Post #499754 by bigbrotiki on Fri, Dec 18, 2009 11:59 AM

Les Baxter is actually much more African/Jungle/Tropics in his music than Polynesian. He not only scored tons of Jungle B-movies, but his music generally sounded like Adventure movie soundtracks. It was Martin Denny who brought in the Polynesian aspect because of being based in Hawaii.

Quiet Village was initially about a generic TROPICAL village:

Just as the seminal album cover of the Les Baxter album it came from depicted primitive art closer to African origin:

..and its general concept was about (and here we find my favorite term again), THE TROPICS:

After the success of Denny, Baxter included some Polynesian themes --the whole dvelopment mirroring the evolution of PRE-Tiki (TROPICS themes a la Baxter) in the 40s and early 50s, to TIKI (Polynesian pop a la Martin Denny and Arthur Lyman) in the late 50s and early 60s.

And since we are showing record covers, here is the ultimate Safari/Trader/Tiki coming together item:

"We all shot our animals and did our thing." Things were simple back then.. :D

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2009-12-18 12:05 ]