From: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com (exotica-digest) To: exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: exotica-digest V2 #638 Reply-To: exotica-digest Sender: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes exotica-digest Tuesday, February 29 2000 Volume 02 : Number 638 In This Digest: (exotica) [obits] Mary Sorrentino,Fred Rhoads, Lynn Shults, Eliot A. Caplin, Liam Clancy - NOT (exotica) Moon Base Alpha is back (exotica) more mr hazlewood Re: (exotica) Soundproof vs. Soundblast (exotica) The Liquid Room 2/26/00 (exotica) Re: Here's Br. Cleve's "list" (exotica) Spin CD? Re: (exotica) Spin CD? RE: (exotica) Spin CD? (exotica) The Exotic Kindergarten (exotica) The Exotic Kindergarten (exotica) three suns get hitched Re: (exotica) The Exotic Kindergarten Re: (exotica) The Exotic Kindergarten Re: (exotica) The Exotic Kindergarten Re: (exotica) Spin CD? Re: (exotica) The Exotic Kindergarten Re: (exotica) The Exotic Kindergarten (exotica) Second Hand (exotica) Re: Dr Livingston, I presume? Re: (exotica) Re: Dr Livingston, I presume? (exotica) Re: Grandmaster Flash Re: (exotica) The Exotic Kindergarten Re: Re: (exotica) The Exotic Kindergarten ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 10:23:29 -0500 From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) [obits] Mary Sorrentino,Fred Rhoads, Lynn Shults, Eliot A. Caplin, Liam Clancy - NOT *Mary Sorrentino PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) -- Mary Sorrentino, who was one of the city's last restaurateurs with links to Palm Springs' movie colony days, died Tuesday of cancer. She was 78. Sorrentino and ex-husband Bill Sorrentino opened their first restaurant in Toluca Lake, on the edge of Los Angeles, in 1944. Bob and Dolores Hope were among their first customers and they remained friends when the Sorrentinos opened their Palm Springs seafood house in 1966. Frank Sinatra developed his Steak Sinatra recipe with Bill Sorrentino and it is still served at the restaurant. Sinatra celebrated his 60th birthday at Sorrentinos and often visited the kitchen staff when he dined there. - --- *Fred Rhoads GREENWOOD, S.C. (AP) -- Fred Rhoads, a cartoonist of the post-World War II ``Sad Sack'' comics, has died. He was 78. Rhoads died Sunday from complications of Alzheimer's disease in Greenwood, where he lived since December. The cartoonist drew the exaggerated life of a World War II GI trying to cope with a civilian's life in ``Sad Sack'' comic books. The cartoon was initially created for Yank Magazine during the war -- with the character a luckless draftee -- by George Baker. It was resuscitated by Harvey Comics after the war. Rhoads was one of the artists who worked on the postwar ``Sad Sack'' comic books, helping illustrate the character's comic woes for more than 20 years. He once recalled that Baker's contributions were sometimes a little racy. ``He was used to drawing for men in the service,'' Rhoads once said. ``His humor tended to be more dirty. More sexy. And that didn't work as well in the comic book.'' Rhoads once sued Harvey Comics for more of the profits for his efforts on ``Sad Sack'' comic books. A Pima County Superior Court awarded him $2.6 million in the early 1980s, but that ruling was reversed in the Arizona Court of Appeals. Rhoads also assisted ``Beetle Bailey'' creator Mort Walker, Jimmy Hatlo, who did ``They'll Do It Every Time,'' and Fred Lasswell, who created ``Snuffy Smith.'' More recently, Rhoads worked for the Tucson (Ariz.) Citizen as an editorial cartoonist in the 1980s and early 1990s. Rhoads studied art illustration in New York City from 1940-1942 until he joined the U.S. Marine Corps in World War II. - ---- *Lynn Shults NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Lynn Shults, a state Correction Department spokesman who in a previous career helped discover country music superstar Garth Brooks, died Thursday of an apparent heart attack. He was 55. Shults, who just joined the state Correction Department on Feb. 1, collapsed after an afternoon meeting. Shults had a long career in the music industry, including jobs with Acuff-Rose Publishing Co., Capitol Records, Atlantic Records, and Billboard magazine. He was with Capitol in 1988 when the label initially decided against signing Brooks. ``Lynn came out to a showcase and Garth happened to be one of the performers,'' said Bob