From: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com (exotica-digest) To: exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: exotica-digest V2 #355 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 Wednesday, March 24 1999 Volume 02 : Number 355 In This Digest: (exotica) Re: Sammy Cahn's morals/bollywood/ESG (exotica) Dimitri From Paris's "Sacreblue" (exotica) Re: Dimitri From Paris's "Sacrebleu" (exotica) Montreal weekend purchases (loooong) (exotica) Re: Dimitri From Paris's "Sacrebleu" Re (exotica) Cat Themes Re: (exotica) Re: Dimitri From Paris's "Sacrebleu" (exotica) Re: Cat Themes (exotica) "Dear John, How I hate to write..."(answer to I hate to ask) (exotica) Johnny Spots (exotica) "Dear John, How I hate to write..."(answer to I hate to ask) (exotica) Vinyl Microsurgery (exotica) Re: Streets of San Francisco RE: (exotica) Vinyl Microsurgery Re: (exotica) Streets of San Francisco Re: (exotica) Where are they now: Brother Theodore (exotica) Gap A Go Go Commercial Re: (exotica) Gap A Go Go Commercial (exotica) Re: Elephants (was Gap A Go Go) Re: (exotica) Cat Themes (exotica) obit: Charles Sawtelle (exotica) Pagan Love (exotica) one-note promo (exotica) Gap A Go Go Commercial..Elephants Re: (exotica) Dimitri From Paris's "Sacreblue" Re: (exotica) Gap A Go Go Commercial [Robert McKenna: (exotica) Gap A Go Go Commercial..Elephants] Re: (exotica) Pagan Love Re: (exotica) Abba Pater (exotica) Cat Songs Fw: (exotica) Dimitri From Paris's "Sacreblue" Re: (exotica) Cat Themes RE: (exotica) Cat Themes (exotica) "Sauvageblue" (exotica) Re: B J Snowden on WFMU (exotica) who luvs ya, baby ? (exotica) Ray Conniff singers.... Re: RE: (exotica) Cat Themes Re: (exotica) Ray Conniff singers.... Re: (exotica) ESG ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 13:06:19 -0500 From: Angela Subject: (exotica) Re: Sammy Cahn's morals/bollywood/ESG Thanks much to those who came round with the welcome wagon after my initial hello-post last time. I've always thought one of the best places to jump into that swarming vortex of screwed up American morality could be found in the lyrics to Disney's (from Peter Pan) "What Made The Red Man Red": What made the red man red? When did he first say 'ugh'? Let's go back two million years when we didn't know what we know now but the Indian kept on asking questions and learned it all by asking 'how' And those lyrics were of course written by the great Sammy Cahn. I don't quite have them right here, as I'm going from memory, and there's a verse about the red man's sqaw getting a divorce from him which shouldn't be missed. So dig out your kids records and check up on this one sometime. You will not find these sorts of lyrics on the net's Disney lyric pages, btw. About Bollywood (why isn't it Bali-wood?), there's a new compilation out by the same people who put out those "Love Peace and Poetry" compilations of 60s psych (QDK Media). It's called "Doob, Doob O'Rama". While it's true that anyone who lives in an urban area can get cassettes of Indian film soundtracks for an awful lot cheaper- you're not guaranteed a high quantity of musical oddness. This is a good introduction and features some tracks from Lata Whatshername (help me with this one please?), the most-recorded recording artist in history. Finally, would someone clue me in with some ESG history and reviews? I don't know much about them and would like to get the scoop. Thanks again. - -- - -Angela http://www.musicfile.com/sunshine "The Biggest Little Record Store In The World" # 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, 23 Mar 1999 16:10:31 -0500 From: "Dom Ciccone" Subject: (exotica) Dimitri From Paris's "Sacreblue" Went down to The Place Where You Pay Towering Prices to pick up the latest copy of "Cool and Strange Music Magazine". Great magazine. Have to subscribe soon. Window shopping and saw Dimitri From Paris's "Sacreblue". Is this the one everyone was talking about earlier on the list? The album with music remixed for the commercial? If the list experts say it's really good and can't find it on my next junket through the Boston/Cambridge used stores I may have to (OH MY!) buy it new. # 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, 23 Mar 1999 16:58:29 -0600 From: King Kini Subject: (exotica) Re: Dimitri From Paris's "Sacrebleu" buy the damn thing!! that's the one! it's gotta be 3 years old by now!! - kk > Window shopping and saw Dimitri From Paris's "Sacreblue". Is this the one > everyone was talking about earlier on the list? The album with music remixed > for the commercial? > > If the list experts say it's really good and can't find it on my next junket > through the Boston/Cambridge used stores I may have to (OH MY!) buy it new. visit... +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ King Kini's C L U B V E L V E T http://www.tamboo.