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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 ]
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).
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.
The album features the track, "Quiet Village", which peaked at No. 1 on the Hot Dance/Disco chart along with songs "African Queens" and "Summer Dance". "Quiet Village" also peaked at No. 68 on the Hot Soul Singles chart.
In this lullaby, a young girl comforts herself by singing about her miserable situation. One day, she is forcibly sent away to work for a rich family at a village across the mountain. Every day as she works with a baby on her back, she is reminded of her family, looking at the silhouette of the mountains in the direction of her homeland.
"Miles Away" is a song by John Foxx, released as a single in October 1980. It was his fourth solo single, following " Burning Car " in July that year. The track was not included on any original album, falling roughly midway between the release of Foxx's debut LP Metamatic in January 1980 and his second album The Garden in September 1981.
Field of View Best: Fifteen Colours [1] is the second greatest hits album by Japanese pop-rock band Field of View. [2] It was released on 11 October 2000 on Nippon Columbia, on the same day as their 16th single "Akikaze no Monochrome".
"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.