13:08:00 -0400 =46ans of both spy music and electronica will want to check out the new release "Serialement V=F4tre" (Commando/BMG FRANCE 743214-80231-1). Abstract-Beat driven reconstructions of TV and movie themes, including "The Avengers", "Hawaii 5-O", "The Saint", "Mannix", "James Bond Theme", etc, by some of the best artists in the French underground: Dimitri From Paris, Snooze, Bang Bang, DJ Cam and The Mighty Bop, among them. There is also a 12" EP available with different mixes of 4 of the tracks. There's a lot of great music coming out of France these days. "Source Lab 3" has new tracks by Jean-Jacques Perrey & Air (possibly the best EZ/electronic group); "Yellow Connection", a compilation of the Yellow label, contains the groovy "Quelles Sensations Bizarre", which would not sound out of place on "Moog Indigo". Also on Yellow, 2 10" records by Kid Loco, "The Real Pop Porn Music", Volumes 1 and 2. frere cleve # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jonny.S@nyo.com (Jonny.S) Subject: Re: (exotica) Ultra-Lounge on NPR Date: 24 May 1997 17:23:39 -0500 TothMD@aol.com,internet writes: > >NPR may be far from perfect, but it's some of the better media on the >airwaves, IMO. I have to agree, I've also heard lots of wacky easy-Listening used as music bumpers between stories on All things Considered for at least the last year. As for Milo Miles, he may not get the easy-listening thing but he has turned me on to some other musics through his reviews on Fresh Air. The music we discuss on this conference seems to bring fourth a very strong emotional reaction from him, although not positive and, I find that much more interesting than whether or not he gets it. Don't we all align ourselves with certain styles of music and feel that somehow it represents who we are and how we see ourselves? for example; disco sucks -for rock keep it real -hip hop Bird lives - Be bop jungle nation - drum and Bass no future - punk Regards to all, Jonny Sender # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jonny.S@nyo.com (Jonny.S) Subject: Re: (exotica) Sampling Quagmire Date: 24 May 1997 17:57:33 -0500 m.ace,ecam@voicenet.com,internet writes: >Sorry, Can't Resist Dept: I don't think the Asmat tribe of New Guinea is >creating their totems by sawing up other folks' com Hi M.ace, I guess I wasn't clear when I brought up the tribe in new Guinea, I didn't mean to imply that it had anything to do with or was comparable to the practice of sampling. I only wanted to raise the issue of our relationship to what we create as private property (The music or Art) as something we own which we attach a value to and can be used in commerce. I feel that our discussion of the "ethics" of sampling functions within this western view of Art and it could be interesting to broaden our view a bit. I agree with you that samples should credited but where does one draw the line? A snare drum, and open Hi-hat, two notes from a horn section which is then used to play a different melody on the keyboard? Believe me I don't have the answer, but it sure is an ethics question. that's why I thought that standardizing payments through ASCAP, BMI might be a solution since Payment for sampling is already corporate and Byzantine because it's the record companies and publishing companies that are doing the negotiations with the sample houses and the artists. I do see sampling as evolutionary in that I think that what drives one to sample is the same instinct that drove composers to "draw inspiration" from another piece of music. The key point for me is that it's the technology of sampling, the easy of use and the wide availability that has brought a creative practice into existence which previously did not exist, all within the space of fifteen years give or take. despite all this technology I don't think anything replaces the experience for either the listener or musician of people playing music together. This requires a special type of listening which is almost impossible to create writing music with a computer and sampler. I think we will start to see adaption of the technology into more truly "live" playing experiences. Jonny Sender P.S. don't mind me either... :) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jonny.S@nyo.com (Jonny.S) Subject: Re: (exotica) spy electronica Date: 24 May 1997 18:23:54 -0500 Br. Cleve,bcleve@pop.tiac.net,internet writes: > "Serialement V™tre" I listened to it at Throb the other day and I have to say I wasn't that knocked out. It was a little to ordinary in my humble "but biased" opinion. But like they say "everyone's a critic.' i did pick up, and love"Orchestral Party Act1" on SGP records. its sub titled "psyche & easy listening from france" very psychadelic gogo with french vocals. Planeten Sit-In - the Cosmic Jokers mid 70's German electronic art rock featuring Manuel Gottsching ( remember E2-E4?) Like ambiant but with much more flubby analog synth action. And a new 12" from france - Bno featuring a smashing disco house easy-listening track " Just About Right" by dimitri from paris complete with cool sylabic vocals. this track really gets the Easy-House combo right. I did check out Richard Camron's set at Windows on the World and I'm sorry to say I was underwhelmed although lucien sounded good. And every one IS a critic... including me. jonny Sender # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: riviera@tiac.net Subject: (exotica) Glyn Styler/MSR/NPR Date: 24 May 1997 21:25:30 -0400 (EDT) While in New Orleans for the Jazz Fest, I caught a favorite local act that has opened for Com Ed several times that would be of interest to members of this list. Glyn Styler is a ratpack/jobim styled crooner with an exceptional talent for melody and a devastatingly witty and vicious way with lyrics. His first CD,"Live at the Mermaid Lounge" is now available from Truckstop Records(ALP303) and comes by yours truly. Another couple of new CDs that will amaze anybody who enjoys genuinely fucked-up experiences are Volumes 3 & 4 of the "MSR Madness" Song/Poem series from Carnage Press; "The Human Breakdown of Absurdity" and "I'm Just The Other Woman". If you're familiar with the first two volumes, you might not believe that anything could top them for sheer naive surrealism...but it's been done! Also...did anybody hear anything about a piece about the Lounge movement on NPR's "Fresh Air"? A friend told me that she heard it previewed, but it didn't sound like it was going to be to complimentary so she didn't tune in. in vino veritas, The Millionaire # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) Return of the Flint Double Feature Date: 25 May 1997 11:00:51 -0400 AMC is double-billing the Flint movies ("Our Man Flint" & "In Like Flint") again this Wednesday night (May 28). 8:30 pm & 10:30 pm for the pan & scan versions. 2:30 am & 4:30 am for the wide-screen letterbox versions. (eastern daylight times) m.ace ecam@voicenet.