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The Bongos are a power pop band from Hoboken, New Jersey, that emerged from the New York City arts scene, primarily active in the 1980s, led by Richard Barone. With their unique musical style, they were major progenitors of the Hoboken indie-pop community, college radio favorites, and made the leap to national recognition with the advent of MTV .
The album has been reissued numerous times on several labels including Line Records (Germany), Razor & Tie, and Jem Records.The 2007 Special Edition re-issue on Cooking Vinyl Records contains 12 bonus tracks, including a remake of "The Bulrushes" produced by and featuring Moby.
Richard Barone is an American rock musician who first gained attention as frontman for the Bongos.He works as a songwriter, arranger, author, director, and record producer, releases albums as a solo artist, tours, and has created concert events at Carnegie Hall, Hollywood Bowl, SXSW, and New York's Central Park.
Bongos playing a cumbia beat. Bongos (Spanish: bongó) are an Afro-Cuban percussion instrument consisting of a pair of small open bottomed hand drums of different sizes. [1] The pair consists of the larger hembra (lit. ' female ') and the smaller macho (lit. ' male '), which are joined by a wooden bridge. They are played with both hands and ...
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He visited Havana three times in the 1940s and learned to play Afro-Cuban rhythms on the bongos and congas. Costanzo started as a dancer, touring as a team with his wife before World War II . After his discharge from the Navy, he worked as a dance instructor at the Beverly Hills Hotel , where Latin band leader Bobby Ramos heard Costanzo playing ...
On the bongos, Ralke collaborated with versatile flute and reed instrumentalist Buddy Collette on Jazz Heat, Bongo Beat. Warner Bros. hired him for Gershwin with Bongoes and The Savage and The Sensuous, which is widely regarded as one of the best jungle exotica albums of that era.
Epps was born in Mangum, Oklahoma.He learned to play percussion instruments, including the bongos, while he was stationed in Okinawa during the Korean War.After his tour of duty he settled in Southern California, playing in coffee shops and working odd jobs. [1]