VG 165, Chicken Special

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Slightly extended podcast version of my latest VG radio-show:



00 Intro: Kerry Christensen - Chicken Yodl/Kid Koala - Irregular chicken
01 Phil Harris - Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens
02 Alan Hawkshaw and Brian Bennet - funky chicken
03 Arthur Collins - Chicken Reel 16-6-1911
04 Cab Calloway - Chicken Ain't Nothing But A Bird 14-10-1940
05 The Nutley Brass - Chicken Impossible
06 Comedian Harmonists - Ich woll ich war ein Huhn
07 Cornelis Vreeswijk - De Haan en de Hen
08 Dezurik Sisters - Shanghai Rooster
09 Dorus - Me Kippehok (+ Cor Steyn) 1957
10 Freddie Note and the Rudies - Chicken Inn
11 Guru guru - chicken rock
12 Harry Belafonte - Chickens
13 Yma Sumac - Chicken Talk, 1954
14 Superchicken
15 Jack Constanzo and Gerri Woo - Chicken and Rice
16 Jean Yanne & Johnny Rock Feller & ses rock child - T'as le rock, coco
17 Jules de Corte- Zeven kippen
18 Les Paul guitar solo - Chicken Reel 1952
19 Louis Davids - Kip van van Zanten (Radiofragment) 1936
20 Muppet Show chickens - Baby face
21 Telex - Temporary Chicken
22 Swe Danes (Alice Babs & Svend Asmussen & Ulrik Neumann) - Paul's Chickens 1960
23 Takeo Ischi - Chicken Attack
24 Tony Harris - Chicken Baby Chicken 24-8-1957

More info and pictures of the record covers: vreemdegeluiden.blogspot.nl/2017/02/vg165-kippen.html



Jan T.

Everyone wants to be a DJ

Something about the people in this group! Everyone wants to be a DJ. What are your options?

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  Community Radio Station.

  
  

If you have a local Community station show up! Check out the web site. Every station is different. The typical formula is stop in. Apply for a show. Pay your dues. Sweep the floors, take out the trash, check in CD's. Train with another DJ. When a slot opens up or they need a sub you will be ready. At WVRK in Poughkeepsie NY they even have a apply for a show page! . We have breathen at WVRK, working the board Friday's 6-7PM. "Bachelor Pad at Colony 3". What a lovely name for a program.

At FreeForm Portland  the front page asks" Interested in becoming a DJ?" Freeform Portland changes the schedule every 6 months. Anyone interested in having a show in the new cycle needs to apply. Including current DJs!

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  College Radio

  
  

Do some research on the policies, every station in this area is a little different. Check the website. Is it all student run? Are advisors and full time paid staff involved? Policies are based on how much autonomy the student body has. If you strike out with the students, email or call the community DJ's who usually have programs in the mornings or weekends when students typically don't DJ. You may find veteran DJ who can advise or sponsor you.

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  On the Internet

  
  

The ExoticaRing  is made of of people who are or have been DJ's. Some of us work professionally in some capacity in broadcasting, some DJ in clubs. Currently Georgy does LoriHajiTura and Steam Stock has JukeBox Shuffle on MixCloud.

How do you get started?

Don Fisher of The Tiki Lounge mentioned on Facebook that "he uses a Shure SM7B Microphone through a small Behringer mixer with Magix Audio & Music Lab Premium software which now provides 4 track mixing. I run my turntable through the Behringer as well." And "can honestly say that it takes a considerable amount of time if you're truly dedicated and conscientious"


But as a starter project, scratch that itch, start with a cheaper microphone, forget the mixer, and use free Audacity.

Find mentors. Someone to call as you ramp up the learning curve on the technology.

Conclusion:

There is a place for music programs our friends have on the radio.  In between the jazz, world, folk, blues segments you typically find on your eclectic not for profit station.

