Space-age Bachelor Pad & Exotic
Murder, Inc. Vinyl Album
Get the full story here.Start grooving with this cut, then find the rest of the playlist on YouTube.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Mar 05, 2023 -
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Category: Crime, Music, Space-age Bachelor Pad & Exotic, 1960s
Les Baxter, THE PASSIONS
Knock yourself out with an emotional Saturday!
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jan 14, 2023 -
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Category: Emotions, Music, Space-age Bachelor Pad & Exotic, Vinyl Albums and Other Media Recordings, 1950s
Hal Hayes’s Swinging Bachelor Mansion
For $600,000 -- adjusted for inflation, about $4.9 million today -- Hayes got a six-level, steel-and-glass pad with masculine, maximum technology and minimal custom decoration. He parked on girders projecting from the edge of his hillside lot, piped in hi-fi music, poured drinks from an ultra-sleek mini kitchen designed for catering, not for cooking, seduced brunettes in an orchid greenhouse and did what bachelors do in a free-standing “playroom.”
There was a circular fireplace, a louvered skylight, a mirrored master suite and an artificial beach for topless tanning. An outdoor hearth in gunite lava rock warmed women chilled by gin martinis.
Guests in the bomb shelter of Hal Hayes's house.
Retrospective write-up at the LA TIMES.
1958 feature in LIFE magazine.
Some great pix with this article.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 26, 2022 -
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Category: Architecture, Domestic, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Space-age Bachelor Pad & Exotic, 1950s
Les Baxter’s “Goliath and the Barbarians”
Space-age Bachelor Pad meets Sword and Sandals. What could be better?
If you dig the first track, embedded here, go to the Internet Archive listing for the album, click the Spotify option, and you get the whole thing.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Nov 19, 2022 -
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Category: Movies, Space-age Bachelor Pad & Exotic, 1950s, 1970s, Europe
Dick Hyman’s “The Man From O.R.G.A.N.”
Sometimes Alex and I appear to be coordinating our posts, but it's only coincidence. This time, however, I made it intentional!Let's see WABOT-2 play better than Dick Hyman!
His Wikipedia page.
Embedded player below track listing.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Oct 08, 2022 -
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Category: Movies, Music, Space-age Bachelor Pad & Exotic, Television, Ridiculousness, Foolishness, Public Ridicule, Silliness, Goofiness and Dumb-looking, 1960s
Perfume Set to Music
What better way to start the week than with a short six-song album of exotica with a most unlikely title?
Posted By: Paul - Mon Nov 29, 2021 -
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Category: Space-age Bachelor Pad & Exotic, 1940s
Soundblast
Soundblast was a 1956 album by the duo Arthur Ferrante and Louis Teicher who met while studying at the Juilliard School of Music. It was marketed as space-age music representative of the kind of music that inhabitants of the "remotest worlds" might listen to.But the real gimmick of the album was that all the sounds on it, including the percussion, was produced by pianos. Details from the Miami News (Nov 17, 1957):
Nor does either of them hesitate to use his elbow, forearms or knuckles to elicit a desired chordal effect—not to mention an assortment of wooden and metal gadgets designed to give the pianos a new personality...
Their goal always is to achieve the maximum tonal contrasts and to simulate orchestral color as vividly as possible within the limitations of pianistic dynamics.
More info: The Soundblast liner notes
Miami News - Nov 17, 1957
Wikipedia has an interesting biographical detail about Ferrante. Apparently he died in 2009, twelve days after his 88th birthday, thereby fulfilling his ambition to live one year for each piano key.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Aug 12, 2021 -
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Category: Music, Space-age Bachelor Pad & Exotic, 1950s
Fantastica: Music from Outer Space
The composer's Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Wed May 26, 2021 -
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Orienta
From the Wikipedia page:
The album's liner notes stated that the music "resembles the dreams of an imaginative person who has fallen asleep during a 'Dr. Fu Manchu' movie on television," with vignettes that "combine the sounds of the East with the wit of the West; the charm of the Orient with the humor of the Occident."[1]
Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 16, 2021 -
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Category: Music, Space-age Bachelor Pad & Exotic, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1950s, Asia
Quiet Village
You've probably heard Martin Denny's version of this song. It sold over one million copies.The song has the unusual distinction of having been played onboard the S.S. Nautilus as it became the first American submarine to cross the North Pole.
There's also an interesting back story about how Denny came to include all the animal and jungle noises in the song. According to Denny (via SoundMuseum.com):
We played at ‘Don the Beachcomber's’ on the beach of Waikiki and many of the soldiers stationed on Hawaii heard us and bought our records. When they were transfered, they took those records with them and played them for others. The name became famous through word of mouth: The Exotic Sounds of Martin Denny. The S.S. Nautilus was the first American submarine to cross the North Pole. They had Quiet Village in their jukebox and after their expedition, they wrote me that this was their favorite tune.
More info: wikipedia
Posted By: Alex - Sun Aug 25, 2019 -
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Category: Music, Space-age Bachelor Pad & Exotic, 1950s
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