From: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com (exotica-digest) To: exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: exotica-digest V2 #1010 Reply-To: exotica-digest Sender: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes exotica-digest Tuesday, July 10 2001 Volume 02 : Number 1010 In This Digest: Re: (exotica) question 2 (exotica) please ignore just a test (exotica) la casa azul and other things (exotica) Dean Elliott CD out now Re: (exotica) Dean Elliott CD out now Re: (exotica) TV "Party" (exotica) Pervasive Percussion - what is it? Re: (exotica) Pervasive Percussion - what is it? Re: (exotica) la casa azul and other things Re: (exotica) question 2 (exotica) [obit] H.S. Grossbardt (exotica) recent finds Re: (exotica) recent finds Re: (exotica) recent finds Re: (exotica) recent finds Re: (exotica) recent finds (exotica) persistence of vinyl (exotica) Martin Denny "Quiet Village" Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl (exotica) Retro Cocktail Hour (exotica) ktel anyone? Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl (exotica) New Music Xfer Email Discussion List (exotica) Physics Yum Yum Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 15:17:58 +0200 From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) question 2 > > is there any interest in near mint copies of many of the early original TV > > spy jazz and the like, and also many records by tv stars singing... I would like to have "Rockford" and "The Odd Couple"!!! Mo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 16:50:04 +0200 (MEST) From: Hemmel@gmx.net Subject: (exotica) please ignore just a test please ignore just a test - -- GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.net GMX Tipp: Machen Sie Ihr Hobby zu Geld bei unserem Partner 1&1! http://profiseller.de/info/index.php3?ac=OM.PS.PS003K00596T0409a # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 00:53:54 +0800 From: "william" Subject: (exotica) la casa azul and other things hi all, well, yesterday i picked up this disc by a spanish band called la casa azul. they were on a listening station at this one cd shop so i gave it a listen. they reminded me of the free design some. i was impressed enough to buy it immediately. now, after listening to it more closely. i don't feel it sounds so much like the free design but more like hideki kaji. but very good. i think some on this list would really enjoy this(alan and chuck spring to mind among others). i'm not sure if this qualifies as soft pop or not. but some of the best new stuff i've heard in awhile. now i'm curious about this label "elephant records" anyone have any other bands on this label to reccomend to me? they have a website here: http://www.elefant.com but i haven't investigated the sound samples yet. i also picked up one of those apres-midi comps chuck had recently posted about. the one i have is called ecru and quite nice. one of the tracks on here is called "montage from how sweet it is" by the love generation. the writing credit is "j. webb". would this be jack webb? and what's the story on the love generation? it seems like this may of been discussed recently and i have forgotten what was said. oh, and i saw a disc by preston epps called "bongo rock". it seems like this may of been mentioned recently too. but i can't remember. is this something i should go back for? william in taipei. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 19:59:39 +0200 From: "Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek" Subject: (exotica) Dean Elliott CD out now Dean Elliott's Zounds! What Sounds! has officialy been reissued by Basta Audio/Visuals. This is from Bastamusic.com: ZOUNDS! WHAT SOUNDS!, the legendary 1963 album by Dean Elliot & His Swinging Big, Big Band, is now on CD as part of Basta's Essential Reissues series. The album is a wild collaboration between orchestra director Elliot and cartoon sound effects wizard Phil Kaye. The inspiration for Zounds! came when the L.A.-based bandleader was tooling around Woodland Hills, and stopped for a traffic light. His ears caught the rhythm of a cement mixer nearby, and he started snapping his fingers in synch with the mixer's gyrations. "This has a terrific beat," thought Elliot. "How would it go with a melody?" Thus was born the woofer-wasting, tweeter-trashing Zounds! What Sounds! Elliot's arrangements combine the orchestral explosiveness of Nelson Riddle with the percussive deviltry of Spike Jones: brass and reeds compete for soundspace against short-wave signals, mechanical teeth, squeaking doors, bowling balls, hoot owls, pogo stick springs and underwater detonations. The sound effects were courtesy of Phil Kaye, a sonic alchemist whose mayhem underscored Tom & Jerry cartoons. The master tape of Zounds! that Basta received from Capitol was in excellent condition. Inferior-quality bootlegs have been circulating for years, reflecting the collector's status of this legendary LP. Sadly, Elliot passed away in 1999 and did not live to see the commercial re-release of this remarkable album. