From: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com (exotica-digest) To: exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: exotica-digest V2 #474 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 Monday, August 9 1999 Volume 02 : Number 474 In This Digest: Re: (exotica) Sandy Warner & A Noir Detour (exotica) Le Meillieur de Michel Legrand Re: (exotica) Tom Scott & The California Dreamers -- Honeysuckle Breeze Re: (exotica) Music to watch eclipses by? Re: (exotica) Retro Cocktail Hour Re: (exotica) Sandy Warner & A Noir Detour (exotica) Re: Music to watch eclipses by? (exotica) Valhalla, Ohio Re: (exotica) Valhalla, Ohio (exotica) FYI: Iron Giant soundtrack Re: (exotica) Re: Music to watch eclipses by? Re: (exotica) Re: Top 10+ Bad/Bizarre Records (exotica) obituary ... Kathryn Murray (dance instructor) (exotica) Re: Gabor Szabo "Wind, Sky and Diamonds" Re: (exotica) Gabor Szabo Re: (exotica) Valhalla, Ohio Re: (exotica) Hitchcock Re: Re: (exotica) Valhalla, Ohio Re: (exotica) Music to watch eclipses by? (exotica) the wildest Ukulele in town Re: (exotica) Gabor Szabo (exotica) Lenny Dee? (exotica) Re: Lenny Dee? (exotica) [obits]Rita Sakellariou,Kazuo Miyagawa,Dick Latvala,"Littlr" Roy Wiggins (exotica) Be afraid....be VERY afraid.... (exotica) BATTLESTAR GALLACTICA? RE: (exotica) BATTLESTAR GALLACTICA? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 07 Aug 1999 12:45:47 -0400 From: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) Sandy Warner & A Noir Detour > >Damn, Ted Turner is puttin on some bad ass shit. JB LeNoir, I rather like that, although I hope your voice is deeper! TCM is certainly beating AMC at it's own (and first!) game in the Hitchcock department. Whereas for the Hitchcock centennial, TCM is showing "The Birds" and "Marnie", AMC is showing "Jamaica Inn" (haven't seen it, but is regarded as one of his worst. Any defenders?) and "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", a comic misfire; I prefer "The Trouble With Harry". Good affffffffternoon (doesn't have the same ring.), 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: Sat, 7 Aug 1999 15:13:28 -0400 From: "Andrew Grant" Subject: (exotica) Le Meillieur de Michel Legrand Somebody asked for the tracklist for this wonderful CD: (Please forgive the lack of correct accent marks - never figured out how to do it in Outlook Express) 1. Les moulins de mon coeur (1968) 2. Les demoiselles de Rochefort: Chanson des jumelles (1967) 3. Un ete 42 (Instrumental) (1971) 4. Quand on s'aime (duo avec Nana Mouskouri) (1965) 5. La valse des lilas (1964) 6. Di-gue-ding-ding (Instrumental) (1964) 7. Je vivrai sans toi (1968) 8. L'ame soeur a l'hamecon (1969) 9. Le cinema (Instrumental) (1962) 10. Trombone, guitarre et compagnie (1965) 11. Et la mer (1964) 12. Quand ca balance (1964) 13. Les parapluis de Cherbourg: Je ne pourrai jamais vivre sans toi (Instrumental) (1992) 14. Ou vont les ballons? (1969) 15. Comme elle est lounge a mourir ma jeunesse (1969) 16. Les demoiselles de Rochefort: Marins, amis, amants our maris (Instrumental) (1967) 17. Oum le dauphin (1970) 18. Elle a...elle a pas (1965) 19. Les demoiselles de Rochefort: Chanson de Maxence (1967) 20. Peau d'ane: generique (Instrumental) (1970) 21. Les enfants qui pleurent (1965) 22. L'amour en scie (1964) 23. Cing jours en juin: Scenes de la vie quotidienne (Instrumental) (1989) 24. Les baladins de siecle d'aujourd'hui (1964) As I mentioned in my original post, many of these are from rare EPs or 45's. A great, great compilation. # 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: Sat, 07 Aug 1999 16:11:30 -0400 From: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) Tom Scott & The California Dreamers -- Honeysuckle Breeze At 11:55 PM 8/6/99 -0500, recliner wrote: > The California Dreamers are pretty wonderful but I have to say I can't stand > Scott's sax playing, and since it's his album, he really dominates. >I don't know exactly what it is, because I can deal with other similar sounding >saxophonists such as Bud Shank, or Benny Golson in their NowSound outings but cott's playing just sounds like fingernails on the chalk board to me. >. It's like the >album can't decide if it's going to be a nowsound or a pop jazz album and >consequently fails at both. My only contact so far with the California Dreamers is on Bob Thiele's "Light my Fire" record and Scott is fairly subdued on that one. It's pretty much Gabor Szabo who is all over that record. Still, I think I can relate anyway. I can imagine a player like Scott ruining a record for me. David Sanborn too for that matter. But I don't think it's about Now Sound vs Pop Jazz or any other categories you can come up with. I don't