Post #77953 by bigbrotiki on Wed, Feb 25, 2004 6:17 PM

Uh, let me try:

Fave Album:
EXOTIC ISLAND, The Surfmen
(brought to you by Miller International, aka Dave Miller, the man who gave us The 101 Strings series. He later sold the rights and went to Germany, where he founded the Somerset and EUROPA low budget labels with my father, Harold Kirsten.)

Fave album COVER:
1.) THE SOUL OF THE DRUMS, Les Baxter
2.) TAHITI, The Surfers (shot in front of The Luau, Beverly Hills)

Fave artist:
1.) PAUL PAGE. A mixture of Johnny Cash, Criswel and Martin Denny, he played at the Ports of Call/Pieces of Eight/Castaway in LA and his best album came out under those three titles, with the same songs on it. Magic.

2.) Elizabeth Waldo. Inspired by the success of Yma Sumac. On her "Rites of the Pagan-Mystic Realms 0f the Ancient Americas" she strived to use authentic pre-columbian instruments "fashioned either in zoomorphic (animal) or effigy (human) forms, made of human or animal bone, baked clay, sea shells, reed, stone, copper, gold, and bronze."

Fave Song:
"I-HA-SHE", from "Marais & Miranda Go Native"

Fave rare album:
1.)KAPU (FORBIDDEN), Milt Raskin, on Lava-red vinyl
2.)DON BLANDING reads from Vagabond's House (signed)

Fave liner notes: RITUAL OF THE SAVAGE, Les Baxter

Fave Exotica hero: MARTIN DENNY