From: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com (exotica-digest) To: exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: exotica-digest V2 #568 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 Thursday, December 16 1999 Volume 02 : Number 568 In This Digest: Re: (exotica) Mondo this, mondo that Re: (exotica) Most Performed Tune of the Century Re: (exotica) Most Performed Tune of Your Century Re: (exotica) Most Performed Tune of the Century (exotica) Tiki/Mai Tai magnet controversy Re: (exotica) [obit]Las Vegas...... (exotica) Re: Charles Earland R.I.P. (exotica) Sunday night (exotica) [obits] Walt Levinsky,Douglas Leigh,Bobby Marchan (exotica) [obit - NYTimes] Douglas Leigh (exotica) GREEN HORNET Soundtrack? Re: (exotica) GREEN HORNET Soundtrack? Re: (exotica) GREEN HORNET Soundtrack? Re: (exotica) Re: Charles Earland R.I.P. (exotica) Re: Bobby Hughes Experience (exotica) thank you and a moog question Re: (exotica) thank you and a moog question Re: (exotica) thank you and a moog question (exotica) ba ba ba doo wop Re: (exotica) ba ba ba doo wop Re: (exotica) ba ba ba doo wop (exotica) Gabor Szabo Re: (exotica) ba ba ba doo wop Re: (exotica) Re: Bobby Hughes Experience ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 16:30:12 -0500 From: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) Mondo this, mondo that At 10:30 AM 12/15/99 EST, Jane Fondle wrote: > >>Also highly recommended, by me ;0, is Kai Winding's take on MONDO CANE!=A0= =20 >>The >>whole album sounds like TELSTAR by the Tornadoes, but it's rockin'! >>Ya' know, Kai ain't brought up much here, and he's great!=A0 I love the= DIRTY >>DOG album, especially! Yeah, good ole Kai. I always buy his records and I always keep em but I have mixed feelings about him. I think he really hit on something with that whole "Ondioline surf" sound he has on the Mondo Cane and Soul Surfing LP's. And yeah, Dirty Dog is cool. Nice funky Herbie Hancock sound. And his "Suspense Themes in Jazz" is a nice record to put next to your Buddy Morrow "Impact" and "Double Impact". And finally his "In Instrumentals". Pretty good NOW sound but it always bugs me that he didn't call it "IN-strumentals". I think the reason for my mixed feelings lies in a basic dislike for the trombone as a lead instrument. I don't like to entirely dismiss an instrument. There have been a few exceptions to that, the odd solo by jazzbos like Julian Priester, Jimmy Knepper, Roswell Rudd, Albert Mangelsdorf and especially Grachan Moncur III.. but mostly I like the trombone player to lead the band and leave the solos to others.=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, 15 Dec 1999 16:36:59 -0500 From: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) Most Performed Tune of the Century At 07:22 AM 12/15/99 -0800, chuck wrote: > > >Performing rights group BMI has named "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' " >as the most-performed tune of the century. > >In the runner-up position on BMI's "Top 100 Songs Of The Century" list is >"Never My Love" (by Donald and Richard Addrisi), followed by "Yesterday" I wonder what the list would like if it was limited to instrumental covers. Perhaps "Yesterday" would still be there but I doubt "You've lost.." would even be in the top one hundred. And certainly Bacharach would do a bit better. And Gershwin. And Ellington. Or maybe I'm wrong about that. It's not really surprising that so many of the most performed songs of the century are focussed on the sixties and seventies but somehow I don't want to believe it. I wish I could do a computer scan of my record shelves and come up with a non-scientific survey of most performed instrumentals. Maybe "Poor People of Paris" would win the number one spot. Or "This guy's in love" (that had to be on the other list) "Up up and away", "Patricia". "Baubles, bangles and beads". "Caravan". "Light my fire". "Quiet Village". "I know a place". It's times like these where, for a moment, I wish my obsession extended to cataloguing. 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: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 18:24:54 -0500 From: Bump Subject: Re: (exotica) Most Performed Tune of Your Century >>Performing rights group BMI has named "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' " >>as the most-performed tune of the century. > WHAT B.S!!! Aren't we lucky to be able to listen to so much cooler music? can i get a amen my brothas and sistas! and i thought it was Happy Birthday to You and In A Gadda Da Vida! --(cheech+chong) i wonder what horrible song ASCAP's has named as the most-performed tune? i really don't... my personal top three most played tunes of my century would have to be 1. "Magic Carpet Ride" by Steppenwolf (kinda exotic flavour ;) - magic lamps, belly