Aloha" is a word found in all Polynesian languages meaning a spirit of loving togetherness. And that is what you will get every Friday morning as a rotating crew of Sheena's Jungle Room DJs (and special guests) spin three hours of relaxing exotica in all its forms, from the primitive to the Space Age. Can we get you something from the bar?
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October 30, 2020: "A Halloween Exotica Tale" hosted by Herk Hilligoss
The Clock Strikes Midinight presents: Moonlight, Mist, Enchantment, Mystery, Island Ghosts, Voodoo, Spells, Fire and Spirit Rituals, Stormy Weather, Creaky Boats, Lost Cities, Quiet Communication From Island Ancient Dead, Eerie Ghostly Wordless Vocals, Tropical Luring Sirens, Forbidden Locations of No Return, Sacrificial Gods, Madness, Horror and Primal Dangers of the Carnivorous Jungle in a Halloween Exotica tale by B.C. Sterrett (Finished last night...)
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Creed Taylor Orchestra | Gloomy Sunday | Shock Music in Hi-Fi | Your wife has left you and is complaining that you are unable to provide for the kids since your fishing job has become less than acceptable when bills are involved, ever since the bay has become empty of fish. | 0:00:00 (Pop-up) |
Melody Mates | Enchantment | Technicolor Paradise: Rhum Rhapsodies & Other Exotic Delights | While contemplating you your desperate options, you remember tales of untold wealth on a distant uncharted island. A paradise with treasure and gold beyond your wildest dreams. Only one man has returned to share the tale on his deathbed and forewarns of great danger due to the savagery of the island. You really have nothing to lose, since staying in your broken salty town means death and sadness anyway. You spend the night packing supplies. | 0:05:49 (Pop-up) |
Martin Denny | The Enchanted Sea | The Enchanted Sea | You set sail, knowing the general direction from your dead friend, the wind is right, seeming like an omen of luck. | 0:08:01 (Pop-up) |
BBC Sound Effects | Wind through a crack in the door | More Death and Horror | 0:12:06 (Pop-up) | |
Kenyon Hopkins | Ghost Ship | Nightmare!! | The wind and storm rages, till you wonder if this going to be the end. Off in the distance you wonder if you’re seeing the remains of another lifeless ship. The sails are old torn to shreds and worn. The the wooden bow is in pieces and looks as if a bite has been taken out of it. | 0:13:03 (Pop-up) |
Ricky Vale | Surfing Ghost Pt. 1 | Everybody’s Surfin’ | In the blinding rainstorm and rising waves, you start to doubt your eyes when you see what looks like the spirits of dead sailors surfing on the debris of the broken ship | 0:22:43 (Pop-up) |
BBC Records and Tapes, Sound Effects No. 21 | Sea Monster | More Death & Horror | Suddenly out of the depths a giant sea monster rises from the depths and smashes into your ship. You fall off the edge but luckily catch hold of your row boat on the side of the ship. As you witness the destruction of your ship, you struggle with the ropes to set the boat free. You remember the machete at your side. You strike the bonds causing you to fall with your boat to the sea. You hit your head, drop your knife and black out to the oblivion of unconsciousness. | 0:24:17 (Pop-up) |
Eden Abez | Old Boat | Eden’s Island | Not knowing how much time has passed, you fade in and out of awareness. The storm is over and at least you are alive. The creaking of the boat and sounds of water lull you back to blackness.) | 0:27:12 (Pop-up) |
Les Baxer | Dark River | African Blue | You dream you’re drifting down a river with your ex-wife, but the waters look dark and you can’t ignore a sinking sinister feeling of impending doom ahead. | 0:29:37 (Pop-up) |
Ixtahuele | Black Sand | Pagan Rites | Your boat bobs as it has surfaced on a damp shore of black sand. Black Sand! | 0:32:42 (Pop-up) |
