From: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com (exotica-digest) To: exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: exotica-digest V2 #674 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, April 3 2000 Volume 02 : Number 674 In This Digest: (exotica) Re: sock it to me Re: (exotica) Chipmunks/David Seville/Ross Bagdasarian Re: (exotica) Chipmunks/David Seville/Ross Bagdasarian Re: (exotica) Hurry To Me (exotica) Dali (was cartoons and drugs) Re: (exotica) four AMAZING albums/Les Baxter Re: (exotica) Edmundo Ros (exotica) Re: Baxter/Ros (exotica) "Butch Cassidy" OST Question Re: (exotica) Chipmunks/David Seville/Ross Bagdasarian (exotica) Nat Kone's CD Burner (exotica) good old presbyterian scotland Re: (exotica) A complete Venture (exotica) Edmundo Ros (exotica) Re: New Finds Re: (exotica) Playlist For Space Bop, April 2 (exotica) Re: Les baxter (exotica) Re: Breakbeat for Jazz (exotica) Friendly Persuasion Radio - Week of 04/03 (exotica) Music from Mathematics (exotica) Drugs and cartoons (exotica) Napster.com, Macster.com Re: (exotica) A complete Venture Re: (exotica) Drugs and cartoons Re: (exotica) Barry Gray Supermarionation themes (exotica) A jaunt to St. Louis... (exotica) [obits] Ed McCurdy, Wayne McAllister RE: (exotica) compleat Ventures? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2000 00:05:40 -0500 From: Citizen Kafka Subject: (exotica) Re: sock it to me for restaurants, you might call Nirvana, which should be on central park south. it has the most astounding view. very good indian food. used to have live improvitory north indian sitar music, played by Dr. Shyam Yodh, a very cool guy. if he's still there, he is aces. this is in the same building as some famous tiki restaurant (trader vic's????). i can't remember. good luck, have fun, call if you want for a short hang. ck Bump_Stadelman@discovery.com wrote: > > ok you NEW YAWKERS! i need your help. > can you tell me where are the cool record stores in Manhattan? > also an exotic place to eat...preferably with live music (indian, turkish > etc)??? > > i am going up for a day on monday with my girlfriend who just got hired by DC > Comics > to do some covers for some upcoming Vertigo comics. so i wanna do it (her) up > right > but i do not have any clue about where to go and what to do in your lovely > metropolis. > > baltimoron bump > email me at home...bump@defectiverecords.com - -- Listen ANY TIME at http://www.megasaver.com/sma/soundlinks.html Citizen Kafka, Producer, "The Secret Museum of the Air" every Tuesday 6 to 7 PM EST WFMU 91.1 FM & WXHD (Hudson Valley) 90.1 FM http://wfmu.org/ then go to 'listen to wfmu' # 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: 1 Apr 2000 21:21:49 -0800 From: bag@hubris.net Subject: Re: (exotica) Chipmunks/David Seville/Ross Bagdasarian At 12:02 AM 02-04-00 EST, Larry wrote: >He released lots of singles many with great instrumental B sides. I totally agree! I am on my own personal mission to find all the non-Chipmunk stuff through B sides, singles, whatever. He may have needed help to capture the sounds he was looking for, but they WERE his sounds and definitely no one else's! My favorite still is "Almost Good" which is the very first David Seville side I had heard. >I am somewhat dismayed that there is so little information in print or >elsewhere about this man. Yes, me too! Other than a Life magazine feature article and a couple of newsmagazine articles (all about the Chipmunks craze) there is little else available that I have been able to find. >Did he do film acting apart from voicing Seville and the >Chipmunks on the TV cartoon? Yes, he has been in a number of films. The only one where I have seen him was Rear Window (he played a pianist whom Jimmy Stewart was viewing through his spyglass across the way in another apartment). He was definitely not a major actor. Seems like he dabbled in all sorts of things and pretty much enjoyed life that way. The chipmunks thing definitely was a good financial move for him, although not exactly his most creative. >DO you know where the David Seville name and alter ego came from? No, but the Life magazine article says the "ALVIN!" shouting routine came from how Ross Sr. addressed one of his boys (although the name was not Alvin) on occasion. By the way, Armin's Theme was music written for his wife, Armin. Byron Byron Caloz