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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]
Epps reappeared in 1969 as a bongo player in the film Girl in Gold Boots. He continued on as a session musician in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1973, the Incredible Bongo Band recorded "Bongo Rock" and released it as a single. Epps continued playing in clubs in Southern California into the 1990s. [5]
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.
In 1983. the band released its second album, Break Dance – Electric Boogie. [4] The title track contains a sample of Incredible Bongo Band's 1973 recording of "Apache," written by Jerry Lordan. [4] West Street Mob also recorded two singles that were not included on either of their two albums, "Ooh Baby" and "Sing a Simple Song."
Gordon was the drummer on the Incredible Bongo Band's album Bongo Rock, released in 1972, and his drum break on the LP version of "Apache" has been frequently sampled by rap music artists. [6] He recorded with Frank Zappa, including on the title track of the 1974 album Apostrophe (').
Bongo Rock is the debut studio album by Incredible Bongo Band, released in 1973. [2] It peaked at number 197 on the Billboard Top LPs & Tape chart. [ 3 ] It includes the band's version of the Jerry Lordan -written song " Apache ".
The Incredible Bongo Band covered the song in 1973. [29] The composer and percussionist David Van Tieghem released a version and two remixes in 1986. [30] 16 BIT (a German dance project from 1986 to 1989 by Michael Münzing and Luca Anzilotti) recorded in 1987 a single "(Ina) Gadda-Da-Vida", [31] also included in album Inaxycvgtgb. [32]
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