If you like programs like this encourage your local public radio station to investigate the possibility of putting one together. Maybe you can. Based on the response received when on college radio firmly convinced there is. In every market.  We have got a dozen of DJ's represented on the Facebook group with enthusiastic listeners. We are poking up to 5600 members.  So what do those numbers tell us?

If anything the Retro Cocktail Hour is a textbook example.

 

Check the Cool Wax Vol 1

Ten year old compilation from an inactive blogger named  brainwerk . Re-listening as I type this. This is the reason I stopped making my own mixtapes. Others are so much BETTER at it. A nice blend of favorites, rarities and the unusual. And the fantastic custom artwork.  Just realized Michael Buble sounds almost like Mel Torme, the diction and the phrasing....

Brainwerk's  blog Check the Cool Wax is still up on Google's Blogger.  Leave him a comment at the original blog post.

So we reluctantly removed the Whipped Cream Girl from the masthead of our Facebook Group. We really needed to graphically coalesce our original mailing list, the FaceBook page and this website. Visit, play, post at whatever social media site you want.

This was a great way to  feature her again. Our Whipped Cream Girl really is our patron saint of crate digging. Because every time we dig, there she is, a Siren making us crash against the rocks, "keep flipping. the next one is the one your looking for".

From July 31, 2006: Here it is. Check The Cool Wax Volume 1. There are three parts. Artwork and Part 1 & 2 of music files. It is made up of the favorite songs released on this site up to now.

1 :: CHECK THE COOL WAX :: KING AD-ROCK
2 :: DYN-O-MITE! :: JIMMY WALKER
3 :: THE GENERAL LEE :: JOHNNY CASH
4 :: I DIG YOU BABY :: MARVIN RAINWATER
5 :: SECRET AGENT MAN :: MEL TORME
6 :: THE MAN FROM O.R.G.A.N. :: DICK HYMAN
7 :: A TASTE OF HONEY :: LENNY DEE
8 :: HOUSE OF BAMBOO :: EARL GRANT
9 ::ISTANBUL :: COMMAND RECORDS
10 :: BAJA :: THE ASTRONAUTS
11 :: JAMAICA SKA :: ANNETTE FUNICELLO
12 :: I’LL TAKE SWEDEN :: FRANKIE AVALON
13 :: JAMAICA FAREWELL :: “IVY” PET AND HIS LIMBOMANIACS
14 :: DAY TRIPPER :: SERGIO MENDES AND BRASIL ‘66
15 :: THINGS :: NANCY SINATRA WITH DEAN MARTIN
16 :: SLOWLY :: MISS ANN-MARGARET
17 :: THE POINT OF NO RETURN :: DIANA DORS
18 :: THE GIRL ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE :: PEE-WEE HERMAN
19 :: WE’RE COMING TO YOUR HOUSE :: THE 3 STOOGES
20 :: THE RIDDLER :: FRANK GORSHIN
21 :: SKY BALL PAINT :: PARNELL ROBERTS
22 :: SHAZAM! :: JIM NABORS
23 :: DON’T SIT UNDER THE APPLE TREE :: ROBERT CLARY
24 :: SPREAD A LITTLE LOVE AROUND ::CHRIS KNIGHT & MAUREEN MCCORMIC
25 :: WITH A GREAT BIG NOISE LIKE THUNDER :The Satellite Singers
26 :: STAR TREK THEME :: THE SECRET AGENTS
27 :: LIVING IN THESE STAR WARS :: THE REBEL FORCE BAND
28 :: DANCE THE KUNG FU :: CARL DOUGLAS
29 :: RAPPIN’ RODNEY :: RODNEY DANGERFIELD
30 :: JOHNNY ARE YOU QUEER? :: JOSIE COTTON
31 :: STRANGE BREW :: BOB & DOUG MCKENZIE
32 :: DOWNTOWN :: MRS. MILLER

Made in Italy

Love the Bossa Nova. I'm 1/2 Uruguayan and 1/2 Italian. So what side of me likes the Bossa Nova?