dancers etc),i bought it when it came out and still play it out today. along with... 2. The Mothers "Hungry Freaks, Daddy" 3. Alice Cooper's "Is It My Body". quick i need to DIE, my R+R Roots are showing! bump out ******************************** Bump Universal DJ Defective Records bumpy@megsinet.net http://www.defectiverecords.com "Music, Non-Stop" -- Ralf + Florian # 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, 15 Dec 1999 19:33:37 -0500 From: "Br. Cleve" Subject: Re: (exotica) Most Performed Tune of the Century At 1:23 PM -0500 12/15/99, Rcbrooksod@aol.com wrote: >I thought it would be the "Happy Birthday To You" song. I read that it is >licensed and the most sung and performed song. > >Strange! You've gotta read between the lines on this one.......it states that '...Lovin Feelin' was the most recorded BMI tune. 'Happy Birthday', the stuff Nat mentions like Ellington etc, are all ASCAP tunes. BMI didn't exist until the late 1940's ('48 I believe), and was started to get royalties for radio play (BMI stands for Broadcast Music Inc) of music that was not getting full coverage from ASCAP - - - hillbilly, r&b and later rock n roll, all the domain of mostly untrained musicians, as opposed to most members of the American Society Of Composers And Performers (Broadway composers, Tin Pan Alley, etc). That's why the songs on their list come more from the rock era. br cleve, former bmi, current ascap, composer # 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, 15 Dec 1999 17:29:53 -0800 From: "Kevin C." Subject: (exotica) Tiki/Mai Tai magnet controversy I know this is a bit off-topic, though I think it will be of interest to some out there. http://www.kevdo.com/maitai/magnet.html Details of a tiki-oriented magnet and controvery between the artist and company over payment. Artist would like a boycott. You can decide for yourself. Kevin Crossman The Search for the Ultimate Mai Tai http://www.kevdo.com/maitai/ # 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, 15 Dec 1999 12:20:23 -0500 From: Nathan Miner Subject: Re: (exotica) [obit]Las Vegas...... Is it just "mysitcal coincidence" or haven't I been seeing A LOT of stuff = lately about Las Vegas?? I've noticed several books released in the past month or so, and now a web = site is up and advertised along with the obituaries..... I can't help but think there's something in the works for that area, and = this is all the "pre-hype" pitched to us consumers............ Comments??? # 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: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 05:40:04 -0800 From: "Wayno" Subject: (exotica) Re: Charles Earland R.I.P. I had the pleasure of hearing Charles Earland perform (with vocalist Irene Reid) in late October, and a fine show it was. Earland was extremely personable, and was quite happy to autograph my copy of "Black Talk!" The high point of his set was the unlikely medley of "Purple Rain" (with Earland himself on vocals!) and Miles Davis's "Milestones." I'll second Br. Cleve's recommendation of Earland's "Dynamite Brothers" soundtrack (currently available in the UK). "Black Talk!" "Leaving This Planet" and "Living Black" are also essential funky organ workouts. Yet another reminder to catch your musical (or other) heroes when you have the opportunity. --- Wayno - ---------------- Sent from a WebBox - http://www.webbox.com FREE Web based Email, Files, Bookmarks, Calendar, People and Great Ways to Share them with Others! # 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: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 14:40:08 -0000 From: Reader Geoff Subject: (exotica) Sunday night Any Exoticats on the UK south coast Sunday night, feel like coming out celebrating my 40th Birthday, then come along to the Bali Brasserie, 1st Avenue, Hove. The closest thing we have to a Tiki Bar. There will be a DJ debut from Steves Boutique, playing tunes to increase the ambience (already high) at this great venue, plus a brief live set from local DJ legend Danny Inferno's showband. Also a good chance of some selections by the man who started me on my DJ career, poet Jack Blackburn. It should be a good night out, It'll certainly be one of a kind. I'm looking forward to it. And this gets me thinking, in the birthday thing we did in the summer, there were quite a few of us born 1959, did nobody else celebrate the occasion? El Maestro Con Queso djcheesemaster@yahoo.com grr@brighton.ac.uk http://www.shitola.freeserve.co.uk/cheese/cheese.htm http://www.geocities.com/djcheesemaster/ # 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: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 09:45:27 -0500 From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) [obits] Walt Levinsky,Douglas Leigh,Bobby Marchan *Walt Levinsky SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) -- Clarinetist Walt Levinsky, who shared the stage with Benny Goodman, composed television and movie scores, arranged music and led his own swing band, died Tuesday. He was 70. Levinsky had been in a coma for about two months and had battled brain cancer since 1995. Levinsky spent two years playing with Tommy Dorsey and worked with Goodman on and off for about 19 years. He once estimated he played in more than 5,000 recording sessions, and arranged songs for Frank Sinatra, Liza Minnelli, Richard Harris and Doc Severinson. He wrote the theme songs to numerous TV shows, including ``CBS Evening News with Dan Rather,'' ABC's ``20/20,'' and CBS coverage of NFL football and NCAA basketball. He spent 12 years as musical director for the Daytime Emmy Awards. *Douglas Leigh NEW YORK (AP) -- Douglas Leigh, the man behind some of Times Square's most fabled advertisements as well as the lights on such landmarks as the Empire State Building, died Tuesday. He was 92. His giant Camel sign that puffed out real smoke rings lasted for 26 years on Broadway and was copied in 22 cities. He was also the brains behind the 25-foot A&P coffee cup that actually let off steam. Leigh was 28 when he arrived in New York from Alabama with $9 in his pocket. But he used his soft-spoken sales ability and flair for the fabulous to develop a multimillion-dollar business of designing and erecting breathtaking signs. He created the Super Suds detergent sign with 3,000 large ``floating'' soap bubbles per minute. A 120-foot Pepsi-Cola waterfall, the Bromo-Seltzer sign with actual effervescence and the Old Gold cigarettes sign with 4,100 light bulbs were all Leigh creations. There was also the block-long sign -- featuring two 50-foot figures and an electric news ``zipper'' -- above the Bond clothing store on Broadway. He was later hired to develop a lighting plan for Cincinnati. In addition to the Empire State Building, Leigh splashed dazzling lights at the summits of other New York skyscrapers, including Citicorp, the Helmsley and Crown Buildings and the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. In the 1960s, he owned One Times Square, the building where the ball is dropped on New Year's Eve. He stripped its marble facade and envisioned the building as what it now is -- a showcase for signs. As official decorator for the 1976 Democratic presidential convention, Leigh made Manhattan's fountains flow in red, white and blue. In 1984, he installed a vast snowflake with 3,000 lights above Fifth Avenue at 57th Street. Bobby Marchan, 69, noted N.O. R&B artist By Jeff Hannusch Contributing writer/The Times-Picayune Bobby Marchan, one of New Orleans' most colorful rhythm and blues artists, died Dec. 5 after a lengthy illness. Mr. Marchan, whose given name was Oscar James Gibson, was 69. Mr. Marchan's biggest hit, "There Is Something on Your Mind," was a No. 1 rhythm and blues single in 1960. As a member of Huey Smith and the Clowns, he sang on the hits "Don't You Just Know It," "You Don't Know Yockomo," and "Havin' A Good Time." "Bobby was just a character -- he would do anything," said singer Frankie Ford, who imitated Mr. Marchan's vocal style early in his own career and scored a hit with the Huey Smith song "Sea Cruise." "I learned from him. He always looked like he was having fun, like Fats Domino and Frogman Henry." Mr. Marchan was born in Youngstown, Ohio, where as an adolescent he became fascinated by female impersonators who performed in local theaters. He began appearing in drag as a comedian and singer. In 1953, Mr. Marchan organized a troupe of female impersonators called "The Powder Box Revue" that was booked at New Orleans' Dew Drop Inn for several weeks. Finding the city's relaxed temperament to his liking, not to mention the ample opportunities to work as an entertainer, Marchan relocated, renting a room above the Dew Drop. In 1954, Marchan became the master of ceremonies at Club Tiajuana, where he was discovered by Aladdin Records' Eddie Mesner, who was impressed by Marchan's sophisticated blues style. He later recorded for Dot before beginning a long and successful association with Ace Records. "I was working at the Club Tiajuana in 1956, when Huey Smith brought in (Ace Records') Johnny Vincent," Marchan said in 1998. "I was a singer, emcee and female impersonator. (Vincent) thought I was a woman. "Johnny said he liked my singing and wanted to record me. He gave me $200 and I signed his contract. A couple of days later we got to Cosimo Matassa's (studio) and Johnny still thought I was woman because I was dressed in drag. Huey and everybody else was cracking up because Johnny was treating me and talking to me like I was a woman. Finally, Huey told Johnny I was a man and he just about fell