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 14:52:39 EDT From: Dlsmay@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Dean Elliott CD out now > His ears caught the rhythm of a cement mixer nearby, and he started snapping his fingers in synch with the mixer's gyrations. "This has a terrific beat," thought Elliot. "How would it go with a melody?" That's two songs inspired by L.A. cement mixers - the other being "Cement Mixer (Puttee Puttee)" by Slim Gaillard. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 15:00:35 EDT From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) TV "Party" In a message dated 7/7/1 3:15:02 PM, tikiliki@bellsouth.net wrote: >James Brown as an Evangelist with psychic powers. He really didn't >have to act at all, just his always cool self with that slight pompadour. Fried, Dyed, and Laid to the Side # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 14:02:55 -0700 From: Paul Penna Subject: (exotica) Pervasive Percussion - what is it? Any info about this album would be appreciated. It's a reel-to reel tape on the Encore label (catalog number E 28), an outfit renowned for scarfing recordings from other budget labels and repackaging them in an attempt to cash in on whatever fad was popular at the time. The title and the cover graphics are an obvious knockoff of the PP percussion albums of the time, but the tracks themselves seem to be aimed at the Martin Denny market. It's a small ensemble, piano, prominent percussion, vibes or xylophone, bass plus sax and trombone. Three tracks feature prominent "bird calls" in the Denny vein, and one ("Eso es el amor") have guys roaring and snarling like lions or panthers. Here's a track listing: Temptation An Occasional Man Mambo Inn Eso es el amor Mambo Italiano The Bad and the Beautiful Return to Paradise Cool Mambo Caravan Cuban Caper I suspect these tracks were issued at other times, perhaps in different combinations, on other albums with different titles. Any idea who was behind it, or the performers involved? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 17:24:16 -0500 From: Paul Wages Subject: Re: (exotica) Pervasive Percussion - what is it? Sounds like "Exotic Percussion and Brilliant Brass" by John Evans (Directional Sound DS 5006). Apparently it is actually the Francis Bay orchestra re-produced by Kirby Allan with Chaino. This album has some nice moments. > From: Paul Penna > > Any info about this album would be appreciated. > > It's a reel-to reel tape on the Encore label (catalog number E 28), an > outfit renowned for scarfing recordings from other budget labels and > repackaging them in an attempt to cash in on whatever fad was popular at > the time. The title and the cover graphics are an obvious knockoff of the # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 17:40:15 -0400 From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) la casa azul and other things At 12:53 AM 7/9/01 +0800, william wrote: > > i also picked up one of those apres-midi comps chuck had recently posted >about. the one i have is called ecru and quite nice. one of the tracks on >here is called "montage from how sweet it is" by the love generation. the >writing credit is "j. webb". would this be jack webb? and what's the story >on the love generation? it seems like this may of been discussed recently >and i have forgotten what was said. The Love Generation would probably be included in the "soft pop" category. (I believe that one song by them - at least - is on the exoticaring CD called "Dieingly Sad". I guess it hasn't gotten to you yet william.) The Love Generation were mentioned here recently by me actually. The context was the Wind Sky and Diamond record by Gabor Szabo. The "choir" on that record and a number of other records of the same period was led by the Bahler brothers who were also the main force behind The Love Generation. As far as "Montage from How Sweet it is" and J. Webb, please pardon me if I find some humor in the idea that you saw J.Webb and guessed Jack instead of Jimmy. "How Sweet it is" was a movie with James Garner and Debbie Reynolds with a mildly groovy soundtrack by Pat Williams. But there are two tunes written by Jim Webb and sung by - according to the liner notes anyway - "the Picardy Singers". That's obviously yet another name for those pesky little Bahler brothers, who are also known as The California Dreamers on other records. As to whether you should buy it, depends on your taste. I kind of doubt you'd like it but then again, there's that soft pop/pizzicato five connection. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 17:10:52 -0500 From: "Colleen Pyles" Subject: Re: (exotica) question 2 Anything from Hawaiian Eye? Or 77 Sunset Strip? - ---- Begin Original Message ---- From: PjB Sent: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 15:38:21 -0700 To: exotica@lists.xmission.com Subject: (exotica) question 2 is there any interest in near mint copies of many of the early original TV spy jazzand the like, and also many records by tv stars singing, =A0like ben casey etc etc? =A0i was at a shop today that had a TON of these kinds o= f records, all in great shape, and cheap. are these worth procuring? pb/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. - ---- End Original Message ---- Colleen _____________________________________ Get your free E-mail at http://www.ireland.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 10:14:28 -0400 From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) [obit] H.S. Grossbardt July 9, 2001 H. S. Grossbardt, 85, Record Store Founder, Dies By MATT SEDENSKY,NYTimes Harold S. Grossbardt, a founder of Colony Records, the famed collector's store now on Broadway at 49th Street in Manhattan, died on June 10 at his home in Aventura, Fla. He was 85. Mr. Grossbardt, who was known as Nappy, helped make Colony a fixture of Tin Pan Alley, the center of New York's music publishing industry. He founded the store in 1948 with his partner, Sidney Turk, and the first shop fast became popular with music lovers and musicians. In the 1950's, with nightclubs like the Copacabana and Birdland nearby, Colony, then at 52nd Street and Broadway, became a frequent late-night stop for concertgoers and nightclub patrons. Hundreds of musical artists, from Frank Sinatra to John Lennon to Michael Jackson, have passed through its doors. The store underwent a number of expansions, moving in 1970 to its current location. Mr. Grossbardt also operated Nappy's and Tin Pan Alley, two offspring of Colony, in the 1950's and 1960's. Mr. Grossbardt was born in Brooklyn, and went to work after the seventh grade. He was a salesman at the Melody Music Shop in Brooklyn and at Colony Sporting Goods. When that store closed, Mr. Grossbardt took it over and renamed it Colony Records. He worked there until his retirement in 1988. He is survived by his wife, Estelle; two sons, Michael J., of Roslyn, N.Y., and Alan R., of Great Neck, N.Y., who is an owner of Colony Records; a brother, Jerome, of Manhattan; a sister, Dorothy Capobianco, of Delray Beach, Fla.; and a grandson. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 11:57:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Bruce Lenkei Subject: (exotica) recent finds Stopped by a thrift store recently that I've been to half a dozen times. They never had anything besides classical, opera and show tunes, but all of a sudden this time they had a bunch of decent albums. Edmundo Ros - Hair Goes Latin Heard about this for a long time. Nice to finally find a copy. Its crazy ideas like this that make me keep buying this stuff. Fun. Quincy Jones - Big Band Bossa Nova Been looking for this for years. Even though it's out on cd now, it's still nice to get the original Lp. Some great funky tunes on this one. Kokee Band: Exotica 1970 A Sonny Lester project. From 1966, actually. A bunch of exotica classics are covered. Some very nice music. Ray Charles - Something Special Bright, shiny silver cover. Completely insane version of "Music to Watch Girls By", along with some slightly less insane songs. Lenny Dee - Relaxin' Some fairly mellowed-out goings on here, vocals on some tunes, punctuated by a few slightly more up-tempo tunes. Marty Gold - Skin Tight Wow. Great music, great half-naked-woman cover. The Brass Ring - Lara's Theme Extremely E-Z listening. Joe Bushkin - Night Sounds Light, relaxing jazzy sounds, mostly. George Shearing - Latin Escapade Great stuff here. I think this may be my favorite Shearing album so far. Nelson Riddle with 101 strings - Brass, Reeds & Strings Damned if this isnt one of the best 101 strings albums Ive heard. Packed with power and swing, no doubt thanks to Mr. Riddle. A big, bold sound. Some great titles too, like "Playboys Theme" and "Indiscreet". The Organ Masters The title of this escapes me, but it doesn't really matter as this was the cheesiest of the bunch. An all-organ combo plods through the hits of the day. Slightly amusing, but not a great album. - - bruce # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 12:04:32 -0400 From: "naile trismegistus" Subject: Re: (exotica) recent finds > Edmundo Ros - Hair Goes Latin > Heard about this for a long time. Nice to finally find a copy. Its crazy > ideas like this that make me keep buying this stuff. Fun. I don't have the original of this, but have heard a number of tracks from it on the Va-Ba-Boom! compilation of his stuff. Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. Hare Krishna with a latin beat. Who'd a thought? I had a good weekend for thrift store finds too, but will have to post later tonight, as I'm at work, and they're at home. - -K # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 15:55:15 -0400 From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) recent finds At 11:57 AM 7/9/01 -0400, Bruce Lenkei wrote: > >Kokee Band: Exotica 1970 >A Sonny Lester project. From 1966, actually. A bunch of exotica classics >are covered. Some very nice music. You got some nice records there. Thankfully I don't feel jealous since I've had most of them. (I agree about the George Shearing. That's definitely my favorite one of his.) Suddenly I question my own motivations but I was going to point out that in my opinion, the OTHER Kokee Band record - Hawaii and other exotica movie themes - is the better record. But maybe you have that one too. It's just so slow here lately. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 13:08:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Ben Waugh Subject: Re: (exotica) recent finds This is good. I had no idea there was a 2nd Kokee Band lp. That one must be particularly scarce - I've never seen a ref. to it. Only come across one copy of Exotica 1970 in all my thrift scouring days. - --- alan zweig wrote: I question my own motivations but I was > going to point out that in > my opinion, the OTHER Kokee Band record - Hawaii and > other exotica movie > themes - is the better record. > But maybe you have that one too. > It's just so slow here lately. ===== "What I need is a shot of Drambuie and some clean sheets." - Jack Nance __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 17:44:35 EDT From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) recent finds In a message dated 7/9/1 10:58:31 AM, lenkei@echonyc.com wrote: >George Shearing - Latin Escapade >Great stuff here. I think this may be my favorite Shearing album so far. anything with the name Shearing and Latin in the same title seems worthwhile. I have about 4 with him doing latin >Nelson Riddle with 101 strings - Brass, Reeds & Strings >Damned if this isnt one of the best 101 strings albums Ive heard. Packed >with power and swing, no doubt thanks to Mr. Riddle. A big, bold sound. >Some great titles too, like "Playboys Theme" and "Indiscreet". this one's a monster i agree..It was released on CD back in '87 and a pal gave me a copy about 4 years ago which is relegated to "permanent ownership" status..JB # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 20:06:05 -0400 From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) persistence of vinyl Alan said: >It's just so slow here lately. So okay, maybe we're due for me to roll out this query I throw out every couple of years. There should be enough new people to make it interesting. If everyone hasn't fallen asleep or gone off on vacation. The topic being: What are your earliest memories of records, record players, record playing, record buying, etc? What was the earliest favorite record you can recall? I've answered this twice before, but I guess I'm obligated. My early records were mostly 45s on the Golden Records label. My folks probably picked them up on the weekly trips to the Food Fair supermarket or Woolworth's. Our record player was a 4-speed tabletop model, with the single speaker in the front and a light-colored, textured vinyl covering. I can't remember the brand. Of course, playing records at the wrong speed was a standard fun activity. The earliest favorite I can determine is a Rocky & Bullwinkle single, "I'm Rocky's Pal" / "I Was Born To Be Airborne". It's cut by the genuine cartoon voice artists, and maintains the TV show's sense of humor. "Airborne" is okay, but nothing too exciting. A song by Rocky about how he loves to fly, with occasional jet swoops added in. "Rocky's Pal" is the hot side, basically Rocky and Bullwinkle doing a vaudeville act. Rocky introduces Bullwinkle. Bullwinkle sings his little song ("I'm Rocky's pal, I'm Rocky's pal / So greetings, culture buffs..."). They do some standup patter, with Bullwinkle doing a medium referential stuck needle bit. And on out with Bullwinkle's juggling act. It's an action-packed couple of minutes. I still have it, it's very worn, it's still a great side. So let's get rolling now... what are your early record memories? thanks, m.ace mace@ookworld.com http://ookworld.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 20:58:41 -0400 From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) Martin Denny "Quiet Village" The Exotic Sounds Of Martin Denny "Quiet Village" (Liberty Records/Stereo) The trouble with scoring big-name records like this, is that I'm not sure what sort of comments I can add to what's already been said. Well, it's a real nice set. Still a small, tight combo, but they seem settled into a very relaxed (but not lazy!) and confident groove by this point. I think personally, I prefer these albums with Julius Wechter. For whatever reasons, I just prefer his work to Lyman's, he seems a little more colorful to me. When did Wechter take over, anyway? I know Lyman is on the first two. A nice balance between easy tunes and busy tunes, and even the slow ones are inventive enough to maintain