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, 23 Mar 1999 18:02:50 -0500 From: Nat Kone Subject: (exotica) Montreal weekend purchases (loooong) It's a week late but here's a list of my Montreal vinyl purchases. Just doing my part to keep those lists of records flowing. The basic message is "These records exist!" I was in Montreal to show a bit of my film-in-progress to some of Professor Will Straw's students but really that was just a way of paying for the trip and getting a two hundred dollar honorarium which I could - and did - blow on records. Montreal is nothing like Toronto when it comes to lounge/exotica/NOW sound, in that it's an identified genre there and many of the stores have large sections dedicated to it. In Toronto, it's catch-as-catch-can. The records I bought ranged from one to six dollars. I did buy two for eight dollars, both of which I now regret. One was one of those double Command compilations - The Kaleidoscopic Keyboard Stylings of Dick Hyman. There's only a couple of organ cuts and I find his piano work to be pedestrian. The other one I had great hope for. It's in the "Stereo Workshop Series" which I'd never seen before. I passed up the Buddy Cole record in that series and instead bought the Shorty Rogers one, hoping it would be some great lost crime-jazz gem. It wasn't. Still, nice packaging. Okay here's the list, with the minimum of comment... "NOW SOUND" (basically...): John Keating Sounds Galactic - "Astromusical Odyssey" Enoch Light Four Channel Stereo (Sampler) Enoch Light Four Channel "Dynamite" Ron Frangipane - "Rated X for Excitement" (better than I expected but not great) Carl Swoboda - "Dancing Zither" (not bad) Earl Palmer - "Drumsville" (thought it would be funky, unfortunately more leaden) Willie Mitchell - "On Top" (the pick of the litter) Les Baxter - "Love is Blue" (full of promise undelivered) Duane Eddy - "Biggest Twang of them All" (not great but cool to have Duane doing tunes like "Where were you when I needed you") Billy Strange "Plays the Hits" Billy Strange and the Challengers (a cool thing, Billy with a semi-legitimate surf band but the moments are far between) Sandy Nelson "Beat that *&%$ drum" Sandy Nelson "Beat Goes On" (great cover) Sandy Nelson "Groovy" (I've now reached saturation on Sandy Nelson. Only his best records are in Ventures territory but Ventures records in Montreal were all basically twelve bucks) LOUNGE/EXOTICA: Perez Prado "Twist Goes Latin" (good Perez records are not that easy to find at this point. This is one of them.) Si Zentner et al "Exotica Suite" (Who cares if this is good? I finally have the record with the burlap on it!) Francis Bay "Latin Heat Cha Cha Cha" (not much heat but pleasant anyway) Clebanoff - "Lush, Latin and Bossa Nova" (truth in advertising) Jack Costanzo "Mr.Bongo Plays Hi Fi" (still don't get the Costanzo thing....??) Buddy Merrill "Many Splendored Guitar" Buddy Merrill "Sounds of Love" (always happy to find Buddy records but so far none has come within a mile of the first one I got "Land of a Thousand Guitars") SINGERS/CROONERS Claudine Longet "Let's Spend the Night Together" (surprisingly good Claudine playing with the early 70's L.A. Tom Scott studio types) Frank Sinatra JR. - "It's All Right" (produced by Billy Strange, in Nashville on a totally obscure little label. Couldn't Daddy have gotten him a better label???) Sammy Davis "Now" (if you've never heard him do "John Shaft", you must!) Regis Philbin - "Time for Regis" (done in his Joey Bishop days, he can almost sing. not bad enough to be funny) Telly Savalas - "Who Loves Ya Baby" (another Telly record. Another gem.) Best of Buddy Greco (including his six-minute take on "Like a Rolling Stone") April Stevens - "Teach me Tiger" (a real record by a real singer) Jack Jones - "For the In Crowd" (can always use more Jack) I was sick the week I played them but most of them made me sicker. I think it was mostly the guilt. Or maybe I've finally reached over-saturation on the (cheesy) sixties covers. It was amazing to be around all those bins and bins and bins of easy listening but on some level, it was less fun to be around so many It's hard to know what to buy when so many of them are vaguely appropriate. If this wasn't so long already, I would comment on the charmed