think the guys who made these records could EVER decide what kind of record they were making and yet some of them "worked". The Bud Shank now-sound-pop-jazz records don't ever settle in one particular genre or category but they work anyway. I think it has a lot to do with how he "solos", and how his solos fit into the arrangements while still fulfilling the idea of soloing. I think it's also got to do with his tone and how it fits in with the rest of the band. Do you know the Bob Shad record where they do "Whole Lotta Love"? That's another one of those crossover "nowsoundpopjazz" records that doesn't work for me. For a number of reasons including the tone of one of the guitar players. But I kind of like it. And though I like the Bob Thiele record much more, I still have to admit that it's a bit of a mess. Tom Scott was probably the same age as rock musicians of the time but I just don't think he "got" it. Most musicians who got into the crossover now sound thing didn't get it either but some of them stumbled across something cool anyway. I suppose Tom thought that he could ape the guitar players of the time by blowing his brains out through his horn. He was wrong. If he was lucky he might have been wrong in a cool way but that didn't happen. 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: Sat, 7 Aug 1999 13:31:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Peter Carlfors Subject: Re: (exotica) Music to watch eclipses by? ...what tunes would you suggest for > the "soundtrack"? > Virgin of the Sun God (M. Vivanco/L. Baxter) Duel in Sun (D. Tiomkin) Red Sails in the Sunset A place in the Sun (Horst Jankowski) Sunset Sound (Gershon Kingsley) Midnight Sun (Lionel Hampton) Chant of the Sun (Elisabeth Valdo) Sunrise at Kowloon (Les Baxter) or if the rays are to irritating to your eyes put on Shades by Pat Williams Peter C. _____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.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: Sat, 7 Aug 1999 16:34:43 EDT From: Stilgloria@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Retro Cocktail Hour This web radio station is fantastic. I do live chats on aol, and I choose one of the two hour broadcasts and listen while I do my shift. I'm soooo happy that I found out about this radio station. Anyone know of any others that are similar? Thanks. Gloria # 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: Sat, 07 Aug 1999 16:49:54 -0400 From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Sandy Warner & A Noir Detour >1. Been buried deep in TCM's Summer of Darkness 40's-50's film noir >festival (25 down, 65 to go)and loving almost every minute of it. >Anybody else watchin? Yes indeedy. It's almost too much... a hopeless backlog of unviewed tapes is building up (4 more movies last night). I've been tracking it with my own subjective picks at the ol' TV Scavenger: http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/tvscavenger.html Yes, wasn't Carolyn Jones cool in, er, was it "Shield For Murder" (they're blurring together)? I was trying to think of which contemporary actress she reminded me of in that role, but couldn't work it out. Regarding Hitchcock, they're all (channels) rolling things out this week. To be fair to AMC, they do also have "Stage Fright" and "The Wrong Man" next Friday night. I'll give 'em residual bonus points for that letterbox airing of "Vertigo" a year or two ago. I forget the details, but one of these new-fangled cable channels is doing a marathon of the entire "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" TV series. Anyone have the skinny? Also to their credit, AMC has quietly been running a lot of Vincent Price movies recently... even the Dr. Phibes pair. Some of the AIP flicks have music by Les Baxter. A&E's Biography has a Carmen Miranda episode tonight (Saturday). Bravo reruns the Stax documentary next Tuesday. VH1 re-airs that recent Sonny & Cher bio-movie the same night. Details at above (or below) link. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Aug 1999 23:10:27 -0400 From: Ross Orr Subject: (exotica) Re: Music to watch eclipses by? >The effects on pupil size by nearly all medications is minimal except for >[...] >phenylepherine, atropine, homatropine -- and those are prescribed very >infrequently Mercy, did we just get a glimpse of the real Bob behind that Tiki Mask? Anyway, for any europeans here who are curious, I'm happy to share a few astrogeek-approved eclipse-viewing methods. Talk to me offlist. . . umbrally, --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: Sat, 7 Aug 1999 23:30:02 -0400 From: Ross Orr Subject: (exotica) Valhalla, Ohio Boy, I am just about to make a new rule for myself, that I am only