Eden Ahbez - Beyond Tiki

CM Chairman Moai Member Houston, Texas Joined: Jan 22, 2004 Posts: 4	CM Chairman Moai Posted posted on Mon, Jan 26, 2004 8:29 PM Has anybody heard Eden Ahbez's first album "The Singing Prophet"? Or the album he contributed to, Bob Romeo and his Jungle Sextet "Aphro-Disia"? How do these compare to the great "Eden's Island" LP on Del-Fi?
JT Jungle Trader Member Trader's Jungle Outpost, Turlock, Ca. Joined: Jan 04, 2003 Posts: 3772	JT Jungle Trader Posted posted on Mon, Jan 26, 2004 10:53 PM no, and I don't know. But I do have Eden's Island. Thanks to another TCer here. Welcome to TC Chairman Moai...clever name.
B BC-Da-Da Member Joined: Aug 14, 2002 Posts: 161	B BC-Da-Da Posted posted on Sat, Feb 23, 2008 5:13 PM "The Singing Prophet" is a great album. Unfortunately, only 100 promo copies were pressed, as Herb Jeffries told me that the woman who owned Olympic Records folded the company just before the album was to be released. It feautres the only version of the four-part "Nature Boy Suite," plus one other Ahbez song on side-two. The remiaining four songs are non-Ahbez. The three songs that Eden wrote on "Aphrodesia" by Bob Romeo are amazing. "Lisbon Street Dance" was later recycled for a 1958 Ahbez single (with lyrics in '58) titled "Wedding on Monacco." The whole Romeo LP is mesmerizing, but I think "Sahara" by Ahbez stands out as the mysterious masterpiece of the whole affair.
D Digitiki Tiki Socialite L.A. baby! Joined: Jul 22, 2004 Posts: 811	D Digitiki Posted posted on Sat, Feb 23, 2008 6:40 PM Tell me more about this Bob Romero album! I've never heard of it.

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Chairman Moai Posted posted on Mon, Jan 26, 2004 8:29 PM

Has anybody heard Eden Ahbez's first album "The Singing Prophet"? Or the album he contributed to, Bob Romeo and his Jungle Sextet "Aphro-Disia"? How do these compare to the great "Eden's Island" LP on Del-Fi?

JT

Jungle Trader Posted posted on Mon, Jan 26, 2004 10:53 PM

no, and I don't know.
But I do have Eden's Island. Thanks to another TCer here.
Welcome to TC Chairman Moai...clever name.

B

BC-Da-Da Posted posted on Sat, Feb 23, 2008 5:13 PM

"The Singing Prophet" is a great album. Unfortunately, only 100 promo copies were pressed, as Herb Jeffries told me that the woman who owned Olympic Records folded the company just before the album was to be released. It feautres the only version of the four-part "Nature Boy Suite," plus one other Ahbez song on side-two. The remiaining four songs are non-Ahbez.

The three songs that Eden wrote on "Aphrodesia" by Bob Romeo are amazing. "Lisbon Street Dance" was later recycled for a 1958 Ahbez single (with lyrics in '58) titled "Wedding on Monacco." The whole Romeo LP is mesmerizing, but I think "Sahara" by Ahbez stands out as the mysterious masterpiece of the whole affair.

D

Digitiki Posted posted on Sat, Feb 23, 2008 6:40 PM

Tell me more about this Bob Romero album! I've never heard of it.