Portland, Oregon, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky Way http://www.hubris.net/zolac The Mr. Smooth site: http://www.hubris.net/zolac/smooth # 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, 2 Apr 2000 00:50:42 EST From: PrimoChuck@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Chipmunks/David Seville/Ross Bagdasarian The Chipmunks were named Alvin (after Liberty Owner Alvin Bennett), Theodore (after engineer Ted Keep) and Simon (after Si Waronker who also worked at Liberty). Armen's theme also resurfaced as a Chipmunks song "I Wish I Could Speak French" and Bobby Vee's "Yesterday and You." # 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, 2 Apr 2000 00:04:02 -0500 From: "Br. Cleve" Subject: Re: (exotica) Hurry To Me At 6:22 PM -0500 4/1/00, RLott@aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 4/1/00 4:14:30 PM, knucklehead000@yahoo.com writes: > ><< Roy Budd does a song that shows up on some Sequel >comps that he calls Hurry To Me. Apparently it's >written by Morricone. Anyone know what film this is >from and what the Italian name may be? >Also, maybe where to find a version of it by him? >> > >I don't recall the film, but it can be found in its original Morricone glory >on the excellent comp "Mondo Morricone" (Colosseum Records). The film is called "Metti Una Sera A Cena", the soundtrack of which was just reissued recently (by DagoRed I believe). Dusty Groove has it. The track was covered recently by the fab Italian bossa group Balanco, and remixed by both Jazzanova and by Fez File. All are superb. 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: Sat, 01 Apr 2000 22:01:22 -0800 From: "paul thomas" Subject: (exotica) Dali (was cartoons and drugs) ...and Salvador Dali. But neither of them lasted more than a couple of months at the studio and the projects they worked on didn't amount to anything. I've spoken to a lot of animators who were there at the time, and none of them ever saw Dali on the lot. When I was taking photography courses there was a cartooning/animation teacher who had worked with Disney and Tex Avery too. He was with Disney when Dali was engaged to develope a cartoon. Apparently Dali was everywhere but at the drawing board (Dali was probably out walking his ocelots) and this got to be a problem at Disney studios. Finally, they tracked Dali down and said to him "we've done everything imaginable to get you here and you haven't done a thing. What's up?" Dali hemmed and hawed and finally said 'Well,it's the paper you've given me." "What's wrong with the paper? It's the same as everyone else is using" "Yes, but it's all those little holes down the side of the paper...those holes make the paper so beautiful I couldn't possibly ruin it by drawing on it!" That, apparently, was the last of Dali at Disney. My father worked in the gemstone business in Los Angeles in the mid Fifties and had Dali come into the store with a huge ruby which he wanted fixed up with a series of lights that would pulsate like a beating heart. It would've ruined the stone and my father said "are you kidding?" ~~ Paul Send FREE April Fool's Greetings to your friends! http://www.whowhere.lycos.com/redirects/American_Greetings.rdct # 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, 2 Apr 2000 01:36:53 -0500 From: "Mark Sironi" Subject: Re: (exotica) four AMAZING albums/Les Baxter > Keeping in mind that I am a big fan of "Ports Of Pleasure" would you > recommend "Carribean Moonlight"? That's the one album of his that seems to > be exotica that I see more than most of the others. It pops up on eBay I would not consider "Carribean Moonlight" exotica at all. I think it's straight up easy listening. Based on what you've said I don't think you'll like it. - -- Mark Sironi # 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, 2 Apr 2000 08:28:42 -0500 From: mimim@texas.net (Mimi Mayer) Subject: Re: (exotica) Edmundo Ros Hair Goes Latin. And generally I find Ros disappointing. # 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, 2 Apr 2000 10:56:42 -0400 From: Ross 'Mambo Frenzy' Orr Subject: (exotica) Re: Baxter/Ros SLarry wrote: >Keeping in mind that I am a big fan of "Ports Of Pleasure" would you >recommend "Carribean Moonlight"? That's the one album of his that seems to >be exotica that I see more than most of the others. That's a definite "maybe." Keep in mind that it is Baxter's arrangement's of other