The tango was really born in the whorehouses of Montevideo Uruguay. You got to do something when your not busy. Why not keep dancing? The Argentinians STOLE the Tango and made it respectable. Remember what Cole Porter said:

In olden days, a glimpse of stocking
Was looked on as something shocking.
But now, God knows,
Anything goes.

Remember the Waltz used to be considered shocking.

Back to the Bossa, Italians wish they could take credit for Bossa. Like Pizza, spaghetti and tomato sauce they had its origins elsewhere but are now so quintessential Italian. The Bossa is just so natural a sound and rhythm. A popular track on Joe Slezik's WICN program is Bossa Nova Roma by Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme. From "A Man and a Woman".

 

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See what I mean? And look at Steve and Eydie! So cute.

Not sure which blog I picked up this compilation of 20 Italian Nu Jaz and Bossa Groves from. Hope you come forward and take a bow. And thank you for your efforts. Nice artwork!

01. Quintetto X - Diplomacia
02. Nicola Conte Meets Aldemaro Romero - Tema De La Onda
03. Paolo Fedreghini & Marco Bianchi - Another Face
04. Balanco - Batucada Do Silencio
05. Aron Tesser & The New Jazz Affair - Everlasting Rose
06. Magnetic 4 - Vertigo Bossa
07. Lorenzo Tucci - Day By Day
08. Berardi Jazz Connection - O Prazer De Ser
09. Siciana Soul - Life Is A Tree
10. J.J Vianello & The Soul Bullets - Cincinnati Kid
11. Milano Jazz Dance Combo - Just In Time (feat. Alice Ricciardi)
12. Gazzara - Our Man in Rio
13. Alessandro Magnanini - But Not for You (feat. Liam McKahey)
14. Gerardo Frisina - Will You Walk A Little Faster feat. N. Winstone
15. Montefiori Cocktail -  Corcovado
16. Fabio Nobile - Fly to the Moon
17. Andrea Pozza - And It All Goes Round And Round
18. The Invisible Session - I Knew The Way
19. Sam Paglia - Continental '70
20. S-Tone Inc. - My Only Man

Kiss, Kiss...Bang. Bang

"A Soundtrack Royale for the Femme Fatale"

Hey, lets a jump on International Woman's Day March 8th.

Another Squeegi Project find. A great example of that hard-to-pin down nouveau lounge sound.  Can't explain it. But you know it when you hear it. For us American's this sounds very breezy and European,  even with Gary McFarland in there. His "The In Sound" is essential listening.

So that makes six Squeegi sets. Here are the links for the other posts.

• Let's Jet Set


• Lets Jet Set Again!


• The Tabitha Affair


• The Claudia Affair


• The Joys of Modern Living

01 - Vixen & the Constable - Ingo Kantor
02 - Jazz a Go-Go - France Gall
03 - La Ragazza Dalla Pelle Di Luna - Piero Umiliani
04 - Spiral Waltz (Italian Version) - Piero Piccioni
05 - Merry Go Round - Gary Bellington
06 - No Other Way - Gary McFarland
07 - Up, Up & Away - Alan Lorber
08 - Swing Sesso - Carlo Rustichelli
09  - De Paris a Liverpool - Jack Arel & Pierre Dutour
10 - Batticuore - Renato Serio
11 - Swing Song - Roger Webb
12 - Rive Bianchi - Bruno Nicolai
13 - Kinky Beats - Jackknife Lee
14 - Allora il Treno - Bruno Nicolai
15 - Potrobella Market - Syd Dale
16 - Le Coeur Qui Jazze - France Gall
17 - C'est Pas Prudent - Alice Dona
18 - Avenues and Alleyways - Tony Christie
19 - Kill Them All - Berto Pisano
20 - Piacere Sequence - Teo Usuelli
21 - Simplimente - Bruno Battisti D'Amario
22 - The Girl From UNCLE - Teddy Randazzo
23 - Get Carter - Roy Budd
24 - Ne Tirez Pas Sur Le Bassiste - Paul Piot & Paul Guiot
25 - Malizie de Venere - Gisa Pisyo
26 - Fried Bananas - Gary McFarland
27 - Concetto Filigranato - New Dimensions
28 - Spiro - Anton Valotti
29 - Bill Plummer - The Look of Love

