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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 ]
For I'm on the move to my own true love, Ten thousand miles away. Verse 2. My true love, she is beautiful, My true love she is young; Her eyes are as blue as the violet's hue, and silvery sounds her tongue And silvery sounds her tongue, my boys, But while I sing this lay, She is doing the grand in a distant land, Ten thousand miles away. Verse 3
His combo spawned two successful offshoots: Julius Wechter (of Tijuana Brass and Baja Marimba Band fame) and exotica vibist Arthur Lyman. Denny's "Firecracker" is well known in Japan as the number which inspired Haruomi Hosono to establish Yellow Magic Orchestra; [14] [15] a "subversive" version of the song, according to Hosono, appears on the band's eponymous debut album and was released as a ...
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.
"A Thousand Miles Away" is a 1956 song recorded by the American doo-wop group The Heartbeats. The song was written by James Sheppard and William H. Miller. [ 1 ] The sequel, "Daddy's Home," also written by Sheppard and performed by his group Shep and the Limelites, was released in 1961.
The lyrics for "Carry On Living" were inspired by the Japanese film March Comes in Like a Lion. [14] The lyrics for "Alive-or-Dead" are about cryptocurrency. [14] Tōno composed "Daydreaming", after Atsumi requested a ballad. She was told to incorporate elements of tropical house and EDM and make it more like Band-Maid. Tōno wrote it on piano.
All the songs in the series combine traditional-style Japanese vocals with a slight Latino flair from Brazilian samba music and the inclusion of several Spanish as well as Brazilian Portuguese terms and phrases in the lyrics (this although the lyrics of Matsuken Samba II mention the "bongo" which is a musical instrument not used in samba). The ...
14 352,000 Hideki Saijō Recital / Hideki, Love, Shout! 8 25 Feb 1974 Chain of Roses (Bara no Kusari) 3 18: 334,000 Lola, Covered with Scars 9 25 May 1974 Intense Love (Hageshī Koi) Kazumi Yasui Kōji Makaino 2 (4 weeks) 19: 584,000: 10 25 Aug 1974 Lola, Covered with Scars (Kizudarake no Rōra) Daizō Saitō 2: 24: 340,000 11 25 Nov 1974 Tears ...