Various - Jungle Exotica, Vol. 1

€ 22

$ 26

€ 22 Sold For

Apr 1, 2015 Sold Date

Feb 16, 2015 Start Date

1 Number Of Bids

Switzerland Country Of Seller

eBay Sold at

save auction

Description

Allgemein

Artikel Name: Jungle Exotica, Vol. 1
Genre: Rock englischsprachig Produkt Typ: LP (Vinyl) Label: STRIP-TEASE Titelanzahl: 32

Trackliste LP - 1

1. Bob Callaway - Native 2. The Valiants - Don't Wanna Leave the Congo 3. Zirkons - Congawa! 4. The Youngsters - Zebra 5. Tarantula Ghoul & the Gravediggers - King Kong 6. The Ebonettes - Wild Man Walk 7. The Sheiks - Baghdad Rock 8. The Highlights - Ah So! 9. Diablo - Jungle 10. The Revels - Conga Twist 11. Baby Sticks & the Kingtones - Pigmeat 12. The Enchanters - Cafe Bohemian 13. The Majestics - Oasis 14. Peeple - Hi Yo Came!! 15. J.C. Davis - Monkey 16. Emanons - Calypso Bop 17. Del Saints - Tarzan 18. Hully Gully Boys - Yabby! 19. The Gaylads - Ah So! 20. Continental Cousins - Kana Kapila 21. Ganim's Asia Minors - Daddy Lolo 22. The Medallions - Carachi 23. Nocabouts - Jungle Safari 24. Jan Davis - Snow Surfin' Matador 25. Kookie Joe - Kookie Limbo 26. The Cherokees - Uprising 27. Jan Davis - Watusi Zombie 28. Dantels - Dragon Walk 29. The Pastels - Jungle Run 30. The Premiers - Firewater 31. Megatons - Isis 32. Charles "Chick" Ganimian - Come With Me to the Casbah

Beschreibung

For every big early rock star, or even one-hit wonder, there were plenty of hopelessly obscure rock & roll singles with no chance of making it big in the marketplace. This didn't stop a lot of people from trying to find the right gimmick. Sometimes that gimmick would involve downright nutty marriages of raw rock & roll with "jungle" rhythms and chants, striptease bump-and-grind cheapness, silly Middle Eastern and Chinese melodies (and accents), and horror movie sound effects and screams. That's what you'll find on this amazing compilation, which has 32 tracks, and nearly 70 minutes, of early rock & roll at its most ridiculously sublime. There's not a star or even a recognizable name in sight on this CD, which rescues impossibly rare singles -- known only to the hardest of the hardcore collectors -- from oblivion. This is not "exotica" in the Martin Denny easy listening sense of the term. These are early rock & roll novelties that are, without exaggeration, breathtakingly frantic and absurd. The "jungle" culture adopted by a lot of the performers came not from real jungles, but from the jungle as it was pictured in Hollywood movies. As such, the chest-beating ape mating calls and bird noises decorating many of these tracks -- not to mention phrases like the fake Chinese "Ah, so!" (which was used as the title for two separate songs) or the Bela Legosi-intoned "come with me to the casbah" -- skirt stereotypes that, in later times, would be called politically incorrect. Nonetheless, these cuts are so infectiously silly, and the primeval rock & roll/R&B guitar-and-sax riffing so hot, that you'll have a hard time not laughing at and enjoying this, no matter what your world view is. ~ Richie Unterberger

Richie Unterberger