From: exotica-owner@xmission.com To: exotica-digest@xmission.com Subject: exotica Digest V2 #12 Reply-To: exotica@xmission.com Errors-To: exotica-owner@xmission.com Precedence: exotica Digest Wednesday, 10 July 1996 Volume 02 : Number 012 In this issue: Re: The Next Collecting Trend Re: Young Savage FL Update Re: The Next Collecting Trend Re: The Next Collecting Trend Re: HONEYMOON POLL Hello from Georgia Re: The Next Collecting Trend Those ole' wigged wonders Re: The Next Collecting Trend Re: Hello from Georgia Re: Oahu--Hawaii/Lyman Re: The Next Big Thing Re: The Next Collecting Trend Re: Young Savage FL Update Re: Flight FINAL The Next, Next , Next Big Thing Re: The Next Big Thing Re: The Next Collecting Trend Re: Those ole' wigged wonders Re: Hello from Georgia Re: The Next, Next , Next Big Thing Re: Peter Thomas (The New Astronautic Sound) error with Zounds zamples @ DADA'QUARIUMS Re: The Next Big Thing Byron Werner See the end of the digest for information on subscribing to the exotica or exotica-digest mailing lists and on how to retrieve back issues. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ken Brogdon Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 08:40:35 -0500 Subject: Re: The Next Collecting Trend At 11:47 PM 7/9/96 -0700, you wrote: > >> >>Will the folk boom be the next one? >> >>Craig > Nope. It will be bluegrass. kb ------------------------------ From: "Dave Lamont" Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 09:52:17 EDT Subject: Re: Young Savage FL Update Laura - sign me up for the mailing list. Also, how do I get on the Bomp! list?? Thanks DL ------------------------------ From: patrick@xpedite.com (Patrick Cashin) Date: Wed, 10 Jul 96 10:10:04 EDT Subject: Re: The Next Collecting Trend - ----- Begin Included Message ----- From owner-exotica@mail.xmission.com Wed Jul 10 10:08:36 1996 Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 08:40:35 -0500 X-Sender: kbrogdon@services.state.mo.us X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: exotica@xmission.com At 11:47 PM 7/9/96 -0700, you wrote: > >> >>Will the folk boom be the next one? >> >>Craig > >>>>>>>>>Nope. It will be bluegrass. kb - ----- End Included Message ----- You're all wrong. It's going to be POLKA!!! ------------------------------ From: guinto@id.ucsb.edu (Marie Guinto) Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 08:07:20 -0800 Subject: Re: The Next Collecting Trend >>>Will the folk boom be the next one? >>> >>>Craig >> >>>>>>>>>>Nope. It will be bluegrass. kb > > > >----- End Included Message ----- > > >You're all wrong. It's going to be POLKA!!! I have to agree on this POLKA I've recently been obssessed with POLKA. You don't realize it until you suddenly crave it and need it. (no I don't have a problem) For any of you that want to give it ago, may I suggest two of my favorite guys, Myron Floren and of course Frankie Yankovic. Also going along the theme of Polka I think the accordian is going to have a huge comeback. Marie ------------------------------ From: Jonathan Brainin Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 11:09:19 -0700 Subject: Re: HONEYMOON POLL lee@anti.com wrote: > > OK, so I'm getting married in October and we still haven't decided > where to spend our honeymoon, though we've narrowed it down to two > choices: > > Tahiti > > or > > Get in the car and drive through small towns, maybe in the midwest, > and go to every thrift store we can find. > > What would you choose?????? > > > Lee That's a real no brainer: go to Tahiti. You can always tour the Midwest. Jonathan ------------------------------ From: Jon Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 11:12:56 -0400 Subject: Hello from Georgia Greetings to all you cool cats and kittens out there. I'm new to the list, and excited about being on it. My name is Jon and I am living and working in Atlanta. I just graduated from the University of Georgia in June and during all of my four years there I worked at WUOG, 90.5fm, the UGA station. For two of those years I was Music Director there. This last year there I went back to just Dj'ing and my main shift was doing a show called "Who Put The Bomp?". It is a show that focuses on music from the 50's and 60's. Until I got a hold of it, mainly you would hear old garage, surf, rockalbilly, and R&B. It was wonderful then, but I put my own twist on the show once I took over. I made the show era-specific, instead of genre-specific. Pretty much anything from the 50's and 60's that was crazy and fun and weird I would play. I played German beer-drinking songs, square dances with calls, groovy jazz, roller-skating organ music, and then of course plenty of cool-lounge. One of my very favorite songs and as a matter of fact the very last one I ever played on the show is "Comin' Home Baby" by Mel Torme. Who out there has heard it? I also love Esquivel of course, Perez Prado, Henri Rene, the Three Suns, Henry Mancini. Oh, the list could just keep on going. I must leave now, because I am at work, but if there is anyone out there who knows any cool tips on places to go or see here in Atlanta,let me know, because I have been out of the loop for awhile. Bye-Bye, JON ------------------------------ From: Laurie