Sambamba by Les Baxter - Tiki Music

O OnyaBirri Member Joined: Feb 02, 2006 Posts: 422	O OnyaBirri Posted posted on Fri, Aug 21, 2009 5:00 PM "Quiet Village" was on a 45 or EP originally, and then it was on a Rugolo comp called "New Sounds" which came out on their Harmony subsidiary. I have this, and yes, it's done cha cha style, but it's really good. I'd been listening to "Sambamba" for almost two decades - "Adventures" was one of my first PR albums - but I never bothered to look at the label for the writing credits (Columbia had a strange policy of listing track timings and publishers on their covers but not composers). So, I now have a "new" Les Baxter tune! Martin Denny did a number of tunes also that AFAIK Les never recorded (or released, at any rate). "Sim Sim" is one of these. The Pete Rugolo/Passions story has circulated for a long time. What's the story with that?

"Quiet Village" was on a 45 or EP originally, and then it was on a Rugolo comp called "New Sounds" which came out on their Harmony subsidiary. I have this, and yes, it's done cha cha style, but it's really good.

I'd been listening to "Sambamba" for almost two decades - "Adventures" was one of my first PR albums - but I never bothered to look at the label for the writing credits (Columbia had a strange policy of listing track timings and publishers on their covers but not composers). So, I now have a "new" Les Baxter tune!

Martin Denny did a number of tunes also that AFAIK Les never recorded (or released, at any rate). "Sim Sim" is one of these.

The Pete Rugolo/Passions story has circulated for a long time. What's the story with that?

Post #478655 by OnyaBirri on Fri, Aug 21, 2009 5:00 PM