people's compositions--not his own amazing originals--and it tends towards the string-heavy and subdued. The blurb on the back uses the word "languorous," and I'd say that's pretty accurate. For me it's a keeper, just for his dark and mysterious version of "Poinciana." also: >If I recall correctly there were some Edmundo defenders I'm an Edmundo fence-straddler. . . A few of the Ros records which have passed through Casa Mambo didn't make the cut. But these were keepers: Rhythms of the South Hollywood Cha Cha Cha Dance Again (Phase 4) The first and third actually include *two* alternate versions of the "Colonel Bogey March," done as a Merengue! You really haven't lived until you've heard that one. cheers, --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: Sun, 02 Apr 2000 12:29:56 From: Brad Bigelow Subject: (exotica) "Butch Cassidy" OST Question Can anyone confirm that the singers on "South American Getaway" on the "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" soundtrack are Anita Kerr & co.? The album cover doesn't mention them, but it's hard to mistake Anita's little girl soprano. Brad # 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, 2 Apr 2000 13:52:24 EDT From: SLarry3595@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Chipmunks/David Seville/Ross Bagdasarian Anyone on this list who also collects Bagdasarian/Seville LPs and 45s who is interested in trading cdr or tapes please contact me off list. I have several rare and great ones. If you have some also we can trade and get that much closer to hearing all of his stuff. You all know this already, but for the record, these are trades only not for sale and not to be sold, for gifts/trades only. As it seems doubtful that anything apart from The Chipmunk Song, Armen's Theme, and Witch Doctor will ever be on a commercial cd these trades should not infringe on any commercial rights. (Just don't want to step on the toes of anyones financial interests). Thanks, Larry # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 11:01:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Peter Risser Subject: (exotica) Nat Kone's CD Burner I know i'm a week behind, but there's two things I wanted to say. 1) I know people on this list swear up and down about Mini-Disc, but I'm still skeptical. I believe it's a lossy format, like MP3, which means that it can sound damn close, which is fine for car stereos or what have you. But as an archiving medium, it's still only damn close, not exact. So, that's my belief and I know others disagree, but there you are. 2) If you go with a stand-alone, yes the discs are more expensive but there are ways of fooling them into taking regular CD-ROms. At least there used to be. Also, it divides tracks based on silence. So, even if you don't care about digitally editing record pops (which I don't) you can still end up with a hokey track setup. Now, if you are just using this as a temporary mechanism until your big computer comes in, you can always archive LPs this way, then go back and straighten 'em out and clean 'em up later. 3) Without a scanner, you lose out on the nifty artwork. That's my three cents. Peter __________________________________________________ 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: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 20:26:22 +0100 From: "ark edgar" Subject: (exotica) good old presbyterian scotland seems to me in good old presbyterian scotland that BJ is probably mad or something. or maybe even a republican!!!! horror of horrors cheers Ronnie. PS. I remember not o long ago that I caused great upset by condemning Western Swing, and I'm not a control freak fascist. so I reckon BJ should chill out a little, and stop being such a stalker. PPS I am enjoying a beer as I post this, so up yours and it sure is mighty nice poison. PPPS Walter Wanderly will never rise from the grave to come and take you away from it all, Live in the now.........!!!!! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 06:46:54 +0900 From: Taro HOSHIJIMA Subject: Re: (exotica) A complete Venture On Sat, 01 Apr 2000 23:57:02 +0200 Moritz R wrote: > Or the Rare Recordings, another Japanese LP. The Ventures were really "big in > Japan". (Which brings me again to wondering, why are there - apparently - no > Japanese Members in the Exotica List? Japan was always great for Exotica, > think of Water Melon!) Though mostly lurking, I've been a Japanese member in this list for about 5 years. I'm just too lazy to be noticed or just want to keep my rare state intact :-) Anyway, the Ventures still tour throughout Japan every year. It's like an annual event. Taro # 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, 2 Apr 2000 20:06:35 -0500 From: lenkei@echonyc.com (bruce lenkei) Subject: (exotica) Edmundo Ros I think that like almost every exotica artist, Edmundo recorded his share of sub-par records. BUT, most of his earlier stuff on Phase Four is a barrel of fun. My favorites include "Bongos from The South" (including a latin-ized, bongo-ized version of 'Deep in the heart of Texas') and a record called "Heath Vs. Ros" which is an album he did with Ted Heath. (There's also a volume 2 of this) The track from Heath Vs. Ros called "Ted meets Ed" is by itself, worth getting the album. He's also got one called "Give My Regards to Broadway" which is also good. As far as Edmundo's singing, well, for me it's a small price to pay for what are otherwise pretty great records. And it's not all that bad, either. It just sounds like someone's pinching his nose while he sings. Plus he usually only does it on one or two tracks. I have found a Ros album to avoid called "The NEW Rhythm of the South" which is a rather drab affair, (interestingly, he does not sing on this one!) but then, every Phase Four I've found with the phrase, "The NEW fill-in-the-blank" in the the title, is pretty dull stuff. - - bruce ++++++++++++++++++++ Lenkei Design Graphic Design www.lenkeidesign.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, 1 Apr 2000 19:58:22 -0500 From: "Brian Karasick" Subject: (exotica) Re: New Finds James wrote: > what's the store and in what city did you get those? The City is Montreal and the stores are several. The Roger Roger LP came from a store called Disquivel which is to me the best for interesting vinyl due to at least one of the owners really knowing his music and having an interest in the weird and quirky. They are one of shrinking number of stores here that actively buy vinyl. A few others (eg. Le Pickup and Primitive) also can be interesting but often condition is poor and prices higher. Disquivel at least prices records by condition. Another great store is Beatnick, primarily for 50's 60's and French originals. It is expensive but all records they sell are in good condition so.... There are many other stores here with cheap records but this city has a huge nuber of serious collectors and has always been one of the better places to buy more obscure music in. Just ask Allan Clark. There is no question the selection of French music (both the Quebec and France variety) is better here than anywhere in the continent. Still, Dusty Grooves manages to do awfully good considering! The other two CD's come from Cheap Thrills, a store that's been around more than 20 years. It specializes in Jazz/Blues but again has an owner with good and inquisitive taste. They have a wide range of suppliers and every so oftern I take the time to go throught the store and discover things they may have had around for years but I sonehow missed. They no longer deal in vinyl but for a few leftover Jazz or garage records they still hang on to. They also have a website. Allan knows the store well. It's certainly worth a visit if you've never been here before. Brian K # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2000 22:27:33 -0400 From: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) Playlist For Space Bop, April 2 At 10:20 PM 4/1/00 -0500, cheryl wrote: > >Space Bop #89 Bop Bop Space Bop Are the following CD's, sure things for a guy like me? >DJ Me DJ You: Set The Controls "Rainbows & Robots" >Laurent Lombard: Sugar Boogie "Happyland" >Arling & Cameron: Shiva's Daughters "Music For Imaginary Films" I have a pile of 25 mostly jazz CD's that I'll be trading in on Tuesday. I'm going to get the Bobby Hughes CD and the Cinematic Orchestra one that I told you about. I just want to list of a few more to look for. They don't have the Ursula1000 at this store so I'll have to hold onto a few CD's to trade for that one. Anything else that's as "essential" as Tipsy once was? I know we've been through this before but I guess we're here again. 