on the floor from a heart attack." Mr. Marchan's first taste of success was in 1956 with the release of "Chickee Wah-Wah," which was a regional hit. He and Smith joined forces in 1957 to form The Clowns. As Huey "Piano" Smith & the Clowns, they recorded some of New Orleans' most memorable rock and roll. "I was the group's boss," Mr. Marchan said. "When we first went on the road, Huey went with us, but after a few months he stayed home and concentrated on writing and doing sessions. I hired (pianist) James Booker to take his place because he sounded like Huey." After Mr. Marchan left Ace and The Clowns, he went back on the road as a female impersonator. Eventually he contacted Fire Records' Bobby Robinson about recording the Big Jay McNeely song "There Is Something on Your Mind." Mr. Marchan's version hit No. 1 on the R&B charts. Mr. Marchan continued to cut R&B records for Fire, but they didn't chart. In 1963, Otis Redding recommended him to Jim Stewart at Stax/Volt and Mr. Marchan began making the transition to contemporary soul. He later cut the original version of "Get Down With It," a hit for the British glam-rockers Slade in the 1970s. By the mid-1970s, Mr. Marchan was living in Pensacola, Fla., and barnstorming the South again as a female impersonator-bandleader. In 1977, he returned to New Orleans as emcee at Prout's Club Alhambra. In the 1980s, Mr. Marchan began appearing annually at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and presenting gong shows at local clubs. A bout with cancer and the removal of a kidney in the early 1990s cut down his performing, but he remained active in the music business. He started Manicure Productions, a company that scouted, promoted and booked hip-hop acts, and was also a key figure in the formation and success of Cash Money Records. Mr. Marchan's last public appearance was at the 1999 Essence Music Festival. He is survived by an aunt, Anabelle E. Adair of Youngstown, Ohio. Funeral arrangements were incomplete Tuesday. 12/15/99 # 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: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 10:34:15 -0500 From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) [obit - NYTimes] Douglas Leigh December 16, 1999 Douglas Leigh, the Man Who Lit Up Broadway, Dies at 92 By DOUGLAS MARTIN,NYTimes Douglas Leigh, the dazzling impresario of electrical splendor who festooned Broadway with miles of electrical signs, a gargantuan steaming coffee pot and the celebrated giant Camel sign that puffed smoke rings, died Tuesday in a Manhattan hospital. He was 92 and lived in Manhattan and Palm Beach. Mr. Leigh was also the man who lit up Manhattan's skyscrapers, beginning with the Empire State Building in 1976, and who made the city's fountains flow red, white and blue for that year's Democratic National Convention. Mr. Leigh, an Alabama native, hit town at 28 in a secondhand Ford with $9 in his pocket and parlayed a soft-spoken sales ability and a flair for the fabulous into the multi-million-dollar business of designing and erecting breathtaking signs. The A.&P. coffee cup, 25 feet high and steaming, was his. So was the Old Gold sign with its 4,100 bulbs. The Bromo-Seltzer sign with actual effervescent action? You bet. Mr. Leigh gave the Great White Way its legendary Camel smoke ring sign, which lasted for 26 years and was duplicated in 22 other cities. He created the Super Suds detergent sign with 3,000 large "floating" soap bubbles per minute. The 120-foot Pepsi-Cola waterfall was indisputably his. "I'm an idea man, a concept guy," he said last year, still very much on the job at Donald Trump's building at 40 Wall Street, one of Manhattan's tallest structures. In addition to the Empire State Building, Mr. Leigh splashed dazzling lights at the summits of other skyscrapers, including Citicorp, the Helmsley and Crown Buildings and the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Mr. Leigh became as dominant in the new business of lighting buildings as he had been in designing spectacular signs. His life was an exuberant exercise in creative attention-getting. He owned and operated blimps on both the East and West Coasts used to advertise Wonder Bread, Mobil gasoline and other products. In the 1960's, he owned One Times Square, the building where the ball is dropped on New Year's Eve. He stripped off the marble facade and envisioned the building as what it now is, a showcase for signs. In 1976, he was official decorator for the Democratic Party's presidential convention, causing Manhattan's fountains to flow in red, white and blue, among other effects. In 1984, he installed a two-and-a-half-story snowflake with 3,000 lights above Fifth Avenue at 57th Street. His work extended beyond New York, and in 1987, he was hired by Cincinnati to