Doyle, Brooks' manager. ``He had the courage to kind of rethink his earlier decision and advocated signing Garth.'' - --- STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) -- Eliot A. Caplin, a writer who devised the plots for a number of well-known comic strips, died Feb. 20. He was 86. Caplin cooperated with artists who produced strips like ``Heart of Juliet Jones,'' ``Big Ben Bolt'' and ``Dr. Bobbs.'' Caplin was the brother of ``L'il Abner'' cartoonist Al Capp. Although the brothers never collaborated on a strip, Capp conceived two strips that he passed along to Caplin. One, ``Abbie an' Slats,'' which was drawn by Raeburn van Burne, lasted 23 years. The other was ``Long Sam,'' drawn by Bob Lubbers. Capp shortened his name from Caplin so it would fit better in comic strips. Caplin received little personal publicity because he wrote for different feature syndicates that were not eager to promote someone who also wrote for their competitors, his son, Donald, told The New York Times. Caplin also wrote many plays, including ``Any Resemblance to Persons Living or Dead,'' which was produced off Broadway in 1971. Caplin studied at Brown University and Ohio State University. He earned a Purple Heart in World War II after being injured aboard a minesweeper in the Pacific. - --- From the BBC -- Saturday, 26 February, 2000, 19:05 GMT Irish folksinger enjoys virtual wake Traditional Irish musician and singer Liam Clancy has said he has enjoyed his own "virtual wake" on the internet after an American radio station announced he had died. He received over 1,200 condolences and tributes on his homepage within hours of his misreported death. Liam Clancy and his brothers were folk hits in the 60s "It is a very eerie feeling to get a preview of your own death," he said. "People sent in memories of me and wonderful tributes." Clancy said a man with the same name had died in the US and a New York university radio station announced his death and then ran a special tribute programme broadcasting his songs. Members of the folk singer's family even telephoned his home from the United States to find out about the funeral arrangements and were shocked when he answered their calls. With his brothers and singer Tommy Makem, Liam Clancy enjoyed huge success in the folk boom of the 1960s. The singer said that when the mistake was discovered his nephew sent him an e-mail asking "How are things in Hell?" - --- THOUSANDS BID ADIEU TO THE VETERAN COMEDIAN Kozhikode - The body of veteran comedian of Malayalam screen Kuthiravattom Pappu, who died here last evening, was consigned to flames at the Mavoor Road crematorium this afternoon. Earlier, his body was kept in the Bhashaposhini Library before being taken to the town hall in a flower decked van. Kerala finance minister T. Sivadasa Menon, cine actors Mohanlal, Jayaram, Jagathi Sreekumar, Oduvil Unnikrishnan, Kunjandi, Janardanan, Zeenath, director V.N. Vinu, lyricist Girish Puthencherry and CPM leaders M. Dasan and C.P. Kunju were among hundreds of people who thronged the actor's house to pay their last respects. The 62-year-old comedian, who had acted in more than 1000 films in a career spanning four decades, leaves behind a history enscripted with his peculiar dialogue rendition and down-to-earth characters in the minds of Malayalam cine goers, reports UNI. - --- Joseph Wolfson, Surf Legend, Dies at 50 http://www.nytimes.com/library/sports/other/022800oth-obit-wolfson.html # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 16:09:51 +0000 From: Robbie Baldock Subject: (exotica) Moon Base Alpha is back Well, my show Moon Base Alpha is finally back on the air for a few shows. We did our first of the broadcast yesterday and a playlist should be on the show's website within the next few days. The show is going out Sundays 1200-1330 on Fresh Air FM (http://www.freshairfm.co.uk/), 87.7 MHz and the coverage is Edinburgh (UK) city limits. If anyone has promo copies of anything they think I might like, do please get in touch - there are two more shows this broadcast. Robbie (aka DJ Bongo Boy) - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Moon Base Alpha http://www.rcb.easynet.co.uk/space/ - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- # 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, 28 Feb 2000 17:12:21 -0000 From: Reader Geoff Subject: (exotica) more mr hazlewood Been off for a week, Laid