Milt Raskin | Kapu (Forbidden) | Kapu (Forbidden) - The Exciting Sounds of Milt Raskin | Have you made it? The fog and mist hiding what appear to be hills and distant mountains of palm trees and thick foliage that festers over cliffs and branches. You are overwhelmed by the other world. | 0:34:17 (Pop-up) |
Martin Denny | Forbidden Island | “If Disneyland's Haunted Mansion and Jungle Cruise rides were smooshed together, this could be the ride's theme song. Adore.” - Youtube comment by Monica Coleman | 0:36:23 (Pop-up) | |
Combustible Edison | Utopia | As you travel on foot deeper into brush, you can’t believe how beautiful and colorful everything is. The worries of your old life in the gloomy drab fishing town melt away into joy and wonder. Could this be your future Utopia? | 0:43:08 (Pop-up) | |
Arthur Lyman | Magic Island | Legend of Pele | The island seems like magic as everything you need seems to be provided for you; fresh water, fruit and coconuts in abundance | 0:46:26 (Pop-up) |
Yma Sumac | Sauma (Magic) | Legend Of The Jivaro | 0:48:34 (Pop-up) | |
Mel Henke | Exotic Adventure | Dynamic Adventures in Sound | With new found conviction and energy you plunge into the jungle looking for a place of shelter before dark. Other the hanging moss and fallen trees, you find no cave or place of refuge, but your feel within the clean air that fills your lungs, that this is life, this is freedom and this is adventure. | 0:52:33 (Pop-up) |
Creepxotica | Head Huntin | Haunted Bossa Nova | The noises of near by animals make you restless, though you haven’t had enough sleep, you decide it’s time to move. As you feel your way through the early morning you stumble upon a rotting skull perched on a stick. Repulsed, as you back away, you hear a twig snap which sets you dashing and stumbling in an opposite direction. You’ve heard the tales of head hunters and those that feast on human flesh. | 0:54:38 (Pop-up) |
Bob Rosengarden and Phil Kraus | Taboo | LIke Bongos | You truly are on a taboo island and proceed with trepidation | 0:57:31 (Pop-up) |
Markko Polo Adventurers | Night Of The Tiger | Orient | As you wander through the darkness. You hear a man scream in the distance, attacked by a tiger. There are other men here, and this one might have been following you for your head. As you slowly back away, the tiger though distant, hears and notices you. It begins to head in your direction with blood dripping from it’s furry lips from it’s man kill. You start to speed up and a chase begins! Run! Run! For your life! Up that hill, perhaps you can climb a tree! You stumble and fall but find a large rock which you grasp with both hands and through at your predator. A direct hit, you harm the beast who roars and wretches in pain. In it’s confusion turns and limps in retreat! Catching your breath you wish you hadn’t lost your guns, knife and other supplies. | 0:59:37 (Pop-up) |
DON RALKE | Black Panther | The Savage And The Sensuous Bongos | As you continue to wander, you wonder if you should have come. Other eyes glisten in the night from dark creatures, …what is that a panther? Keep moving slowly. Must find a new refuge. | 1:03:07 (Pop-up) |
Vachel Lindsay | The Mysterious Cat | Vachel Lindsay Reading | As you walk, you pass the time by coming up with a poem about the mysterious cat you think you just saw. | 1:05:58 (Pop-up) |
Combustible Edison | One Eyed Monkey | Schizophrenic! | This jungle is full of life. What that you just saw? A one eyed small monkey? You follow it hoping that it will lead you to luck | 1:08:26 (Pop-up) |
Combustible Edison | One Eyed Monkey | Schizophrenic! | This jungle is full of life. What that you just saw? A one eyed small monkey? You follow it hoping that it will lead you to luck | 1:08:27 (Pop-up) |
Angry Gorilla Sounds | All it did was lead you to it’s mother, who shrieks, growls and beats it’s chest upon your arrival.) | 1:11:03 (Pop-up) | ||
Chaino | Gone Ape | New Sounds in Rock and Roll! | You’ve heard that running from a wild animal is the worst thing you can do. So you do the only thing you can think of doing. You breath heavy, puff out your front and beating your chest you your own monkey grunts and growls. After a final tarzan cry the shocked and startled big monkey turns and quickly stagers back into the jungle. You can’t believe that worked!!! | 1:12:31 (Pop-up) |