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brad Bigelow Subject: (exotica) Chaino LP Date: 25 May 1997 22:58:40 -0700 I picked up an album on the Hallmark label (an in-house label for Radio Shack in the late 1950s, I gather) by Chaino and His African Percussion Safari. Is this an earlier Chaino LP under another name? The tracks are: A: The Jungle Chase/Torture of the Mau-Mau/Go-Gona Voodo/The Feast Dance/The Limbo B: Jungle Drum Variations/Cum-Ba-See/The Spear Dance/Safari Jungle Maze All compositions are credited to "Kirby Allan" Anyone? Anyone? Brad # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: basic hip Subject: Re: (exotica) Chaino LP Date: 26 May 1997 08:53:17 -0700 Brad Bigelow wrote: > I picked up an album on the Hallmark label (an in-house label for Radio > Shack in the late 1950s, I gather) by Chaino and His African Percussion > Safari. Is this an earlier Chaino LP under another name? > Anyone? Anyone? Me, Me! I've got this Chaino LP with same tracks you listed called "Jungle Echoes". On the Omega label. Quite a cover - a tribesman with a painted face, feathered head dress and clothed in leopard skin. Listen to Jungle Chase - ooooo, mama! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "kevin king" Subject: (exotica) product Date: 25 May 1997 20:13:52 -0500 just a few comments on recently purchased cd's, some just mentioned here: sweden heaven and hell - agreed with the others. unusual variety of tunes culled from one theme... featuring doo-doo-dooing, whistling, and 3 avant jazz numbers with Gato Barbieri beat at cinecitta - i like this quite a bit more than jill seems to, think it's excellent in fact (and it's only the first of a projected series of three) Very jazzy, touch of action spy, some surf/mersey beat, hyper wordless vocals... and that two-word lyric thing with Edda del'Orso chanting 'sexually.. sexually... sexually... ... again.. again !' hot stuff! jerry van rooyen at 250 miles per hour - another crippled dick release, also excellent imo. includes music from four Jesse Franco films. as the title implies, this is mostly manic beat driven.... heavy on the sax jazz with an excitable organ (!) raumpatrouille (space patrol) - this is the peter thomas masterpiece that was mentioned here ages ago. my favorite of the handful listed, this is truly brilliant work.. spacey effects with playfully intriguing rhythms and instrumentation.. and even more playful joe meekish vocals on occassion. essential!!! the super sounds of bosworth - also mentioned here long ago, but frightfully expensive from the states... well assembled collection of incidental music done for 60's & 70's film - all found recently in a particular warehouse. oddly familiar, but.. well.. odd and inventive tunes - some very experimental electronic shorts. strangely endearing compilation further in-flight entertainment - luckily, i got this one second hand so it didn't cost much. highly mediocre collection - ok, but certainly not worth the price of import in the states. i'll keep this copy for the bridgette bardot tune (!) and the wild bollywood one two cha cha cha... though i also like yellow world and teenie weenie boppie. disappointing, but i still wish i could be at madame jo jo's this tuesday where karminsky will be participating in the celebration of club indigo's third anniversary!... a london based report to the list is expected... back in Yuckville, kevin p.s. - the prolific laetitia from stereolab is joined by bandmate mary in lending vocals to the new mouse on mars ep, cache coeur naif - very worth getting if you're into 'em. "jet lag... it's a drag!" - tina peel kevin king xanadu@radix.net http://www.radix.net/~xanadu # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "kevin king" Subject: (exotica) product Date: 26 May 1997 12:38:23 -0500 just a few comments on recently purchased cd's, some just mentioned here: sweden heaven and hell - agreed with the others. unusual variety of tunes culled from one theme... featuring doo-doo-dooing, whistling, and 3 avant jazz numbers with Gato Barbieri beat at cinecitta - i like this quite a bit more than jill seems to, think it's excellent in fact (and it's only the first of a projected series of three) Very jazzy, touch of action spy, some surf/mersey beat, hyper wordless vocals... and that two-word lyric thing with Edda del'Orso chanting 'sexually.. sexually... sexually... ... again.. again !' hot stuff! jerry van rooyen at 250 miles per hour - another crippled dick release, also excellent imo. includes music from four Jesse Franco films. as the title implies, this is mostly manic beat driven.... heavy on the sax jazz with an excitable organ (!) raumpatrouille (space patrol) - this is the peter thomas masterpiece that was mentioned here ages ago. my favorite of the handful listed, this is truly brilliant work.. spacey effects with playfully intriguing rhythms and instrumentation.. and even more playful joe meekish vocals on occassion. essential!!! the super sounds of bosworth - also mentioned here long ago, but frightfully expensive from the states... well assembled collection of incidental music done for 60's & 70's film - all found recently in a particular warehouse. oddly familiar, but.. well.. odd and inventive tunes - some very experimental electronic shorts. strangely endearing compilation further in-flight entertainment - luckily, i got this one second hand so it didn't cost much. highly mediocre collection - ok, but certainly not worth the price of import in the states. i'll keep this copy for the bridgette bardot tune (!) and the wild bollywood one two cha cha cha... though i also like yellow world and teenie weenie boppie. disappointing, but i still wish i could be at madame jo jo's this tuesday where karminsky will be participating in the celebration of club indigo's third anniversary!... a london based report to the list is expected... back in Yuckville, kevin p.s. - the prolific laetitia from stereolab is joined by bandmate mary in lending vocals to the new mouse on mars ep, cache coeur naif - very worth getting if you're into 'em. kevin king xanadu@radix.net http://www.radix.net/~xanadu # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Derek Grime" Subject: Re: (exotica) MSR Date: 26 May 1997 17:48:21 -0400 On May 24, 9:25pm, riviera@tiac.net wrote: > Subject: (exotica) Glyn Styler/MSR/NPR > Another couple of new CDs that will amaze anybody who enjoys genuinely > fucked-up experiences are Volumes 3 & 4 of the "MSR Madness" Song/Poem > series from Carnage Press; "The Human Breakdown of Absurdity" and "I'm Just > The Other Woman". If you're familiar with the first two volumes, you might > not believe that anything could top them for sheer naive surrealism...but > it's been done! > The Millionaire > Speaking of MSR tunes I was lucky enough to score an original Rod Rogers (and his Swinging Strings) 45 on the weekend. This was in Toronto of all places... The A side is a great and stupid track called "Twisting on the Moon". The lyrics defy logic with lines like "See you later at the crater will become a common phrase". The flip is about a racetrack, though it's impossible to tell what sort of race is happening. My question is: I assumed