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Post #310499 by DJ Terence Gunn on Sat, Jun 2, 2007 11:37 AM

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I'd go back to The Shell Bar in Waikiki in 1956, on that fateful night when Martin Denny and his boys were playing Les Baxter's 'Quiet Village' (before they began adding bird calls to their musical repertoire) and the frogs behind the stage croaked all the way through the song, and stopped croaking abruptly when the song ended. The band then repeated the song and added bird calls as an amusement and accompaniment to the frogs' croaking.

An open-air, exotic atmosphere under the stars, with tropical libations before they were corrupted, and live Exotica music in the making. Lovely! My time machine ticket, please!