Album Title: Jungle Shadows IV (Flash Strap Mix)
Artist(s): Various Artists
Year:
Genre(s)/Style(s): Exotica
Track Listing:
PART ONE
- Have You Been To Baia? (from Three Caballeros)
- Baia- Cults Percussion Ensemble
- Four Mills Brothers- The Radio*
- Riverboat- Lee Dorsey (composed by Allen Toussaint)*
- Slave (feat. Bert Inniss and the National Recording Orchestra)- Mighty Sparrow
- Aren’t You Glad- Beach Boys
- Summertime- Sharon Marie (produced by Brian Wilson)
- Out On The Rolling Sea When Jesus Speak To Me- Van Dyke Parks (cover of a song by Bahamian musician Joseph Spence, and apparently an occasional bonus track on some reissues of Discover America)
- Sinnerman (1956 original with vocal by Will Holt)- Les Baxter (recording of the classic spiritual from which most modern versions are derived)
- Our Prayer- Beach Boys
- Born Again Cretin- Robert Wyatt
- Out Of The City (Into Country Life)- Allen Toussaint
- Storm Chant of the Skraelings- Robert Calvert (from Lucky Leif and the Longships, a concept album dealing with how American culture might have been different had the Vikings managed to colonise the continent, produced by Brian Eno)
- Surf Rider- Eden Ahbez
- Taboo- Buddy Collette (jazz version of the Margarita Lecuona composition from the awesome album Polynesia)
- Hindou- Lecuona Cuban Boys
- Caravan- The Mills Brothers (A capella, save for the guitar accompaniment)
- Danse Arabe- Xavier Cugat (Rhumba version of the Tchaikovsky composition from The Nutcracker)
PART TWO
- You Belong To My Heart (from Three Caballeros)
- Bing Crosby- The Lion*
- Occapella- Lee Dorsey (composed by Allen Toussaint)*
- Bacon Fat- Andre Williams & His New Group
- John Jones- Rudy Mills*
- Tambo, Tambo- La Cumbia Soledeña
- Taboo- Cyril Diaz & His Orchestra (1950’s Trinidadian, an intense reworking of the M. Lecuona composition)
- River Come Down- Andre Tanker (the Trinidadian genius)
- Take Me Away From The River- Fletcher Henderson
- G-Man Hoover- Sir Lancelot
- I Wish I Was a Cowboy- S.E. Rogie (Sierra Leonian palm wine guitarist)
- Cool Water- Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters
- Cool, Cool Water- Beach Boys
- Ports O’ Call- Paul Page
- Ode to Tobago- Lord Kitchener*
- Jingle Bells- Brute Force Steel Bands
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