Soupy Sales | King Kong | Do the Mouse | Man that ape was huge. If only your ex-wife could see you now! Fending off tigers and confronting giant angry gorillas. You imagine her suddenly appearing in the Jungle. Observing how you are no longer a the lame, big loser of her previous complaints. As you picture her, you imagine her in leopard skin cloth, you circle her and make up a song in an attempt to lure her back into your life. | 1:14:51 (Pop-up) |
Dick Kent | Bongo King of the Jungle | The Makers of Smooth Music | As you continue on, you can’t wait till you return home to tell your children the tale. Inspired by seeing King Kong in the theater a couple years ago, you concoct a tale, embellishing a little about your adventure. Man if only your kids could see their old man, making things happen for their future and happiness. | 1:16:54 (Pop-up) |
Chaino | Whistling Bongos | Night of the Spectre | Speaking of bongos, you hear some in the distance. That’s the direction to head in. You begin to whistle in your new found courage to the beat of the drums. You’ve made it this far. Things are going to work out. The gold is probably where the people are… | 1:19:35 (Pop-up) |
Akim | Voodoo Drums | Technicolor Paradise: Rhum Rhapsodies & Other Exotic Delights | 1:22:15 (Pop-up) | |
Arthur Lyman | Taboo Tu | Taboo Vol. 2 | Follow that gold my boy. You can almost smell the wealth and tales you will tell upon your return. Your family will welcome you back as a hero. | 1:23:30 (Pop-up) |
Don Reed And Loreli | Nature Boy | Technicolor Paradise: Rhum Rhapsodies & Other Exotic Delights | Look at you wandering secret jungle paths, a survivor, a go getter, a true Nature Boy. | 1:25:23 (Pop-up) |
Disneyland Records | The Unsafe Bridge | Chilling Thrilling Sounds Of The Haunted House | Your ego soon vanishes as you have to cross an old bridge. | 1:28:24 (Pop-up) |
BBC Sound Effects | Death in the Swamp | More Death and Horror | Now What Have you Fallen Into? | 1:29:29 (Pop-up) |
Chaino | Swamp Girl | Africana | Next thing you know something grabs your hair pulling you out of the muck. A thing that looks like muck itself with green skin pulls you into a nearby cave. She has a fire. | 1:30:46 (Pop-up) |
Kay Martin & Her Body Guards | Swamp Girl | Kay Martin And Her Bodyguards | 1:33:00 (Pop-up) | |
Martin Denny | Swamp Fire | Afro-Desia | Repulsed by her mossy gooey ugliness, you grab a burning stick from her fire, forcing her to cower and crawl backwards. Time to take your exit, you light some of animals skins hanging on the walls and the place goes ablaze and you hurriedly escape. The flames are more contagious than you thought causing whatever toxicity is in the swamp water to light up like fire water. You begin to sprint. | 1:36:35 (Pop-up) |
Walter Wanderley | Rain | Rain Forest | After a long trek, you appreciate a little rainfall that helps to clean off your muck and hopefully put out your fire. | 1:40:47 (Pop-up) |
Martin Denny | Cobra | Forbidden Island | As you lay in a rain puddle you feel something crawling up your leg to escape the water. AHH! A snake!!!! | 1:42:40 (Pop-up) |
Ixtahuele | Serpintine Paths | Call of the Islands | You're bit! In anxiety you begin to run. The more you run the more confused you become the windy roads remind you of the snake! | 1:44:59 (Pop-up) |
Chaino | Safari Jungle Maze | Sounds...Out of this World | 1:46:36 (Pop-up) | |
Billy Mure | Sleep Walk | Hawaiian Percussion | The peripheral neuromuscular weakness takes over your body as result from defective neuromuscular junction (NMJ) transmission from the snake bite. Causing Acute neuromuscular paralysis and neurological manifestations. As you drop and fall to the ground, unable to move, you continue to dream that you are still walking, although in a daze… | 1:48:27 (Pop-up) |
Martin Denny | Jungle Madness | Hypnotique | The Madness sets in.... | 1:49:49 (Pop-up) |
