A Moment of Tiki Episode 55: Music for a Dark Tiki Bar part 3
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- CORRECTION: I mention in the video that Mighty Sparrow wrote "The Banana Boat Song." This is incorrect--the song was written by Irving Burgie (TH-cam doesn't allow for editing videos once uploaded).
And here we go with the finale, part 3 of Music for a Dark Tiki Bar! As I said in part one and two, nothing spoils the atmosphere set by great decor and tropical cocktails faster than poor music selection. This time out we venture to South America for the ultra-hip mid century coolness of bossa nova, head north from there to the Caribbean for calypso and reggae, swing through Las Vegas for some Rat Pack and ultra lounge before wrapping up our musical pilgrimage in the South Pacific.
Are you not ready for this journey to end? Then I have good news for you! Feast your earholes on the official Lagoon of Mystery Eclectic Tiki Bar Playlist, which I have compiled and curated for your listening pleasure: • Lagoon of Mystery Ecle...
The list below is a sampling of artists mentioned in this episode. It is meant to be a starting point to encourage viewers to explore and seek out new artists and is by no means comprehensive. This list contains some affiliate links. If you purchase any of the great music linked to below, I may get a small commission at no extra cost to you. If I've left off any artists you think are essential for a proper tiki playlist, let me know in the comments below!
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João Gilberto - Chega De Saudade tinyurl.com/2a...
João Gilberto - The Warm World Of Joao Gilberto tinyurl.com/yc...
João Gilberto & Stan Getz - Getz/Gilberto tinyurl.com/p7...
Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd - Jazz Samba tinyurl.com/yj...
Astrud Gilberto - Five Original Albums tinyurl.com/bd...
Antonio Carlos Jobim - Wave tinyurl.com/2e...
Antonio Carlos Jobim - Original Album Series tinyurl.com/cj...
Jorge Ben - Samba Esquema Novo tinyurl.com/bd...
Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 tinyurl.com/3k...
Carlos Lyra - Second Album tinyurl.com/5e...
Frank Sinatra - Ultimate Sinatra tinyurl.com/2p...
Julie London - The Very Best of tinyurl.com/bd...
Dean Martin - The Platinum Collection tinyurl.com/mr...
Sammy Davis Jr. - The Definitive Collection tinyurl.com/2s...
Esquivel - Space-Age Bachelor Pad Music tinyurl.com/2p...
Combustible Edison - I, Swinger tinyurl.com/37...
The Tikiyaki Orchestra - shoptikiyaki.b...
Lord Invader - Calypso tinyurl.com/6y...
Mighty Sparrow - Soca Anthology tinyurl.com/yv...
Calypso Rose - So Calypso tinyurl.com/55...
Robert Mitchum - Calypso Is Like So... tinyurl.com/2a...
Maya Angelou - Miss Calypso tinyurl.com/3a...
Harry Belafonte - The Essential Harry Belafonte tinyurl.com/5b...
Various artists - Steel Band Music of the Caribbean tinyurl.com/38...
Jamaican Steel Band - Steel Drums of Trinidad tinyurl.com/3c...
Bob Marley - Legend tinyurl.com/3c...
Bunny Wailer - Blackheart Man
Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey tinyurl.com/c8...
Steel Pulse - True Democracy tinyurl.com/mr...
The Killer Bees - Live in Berlin tinyurl.com/56...
The Killer Bees - Groovin' killerbees.ban...
Jon Jonassen - Drum Beats of the Pacific tinyurl.com/y8...
Various artists - Drum Beats of the Pacific vol. 2 tinyurl.com/yt...
Various artists - Drums of Bora Bora and Songs of Tahiti tinyurl.com/mr...
Various artists - 25 Solid Gold Maori Songs tinyurl.com/bd...
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Awesome
Grate set of videos
Thanks for the kind words, Stoney!
Woohoo! I just KNEW you'd discuss Tikiyaki Orchestra in this video! They're definitely my favorites, and are on constant rotation while I'm making tropical cocktails at home. I won a Mai Tai in a bet with myself that you'd mention them ;o). Now to decide which rum blend to use in it... Mahalo for the great video series!
I'm definitely looking forward to their new album!
Hey friends! 750 views and only 76 likes! Let’s get Jaime some more likes!
He’s helped me avoid a lot of mistakes and setbacks on my tiki bar build. And this music list is awesome.
Keep up the great work and let’s get some more likes!
Aw, yer makin' me blush!
Another great video!
Much appreciated, Tommy!
Love your “deep-dive” videos! I will finally meet you at the Book Burrow tomorrow, see ya then!
Oh, cool! Looking forward to seeing you there!