going to buy records in Ohio from now on. We just got back from a long trawl through this neighborhood yard sale day down in Toledo, and while only a couple of houses had records, all the ones I picked seem to be great so far. Fifty cents each. More details later, but right at the moment I'm still in shock about Ethel Smith's 60's _Hit Party_-- Un-freaking-believable! I mean, the late Lenny Dee just got into shmoozed-out easy listening. . . but this record does things like take "Downtown" and turn it into a slamming backbeat twist freakout. What the heck happened? I had been lukewarm about Ethel before this, but I take it all back! She rocks! Literally. agape, --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: Sat, 7 Aug 1999 23:48:36 EDT From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Valhalla, Ohio In Maine they only charge you 39 cents a rekkit. I found a 10" Les Baxter on Capitol and the LP portrayed in "cool and strange music" with Marcy and Little Marcy singing Christian songs. Also found a half-stereo-half-mono "Cole Porter In Latin America' LP by some unknown arkestra with lots of wordless vocals and some great cha-nova arrangements. to say nothing of the Lawrence Welk on Dot featuring a semi-now sound arrangement of the Theme from the TV show "The Family Affiar" starring (I believe) the winner of the Al Hirt/Orson Welles look-a-like contest, Mr Sebastian Cabot # 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 Aug 99 02:23:20 -0500 From: Michael Toth Subject: (exotica) FYI: Iron Giant soundtrack Has this been brought up here and I missed it in an Exotica Digest backlog? If so, it's worth bringing up again!! Oh my... I'd just read a *killer* review for IRON GIANT, the new 50s-period animated robot flick, and hopped over to the official Web site. As might be predicted, I first hit the "Hi-Fi" and "Stereo" links, and WHOA!!! Check out that soundtrack!!!!! Jimmie Haskell from COUNTDOWN, Ames Bros.' "Destination Moon," Kookie Byrnes, Mel Torme, the Nutty Squirrels, etc. etc. Drroooooooooooool! Probably not since FOUR ROOMS has a soundtrack so catered to the Exotica List niche. One thus wonders what the new incidental music is like (with most soundtracks these days, it seems like most of the original music for a film never makes it onto an album). Oh my... "Soundtrack Medley" Real Audio feed at: http://www.irongiant.com/ Press release and track listing lifted, typos and all, from: http://www.rhino.com/features/irongiant.html Oh my... - -------------------- IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE!! Listen to the hep 12 song soundtrack from the animated feature The Iron Giant (directed by Brad Bird -The Simpsons, King Of The Hill). THE IRON GIANT pulses with the beatnik beats of the atomic era. In addition to an original score by Michael Kamen (Lethal Weapon, 101 Dalmations), this collection includes flying saucer rock 'n' roll that is crazy, man, crazy. And tracks like Eddie Platts 1958 hit Cha-Hua-Hua, The Magnificents Lets Do The Cha-Cha, and Jimmie Haskells Rockin In Orbit are gonesville in more ways than oneyou cant swing to these tunes on any other available release, Daddy-O. TRACK LISTING Blast Off -- The Tyrones Rockin' In Orbit -- Jimmie Haskell Kookies Mad Pad -- Edd "Kookie" Byrnes Salt Peanuts -- The Nutty Squirrels Comin' Home Baby -- Mel Torme Cha-Hua-Hua -- Eddie Platt Let's Do The Cha-Cha -- The Magnificents Blues Walk -- Lou Donaldson I Got A Rocket In My Pocket -- Jimmy Lloyd Searchin' -- The Coasters Honeycomb -- Jimmie Rodgers Destination Moon -- The Ames Brothers You Can Be... -- Michael Kamen ...Who You Choose To Be -- Michael Kamen - -------------------- Oh my, Michael David Toth mtoth@neo.lrun.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: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 09:21:20 EDT From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Music to watch eclipses by? In a message dated 8/7/99 8:39:58 PM Pacific Daylight Time, rotohut@ic.net writes: << Mercy, did we just get a glimpse of the real Bob behind that Tiki Mask? Anyway, for any europeans here who are curious, I'm happy to share a few astrogeek-approved eclipse-viewing methods. Talk to me offlist. . . >> hey ross, i didn't mean to get in to such a tirade on my post. i is just that human eyes are exposed to the sun every day. viewing and eclipse with brief glimpses will cause no more damage (really none at all) than looking briefly at the full sun, which we all do from time to time. yes, behind the mask is a man of "vision". and i really am as passionate about what i do for my profession as i am of things exotica and tiki. i always thought this was a good quote: "strive not be remembered