these were very limited releases of a couple dozen each. Did artists like Rod Rogers cut regular 45's as well as the usual song-poem numbers? Maybe the twist craze forced him out into the open for one brief moment? This 45 is on the Film City label. -- Derek Grime EMail: derek@coredp.com C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures http://www.coredp.com/index.html # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Stilgloria@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Re:Cool Book Date: 26 May 1997 17:59:02 -0400 (EDT) Picked up a copy of "Hi-Fi's/Hi-Balls, The Golden Age of the American Bachelor" today at my local Tower Records store. Very nice text and pics. Only $12.95. Also heard snippets of the "Swingers" soundtrack. I liked what I heard a lot. There's also a cool article in the newest Rolling Stone on Jakob Dylan. He's on the cover. I know, I know, not exotica-related, but I like his band a lot, and I still pray to his dad. Gloria # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Pablito! Subject: (exotica) Regarding "Moon Gas" and unusual cover Date: 27 May 1997 01:24:05 -0400 (EDT) Recently snagged a mono copy of Dick Hyman's "Moon Gas" and noticed something unusual: on the edge of the back cover, where it isn't covered by the pasted-on liner notes, I can see the catalog number and the word 'STEREO'... this means that they simply produced the record with the stereo cover and mono cover back to back and pasted the liner notes on the opposite side. Was this a common practice? I don't recall seeing anything like this in my collection. Maybe it's due to the fact that the writing is so close to the edge unlike other LPs. By the way... for those wondering, Moon Gas IS a terrific album. A bit more sedate and commonplace on a couple tracks, but overall, a completely original, inventive and breakthrough LP. Worth every bit of the hype. pablito! Paul Lewis lewis@netlab.texsci.edu Coordinator of Academic Computing (215) 951-2834 [office] Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science "We do it because we are compelled." -Alan Moore # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ghostown@ix.netcom.com Subject: (exotica) WSJ article - need copy Date: 27 May 1997 09:42:06 -0400 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * > > Mark Reed WROTE: > > ALERT! The Wall Street Journal in today's edition (22 May 1997) has a > column on lounge music and culture on A13. Does anyone have a xerox they can send me? Contact me via e-mail for mailing address. Much obliged! --Irwin C. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: cscheffy@kinglet.Berkeley.EDU (Clark Scheffy) Subject: (exotica) Covers and Slicks (was Regarding Moongas) Date: 27 May 1997 07:28:23 PDT Regarding the pasting of covers (or slicks as they are called) on opposite sides for stereo or mono recordings, yes - this was common practice. Many labels also simply made one cover and listed the stereo and mono catalog number, and then basically you had to check the spine to figure out which one you have, other times (as with many of Arthur Lyman's and other records on Life) the stereo was denoted only with a sticker. My copy of Esquivel's Latin-esque, (the second-issue, not the die-cut Stereo Action) has the wrong slick on the back! - Instead of Esquivel's track list, the slick is from the Three Suns "Movin' And Groovin'". Clark --------------------- Recently snagged a mono copy of Dick Hyman's "Moon Gas" and noticed something unusual: on the edge of the back cover, where it isn't covered by the pasted-on liner notes, I can see the catalog number and the word 'STEREO'... this means that they simply produced the record with the stereo cover and mono cover back to back and pasted the liner notes on the opposite side. Was this a common practice? I don't recall seeing anything like this in my collection. Maybe it's due to the fact that the writing is so close to the edge unlike other LPs. By the way... for those wondering, Moon Gas IS a terrific album. A bit more sedate and commonplace on a couple tracks, but overall, a completely original, inventive and breakthrough LP. Worth every bit of the hype. pablito! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Peter Hipwell Subject: (exotica) Brief Note on Dogfood Advertising Date: 27 May 1997 16:15:59 +0100 Esquivel's version of "Johnson Rag" is now being used to advertise Pedigree Chum Dogfood here in the UK ("Top Breeders recommend it... because it's SOLID NOURISHMENT"), thus upping the stakes in the commercial necrotoon race of late. -- Pete. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) ZINE: #5 Issue of Cool and Strange Music! Magazine is out now Date: 27 May 1997 13:37:40 -0400 (EDT) Dana Countryman, publisher of C&SM!, asked me to pass this along. Cheers, Lou Issue #5 of Cool And Strange Music! Magazine is here, and it's another Rootin'-Tootin', Swing-O-Rama! It's another big issue, a whopping 48 pages, beautifully offset-printed, with a cool color cover, loads more photos, tons of new wacky and weird CD reviews and more fun than a brand new jar of wing nuts! This issue features articles on Enoch Light, Jack Mudurian, the history of an obscure record label - San Francisco/Barbary Coast Records, an exclusive article on the experimental side of Ferrante and Teicher - written by Art Ferrante, himself, The Del Rubio Triplets, guitar wizard, Billy Mure, a photo-spread of BELLYDANCING LP Covers, Hasil Adkins and loads more!! It's another 48 pages of musical mayhem and madness! It all starts with a cool cover story about the 60's Discotheque Scene, pioneered by Enoch Light. (We're talking about the Swinging Sixties' Disco craze, not the coked-out Disco days of the Seventies!) In the mid-60s, Enoch Light and a handful of others pumped out album after album of groovy dance tunes, aimed at both the kids, and then the parents of the household. Featuring some of the top session players of the day, these LPs are becoming highly sought-after in record collecting circles, and Michael David Toth's article explains why! A handy reference discography is included! (And YOU've been passing those nerdy-looking LP's by for YEARS, haven't you!!?) Next, we'll take a look at the short-lived singing career of Jack Mudurian, an elderly resident of the Duplex Nursing Home, with an obsession for singing virtually every song he knew, in rapid-fire stream-of-conciousness! David Greenberger captured it all on tape, back in 1981, the recording was released on CD last year, and Greenberger gives us the exclusive inside scoop of his discovery of the songbird of the Rest Home set. The article is peppered with many a "Jack-ism", offbeat pearls of wisdom and words of advice, affectionately remembered by his friend, David Greenberger, who is regularly heard on NPR's 'All Things Considered'. We serve up a brief history of obscure record label, San Francisco Records, later to become Barbary Coast Records. The oddball label released a wide variety of unusual instrumental releases, from Ragtime Piano records, Stereo Test