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Space-age Bachelor Pad & Exotic

Miss Paramount Week

This beauty prize is plenty weird on its own. Most beauty queen titles are not delimited by a timeframe. Of course, the winners of the most famous contests generally reign for a year. A week seems a short splurge. But this winner, actress/singer/model Sandy Warner, also notches up another claim to WU fame. She was the cover girl for many of Martin Denny's exotica albums. Read about her at the link.



Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 10, 2023 - Comments (0)
Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Movies, Music, Space-age Bachelor Pad & Exotic, Television, 1950s, 1960s

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 - Comments (0)
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 - Comments (1)
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 - Comments (4)
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 - Comments (3)
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 - Comments (1)
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 - Comments (3)
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):

They perform their hi-fi-jinks on two "gimmicked" Steinways by alternately muting, plucking, strumming and beating on the strings. What comes out they describe as the "sound of tomorrow."

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 - Comments (1)
Category: Music, Space-age Bachelor Pad & Exotic, 1950s

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