THE KILIMA HAWAIIANS - TROPICAL BREEZE

Dutch band, which got started by Bill Buysman in 1934 as "Kilima Hawaiian Trio". In 1936 he was joined by his wife Mary Buysman. They had their first recordings in 1941, which made them already quite successful in a very short time. In 1942 bass player Wim van Herpen joined the trio and the band changed name to "The Kilima Hawaiians".
Under this new setting they had their greatest moments of success, during the late 1940s and 1950s. They got back into the picture in the late 1960s when they were exclusively signed by CBS/Artone. In the meantime some new artists joined the band and some band members left and were replaced by new people. Their last release with original work came out in the 1970s. Afterwards only compilation albums with previously recorded material got released.... Here's their Tropical Breeze album, not sure when this one came out...

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LENA VOL. 1

All I know about Lena is that she was a singer from Malaysia active in the 50's and singing/acting in movies from P. Ramlee.... This one is for you Dolmance!

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OCTOBER CHERRIES - WORLD HITS 1975

The October Cherries were a late 1960s group from Singapore. The group was originally known as the Surfers, but changed their name to The October Cherries in 1968. They were influenced by The Beatles, and were popular in Malaysia and the Netherlands.

They also put out a few psychedelic albums (I'm curious now!) but this one is an album with 70's pop song covers....

Here's a 2005 interview with the band:

http://www.earcandymag.com/octobercherries-2005.htm

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I actually remember this song, this was a big hit in Holland when I was a kid....







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FREDDIE SATERIALE'S BIG BAND - CHA CHA CHA'S, MERENGUES, MAMBOS

Here's an album from Freddie Sateriale and his Big Band, can't find any info about him, only that he once did two albums with Perry Como....

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TATI SALEH & MANG KOKO - KETJAPIAN KAWI SUNDA

Great cassette from singer Tati Saleh with the great Mang Koko, making music, talking, singing and listening to it I think they were having a lot of fun while making it....

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IRMA VILA Y LA PRIETA LINDA - ACCOMPANIED BY THE MARIACHIS

Here's an album from Mexican singer/actress Irma Vila who was famous in the late 40's, 50's and 60's. She was born in 1916 and passed away in 1993, she was also known as Irma Vila Irma Vila y su Mariachi....

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SALOMA & AHMAD DAUD - SUDAH KAWIN KAH BELOM

Here's another album from Saloma, this one with singer Ahmad Daud....

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MIRIAM MAKEBA - THE MANY VOICES OF MIRIAM MAKEBA

Miriam Makeba (4 March 1932 – 9 November 2008), nicknamed Mama Africa, was a Grammy Award-winning South African singer and civil rights activist.

In the 1960s, she was the first artist from Africa to popularize African music around the world. She is best known for the song "Pata Pata", first recorded in 1957 and released in the U.S. in 1967. She recorded and toured with many popular artists, such as Harry Belafonte, Paul Simon, and her former husband Hugh Masekela.

Makeba campaigned against the South African system of apartheid. The South African government responded by revoking her passport in 1960 and her citizenship and right of return in 1963. As the apartheid system crumbled she returned home for the first time in 1990.

Makeba died of a heart attack on 9 November 2008 after performing in a concert in Italy organised to support writer Roberto Saviano in his stand against the Camorra, a mafia-like organisation local to the region of Campania.

Here's her beautiful album The Many Voices Of Miriam Makeba and this came out in 1962....

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THE FRED ASTAIRE DANCE STUDIO ORCHESTRA - EVERYBODY CHA CHA!

Here's another album from The Fred Astaire Dance Studio Orchestra and like the other album I posted, this one also comes with an instruction booklet.... This album came out in 1959....

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TOMMY DORSEY, BOBBY ROBERTS, RALPH BURNS & ORCHESTRA'S - I WANT TO BE HAPPY CHA CHA

Nice cha cha 7"....

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ALESSANDRO CICOGNINI - BLACK ORCHID

Alessandro Cicognini (January 25, 1906 in Pescara – November 9, 1995 in Rome) was an Italian film music composer.

Cicognini was classically trained at the Milan Conservatory of Music. He composed 106 soundtracks between 1936 and 1993, many of them for filmmaker Vittorio de Sica. His score for The Bicycle Thief (1948) was awarded Best Soundtrack of the Year. Much of his film music makes use of small ensembles and unusual instrumentation, rather than the lush orchestral scores common to film music of the mid-20th century. In 1965 he retired from film composition and became a teacher; one of his soundtracks, to the 1953 film Stazione Termini, was reused in What's Eating Gilbert Grape in 1993.

