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1	Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 18: Bottoms Up (1997) more music like this by Various Artists see all copies from $7.27! new only from $7.27!
2	Quiet Village/The Enchanted Sea (1997) more music like this by Martin Denny Martin Denny is rightfully known as the king of exotica/lounge music. The music is defined by breezy, middle of the road, early-60's pop arrangements buttressed by sound effects of ocean, wildlife, birds, and other natural phenomenon. Scamp Records out of New York has done an excellent job of reissuing his original albums, and this CD, which ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $14.22!
3	Ultra-Lounge: On the Rocks, Pt. 1 (1997) more music like this by Various Artists Extending their kitschy Ultra-Lounge series to its logical conclusion, Capitol Records prepared its own variation of Rhino's Golden Throats discs with the two volumes of On the Rocks. The idea is to gather a number of '60s rock & roll staples -- "Light My Fire," "Mellow Yellow," "A Hard Day's Night," etc. -- as they were covered by mainstream pop ... see all copies from $11.13! new only from $11.13!
4	Stormy Weekend (1970) more music like this by Mystic Moods Orchestra see all copies from $8.00!
5	Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 5: Wild Cool & Swingin (1996) more music like this by Various Artists This 18-song compilation is the showbiz-encased, Vegas-ized school of late-'50s and early-'60s pop vocals. The emphasis is certainly more on the "cool" than the wild and swinging; if it ever breaks out a sweat, there will be a martini-dipped silk handkerchief on hand to wipe it away. You get selections from Rat Packers (Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, ... see all copies from $10.79! new only from $10.79!
6	One Stormy Night [2004] (2004) more music like this by Mystic Moods Orchestra This debut recording from the Mystic Moods Orchestra came to be essentially by chance. Brad Miller, who had been recording old steam engine sounds for sound effects recordings, was inspired upon hearing a late-night DJ mix easy listening music with environmental sounds. He solicited arranger Don Ralke to record a series of easy listening songs, ... see all copies from $14.81! new only from $14.96!
7	Esquivel! (1994) more music like this by Esquivel Esquivel was one of the most interesting easy listening composers of the 1950s and '60s, creating open, futuristic sonic landscapes. Part of his music's appeal is its pure campiness; "Mucha Muchacha," with its bad puns and exaggerated Latin rhythms and vocals, is hilarious. Esquivel!, a collection of his "greatest hits," makes it apparent that the ... see all copies from $7.24! new only from $14.47!
8	Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 3: Space Capades (1996) more music like this by Various Artists In the late 1950s and early 1960s, this was the easy listening music that tried to anticipate the space age. Utilizing theremin or spooky organ figures helped, as did then-novel tricks like stereo separation and then-exotic instruments and hi-fi effects. It wasn't just novelty artists that got in on the act; bandleaders Les Baxter and David Rose, ... see all copies from $5.25! new only from $10.79!
9	Ultra-Lounge: Vegas Baby! (2002) more music like this by Various Artists From its founding in the 1940s until after it became the label of the Beach Boys and the Beatles in the 1960s, Capitol Records devoted itself to solo pop singers, its flagship artist being Frank Sinatra. Stars like Dean Martin, Nat King Cole, and Judy Garland flourished at Capitol, and the company also contracted such performers as Peggy Lee and ... see all copies from $9.67! new only from $9.67!
10	Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 1: Mondo Exotica (1996) more music like this by Various Artists An 18-song exhumation of the Capitol exotica back catalog, placing old standbys like Martin Denny, Les Baxter, and Yma Sumac alongside lesser-knowns like Webley Edwards, Bas Sheva, and the wonderfully-named 80 Drums Around the World. This favors easy listening-friendly exotica, rather than the style at its most outrageous. It may be too ... see all copies from $7.00! new only from $10.79!
11 view cover	Lounge Against the Machine (2000) more music like this by Richard Cheese In the late '80s and early '90s, two of the funniest characters on Saturday Night Live were the Sweeney Sisters, a Las Vegas-style lounge act that mercilessly butchered everything from Tin Pan Alley standards to Motown hits. Played to perfection by Jan Hooks and Nora Dunn, the Sweeney Sisters were the ultimate parody of cheesy, campy Vegas lounge ... see all copies from $6.98! new only from $8.66!
12 view cover	Stormy Night in London (1995) more music like this by Mystic Moods Orchestra see all copies from $2.99! new only from $11.66!
13 view cover	More of Other Worlds, Other Sounds (1962) more music like this by Esquivel Traditionally the most sought after and highest valued Esquivel record, More of Other Sounds Other Worlds should be considered in context. First, it is not a sequel to the RCA record of three years earlier. The title only reflects Stanley Wilson's desire to record Esquivel since having heard the earlier LP. Second, the label switch is significant. ... see all copies from $9.20! new only from $9.20!
