Martin Denny - The Exotic Sounds Of Martin Denny '2019

Tracks list

Born in New York, Mr. Denny toured widely with big bands in the 1930s, served in
the Army Air Corps during World War II, and in the mid-50s found himself in
Hawaii with an engagement at the Hawaiian Village Hotel at Waikiki. His group, a
quartet that also featured Arthur Lyman on the vibraphone, played around a pool
at the hotel in a natural setting, performing soft arrangements of popular songs
with an odd instrument or two from Hawaii or places in Asia and the South
Pacific such as conch shells, Indonesian and Burmese gongs, Japanese kotos,
boobams and even the local forest animals and so in serendipity blended
ingredients of Easy Listening, Jungle Noise, Smooth Jazz, Polynesian Tiki
instrumentation, that would become Mr. Dennys musical signature sound: Exotica. 
Mr. Dennys recording of Les Baxters Quiet Village was released as a single in
1958 and reached the Top 5 of the Billboard pop charts. 
His first album, Exotica, with its image of a sultry model of indeterminate
ethnicity peeking through a bamboo screen, stayed at No. 1 for five weeks in
1959. 
Exotica and successive albums with titles like Forbidden Island, Afro-Desia and
Primitiva provided the soundtrack to the trend for stylized Polynesiana - tiki
cups, Hawaiian shirts and the bikini - in the early cold-war era. 
He died on Wednesday March 5 2005, at his home in Hawaii Kai, near Honolulu. He
was 93.

Tracklist:
01. Martin Denny - Quiet Village (Remastered) (3:42)
02. Martin Denny - Isle of Love (Remastered) (2:30)
03. Martin Denny - Manila (Remastered) (2:28)
04. Martin Denny - Diga Diga Doo (Remastered) (3:21)
05. Martin Denny - When First I Love (Remastered) (2:25)
06. Martin Denny - Swamp Fire (Remastered) (2:37)
07. Martin Denny - Bali Hai (Remastered) (2:57)
08. Martin Denny - Time And Tide (Remastered) (2:23)
09. Martin Denny - Flamingo (Remastered) (2:47)
10. Martin Denny - Hypnotique (With Sitar Remastered) (5:44)
11. Martin Denny - Stone God (Remastered) (3:18)
12. Martin Denny - The Enchanted Isle (Remastered) (2:53)
13. Martin Denny - Ringo Oiwake - Firecrackers (Remastered) (4:52)
14. Martin Denny - Tune From Rangoon (Remastered) (3:06)
15. Martin Denny - Oro (God of Vengeance) (Remastered) (2:22)
16. Martin Denny - Malia (Remastered) (2:49)
17. Martin Denny - August Bells (Remastered) (2:18)
18. Martin Denny - Jungle Drums (Remastered) (2:49)
19. Martin Denny - Llama Serenade (Peruvian Llama Song) (Remastered) (2:12)
20. Martin Denny - Hava Nagila - Scimitar (Remastered) (4:26)

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