ENOCH LIGHT: persuasive & provocative

A few Command record fans on the Facebook Page. So here's a vintage mix!

Radio Fantastica  was a 60 minute program put together by Exotica Lister Johan Dada Vis in the 90's and 00's.  On European radio somewhere. Dig around the links, Johan did some creative mixing, the program was compiled and edited on minidisk, a system that was essentially a gloried floppy drive offered by Sony.  According to the comments Johan offered his 63 programs as a CD package with linear notes and comments.

Contacted Johan recently for the whole set and Johan was only able to collect 15 of his programs.  My other source, who had all the CD's, well, those CD's have gone to rot! CD ROT!

The archivist in me is really bothered about how fragile digital media really is. Less than 15 years old and these programs are almost gone? You would think anything on the internet is saved somewhere. Johan found a place to store his old Geocities work of extensive reviews and articles.  But the programs may disappear? Or are already gone? If you have the shows contact me and lets spread them around. OK?

This selection: When you get to track 14, what are you hearing besides the Beatles? You have to dig Enoch Light to throw that in the mix.

If the stream and DLs are are hit, I'll post #60 next.   Mo's artwork for the Exoticaring submits edited by me. Zip file has extra tracks.

Fantastica # 23

identification: Mexican xylophone

1. Enoch Light & The Light Brigade: "Provocative percussion"
   
   
   
   • album "Provocative Percussion Volume 3"
   
   
   • LP, Command RS 821 SD, USA, 1961 | +++++


2. Enoch Light: "Besame mucho"
   
   
   
   • album "Big Band Bossa Nova"
   
   
   • LP, Command, USA | +++


3. LEITMOTIV: "Sound Effects"
   
   
   
   • album "Totally Cartoon Sound F/X"
   
   
   • CD, Prom 8095-2, USA, 1992 | ++++


4. Enoch Light produces Terry Snyder and the All Stars: "Rocka bongo boogie"
   
   
   
   • album "Persuasive percussion Volume 2"
   
   
   • LP, Command RS 808 SD, USA, 1959 | ++++


5. Enoch Light & The Light Brigade: "Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps"
   
   
   
   • album "Provocative percussion"
   
   
   • LP, Command RS 806 SD, USA, 1959 | ++++
   
   
   • info: Exists on CD, see details in my "eXotica Releases Overview".


6. Enoch Light & His Orchestra: "Ching ching ching chow"
   
   
   
   • album "Far Away Places Volume 2"
   
   
   • LP, Command RS 850 SD 1963, USA, 1963 | ++++


7. Terry Snyder And The All Stars: "Tabu"
   
   
   
   • album "Persuasive percussion"
   
   
   • LP, Command RS 800 SD, USA, 1959 | +++++
   
   
   • info: Exists on CD, see details in my "eXotica Releases Overview".


8. Enoch Light & The Light Brigade: "Hernando's hideaway"
   
   
   
   • album "Provocative percussion volume 2"
   
   
   • LP, command RS 810 SD, USA, 1960 | ++++


9. The Enoch Light Singers: "Born to be wild"
   
   
   
   • album "Whoever You Are, I Love You"
   
   
   • LP, Project 3 PR 5030 SD, USA, 1968 | ++++


10. Enoch Light & The Command All Stars: "Kashmiri song"
    
    
    
    • album "Persuasive percussion volume 3"
    
    
    • LP, Command RS 817 SD, 1960 | +++


11. Enoch Light: "Petite Paulette"
    
    
    
    • album "Spaced Out"
    
    
    • LP, Project 3 PR 5043SD, USA, 1969 | +++++
    
    
    • info: Exploratory trips through the music of Bach, Bacharach and The Beatles, integrating the Moog, The guitar scene, electric harpsichords, flugelhorns etc... "Spaced Out" is also the name of the ultimate Enoch Light and Command Records discography on the web. Go to the links page of my site for its URL.


12. Enoch Light & The Light Brigade: "Pass and I call you"
    
    
    
    • album "Permissive Polyphonics"
    
    
    • LP, Project 3 PR 5048SD, USA, 1973 | ++++


13. Enoch Light & The Light Brigade: "The gang at the green grotto"
    
    
    
    • album "The Private Life of a Private Eye"
    
    
    • LP, Command RS 33-805, USA, 1959 | ++++


14. Enoch Light & His Orchestra: "Hey, Jude"
    
    
    
    • album "Beatles classics"
    
    
    • CD, Project 3 PRD 5084, USA, 1992 | +++
    
    
    • info: Reissue of 1973 album.


15. Enoch Light & His Orchestra: "Calcutta"
    
    
    
    • album "Far Away Places"
    
    
    • LP, Command RS 822 SD | ++++


16. Enoch Light & The Light Brigade: "I could have danced all night"
    
    
    
    • album "Pertinent percussion Cha-Cha's"
    
    
    • LP, Command, USA, 1960 | ++++


17. Enoch Light & The Light Brigade: "Caravan"
    
    
    
    • album "Future Sound Shock"
    
    
    • LP, Project 3 PR 5077 QD, USA, 1973 | ++++


18. Enoch Light & The Light Brigade: "Love potion number nine"
    
    
    
    • album "Discotheque vol. 2"
    
    
    • LP, Command RS 882 SD 1965, USA, 1965 | ++++
    
    
    • info: "Now" style post-space age percussion.


19. Enoch Light: "California dreamin'"
    
    
    
    • album "Enoch Light And the brass menagerie"
    
    
    • LP, Project 3 PR 5036SD, USA, 1969 | ++++


20. Enoch Light & The Light Brigade: "My heart belongs to daddy"
    
    
    
    • album "A new concept of great Cole Porter Songs"
    
    
    • LP, Command RS 879 SD, USA, 1965 | +++


21. Enoch Light & The Light Brigade: "Swamp-fire"
    
    
    
    • album "Dimension 3"
    
    
    • LP, Command RS 867SD, USA, 1964 | ++++

ratings: +++++outstanding, ++++very good, +++good, ++not bad, +so-so, -yuk