14 view cover	Afro-Desia: The Exotic Sounds of Martin Denny (1959) more music like this by Martin Denny Nominally, this represents Martin Denny's attempt to evoke the ambience of the African continent, after having done the same for the South Pacific via a series of early albums. Denny does use marimba, vibes, bongos, congas, and timbales -- not to mention sound effects of a buzzing tsetse fly and the rain forest. But the result is even less ... see all copies from $5.93! new only from $13.59!
15 view cover	Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 6: Rhapsodesia (1996) more music like this by Various Artists see all copies from $6.00! new only from $10.79!
16 view cover	Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 2: Mambo Fever (1996) more music like this by Various Artists When Latin bandleaders popularized mambo in the early 1950s, this set many pop and big band acts scrambling to get in on the action. Mambo Fever, part two of Capitol's Ultra-Lounge series, takes 18 such examples from the vaults, spanning the mid-'50s to the early '60s. Yma Sumac (an exotica singer, not a bandleader) and Billy May are the only ... see all copies from $7.71! new only from $11.13!
17 view cover	Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 11: Organs in Orbit (1996) more music like this by Various Artists The organ has a respected slot in the space age pop/lounge lineup, and Organs in Orbit gives the Hammond its due by featuring 18 cuts in the style, originally recorded for Capitol in the 1950s and 1960s. It's a long way from here to Jimmy Smith, and you should check any hopes for funkiness at the door. If you've got a yen for the inimitable ... see all copies from $9.95! new only from $10.79!
18 view cover	Greatest Hits (1994) more music like this by Martin Denny This passable Greatest Hits collection from the Curb label may only yield a scant ten songs from the vast arsenal of exotic goodness that is the Tiki torch world of Martin Denny, but as far as budget-priced compilations, one could do a whole lot worse. "The Enchanted Sea," "Quiet Village," "Hawaiian Wedding Song," "Martinique," and "A Taste of ... see all copies from $3.19! new only from $7.03!
19 view cover	The Exotic Sounds of Martin Denny [Capitol] (1996) more music like this by Martin Denny Part of the great exotica resurgence of the earl '90s, this compilation from "Tiki God" Martin Denny is about as good a beach accompaniment as one could hope for. Over the span of 43 tracks, Denny and his able-bodied band provide both islanders and the landlocked with the perfect kitschy soundtrack to a hot summer night. His biggest hit, the Les ... see all copies from $23.99! new only from $25.59!
20 view cover	Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 8: Cocktail Capers (1996) more music like this by Various Artists If you've been following the Ultra-Lounge series this far, you know what to expect: a mixture of stars (Les Baxter, Nelson Riddle) and no-names from the Capitol vaults, playing space age pop/cocktail music of all hues in the 1950s and 1960s. Yet this has an edge over most of the previous titles in the series: there's more of a sense of swing, ... see all copies from $6.55! new only from $7.07!
21 view cover	Forbidden Island/Primitiva (1996) more music like this by Martin Denny This two-fer combines Martin Denny's third and fourth LPs into one single-disc CD reissue, with new liner notes by Martin himself augmenting the original artwork. If you're interested enough in this exotica bandleader to want more than a greatest-hits collection, it's a good investment. The fidelity's much better than what you're likely to find if ... see all copies from $14.22! new only from $14.22!
22 view cover	Hypnotique/Exotica III (1997) more music like this by Martin Denny Two of Martin Denny's Liberty albums from 1958, Hypnotique and Exotica III, are combined on this 1997 CD. Hypnotique takes Denny's exotic sound to Asia with the use of Japanese instruments applied to melodies such as "Chinese Lullaby" and "On a Little Street in Singapore." Even some of Western songs like "St. Louis Blues" and "Summertime" receive ... see all copies from $7.97! new only from $14.22!
23 view cover	The Best of Martin Denny's Exotica (2006) more music like this by Martin Denny Since the mid-'90s resurgence of easy listening or space age bachelor pad music, the majority of both original LPs and compilations by the pioneers of the genre -- Esquivel, Les Baxter, Arthur Lyman, and Martin Denny -- saw a glut of reissues, both good and bad. Unfortunately, the best of those discs aren't as easy to find some ten years later as ... see all copies from $15.44! new only from $15.44!
24 view cover	Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 9: Cha-Cha De Amor (1996) more music like this by Various Artists Cha-cha music at its Whitest and most easy listening-friendly, recorded for Capitol in the 1950s and 1960s by Dean Martin, Julie London, Billy May, Martin Denny, Les Baxter, Walter Wanderley, and a number of other performers who are only coming to light in the lounge revival. Yma Sumac, Perez Prado, and Tito Rodriguez add a little (a very little) ... see all copies from $6.99! new only from $11.13!
25 view cover	Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 12: Saxophobia (1996) more music like this by Various Artists The lounge sounds of the '50s and '60s on this compilation are very much of a piece with the other volumes of the Ultra-Lounge series. But as you'd expect from the title, the emphasis is on vintage lounge at its jazziest, with the saxophone to the fore. This isn't the kind of jazz you're going to read about in Down Beat, despite the presence of ... see all copies from $10.79! new only from $10.79!

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