From: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org (basia-digest) To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V3 #159 Reply-To: basia@smoe.org Sender: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "basia-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. basia-digest Tuesday, August 4 1998 Volume 03 : Number 159 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Name Game [Joe Baker ] Re: Roach ["William F.G. McAbee" ] Re: Name Game [talukdar@morph.EBME.CWRU.Edu (Ashoke Talukdar)] Re: Name Game [Whipple930@aol.com] Newbie [The1wall@aol.com] Re: Name Game ["Denis Kosar" ] Re: Name Game II [Joe Baker ] Re: Newbie [Joe Baker ] Re: Name Game [Joel Cairo ] Re: Newbie [The1wall@aol.com] Re: Newbie [Somegirl99@aol.com] Re: Newbie [Joe Baker ] Re: Name Game [Phil Hall ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1998 08:38:18 -0400 From: Joe Baker Subject: Re: Name Game The boredom reaches epic proportions. jb Where there is no shame, there is no honor. —African proverb At 10:23 PM 8/2/98 +0000, Phil wrote: > >At 09:01 PM 8/2/98 -0400, Mike Nice wrote: >> >>Basia Basia Bo Asia >>Banana Fanna Fo Fasia >>Fe Fi Mo Masia >>Basia! >> >> ....With apologies to Basia, from an old Shirley Ellis song! -- >>----------------------------------------------------------- >>Mike Nice >>----------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> > >Splurbbp! > >Phil > > > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1998 08:17:52 -0700 From: "William F.G. McAbee" Subject: Re: Roach Larry: I have been trying to keep this off the digest, but since I just received my long overdue order, I feel the need to post publicly. I have the entire Postal service fraud package, and if you would like it, you can contact your local postal inspector, or I can give you the scoop. Since I received my order, I'm dropping my persuit. Bill > > Hi Bev! > > As our resident Mail Fraud Czarina, > > can you give me an impression of where > > the fleeced stand in terms of items ordered > > vs. delivered? Roach hasn't responded in any > > manner to my various letters and I don't have > > great confidence that my materials will arrive > > by tomorrow's deadline. Is anyone pursuing > > the "mail fraud" action, and if so, has there been > > any progress? Thanks so much! > > LL > > Larry, > > I'm redirecting your question somewhat to William and Brian, since I > ended up not having to file on him since miraculously my two items > arrived the week after my public call to arms. > > However, I know William has taken the postal fraud route. I open > the floor to him and possibly Brian on their actions and results. > > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 12:05:38 -0500 From: talukdar@morph.EBME.CWRU.Edu (Ashoke Talukdar) Subject: Re: Name Game > Herr Baker wrote > > The boredom reaches epic proportions. > > jb > Aha! The fingers tire but the mind lives on. Good to know you're alive dude! > > At 10:23 PM 8/2/98 +0000, Phil wrote: > > > > >At 09:01 PM 8/2/98 -0400, Mike Nice wrote: > >> > >>Basia Basia Bo Asia > >>Banana Fanna Fo Fasia > >>Fe Fi Mo Masia > >>Basia! > >> > >> ....With apologies to Basia, from an old Shirley Ellis song! -- > > > >Splurbbp! > > > >Phil > > I am tempted to say I have heard it all. But then every time I do that fate minds more devious ways of mocking my menial existence. I would elaborate but I am sporadically gagging and choking... :-) Ashoke. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 23:11:05 EDT From: Whipple930@aol.com Subject: Re: Name Game I was wondering if there was any one alive out there. At least some of them still have a sence of humor. Danny Danny Fofanny Danana Fanna F o Fannia Fe Fi Do Danna Danny! Mike ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 15:12:35 EDT From: The1wall@aol.com Subject: Newbie Hey guys! Just got onto this mailing list, and I was wondering if anyone knows where I could find some guitar tabs online for Basia music...? Thanks! Kari ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 15:09:41 -0400 From: "Denis Kosar" Subject: Re: Name Game I was actually wondering the same thing. Does anyone know (Diane F) when Peter WHite's new CD is coming out? Aslo I bought Astrud Gilberto's new cd. Its actually pretty good. At least most of