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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 - Comments (0)
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):

[The animal noises] came about rather by chance. In 1956 we played in the Shell Bar, a part of the Hawaiian Village (a segment of an amusement park in Honolulu). The room where we played had a very exotic ambience, next to the stage was a small pond, cliff, palms - very tropical, very relaxed. One evening we were playing a certain tune and the frogs began to croak (with a deep sound) rivet! rivet! When we stopped playing the frogs stopped too. When we played the song again later the frogs started again and some of the band members spontaneously started to imitate bird calls. This arrangement was requested time and again...

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

Disco Star Wars

After Meco Monardo created a hit disco version of the Star Wars soundtrack in 1977, the next album he planned was Meco's Time Machine. He explained, "We'll visit eight different time periods of Earth's history and observe events. Those events will be translated into music. We'll start before the dawn of man, in prehistoric times, and we'll end in New York in 1980."

But it doesn't seem like that album ever came out. Instead, Meco spent his entire career producing disco versions of movie soundtracks, including Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Trek, and An American Werewolf in London.

Plenty more of his stuff on YouTube, if you're interested.






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Posted By: Alex - Tue Feb 13, 2018 - Comments (7)
Category: Movies, Music, Space-age Bachelor Pad & Exotic, 1970s

The Girlfriend of the Whirling Dervish



Lately I have been listening to a lot of Martin Denny, the inventor of exotica music. I think he certainly qualifies as weird. As do Exotik-A-GoGo, modern interpreters of his work.

Posted By: Paul - Wed Mar 22, 2017 - Comments (1)
Category: Space-age Bachelor Pad & Exotic, 1950s

The Continental-2 Stereo Round Jukebox

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One sold for $2800.00 recently on eBay.

Posted By: Paul - Fri Sep 04, 2015 - Comments (1)
Category: Space-age Bachelor Pad & Exotic, 1960s, Yesterday’s Tomorrows

Les Baxter



It's never not a good time to contemplate the miracle of Les Baxter and his music.

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Posted By: Paul - Thu Jan 03, 2013 - Comments (2)
Category: Music, Space-age Bachelor Pad & Exotic, 1950s, 1960s

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