(LP) Martin Denny - Exotica (1957)

The Classic Tiki Lounge Sounds of the Martin Denny Group

Here's his first album including the hit single "Quiet Jungle"


Exotica is the first album by Martin Denny, released in 1957. It contained Denny's most famous song, "Quiet Village", and spawned an entire genre bearing its name. It was recorded in Webley Edwards' studio (not, as often reported, the Aluminum Dome at Henry J. Kaiser's Hawaiian Village Complex) in Waikiki in December 1956. The album topped Billboard's charts in 1959.
The original album was recorded in mono. It was re-recorded in stereo in 1958; by then, however, Denny's popular sideman Arthur Lyman had left the group, and was replaced by Julius Wechter. Denny preferred the original mono version: "It has the original spark, the excitement, the feeling we were breaking new ground."

Track listing

1.  Quiet Village  (Les Baxter) – 3:39
2.  Return to Paradise  (Dimitri Tiomkin, Ned Washington) – 2:19
3.  Hong Kong Blues  (Hoagy Carmichael) – 2:15
4.  Busy Port  (Baxter) – 2:50
5.  Lotus Land  (Cyril Scott) – 2:22
6.  Similau  (Arden Clar, Harry Coleman) – 1:57
7.  Stone God  (Baxter) – 3:07
8.  Jungle Flower  (Baxter) – 1:46
9.  China Nights  (Shina No Yoru) (Nobuyuki Takeoka) – 2:01
10.  Ah Me Furi  (Gil Baumgart) – 2:08
11.  Waipio  (Francis Brown) – 3:11
12.  Love Dance  (Baxter) – 2:29

Link for a Listen mp3

If you like this I urge you to buy the CD or better yet the Mono vinyl.
 Cheers~Dr.Cyclops