Les Baxter and His Orchestra

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Voodoo Drums [The Light Rmx] 00:00 Tools
Hong Kong Cable Car [Slipper Rmx] 00:00 Tools
Moon Moods 00:00 Tools
Saturday Night On Saturn 00:00 Tools
Sabre Dance 00:00 Tools
Busy Port 00:00 Tools
Jungle Flower 00:00 Tools
Sophisticated Savage 00:00 Tools
Jungle River Boat 00:00 Tools
Quiet Village 00:00 Tools
Barquita 00:00 Tools
Stone God 00:00 Tools
The Poor People of Paris 02:25 Tools
Love Dance 00:00 Tools
Jungle Jalopy 00:00 Tools
The Ritual 00:00 Tools
Coronation 00:00 Tools
Kinkajou 00:00 Tools
The Poor People of Paris (Jean's Song) 00:00 Tools
Ruby 00:00 Tools
April in Portugal 00:00 Tools
Go Chango 00:00 Tools
Unchained Melody 00:00 Tools
Bacoa 00:00 Tools
The Clown On the Eiffel Tower 00:00 Tools
The High and the Mighty 00:00 Tools
Lust 00:00 Tools
Wake the Town and Tell the People 00:00 Tools
Despair 00:00 Tools
Hate 00:00 Tools
Ecstasy 00:00 Tools
Voodoo Dreams 00:00 Tools
Terror 00:00 Tools
Jealousy 00:00 Tools
Joy 00:00 Tools
Jungle Brava 00:00 Tools
I Love Paris 00:00 Tools
Because of You 00:00 Tools
Amazon Falls 00:00 Tools
Simba 00:00 Tools
Radar Blues 00:00 Tools
Moonscape 00:00 Tools
Shooting Star 00:00 Tools
A Night With Cleopatra 00:00 Tools
Taboo 00:00 Tools
Go Chango (Digitally Remastered 95) 00:00 Tools
Bird of Paradise 00:00 Tools
The Girl Behind the Bamboo Curtain 00:00 Tools
Patan 00:00 Tools
Calcutta 00:00 Tools
Hong Kong Cable Car (Slipper remix) 00:00 Tools
Out of the World 00:00 Tools
Tahiti : A Summer Night At Sea 00:00 Tools
Procession Of The Princes (1996 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Blue Jungle 00:00 Tools
Bali Ha'i 00:00 Tools
Voodoo Dreams (The Light remix) 00:00 Tools
Go Chango (1996 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Lunor Rhapsody 00:00 Tools
Laura 00:00 Tools
Brazilia 00:00 Tools
Procession of the Princes 00:00 Tools
Poinciana 00:00 Tools
The Other Side of the Moon 00:00 Tools
Peking Tiger 00:00 Tools
Papagayo 00:00 Tools
Tenderly 00:00 Tools
A Taste of Honey 00:00 Tools
Coco 00:00 Tools
Honey Bun 00:00 Tools
Temptation 00:00 Tools
Rio 00:00 Tools
Via Veneto 00:00 Tools
Rain Forest 00:00 Tools
Atlantis 00:00 Tools
Carnival 00:00 Tools
Cornflakes 00:00 Tools
Blue Tango 00:00 Tools
Slave Ship 00:00 Tools
Sunrise At Kowloon 00:00 Tools
Venesuela 00:00 Tools
Lunette 00:00 Tools
Quite Village 00:00 Tools
Ruby (Les Baxter) 00:00 Tools
Celestial Nocturne 00:00 Tools
Little Girl Blue 00:00 Tools
Fiesta Brava 00:00 Tools
Voodoo Dreams (Atom™ remix) 00:00 Tools
One Thousand Cockatoos 00:00 Tools
Sinner Man 00:00 Tools
Elephant Trail 00:00 Tools
Happy Talk 00:00 Tools
Mist O' the Moon 00:00 Tools
Oasis of Dakhla 00:00 Tools
Ceremony 00:00 Tools
Lord, What a Morning 00:00 Tools
Congo Train 00:00 Tools
Balinese Bongos 00:00 Tools
River of Dreams 00:00 Tools
Which Doctor? 00:00 Tools
Tahiti A Summer Night At Sea 00:00 Tools
Adios 00:00 Tools
Mai Tai 00:00 Tools
Indian Summer 00:00 Tools
The Clown On The Eiffel Tower (Instrumental) (1996 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Flute Salad 00:00 Tools
The Left Arm of Buddha 00:00 Tools
Dance from Bonjour Tristesse 00:00 Tools
Vieni, Vieni 00:00 Tools
A Day In Rio 00:00 Tools
Carnival Merenque 00:00 Tools
Isle of Cube 00:00 Tools
Les Baxter And His Orchestra - Hong Kong Cable Car [Slipper Rmx] 00:00 Tools
Suddenly 00:00 Tools
The Lonely Whistler 00:00 Tools
Ricordate Marcellino 00:00 Tools
Heartstring Melody 00:00 Tools
Congale 00:00 Tools
Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart 00:00 Tools
Gigi 00:00 Tools
Santa Claus Party 00:00 Tools
Carnival Merengue 00:00 Tools
Shadow of Love and the Enchanted Reef 00:00 Tools
Isle of Cuba 00:00 Tools
Coffee Bean And Calabash Annie 00:00 Tools
Tehran 00:00 Tools
Pyramid of the Sun 00:00 Tools
Sophisticated Lady 00:00 Tools
50s: Empire Classic: Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart 00:00 Tools
Jacaranda 00:00 Tools
Quiet Village (excerpt) 00:00 Tools
Congalé 00:00 Tools
The Clown On the Eiffel Tower (Digitally Remastered 96) 00:00 Tools
I Gig 00:00 Tools
End of Spring 00:00 Tools
Ecstasy - Bonus Track 00:00 Tools
A Wonderful Guy 00:00 Tools
Rain 00:00 Tools
Maracangalha 00:00 Tools
Toujours moi - Bonus Track 00:00 Tools
Nina 00:00 Tools
Pennies From Heaven 00:00 Tools
Shadow of Love / The Enchanted Reef 00:00 Tools
Voodoo Dreams/Voodoo 00:00 Tools
Some Enchanted Evening 00:00 Tools
A Cock-Eyed Optimist 00:00 Tools
Dream Rhapsody 00:00 Tools
Havana 00:00 Tools
Tzigane - Bonus Track 00:00 Tools
Cabayo 00:00 Tools
Mombassa After Midnight 00:00 Tools
Acapulco 00:00 Tools
Tarantella 00:00 Tools
Despair - Bonus Track 00:00 Tools
This Nearly Was Mine 00:00 Tools
Auf Wiederseh'n, Sweetheart 00:00 Tools
Hong Kong Cable Car 00:00 Tools
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Les Baxter (March 14, 1922 – January 15, 1996) was an American musician and composer. Baxter studied piano at the Detroit Conservatory before moving to Los Angeles for further studies at Pepperdine College. Abandoning a concert career as a pianist, he turned to popular music as a singer. At the age of 23 he joined Mel Tormé's Mel-Tones, singing on Artie Shaw records such as "What Is This Thing Called Love?". Baxter then turned to arranging and conducting for Capitol Records in 1950, and was credited with the early Nat King Cole hits, "Mona Lisa" and "Too Young", but both were actually orchestrated by Nelson Riddle.[1] (In later releases of the recordings the credit was corrected to Riddle.[citation needed]) Not a uncommon practice these days: Baxter himself had arranged Nat King Cole's "Nature Boy" in 1947 for a recording conducted by Frank De Vol. In 1953 he scored his first film, the sailing travelogue Tanga Tika. With his own orchestra, he released a number of hits including "Ruby" (1953), "Unchained Melody" (1955) and "The Poor People Of Paris" (1956). The latter recording sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc.[2]He also achieved success with concept albums of his own orchestral suites: Le Sacre Du Sauvage, Festival Of The Gnomes, Ports Of Pleasure, and Brazil Now, the first three for Capitol and the fourth on Gene Norman's Crescendo label. The list of musicians on these recordings includes Plas Johnson and Clare Fischer. Baxter also wrote the "Whistle" theme from the TV show Lassie. Baxter did not restrict his activities to recording. As he once told Soundtrack! magazine, "I never turn anything down". In the 1960s, he formed the Balladeers, a besuited and conservative folk group that at one time featured a young David Crosby.[citation needed] He operated in radio as musical director of The Halls of Ivy and the Bob Hope and Abbott and Costello shows. Like his counterparts Henry Mancini, Lalo Schifrin and James Horner, Baxter later worked for the film industries from 1960s to 70s. He worked on movie soundtracks for American International Pictures where he composed and conducted scores for Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe films and other horror stories and teenage musicals, including The Pit and the Pendulum, Panic in Year Zero!, Beach Party, The Comedy of Terrors,The Dunwich Horror, and Frogs. Howard W. Koch recalled that Baxter composed, orchestrated, and recorded the entire score of The Yellow Tomahawk (1954) in a total of three hours for $5,000.[3] With less soundtrack work in the 1980s, he scored music for theme parks and SeaWorlds. In the 1990s, Baxter was widely celebrated, alongside Martin Denny and the Arthur Lyman Group, as one of the progenitors of what had become known as the "exotica" movement. In his 1996 appreciation for Wired magazine, writer David Toop remembered Baxter thus: "Baxter offered package tours in sound, selling tickets to sedentary tourists who wanted to stroll around some taboo emotions before lunch, view a pagan ceremony, go wild in the sun or conjure a demon, all without leaving home hi-fi comforts in the white suburbs". Baxter has a motion picture star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6314 Hollywood Blvd. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.