lives led by Montreal listers Will, Cheryl and Brian but suffice to say, I was jealous all weekend. And not just because of the records. Nat # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 18:14:51 -0500 From: "Dom Ciccone" Subject: (exotica) Re: Dimitri From Paris's "Sacrebleu" >>buy the damn thing!! that's the one! it's gotta be 3 years old by now!! OK OK! wow, I've only been interested in this kind of music for about 1 year. That's when I first tuned into Jimmy's program. So it's all new to me. # 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, 23 Mar 1999 19:39:35 EST From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re (exotica) Cat Themes Let's get nasty with Blowfly: "Who Did I Eat Last Night?" # 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, 23 Mar 1999 19:51:02 EST From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Dimitri From Paris's "Sacrebleu" In a message dated 3/23/99 7:14:00 PM, dciccone@inspex.com wrote: >>buy the damn thing!! that's the one! it's gotta be 3 years old by > >now!! > > > >OK OK! wow, I've only been interested in this kind of music for about 1 > >year. That's when I first tuned into Jimmy's program. So it's all new to me. > And its all new to everyone at some point fellas and gals. I knew jack about this stuff until I stumbled into Brother Cleve's "Saturnalia" night at the Lizard Lounge in Cambridge a little over 2 years ago. My attendance rate at that function shot up to 100% when my ears picked up on the stuff. Sooner may be better, but late beats never..Jimmy Botticelli # 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, 23 Mar 1999 20:08:08 -0500 From: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) Re: Cat Themes There is also a great version of Tiger Rag by Alvino Rey with the King Sisters (NOT the King Family, for those who can remember those awful specials). There is a great moment where Rey makes his Guitar g-r-r-o-w-w-l. For that matter: Leave My Kitten Alone - Little Willie John (complete with the backup singers going Me-oww!) I have a Gymnasts Floor Excercise record that has a wonderfully camp medley called "Kittens, Kittens, Kittens" which mashes three or four songs together in about a minute and fifteen seconds. Brian Phillips # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 20:16:49 -0500 From: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) "Dear John, How I hate to write..."(answer to I hate to ask) I hate to ask this question because I absolutely despise The Gap . . . .however, they had a commercial on The Oscars that was called "Khaki A Go Go" with some cool spy-jazzy type music. Anybody see it? Anybody know where it is from? I hate it when the Gap ads have something worth talking about. Robert # 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. # 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, 23 Mar 1999 20:28:48 EST From: BasicHip@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Johnny Spots Johnny (radio) Spots does anybody out there have Johnny Spots material that they would tape for me? I'll send you something if you do. please let me know! # 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, 23 Mar 1999 20:43:30 -0500 From: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) "Dear John, How I hate to write..."(answer to I hate to ask) with some cool spy-jazzy type music. Anybody see it? Anybody know where it is from? I hate it when the Gap ads have something worth talking about. This is from the website: Directed by graphic artist and music video director Mike Mills, the dancers do the jerk, the pony, and the frug to '60s-inspired track "Wild Elephants." I don't the artist, though. Brian Phillips # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 22:05:34 -0500 From: Ross Orr Subject: (exotica) Vinyl Microsurgery Hey, I never had the nerve to do this before. But the other day I was desperate to get rid of a record skip in a track I really liked ("Mambo Jambo" by the Latin Brass)--and I was willing to try anything. I spun the record around with the motor off (whub, errrrb, brubbb) until I found the exact spot where the skip was. Then I took the record off the turntable and looked at the spot with a 10x magnifier under a strong light, tilting it back and forth until I could see which groove had the mashed vinyl. Then, *shudder* I took a very sharp X-acto blade, laid the beveled edge in the groove, and pushed the point backwards through the skip (i.e. in the opposite direction from the way the stylus goes). I was expecting to hear some speaker-wrecking "whump" at