Title: Arthur Lyman performs "Taboo" live in Seattle
Description: Not sure what show this was on—we retrieved it off an old video tape. The exotica portion of the show is about a half hour. In the band: Arthur Lyman, Alan Soares, Harold Chang, John Kramer. Sorry the audio is sometimes warped and the camera is shaky.

Title: "Malaguena Salerosa" 2 versions: Malka & Joso, Arthur Lyman
Description: A Mexican mariachi love song. Selections: 1) Malka and Joso - 1965 from "Mostly Love Songs" album. Canadian folk duo from Toronto. 2) Arthur Lyman - instrumental from the album "Aloha Amigo". Exotica style. Some collections title the song Aloha Amigo by error - that was the album name. This is also sometimes titled "Malaguena", but Malaguena is a different song.

Title: Don Ho - The Days Of My Youth
Description: Music video from 1967, as seen on "I Dream Of Jeannie" With Barbara Eden.

Title: 12-string Guitar: Yellow Bird
Description: A 19th century Haitian song composed by Michael Mauleart Monton, the lyrics are from a poem written by Oswald Durand. It was rewritten with English lyrics in the 20th century as Yellow Bird. Michael Mauleart Monton, an American-born pianist with a Haitian father and an American mother, composed music for the poem in 1893 appropriating some French and Caribbean fragments to create this tune. Several recording artists sang the song. The most successful was Mr Wunerful, Laurence Welk! Chet Atkins, Arthur Lyman and The Brothers Four actually added Yellow Bird to their albums. Yellow Bird became Lymans signature song.

Title: The Exoticism of Taboo (Lecture by Randy Wong)
Description: A ten-minute lecture titled "The Exoticism of Taboo", presented by Randy Wong at New England Conservatory (Boston, MA). Randy Wong is bandleader and co-founder of the modern exotica group WAITIKI. Fans of Arthur Lyman, Les Baxter, Martin Denny, and the song "Taboo" will enjoy this mini-lecture.

Title: History of Yellow Bird - Harry Belafonte, Lawrence Welk, Kingston Trio
Description: Yellow Bird was first recorded in 1957, but existed in other variations before that. Here are some early illustrations. 1) Kingston Trio - Yellow Bird 2) Harry Belafonte - Don't Ever Love Me - 1957 LP "Belafonte Sings Of the Caribbean", and on single with Mama Looka Booboo. 3) Lawrence Welk - Yellow Bird - 1961 hit People say that Harry Belafonte recorded and popularized this song. What has been lost in the years is that he recorded a different variation not titled Yellow Bird, but Don't Ever Love Me. But he worked closely with Norman Luboff, and led him to create the modern version of Yellow Bird in 1957. The Luboff Choir had it on a 1957 LP Calypso Holiday, the first recording of Yellow Bird. And I expect that's the Luboff Choir backing Belafonte here. They were both on RCA. The melody is based on the West Indian song Petit Oiseaux (Little Bird), later to become Choucoune. Apparently Choucoune was on an LP by Nina and Frederick. I haven't heard Choucoune yet. If you have it place it as a video response. Harry Belafonte had everything to do with bringing all this together in the 1950s. Yellow Bird charted three times in the US: The Mills Brothers #70 1959, Arthur Lyman #4 1961, Welk #71 1961.

Title: Jimmy Meatspin
Description: A prank by some friends brings a member of there group into a new look on his sexual orientation. music: Billy Idol - You Spin Me Right Round Arthur Lyman - Hiwale Michael Bolton - Every Breath You Take written by Jacob Freeder and Colin Burns editing by Jacob Freeder credits: Jacob Freeder Colin Burns Max Miller Andy Wu Danny Neville Brandon Gross

Title: "Adventures in Paradise" (with WAITIKI Wahine Dancers)
Description: WAITIKI performs the theme from "Adventures in Paradise" with their WAITIKI Wahine Dancers at the 2003 Silk Road Gala in Boston, MA.

Title: Duke Ellington 'Caravan' 2008 Jools Scott Holland
Description: visit my webpage - www.joolsscott.co.uk "Caravan" is a jazz standard composed by Juan Tizol and Duke Ellington, and first performed by Duke Ellington in 1937. The lyrics were written by Irving Mills, but as many versions are instrumental he is sometimes not listed. The song is variously seen as the first Latin jazz song or as a Mideastern influenced jazz song. Its "exotic" sound made it of interest to Exotica musicians so it was covered by both Martin Denny and Arthur Lyman. It has appeared in two Woody Allen films, Alice and Sweet and Lowdown. Even rap musicians Redman and Busta Rhymes sampled the song heavily in their 1998 song "Da Goodness" (from Redman's album Doc's da Name 2000). First version The first version of the song was recorded on December 19, 1936, performed by Barney Bigard And His Jazzopators in Hollywood. Two takes were recorded on tape, of which the first (Variety VA-515-1) was published. Performers Cootie Williams (trumpet), Juan Tizol (trombone), Barney Bigard (clarinet), Harry Carney (baritone sax), Duke Ellington (piano), Billy Taylor (bass) and Sonny Greer (drums). Some noteworthy renditions As the song became a standard this is just a list of a few examples (listed alphabetically). * Chet Atkins * Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers * The Carpenters * Chicago * Avishai Cohen * Harry Connick, Jr. * Nat King Cole * Eddie Condon * Dick Dale * Bobby Darin * Ella Fitzgerald * Dizzy Gillespie * Hepcat * Freddie Hubbard * Dick Hyman * Lambert, Hendricks ...