Chase Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 08:12:45 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: The Next Collecting Trend > > Personally, my feeling has been for some time that the next collector's > revival will be with old hillbilly/country & western records. > --Jon Johnson > erik@top.monad.net > You are definately on to something, Jon. I collect 78 rpm records, and the big items are now hillbilly/C&W. The songs are fingersnapping and funny, and downright melodic. Of course, I am not talking about the new C&W crap you hear on commercial radio, I am talking about Hank Williams Sr., Marty Robbins, Rose Maddox & the Maddox Brothers, Little Jimmy Dickens, T. Texas Tyler, Jimmy Rogers, Buck Owens, Tennesee Ernie Ford, even Les Paul and Mary Ford (who have a great Hawaiian album called LOVER'S LUAU, too). If you can find these old 78's at garage sales or thrift stores, they very well may be worth $ on the next big trend. Laurie Chase Portland, OR ------------------------------ From: ajackson@yorku.ca (Anthony Jackson) Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 11:50:43 -0500 Subject: Those ole' wigged wonders Has anyone out there heard of the music of one Charles Trenet? I've just picked up a tribute to his songs by the Guy Luypaert and his Orchestra. It's that light and occasionally oh so flip sort of classical exotica of the type made famous by the infamous100 Strings. It certainly is a sub-genre of sorts, but when done well it does have its charms. Can anyone recommend any more of this cheesy take on the classical tradition? Aj ------------------------------ From: "Derek Grime" Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 12:11:09 -0400 Subject: Re: The Next Collecting Trend On Jul 10, 10:10am, Patrick Cashin wrote: > You're all wrong. It's going to be POLKA!!! My money is on scary country and western! - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------- Derek Grime EMail: derek@coredp.com C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures http://www.coredp.com/index.html - -------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ From: guinto@id.ucsb.edu (Marie Guinto) Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 09:19:02 -0800 Subject: Re: Hello from Georgia Hi Jon, >I ever played on the show is "Comin' Home Baby" by Mel Torme. Who out >there has heard it? Yes that's a great tune. I play it frequently on my show (KCSB 91.9 fm, Santa Barbara, CA) I also love Esquivel of course, Perez Prado, Henri >Rene, the Three Suns, Henry Mancini. Definately great stuff. If you are >new on the list there has been recent praise of SHOT IN THE DARK a new >compilation of present day artists doing Mancini tunes. Also of course >the capitol series ULTRA LOUNGE is great. 9 cd's are out now (12 total), >they are fab. Marie ------------------------------ From: Ottotemp@aol.com Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 12:22:03 -0400 Subject: Re: Oahu--Hawaii/Lyman Lyman plays Friday afternoons at bout one at the New Otani Kaimana Beach Hotel If you see him tell him Otto from Los Angeles says hi ------------------------------ From: ajackson@yorku.ca (Anthony Jackson) Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 12:51:52 -0500 Subject: Re: The Next Big Thing >Will the folk boom be the next one? > >Craig Predictions of folk revivals are so frequent that I once heard a two-hour radio show that highlighted the trend that never materialized at verious times over the years. They played cuts by all those folkies that were supposed to be harbingers of more to come (eg Suzanne Vega, Tracy Chapman, etc...) but turned out to be one-off success stories. I have nothing against folk music and have a sizable collection of standards, but I doubt the success it achieved in the sixties will be recreated anytime soon. Like so many other kinds of music, exotica included, folk has become one niche among many thriving in an industry that is becoming increasingly fractured by diversifying consumer tastes. It is fun to speculate on what the next big thing will be, and it is especially rewarding when a favourite artist or style is "discovered" by the general public. But I find that so much emphasis is being placed on "catching the wave" that the hype and self-justification have become more important than the the music itself. My own pet theory is that all of this retro-sis, the fascination for the styles of music and fashion popular in the past, is indicative of a fin de siecle malaise that will not dissipate until everyone wakes up on Jan. 2, 2000 and realizes that it's just another year. What I'm looking forward to is the day when the creativity that is currently so stifled by a preoccupation with the past will again step into the unknown and reinvent th notion of what music is, not in the meta-rational fashion of a John Cage but in a spiritual/ tribal fashion that typifies a lot of ethnic music. Aj ------------------------------ From: prospect@tt.net (Chris Strouth) Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 11:59:37 -0500 Subject: Re: The Next Collecting Trend The next big trend is going to be Psyche records (like the United States of America, and silly spoken word stuff like Flight F I N A L) and trash