develop a master plan for lighting that city. He also dealt with such seemingly prosaic jobs as handling the advertising on New York City buses. Mr. Leigh was the spiritual pioneer of today's Times Square, where giant neon displays are required on new buildings. By 1936, a two-story building was erected on Broadway between 44th and 45th Streets with a sign that more than doubled the height of the structure. The huge sign, the work of the designer Dorothy Shepard, featured a fish blowing bubbles, advertising Wrigley's Spearmint gum. A nightclub in the building lasted only a few years, and in 1940, Bond Clothes took over much of the space. Eight years later, Mr. Leigh persuaded Bond to put up a $350,000 montage rising 90 feet above the entire length of the store. At the base of the Bond sign was an electric news zipper, about five feet high, running along the entire facade. In Mr. Leigh's design, twin 50-foot-high figures, one male and one female, flanked a waterfall 27 feet high and 120 feet long. Strands of electric lights seemed to clothe the chunky classical figures at night, but by day they appeared naked. "No one has yet equaled the colossal exhortations of Douglas Leigh's 1948 Bond clothing sign," Christopher Gray wrote in The New York Times in 1997. "It lasted only six years, but some fragments still peep out from under the latest advertisements." Mr. Leigh was born in Anniston, Ala., and began selling things as a youth. He attended the University of Florida, where he bought all the advertising space in the yearbook for $2,000, on credit. He resold the space for $7,000, and dropped out. He arrived in New York in the early 1930's, and in 1933 scored his first success. He secured the right to put up a sign at Fordham Road and Crotona Avenue in the Bronx. He then persuaded the St. Moritz Hotel on Central Park South to put up a billboard there. He got $50 a month, enough to eat regularly at the Automat, as well as stationery with the hotel's prestigious address. Later in 1933, he came up with the idea for the steaming coffee cup, 15 feet wide, at the southeast corner of 47th Street and Seventh Avenue. He began to create a comfortable niche. Within a few years he had thrown switches in Times Square to illuminate a blinking penguin for Kool cigarettes, a clown tossing quoits in the shape of the three-ring Ballantine Beer logo, and an animated cartoon for Old Gold cigarettes. In June 1941, E. J. Kahn Jr. profiled him in The New Yorker and said he had been responsible in the past seven years for 32 large signs. "If New York is ever thoroughly blacked out," Mr. Kahn said in reference to a possible wartime blackout, "no man will take it harder." The next year, such blackouts began, but they only stimulated Mr. Leigh's imagination. He did not need lights to develop the Camel billboard, at the southeast corner of 44th Street and Broadway, which puffed out five-foot-wide rings of smoke. Mr. Leigh was a smallish, soft-spoken sort who said, "yes, sir" and "no, sir" to business executives and laborers alike. The New Yorker described him as a "Princeton freshman." He dressed in tweeds and bow ties and wore a fresh boutonniere of cornflowers. He is survived by his wife, Elsie; two daughters, Lucinda Leigh of Phoenix, and Heidi Duke of San Diego; four stepchildren, Amanda Borghese of Short Hills, N.J.; Pidgie Chapman of Pinehurst, N.C.; Prudence Blair of Summit, N.J.; and Winthrop Lewis of Singapore; and eight grandchildren. His visions were legendary. In 1944, he told The New York Times that he foresaw a postwar Times Square full of three-dimensional signs in softer colors; a colossal, translucent glass of orange juice and a huge bottle of perfume with scent puffed out on the street. He saw wind machines blowing trees and flags, searchlights playing on blimps, artificial snow and fog; the smells of coffee, cocoa and beer, even live giraffes and other animals. Times Square would be a spectacular performance event in the service of advertising. He also thought the Empire State Building would make a dandy glowing cigarette for Lucky Strike. # 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: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 14:47:05 +0100 From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) GREEN HORNET Soundtrack? can someone comment on the GREEN HORNET Soundtrack, which is now available on cd as Japanese import? worth having? Johan - - - # 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: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 14:45:03 -0500 From: "Br. Cleve" Subject: Re: (exotica) GREEN HORNET Soundtrack? At 8:47 AM -0500 12/16/99, Johan Dada Vis wrote: >can someone comment on the GREEN HORNET Soundtrack, which is now available >on cd as Japanese import? worth having? The original album is