as a person who worked real hard, but as an individual who worked passionately about something they believed in. tiki bob # 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 Aug 1999 10:52:36 -0500 From: mimim@texas.net (Mimi Mayer) Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Top 10+ Bad/Bizarre Records At 5:59 PM 6/27/99, Bump wrote: >I was interviewed last week by the local Baltimore city paper for an >upcoming feature on Vinyl and was asked what is the most bizarre or >weirdest records i have.... In the spirit of public service, I'm moved to comment about: >>Leonard Nimoy - The Way I Feel Dot Records circa late 60's As a fund-raising stunt, a dj at a Detroit NPR station played a Nimoy record and refused to take it off until someone called in a pledge. It worked: pledge came in almost instantly and the dj treated us all to the sound of a needle scratttttccccchhhhing 'cross the wax. MZ, that dj was Judy Adams. Nimoy also published poetry books. One lives in our bathroom beside other prized reading matter including "How to Clip Your Own Poodle," "Know Your Monkey," (yes indeedy, Ron, and I'm looking for a copy to send to you!) and the very useful wc reading, "How to Become a Good Dancer" by Arthur Murray, with all those cool step pattern graphics. Here's a poem from Nimoy's book, "We Are All Children Searching for Love." Untitled, like most of the poems. I'd call it "The Agony of Fame." There is in me A being little known To others A person boy or man Locked away I believe That he is me More me Than the one Anyone knows And that he Deserves at least A trial Before being sealed away =46orever Locked inside The public face. Magnus and Tiki Bob, how about offering Mr. Nimoy poetry-writing lessons? >>Lorne Greene - Young at Heart 1963 Just today I heard Lorne doing a spoken version of the cowpoke classic "Ringo" -- completely in French. The dj didn't i.d. the record. Anyone know? TIA. >>Mike Douglas - The Men in my Little Girls Life 1965 Epic Records Worse for your teeth than a box of Sugar Pops cereal. A truly awful record, and that's its immortal quality. bump, you can find some of the celebrity tunes on Rhino's Golden Throats series. But do you really think the world is ready for a CD release of that Mike Douglas disk? Perhaps so, now that the collected Mrs. Miller is out on a new CD. Shaking the sludge from my head, Mimi # 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 Aug 1999 16:44:27 -0400 From: itsvern@ibm.net Subject: (exotica) obituary ... Kathryn Murray (dance instructor) HONOLULU, Hawaii=97Kathryn Murray, 92, whose elegant dancing inspired millions of students in dance schools run by her late husband, famed instructor Arthur Murray, died Aug. 6 at her home here. The cause of death was not reported. The Murrays made ballroom dancing a household word by creating a chain of successful dance studios across the United States in the 1940s. At its peak in 1952, when Arthur Murray sold the franchise, there were 500 studios around the world. Currently, there are 275 worldwide. Arthur Murray died in Honolulu in 1991, a month shy of what would have been the couple's 66th wedding anniversary. They met during a radio broadcast in Newark in 1924. Kathryn Murray served as host for the popular television show, "The Arthur Murray Dance Party," which first aired in 1950 and ran for 11 years on a variety of networks. "She was always elegant," said Richard Murphy, owner of the only Arthur Murray Dance Studio in Hawaii. "I think for millions of people who have learned to dance -- not only in the United States, but around the world - -- when you think of dance instruction, you think of the Arthur Murray name. And Kathryn was synonymous with Arthur." The Murrays were full-time Hawaii residents since 1968. Survivors include twin daughters, Phyllis McDowell of New Haven, Conn., and Jane Heimlich of Cincinnati, whose husband, Henry Heimlich, discovered the emergency maneuver to dislodge an object stuck in the windpipe. # 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 Aug 1999 19:21:10 +0200 From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: Gabor Szabo "Wind, Sky and Diamonds" Bob wrote: > >CD Now is selling an import called "Wind, Sky and Diamonds" for $13.99. Has >anyone heard this ? Is it worth getting? this is one of those albums that you will get many different opinions on. personally i was hugely disappointed, after hearing other great Gabor Szabo albums, like "The Sorcerer (live)" and "Jazz Raga", because "Wind, Sky and Diamonds" is a VOCAL album. if you like soft vocal pop, then it's worth it i guess. Johan quiet@village.uunet.be | ) / \ | ) / \ | ) / \ | ) / \ # 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 Aug 1999 19:31:15 -0500 From: recliner Subject: Re: (exotica) Gabor Szabo HOUSEOBOB@aol.com wrote: > CD Now is selling an import called "Wind, Sky and Diamonds" for $13.99. Has > anyone heard this ? Is it worth getting? Thanks, Bob As Johan eluded to, don't expect a Gabor Szabo album per se. The California Dreamers are the stars of this album and this is the reason why this album is so great. 