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: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 22:28:27 -0400 From: "Brian Karasick" Subject: (exotica) Re: Les baxter Larry worte: > LES BAXTER - PORTS OF PLEASURE > So, my questions: Based on these ramblings what Henri Rene and Les Baxter > titles do you guys/gals recommend? Picked up Ports of Pleasure myself for a few bucks at my favourite local record store a while back. It's OK but far from his best if you ask me. Caribbean Moonlight is one I would also not recommend, despite other positive comments, but I guess it depends on which of Les Baxter's many "styles" you like. I'd happily trade my copy of it and Ports of Pleasure if anyone's interested. > Question two: Is Martin Denny's HYPNOTIQUE as great as the grape vine would > have me believe? Should I pony up the dough for the cd. The CD's gotta cost you a helluva lot less than an Ebay LP, I'd think. Yes it is worthy of owning... and you get Exotica Vol. III thrown in for no extra money. Primitiva is another favourite (also on a Scamp two-fer) and if I had the chance, for a decent price, I'd happily own Ritual of the Savage, Skins and The Sacred Idol, none of which to my knowledge have been reissued on CD. The copies I'd seen of any of these here have been consistantly in beat up condition and expensive. That double CD Baxter "Best of" set has too much of wht I already have, same for equivalent of Martin Denny. Not sure if either of these is still in print, let alone the Scamp CD's! 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: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 23:05:40 -0400 From: "Brian Karasick" Subject: (exotica) Re: Breakbeat for Jazz Nat wrote: > Yesterday I was in this record store and the clerk, a guy in my film, was > playing me all kinds of this breakbeat, sampley, jazzy trip hop, NOT house > music that was in all these different sections but basically sounded like > the same kind of stuff to me. > He didn't play me the Bobby Hughes thing but they had it. > Anyway I decided to trade in the few jazz CD's I still have and see if I > can get four or five of those expensive CD's he played me. I hope I've not been the cause of making a guy dipose of his Jazz records! Despite my long lost interest in Dixieland Jazz I can't bring myself somehow to dispose of the records... Seriously though, here's my suggestions on what to look for: 1. Various - Kinky Beats (Lacerba) UK 2. Ursula 1000 - The (ESL) US These first two should be .. um, easy to find. 3. The Bobby Hughes Experience - Fusa Riot (Ultimate Dilemma, UDRCD008, 1999) UK - Sure to make you feel less guilty disposing of Jazz records. My personal favourite. 4. Los Chicarrons - Conga Heaven, Bongo Hell ( Tummy Touch, TUCH 027CD,1999) UK 5. Jacknife Lee - Muy Rico! (Pussyfoot CDLP017, 1999?) UK 6. Mint Royale - On the Ropes (Faith & Hope, FHCD11, 1999) UK If you still have cash to spend - a bit more toward the House/Hip Hop side but... 7. Various - It's A Finger Lickin Thang (Finger Lickin, FLRCD1,1999) UK - 2xCD 8. Various FSUK Vol. 3 (Future Sound of the United Kingdom) UK - 2XCD You will notice most everything is from the UK which for us poor Canadians means simply "expensive"! Oh, and I can't take all of the blame for this rash act of yours... I have to share the blame equally with Br. Cleve... One hint though: This is one case where your (at least my) local record store may have trouble helping. The few things that I could get here were REALLY expensive. I should suggest CDNow and those ever handy discount coupons. These'll get you anything I mention here for well under US$20 each, shipping included, doubles maybe a bit higher. The last 30% sale helped even more. You have to hope customs doesn't open it up as CDNow have this habit of declaring values as the full price with a $10 "pre-payment". You have to then pay the dreaded $5 postal fee + taxes and send the real costs to customs for a refund. We've had to do this some 4 times now and they still don't catch on at CDNow in spite of our complaints! If you can get them locally all the better as most were long backorders at CDNow! I still think Nat's trying to make me feel guilty here... NAT, we should talk more about "future acquisitions" I think. # 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, 2 Apr 2000 21:31:25 -0700 From: "Mr. Fodder" Subject: (exotica) Friendly Persuasion Radio - Week of 04/03 The Friendly Persuasion Show - Week of 04/03/00 Cool and Strange Music Magazine's weekly radio show on Antenna Internet Radio. http://www.antennaradio.com/punk/friendlypersuasion/index.htm Get your RealAudio player ready and tune in anytime during this week to hear: 1. Bonzo Dog Band - The Intro and the Outro 2. Ralph Carmichael and Kurt Kaiser - We're On Our Way / Outasite! 