Pointers

Selected SABPM Pointers

When the Space Age Bachelor Pad Music site first began, the pickings were few and far between for quality site. It's amazing how things have changed. Presented here are the links and pointers from Joseph Holmes original list as they stood when passed to Vik's Lounge in January of 1997. A more active and current list of pointers can be for at Vik's Valet, but for the sake of history and preservation we present the original pointers list.
Corrections should be sent to viktrola@caroline.com with the subject line "SABPM Pointers."

The Best Exotica Sites on the Web

Brad Bigelow's Space Age Pop Standards Page features his picks for the most-covered tunes in Exotica, plus discographies, biographies, and more.
An entire site devoted to the Del Rubio Triplets!

Radio

At the top of our list is WFMU, 91.1 FM, East Orange, NJ, featuring an online catalog with lots of current SABPM, exotica, and spoken word titles.
Explore the Retro Cocktail Hour at KANU, at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. Album covers, sound clips, play lists!

Esquivel

Goblin Magazine has a new interview with Juan.
Jack Diamond devotes lots of space to Esquivel.
Bunnyhop Magazine interviews Esquivel!.
BarNone has plenty of Esquivel bio info from their two Juan releases!
More Esquivel now at Britain's .state51!
Occulus Magazine has a page devoted to El Maestro.

The Sights and Sounds of Exotica

An entire site devoted to the Del Rubio Triplets!
blue-eyes.com -- "the [second] hippest place on the Web."
The American Song Poem Archive celebrates the rich history of the "set your poems to music" industry.
The Three Suns -- with an enormous discography!
Robert Moog. What more need we say?
Everything you never wanted to know about Stereo de Luxe, the Berlin-based lounge-beat DJ project.
Enoch Light, rest his soul, would be proud.
Burt Bacharach fix, here's the Web site to scratch that itch.
New! Say hello to MisterLUCKY, the Quarterly Musical Communique.
Herb Alpert is among the Musical Delights highlighted by the Austin 'zine Apathy, Drugs & Driving.
New! ***KISS KISS***BANG BANG*** From the folks who brought you the Rat Pack pages, you're In Like Flint.
Samples of Perez Prado, Xavier Cugat, Edmundo Ros, and Lenny Dee are yours for the download from the Bar-B-Que pit at Jack's Patio of the Damned.
A peek of the soundtrack to the movie "PANIC BUTTON" featuring a lurid pose by Jayne Mansfield.
The Roots of Lounge is based on the NPR radio documentary. Literate and well linked.
Muzak's Home Page. Really. And you can download Muzak samples!
Exotica Mailing List home page. Lazlo has many more pointers for this stuff. Go now.
The Theremin Enthusiasts Club International with a surprising number of pointers to other Theremin sites.
Those Groovy Entertainers, those Kings of Swings, known as The Rat Pack.
More classic Rat Pack fun at The Big Casino's shrine to the 1960 Vegas heist flick, "Ocean's Eleven."

Lounge, Cocktail, and Tiki Culture

Swank-O-Rama: The Cocktail Revolution Home page.
Japanese Mambo and lots lots more at Mr. Nefff's Mambo Karaoke Steakhouse
Tiki News. Need we say more?
Lounge Los Angeles Magazine is your guide to Lounge restaurants as only Los Angelinos can do it.
Who's Bachelor No. 1? Don't look at me, pal.
Who would you trust to make you a fine, very fine Cocktail? HotWired offers a drink of the week and a slick introduction to the wonders of Netscape 2. Swanker than you'll ever be...
Tee Time Lounge. The Finest in Golf Merchandise, including that fabulous golf furniture...

Featuring Records

Jack Diamond Music!
New York City's Footlights Records.
Drop email to R. Preston Peek to get on his snail mail list of classic exotica vinyl for sale.
Joe Batutis hosts Odd Music.
Exotic LPs on display from Norm.
The UK's Creation Records is releasing material by Martin Denny, Yma Sumac, and Robert Mitchum's "Calypso - Is Like So."
Awful Music
Asphodel's (Incredibly strange Music Vol. II) Web site

Nouveau Lounge, New Cocktail, and Post Modern Bachelor Pad Bands

Optiganally Yours- A Home page. "They're all going crazy over the Optigan Music Maker: my customers, my salesmen, my banker."
More than flammable, they're Combustible Edison.

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"Space Age Bachelor Pad Music on the World Wide Web" was compiled and maintained by Joseph Holmes/The StreetNine Group. Copyright © 1995, 1996 Joseph O. Holmes. Graphical elements copyright © 1995, 1996 Chris Holmes.