from the 70's (truckstop records, and disco) , they not popular in the mass, people who were into it at the time try to deny they once held it dear, and a lot of the stuff is really great. It is esantily hillbilly revival music , CW Mcoy , Hasil Adkins cut from the same cloth. plus it is really plentiful I guess it follows the logic that if you want to know what the next big trend in hipster clothing is look at what the homeless are wearing, six months later it will be all the rage - -Chris END OF TRANSMISSION... ------------------------------ From: "Laura Taylor" Date: 10 Jul 1996 13:25:39 -0400 Subject: Re: Young Savage FL Update RE>>Young Savage FL Update 7/10/96 HEY YOU! you didn't leave a name, address or anything...so, snap to it! laura@wusf.usf.edu - -------------------------------------- Date: 7/10/96 10:14 AM To: Laura Taylor From: exotica@xmission.com Laura - sign me up for the mailing list. Also, how do I get on the Bomp! list?? Thanks DL ------------------------------ From: patrick@xpedite.com (Patrick Cashin) Date: Wed, 10 Jul 96 13:59:23 EDT Subject: Re: Flight FINAL Chris Strouth wrote about: >>>> and silly spoken word stuff like Flight F I N A L I HAD this record and some loser stole it from me! My friends and I took the whole A-side of the record and sampled it over the Velvet Underground's "I Think I'm Falling In Love" run backward at half speed over and over. It would send the unrepentant screaming out into the night. Most powerful thing this side of Rev. Jack Van Impe! ------------------------------ From: HOUSEOBOB@aol.com Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 14:18:23 -0400 Subject: The Next, Next , Next Big Thing What I really want to know is what part of our musical landscape NOW will be rediscovered in CD form by our those people who are now infants. What do you think? ------------------------------ From: Craig Norton Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 11:23:25 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: The Next Big Thing Interesting responses to my suggestion of folk as the "next big thing" in collecting. The suggestion of early country & western is intriguing, especially in light of the massive popularity of that form during the past 5 years or so. There have always been cross over artists, like Patsy, Glen Campbell, Charlie Rich, Kenny Rogers. It seems much larger now than ever before. But I doubt that todays C&W fans have interest in past recordings. To tie in to exotica now. I find that the steel guitar in a lot of old country is not very far removed from exotica. In fact, music that I have heard by Bryant and West sounds as fresh today as Esquivel. Les Paul certainly crossed all boundaries (I have the Lover's Luau LP too!). I am not sure how relevant the year 2000 is to all of this, but as long as there are boomers, there will be nostalgia trends. As vinyl becomes more scarce, so too may vinyl collecting. During the past 2 years, I have noticed a marked decrease in quality vinyl at garage sales, etc. Lots of metal and dance CD's though, very cheap but highly unlistenable. Craig ------------------------------ From: gene@cadmus.com (Gene Hopstetter, Jr.) Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 14:42:24 -0400 Subject: Re: The Next Collecting Trend Chris Strouth sed, >The next big trend is going to be Psyche records (like the United States >of America... ...and Culpepper's Orchard and White Noise and Comus and Fifty Foot Hose... my point is, collecting psyche has been popular for quite a while. Heck, I myself have been doing it since 1986. Sorry, but I don't think psyche collecting's gonna get any bigger. Too bad, though, because the major labels got tons of acetate I'd love to see reissued by them, and not by tiny reissue labels, who charge $20 to $40 a pop, but hey, if you want it, you pay for it, no? But maybe there's no parallel here between exotica and psyche. Recordings by artists like Martin Denny, although they catered to less-than-very-popular tastes, were still relatively easy to acquire, right? as compared to, f'rinstance, a copy of an album by a German underground psyche outfit, like Nekronomicon's "Tips Zum Selbstmort" of which only 500 were made and currently fetch $1,000 per copy? I mean, hey, I'm not tripping over Brainticket albums like I am "Whipped Cream and Other Delights" at flea markets. >trash from the 70's (truckstop records, and disco) Yup. I wouldn't give up my copy of Morton Downey, Jr.'s "I Love America" and my Lenny and the Squigtones album for nothing. "Pornography teaches us what to forget." -- Bruce Adams +++++++++++++++++ Internet Publishing Specialist + Gene Hopstetter, Jr. + Cadmus Digital Solutions +++++++++++++++++ http://cjs.cadmus.com ------------------------------ From: sax therapy Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 13:45:30 -0600 Subject: Re: Those ole' wigged wonders Anthony Jackson wrote: > > Has anyone out there heard of the music of one Charles Trenet? I've just > picked up a tribute to his songs by the Guy Luypaert and his Orchestra. > It's that light and occasionally oh so flip sort of classical exotica I must admit I have a 10" LP on French Pathe by Trenet. It has a nice cover drawing by Jean Cocteau on