Les Baxter (1958 Vinyl LP VPI Cleaned Playtested T-288) Ritual Of The Savage

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MONO – 160 GRAM – HI FI

VPI MACHINE CLEANED & PLAYTESTED

Artists/Band: Les Baxter And His Orchestra

Album Title: Ritual Of The Savage – Le Sacre du Sauvage

Catalogue Number: T-288

Year/Record Company: released between 1958 – 1959 Capitol Records

1 LP – Mono - 12 inch vinyl record - 33 1/3 – 160 Gram

This is the authentic release & not a pirated, bootlegged or copied version. This mono LP record album comes from my personal collection & has been VPI machine cleaned & playtested. It is stored under temperature & humidity regulated, smoke and pet free conditions.

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LP Condition: very good+

Shine: most

Scratches: a few light

Label Wear: very light

Label: silver on black labels, “colorband” around the edges, “Capitol” and “long playing high-fidelity” at the left

Spindle Hole Wear: very light

LP Sound: very good+

Surface Noise: very light

Jacket Condition: very good

Shrink Wrap: none

Wear To Seams: light, no splits, no tape

Back Ring Wear: light

Front Ring Wear: very light

Ink or pencil marks: none

Water Stains: none

Drill Holes: none

Saw Cuts: none

Stamps/Stickers: small sticker removed from the front, upper right (see photos)

Sleeve Type: original record company sleeve, light wear; a new blank sleeve is also included

Cover: William George

Ritual of the Savage is an album by Les Baxter, released in 1951 often cited as one of the most important Exotica albums. The album featured lush orchestral arrangements along with tribal rhythms and offered such classics as "Quiet Village", "Jungle River Boat", "Love Dance", and "Stone God."

Baxter described the album as a "tone poem of the sound and the struggle of the jungle." The album's liner notes requested the listener to imagine themselves transported to a tropical land. "Do the mysteries of native rituals intrigue you…does the haunting beat of savage drums fascinate you? Are you captivated by the forbidden ceremonies of primitive peoples in far-off Africa or deep in the interior of the Belgian Congo?" (source: Wikipedia)

Side One

Busy Port

Sophisticated Savage

Jungle River Boat

Jungle Flower

Barquita

Stone God

Quiet Village

Side Two

Jungle Jalopy

Coronation

Love Dance

Kinkajou

The Ritual

Leslie Thompson Baxter (March 14, 1922 – January 15, 1996) was an American musician and composer. After becoming well known as an arranger and composer for swing bands in the 1940s, he developed his own style of world music-influenced easy listening music, known as exotica, during the 1950s and 1960s.

Baxter studied piano at the Detroit Conservatory before moving to Los Angeles for further studies at Pepperdine College. From 1943 on he was playing tenor and baritone saxophone for the Freddie Slack big band. At the age of 23 he joined Mel Tormé's Mel-Tones, singing on Artie Shaw records such as "What Is This Thing Called Love?".

Baxter then turned to arranging and conducting for Capitol Records in 1950, and conducted the orchestra of two early Nat King Cole hits, "Mona Lisa" and "Too Young". In 1953 he scored his first movie, the sailing travelogue Tanga Tika. With his own orchestra, he released a number of hits including "Ruby" (1953), "Unchained Melody" (1955), "The Poor People of Paris" (1956) and is remembered for a version of "Sinner Man" (1956), definitively setting the sound with varying tempos, orchestral flourishes, and wailing background vocals. "Unchained Melody" was the first million seller for Baxter, and was awarded a gold disc. "The Poor People of Paris" also sold over one million copies. He also achieved success with concept albums of his own orchestral suites: Le Sacre Du Sauvage, Festival Of The Gnomes, Ports Of Pleasure, and Brazil Now, the first three for Capitol and the fourth on Gene Norman's Crescendo label. The list of musicians on these recordings includes Plas Johnson and Clare Fischer. Baxter also wrote the "Whistle" theme from the TV show Lassie.

In the 1960s, he formed the Balladeers, a conservative folk group in suits that at one time featured a young David Crosby. Later he used some of the same singers from that group for a studio project called The Forum. They had a minor hit in 1967 with a rendition of "River is Wide" which implemented the Wall of Sound technique originally developed by Phil Spector. He worked in radio as musical director of The Halls of Ivy and the Bob Hope and Abbott and Costello shows.

Like his counterparts Henry Mancini and Lalo Schifrin, Baxter worked in films in the 1960s and 1970s. He worked on movie scores for B-movie studio American International Pictures where he composed scores for Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe films and other horror and beach party films including House of Usher, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Raven, Muscle Beach Party and Beach Blanket Bingo. He also composed a new score for the theatrical release of the 1970 horror film Cry of the Banshee after AIP rejected Wilfred Josephs original one. Howard W. Koch recalled that Baxter composed, orchestrated and recorded the entire score of The Yellow Tomahawk (1954) in a total of three hours for $5,000.

When soundtrack work fell off in the 1980s, he scored music for theme parks such as SeaWorld.

Baxter died in Newport Beach, California at the age of 73. Survived by his daughter Leslie, he was buried at Pacific View Memorial Park, in Corona del Mar, California. (source: Wikipedia)

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