
This is a request and to get you in an exotica mood I present Don Ralke with the Savage and Sensuous Bongos. Mind you I didn't know that bongos could be savage or sensuous. I guess a young maiden would have to careful around a set of bongos at midnight or at least the would be playboy tapping them.
Space Age Pop Music describes this album thusly:
Don Ralke was a prolific arranger, composer, and producer, working for over 25 years in the Hollywood studio system in films, television, and pop recordings. Ralke received his Bachelors and Masters degrees in music at the University of Southern California, graduating with honors. He also studied with famed composer and Hollywood emigre, Arnold Schonberg. Early in his career, he briefly got stuck--probably unintentionally--in a bongos niche. He collaborated with versatile flute and reed man Buddy Collette on Jazz Heat, Bongo Beat, a sizzling slice of hepcat jazz, one of the rare genuinely original albums on Crown Records. Then Warner Brothers hired him for Gershwin with Bongos and The Sensuous and the Savage, one of the best jungle exotica albums around.
So there you have it jungle exotica at its best. Bongos! |
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