Kenyon Hopkins | Jungle Fever | Shock Music in Hi-Fi | You contract a fever and start to sweat. Still unable to move except for your eyes, You think you see the tiger you harmed earlier inching towards you through the mist. You continue to sweat profusely as the sweat trails into your eyes and you can taste the salt. A few yards away as you see the tiger get ready to pounce, a gun shot echoes through the trees as the leaping giant cat falls to the ground as birds scatter from the trees. The tiger crashes to the ground close to your side as you again close your eyes to blackness. | 1:53:21 (Pop-up) |
Martin Denny | Voodoo Dreams | Hypnotique | You fade into voodoo dreams | 1:55:10 (Pop-up) |
Don Ralke | Face By the Fire | The Savage And The Sensuous Bongos | You start to come to, as a liquid gets poured down your throat forcing you to swallow. As you cough from the disgusting concoction, you slowly open your eyes and notice you are next to a fire. The face of a woman is visible in the flame light and shadows. You are able to move your aching joints, she has been curing you. | 1:58:07 (Pop-up) |
Richard Hayman | Spell of Deatra | Voodoo! | She keeps you drinking and although it may be helping the poison, it’s causing your head to spin. | 2:00:27 (Pop-up) |
Martin Denny | Hypnotique | Hypnotique | You feel hypnotized by her beauty and how she almost glows in the moonlight. What are these strange feelings? | 2:02:30 (Pop-up) |
Alika Lyman Group | Bewitched | Leis of Jazz Vol. 2 | 2:05:30 (Pop-up) | |
Esquivel | Spellbound | Exploring New Sounds In Hi-Fi | The feelings of attraction and passion keep growing stronger and stronger, as you rise, you chase here into the palms as she plays hard to get. You grab her by the wrist and pull here close. | 2:07:36 (Pop-up) |
Don Sargent & His Buddies | Voodoo Kiss | Technicolor Paradise: Rhum Rhapsodies & Other Exotic Delights | 2:09:52 (Pop-up) | |
Arthur Lyman | Happy Voodoo | Bahia | 2:11:52 (Pop-up) | |
Don Tiki | Bam-Boozled | The Forbidden Sounds of Don Tiki | ou are completely enchanted and have never felt more alive. She runs and you chase her through a bamboo forest, as she taunts you to catch her. | 2:14:38 (Pop-up) |
Joan Joyce Trio | Captured | Technicolor Paradise: Rhum Rhapsodies & Other Exotic Delights | 2:18:28 (Pop-up) | |
Les Baxter | Shadow of Love | The Soul Of The Drums | What has overcome you? You haven’t been in control of what felt like primal animal instinct and raw desire. Has this all been a dream? The short term memory begins to fade as a cloud seems to slowly lift from your mind. You have followed her into a trap. | 2:20:48 (Pop-up) |
Michael Ghelfi | Witch Doctor | Tribal Fantasy Music | You shriek in horror as you realize you’ve been seduced by a wrinkly, toothless witch doctor with yellow bloodshot eyes this entire time. Your hands are bound with robe and a crowd of natives have gathered around you with their spears, prodding you to move forward as they poke your back and ribs. | 2:22:45 (Pop-up) |
The J and C Trio | Voodoo Doll | At Tan-Tar-A | You glance at the witch doctor’s hands, the furry creature that the witch doctor had been stroking was nothing less than an old voodoo doll. The doll has a symbol written in blood and as you look down, you have the same symbol painted on your chest under your torn shirt. | 2:24:57 (Pop-up) |
Chaino | Co-Gona Voodoo | Jungle Echoes | 2:26:39 (Pop-up) | |
Les Baxter And His Orchestra | Ceremony | The Soul Of The Drums | You have been brought to a location of ceremony. Men and women alike are dancing manically by the flames and you realize that you aren’t the only one bound. A young maiden with flowers in her hair and a few other weary dirty men are standing in a row also with ropes around their wrists and spears at their throats. | 2:29:47 (Pop-up) |