the cuts are of a reasonably good quality. I do like some more than others. ANy other comments on the CD? Denis with one "N" Whipple930@AOL.com on 08/02/98 11:11:05 PM Sunday August 2, 1998 11:11 PM Please respond to basia@smoe.org To: basia@smoe.org cc: (bcc: Denis Kosar/PHG/Prudential) Subject: Re: Name Game I was wondering if there was any one alive out there. At least some of them still have a sence of humor. Danny Danny Fofanny Danana Fanna F o Fannia Fe Fi Do Danna Danny! Mike ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1998 16:29:26 -0400 From: Joe Baker Subject: Re: Name Game II Yo Mike, and some of us have a senSe of humor as well. jb At 11:11 PM 8/2/98 EDT, Mike wrote: > >I was wondering if there was any one alive out there. At least some of them >still have a sence of humor. > >Danny Danny Fofanny >Danana Fanna F o Fannia >Fe Fi Do Danna >Danny! > > >Mike > > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1998 16:32:58 -0400 From: Joe Baker Subject: Re: Newbie Kari, No, I don't know where to find guitar tabs online for anyone, but I was led to reply to you. We need a shot in the arm, some new blood, something... Our boredom here is breeding some rather embarassing behavior. Perhaps Lipboy or one of the other resident legends in their own mind can help you. jb At 03:12 PM 8/3/98 EDT, Kari wrote: > >Hey guys! Just got onto this mailing list, and I was wondering if anyone >knows where I could find some guitar tabs online for Basia music...? Thanks! > >Kari > > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1998 13:34:25 -0700 From: Joel Cairo Subject: Re: Name Game Whipple930@aol.com wrote: > > I was wondering if there was any one alive out there. At least some of them > still have a sence of humor. > > Danny Danny Fofanny > Danana Fanna F o Fannia > Fe Fi Do Danna > Danny! > > Mike I guess you don't play this game if your name is Chuck... :^) - -Kevin soundmn0@gte.net (Writing with the now-functional Frankenstein 2000, a computer of his own creation... "It's alive, I tell you!!! It's alive!!!") ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:36:17 EDT From: The1wall@aol.com Subject: Re: Newbie Thanks jb....but tell me...are there really still people in their right minds?! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 20:14:46 EDT From: Somegirl99@aol.com Subject: Re: Newbie > Thanks jb....but tell me...are there really still people in their right minds?! Yep, me... or at least I'm left handed so that's what they tell me. (Anybody... where have y'all been? I haven't gotten email from the list in days... and every "Re:" email is new to me) Jacki ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 00:11:53 -0400 From: Joe Baker Subject: Re: Newbie OK Jacki, that's two of us. Lefties identify yourselves, I have a theory.... jb At 08:14 PM 8/3/98 EDT, Jacki wrote: > >Yep, me... or at least I'm left handed so that's what they tell me. > >(Anybody... where have y'all been? I haven't gotten email from the list in >days... and every "Re:" email is new to me) > >Jacki > > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1998 23:41:44 +0000 From: Phil Hall Subject: Re: Name Game At 08:38 AM 8/3/98 -0400, Joe Baker wrote: Well while you are being bored, I'm cleaning up the beer I sprayed all over the keyboard from laughing at Mike's effort to get things going..... So I don't mind...... TIME AND TIDE I actually don't know the release date of Basia's first solo album. Frankly, I had no idea of her existence in 1989, or was it 1988, which as far as I can determine is when I became aware of her music. All I know is that I had the radio on in the Ford Ranger (a compact pickup truck, in case you have a need to know) as usual. I heard a really nice, melodic song, one day, enroute to a job in southern New Hampshire. Soon afterward I heard another nice, melodic EVOCATIVE song, and wondered, who is doing that music? WHERE have I heard that before? WHO is doing that music? WHY is it that I don't know WHO is doing that? It was similar to what I had heard when I was very young - and I mean VERY VERY young. Early 1950's a popular instrumental by a composer named Leroy Anderson called 'Blue Tango', the kind of tune that could cause your eyelids to droop and your heart to sweep and weep. So I'm driving