Albums, and other oddities, which often included jug bands, calliopes, and more - all presented with a bizarre and twisted sense of humor! Ted Hering tells the whole story and if you're like us, you'll run out and grab a few of these LPs the way we did, after reading this article! Rich Wilhelm checks in with his article on the Grooviest Grandmas to ever don a pair of white Go-Go boots, and belt out a Jim Morrison song in three-part harmony! It's the Del Rubio Triplets, three leggy Hot-Pants-wearing, folk-guitar-playing senior citizens with an armload of quirky versions of modern pop songs, and a hell of a lot of nerve! The darlings of the L.A. and San Francisco club scenes, these Groovy Grannies are knockouts, completely charming and true ambassadors of Pop Music goodwill! They've even got their own Web Site, making this terrific trio the next contenders for the Lounge Music Hall of Fame! Ferrante and Teicher's 'prepared piano' music is the subject of a new article, written exclusively for us by Mr. Art Ferrante, himself! We're proud as punch, here at COOL AND STRANGE MUSIC! MAGAZINE, to feature Mr. Ferrante's article, detailing the secrets of exactly HOW they achieved the AMAZING effects of their weirdest and in our opinion, most delightful music! If you thought F&T's music was all muzak, and a complete waste of time, you are WRONG! Check out a few of their first LPs for Columbia and ABC-Paramount to discover some of the COOLEST sounds, ever recorded on twin grand pianos! A brand-new re-release of these cuts is just out, with another due out anyday now. Then, read all about how these true innovators of experimental Pop Piano music did it! If you've read one of the INCREDIBLY STRANGE MUSIC books, you've probably heard of Hasil Adkins. The fascinating, detailed story of this WILDMAN of rock 'n roll is a highlight of the new issue of our magazine, and is delivered in every gory detail by writer, Wilhelm Murg. We have exclusive photos of "The Haze", and we think you'll find his story a great read! Guitar Wizard, Billy Mure, is the subject of Jeff Chenault's latest article, and he chronicles the life and recordings of this incredible Space Age jazz guitarist. His music is just now being re-discovered, and the article includes a detailed discography. All this, and a whole lot more fun stuff than we dare mention, and you'll find a very Cool Issue #5 of COOL AND STRANGE MUSIC! MAGAZINE. So get on board! It's gonna be a cool ride throught the wild, wacky and sometimes tacky world of records! COOL AND STRANGE MUSIC! MAGAZINE is available at most Tower Records and Tower Books stores and the following bookstore chains: Barnes & Noble, Bookstar, and Bookstop. We are also in hundreds of newsstands and independent bookstores around the U.S., so take a look! If you have trouble locating COOL AND STRANGE MUSIC! MAGAZINE locally, (our #1 and #2 issues have sold out, but #3 and #4 are still available), we'd be happy to mail you a copy of the latest issue for a measly $3.95 (US and Canada) and $5 to all other countries. (There's never an extra charge for postage.) Subscriptions are just $12 a year (4 issues) for cool guys and gals in the U.S.A. and Canada, and $25 for our foreign buddies! All prices includes shipping. Send your Check or Money Order to: Cool And Strange Music! Magazine PO Box 8501 Everett, WA USA 98201 Issue #5 is out NOW, so don't delay! Subscribe before you miss out! And don't forget to....Stay Cool! Check us out on the Web at: http://members.aol.com/coolstrge/coolpage.html There are lots of fun LP covers to download, scads more info about the magazine, and even a new contest, where you might win one of Oglio Records' new SEX-O-RAMA CDs, featuring instrumental music from classic adult films like 'Debbie Does Dallas' and 'Deep Throat'!>> # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) MSR/Film City Date: 27 May 1997 13:58:51 -0400 (EDT) At 05:48 PM 5/26/97 -0400, Derek Grime wrote: >Speaking of MSR tunes I was lucky enough to score an original Rod Rogers >(and his Swinging Strings) 45 on the weekend. >The A side is a great and stupid track called "Twisting on the Moon". >My question is: I assumed these were very limited releases of a couple dozen >each. Did artists like Rod Rogers cut regular 45's as well as the usual >song-poem numbers? >This 45 is on the Film City label. Hey Derek, What you've got there is a gen-u-wine song/poem release. Rod(d) worked for many song shark labels in his career, and Film City was one. "The Hump Dance" is another of Rod's Film City releases. You can check the American Song/Poem Music Archive at for more info on Film City's releases and affiliated labels. Good eyes. Lou # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jessica Cameron Subject: (exotica) Some nice weekend finds... Date: 27 May 1997 19:29:34 -0400 Record-wise, this wasn't one of those "makes you glad to be alive" type hauls, but I got some nice stuff I've been looking for, and a few surprises. ^_^ The Science of Mysticism--a ROSICRUICIAN recording on red vinyl! It's a long talk on just what the title says. Crazy new-agey cover--the guy I bought this from warned me to "take it with a grain of salt." Maybe he's an ex-Rosicruician and had to be deprogrammed. ^_^ Just kidding. BTW, I remember someone responding to my "old new age" posting about the Rosicrucian museum--is it still open? What's it like? Whoever posted the original note on it did talk about the place, but I accidently deleted the note before I printed it out. HELP! : ( Billy James Hargis--Communist America--MUST IT BE? (scary companion LP to the scary book) The Coming Persecuation by David Wilkerson (kreepy Christian prophecies--"nude dancing and seances in churches! X-rated movies on TV!" This is even scarier than Billy James--I'm not sure I want it in my house) Marlene Dietrich at the Cafe de Paris--Lovely cover (without a title), great songs. Living Brass--Mexican Shuffle (Alperty go-go sounds. I like this one a lot) Mrs. Miller's Greatest Hits (the one, the only) Lionel Hampton--Vibramatic (a Lionel Hampton disco single!!!? Truth is stranger than fiction) ^_- The Organ Happenings--Born Free (cool loungey versions of "Sunshine Superman" and "Mellow Yellow"--on the POWER apple honey label--another Peter Pan subsidiary, right?) Wild Bill Davis--One More Time (great round the world tunes on a wild organ. I like this one a lot) Great TV Themes--Eddie Baxter at the Organ (I bought this one for "Peter Gunn," "Mr. Lucky," and "Route 66.") What a Way to Go!