'Course you gotta love that pop vocal group sound. As mentioned in previous months the CDs went on to be The Love Generation and then The Partridge Family. ( I can't believe this group has been mentioned far too often on this list. It's beginning to get scary, in a good way.) Gabor's playing is great it's just not as prevalent as his other albums. 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: Sun, 08 Aug 1999 19:39:44 -0500 From: recliner Subject: Re: (exotica) Valhalla, Ohio DJJimmyBee@aol.com wrote: > In Maine they only charge you 39 cents a rekkit. Ok, I realize that I live in a rather provincial state, but really...the whole state charges 39 cents a record? Gimme a break. I think rather, DJJimmy, that you stumbled upon one of MY fishin' holes...so, where in Maine was that ? Frank the Mainah # 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 Aug 1999 20:24:17 -0400 From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Hitchcock >I forget the details, but one of these new-fangled cable channels >is doing a marathon of the entire "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" >TV series. Anyone have the skinny? Okay, it looks like it's TV Land, beginning at Thursday night, 11:30pm (eastern). m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 20:29:02 EDT From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) Valhalla, Ohio In a message dated 8/8/99 7:38:40 PM, recliner@maine.rr.com wrote: >Ok, I realize that I live in a rather provincial state, but really...the whole >state charges 39 cents a record? Gimme a break. >I think rather, DJJimmy, that you stumbled upon one of MY fishin' holes...so, >where in Maine was that ? It was a Salvation Army right outside of the Sebago area on Rte 25E and if you hurry you can still get a box of mint Waco-Texas-styled religious rekkids (I did grab the Little Marcy LP as reviewed in Cool And Strange Music). The gal behind the counter brought out the box when I told her I liked rekkits. I also got an Admiral 1966-styled clock AM/FM radio in good and vintage-looking shape to add to a rapidly growing radio collection ($2.99!) I also got a(nother) SEALED "Whipped Cream & Other Delights" in a barn on Rte 114. AND a 10" Les Baxter for Jane and Drew. And I heard you can't get they-uh from hee-uh. ;-)) Frank, you're in a great spot! Jimmy # 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 Aug 1999 21:28:36 EDT From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Music to watch eclipses by? In a message dated 8/8/99 8:17:04 AM Pacific Daylight Time, rgrandia@xtabay.com writes: << I still lay awake in a sweat because as a kid, I remember laying on my back, staring into the sun untill I had black spots in the center of my vision. Now my father is suffering from macular degeneration. Yikes! I better be nice to my kids, so they won't ignore me when I'm old and blind. >> So you want to hear a diatribe on this one??? Macular degeneration is not, at this point, related to sun (or radiation) exposure. Remember, the cornea and lens of the eye do an excellent job of filtering out 99% of UVA, UVB and IR radiation. Macular degeneration appears to be age related and not relate to heredity make up (at least familial genetics). It is most common in light skinned races and is probably related to over all antioxidant v. oxygen radical history. In other words, it pays to lead a clean life. In the process, the retinal pigmented epithelium becomes "sick" and the melanin is discarded from the inside of the cells. This melanin now is in the interstitial fluid and causes a barrier to normal cell function. Regardless of what you read, there is no real effective treatment for this condition. New surgical procedures are really doing nothing on a gross basis. There are those in the research and lecture circuit that recommend taking multivitamins to prevent SMD (senile macular degeneration) down the road. Most think that you need to start this in your 30's to prevent the problem in you 60's. We used to give SMD patients a vitamin high in antioxidants (like Ocuvite) but most agree that this is too little to late and probably not worth the effort. Anyway, your point about staring at the sun for long periods of time bolsters my argument that looking that the sun briefly during an eclipse will not cause