some Exotica and groovy soundtracks on the Fashion conscious public at 40 degrees at Earls Court again. Bit less traumatic than last time, although we saw off new boys band 'Northern Line' (stage too small, didn't like our ambiance) and Giorgio from Nightmares on Wax, (turned up late, was double booked against us and sulked when his 'representative' couldn't bully us off. wanker). But anyway, Got 13 and Cowboy in Sweden on Vinyl last weekend on Smells Like Records. I was a bit disappointed with 13 at first, the reviews of it made a lot of play on the fact that it was arranged by someone who did cartoon soundtracks, so I was expecting something a lot more off the wall. When what you got was somewhere between solid funk, Staxy ballads and Soft Parade era Doors. The Juxtaposition of Lee Hazlewoods voice over the Funk tracks that open up each side is a little bizarre at first, but I think its a great record, if very short, but no way worth the silly money the original is supposed to go for. Cowboy in Sweden is more Lee Hazlewood in customary Country-ish mode. I swear I know half the songs on here, the just settle into your song memories so nicely. Did Johnny cash ever cover any Lee Hazlewood songs? 'pray them bars way' just sounds custom made for him. Apart from that spent hours browsing the charity shops and nothing at all to show for it apart from a Pierre Cardin suit for the summer (7 pounds), not a sniff of a decent record. Never mind. Thanks for all that on Shriners I was sorry I asked at one stage, but if you got to worry about world domination why look any further than the WTO? They don't even try to hide it. But then again, Nat might be right, Stand up for yourself! Burn your Fez's! 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: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 12:54:50 -0500 From: "Br. Cleve" Subject: Re: (exotica) Soundproof vs. Soundblast At 7:15 AM -0500 2/28/00, Pearmania@aol.com wrote: >sophisticated_savage@yahoo.com writes: ><< As I wrote some time ago, the stereo version of > "Soundblast" and the stereo version of"Soundproof" are > totally alike. >I went and pulled what I thought was my dupe copy of Soundproof. It is in >fact a stereo copy of Soundproof which matches up track for track with my >mono copy of Soundblast. However, the stereo and mono copies of Soundproof >have totally different tracks! >The stereo and mono Soundproof do have the same picture on the front cover >and same liner notes. Mono Soundblast has totally different liner notes. And in conclusion - - there is no stereo version of Soundblast, although I was informed once that it exists in stereo on a reel to reel version. But I've never seen it. Oh those wacky low budget record companies! 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: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 10:17:27 -0800 From: "Ponak, David" Subject: (exotica) The Liquid Room 2/26/00 The Liquid Room airs every Saturday Morning (Friday night) from 3-6 on 90.7 FM KPFK. (98.7 in Santa Barbara County). Also check out my show The Nice Age at http://www.spikeradio.com on Sunday afternoons from 3-6 PM, PST. The Liquid Room-2/26/00: 1.The Association-Come On In Birthday (Warner Bros.) 2.Pizzicato Five-20th Century Girl (Instr. Vers.) 12" Single (*********-Japan) 3.Hugo Montenegro-MacArthur Park Moog Power (RCA) 4.Senor Coconut Y Su Conjunto-Tour De France El Baile Aleman (East/West-Japan) 5.Hot Ice-(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction Stone Disco (Radio) 6.Satisfaction Skank-Fatboy Slim 7.Clinton-Button Down Disco (Fila Brazillia Disco Frisco Mix) Disco & The Halfway TO Discontent (Luaka Bop/Astralwerks) 8.Frank Sinatra Jr.-Now Is The Time His Way! (Daybreak) 9.Tom Jones w/The Divine Comedy-All Mine Reload (Gut-UK) 10.Spanky & Our Gang-Since You've Gone Without Rhyme Or Reason (Universal) 11.Primal Scream-Keep Your Dreams XTRMNTR (Creation-UK) 12.Swing Slow-Good Morning Mr. Echo Swing Slow (Mercury-Japan) 13.Happy End-Sayonara America Sayonara Nippon Happy End (Bellwood-Japan) 14.Haruomi Hosono With Friends Of Earth-Androgena SFX (Teichiku-Japan) 15.Love, Peace & Trance-Mammal Mama Love Peace & Trance (Sony-Japan) 16.Underworld-8 Ball The Beach Soundtrack (London) 17.Dusty Springfield-Yesterday When I Was Young Dusty In London (Rhino) 18.Burt Bacharach-Knowing When To Leave Make It Easy On Yourself (A&M) 19.Mellow-Another