the point in the song I did this--but I was amazed to find it worked great, and I couldn't hear anything weird at all. I guess there was enough undamaged groove wall left that the stylus tracked over whatever scars I left. Scary, though! Anyone else discovered a good technique for fixing skips? --Ross || Ross "Mambo Frenzy" Orr || Ann Arbor, Michigan USA # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 21:47:57 -0500 From: Ross Orr Subject: (exotica) Re: Streets of San Francisco Hi Eric-- >Looking for soundtracks for any of > a number of 70's cop shows, especially Streets of San Francisco, > Baretta, Cannon, or Barnaby Jones. Do they exist? One that definitely exists--I have a scratchy copy--is Lalo Shifrin's "Mannix" soundtrack (Paramount PAS 5004). Maybe not the pinnacle of brassy 70s cop show themes, but it does have its moments. By they way, the liner notes says Lalo's name is pronounced "shif-REEN," which was news to me. --Ross || Ross "Mambo Frenzy" Orr || Ann Arbor, Michigan USA # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 19:53:38 -0800 From: "Ron Grandia" Subject: RE: (exotica) Vinyl Microsurgery > I was expecting to hear some speaker-wrecking "whump" at the point in = the > song I did this--but I was amazed to find it worked great, and I = couldn't > hear anything weird at all. I guess there was enough undamaged groove = wall > left that the stylus tracked over whatever scars I left. >=20 > Scary, though! >=20 > Anyone else discovered a good technique for fixing skips? >=20 Xacto knife? What a wimp! I use a blowtorch! heheh... For specks of fly-shit or whatever those things are that = accumulate on records, I find that isolating the spot, applying downward = pressure on the cartridge shell and rocking the turntable back and forth = under the needle can often knock the concretions loose. =20 But it still gives me the willies. Ron=20 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 10:22:26 -0000 From: G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk Subject: Re: (exotica) Streets of San Francisco eric writes: << Looking for soundtracks for any of a number of 70's cop shows, especially Streets of San Francisco, Baretta, Cannon, or Barnaby Jones. Do they exist? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have a great Henry Mancini version of the Ironside Theme. Its on an LP that seems to come from a readers Digest style box set. It is No.6 The adventurous Mr Mancini. It also has A Shot In The Dark, Theme from Medical Centre and the Theme from Shaft amongst others. There are of course copious useless sleeve notes on the career of Mr Mancini, but nothing on the origins of the music. Sorry, this isn't really helpful is it? Perhaps it may trigger someone else's memory. A problem with buying from Charity shops I suppose. El Maestro Con Queso djcheesemaster@yahoo.com grr@brighton.ac.uk http://www.sgillitt.dircon.co.uk/cheese/cheese.htm # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 07:38:24 EST From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Where are they now: Brother Theodore In a message dated 3/23/99 5:10:28 PM Eastern Standard Time, lousmith@pipeline.com writes: << Meet Brother Theodore >> LOVED this dude's hair cut when he used to appear on Letterman. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 07:44:11 EST From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Gap A Go Go Commercial In a message dated 3/23/99 8:41:54 PM Eastern Standard Time, hagar@mindspring.net writes: << Directed by graphic artist and music video director Mike Mills, the dancers do the jerk, the pony, and the frug to '60s-inspired track "Wild Elephants." I don't the artist, though. >> Anybody have any leads on this Wild Elephant tune??? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:37:53 GMT From: Peter Hipwell Subject: Re: (exotica) Gap A Go Go Commercial > << Directed by graphic artist and music video director Mike Mills, > the dancers do the jerk, the pony, and the frug to '60s-inspired > track "Wild Elephants." > > Anybody have any leads on this Wild Elephant tune??? > IIRC there is a track called "Wild Elephants" by James Clarke on a CD compilation of library music from Amphonic called "Ready Steady Boogaloo". I have no idea if this is the track in question. Maybe this is a good place to start the elephant thread... "Baby Elephant Walk" by Henry Mancini; "Elephant Shake" by Francis Lai from the OST of "Hannibal Brooks"; "The Happy Elephant" by Gerry Blake on the Studio 2 album "Sounds Like Swingin'"; "Fairy Elephant" from "Comedy