Jodela Radio

artwork Ton de Ruijter and Frits Jonker

01 Michael Ande & Wiener Sängerknaben - Erzherzog-Johann-Jodler 1957
02 Takeo Ischi & Gregory Brothers - Chicken Attack 2017 (youtube-version)
03 Olga Lowina - Jodelen Is Mijn Leven 1951
04 J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers - Yodeling Mountaineer
05 Stimmhorn - Triohatala
06 Bobbejaan Schoepen - Cannonball Jodel 1954
07 Erika Stucky, Noldi Alder, Christian Zehnder - Mogelsberg As (Improvisation)
08 Franzl Lang & Kurt Grosskurth - Lach-Jodler 1962
09 Johnny Camaro & Olga Lowina - Want We Gaan Weer Dansen (Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie in Dutch)
10 André van Duin - Angelique (fragment)
11 Roger Miller - The fair Swiss maiden
12 Maria & Margot Hellwig - Ich bring dir zum Geburtstag einen Jodler als Geschenk 1975
13 S'Heuis - The Schönbächler Sisters - Moosruef
14 Limburgse Zusjes - Jodelende Postiljon 1958
15 Satine et Coline - Il m'a montré à yodler (she tought me how to yodel)
16 onbekend - Korea-Bayerischer Jodler
17 DeZurik Sisters - Hillbilly wedding in June
18 onbekend - Koreaanse versie The fair Swiss maiden
19 Ronnie Ronalde - Yodelling Waltz 1953
20 Ed Sanders - Yodeling Robot
21 Josephine Baker - I want to yodel 1926
22 Pygmees Mbinga - Yodel
23 Bobbejaan Schoepen - Jodelende Sijs 1956
24 Takeo Ischi - Chicken Attack (spotify-version)

More info, links and goodies for this episode at vg164-yodela-radio. Pretty much all of the 163 episodes can be streamed at www.vreemdegeluiden.com.

Jan T.

Enoch Light 101 - A Curator Retires

Exotica group members, like you, have a long history of creating fan pages and content.  Our social media group started out in 1994 and now flourishes here on FaceBook with over 5500 members!

"Passion projects" come and go based on time and energy and mood. Should passion projects live or die with one person? I say no! Especially if that passion is shared with others.

So are you fired up? Ready to go? Pick up where Robert left off? A lot you could do. Enoch Light - Command Fans.

• Biographies


• Discography


• A complete digital archive.

Robert has converted the site to a Wordpress blog. https://enochlight.wordpress.com

Contact him if your interested in taking the blog up.

The original site with the cool command record gif's resting comfortable at https://web.archive.org/web/20050519085051/http://www.enochlight.com/

If your good with HTML coding the ExoticaRing can provide you with a subdomain enochlight.exoticamusic.net.

Talk amongst yourselves in the comments here or on Facebook.

Time Of Desire

Georgina Ragazza has an informative article about Beat Films  at the Lorihajitura blog. Tune into her Mixcloud channel for a weekly two-hour music and chat show that features all the tunes and stories mentioned in each issue. Select episode 106 for the focus on the beat films.

Now was going to post a homemade comp found at the RangeRaver Departure Lounge blog. Researching found "Jazz of the Beat Generation" was a commercial compilation per Amazon! So until the Exotica Ring  group decides what to do about out of print compact disk compilations presenting this old rip of mine. RangeRaver. His blog is inactive, but in the ~ 300 posts he presented about 90 homemade compilations. So if your around mate consider re-blogging those efforts here yourself by joining as a contributor. Or let me gradually do it. Blogging is a cyclic event.

