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Michael Viner, who was an executive at MGM Records, started the project Incredible Bongo Band. [5] He was asked to provide music to the soundtrack for the film The Thing with Two Heads; he and Perry Botkin Jr. recorded the songs "Bongo Rock" and "Bongolia". [5] After that, they decided to create the album Bongo Rock. [5]
The Incredible Bongo Band, also known as Michael Viner's Incredible Bongo Band, was a project started in 1972 by Michael Viner, a record artist manager and executive at MGM Records, producer, MGM Records executive and Curb Records founder Mike Curb and arranger Perry Botkin Jr. [1] [2] Viner was called on to supplement the soundtrack to the B-film The Thing With Two Heads. [3]
Pages in category "Incredible Bongo Band songs" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
At Sing Sing, he “finds purpose by acting in a theatre group alongside other incarcerated men,” per the synopsis, based on the real life Rehabilitation Through the Arts (RTA) program.
Incredible Bongo Band recorded a cover version of "Bongo Rock", which charted #57 in the United States. [7] It was included in the band's 1973 album Bongo Rock under the title "Bongo Rock '73". [8] DJ Kool Herc used it in his sets. [9] It gained significant popularity in early hip hop circles as a breakbeat. [9]
He assembled the Incredible Bongo Band in 1972, which produced an album that was the soundtrack for that year's science fiction film The Thing with Two Heads, consisting of remakes of instrumental songs from the 1950s and 1960s given a characteristic funk style, and achieving a hit with "Bongo Rock", a remake of a 1959 song by Preston Epps.
Earlier this year, Colman Domingo and a few girlfriends took a trip to New Orleans. They were there to attend Essence Fest, one of the world’s largest celebrations of Black culture, so it ...
In November 2022, music company Phase One Network accused West of sampling Boogie Down Productions' song "South Bronx" for his and André 3000's song "Life of the Party". According to the case, West had submitted and then subsequently retracted a request to clear the sample in 2021. [ 80 ]