--Nelson Riddle soundtrack to Shirley MacLaine movie Latin Mann--Afro to Bossa to Blues by Herbie Mann (I bought this just for "Jungle Fantasy" but I love all of it! An added attraction is the "Latin Jazz family tree" on the back. Candido, Chano Pozo, and Chino Pozo (plus other notables) are mentioned, but no Sabu : ( ) Gunn...number one! --by Mancini, of course! (finally, a beautiful stereo copy that has a cover) High Time--by Mancini (never heard of this one--I looked it up in the Leonard Maltin film guide and it turns out this is a comedy about Bing Crosby going back to college. Henry's on the cover alone, though. The cover is pretty generic, but the music is good). The Many Faces of the Blues--various artists (Blues? Sounds like jazz to me! Lots of jazz instros (18 tracks!) done by bigshots like Kai Winding (and Jai Winding), Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, and many others, too many to list here. This album looks old, but the label says it's from 1973. The label is Savoy--didn't they do lots of jazz/blues reissues?) Back at the Chicken Shack--the Incredible Jimmy Smith (Nice, but what I really want is Jimmy Smith's "The Monster"--anyone have it? What's the cover look like?) Superfly--Curtis Mayfield Goodbye, Columbus--orig. soundtrack by the Association (I didn't understand this movie, but the music is OK) You're a big boy now--orig. soundtrack by the Lovin' Spoonful (not as good as I thought it would be--but "Peep-Show Percussion" is awesome!) Cheganca--The Walter Wanderly Trio Claudine--Colours (I wrestled this away from my record buyin' buddy as revenge for his snatching two Barry Sisters LPs away from me a few weeks ago. I know, it's a lousy tradeoff, but I felt better. He tried to cover up his disappointment by pointing out how "yucky" Mrs. Williams/Longet looked on cover and saying "What is that thing on the back cover? An old bathtub?" I personally thought it was an old roller coaster cart. Any other list members with ideas are encouraged to post what they think the "big brown tub on the back cover of 'Colours'" is. Please.) Get Together--Andy Williams (out of all the Andy Williams "now" Lps I've bought, this one is the most far out. He's accompanied by some pseudo-hippie band called "Loadstone" on a few tracks, so you get a double delight dose of Andy and sitar! The Osmond brothers are also on hand, but Andy keeps them in line (and bearable). "Good Morning Starshine" and "Get Together" are incredible. If Claudine put Andy up to this (I can't imagine his "usual" audience, in other words, my Grandmother enjoying it), then more power to her. ^_^ Oops! I didn't mean to go on for this long! Sorry to drag on, Jessica ^_^ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: HOUSEOBOB@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Some nice weekend finds... Date: 27 May 1997 22:28:50 -0400 (EDT) In a message dated 5/27/97 10:02:16 PM, you wrote: <> I've got it, it's great. The cover looks like a color rorshach (sp?) ink blot. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Vik Trola Subject: Re: (exotica) Some nice weekend finds... Date: 27 May 1997 22:25:50 -0500 >The Science of Mysticism--a ROSICRUICIAN recording on red vinyl! this is actually a series (i have two of i believe three). it's been quite a while since listening to them. i basically bought them because they were spoken word religious albums on blood red vinyl. i seem to remember they were slightly magick leaning in their mysticism... great pate mom, but i gotta motor if i'm going to make the funeral, Vik Vik's Lounge http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/lounge.html Space Age Bachelor Pad Music http://www.chaoskitty.com/sabpm/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Pea Hicks Subject: (exotica) Rose + Croix... Date: 28 May 1997 00:09:38 -0700 Vik Trola wrote: > > >The Science of Mysticism--a ROSICRUICIAN recording on red vinyl! > > this is actually a series (i have two of i believe three). it's been > quite > a while since listening to them. i basically bought them because they > were > spoken word religious albums on blood red vinyl. i seem to remember > they > were slightly magick leaning in their mysticism... I think it's telling that Erik Satie, whom some people consider the father of "new age" and "muzak" (it's arguable, at best), was a Rosicrucian. If all you've ever heard are the lame-ass Camerata versions of Satie, you owe it to yourself to seek out some of his music. Most of the best stuff is hard to come by on vinyl, though, so you'll have to flip for CDs. Highly recommended: -Parade (a *must* have!) -Relache -Vexations -Embryons desseches -Sports et divertissements -Messe di Pauvres ....oh, just about anything, really!!! pea -- Pea Hicks "Memory is my drug of choice." <---Realm 'O' The Optigan---> http://www.pilot.com/optigan Who will be the next to brave the *perils* of the VIRTUAL OPTIGAN??! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mighty@wavenet.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Rose + Croix... Date: 28 May 1997 00:45:06 +0000 > I think it's telling that Erik Satie was a Rosicrucian. ========================================= yeah but does he rhumba ? paul moshay mighty recording co. los angeles 78, calif. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) new cd/lp: svezia inferno e paradiso Date: 28 May 1997 20:19:07 +0200 Piero Umiliani: "svezia inferno e paradiso" (cd/2lp, right tempo/easy tempo, Italy) 28 beautiful tracks: some bossa, some jazz, some plagiarism, lots of wordless vocals on this euro slease soundtrack. Johan Dada@dma.be = Dada@bewoner.dma.be --- # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Hugh Petfield Subject: (exotica) Weekend finds UK Date: 27 May 1997 03:52:04 +0100 Some good finds at the Scope shop in Sutton, Surrey County: 1) The wonderful sound of Jorge Costa Pinto Orchestra (UK Fontana label 1970) - is this the first mention in Exotica for a performer from Portugal??? Good Europop, great sleeve (sulky blond in pink jumpsuit and pink flowery headband) 2) Soul Symphony #2 - Raymond Lefevre et son grand orchestre (French Riviera label 1973) - twelve classic cuts modernised a la Waldo de los Rios 3) Love Story - Mantovani (double LP 24 tracks) (German Teldec/Decca 1971) - his usual style which you either love (few of you) or hate (most of you)(!) 4) Somethin' else - Danny Davis & the Nashville Brass (US act, Australian pressing RCA 1971) - this is WONDERFUL!!! Six trumpets, two trombones, banjo, bass and electric sitar! Brass a la Alpert. Anyone got anything else by these people please? Hugh. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Hugh Petfield Subject: (exotica) Weekend finds UK Date: 27 May 1997 03:52:06 +0100 Some good finds at the Scope shop in Sutton, Surrey County: 1) The wonderful sound of Jorge Costa Pinto Orchestra (UK Fontana label 1970) - is this the first mention in Exotica for a performer from Portugal??? Good Europop, great sleeve (sulky blond in pink jumpsuit and pink flowery headband) 2) Soul Symphony #2 - Raymond Lefevre et son grand orchestre (French Riviera label 1973) - twelve classic cuts modernised a la Waldo de los Rios 3) Love Story - Mantovani (double LP 24 tracks) (German Teldec/Decca 1971) - his usual style which you either love (few of you) or hate (most of you)(!) 4) Somethin' else - Danny Davis & the Nashville Brass (US act, Australian pressing RCA 1971) - this is WONDERFUL!!! Six trumpets, two trombones, banjo, bass and electric sitar! Brass a la Alpert. Anyone got anything else by these people please? Hugh. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Hugh Petfield Subject: (exotica) Hutch Davie Date: 27 May 1997 04:40:49 +0100 Info wanted on Hutch Davie please, including a definitive version of his name. He was A&R man on most of Santo & Johnny's albums on Canadian- American, and different discs show him as Hutch Davie Ben Hutch Davie Bon Hutch Davie Did he do backings for other artists please? Did he own Canadian-American, even?... Thanks, Hugh. _still_ missing Laura (sigh..) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mingo@cqm.co.uk (Jill Mingo) Subject: (exotica) Nunchucks Date: 28 May 1997 18:06:10 -0600 Howdy, all.... A friend of mine (mr. hush puppy from the Divine Sound System, Glasgow) wants to know about a track he heard on a Smylon Nylon tape by the Nunchucks called "Bruce Lee". Any ideas???? Please help. Ta. Jill "Mingo-go" # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jessica Cameron Subject: (exotica) Ever hear of this? (Gershon Kingsley) Date: 28 May 1997 22:40:33 -0400 What a Way to Dye (that's right DYE)--produced on the Caprolan/Allied Chemical label. "A film on the history of colored dye." Music composed and conducted by Gershon Kingsley (in '66, so this might be worth finding!). Burgess Meredith narrates, BTW. Just passing along some info, Jessica ^_^ PS--I recently found "Switched on Gershwin" by Gershon (hee hee!) and it's great. Esp. his versions of "Summertime" and "It Ain't Necessarily So." Start looking for it! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bpm0@interport.net (Peter Becker) Subject: (exotica) Hello again! Date: 29 May 1997 10:07:54 -0500 Hello again! I've been away for a while. I am now on the digest list, so I will be responding as appropriate, if a bit late. As I'm on a few lists, I had to switch to the digest as I was getting 75-100 emails a day. Soooo....a few things to note on the label front. Tipsy will have a new 12" single in stores by next week, hopefully. It is a remix single of "Grossenhosen" and "Mr. Excitement" done by Asphodel labelmates, WE. This 12" may be a bit more *modern* for you exotica purists, but it's still great fun! Expect a drum and bass mix and a downtempo mix. For the unitiated, drum and bass is also synonymous with the currently touted "jungle" music. Downtempo is similar to an ambient feel with slow, trippy beats. We're happy with it. also...MTV's Amp will be showcasing a NEW Tipsy video!!! New Tipsy video Premiere! dir. by Steven Speer, Sat. May 31, 1am, "Space Golf" sorry for the late time, nothin' I could do about *that* one. however, its the very 1st video of the show. so get Tipsy with us. NY djs! I've flaked on you for a couple of weeks. Its been busy here. Expect me to get back on the ball by next week, I promise... Also: any NYCers, email me privately about a reward I have to help me find an aprtment. Its good to be back! bpm0@interport.net Peter Becker, Promotions: Retail, DJ Pool Asphodel Records, NYC PO Box 51, Chelsea Station, NY NY 10113 Phone # (212) 965-0265 FAX # (212) 965-0959 http://www.asphodel.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bag@hubris.net Subject: (exotica) who is Lainie Kazan? Date: 29 May 1997 18:51:22 -0700 (PDT) Well, the weekend is coming up and I may brave the throngs who are expected in downtown Portland to return to one thrift store that two LPs in excellent condition of a woman singer I had never heard or heard of before. Both are on MGM. The one touted as her debut was produced by Don Costa, so I have a feeling it might be the torch/loungy type thing I am interested in. The cover and the selections seem to reflect that, but I am not so sure about the instrumentation. The other one by Lainie Kazan looked more pop and NOW. Lainie herself is very cute and I wonder why I have never run across her name before. Anyone with any info on this singer before I go in search of this record? Byron Caloz # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Stilgloria@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) who is Lainie Kazan? Date: 29 May 1997 22:25:07 -0400 (EDT) Lainie Kazan used to be on The Merv Griffin show a lot in the 60s. She was a pretty good lounge and torch singer. If you have a chance to get any albums by her, they'd be worth having. Another singer who used to be on Merv and Mike Douglas' show was Jennie Smith. I think she was on Steve Allen too. Does anyone remember a singer named, I think, Kay Stevens? She was blonde, kind of Goldie Hawnish, and a pretty good entertainer on the afternoon shows also. She was pretty funny, too. Remember Totie Fields? Geez, am I getting old or what? Who was the comedienne who used to carry a phone in her purse and say, "Hello, Ceil?" She was pretty hilarious. Gloria # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Steve Sando Subject: Re: (exotica) who is Lainie Kazan? Date: 29 May 1997 20:45:40 -0700 Lainie Kazan's biggest claim to fame was that she replaced Striesand in Funny Girl on Broadway. She's very funny but seems to have spent much of her career as an 'also-ran'. She's been in a lot of movies, most notably My favorite Year with Peter O'Toole and the underrated Lust in the Dust with Divine, where she sings South of my Border, North of my Garter. * * * Steve Sando, Coconut Grove Media PO Box 78146, San Francisco, CA 94107 vox: 415 648 5803, fax: 415 282 4394, email:steve@mrlucky.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Indy Rutks" Subject: Re: (exotica) who is Lainie Kazan? Date: 30 May 1997 00:54:42 On Thu, 29 May 1997 20:45:40 -0700, mrlucky@mrlucky.com wrote... >Lainie Kazan's biggest claim to fame was that she replaced Striesand in >Funny Girl on Broadway. She's very funny but seems to have spent much of >her career as an 'also-ran'. Isn't she also the spawn of Judy Garland and Elia Kazan, making her a half-sister to Liza Minelli? -Indy Rutks (rutks002@tc.umn.edu) ==================================================== I used to be "with it", but then they changed what "it" was. Now, what I'm with isn't "it", and what's "it" seems weird and scary to me. - Abraham Simpson ==================================================== # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brad Bigelow Subject: (exotica) re: Who is Lainie Kazan? Date: 29 May 1997 00:41:38 -0700 Lainie is the daughter of director Elia Kazan. She started as a Streisand wannabe, gained weight, and now plays Jewish mothers. My friends and I thought she was pretty hot when we saw her on Mike Douglas, Merv, et al. Brad # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jbtwist@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) who is Lainie Kazan? Date: 30 May 1997 14:50:33 -0400 (EDT) In a message dated 97-05-30 06:47:17 EDT, Mr. Lucky wrote: << Lainie Kazan's biggest claim to fame was that she replaced Striesand in Funny Girl on Broadway. She's very funny but seems to have spent much of her career as an 'also-ran'. She's been in a lot of movies, most notably My favorite Year with Peter O'Toole and the underrated Lust in the Dust with Divine, where she sings South of my Border, North of my