Title: Quiet Village (performed by WAITIKI)
Description: The #1 exotica anthem, "Quiet Village" is performed by WAITIKI at a live show in 2004. WAITIKI is a Boston-based tiki band specializing in performing classic exotica for modern listeners. Learn more at www.WAITIKI.com.

Title: Adventures in Paradise with WAITIKI
Description: WAITIKI performs the theme to "Adventures in Paradise", a 1956 TV show that starred Gardner mckay. WAITIKI is a Boston-based exotic tiki-tainment group specializing in exoitca music from the 1950s and 1960s, once made popular by Martin Denny, Les Baxter, and Arthur Lyman. This performance was at the 2007 edition of The Hukilau in Fort Lauderdale, FL, hosted at The MAI KAI Restaurant. Visit www.WAITIKI.com for more info!

Title: Mele Kalikimaka Exotica Tiki Martin Denny Christmas Hawaii Ukulele
Description: Everything you hear in our version of Mele Kalikimaka was recorded using "ONLY" Casio keyboards. Kasio Kristmas presents EXOTICA Featuring intro from "THE OUTRIGGER APARTMENTS TIKI www.kasiokristmas.com We sampled a Ukulele using the Casio SK-5 Keyboard. We only use Casio instruments. Happy Holidays

Title: The Sound Of Tiki BCD16338
Description: A musical cocktail: The 'Sound Of Tiki'. Travel to distant tropical places in the confines of your living room! Experience the popular myths of Tiki through music! This finely balanced mix of esoteric mood music and swinging lounge songs creates a harmonious yet never boring listening pleasure. Unusual versions of Exotica classics and never before published pieces of Polynesian pop music spell fun for the seasoned vinyl archeologist and for the Tiki novice alike. A 52-page booklet--Do you like 'Exotica'' What is 'Tiki'' And how do the two relate to each other' Ten years after the publication of the 'Book Of Tiki,' with which Sven Kirsten unearthed the forgotten cult of Polynesian pop and defined the Tiki figure as its protagonist, the two genres are conclusively united in this CD.-- Having been fortunate to have met both (and seen perform) the two foremost practitioners of Exotica music, Martin Denny and Arthur Lyman before they joined the Big Luau in the Sky, urban archeologist Kirsten is now applying his vast knowledge of Tiki culture to throw new light on the themes and concepts of Polynesian pop. By assembling a cornucopia of songs and visuals that evoke the time of Tiki, when urban paradises harbored refugees from the grey workaday in almost every metropolis in America, this compilation brings the escapist fantasies of yesterday back to today's much too real world.-- Far from being a dry history lesson, this collection of rare eye candy imagery and wistful ...

Title: Rhythm of the Rain - Rare Version
Description: Rhythm Of The Rain - Cascades My SONG, My Story, The Cascades and "Rhythm of the Rain", the 1960's pop classic of international renown. #1 in almost every country in the world, recorded in almost any language you can think of, here you can listen to many versions on streaming audio! To know more about this song visit www.rhythmoftherain.com hosted by none other than but the singer himself Mr. John Claude Gummoe. Well this is the Rare Version of their famous song which is a bit slower than the original version. This song is for Boys ... hahahaha The Cascades were an American vocal group best known for their hit single "Rhythm of the Rain" in 1963. In 1960, the Silver Strands were a group of United States Navy personnel serving on the USS Ticonderoga (AR-8) based in San Diego, California, who were led by drummer Jimmy Owens and played local shows. They recruited John Gummoe, and left the Navy to become The Thundernotes. Owens had the idea of performing rock and roll music with an exotic twist, along the lines of Arthur Lyman and Martin Denny. To help capture this new sound, they introduced an electric piano, and Gummoe became the group's lead singer. However, their first release was an instrumental on Bob Keene's Del Fi Records label called "Thunder Rhythm". It was not a hit and Keene left the group eventually becoming a successful songwriter in Nashville, Tennessee. At this point, the group's membership consolidated as John Gummoe (born John Claude Gummoe, 2 August 1938 ...

Title: Billie Holiday, Abe Lyman's Orch - I Cried For You (1936)
Description: Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 -- July 17, 1959) was an American jazz singer and songwriter. Nicknamed Lady Day by her sometime collaborator Lester Young, Holiday was a seminal influence on jazz, and pop singing. Her vocal style - strongly inspired by instrumentalists - pioneered a new way of manipulating wording and tempo, and also popularized a more personal and intimate approach to singing. Critic John Bush wrote that she "changed the art of American pop vocals forever." She co-wrote only a few songs, but several of them have become jazz standards, notably "God Bless the Child," "Don't Explain," and "Lady Sings the Blues." ----------------- Abe Lyman (August 4, 1897 - October 23, 1957) was a popular bandleader from the 1920s to the 1940s. He made recordings, appeared in films and provided the music for numerous radio shows, including Your Hit Parade. His name at birth was Abraham Simon Lymon. Abe and his brother Mike changed their last name to Lyman because they both thought it sounded better. Abe learned to play the drums when he was young, and at the age of 14 he had a job as a drummer in a Chicago café. Around 1919, Abe was regularly playing music with two other notable future big band leaders, Henry Halstead and Gus Arnheim in California. Lyman moved the band to New York in 1933 and his orchestra began appearing on Your Hit Parade in 1937. He recorded into the 1940s before dying in Beverly Hills. Billie Holiday, Abe Lyman's California Ambassador ...