interest. Strangely, a few of the fast tunes strike me as having a sort of prog rock knottiness to the lines (sorry, I'm sure that comparison is distasteful to some). Well recorded. The hand drums crack wonderfully on some of the tunes. As usual, Sandy Warner on the cover, the silent member of the band. Nice liner notes by film director, John Sturges. I have to compare the version of "Quiet Village" to the version on "Exotica" sometime, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. It doesn't sound like it matches the rest of this album, but I seem to recall the earlier version sounding different as well. What's the official word on that? thanks, - --m.ace # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 19:38:16 -0700 From: "basic hip" Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl > So let's get rolling now... what are your early record memories? The very very earliest - I must have been around 3 or 4 - is Bozo Under the Sea. Just bought a Capitol Record Reader set of 78s of this not long ago for that very reason. :) Then I blank out for a few years and start getting memories again in 1965 starting with Roger Miller's Golden Hits. "You Can't Roller Skate In A Buffalo Herd" rocked my nine year old world. About a year later, I would spend many hours (alone) in our garage with our 1950s German console hi-fi listening to (over and over) The Lonely Bull The Smothers Brothers - I think it was "The Two Sides of". On the funny side was "Chocolate" and on the singing side was "Stella's Got A Brand New Dress", among others. A Sammy Davis Jr. 45 - Hey There Halloween Spooky Sounds 45 A Buddy Hackett comedy record - one of the tracks was about a diet and being buried in an envelope My Fair Lady The Good the Bad and the Ugly Then I got with it in 68 and 69 and started getting my cool records like: Creedence Blood Sweat and Tears Sly and the Family Stone The Doors Buffalo Springfield And an Animals 45 of Sky Pilot that I played to death. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 22:15:57 -0500 From: "Darrell Brogdon" Subject: (exotica) Retro Cocktail Hour You'll find music for belly dancing on this week's Retro Cocktail Hour webcast. A while back, yours truly was approached by the artistic director of Troupe Raghsidad, a local dance troupe, about collaborating on one of their performances. Instead of the traditional Middle Eastern tunes, her idea was to feature traditional dances set to classic exotica by Don Ralke, Enoch Light, Les Baxter and others. You can read all about it at: http://www.ljworld.com/section/living/story/58576 This week's show also features an interview with the troupe's artistic director, spiced with tunes from Troupe Raghsidad's upcoming concert. Elsewhere, you'll find tiki tunes by the Out Islanders and John Zorn; crime jazz by Stan Purdy, Pete Rugolo and Earle Hagen; bongo jazz by the great Mike Pacheco; music from Basta's Dean Elliott reissue; plus tunes by Arling and Cameron, Combustible Edison and the amazing "Laid Bare", with noir jazz by Skip Heller and the spoken words of John Gilmore. To hear The Retro Cocktail Hour on the web, just visit: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro.html Comments and requests always welcome. Thanks! Darrell Brogdon The Retro Cocktail Hour KANU FM 91.5 Visit The Retro Cocktail Hour at: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro.html Listen to The Retro Cocktail Hour at: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retrolisten.html # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 12:09:43 +0800 From: "william" Subject: (exotica) ktel anyone? k-tel anyone? they even have promotional cds you can make. hmm. http://www.ktel.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 12:34:27 +0200 From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl It's pretty touching how you try to start a game, Mike. Although I'm not against games, I guess, if theres nothing to say, then there's nothing to say, so why not just say nothing? I mean, I don't want to spoil anything here, but I think the list is not endangered if for a while it's running slower. If you want to hear it however, my first record was "Marina" by Rocco Granata and I used to play it a thousand times on a "Neckermann" radio with built-in record player. And of course everything was mono, but that didn't matter. I must have been 4 years old by then. The first records I remember I wanted to have and got for christmas were "Puppet On A String" by Sandie Shaw and an album by the Tremeloes called "Silence Is Golden"... Yes, silence is golden. Mo - -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de ......................................................................... Thierschstrasse 43, D 80538 Munchen, Germany e-mail: tiki@netsurf.de # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 03:47:02 -0700 From: bigshot Subject: (exotica) New Music Xfer Email Discussion List Hello, Computers and CD burners