Here’s a great find, Rock Hudson checking out the linernotes to Dominic Frontiere’s Pagan Festival LP, while resting in Doris Day’s lap on the set of Pillow Talk.
Search for Doris Day and Rock Hudson at www.mptv.net/.
From Luxuriamusic:
Monday, July 21st from 7 – 10 pm PST
Aloha!!! Strike brings yet another spectacular Exotica special to the Kitsch Niche! 3 hours of luscious, undulating, mysterious music from the Pacific rim. They’ll be lots of favorites along with plenty of rarities, too (like unheard Tiki Room music)!Be sure to tune in right at 7:00 as Strike has concocted an Exotic cocktail of an intro unlike anything you have ever heard!
And, Strike will be announcing the winner of the Arthur Lyman 9 cd set courtesy of Collector’s Choice Music. Each CD contains 2 amazing Arthur Lyman albums!
There’s still time to enter to win. All you have to do is donate $5 or more anytime between now and 6:00 pm Monday, July 21st. Go to www.luxuriamusic.com for more details. Aloha!!
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News from the best radio station on the planet:
Pledge Drive News
It took a little bit longer than we wanted, but the pledge drive was a success thanks to all of you that made a donation. If you made a donation and haven’t received your premium yet, hold tight for just a little bit longer, as we have a few premiums that haven’t gone out yet.Though the pledge drive is over, we are still trying to drum up money to pay the bills. So this month we’re holding a raffle to win 9 Arthur Lyman CD’s that were give to us by Collectors Choice Music. Anyone that donates $5 or more between June 23 and July 21 will be immediately entered into the raffle. Everyone that donates $5 or more will receive a Shag designed LuxuriaMusic sticker. For more information on the raffle, go here. Or go to our donations page.
Thank you!!
Programming schedule for Wednesday July 9, 2008.
3-4 PM: Thrifting For Tunes Lee Hazlewood Birthday Special.
4-6 PM: Chuck Kelley Goes Latin
6-7 PM: Atomic Cocktail with Vic Trip.
7-8 PM: Between The Sheets w/ Angel Baby.
8-10 PM: The Ian Whitcomb Show*all time are Pacific Standard Time.
An outsider’s view of the recent Hukilau at the Mai-Kai in Florida available online here.
Henford Lemoore posted his list of drinks mentioned in the article at Tiki Central:
I randomly clicked a track on the Spreeblick blog’s newest music review. And it was Doves Circle the Sky by Bodies of Water. And I must say once in a while there’s new music that I really like for some reason or other. This track was playing during one of these very rare moments. Maybe I should listen there more often, since this was the first time I did that!
Brian Chidester, co-author of Dumb Angel Magazine 4 and the upcoming Pop Surf Culture book (among other things) has a short film about the Waikiki Beachboys on YouTube currently.
Quote from Tiki central:
It’s a short documentary that I directed four years ago, as a teaser to a larger project about the Waikiki Beachboys… native Hawaiian surf instructors and nightclub entertainers from the jazz age up through the ’60s. There were two great generations of Beachboys, and even though there are still beachboy concessions on Waikiki Beach today, the music and scene is nowhere near what it was back in the day.
I hope you enjoy the clip. I have tons of interview footage ‘in the can.’
They already know they are going to edit 300 days into 52 minutes…! Doesn’t the island look gorgeous from above?
Quote from Private Islands blog:
French explorer and adventurer Xavier Rosset is about to embark on a 300 day trip to live alone on a remote tropical island in the South Pacific. His adventures will be filmed and used for a 52 minute documentary.
Xavier’s only luggage will be a Swiss army knife, machete video camera and a solar panel for charging the camera. He will spend 10 months alone on an island to develop another way of life through an exciting adventure, a return to the elemental sources. Xavier will survive alone on an island without human interference and without polluting emissions.
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via Boing Boing
Xavier Rosset, 300 days alone on an island
Great thorough article on Jet Set Planet Radio Show.
Quote from Rake Magzine:
Higher than Fi
Spinning the sounds of thrift store vinyl, Jet Set Planet sends radio into a new orbit.by John ErvinDecember 12, 2007The European sun shines on James Coburn, his lean frame in a white Mod jacket with red turtleneck. Putting on enormous sunglasses and flashing his classic chops, he sidles out of the palm-tree fringed villa, where he has just spent the night with Monica Vitti, and slips into his silver Ferrari. Bound for another criminal adventure involving diamonds, art, or cold hard cash, he speeds onto a cliff-side road, which just happens to overlook an endless body of crashing blue water.
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Read all at Higher than Fi | The Rake Magazine
A new page with goodies you can put anywhere on the web, or on your MySpace profile, or comments, bulletins – whatever. This took the place of the Merchandise page, the merch widget is among the supporter goodies there. So you’re welcome to help yourself. Feel free to ask if something is unclear – there are little links to pages with the widget/player codes. Often there are special MySpace editions, you will want to use there. The players can be editied with different skins and measurements.
I found this blog by accidents – looking for the publisher of a Chubby Checker song. The first time I stumbled across a great blog by someone I know personally and I didn’t know he was doing it!
Berlin Beatet Bestes is where Andreas Michalke presents his odd vinyl findings. I think it’s just 7”s. He has a talent for finding incredible stuff of all kinds (and not just records). Often with great sleeves – being a comic book artist he wouldn’t let a nice artwork illustration pass by. It took a while until I gathered how to listen to his samples in the stream player on the right sidebar. Maybe this would be a good plug-in for his WordPress? He could have the sound where the article is – and not alphabetically crammed into a small box. Anyway, I totally dig this. Check out the thorough descriptions he writes for the records. He loves vinyl oddities. If you’re similarly adjusted have a look and a listen.