3. Bill Joy - How Long are you Staying 4. Upper Crust - Back In Black 5. Throwing Toasters - Debbie 6. Lee and Paul - The Chick 7. Sesame Street - Up and Down 8. Rose Hill Jr. High School Band - Star Trek 9. Animaniacs - Wakko's America 10. Lollipop Train - Teenage Trifle 11. His Kids - What's God Like? 12. Laurent Lombard - Happyland 13. Stan Freberg - James Bond Spoof 14. Roland Shaw and his Orchestra - Goldfinger 15. Stan Freberg - Goldnoodle 16. Skip Heller his Orchestra and Chorus - The Raymond Scott Memorial Fake 78 17. Heywood Banks - Arterial Suicide 18. The Nutty Squirrels - Salt Peanuts 19. Ralph Carmichael and Kurt Kaiser - The Sequence of Events 20. Gene Marshall - Jimmy Carter Says "Yes" 21. Tom Jones - She's a Lady / What's New Pussycat 22. Squirm Grandeur - My Team Has Lost 23. Bazza And Fitzpatrick - Wouldn't It Be Nice 24. Syd Barrett (with The Beatles) - What a Shame Mary Jane 25. Bruce Haack - Song of the Death Machine 26. Lollipop Train - Fun Food Factory 27. Sesame Street - Number 5 28. Vijaya Anano - Desire Soars Up High Thanks for listening! Chow, Otis - ---------------------------------------------------------------- Mr. Otis F-Odder mofo@thebranflakes.com - ---------------------------------------------------------------- Jump into Cool and Strange Music Magazine online at, www.coolandstrange.com Issue #16 is out now with Spike Jones, Esquivel, Robert Drasin, High School Band Records and more musical madness! - ---------------------------------------------------------------- View past playlists, find out where to order what you hear, listen to show archives all at, www.thebranflakes.com/fp - ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this weekly email, just reply and say, "The only kind of spam I want is the potted meat I dine on thank you very much" and you will be off in a flash. - ---------------------------------------------------------------- # 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, 3 Apr 2000 10:51:28 +0100 From: "Phil Clark" Subject: (exotica) Music from Mathematics greetings y'all Some folks were asking about the "Music From Mathematics" LP featuring an IBM 7090 computer playing well-known standards through a specially-designed "musical transducer". I have this LP. It was actually released in 1961 and not 1955 as someone originally thought. At least my copy says 1961. IT's on Decca (US) and Brunswick (UK). It was the brainchild of a (probably white-coated) tech at Bell Labs who no doubt spent months programming the big-iron machine. This woulda bin laborious work when one considers the fact that computer technology in 1960 was, er, fairly embryonic, and the methods of programming were very, very crude. I should imagine that punched cards, teletypes and quite probably valve (tube)-based circuitry were the order of the day. Imagine working with a valve-based computer. We're talking about a huge undertaking! It's truly a labor of love and I would say the LP is a fantastic achievement all-round. The sounds on the LP are what I would describe as "sci-fi" computer tootlings, whistles and white/pink noise type sounds. I will happily find my copy and post a track listing on request. Thermionically, phil dilemma # 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, 3 Apr 2000 10:58:12 +0100 From: "Phil Clark" Subject: (exotica) Drugs and cartoons Steve from Spumco said, re cartoons and drugs: >"The guys who are driven to sit at their desks until late at night >creating fourth dimensional ideas are doing it with their brain, >not chemicals." I totally agree. Production of animation cel-by-cel takes care, effort and time far beyond the attention span and patience of anyone under the influence of "consciousness-altering entertainment products". best phil dilemma # 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, 3 Apr 2000 10:21:31 +0100 From: the curator Subject: (exotica) Napster.com, Macster.com I've used the Mac version of Napster on a couple of occasions and would be very interested to know how I can protect my machine from snoopers while I'm downloading. Replies off list