have made it possible for music collectors to create their own professional quality audio CDs. I have created an email discussion list for people who are creating CDs to archive their obsolete record and tape collections. This is a forum to share restoration and sound digitization techniques, to discuss ways to preserve music that is not currently available on commercial CDs, and to share your collections with others. All formats (Reel to Reel, Cassette, 78 rpm, 45 rpm, and 33 1/3 rpm) and all types of music are open for discussion. The group has just been formed, so get in on the ground floor and help to make it a useful resource. For more information, or to join the MusicXfer list, visit... http://www.topica.com/lists/musicxfer Thanks Steve Stephen Worth bigshot@spumco.com The Web: http://www.spumco.com Usenet: alt.animation.spumco Palace: cartoonsforum.com:9994 Spumco International 10859 Burbank Bl. Suite A North Hollywood, CA 91601 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 12:44:01 +0200 From: Ton =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=FCckert?= Subject: (exotica) Physics Yum Yum There's presently a series on Dutch radio called 'Science in music', today's episode, 'You quark me up', was about physics=20 and music and custum made for exoticats, so I've looked up the=20 URL's of the featured artist's websites and I give them to you along with some info I found there. Cheers, Ton Les Horribles Cernettes are the one and only High Energy Rock=20 Band. They sing about colliders, quarks, microwaves, antiprotons and Internet. They are known and loved by some 20000 High Energy=20 Physicists worldwide. Check these few songs to have an idea, and=20 if you are music producer, you have found your gold mine!=20 http://musiclub.cern.ch/cernettes/ This group of techies (engineers, scientists, computer geeks,=20 and NASA employees) performs pop and rock covers and original=20 songs inspired by our modern world. The World Wide Web,=20 television, and fast food - they're all subjects of Chromatics=20 originals. The Chromies have also written astronomically-correct a cappella songs to be used in classrooms for a project called=20 AstroCappella. The Chromatics have presented AstroCappella from=20 Palm Springs, California to Orlando, Florida, from Las Vegas to=20 Space Day on the Washington DC Mall, had their lyrics quoted in=20 the New York Times and their CD has flown in space! No kidding!=20 http://www.thechromatics.com/ Yo! This site is your ultimate resource for information about=20 Stephen Hawking the gangsta rapper. While there are dozens of=20 other sites on the web devoted to Stephen Hawking's scientific=20 achievements, I am unaware of a single site (aside from this=20 one) devoted to his career as a lyrical terrorist. Despite=20 three critically acclaimed albums and nearly ten years on the=20 mic, Stephen Hawking remains virtually unknown as a musician.=20 Well to hell with that noize, this is a new millenium and my=20 boy MC Hawking is gonna be crazy large! So check out the crib.=20 http://www.mchawking.com/ The Physics Chanteuse is a cabaret-style musical act produced=20 and performed by physicist and chanteuse Lynda Williams for=20 scientists at conferences and meetings. For each performance=20 Ms. Williams researches the scientific topic and writes custom songs and repartee which are usually performed at the event's=20 banquet. She has performed for scientists all over the world=20 and has been featured in the NY Times, People Magazine and Good=20 Morning America. Ms. Williams also performs her musical science=20 shows for the general public in Cosmic Cabaret, and for teens=20 in schools in Science Rave. The 'greatest hits' of the Physics=20 Chanteuse are now available on her CD, Cosmic Cabaret (plus there's her Maxwell's Equations CD including Maxwell's Equations=20 in Vacuum. T.). http://www.scientainment.com/pchant.html *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***=20 *** Ton R=FCckert Mozartstraat 12 5914RB Venlo The Netherlands *** *** mojoto@plex.nl http://www.plex.nl/~mojoto 31/0 773545386 *** ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ http://www.hammacher.com/s_and_l/index.asp ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 13:06:59 +0200 From: Edward Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl Aaah yes, you see? Probably all of us enjoyed music in such a way that we played those 3 scratchy EP's over and over again on the lousiest mono record player you could ever imagine. And remember how happy we were? And today? We are nitpicking about the sound quality of CD vs. Vinyl on our high end Hi-Fi, and as soon as we buy an album, we are already looking for the next one... [ 'sigh' emoticon here] I don't remember the brand of the record player (I still coudn't read then) but I do remember the specific smell it had. We got our EP's from our aunt, who used to dance on Top of the Pops every week. (She almost