the cover and that's the main reason I picked up in the first place. Now that you mention it I think I'll give it a listen. BTW does anyone know of any more cover art by Cocteau? - -Saul :| :| <::< .::\ \:/ :::| :::| :~~/ :::| .::\ :::\ :\:| >::> `::| /:\ :| :|:| :::, :| `::| :::/ `::| saul smaizys/saxmania@ripco.com :| .,:' .........................web page=http://pages.ripco.com/~saxmania .............................voice (312)907.8229 fax (312)907.8521 - -- ------------------------------ From: "Steve Sando" Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 11:57:56 +0000 Subject: Re: Hello from Georgia > >I ever played on the show is "Comin' Home Baby" by Mel Torme. Who > >out there has heard it? > Yes that's a great tune. I play it frequently on my show (KCSB 91.9 > fm, Santa Barbara, CA) Don't forget the swell version by Cy Coleman. That was the theme to my show, Mister Lucky. Coconut Grove, publishers of MisterLUCKY PO Box 78146, San Francisco, CA 94107 http://www.wco.com/~coconutg/ "Strange how potent cheap music is" - Noel Coward ------------------------------ From: lee@anti.com Date: Wed, 10 Jul 96 12:03:59 PST Subject: Re: The Next, Next , Next Big Thing Worst case scenerio... They'll wonder what the hell these things are in a plastic box with photos and text, plus a funny little silver thing...cause 20 years from now those CDs will have oxidized and won't contain any music! ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: The Next, Next , Next Big Thing Author: exotica@xmission.com at INTERNET Date: 7/10/96 12:02 PM What I really want to know is what part of our musical landscape NOW will be rediscovered in CD form by our those people who are now infants. What do you think? ------------------------------ From: ping1241@ping.be Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 19:31:47 +0100 Subject: Re: Peter Thomas (The New Astronautic Sound) eric wrote: >there are only two vinal peter thomas you can get in the usa, one is >chariots of the gods (great) can you give us the label info? thanx! johan dada ------------------------------ From: dada@ping.be (Johan Dada Vis) Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 19:30:33 +0100 Subject: error with Zounds zamples @ DADA'QUARIUMS Due to a stupid typing error of mine, these zound zamples have been unavailable for the last couple of days - shame on me! I humbly appologize for this inconvenience. Everything should work right now. Please visit again. Greetings from Johan |)/\|)/\ dada@ping.be home: Wivina 15, 1702, Belgium **************************************************************************** DADA'QUARIUMS "www.ping.be/~ping1241/" has ExZotica reviews Zound Zamples ExZotica/novelty records for sale **************************************************************************** ------------------------------ From: bstewart@ids2.idsonline.com Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 16:08:15 -0400 Subject: Re: The Next Big Thing At 11:23 AM 7/10/96 -0700, you wrote: > >Interesting responses to my suggestion of folk as the "next big thing" in >collecting. > >The suggestion of early country & western is intriguing, especially in >light of the massive popularity of that form during the past 5 years or >so. There have always been cross over artists, like Patsy, Glen >Campbell, Charlie Rich, Kenny Rogers. It seems much larger now than >ever before. But I doubt that todays C&W fans have interest in past recordings. Speaking of c/w, I just saw Chet Atkins album "Chet Atkins in Hollywood" (RCA LSP-1993) released on vinyl by Classic Music Direct. According to Classic the following discription applies: "An audiophile mainstay, transferred from recently discovered 2-track session tapes. A rare venture by Atkins outside of his home base of Nashville to RCA's famed Music Center of the World studios in Hollywood. He faces conductor Robert Farnon and Orchestra or, as Chet calls them, 'a field of fiddlers'. A very 'live in the studio' Living Stereo recording from 1959". Anybody have any take on this one? Thanks, Bryan ------------------------------ From: Irwin Chusid Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 16:51:20 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Byron Werner Br. Cleve speaks the truth. It was Byron Werner who first introduced me to the recordings of Raymond Scott and Esquivel. As I've told every interviewer in the past 4 years who's asked how I discovered these forgotten geniuses (and Space Age Bach Pad music in general): Byron is Ground Zero for these revivals. And, yes, Barrence Whitfield gave me a cassette of Scott 78s at almost exactly the same time as Byron. What I really wish someone would do is champion a Barrence Whitfield movement. Why this guy isn't better known in the US for his spectacular R&B is a mystery. Hell of a performer--which seems to be better recognized in Europe than in the US. Some enterprising label should sign the guy to a lifetime contract. /irwin chusid ------------------------------ End of exotica Digest V2 #12 **************************** To subscribe to exotica Digest, send the command: subscribe exotica-digest in the body of a message to "majordomo@xmission.com". 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