Mellow Winter Another Mellow Winter (Atmospheriques-France) 20.The Bugaloos-If You Become A Bugaloo The Bugaloos (Capitol) 21.The Heavy Blinkers-Dressing Down The Heavy Blinkers (Brobdingnagian) 22.The Critters-Awake In A Dream Touch 'N Go With The Critters (Project 3) 23.Rocky Chack-Change Single (Midi-Japan) 24.The Free Design-Love Does Not Die There Is A Song (Tokuma-Japan) 25.Oasis-Little James Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants (Sony) 26.Tom Scott with The California Dreamers-Today The Honeysuckle Breeze (Impulse-Japan) 27.Console-14 Zero Zero Rocket In The Pocket (Matador) 28.The Singers Unlimited-You Are The Sunshine Of My Life Feeling Free (MPS) 29.Joni Mitchell-Stormy Weather Both Sides Now (Reprise) 30.Jack Jones-What Are You Doing For The Rest Of Your Life Jack Jones Sings Michel Legrand (RCA/Laserlight) 31.Charles Fox-Long Ago Yesterday Love American Style Soundtrack (Capitol) 32.Senor Coconut Y Su Conjunto-Autoban El Baile Aleman (East/West-Japan) 33.From Bubblegum To Sky-Shaboom They Said The Shadows Of Goodbye-Me And Amy And The Two French Boys (Eenie Meenie) 34.The New Wave-The Shadows Of Goodbye The New Wave (TNW) 35.Eels-Grace Kelly Blues Daisies Of The Galaxy (Dreamworks) 36.Don Costa-Heroes And Villains Modern Delights (Verve) 37.Supreme Beings Of Leisure-Never The Same Supreme Beings Of Leisure (Palm Pictures) 38.The Carnival-Love So Fine The Carnival (World Pacific) 39.The Raymakers-Mike Love Is A Joke The Raymakers (Demo) 40.Teresa-Spooky Anita Kerr Presents Teresa (Dot) 41.Arling & Cameron-Space Beach Music For Imaginary Films (Emperor Norton) 42.Keith Textor & Friends-Fool On THe Hill Hold Me (A&R) 43.Lady Nelson & The Lords-Picadilly Pickle Picadilly Pickle- (ABC Dunhill) 44.Paul Williams-Morning I'll Be Moving On Someday Man (Reprise) # 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, 28 Feb 2000 14:01:40 -0500 From: "Brian Karasick" Subject: (exotica) Re: Here's Br. Cleve's "list" After being swamped with requests for this information, I'll post all that I have on the subject it to the list. I think the discussion first began around the subject of a type of music that mixed new and old sounds to create something quite unique, likely relating to The Bobby Hughes Experience... BTW, I've picked up FSUK volumes 2 & 3 compilations and they're less "refined" than Kinky beats but very much in the same style (also a mix of originals and remixes) and well worth giving a listen to. Br. Cleve wrote: > There is a style of electronic music that does this all the time. It's > called breakbeat. It's not very popular in the U.S. yet (except in > Miami), but you can hear lots of it in Europe and Japan. It's funk > based, features lots of ez samples as well as TV and movie > dialogue, etc, and generally has lots of melodic things going on. > Some of it contains real songs that listees would know : > Skeewiff's "New Avengers Theme", MIke Young's > "Telstar", Mucho Mambo's "Sway", Three Amigo's "Louie Louie", >The Wiseguy's remix of Beck's "Sex Laws", Rolling Stoned's > "Jumpin Jack Flash", Fat Boy Slim's "Satisfaction"; Jacknife Lee > even takes the blooper tape of Casey Casem doing the "fucking > dead dog" routine and puts it over some funky beats. The truly > fab Ursula 1000, who twists up the theme to Bedazzled on > his debut disc "The Now Sound Of Ursula 1000" (18th St. Lounge > Records), spins a great night of this stuff at Drinkland in NYC on > Thursdays. > I mentioned this one before, but if anyone's looking for a good intro to > the world of breakbeat, you must find the album "Kinky Beats" on the > Lacerba (UK) label, available in both LP and CD formats. It features new > break tracks interspersed with 70's Now Sound and funky breaks (like the > Incredible Bongo Band's version of 'Apache'). Other highly recommended > LP's include "El Grand Ritmo de Mike Young"- Mike Young (Donna Lee, UK), "Muy > Rico!" - Jacknife Lee (Pussyfoot, UK), "Fusa Riot" - Bobby Hughes > Experience (Ultimate Dilemma, UK), "Conga Heaven, Bongo Hell" - Los > Chicharrons (Tummy Touch, UK), "Confessions of a Selector" - Tim "Love" > Lee (Tummy Touch, UK), "It's A Finger Lickin' Thang" - V.A. (Finger Lickin', > UK). Other labels to keep an eye out for include Marble Bar, FSUK, Wall > Of Sound, Jalapeno, and Faith & Hope. This is the resource reference that Cleve mentioned: http://www.juno.co.uk/ I would