long term damage to the retina. tiki bob (still in eye mode) # 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 Aug 1999 21:32:29 EDT From: Ottotemp@aol.com Subject: (exotica) the wildest Ukulele in town King Kukulele MC and perform at Al's Bar 2nd Tuesday Cabaret King opens the show and performs briefly between acts Live webcast at www.alsbar.net or see it in REAL life at 303 South Hewitt, Los Angeles Tues, Aug 10 9:30 FREE Also see his Exotica quartet King Kukulele & The Freaky Tikis perform in a rare live appearance and an even rarer FREE live performance Saturday , Aug 14 9:30 pm Taix 1911 Sunset Blvd, Echo Park King Kukulele performs for a solid two hours for FREE The Hub Cafe 124 East Commonwealth, Fullerton, CA Wed, Aug 18 (and every other Wednesday since 1996) 10 pm This is the longest running show in Fullerton King is often referred to as "The Roy Smeck of Fullerton" in addition to these shows King Kukulele and the Freaky Tikis will be bringing their act to the Bay area for Tiki News' Bongos by the Bay starring 60s legend Preston Epps on Sat Sept 18 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * This mailing list is brought to you by Slick.ORG at http://www.slick.org to remove yourself from the list, send e-mail to majordomo@slick.org and include the words "unsubscribe tikievents" in the message (not in the subject). For web-based help, go to: http://www.slick.org/cgi-bin/majordomo * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * # 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 Aug 1999 13:01:24 +0100 (BST) From: Jill Mingo Subject: Re: (exotica) Gabor Szabo At 19:31 08/08/99 -0500, you wrote: > >HOUSEOBOB@aol.com wrote: > >> CD Now is selling an import called "Wind, Sky and Diamonds" for $13.99. Has >> anyone heard this ? Is it worth getting? Thanks, Bob This is a great one in my opinion. Definitely soft vocal pop. I like Szabo too,but this LP is killer. I'd picked it up for $4 coz I liked the cover, not realising this is the Love Generation folk. I was really pleased. I didn't know it was on CD either. If you like soft vocal pop, it is a must have. Jill "Mingo-go" # 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 Aug 1999 08:40:35 -0400 From: Subject: (exotica) Lenny Dee? More details later, but right at the moment I'm still in shock about Ethel Smith's 60's _Hit Party_-- Un-freaking-believable! I mean, the late Lenny Dee just got into shmoozed-out easy listening. . . >>>HUH? When did Lenny Dee buy it? Dang, that's too bad. He really was a nice man. I am glad he lived long enough to see a "new" generation of fans appreciate him. Assuming he really is dead? >but this record does things like take "Downtown" and turn it into a slamming backbeat twist freakout. What the heck happened? I had been lukewarm about Ethel before this, but I take it all back! She rocks! Literally. agape, --Ross I,too, am agape(or Grape Ape) about Ethel Smith! She is truly under-rated partee momma! Jane Fondle # 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. - ---------------------------------------------------------------- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. 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His number was listed though, in St. Petersburg, which has a 718-area code, I think? I just called him up, and took it from there! Good luck, Ms. Thang... - ---------------------------------------------------------------- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. # 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: 9 Aug 1999 08:02:40 -0700 From: lousmith@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) [obits]Rita Sakellariou,Kazuo Miyagawa,Dick Latvala,"Littlr" Roy Wiggins ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Rita Sakellariou, a singer who rose from desperate poverty and helped give late Socialist Premier Andreas Papandreou his popular appeal, died Friday of cancer. She was 64. Sakellariou got her first performing break at a nightclub in a run-down quarter of the port. She was quickly noticed by leading Greek songwriters, who made her a household name in popular music. Papandreou, who became premier in 1981 after years of political turmoil in Greece, spoke of his admiration for Sakellariou and was photographed dancing at her performances. Known for her sorrowful ballads and extravagant dress, Sakellariou recorded more than 30 albums. TOKYO (AP) -- Kazuo Miyagawa, cinematographer for ``Rashomon'' and other Japanese film classics, died today of kidney failure. He was 91. Miyagawa's technique is characterized by balanced composition and unobtrusive camera handling. His hand-held camera work in ``Tokyo Olympiad,'' directed by Kon Ichikawa in 1965, established