married the manager of Simon & Garfunkel) My first memories of vinyl was a 'Peter and the Wolf' 10" (scaaarrry) but most of all I played the 7" 'What do you wanna make those eyes at me for? ' by Emil Ford and the Checkmates. Turns out it was a Joe Meek record. Do I get the prize for coolest rugrat or what? Ed Moritz R wrote: > If you want to hear it however, my first record was "Marina" by Rocco Granata and I used to play it a thousand times on a "Neckermann" radio with built-in record player. And of course everything was mono, but that didn't matter. I must have been 4 years old by then. The first records I remember I wanted to have and got for christmas were "Puppet On A String" by Sandie Shaw and an album by the Tremeloes called "Silence Is Golden"... > > Yes, silence is golden. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 06:30:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Ben Waugh Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl My father had a large cardboard box filled with 45s from the 1950s. having lost interest with them, he left them to my brother, my sister and I to play with. This was unfortunate, in an adult retrospective way, because , over time, we ruined them. At any length, there was everything in that box from Bing Crosby pop to Hank Williams and His Drifting Cowboys to Elvis & Little Richard. We would play these on one of those boxy flip-top children's phonographs with a roofing nail for a stylus (maybe a few of you had the same). My favorites at the time were Little Richard's Heebee Jeebies, Sheb Wooley's Flying Purple People Eater, David Seville's The Witch Doctor, Bill Justis's Midnight Man (the flipside of Raunchy), and someone's (female)version of Boll Weevil. After this came the dark year or so of Donny Osmond, which led right to total immersion in the Alice Cooper band (the good and celibate Sisters of St Joseph nurtured a fascination with bubblegum perversity and the occult in the the clip-on tie waifs, earboxed, knuckle struck and lectured repeatedly of the link between Satan, Hitler, Rock music, sex, hippies, protestantism, communism and Mad Magazine. Heady times, indeed). - --- "m.ace" wrote: > The topic being: > > What are your earliest memories of records, record > players, record playing, > record buying, etc? What was the earliest favorite > record you can recall? ===== "What I need is a shot of Drambuie and some clean sheets." - Jack Nance __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 16:37:16 +0100 From: Nicola Battista Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl >What are your earliest memories of records, record players, record >playing, record buying, etc? What was the earliest favorite record you can >recall? my first record players were kids record players which usually were square plastic things in a strange orange (sometimes white) color. they were called mangiadischi (record "eater"!) and tended to ruin our 7" by consuming them heavily in the part closer to the central hole. Maybe this was the reason for the name? the vinyl eater? ;) >My early records were mostly 45s on the Golden Records label. My folks >probably picked them up on the weekly trips to the Food Fair supermarket >or Woolworth's. Our record player was a 4-speed tabletop model, with the >single speaker in the front and a light-colored, textured vinyl covering. >I can't remember the brand. Of course, playing records at the wrong speed >was a standard fun activity. my early records were mostly themes from tv shows and cartoons... all from 1970s-early 1980s Italian TV. Some of this stuff is now on cheap cds or illegal mp3s. ;) And of course there were spoken word records with fairytales and shit like that. Favourite ones? Difficult to tell. Maybe I can tell you some; one was "mani mani" (probably a b-side?) on a Loretta Goggi (tv showgirl from the 1970s, still active) 7". Another was the theme from Atlas Ufo Robot (i.e. Goldrake or - for the japanese - Grendizer)... there were two 45 rpm singles sung by "Actarus". He was a front (of course) and one of the producer was Vince Tempera (film music composer and orchestra director, also often seen conducting the orchestra at the Sanremo festival), while another (playing this absurd spacey-bassline on the b-side "Shooting star") was Ares Tavolazzi of "progressive" cult band Area. Looks like our kids music at the time was made by some interesting folks (but this was not an isolated thing: several other interesting names like Augusto Martelli have composed stuff for cartoons). "Shooting star" was cool because it was also one of the first songs in english I can remember (it was used on the cartoon during the end titles, and it was not so frequent to have english songs in this type of tv programs). "fly, my ufo robot in the sky..." Nicola DjB http://www.mp3.com/djbatman # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ End of exotica-digest V2 #1010 ******************************