along, aged about 35 years since that particular tune, and barely able to keep the vehicle safely on the road, and still wondering, how is it that this music is a mystery?? A dozen years hence and Burt Bacharach and the Beatles are cranking out similar material like Look of Love and Michelle - all designed to bring us to tears of joy in 180 seconds or less. Another decade and I'm ga-ga over Steely Dan (are you getting the ryhthm, here?) Clever melodics, clever lyrics, wonderful stuff: The Police in the early '80's, later The Little River Band, and then, late '80's, this wickedly mysterious FEMALE voice, this oddly old-world accentuated CULTURED not pop, sophisticated, LATIN-inspired, MELODIC, oh yes, oh so melodic, lots of melody..... It was WHOM (the Portland radio station, that is) playing her, and I found out her name, and bought the album (in cassette form) and played it ALL the time at home, in the Golf, in my shop: it didn;t matter as long as I was hearing PROMISES: Leading with the ghostly multi-vocals, blending into the sambatic introspective historically-futuristic speculative observational gotta just go with it this is what we have to deal with "you will see". There is no other way to deal with life! RUN FOR COVER: Inside out, there is every opportunity to return to her arms, whether you feel you have the need or not. Spectacularly upbeat, there are few compositions anywhere in Basia's euvre more receptive, more MOTHERLY. TIME AND TIDE: The classic, you-have-heard-it-a-thousand-times-before, bringing you to your knees, the tears pore forth, etc., etc., {In Boston I saw people dancing in the aisles in 1990) FREEZE THAW: Such DIRECTED, AIMED, FOCUSSED, lyrics I have never heard before. Don't stray, don't wander, it doesn't matter - you are my victim. FROM NOW ON: There are many things that might send Basia fans up the wall, especially when she wanders back out on stage by herself with a microphone, acapella, when such a vibrant backup is available to augment her, but then quietly Peter follows her out of the clouds, stroking, stroking, stroking, until it envelopes you with the MELODY.... NEW DAY FOR YOU: We all wish we could manage our lives without anyone's help; but it is evident nothing is possible alone. My wife is always aware when I'm physically or emotionally exhausted, and it is then that I know I have someone to draw from. Silly sounding, but true.... PRIME TIME TV: There is no other Basia tune (other, perhaps, than 'Baby Your Mine') that exemplifies her uniqueness as a sound recordist as well as a visual performer. Her reference to Cecil B. DeMille reminds me of an old joke.....but, hey, who else has reff'ed CB in this generation? ASTRUD: When I was a teenager, living in a Florida coastal town near Cape Canaveral in the '60's, our next-door neighbor was a German rocket scientist, I kid you not! Probably was there because Werner Von Braun was there, but I never asked. His daughter was a strawberry-blonde named Astrud, and she attended my high school (Satellite High, if you must know, in Satellite Beach) tho a few grades ahead of me. I think of her every time I see a swimming pool, and when I hear this song. HOW DARE YOU: Each time I have ventured to Boston to see Basia (1990 and 1994) I have brought Joyce, my wife, whom I adore, and have all these years. She was with me the time I had T&T on when I missed the exit on the Maine Turnpike and had to make that illegal turn........This is HER fave Basia tune. MILES AWAY: In retrospect regarding her split with Danny, you have to wonder whether this extremely songy tune has anything to do with anything..... Phil (not liner material) \ > >The boredom reaches epic proportions. > >jb > > >Where there is no shame, there is no honor. >—African proverb > > > >At 10:23 PM 8/2/98 +0000, Phil wrote: > >> >>At 09:01 PM 8/2/98 -0400, Mike Nice wrote: >>> >>>Basia Basia Bo Asia >>>Banana Fanna Fo Fasia >>>Fe Fi Mo Masia >>>Basia! >>> >>> ....With apologies to Basia, from an old Shirley Ellis song! -- >>>----------------------------------------------------------- >>>Mike Nice >>>----------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> >>> >> >>Splurbbp! >> >>Phil >> >> >> > > ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V3 #159 ***************************