Dominic Frontiere | Temple of Suicide (Ixtab) | Pagan Festival | The spears nudge move you forward as you stumble and trudge through rows of blazing torches, to a large stone gate. The sinking feeling that this is your last night on earth begins to sink it, making your gut hurt and a need to throw up whatever you’ve been intoxicated with to get you here. | 2:32:15 (Pop-up) |
Les Baxter | Temple of Gold | Les Baxter's Original Quiet Village | You enter the mouth of some sort of stone temple walls which houses a giant golden statue of some pagan fire god. Could this be the treasure that the legends were about? By it’s shear stature it’s obvious why it has remained unmoved. The gold glistens in the flames as the God’s angry grimace observes as if unsatisfied the scene of organized chaos below. The village people continue to dance in front of an alter and bonfire before it’s foundation. Soon the dancing slows down to a chant of worship. | 2:34:23 (Pop-up) |
The Surfmen | Fire Goddess | The Sounds Of Exotic Island | As a slow drum beat begins to rise, the bound maiden slowly but willingly walks forward to the stone alter. The crowd sways in worship on there knees. | 2:37:57 (Pop-up) |
Elizabeth Waldo | Ritual of Human Sacrifice | Rites of the Pagan | The flower maiden is disrobed as three women paint strange symbols on her face and skin in preparation of the sacrifice. With a blank stare she is laid out upon the alter, and the witch doctor, now in weather worn faded wooden tiki mask, raises his sacrificial blade and without hesitation plunges it deep with in her heart with a horrendous scream from the victim, not a mere second or two later but you and the other men are struck by blow darts to the neck and once again all is black. | 2:40:27 (Pop-up) |
Unknown | Curse of the Zombies | Monster Mash Sounds of Terror | Epilogue: Months have gone by and you don’t know whether you are dead or alive. You’ve grown thin and your brain feels like old rotten hummus, but keep moving one foot in front of the other. There are others like you with ropes tied around your waists keeping you walking in a row, and like you with a load on their backs. | 2:44:35 (Pop-up) |
Chaino | Slave Girl | Chaino Africana | With other men and women with sullen faces and sunken eyes, you have become a zombie slave for the sugar cane fields. Day after day you carry the loads of harvest. You don’t even remember whether you sleep at night. You don’t have much memory of anything, but as some children from the nearby village gather to play, you hear the faint laughter of children, which begins to ignite faint memories in your mind from a distant past. You have children. You have a wife. For the next few days of work you concentrate on their memory. One night you lie on ground in a stable and rats come and gnaw on your ropes and rotting flesh, with no reaction or blinking you stare at the moon recalling your mission from long ago. | 2:46:16 (Pop-up) |
Frank Hunter | Mist Of Gorongoza | White Goddess | One day while working the usual path with the other deadbeats, you take up the rear of the caravan. While trekking and staggering through the dry mud, your old and frail rope snaps. With no emotion you keep walking forward separated from the rest of the herd as they trudge on. You walk until you reach the roaring ocean. As you drag your feet across the beach of black sand, you step into the cold ocean, walking deeper and deeper into the sea until your head disappears under the waves. | 2:48:42 (Pop-up) |
Underwater Sounds | ? | Time passes. Hours turn to days, days into weeks, weeks into months as you walk across the ocean floor, very slowly, one step in front of the other. You find a sunken ship that you pass through. Something glistens in the ocean light. A small chest of gold in the captain’s chambers. | 2:52:24 (Pop-up) | |
Daphne Walker | Beyond the Reef | ? | 11 months later your wife returns home from work, only to see wet footstep upon her thresh hold and across her cottage floor. There lying on her bed, she finds your wet seaweed and barnacle covered skeletal remains, covered in a scattering of ancient gold coins. The End. | 2:53:17 (Pop-up) |
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