also add the AtaTak - City Space compilation to the above list, for a different take on the subject! City Space 2 is a bit more electronic and less quirky... I'm not sure how you would get it but they are both available via the AtaTak website if all else fails. I think that was how we got them, back in 1991: http://www.atatak.com Also I've attached Moritz's explanation of City Space as there is no information on the disc about who made it and we always assumed it was AtaTak people behind it. > yes, you guessed right, the makers of City Space are a few > known people who came up with a couple of made up band > names. Dorau was behind 5 pieces you played, I must say, I > never liked his Kitschfingerremix of Gummitwist that much, but I > still like Kernkraftwerk, Mind Bender, Boogie Mobile, all done > together with Tommi Eckart. Dorau is also behind Orgyn, Tiny > Sexy People, and worked with us on the Ghetto Twins track. My > Wonderful World is Kurt with, I think it was Thomas Schwebel, > ex-Fehlfarben. Ready Made is Thomas Fehlmann, ex-Palais > Schaumburg, just like Ralf Hertwig, who did the Schreibmaschin > -piece.The rest, Groove Fighters and Hoover Men, is simply Der > Plan; I hope I remember all of this correctly. 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: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 16:53:50 -0500 From: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) Spin CD? LPs have been known to revolve at 16, 33 1/3, 45 and 78 RPM. How fast do Audio CD's spin? 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: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 17:13:35 -0500 From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Spin CD? Brian Phillips wrote: > LPs have been known to revolve at 16, 33 1/3, 45 and 78 RPM. How fast do Audio CD's spin? ============== "The CD drive motor is precisely controlled to rotate between 200 and 500 RPMs depending on which track is currently being read." I got this info from the nifty site http://www.howstuffworks.com The address for the How-CDs-Work page is: http://www.howstuffworks.com/cd.htm - -Lou # 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, 28 Feb 2000 14:23:58 -0800 From: Erik Hoel Subject: RE: (exotica) Spin CD? Lou wrote: > "The CD drive motor is precisely controlled to rotate between 200 and 500 > RPMs depending on which track is currently being read." Quite intuitive given the constant 'density' of bits in the media. The next obvious question is whether the audio properties of an LP are superior for the first track where you get effectively more grove distance per unit of time (given the fixed rotational speed)? Erik - -- Erik Hoel mailto:ehoel@esri.com Environmental Systems Research Institute http://www.esri.com 380 New York Street 909-793-2853 (x1-1548) tel Redlands, CA 92373-8100 909-307-3067 fax # 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, 28 Feb 2000 23:45:16 +0000 From: "Giovanni Berti" Subject: (exotica) The Exotic Kindergarten Roy (Thinkmatic@aol.com) wrote me off-list: > Hello Gionni, > I was speaking on the phone to Chuck in New Orleans and he mentioned you. He > said you have children. It seems an unusually large number of people on the Exotica > mailing list have small children. I have a daughter, Abigail who just turned 3 year old. > Four of the other people I trade with from the list have 2-4 year olds, Domenic > Ciccone, Peter Risser, Keith Lobue and Tiki Bob, not to mention Chuck. This > is odd. Okay, we're now curious to know who else is in the club. I already know we should add Cheryl & Brian. We realize this is straight off topic (but I can tell that being a parent is an "incredibly strange" experience), but we think that some relief from our vinyl addictions will make our life happier. I actually have one child, Maria Stella: she's going to be 4 in April, and she already DJ's and belly dances (still have to buy her a fez, tho). Ciao to all you mama's & papa's Papagionni (that's how she calls me, makes me feel a raggamuffin daddy) # 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, 28 Feb 2000 14:52:12 -0800 (PST) From: chuck Subject: (exotica) The Exotic Kindergarten Don'T forget to add the amazing Citizen Kafka who doesn't let his little girl stop his record collecting. Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.