In the beat discography never heard about "Time of Desire". Its always about a few classics like "Beat Girl".  So wonder how many of out there? You have this one now.  Sparse dirty-bird word jazz stuff on the Hi-Fi Label.  The cover is beautiful.

01. Rod McKuen - Desire
02. Rod McKuen - Happy Times
03. Rod McKuen - The Young
04. Rod McKuen - The Sounds Of Night
05. Rod McKuen - The Sounds Of Day
06. Rod McKuen - The Search
07. Rod McKuen - April Twenty-Third
08. Rod McKuen - Hudson Beach
09. Rod McKuen - Beach Town
10. Rod McKuen - Holidays
11. Rod McKuen - About Me
12. Rod McKuen - Summer
13. Rod McKuen - Tokyo
14. Rod McKuen - The Rock

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Juan García Esquivel - Ames Brothers - Hello Amigos

How many vocalists did Juan García Esquivel ever work with? Met many of a cat who was into Jazz or Space Age pop who are just NOT into vocalists.

You know the type? Similar to  the total John Coltrane fan who rolls his eyes when you tell them your favorite is "John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman"?

So going crate digging don't pass over the vocals, but check the arrangers.  It's the Space Age guys working with the vocalists that I appreciate. Warren Barker. Mort Garson, Marty Gold, Russ Garcia, Marty Manning worked with many. Esquivel here has to put on the brakes a little, its like a composer writing a violin concerto, tone it down so everyone can hear the soloists. Esquivel is right there on the piano and harpsichord. And its his distinctive arrangements.

 

01. Ames Brothers & Esquivel - Amor
02. Ames Brothers & Esquivel - Frenesi
03. Ames Brothers & Esquivel - Ella
04. Ames Brothers & Esquivel - Quizas Quizas Quizas
05. Ames Brothers & Esquivel - Besame Mucho
06. Ames Brothers & Esquivel - Maria Elena
07. Ames Brothers & Esquivel - Tres Palabras
08. Ames Brothers & Esquivel - Adios Mariquita Linda
09. Ames Brothers & Esquivel - Me Lo Dijo Adela
10. Ames Brothers & Esquivel - Tu Solo Tu
11. Ames Brothers & Esquivel - Brazil
12. Ames Brothers & Esquivel - La Ultima Noche
13. Ames Brothers & Esquivel - Cancion Mixteca
14. Ames Brothers & Esquivel - Amapola
15. Ames Brothers & Esquivel - Lisboa Antigua
16. Ames Brothers & Esquivel - Perfidia

 

Shorty Rogers - Meets Tarzan

Have not digitized an LP in thirteen years. Should get back into it someday.

If you never heard this before enjoy this lo-fi rip in the 200kbps. Jazz musicians are fantastic, and Shorty Rogers was fantastic. But this is one the jazz lovers tend to ignore? So even through the movie is billed now as a complete bomb. It gave Rogers and his pals the opportunity to RIP! Just goes on and on. Terminators all.

Decent artwork can be found on LP Cover Lover.

 

01. Shorty Rogers - The Elephants Wail
02. Shorty Rogers - Los Barbaros
03. Shorty Rogers - Paradise Found
04. Shorty Rogers - Trapped
05. Shorty Rogers - Los Primitivos
06. Shorty Rogers - Oomgawa
07. Shorty Rogers - Tarzanic Suite Part A
07. Shorty Rogers - Tarzanic Suite Part B
07. Shorty Rogers - Tarzanic Suite Part C
07. Shorty Rogers - Tarzanic Suite Part D
07. Shorty Rogers - Tarzanic Suite Part E
07. Shorty Rogers - Tarzanic Suite Part F
07. Shorty Rogers - Tarzanic Suite Part G

Le Compilation di Mondo Ribelle-Vol. 1 and 2

One of the bloggers that came and went was an Italian fellow who called himself "Caveman" .