Cornball" (Bruton Music) -- they use this one on "Eurotrash" regularly; ... # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 08:47:00 -0600 From: King Kini Subject: (exotica) Re: Elephants (was Gap A Go Go) > Maybe this is a good place to start the elephant thread... > > "Baby Elephant Walk" by Henry Mancini; "Elephant Shake" by Francis Lai > from the OST of "Hannibal Brooks"; "The Happy Elephant" by Gerry Blake > on the Studio 2 album "Sounds Like Swingin'"; "Fairy Elephant" from > "Comedy Cornball" (Bruton Music) -- they use this one on "Eurotrash" > regularly; ... Elephant Trail - Les Baxter The Elephants Wail - Shorty Rogers Elephant Walk - Art Blakey w/Sabu Theme From "Hatari!" - Henry Mancini The Sounds Of Hatari - Henry Mancini visit... +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ King Kini's C L U B V E L V E T http://www.tamboo.com +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 09:52:25 EST From: BasicHip@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Cat Themes you need a moog title in there: Cat In The Night - JJ Perrey # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 10:08:19 -0600 From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) obit: Charles Sawtelle *Charles Sawtelle NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Charles Sawtelle, a musician known as ``The Bluegrass Mystery,'' died Saturday of complications related to a bone marrow transplant as part of his battle with leukemia. He was 52. Sawtelle was a founding member of the bluegrass group Hot Rize. He played guitar, bass guitar and sang with Pete Wernick, Tim O'Brien and Nick Forster. The four also played together as a hardcore-country band, Red Knuckles and the Trail Blazers, in which Sawtelle played a character named Slade. Founded in 1978, Hot Rize played together until 1990. After the band split up, Sawtelle organized a Colorado bluegrass band, Charles Sawtelle and The Whippets, and he recorded and toured with fellow bluegrass musician Peter Rowan. Sawtelle started his career playing steel guitar, joining the Drifting Ramblers in early 1976. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 10:00:34 -0500 From: Subject: (exotica) Pagan Love Tad-dah! Jane Fondle, back in action, because of list inaction. Gotta know some stuff about that crazy Stanley Wilson. Someone kindly tell me, is PAGAN LOVE by him just primo exotica, or what? What with Summer tiki parties just around the corner, I gotta know! Aku-aku, from Jane! p-s: Do we wanna start a dog song strain now? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 10:59:49 -0500 From: Subject: (exotica) one-note promo A one-line sentence to say my group AstroSlut is playing Fri. 3/26 at the Middle East in Cambridge, MA. Over-n-out: Jane Fondle(thanks!) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 08:34:56 PST From: "Robert McKenna" Subject: (exotica) Gap A Go Go Commercial..Elephants >"Fairy Elephant" from >"Comedy Cornball" (Bruton Music) -- they use this one on "Eurotrash" >regularly; ... > not on my copy it isn't. i have a bunch of bruton records i'm afraid to listen to, as very rarely do they do anything for me, so i went home at lunch all expectation. i listened to this album BRF 2 (66) and comedy BRF1 (50), which is better, has alan hawkshaw sub JJP comedy moog (miss the beats). the best thing for me on comedy cornball was 'cor blimey' cod cockney song. which you would probably have to not be english to find even vaguely amusing..... rob Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 12:06:29 EST From: Thinkmatic@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Dimitri From Paris's "Sacreblue" In a message dated 3/23/99 5:33:56 PM Eastern Standard Time, dciccone@inspex.com writes: > If the list experts say it's really good and can't find it on my next junket > through the Boston/Cambridge used stores I may have to (OH MY!) buy it new. Hi Dom, My 2.5 cents. Record the Volvo commercial off your television, loop it, and listen to it for 45 minutes. The commercial's soundtrack is better then the version on the album and the version on the album is the best thing ...on the album. However, there is one other song that I believe is a demo track off a $49.00 Casio keyboard. So you could either buy this CD or go hang around Circuit City for an hour and you'll most likely hear the Volvo commercial blasting out of one of their 120 inch HDTVs and the Casio demo in the background and it won't cost you a cent. - -Roy # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 12:14:06 -0400 From: recliner Subject: Re: (exotica) Gap A Go Go Commercial > > > Maybe this is a good place to start the elephant thread... > > "Baby Elephant Walk" by Henry Mancini; "Elephant Shake" by Francis Lai > from the OST of "Hannibal Brooks"; "The Happy Elephant" by Gerry Blake > on the Studio 2 album "Sounds Like Swingin'"; "Fairy Elephant" from > "Comedy Cornball" (Bruton Music) -- they use this one on "Eurotrash" > regularly; ... > Don't forget "Elephants on Parade" , Sun Ra's version is transcendent. Frank # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 17:13:13 GMT From: Peter Hipwell Subject: [Robert McKenna: (exotica) Gap A Go Go Commercial..Elephants] > From: "Robert McKenna" > > >"Fairy Elephant" from "Comedy Cornball" (Bruton Music) -- they use > >this one on "Eurotrash" regularly; ... > > > not on my copy it isn't. i have a bunch of bruton records i'm afraid to > listen to, as very rarely do they do anything for me, so i went home at > lunch all expectation. i listened to this album BRF 2 (66) and comedy > BRF1 (50), which is better, has alan hawkshaw sub JJP comedy moog (miss > the beats). the best thing for me on comedy cornball was 'cor blimey' > cod cockney song. which you would probably have to not be english to > find even vaguely amusing..... > rob > Right you are guv'nor. It's on "Looney Tunes", NOT "Comedy Cornball". I'm pretty sure. But I can't check from here... I *do* find "Cor Blimey" amusing, but then I'm sick enough to collect cockney music too. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 12:39:20 -0500 From: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) Pagan Love >Gotta >know some stuff about that crazy Stanley Wilson. Someone kindly tell me, >is PAGAN LOVE by him just primo exotica, or what? What with Summer tiki >parties just around the corner, I gotta know! >Aku-aku, from Jane! I wanna take you Heyer, Doll, by saying, it is primo! Buy, buy, buy! I am a proud owner of said record and it is a must. King Kini likes it so much, it's pictured on his site. Brian Phillips # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 12:46:03 -0500 From: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) Abba Pater > Anyone bought the Pope's CD yet? Make that his second CD, sort of. Remember that Sarah Vaughan put out an album of his poems to music called "Sarah Vaughan Sings Pope John Paul II". "I'm not making this up, you know" - Anna Russell Brian Phillips # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 11:56:28 -0500 From: Peter Risser Subject: (exotica) Cat Songs Sorta off topic, but not totally, George Clinton and Parliament's "I Call My Baby Pussy Cat". Exotic in a different way. Peter # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 12:56:33 -0500 From: "Dom Ciccone" Subject: Fw: (exotica) Dimitri From Paris's "Sacreblue" In a message dated Wednesday, March 24, 1999 12:06 PM Thinkmatic@aol.com writes: >Record the Volvo commercial off your television, loop it, and listen to it for >45 minutes. The commercial's soundtrack is better then the version on the >album and the version on the album is the best thing ...on the album. Thanks Roy for confirming my suspicions about how I *might* feel. Sometimes your first listening experience to a certain piece of music can make you bias towards that version and this might be a good example. Remember the Vangelis "Opera Savage" track used in a wine commercial years ago? The music in the commercial and the album were different. I disliked the album version. Maybe because it was just different from what I heard on television. Or maybe the commercial version was just better. Same for the Blade Runner album that came out and was different from the soundtrack. Another example off the exotica track is Vivaldi's "4 Seasons" done by Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic. No other recording has been able to give me that "baroque buzz" like the first one I heard. Fortunately for me this is rare and enjoy different interpretations of lounge and jazz standards. Keep those versions of "Caravan" and "Body and Soul" coming! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 18:19:56 +0100 From: "Arjan Plug" Subject: Re: (exotica) Cat Themes Roland Alphonso - El Pussy Cat (on Island's classic Intensified! ska-doublealbum) Arjan # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 19:39:09 +0100 From: Ton Rueckert Subject: RE: (exotica) Cat Themes >> Is it too late for "Walking my cat named dog" by Norma Tanega? >> >> >Howzabout "Everybody wants to be a cat" From the Aristocats OST. And what about "Sure he's a cat" by The Cats? 