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, 28 Feb 2000 22:55:09 -0500 From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) three suns get hitched From The "How could I miss that before?!?" Dept: Tonight I noticed that The Three Suns make an extended audio cameo appearance in Alfred Hitchcock's movie, "Rope" (1948). The official credit is "Radio Sequence by The Three Suns." About halfway through the film, a character turns on a radio... music plays in the background for a little while. And it is indeed The Three Suns, in their earlier, softer mode. With some orchestra and wordless chorus accompanying them now and then. Anyone know anything more about this? Thanks. 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: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 23:33:36 -0500 From: cheryl Subject: Re: (exotica) The Exotic Kindergarten Giovanni Berti wrote: > > Four of the other people I trade with from the list have 2-4 year olds, Domenic > > Ciccone, Peter Risser, Keith Lobue and Tiki Bob, not to mention Chuck. This > > is odd. > > Okay, we're now curious to know who else is in the club. I already > know we should add Cheryl & Brian. Yes, that would be us. Alexander will be 4 in June - he's been listening to exotica music pretty much since he was conceived - and he loves to bring all his musical instruments into one place, and play along with whatever music is on the stereo - especially if it's Peter Thomas, for some reason! It's really neat to see how a child can relate to this music - in my case (and many of the others, I suspect) we were probably listening to much the same music at that age, too! ciao, cheryl (trying to keep a Barney-free household) # 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, 29 Feb 2000 00:50:41 EST From: Dlsmay@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) The Exotic Kindergarten Me too, my son is 3 1/2. Right now his favorite song is "Mickey" by Toni Basil. His favorite video (musically) is the Cramps rawther lewd vid for "Ultra Twist." Previously he's gone through big B-52s and Talking Heads phases. What can I say? He's got a strong New Wave gene. One of my biggest thrills of parenthood was driving to work one day (where his daycare is also) and hearing him softly sing along with the radio (he was barely 2): "Sweet Jane...Sweet Jane..." - --David Giovanni Berti wrote: > > Four of the other people I trade with from the list have 2-4 year olds, Domenic > > Ciccone, Peter Risser, Keith Lobue and Tiki Bob, not to mention Chuck. This > > is odd. > > Okay, we're now curious to know who else is in the club. I already > know we should add Cheryl & Brian. Yes, that would be us. Alexander will be 4 in June - he's been listening to exotica music pretty much since he was conceived - and he loves to bring all his musical instruments into one place, and play along with whatever music is on the stereo - especially if it's Peter Thomas, for some reason! It's really neat to see how a child can relate to this music - in my case (and many of the others, I suspect) we were probably listening to much the same music at that age, too! ciao, cheryl (trying to keep a Barney-free household) # 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, 29 Feb 2000 21:36:29 +1100 From: Philip Jackson Subject: Re: (exotica) The Exotic Kindergarten on 29/2/00 10:45 AM, Giovanni Berti at giovanni@pirulazio.interim.it wrote: > > Okay, we're now curious to know who else is in the club. Full time dad to two boys. Jesse 3 1/2 - bought up on Moondog as sleep music for the first 18 months now a fan of "robot music" as he calls it (Kraftwerk, Air, YMO) and Luke 5 months, a sometime "Soothing Sounds For Babies" guinea pig. Less time for record hunting but it has got me buying old children's records. Some of which are great (most not). Philip - -- # 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, 29 Feb 2000 13:38:43 +0100 From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Spin CD? nytab@pipeline.com wrote: > "The CD drive motor is precisely controlled to rotate between 200 and 500 > RPMs depending on which track is currently being read." I never noticed any difference in the noise the CD drive makes during the beginning of the CD as compared to the end. But you are right: the digital units burnt into the CD all have the same size, unlike the waves of a vinyl groove, which are getting shorter and shorter the nearer the record comes to the end. Eric