Posted an an entire world of Italian pop. LP',  45's, from the late 60's and early 70's.  About 500 entries before he ran out of music or burned out!

Really so much to absorb. If your in the Exotica groups and like almost anything that is a problem! Too much to listen too. So that's why we appreciate the efforts of the compilers.

So thanks for your effort's Andrea and these home made introductions.

 

Volume 1:

01. Gilla  -  Il mio amore è un capellone
02. Alessandra Casaccia  -  vedo il sole a mezzanotte
03. Brenda Bis - Per vivere insieme
04. Anna Maria Berardinelli - Non Lo Sai
05. Audrey - Prima O Poi
06. Christy  -  Deep Down
07. Cilla Black  -  M Innamoro
08. Ivana Borgia -  Fiocca fiocca la neve
09. Ivana Borgia - bello,bello,bello,bello
10. Ivana Borgia - La Corriera (1965)
11. Farida Gangi  -  Io per lui
12. Fiammetta - Quando la campana suonerà (Big Blake Smoke)
13. Vanna Brosio  -  Sulla Spiaggia Non Si Può
14. Vanna Brosio - La Nostra Storia Finisce Qui
15. Luisa Casali  -  La tua immagine
16. Luisa Casali  -  Il Momento Della Verita
17. Mary Di Pietro  -  I Ragazzi Vogliono Sapere
18. Mary Di Pietro  - perche e cosi'
19. Anna Maria Baratta  -  Stanotte sognerò
20. Evy - L'abito non fa il beatnick

 

Volume 2

01. Rolling Stones - con le mie lacrime
02. Barabba - Non Hai Capito
03. Calipop - Restiamo ancora insieme
04. Camaleonti - Come Mai
05. Caterina Caselli - Tutto nero
06. Delfini - Tu Devi Ritornare Da Me [Tell Me, 1965]
07. Equipe 84 - La fine del Libro
08. Johnny Kendall e gli Heralds - Hai Promesso
09. Kings - -Fai quello che vuoi
10. Kings - Sei solo tu
11. Equipe 84 - Quel che ti ho dato
12. New Dada - Lady Jane
13. Profeti - rubacuori (ruby tuesday)
14. Trolls  -  A che vale vivere
15. Vanguards - Libertà Sorella del Vento
16. Da Polenta  -  Con le mie lacrime
17. Uh! - se ci fossi tu
18. Apaches - Out Of Time
19. Mat 65 - satisfaction
20. Pipistrelli - Get Off My cloud
21. Koala - con le mie lacrime
22. Richard Anthony - Rubacuori (Ruby tuesday)
23. Mario Tessuto  -  Che sbaglio fai
24. Six Lions  - Satisfaction
25. Piero Focaccia - non ho più paura dell'ombra (1966)
26. Mauro Lusini  -  C'era un ragazzo che come me...

 

 

Sitar Dreams - Xtabay Compilation

Found another Xtabay comp on my drive.

Never get tired of Shocking Blue here by Acka Raga.

Certainly can enjoy Bollywood music and the sitar.  What makes these it Lounge-Exotica is cross-pollinating the instrument with  Western arrangements or covers.

Now GeorgyGirl has plenty to say about sitar music on her 103 LoriHajiTura Broadcast. And about Big Jim Sullivan.

"Blues for the Guru" is fun stuff. Like many others have digitized it from a 101 Strings LP. It's just too bad the sound quality sounds is kind of muffled. So know its not my my digitizing skills or the turntable.

It need to be re-recorded. Does anybody here know Keith Lockart at the Boston Pops?

