Notes: You
can blame it on Henry Kaiser. He's the person credited with discovering
the Martin Denny Combo. These guys had been playing at the luxurious
Shell Bar, and later the lounge of Las Vegas' Royal Nevada. Nightly
they would treat the tourists to a mish-mash of Oriental rhythms,
percussion beats, bird calls and various other exotic sounds. People
would come back to the mainland from Hawaii and try to recreate
the mood with Denny records spinning away through the night surrounded
by tiki torches, loud shirts and sweet drinks. Come to think of
it, that's still a favorite summertime pursuit for many folks.
The cover features the face of Sandy Warner, "The Exotica
Girl". We'll be seeing a lot of her in the future.
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