Here's his score for the movie The Black Orchid with Sophia Loren and Anthony Quinn....

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IRV COTTLER - AROUND THE WORLD IN PERCUSSION

Irving "Irv" Cottler (13 February 1918 – 8 August 1989) was an American drummer who recorded with Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald, and many others. He was most known as an associate of Frank Sinatra, with whom he performed for over 30 years starting in 1953. He also performed for 12 years with The Dinah Shore Show's house band.

And here's a great exotica album he did in 1961, you can read all about this album here:

http://www.ambientexotica.com/exorev044_irvcottler_atwip/

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THE ISLANDERS - THE ENCHANTED SOUND OF THE ISLANDERS

The Islanders were an American group which included Frank Metis (accordion)and Randy Starr (guitar), in addition to using special sound effects by Ralph F. Curtiss. They are most noted for their 1959 hit single, "The Enchanted Sea", which reached number 15 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

None of their subsequent singles for Mayflower were successful. An LP The Enchanted Sound of The Islanders was released by Mayflower Records in 1959, but it has not yet been re-issued as a CD.

Randy Starr, whose original name was Warren Nadel, was a guitar-playing, songwriting dentist from the Bronx. He also performed as a solo singer for a number of record labels, as well as penning songs for other artists, including "Kissin' Cousins" with Fred Wise, for Elvis Presley.

Really, a lovely album and from what I've read about, pretty rare too....

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SRI NAAGA KAALI MUNISHWARAR BAKTI PAADALGAL (URIMI MELAM)

Nice cassette from India, high tempo percussion and singing....


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VARIOUS JAIPONGAN GROUPS

Here's a bunch of jaipongan groups from around Bandung. Taken these off vcd's that are being sold as a way of promoting these groups, there's usually a contact adress or phone number on the cover or on the screen when you watch these video's. They're dirt cheap, mostly around 30 dollar cents or so and they're usually very bad quality, often they won;t work or video's just stop half way through. They're mostly video's shot at wedding parties and such where these groups perform, field recordings you might say, sometimes they're proper albums like the one from the Jaipong Berlin Group of whom I included 2 songs here....

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HERBIE MANN - LATIN FEVER

Great album from flautist Herbie Mann (April 16, 1930 – July 1, 2003)that was recorded in New York City and in Rio de Janeiro with among others Antonio Carlos Jobim, Sergio Mendes and Baden Powell. This album came out in 1964....

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LOS RUMBEROS DE CUBA - RUMBA ON A CLOUD

Here's a nice album from Los Rumberos De Cuba, other than that they're from Cuba I can't find any information about them....

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SIRGAZHI S. GOVINDARAJAN, SRI PAPANASAM SIVAM & S. V. VENKATRAMAN - SRI RAMA CHARITHA GEETHAM

Sirgazhi S. Govindarajan

Sri Papanasam Sivam

Sri S.V. Venkatraman

Here's some beautiful devotional music from India, sung by Sirgazhi S. Govindarajan, composed by Sri Papanasam Sivam and the music is by Sri S. V. Venkatraman.... Got this without the cover but I found the cover and the other pictures on the internet....

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LALO SCHIFRIN - TOWERING TOCCATA

Lalo Schifrin started out making crime-jazz, here's a later album from him that's more jazz-disco.... Produced by Creed Taylor.... This album came out in 1977....

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ALEX NORTH - CLEOPATRA

Here's Alex North's incredible score for the 1963 movie Cleopatra starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, absolutely amazing music full with the percussion parts typical of North's work and if you would like to know how incredibly active and prolific Alex North was, read this article here:

http://www.pytheasmusic.org/north.html

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EDMUNDO ROS AND HIS ORCHESTRA - DANCE THE MAMBO

Edmundo Ros (7 December 1910 – 21 October 2011), born Edmund William Ross, was a Trinidadian musician, vocalist, arranger and bandleader who made his career in Britain. He directed a highly popular Latin American orchestra, had an extensive recording career and owned one of London's leading nightclubs.

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EKA SAPTA 7"

Eka Sapta was a group from Jakarta active in the 60's, here's a 7" from them that came out in 1963....

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