wrote: >The next obvious question is whether the audio properties of an LP are >superior for the first track where you get effectively more grove distance >per unit of time (given the fixed rotational speed)? More groove distance? No. Longer waves - yes. But wether that's an advantage I doubt; it definitely means there will be more dust particles per inch. It could be of a certain advantage for very high frequences, as you can squeeze them better in a longer groove. A higher speed also means more pressure energy on the needle, which could result in a bit more dynamic range, as in a Maxi, compared to an LP. It also means the record should wear off faster in the beginning than in the end of a record side. I doubt though that you will be able to actually hear any of these differences. Mo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 08:59:18 EST From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) The Exotic Kindergarten In a message dated 2/29/00 12:52:15 AM Eastern Standard Time, Dlsmay@aol.com writes: << Giovanni Berti wrote: > > Four of the other people I trade with from the list have 2-4 year olds, Domenic > > Ciccone, Peter Risser, Keith Lobue and Tiki Bob, not to mention Chuck. This > > is odd. > > Okay, we're now curious to know who else is in the club. I already > know we should add Cheryl & Brian. >> My son Ely (pronounced E-Lee -- like the old Tarzan star Ron Ely) will be 3 in July. He grew up (and out) with Exotica as I played it loud enough so he could hear it in the womb. One of my many fanaticisms, is collecting Magnavox consoles and record players. The bigger the console the better. Well, when he was born, I added console number 3 and needed a place to put it. So it logically went into the baby's room ("He needs music in there!" I told my wife.) For the longest time Exotica (1) was his favorite, particularly Hong Kong Blues (he liked all the banging and clanging). I swear to God, one of the first statements was "Play Martin Denny." Real excitement came when we switched over to The Enchanted Tiki Room album. BTW, to show how kind this List's members are, a fellow member found out I was looking for a Tiki Room album and offered to send me his, no charge. I nearly cried when later he told me he had had it since his teenage years. I eventually located a copy my self and graciously returned the original to it "rightful" owner. Anyway, he knows all the words to the Tiki Room album. For some reason, every so often, something will set him off and in the middle of what he is doing he will say, "Ahhhhh, buenos dias senorita, my siestas are getting chorter and chorter, oh look at all the people, and welcome to Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room. Michael, mi amigo, pay attention it's show time . . . . .So it is! And what darling people I have sitting under me . . . . . . . . " He even does the accents and inflections! It makes a daddy proud. I also have the Tiki Room tracks on my computer and will play them that way for him (as I try to type while he sits on my lap). We were at a restaurant the other night and the waiter entered the order on one of those touch screen computers and Ely asked him, "Would you play the Tiki, Tiki, Tiki Room?" Ely can correctly identify Martin Denny in pictures and album covers. I tell ya, the child is brilliant! The current craze, it listening to Tomorrow Land's Carousel of Progress Show (the "Now Is The Time" version). I recently added yet another Magnavox console. A 1964 unit that is the biggest one yet (15 bucks - Salvation Army). I had to locate it in the garage/workshop. That's OK tho, it insures LP play while he and I fiddle in the garage. And I hope not to offend, but I am keeping him away from that punk rock stuff. 