01. Gabor Szabo - Three King Fishers
02. Ananda Shankar - Jumpin' Jack Flash
03. Soulful Strings - Within You, Without You
04. George Garvarenz - Haschish Party
05. Alan Lorber - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
06. Living Guitars - San Franciscan Nights
07. The Dave Pike Set - Raga Jeera Swara
08. Lord Sitar - Blue Jay Way
09. Bill 'Ravi' Harris & The Proph - Ravi's Thing
10. Shocking Blue - Acka Raga
11. Big Jim Sullivan - Flower Power
12. Don Sebesky - Guru-Vin
13. Enoch Light - The Season Of The Witch
14. 101 Strings - Blues For The Guru

Les and Larry Elgart - au Go-Go

Part of the appeal of record crate digging is finding items like this.

Les and Larry Elgart were the new guys coming up in the band era and would have continued in that vein. But the big bands were on the way out! Too expensive and changing tastes. So in the late 60's LP's like this and "The Sound of the Times" was an attempt to freshen the music up?

Heard the Elgart's on some classic swing programs. But not these "later" LP's.  Thunder Shake is practically a go-go anthem.  1965 according to Diskdogs. and Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'" was released on February 22, 1966 (wiki). So what gives? Looking for more  Go Go LP's to post here. If you got any.

01. Les and Larry Elgart - Thunder Shake
02. Les and Larry Elgart - Downtown
03. Les and Larry Elgart - Meditation
04. Les and Larry Elgart - Come Rain or Come Shine
05. Les and Larry Elgart - King of the Road
06. Les and Larry Elgart - Jerkin Around
07. Les and Larry Elgart - St James Infirmary
08. Les and Larry Elgart - La Bostella
09. Les and Larry Elgart - Willow Weep for Me
10. Les and Larry Elgart - Gwon Train
11. Les and Larry Elgart - I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
12. Les and Larry Elgart - The First Mans Theme

 



An old rip of mine. The images picked up on the net ...

VG 163 cover episode

01 Clark Gårdestig - Wild thing
02 Ajo Y Su Organo Oriental - Black is black
03 The Templeton Twins - Yesterday
04 The Squirrels - Let it be
05 Jack Costanzo - Peter Gunn
06 Mambo Kurt und Heidi Schulz - Anarchy in the UK
07 Chiyoko Kobayashi - La Cucaracha
08 Michiko Hamamura - Banana Boat (Day O)
09 Max Raabe - We will rock you
10 Wild Bill Davis - Hit the road Jack
11 The Mini Pops - I'm gonna knock on your door
12 Danny Stewart - Hawaiian war chant
13 Lenny Dee - Pink panther theme
14 Asha Bhosle -Twinkle twinkle little star
15 Union Avenue - Ace of spades
16 Incredible Bongo Band - I can't get no satisfaction
17 Sodsai Chaengij - Lady Madonna
18 David Weiss - Eleanor Rigby
19 Helmut Zacharias - Can't buy me love
20 Gregory Brothers & Takeo Ischi - Chicken attack

info and links: http://vreemdegeluiden.blogspot.nl/2017/02/vg163-vreemde-covers.html

Yé! Yé! Music: When France Went POP!

Our Exoticamusic contributor Georgina Ragazza posted essential reading on her Lorihajitura blog:
Yé! Yé! Music: When France Went POP!

GG's sentiments mirror my own. My first exposure 60's French was at the first incarnation of Luxuriamusic. Hearing France Gall's "Laisse Tomber Les Filles" and Serge Gainsbourg tunes was a revelation. And finding out that Serge Gainsbourg is sort of a fallen French Frank Sinatra perv? The country went in deep mourning for a few days in 1991 when he suddenly died of alcoholism? Not a peep here in the States!

As GG mentions on her blog When April March's cover of France Gall’s Laisse Tomber Les Filles was featured in commercials for Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof I was like YA! The American Philistines are finally going to discover French pop! Ya! Never happened, like going to the metric system.....

So this music will always here for somebody to "discover". It is the joy of discovery that drives folks who gravitate towards the Exotica music social media groups and listen to the wonderful DJ's who are stimulating our senses.