'Sure he's a cat, nobody's gonna argue with that...' Cheers, Ton PS Dutch hit in the mid 60's. *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** Ton Rueckert Mozartstraat 12 5914 RB Venlo The Netherlands *** *** mojoto@plex.nl http://www.plex.nl/~mojoto Ph 31/0 773545386 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ Remain calm. And share your bananas. ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ Mantra for the Modern Jungle. ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:50:30 -0500 From: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) "Sauvageblue" >Remember the Vangelis "Opera Savage" track used in a wine commercial years >ago? Oh brother, do I! I was working at Tower Records when someone had written into Parade Magazine asking what that song was from the commercial. Polydor dragged their feet putting that out on CD, as I was constantly turning people away. It had gotten to the point that I would see people waving little rectangles of newsprint and before they could say anything I would tell them, "It's not on CD yet". Vangelis was also used on a Triumph TR7 ad. Fortunately for me, I was not working at Tower and CD's had not been invented yet. So the moral of the story is, follow your dreams. Sorry, couldn't think of a way to end this post. Brian Phillips # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 15:12:16 -0600 From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Re: B J Snowden on WFMU At 02:04 AM 3/19/99 -0400, Irwin wrote: >on Wednesday, March 24 >from 3-4 PM (EST) >WFMU's Incorrect Music Show >will be pre-empted for >** THE B.J. SNOWDEN HOUR ** >http://www.wfmu.org This is on NOW, and if you're not listening, well.... RealAudio connection from http://wfmu.org # 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, 23 Mar 1999 13:44:39 -0800 From: Jack Subject: (exotica) who luvs ya, baby ? http://www.jackdiamond.to/houseofgames/who_luvs_ya_baby.JPG ??? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 08:37:03 -0500 From: "Nathan Miner" Subject: (exotica) Ray Conniff singers.... Do these records feature lyrics or do they "do wah, do wee" their way = across the muscial landscape?? - - Nate # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 14:07:56 -0500 From: "Nathan Miner" Subject: Re: RE: (exotica) Cat Themes Another: Hillbilly Hellcats from "Rev. it up with Taz" "Tom Cat" - (I'm an old tom cat and I don't get no tail....) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 17:48:43 EST From: SLarry3595@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Ray Conniff singers.... The Ray Conniff Singers LPs have singing, whereas the Ray Conniff Chorus records have the la,la,las. I have heard several and most are not too good, with maybe the exception of 1 or 2 tracks. Some of the later ones are bad straight through. "Touch Of Latin" is a good Chorus one, and the one with "Music To Watch Girls By" (if memory serves the LP is "Look At Me") is a good Singers one. If you thrift you can find these easily. Larry # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 18:32:43 -0500 From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) ESG >Finally, would someone clue me in with some ESG history and reviews? I >don't know much about them and would like to get the scoop. Take this with a grain of salt as I'm just working from memories of early-80s issues of New York Rocker... They were three young (maybe teenage) women from Brooklyn or the Bronx (I forget which), playing bass, drums and guitar. Vocals too, of course. They may have been related somehow or other, sisters, cousins??? Someone's male cousin was subsequently added on percussion. Their music was loose-limbed, leisurely, extremely minimal funk. To my ears, their vocals had a bit of a primeval girl group quality to them, though in a totally different setting. Around 1981, they infiltrated the downtown Manhattan underground scene and immediately blew away a bunch of art-school intellectuals who had been playing at funk. Very soon, they were in the studio for Factory Records. I've only ever seen two records. A three song 7-inch (45 on one side, 33 1/3 on the flip) with "You're No Good" (*not* the Ronstadt song), "UFO" and "Moody". A 12-inch, maybe 6 songs, with the three tracks above, and, uh, I can't remember what else. I don't know if there was ever anything else. An album maybe? I would like to know. Oh yeah -- ESG stood for: Emerald Sapphire & Gold. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ End of exotica-digest V2 #355 *****************************