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: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 08:59:46 -0500 From: mimim@texas.net (Mimi Mayer) Subject: Re: (exotica) The Exotic Kindergarten When my nephew George was six, his dad planned a pretty exciting weekend: a basketball game with the Chicago Bulls (Michael Jordon, one of George's heros) and, mostly for dad, a show at the Philly community center that was the Sun Ra Archestra's home base. George was blown away by Sun Ra, and small wonder. In the traditional parade round the hall that highlighted Sun Ra shows, the Master Himself spotted George and led the parade over to a squirty, thrilled little boy. In school the next day George was called up for Show N Tell. "Here's the thing," my brother said. "George didn't even mention seeing Air Jordon, like most kids would. He talked about Sun Ra and how cool the music was." And George's favorite song from childhood? "Nights in Tunesia." That's rearing a child right. Nice thread. Thanks Giovanni. Mimi =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: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 11:06:37 -0500 From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) Second Hand I recall that a good while ago someone mentioned a forthcoming book called "Second Hand: A Novel; by Michael Zadoorian." I notice that the book is now available. Can anyone who reads it provide a short review? Thumbs up, down, whatever? Thanks! - -Lou lousmith@pipeline.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, 29 Feb 2000 14:45:28 +0100 From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: Dr Livingston, I presume? "Wayno" wrote: > >A friend is searching for a record he vaguely remembers from >his youth. It was a novelty 45, probably titled "Dr. Livingston >I Presume?" and that's about all he can remember, other than >thinking it was hilarious. maybe it was "Mister Livingston" by larry Verne, a follow-up to his "Mister Custer" which hit #1 in the 1960 billboard hot 100. he did a whole LP around the same concept, but Livingston & Custer are the stand-outs. 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: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 10:17:23 -0800 (PST) From: Ben Waugh Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Dr Livingston, I presume? Re: Larry Verne: Good LP - it has a track called Beatnik - his character being a southern country boy who wanders into a beatnik cafe and begins to blend in... poetry and jazz - __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 13:21:50 -0500 From: "Brian Karasick" Subject: (exotica) Re: Grandmaster Flash Thanks to all those that helped me out with the Grandmaster Flash mystery. It is indeed Super Rappin' Theme! Now a follow-up question... Are there different versions of this piece? The sample I heard from one of the comps at CDNow sounded a bit different than the one I have. Then there's a reference to a piece called Super Rappin No.1 on another compilation. Will wrote: > you fgured out what this is already, right ? it's from Superrappin'. > I found it on a double lp Best of Enjoy set I doubt ENJOY records has reisued a CD of the above. I've discovered that GM Flash is found in a lot of compilations! Not surprising considering how ahead of its time this music was. Does anyone have any recommendations, preferably with this piece included? I'm a bit lost given the volume of output and reissues available. Thanks, 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: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 14:30:24 EST From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) The Exotic Kindergarten In a message dated 2/28/0 5:39:40 PM, giovanni@pirulazio.interim.it wrote: >Okay, we're now curious to know who else is in the club. I already >know we should add Cheryl & Brian. I claim membership in the club with Leah, 7.5 and Peter, just 5. Peter recently hosted "Peter's Rock "n" Roll Party" for himself. The kids like the music in the car and at home and my vinyl addiction, though time-consuming, is an accepted outlet around here by and large...Jimmy Botticelli/ if you're really dying for a look at a sleeker me and my family--and I just know you are-- visit http://ww3.shore.net/~magnus/ # 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, 29 Feb 2000 14:39:28 EST From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) The Exotic Kindergarten In a message dated 2/29/0 2:31:43 PM, DJJimmyBee@aol.com wrote: >I claim membership in the club with Leah, 7.5 and Peter, just 5. Peter >recently hosted "Peter's Rock "n" Roll Party" for himself. The kids like the >music in the car and at home and my vinyl addiction, though time-consuming, >is an accepted outlet around here by and large...Jimmy Botticelli/ if you're >really dying for a look at a sleeker me and my family--and I just know you >are-- visit http://ww3.shore.net/~magnus/ I FORGOT TO TELL YOU TO CLICK THE PORTRAITS LINK~ # 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 #638 *****************************