extremely good (and incredibly rare), but also incredibly short - - it contains 9 tracks and clocks in at a whopping 19 minutes! The CD has 6 more tracks, which'll probably add another 13 minutes to the thing. The score is by Billy May, and has all the classic elements of the mid-60's - some spy, some tijuana brass soundz, a jazz ballad, some go-go sound. And I'm sure the CD will be cheaper than the usual $250 or so that the LP seems to fetch these days. br cleve # 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: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 14:41:44 -0500 From: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) GREEN HORNET Soundtrack? Who did the Green Hornet album on Diplomat? # 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: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 15:33:52 -0500 From: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Charles Earland R.I.P. At 05:40 AM 12/16/99 -0800, Wayno wrote: > >Yet another reminder to catch your musical (or other) heroes >when you have the opportunity. It's been a long time since I made much, if any, association between the musicians whose records I love and actually seeing them perform live. I guess it started when I started listening to jazz. After that, I usually just assumed they were already dead. But I did see Benny Carter shortly before he died. And way back, I caught Tim Hardin on his last tour. My friend told me he was certainly going to be drunk and lousy but we should see him before he died. My friend was right and he died a couple of months later. But I sort of cherish the memory. 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: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 16:06:54 -0500 From: "Brian Karasick" Subject: (exotica) Re: Bobby Hughes Experience Thanks for the responses on this post. I've since found that there is no such person as Bobby Hughes and the group is Norwegian, taking on the name to appear more English! Also, CDNow has since put some samples from the new release on their site and what I heard was every bit as good as the piece on the compilation. What with those $5 and $10 off coupons they offer, I couldn't help myself... Also enjoyed the piece by a group called "Mo' Horizons" from Germany on the Jet Society compilation. I'm seemingly discovering a whole new music genre here since these things are such a fusion of styles, I fear I've overlooked them only because they would be filed in a place I wouldn't necessarilty look. Another of the pitfalls of trying to classify music... but it has to be done in order to sell it at least! Brian Karasick Physical Planner McGill University Montreal, Canada # 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: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 13:43:59 PST From: "w m" Subject: (exotica) thank you and a moog question to whoever posted the url for the wnyc archives thank you! i've been listening to the moog show all afternoon and loving every note of it. now a question...how is moog pronounced? i always thought the double o in moog was pronounced like the o in moo. but the d.j. pronounces it like mowg. have i been wrong all these years? william ______________________________________________________ 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: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 16:42:42 -0500 From: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) thank you and a moog question >to whoever posted the url for the wnyc archives thank you! i've been >listening to the moog show all afternoon and loving every note of it. now >a question...how is moog pronounced? i always thought the double o in moog >was pronounced like the o in moo. but the d.j. pronounces it like mowg. >have i been wrong all these years? Since it is German, it rhymes with Rogue. # 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: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 15:45:09 -0600 From: kingkini@tamboo.com Subject: Re: (exotica) thank you and a moog question >now a question...how is moog pronounced? i always thought the double >o in moog was pronounced like the o in moo. but the d.j. pronounces >it like mowg. have i been wrong all these years? moog rhymes with rogue 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: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 17:41:08 -0500 From: Nat Kone Subject: (exotica) ba ba ba doo wop For some reason, I always assumed "doo wop" was something unfamiliar, since most of the group names were unfamiliar to me. Then I saw PBS's "50 years of doo wop" and realized that I knew what doo wop was after all. Anyway partway through I realized that much of the time, the "backup singers" were actually using "doo" and "wop" as the non-words they sang. And I had a thought. Not much of a thought mind you. But.. Given that the terms "soft pop" is really meant to describe music with a lot of harmony and chorus singing, as opposed to just pop that's soft.. And given that much of the time, the harmony singers on soft pop records are singing "ba ba ba" with the occasional "da" thrown in... Wouldn't it make sense to rename soft pop "ba ba ba"? I know it sounds stupid. "I really love all those late sixties ba ba ba records". Doesn't have the same impact of "doo wop". But if everybody started calling it "ba ba ba", after a while it would sound normal. Maybe it would sound better as "ba ba ba da" with the emphasis on the "da". Happy Festivus. 