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"Quiet Village" is an orchestral pop instrumental that was written and originally performed by Les Baxter in 1951 and an instrumental album from 1959 by Martin Denny. In the liner notes to his album, Ritual of the Savage (Le sacre du sauvage) , Baxter described the themes he was conveying in the work: [ 1 ]
At the time, Apaka was the talent director for the Hawaiian Village Hotel in Waikiki, Hawaii. Apaka recruited the Gene Rains Group to perform in the Shell Bar at the Hawaiian Village, which was the hot spot for the Island's top performers, including Martin Denny and Arthur Lyman. It was also Alfred Apaka who introduced Rains to Decca Records.
Exotica is the first album by Martin Denny, released in 1957.It contained Les Baxter's most famous piece, "Quiet Village", and spawned an entire genre bearing its name.It was recorded December 1956 in Webley Edwards' studio in Waikiki (not, as often reported, the Aluminum Dome at Henry J. Kaiser's Hawaiian Village Complex).
Sweep leads to arrests of several alleged members of Quiet Village gang, tied to the deaths of two El Monte police officers and facing federal charges.
Quiet Village: The Exotic Sounds of Martin Denny is the eighth studio album by Martin Denny.Released in the summer of 1959, the monophonic version of the album (LRP 3122) reached No. 21 on the Billboard monophonic album chart in November 1959, [2] and the stereophonic version (LST 7122) reached No. 12 on the magazine's stereophonic album chart in January 1960.
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