Garter. * >> I've been waiting for Lainie's half-sis Barbra'a name to pop up on the list so I'd have an excuse to mention her 1973 LP "Barbra Streisand and Other Musical Instruments," a soundtrack to one of her TV specials. I was initially intrigued by the cover, which shows and lists over 100 musical instruments from around the world (like many of the percussion LPs do), and for a buck, what the hell ! Instruments include sitar, Moog, Arp, Mellotron, bongos, orange juicers, Hammond B-3, musical saw, oud, aeolian cristallophone, bagpipes, elephant horn, and even Barbra run thru an Echoplex, heaven help us all. The exotic instruments usually appear briefly in hodgepodge medleys of I Got Rhythm/Johnny One Note/One Note Samba and The World is a Concerto/Make Your Own Kind of Music, and for the true believers she throws in People, Second Hand Rose, and Dont Rain on My Parade. The electronic stuff is used to depict loneliness in By Myself/Come Back to Me. And she also sings words somebody wrote to piano practicing exercices, a marginal connection to a recent list thread. Clinton bed-post notch Babs also does a bit of middle-eastern wailing at one point (roots music for her?) and the sitar section is interesting, but most of it is pure unadulterated Barbra singing over a mish-mash of instruments and arrangements under the tutelage of musical director Jack Parnell, with a credit to Larry(M*A*S*H) Gelbart for some soliloquy dialogue and liner notes by Mort Goode (who also did the notes for my treasured Coral classic Themes from Horror Movies!) Now I've never been a Barbra fan, but if I can appreciate Yma I can appreciate Barbra's voice too as a wonderful instrument. I was almost able to listen to the LP all the way through in one sitting. It was worth the buck for the curiosity value alone, and as many of you have said, there is still a lot of strange stuff to discover out there, often in the least expected places. BTW, I saw the supposed world premiere of Paul Bartel's Lust in the Dust at the Bridge Theater in San Francisco. Lainie was a hot zaftig mama on screen (some pics pop up on usenet ocasionally), but Tab "Dorian Gray" Hunter looked good in person three rows in front of me. Divine should have sung Donkey Serenade to cap the funniest scene in the movie. JB Twist, writing my Concerto for Washing Machine with Unbalanced Load # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) More Mexican Horror Music Date: 30 May 1997 18:59:07 -0400 > Subject: (exotica) Santo Soundtrack > Date: Wednesday, May 14, 1997 12:13 PM > > "Santo y Blue Demon Contra los Monstruos"(1969) featured a fairly interesting > soundtrack. The credits listed "Director Musical: Gustavo Cesar Carreon" Who also appears in the credits of "The Brainiac" (aka "El Baron del Terror" 1961), this time with his last name spelled "Carrion". Although, as this was the English language version, I'm thinking that a U.S. titler "corrected" the spelling of his name (kind of cool name for a horror soundtrack composer, though). In this film he has an orchestra at his disposal, but the results aren't as unique as in the above Santo movie. Much of this one sounds like an early 40's Hollywood Poverty Row horror flick. But other passages are rather modern & abstract, creating some nicely eerie effects. Does anyone know more about him? I'll have to keep a closer eye on these Mexi-horror credits. Somewhat related to the "sampling ethics" thread that passed through here recently is this item from the scene reports section in the latest issue of Juxtapoz: "The Outsider Art Fair was more exploitative than ever this year. Pano pieces (handkerchiefs intricately detailed with ballpoint pen drawings originally created by Chicano inmates to trade for cigarettes within prison walls) were being sold for $275.00 with no credit given to the original artists. Blood money runs thick." (note: there should be a "~" over the "n" in "Pano", but I couldn't put it there -- duh) m.ace ecam@voicenet.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: HOUSEOBOB@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) who is Lainie Kazan? Date: 31 May 1997 10:58:13 -0400 (EDT) As far as I am concerned, Lainie's biggest claim to fame was at least one Playboy appearance which was a highlight of my teenage years. I think the issue is still in my parent's basement. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "kevin king" Subject: (exotica) anne francis Date: 31 May 1997 13:29:01 -0500 While on the topic of mystery women: What about Anne Francis, with that distinguishing beauty mark? I've been listening to the Honey West soundtrack which is great... (scan plus sample of this and a few new others at http://www.radix.net/~xanadu/spyjazz/spyjazz.html ) and have been wondering what other appearances Frances has made. I'm fairly certain she was on a number of tv shows in the 60's, but only remember her as that mannequin come-to-life in my nomination for the creepiest Twilight Zone episode. That one used to give me nightmares. kevin king xanadu@radix.net http://www.radix.net/~xanadu # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Steve Sando Subject: Re: (exotica) anne francis Date: 31 May 1997 11:05:16 -0700 >While on the topic of mystery women: > >What about Anne Francis, with that distinguishing beauty mark? Back to Streisand, Francis played her gal pal in the film version of Funny Girl but apparently La Streisand had most of her scenes cut. I saw Anne on an infomercial for beauty products not too long ago and she looked very well preserved! I always thought there was some connection to Francis and the Barbie doll but I might be making this up. * * * Steve Sando, Coconut Grove Media PO Box 78146, San Francisco, CA 94107 vox: 415 648 5803, fax: 415 282 4394, email:steve@mrlucky.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) anne francis Date: 31 May 1997 14:17:54 -0400 > From: kevin king > To: exotica@xmission.com > Subject: (exotica) anne francis > Date: Saturday, May 31, 1997 2:29 PM > > While on the topic of mystery women: > > What about Anne Francis, with that distinguishing beauty mark? I've > been listening to the Honey West soundtrack which is great > > wondering what other appearances Frances has made. Forbidden Planet!!! Complete with your standard 1950's skinnydippin' scene. And of course the killer score by Louis & Bebe Barron. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "J. Diamond" Subject: (exotica) William Burroughs Date: 31 May 1997 11:51:36 -0700 Just scored "Call Me Burroughs on ESP It's all spoken word by the man with excerpts from Naked Lunch and Nova Express Liner notes in both english and french by Emmett Williams and Jean Jacques Lebel respectively. Dated 1965 Pretty fucked up brilliance and a bit of swearing. I'd love to play this on my show so listen for it if you listen;) Who knows, maybe I'll get kicked off the air for playing a BIG LOUD MOTHERFUCKER over the airwaves Great great stuff indeed. Is this on CD ? Does anyone know ? Jack # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E (small world dept.) Date: 31 May 1997 15:18:08 -0400 > From: Vernon Stoltz > Subject: Re: (exotica) M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E > Date: Sunday, May 18, 1997 10:51 PM > > One very common thrift store record is Disney's "It's a Small World" (I > have a 1964 version with a booklet inside). My first reaction? What a > highly obnoxious record, with it's endless repetition of that exceedingly > cheerful melody over the entire two sides of the record. > But with a closer look, there are some perhaps classic 'exotica' moments > on the record, particularly on side 2. Here we find Middle Eastern I finally got around to digging that very edition of the record out of the old kiddie record stash. I do agree -- Side 2 is the more 'exotic' one. The narration definitely adds to the fun. Surprisingly, I didn't find the album all that painful, which maybe scares me more (for pain, personally, there's nothing like a Mitch Miller album). For another branch of exotica, an instrumental passage in the "big finish" section sounds very Rat Pack/Las Vegas to me (would have been fun to see the mechano-puppets for a Las Vegas section). Considering that the "Small World" ride/exhibit was created for the 1964 N.Y. World's Fair, I have to wonder what the international attendees thought of the sometimes bizarre portrayals of themselves. Also in the stash, I discovered a "Small World" 45: OFFICIAL SOUVENIR RECORD from Walt Disney's "IT'S A SMALL WORLD" at the New York World's Fair It's an edit of material from the album in a cardboard mailer / picture sleeve. I think it came from a relative who went to the fair. Strangely, the single is more painful than the full-length album. It's Disney's World Overall, m.ace ecam@voicenet.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) William Burroughs Date: 31 May 1997 15:25:27 -0400 > From: J. Diamond > Subject: (exotica) William Burroughs > Date: Saturday, May 31, 1997 2:51 PM > > Just scored "Call Me Burroughs on ESP > Great great stuff indeed. Is this on CD ? Does anyone know ? Yes. Rhino. R2 71848. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jessica Cameron Subject: (exotica) Sun Ra as Dan and Dale!!!! (???) Date: 31 May 1997 18:16:49 -0400 I don't know how many list members read the "for sale" vinyl newsgroup, but recently someone was selling a Dan and Dale Play "Batman" (or some sim. title) LP and claiming that it was actually done by Sun Ra--my reaction was "yeah, and I've got some beachfront property..." and some follow-ups like "get out!" and "really?" were posted, but today, this one showed up..... >I don't think it is kosher. In my opinion the Sun Ra -Batman appearance is >on an LP of Neal Hefti arrangements played by a small group, including the >the tune Mr Freeze", because it includes some weird organ playing that sounds very >Ra (sorry I don't have the proper title or catalog number at my fingertips, I think it's on RCA). I don't know of any of >the numberous Batman recordings being confirmed by Ra or any noteworthy scholar as "the one" but from what >Ra and others have said I'm sure it was only one record, so it comes down to a question of >which one. I kind of find this hard to believe, too, but truth is weirder than fiction, right? Any ideas? Thanks for the space, Jessica ^_^ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bag@hubris.net Subject: (exotica) Werner, Doris and Russ Date: 31 May 1997 19:27:11 -0700 (PDT) I am getting really picky with my spending on records now as my latest round of purchases has filled up my tiny apartment. Still, can't pass up a good buy. So, today I found another Werner Muller London Phase 4 recording (my third) and like this one best! It is called Hawaiian Swing and I highly recommend it. I also found several 78 albums in near perfect condition. They looked they never made it out of the store: A Stan Kenton Progressive Jazz set (with a heavy dose of Pete Rugolo), a Red Norvo set (the famous vibist) and "Marimba Classics by Doris Stockton, Marimba with Russ Case and His Orchestra." How wonderful it was to play an undamaged and hardly played (if played at all)78 on a good player with a new 78 stylus! I've been biased all these years against 78s when the real problem was how well they were damaged! Good 78's played properly sound wonderful! In any case, Doris's selections were ALMOST all classical. As one marimbist (Leigh Stevens) told me in an interview "If J.S. Bach were alive today, he'd write for the marimba." However, one of the pieces would probably not have come from Mr. Bach's hand: Tico Tico. With Mr. Case's approach and Ms. Stockton's playing, this performance comes off nicely. Couldn't get to the one store to grab those Lainie Kazan LPs. I'll have to wait until next week...if they still are there. THEN, I'll have to find the Playboy magazine that Ms. Kazan was featured in, not to mention rent Lust in the Dust. Thanks for all the information about Ms. Kazan. Seems I learn about actors and actresses AFTER I learn about them through their recordings. For a while I thought Lizabeth Scott was a primarilly a singer from her RCA LP (as far as I know, she only had one: "Lizabeth" and it probably was only in mono). Only after I did a web search did I learn she was, at one point, a Hollywood star. She never completely made it, and her album was on the trailing end of her career (about the time she starred in an Elvis Presley flick). I like the album and now want to see some of her film noir classics. I wonder how many other actresses I will be introduced to in this fashion. Probably many. If an actress or actor hasn't recorded an album, she wanted to. Likewise, singers usually find themself in at least one movie (although we often wish they had stayed off the celluloid!). The world of popular culture does not have strict boundaries, thank you. Byron Caloz # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "J. Diamond" Subject: (exotica) Stan Kenton-Progressive Jazz Date: 31 May 1997 21:41:29 -0700 >I also found several 78 albums in near perfect condition. They looked they >never made it out of the store: A Stan Kenton Progressive Jazz set (with a >heavy dose of Pete Rugolo), That there Progressive Jazz rekkid o' Kenton's is 1 damn cool rekkid. Seek out "This Is My Theme". It is a spoken word beatnik poetry piece with June Christy and features Jack Costanzo on bongos! Predates Kerouac by 12 years! You will not be dissapointed and just may have a new love of all time! Yeah, Rugolo was Kenton's chief arranger for a number of years and that's Esquivel's greatest love in as far as his biggest influence for the way that Pete arranged the trumpets for the Kenton Orchestra. Kenton was a genius in a number ways, the title for that record being 1 of them which by the way was released in 1947. That orchestra another by the way was to become almost the entire west coast jazz scene in Los Angeles of the 1950's after Kenton split the west coast and almost the entire orchestra stayed. Great shit indeed! Jack # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender.