The Markko Polo Adventurers

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Scheherazade 00:00 Tools
Rain in Rangoon 00:00 Tools
The Girl Friend of a Whirling Dervish 00:00 Tools
Night of the Tiger 00:00 Tools
Mountain High, Valley Low 00:00 Tools
Limehouse Blues 00:00 Tools
Train to Ranchipur 00:00 Tools
Yokahama Ferryboat 00:00 Tools
The Girl Friend Of A Whirling 00:00 Tools
Nagasaki 00:00 Tools
Runaway Rickshaw 00:00 Tools
Yokohama Ferryboat 00:00 Tools
Scheherezade 00:00 Tools
Madam Sloe Gin's 00:00 Tools
Song Of India 00:00 Tools
Beggars Procession 00:00 Tools
Song of India / Beggar's Procession 00:00 Tools
Madame Sloe Gin's 00:00 Tools
Sheherazade 00:00 Tools
Song of India-Beggars' Procession 00:00 Tools
Mountain High / Valley Low 00:00 Tools
Song Of India/Beggar's Procession 00:00 Tools
Song Of India Beggars Procession 00:00 Tools
The Girlfriend of a Whirling Dervish 00:00 Tools
The Girlfriend Of A Whirling Deverish 00:00 Tools
Scheherazade [1958] 00:00 Tools
Rain in Rangoon [1958] 00:00 Tools
Song of India-Beggars Procession 00:00 Tools
The Girl Friend of the Whirlin 00:00 Tools
The Girl Friend of a Whirling Dervish [1958] 00:00 Tools
The Girl Friend Of A Whirling Dervish [2kA] 00:00 Tools
Mountain High Valley Low 00:00 Tools
Madam Sloe's Gin 00:00 Tools
Schehrezade 00:00 Tools
Beggar's Procession 00:00 Tools
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Orienta is an album by The Markko Polo Adventurers released in 1959. The album was produced by Simon Rady, arranged and conducted by Gerald Fried and recorded in stereo in Hollywood, California. The album is remembered both for its combination of sound effects and Asian-inspired music to tell humorous vignettes and for its suggestive cover art featuring a photograph by Murray Laden. Orienta was the work of three music industry professionals with a long history of involvement in exotica and easy listening music. Producer Simon Rady (1909-1965) was coming off the huge success of The Music from Peter Gunn, which spent 10 weeks at No. 1 on Billboard magazine's album chart, and won the inaugural Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1959. Associate producer Michael H. Goldsen was one of the industry leaders in popularizing Hawaiian music and was later inducted into the Hawaiian Music Hall of Fame. The album was arranged and conducted by Gerald Fried, a Juilliard School-trained oboist who later went on to fame as a composer of music for motion pictures and television, including the 1960s series Star Trek, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., and Gilligan's Island, and the 1970s miniseries Roots. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.