The Rarest Martin Denny Record Ever Pressed? ...And Other Exotica Tidbits From The Kahuna Collection - Tiki Music

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Thu, Oct 30, 2003 2:27 AM Nice Marty and Arty discs there, BK. The FORBIDDEN ISLAND is always hard to find, in another thread we talked about how the same Tiki on it appears on a Mills Brothers Hawaiian album cover and also on a men's magazine nude foldout, it was probably rented from the legendary ROSHU prop company in Hollywood. The "Polynesia" cover belongs to a fave Exotica sub-category of mine, "Exotica-album-covers-shot-at-Polynesian-Restaurants", this one was shot at THE POLYNESIAN in Torrance, I have a copy that shows a pic of the place in the back, "The Polynesians" were the houseband. (I wonder if "The Beachcombers", house band at the Kahiki ever did an album.) There are also two covers by THE SURFERS shot at Steve Crane's THE LUAU, two THE OUTRIGGERS covers (a studio musician outfit), one shot at Don The Beachcomber and one at Trader Vic's in L.A., a Latin cover shot at THE TIKIS, and a Canadian lounge singer album shot at the Montreal KON TIKI. The fact that not only the music was recorded on the mainland, but also the locales were from here makes the artifice complete in my book (well, WOULD have made it if the BOT could have kept it's Exotica chapter!). My big question: WHERE was Marty's QUIET VILLAGE cover photographed? That bamboo pier screams Polynesian Restaurant...or maybe a theme park? But the light looks like an interior... (I remember that Sandy Warner mentioned somewhere that the PRIMITIVA cover was shot in am icey creek in Mammoth). Anybody else have a cover that fits that genre? I have Arty's JAN-U-WINE too, had to get it because of the weird Tiki art, I mean a Tiki under a bamboo roof, where did that come from !? (reminds me of these cemetary statues I saw yesterday here in Berlin that had modern canvas roofs set up over them to protect them from the the acid rain..)

Nice Marty and Arty discs there, BK. The FORBIDDEN ISLAND is always hard to find, in another thread we talked about how the same Tiki on it appears on a Mills Brothers Hawaiian album cover and also on a men's magazine nude foldout, it was probably rented from the legendary ROSHU prop company in Hollywood.
The "Polynesia" cover belongs to a fave Exotica sub-category of mine, "Exotica-album-covers-shot-at-Polynesian-Restaurants", this one was shot at THE POLYNESIAN in Torrance, I have a copy that shows a pic of the place in the back, "The Polynesians" were the houseband. (I wonder if "The Beachcombers", house band at the Kahiki ever did an album.)
There are also two covers by THE SURFERS shot at Steve Crane's THE LUAU, two THE OUTRIGGERS covers (a studio musician outfit), one shot at Don The Beachcomber and one at Trader Vic's in L.A., a Latin cover shot at THE TIKIS, and a Canadian lounge singer album shot at the Montreal KON TIKI. The fact that not only the music was recorded on the mainland, but also the locales were from here makes the artifice complete in my book (well, WOULD have made it if the BOT could have kept it's Exotica chapter!).
My big question: WHERE was Marty's QUIET VILLAGE cover photographed? That bamboo pier screams Polynesian Restaurant...or maybe a theme park? But the light looks like an interior... (I remember that Sandy Warner mentioned somewhere that the PRIMITIVA cover was shot in am icey creek in Mammoth).
Anybody else have a cover that fits that genre?

I have Arty's JAN-U-WINE too, had to get it because of the weird Tiki art, I mean a Tiki under a bamboo roof, where did that come from !? (reminds me of these cemetary statues I saw yesterday here in Berlin that had modern canvas roofs set up over them to protect them from the the acid rain..)

Post #57643 by bigbrotiki on Thu, Oct 30, 2003 2:27 AM