appreciated as I don't want to start another war ;-) friendly Sem Sinatra # 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, 03 Apr 2000 13:57:37 +0200 From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) A complete Venture Taro HOSHIJIMA wrote: > On Sat, 01 Apr 2000 23:57:02 +0200 > Moritz R wrote: > > > Or the Rare Recordings, another Japanese LP. The Ventures were really "big in > > Japan". (Which brings me again to wondering, why are there - apparently - no > > Japanese Members in the Exotica List? Japan was always great for Exotica, > > think of Water Melon!) > > Though mostly lurking, I've been a Japanese member in this list for > about 5 years. I'm just too lazy to be noticed or just want to keep my > rare state intact :-) Great. I am so happy. 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: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 13:59:11 +0200 From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Drugs and cartoons Phil Clark wrote: > Steve from Spumco said, re cartoons and drugs: > > >"The guys who are driven to sit at their desks until late at night > >creating fourth dimensional ideas are doing it with their brain, > >not chemicals." > > I totally agree. Production of animation cel-by-cel takes care, effort and > time far beyond the attention span and patience of anyone under the > influence of > "consciousness-altering entertainment products". Altough I had decided to discuss this off-list with Stephen (very nicely, btw), now this post forces my intelligence to answer on-list once more. The contradiction between drugs and brain is not existing. I really don't know what kind of incredible truth you have told us here. Even drug-users have a brain - and use it. And as for the (non-existing) contradiction between drug-experiences and hard concentrated work, come on! I can't believe you mean this seriously. Nobody spoke of working under the direct influence of drugs. A year has 8760 hours; if I spend, say, 50 of them with psychedelic drugs, I still have 8710 to sleep and work, i.e. anything up to 6000 hours to work as concentrated and sober as I want. How come the apostels of a drug-free society always feel so safe to base their arguments on such nonsense? Apparently NOT taking drugs doesn't much to expand conciousness. Why does all of this make me so mad? Because I don't want our world, where at least some freedoms have been achieved through the fight of many people over a couple of years, is drawn back into a dark age of McCarthyism with or without the unvoluntary help of people who mindlessly repeat superfluous statements we have heard a million times before. I wish they would at least take a look around themselves to realize in what kind of company they move with their "arguments". Mo (this subject is finished for me) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 09:13:20 -0400 From: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) Barry Gray Supermarionation themes >Watch for the 1966 feature film, "Thunderbirds Are Go". >There's a second feature called, I think, "Thunderbird 6". But I don't >recall that one being as much fun. F.A.B. reply: For the most part, this is true although a disappointment for me on both counts is that I got no countdown, drum roll bridge and original theme music on either of them. "T.A.G." has a marching band at the end doing the theme, but it just isn't the same. Some would (wood?) argue that Cliff Richards is really as stiff in the movie as he is in real life, but... If you can, find the original episodes used on video for the original theme music. 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, 03 Apr 2000 09:38:24 -0400 From: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) A jaunt to St. Louis... I just drove back from St. Louis and boy are my wheels tired! Ah hahahahhahaha... Heh. *ahem* Gotta rework that one. In any case, the King's English (that's the band I'm in; I play guitar and harmonica) rolled into St. Louis and played on a double bill with Thee Lordly Serpents. After they played their brand of garage, we stepped up to get our message to the kids via garage, Nederbiet and R&B. It was a great time and we were well-received, if a hair on the ill-attended side. I have my voice all the way back to-day. I know what you're thinking, Mr. and Ms. Exoticat: what records did I buy? Well, I finally found a copy of the