So another plug to our Georgina. Catch up on her  Lorihajitura podcasts on Mixcloud . All you have to do is supply the tea and biscuits. GG handles the rest.

This retreaded comp is an introduction picked up by someone in the know:

Eileen - Cettes Bottes Sont Fait Pour Marcher is "These Boot Are Made for Walking" sung in French. Jacquelin Taib - 7 Heures du matin suddently sings "Talkin' bout my generation" in few times in English. A real kick. The guitar/beetnick riifs by Marisa on "Christine".  Nino Ferrer's Kung-Fu fighting  "Mao et Moa".Petula Clark singing Downtown in French....Stella singing the BLUES in FRENCH!!!

There is TONS of this awesomeness out there.

Another resource is Mordi's  Blowupdoll blog. Where he is still active and exposing us to music since 2004.

Alice Dona - C'est pas prudent
Andrea Parisy - Laisse tomber les tabous
Brigitte Bardot - Ne me laisse pas l aimer
Charlotte Leslie - Les filles c'est fait ...
christine pilzer - Champs Elysées
Dani - fille a la moto
Eileen - Cettes Bottes Sont Fait Pour Marcher
Elsa - Ecoutez
france gall - Le Coeur Qui Jazze
gillian hills - ne t'en fais p
Jacquelin Taib - 7 Heures du matin
Jacqueline Taieb - Bienvenue au pays
Les fleurs de Pavot - A degager
Marcel Zinini - Tu veux, tu veux pas
Marcia Cinta - Allez, tapez dans las mains
Marisa - Christine
Monique Thubert - Avec les oreilles
nino ferrer - mao et moa
Petula Clark - Dans Le Temps
Serge Gainsbourg & Anna Karina - Rien Rien J'Disais Ca Comme
serge gainsbourg & Anna Karina - Roller Girl
Serge Gainsbourg - Docteur Jekyll Et Mr Hyde
Serge Gainsbourg - Pauvre Lola
Stella - beatnicks d'occaison
Stella - Nouvelle vague blues

Boss Mambo

Boss Mambo (In Memoriam Joe Cuba)

Compilation created by another past blogger "Joe Sarno" of Singer-Stints from 2009.   Using the Jim Flora artwork of a classic LP for the image of the blog post.

If you dig down the original comments :

This is one of  the most popular Singer-Saints compilations, more on the Latin jazz tip than salsa--with some sprinklings of lounge and exotica for even more fun. Too many great musicians are exiting fast but it's a chance for some tributes and posts I might not have thought of otherwise. So Joe Cuba, father of the boogaloo, this one's for you.

1. Asia Minor - Machito

2. Mambo No. 5 - Perez Prado

3. Melao Da Cana - Celia Cruz

4. Mambo Tipico - Tito Puente

5. Mambo La Libertad - Tito Rodriguez

6. Mambo Infierno - Comjunto Casino

7. Mambo Inn - George Shearing

8. I'll Remember April- Cal Tjader

9. Exotica - Martin Denny

10. Something For Cat - Henry Mancini

11. Tangerine - Herb Alpert

12. Watermelon Man - Mongo Santamaria

13. El Watusi - Ray Barretto

14. Fried Neck Bones & Some Home Fries - Willie Bobo

15. Joe Cuba's Mambo - Joe Cuba

16. Descargo Combo N.Y.- Rene Grand & His Combo N.Y.

17. Oye Como Va - Tito Puente

18. Canteloupe Island - Pucho & The Latin Soul Brothers

19. I'm A Loser - Vince Guaraldi

20. Black Orchid - Cal Tjader & Eddie Palmieri

21. Hey Leroy! - Jimmy Castor Bunch

22. 1-2-3 - Ramsey Lewis

23. Viva Tirado Pt. 1 - El Chicano

24. Watusi Boogaloo - Willie Rosario