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: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 14:49:50 -0800 (PST) From: chuck Subject: Re: (exotica) ba ba ba doo wop ba ba ba???!! Brings to mind ba ba lack sheep have you any wool, yes sir yes sir three bags full. The name "doo wop" has come under attack from vocal group enthusiats who I understand are more rabid than spectropoppers or exoticats. Now I was uncomfortable with the term "soft pop" until I realized the Association, Cowsills, Sunshine Company Spanky and the Gang, Free Design and Harpers Bizarre are called "Sunshine Pop" to differentiate it from "soft pop" You are perseptive though Nat there really are a lot of ba ba ba das in Sunshine Pop Ba da ba da da da da feelin groovy Chuck - --- Nat Kone wrote: But.. Given that the terms "soft pop" is really meant to describe music with a > lot of harmony and chorus singing, as opposed to just pop that's soft.. > And given that much of the time, the harmony singers on soft pop records > are singing "ba ba ba" with the occasional "da" thrown in... > Wouldn't it make sense to rename soft pop "ba ba ba"? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.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: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 17:50:23 -0500 From: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) ba ba ba doo wop The way I see it, I don't use the term "Doo Wop" as I find it belittling. I am not out on a crusade to stop everyone, but I call it 50's Harmony, because I don't call Classical Music "Toot Scrape Blow" (I reserve that for Philip Glass :^) and I don't call Exotica "Caw! Caw!". It levels the playing field, in my mind. "Doo Wop" sounds like baby words and at the time, of course, many of the old guard thought it was garbage anyway. So I prefer my term to the more popular one. Oodley Pop a Cow, 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: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 14:56:17 -0800 (PST) From: chuck Subject: (exotica) Gabor Szabo Been listening to "Jazz/Mystticism/exotica", "Wind, Sky and Diamonds", and "Bacchanal" by Gabor Szabo and I am wondering if he has other albums like this, or other albums that are different yet better (more exotic) than these three. Thanks for your help Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.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: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 18:08:25 -0500 From: Bump Subject: Re: (exotica) ba ba ba doo wop >he harmony singers on soft pop records are singing "ba ba ba" with the occasional "da" thrown in... Wouldn't it make sense to rename soft pop "ba ba ba"? i have been describing it as "dub-a-dub-a-da" music for years. people instantaneously know what you are talking about! it is definitely my favorite form of EZ listening. ba-ba-ba bye ba-ba-bump # 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: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 18:54:02 -0500 From: "Br. Cleve" Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Bobby Hughes Experience At 4:06 PM -0500 12/16/99, Brian Karasick wrote: >Also enjoyed the piece by a group called "Mo' Horizons" from >Germany on the Jet Society compilation. I'm seemingly >discovering a whole new music genre here since these things are >such a fusion of styles, I fear I've overlooked them only because >they would be filed in a place I wouldn't necessarilty look. There's amazing stuff coming out these days, which is why I feel we're in the most creative period for new music in 20 years. If you like Bobby Hughes and Mo Horizons, then look around for records by Soulstance, Resident Filters, Mint Royale, Krafty Kuts, Skeewiff, Blue States, Rainer Truby Trio, Los Chicharrons, Maxwell Implosion, Ceasefire, Le Hammond Inferno, DJ You DJ Me, Ursula 1000........the list goes on and on. A nice introductory compilation is "Kinky Beats" on the Lacerba label. It includes some Now Sound tracks from the '70's interspersed with current breakbeat. br cleve # 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 #568 *****************************