new methods for making documentary films. The Kyoto native joined Japan's major film production company, Nikkatsu Corp., in 1926 after graduating from Kyoto Commercial School. In 1950, he filmed the award-winning ``Rashomon,'' directed by the late Akira Kurosawa. Three years later, he filmed another classic, ``Ugetsu,'' with late director Kenji Mizoguchi. Dick Latvala PETALUMA, Calif. (AP) -- Dick Latvala, the Grateful Dead's archivist, died Friday of a heart attack. He was 56. The Berkeley native was an avid collector of the band's tapes during the 1960s and 1970s. By the early 1980s, he was known as an amateur expert and was eventually hired by the band as its archivist. Since Jerry Garcia's death in 1995, the surviving band members have released 14 compact discs containing music from the archives called ``Dick's Picks.'' ----- "LITTLE" ROY WIGGINS MOST IDENTIFIABLE AND POPULAR RECORDING STEEL GUITARIST OF THE '40s AND '50s. WITH VOCALIST, EDDY ARNOLD, HIS "TING-A-LING" SOUND WAS HEARD ON 75 MILLION RECORDS SOLD. HE INSPIRED A GENERATION OF PLAYERS TO PURSUE THE BEAUTY OF THE SMOOTH, PURE MELODY LINE. A MAN OF CHARACTER AND QUIET DETERMINATION, HE VIEWED "ARTFUL SIMPLICITY" AS A PERFORMER'S FIRST VIRTUE FOR ADVANCING THE STEEL GUITAR. BORN: JUNE 27, 1926 NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE DIED: AUGUST 4, 1999 INDUCTED STEEL GUITAR HALL OF FAME: 1985 http://www.iwc.com/scottys-music/hofplq.htm - ----- Sent using MailStart.com ( http://MailStart.Com/welcome.html ) The FREE way to access your mailbox via any web browser, anywhere! # 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 Aug 1999 08:38:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Jane Fondle Subject: (exotica) Be afraid....be VERY afraid.... August 6, 1999 =20 Manilow Talks Techno=20 Just when you figure you know what Barry Manilow's all about, the "Copacabana" guy throws you a curve ball. His latest album may be a retro salute to the late Frank Sinatra, but Manilow also prides himself on some prescience when it comes to the pop market.=20 "I can't tell you what's going to be a hit," he says. "I can tell you what I like, and I'm usually way, way ahead of music trends, more than anyone else I know." And Manilow's commercial crystal ball tells him that "Underworld is probably going to be the hippest band coming up. I heard Underworld a long time ago and knew something would happen there. The same thing with Fatboy Slim. When I hear them, as a musician it talks to me because I hear somebody doing something very, very different, and my ears perk up. Everything else, as far as I'm concerned, I've heard before."=20 How does Manilow keep up with the cutting edge? "Pop music has never really called to me; my favorite stuff I hear on a station in Los Angeles, KROQ, which plays really interesting and sometimes unlistenable music. But at least it's interesting."=20 Manilow, by the way, says he's even had a couple bars of "Could It Be Magic" sampled by an electronic group, though he can't remember which one. Besides the Manilow Sings Sinatra album, he's also working on Harmony, a musical about the Comedian Harmonists that's already been staged at the La Jolla Playhouse and is heading to Broadway. =97 Gary Graff=20 =20 =20 =3D=3D=3D "It's just my nature to do weird stuff." - Les Baxter Astroslut website: cuming soon! _____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.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 Aug 1999 08:53:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Jane Fondle Subject: (exotica) BATTLESTAR GALLACTICA? This very well may be my last post of the day, if you're sick of me by now...;0...but has anybody ever heard the BATTLESTAR GALLACTICA Ost? I have a chance to get it... Sanks! Jane Fondle === "It's just my nature to do weird stuff." - Les Baxter Astroslut website: cuming soon! _____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.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 Aug 1999 12:24:53 -0400 From: "Rajnai, Charles, NNAD" Subject: RE: (exotica) BATTLESTAR GALLACTICA? I haven't heard the rekkid, but DAMN sure would buy thayt sucka'. I was a Galacti-KID in a big way. MMMBYYYYOURRRCOMMANDDD.... Whohoo!! Charlieman This very well may be my last post of the day, if you're sick of me by now...;0...but has anybody ever heard the BATTLESTAR GALLACTICA Ost? I have a chance to get it... Sanks! Jane Fondle === "It's just my nature to do weird stuff." - Les Baxter Astroslut website: cuming soon! _____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.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. # 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 #474 *****************************