Condition: Used
INCREDIBLE BONGO BAND - BONGO ROCK
1973 FUNK BREAKS LP
Records MGM GRT Canada Issue LP
Record is VG++ light scuffs only
cover in shrink hole punch bottom right ( see pic)
Titled BONGO ROCK. Features MICHAEL VINER.
The drumming is By Jim Gordon who drummed for Eric Clapton, Nilsson and many others .
Greatest drum breaks ever bet you all head knod when it first kicks in.
Apache one of the best bboy songs ever.....
also one of my favorite beats to break to as well
Side A
Dueling bongos
In-a-gadda-da-vida
Raunchy'73
Bongo rock'73
Side B
Let there be drums
Apache
Bongolia
Last bongo in belgium
The Incredible Bongo Band, also known as Michael Viner's Incredible Bongo Band, was a project started in 1972 by Michael Viner, a record artist manager and executive at MGM Records. Viner was called on to supplement the soundtrack to the virtually anonymous B film The Thing With Two Heads. The "band's" output consisted of upbeat, funky, instrumental music. Many tracks were covers of popular songs of the day characterized by the prominence of bongo drums, conga drums, rock drums and brass.
History
The band released two albums, 1973's Bongo Rock and 1974's Return of the Incredible Bongo Band. The song "Bongo Rock", co-written by Art Laboe and Preston Epps and released by Epps as a Top 40 hit in 1959, was covered by the Incredible Bongo Band as "Bongo Rock '73", and became a minor US hit for them in 1973, and a substantial hit in Canada.
Michael Viner would make use of MGM recording facilities in down-time, recruiting whichever studio musicians were on-hand. This apparently included many well-known blow-ins, all uncredited. Ringo Starr is rumoured to have played on some tracks. The "down-time" sessions carried on for some time, until words from upper management finally quelled the vanity project.
This was never an actual band. When product was finally released, a fake band was assembled and photographed. Those photos were seen on some album artwork, and in publicity.
However, the band is best known these days for its often-sampled cover of "Apache", an instrumental tune written by Jerry Lordan and originally made popular in the UK by The Shadows, and in North America by Jørgen Ingmann. The group's version of "Apache" (produced by Perry Botkin, Jr.) was not a hit upon release, and languished in relative obscurity until the late 1970s, when it was adopted by early hip-hop artists, including pioneering DJs Kool Herc and Grandmaster Flash, for the uncommonly long percussion break in the middle of the song. Subsequently, many of the Incredible Bongo Band's other releases were sampled by hip-hop producers, and the "Apache" break remains a staple of many producers in drum and bass. The song received popular attention again in 2001 when it was featured in an ad for an Acura SUV. Recently, music critic Will Hermes did an article on Apache and the Incredible Bongo Band for the New York Times.
Apache" has been cited by Afrika Bambaataa as an early element of hip hop music with the record sampled and scratched by DJs. But it wasn't the hit version by The Shadows, Ingmann or Weedon that Bambaataa, Kool Herc and the like turned into "hip-hop’s anthem": it was the 1973 version by Michael Viner and an ad hoc group called the Incredible Bongo Band.
They added a bongo drum intro and added more percussion. This version was not a hit on release but became the sampled foundation of rap and hip-hop classics, reworked by hip hop performers "ranging from the Sugarhill Gang and L.L. Cool J to The Roots and Nas, not to mention sampling by techno performers Future Sound of London and Moby and drum and bass acts J. Majik and Goldie.
Incredible Bongo Band - Apache
Dj Marcelo Tocando cuts up The Incredible Bongo Band
One of Holland's greatest players ever scores beautiful goals only, as can be seen in his Centurion video from Arsenal; compacted here by me to the sounds of Apache, from the Incredible Bongo Band
Dokumentar fra Musikprogrammet på DR om nummeret Apache og især versionen med The Incredible Bongo Band, der har været en af de mest betydningsfulde kilder til sampling indenfor hip-hop, drum'n'bass, R&B oma. Filmen er blevet redigeret
2/3) Apache break beat dokumentar
3/3) Apache break beat dokumentar
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