Third Woody Allen Album, which has ten minutes of material unavailable elsewhere. However, the great surprise in the haul was a Larry Adler 10", Adler Plays Spanish and Slavonic Dances. Adler was and is one of the premier harmonica players alive and these renditions of Albeniz, Manuel De "Rufus On" Falla and others were just him accompanied by piano and there is not a bad song on it. All six are absolute gems. A wonderful and truly exotic good time. Price paid at St. Louis' Vintage Vinyl: 99 cents! Go to Euclid Records at http://www.euclidrecords.com (that's how I knew about the Woody Allen, for which I have been searching on and off for about 15 years) but Vintage Vinyl is a bit of a bust for Exotic tastes. I JUST drove back....no I just DROVE ba...dang I just drove back from SAINT Lou..., 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, 03 Apr 2000 09:42:03 -0400 From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) [obits] Ed McCurdy, Wayne McAllister NEW YORK (AP) -- Ed McCurdy, a leading 1950s folk music figure whose songs were recorded by Johnny Cash, Arlo Guthrie and Joan Baez, has died. He was 81. McCurdy died March 23 in Halifax, Novia Scotia. McCurdy, the son of a farmer, left his home in Willow Hill, Pa., for New York and a singing career at age 18. After a failed bid at becoming a Frank Sinatra-style nightclub singer, McCurdy turned to folk music during the 1940s. In 1950, he headlined a series of shows at New York's Village Vanguard and released his first album, ``Ed McCurdy Sings Songs of the Canadian Maritimes.'' He later signed a deal with Elektra Records, where he collaborated with another influential folk singer, Ramblin' Jack Elliott. Eventually, his songs were recorded by a variety of artists that included Cash, Guthrie, Baez, Pete Seeger, and Simon and Garfunkel. After his music career waned, McCurdy moved to Nova Scotia in 1984 and became a character actor on Canadian television dramas. http://elvispelvis.com/edmccurdy.htm - ------- Architect Wayne McAllister Dead at 92 LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Wayne McAllister, one of the West's great unsung architects whose work included landmark casinos on the Las Vegas Strip and one of the first Bob's Big Boy restaurants, died March 22 after falling and striking his head, said Chris Nichols, an architectural preservationist. He was 92. McAllister's use of neon and streamlined curves graced many buildings and won him the praise of architectural historians. His design for the Bob's Big Boy restaurant in the Toluca Lake district of Los Angeles -- the third Bob's built and the oldest still in existence -- prompted the Los Angeles Conservancy's Modern Committee to lead a campaign in 1992 to have it declared a California State Point of Historical Interest. In 1941, McAllister set the tone for the Las Vegas Strip when he designed the El Rancho Hotel dude ranch, which featured chuck wagon murals, rambling bungalows and a "cowpoke" casino. He later worked on the original plans for the Desert Inn, and designed the Fremont and Horseshoe hotel casinos, which still stand. See also: http://nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/obit-w-mcallister.html Wayne McAllister, 92, West Coast Architect Who Elevated the Drive-in Restaurant By WILLIAM H. HONAN,NYTimes # 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, 3 Apr 2000 11:29:54 -0400 From: "Chuck Collazzi" Subject: RE: (exotica) compleat Ventures? On the topic of Ventures LPs which were big in Japan, I was surprised to learn that the actual Ventures hired studio musicians to play all the guitar parts on at least some of these albums, while they sat in the booth twiddling with the controls. Although they were totally ignored in the USA at the time--I think this was in the mid-70's, more or less-- they were (apparently) doing very well financially. (Sorry if this is common knowledge, I only know about this because I was hired to do this on at least one of these Japanese releases. It was in a funky little studio in Studio City, Calif.) The downside of the Ventures is (unfortunately) they inadvertantly exposed and helped facilitate the dumbing-down of American culture (e.g., compare the Ventures' version of Walk Don't Run with the original Johnny Smith recording.) Regards to all, Chuck # 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 #674 *****************************