Oh. My. Gosh. Thanks to your suggestions (and my personal note taking from all three videos), my credit card bill is taking an Amazon hit! lol I think I've already added 7-8 new CD's to my collection and I just placed an order for three more from this morning! I've also found some vinyl, too! Great work, Jaime. Because of you, I've found some great bands that I otherwise never would have known about! We had the cd player on shuffle all last weekend while out in the yard! The problem is.... my neighbors will probably want a perpetual "invite"!! ;)
My work here is done... 🤣
I really appreciate your hard work. Now the hunt begins for vinyl. So fun
Yes, many of these will be a fun hunt to track down the vintage vinyl. Some, however, have only been released digitally. Then others have never been rereleased at all, meaning vinyl is the only way to find them (if you can). Steel drums, for one, had a bunch of releases in the 50s/60s but very few reissues. Calypso, too, although there are more latter-day compilations of that genre available.
Never knew the history of “Rum and Coca Cola”. It makes a lot more sense as a protest song. I didn’t quite got it coming out of the mouths of the Andrew’s Sisters. 😳
I love the Andrews Sisters' version, but yeah, the bald-faced theft of the song is bonkers. A little while later Lord Invader recorded a song titled "Pepsi Cola." Alas, it wasn't as good, or successful.
great subject! after watching episode 1, my wife went out and bought me 3 martin denny and les baxter albums i didnt have. Her reason was she watched your cast and decided what to buy from there!
Now I've gone mad with power! 🤣 Enjoy your sweet, sweet exotica tunes!
Great finish to your music series! 🗿
Thank you! I'm exhausted, but it needed to be done! 😉
This has been a great series! Thank you for introducing me to some new artists and even genres I didn't think of to include in my Tiki playlist! I also would never include Jimmy Buffett on my Tiki playlist either. I'll listen to him while I'm driving down Route 1 to Key West!
Thanks! That's what I've hoped to accomplish--expose folks to a wide range of artists and genres. This is just a start, but dispelling the myth that exotica is the only music that can be played in a tiki bar was my primary goal. There are a few Buffett songs I might slip into a tiki playlist, but it's mostly about setting mood and expectations.
Julie London helped me make it thru puberty. 😁
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Id recommend looking into haruomi hosono, theyve done a wide range of music but particularly the albums Bon Voyage co. And Pacific come to mind, may ir may not mix smoothly with other things but i think the vibes can fit, theres an exotica influence in a lot of his work even the electronic stuff(maybe even especially the electronic stuff) from his band Yellow Magic Orchestra
Oh, interesting! I'd not heard of them until now. I will check 'em out. Thanks for the recommendation!
Another recent Exotica/Lounge style band I stumbled upon is Kava Kon. I think they only have 2-3 albums but you should check them out. And if you like Esquivel you should check out Mr. Ho's Orchestrotica. They've covered some of his music and are touring right now playing it.
YES! I reference Kava Kon in part 1. They're definitely pushing boundaries with the electronica elements they bring to traditional exotica. And I wanted to mention Mr. Ho after Esquivel, but mostly ran out of steam!
yeah this is the part of tiki is hard for me to keep it real ...lol WE're more Jack Johnson , Jimmy buffet , Bob marley , israel Kamakawiwoʻole, zac brown band, christopher cross etc .Duke and Lola Bossanova probably would rule us out ..lol
I touch on some of those in the various installments!
I'd encourage you to give a listen to Yma Sumac. Very popular in the same period as many of the artists you covered in these videos.
Good suggestion! Xtabay and Mambo are very accessible and entertaining, perfect for a tiki bar. I didn't get to her in the videos but she's definitely in the linked playlist!
Many of the albums were musically Les Baxter and vocally Yma Sumac. I didn’t realize until 20+ years of listening to them!
@@spartif I know, right?
@@spartif If you haven't already done so, I recommend Baxter's collaboration with Bas Sheva, "The Passions." It's not Yma, but astonishing in its own right.
The Mighty Sparrow did not write the banana boat song. It was written by Irving Burgie who wrote a ton of Calypso classics.
Ouch. My bad. I'm not sure where I picked up the notion Sparrow wrote that one. Thank you for the correction!
@@LagoonofMystery Sparrow has recorded over 70 albums so I would not be suprised if he covered it on one of them. He is still alive living in Queens, New York. Burgie, who was born in Brooklyn, also wrote Island in the Sun, Yellow Bird, Angelina, Land of the Sea and Sun and Jamaica Farewell. He probably could have lived off the royalties just from the songs that Belafonte recorded. He died a few years ago at 95.
Personally, I don’t get why so many folks are so against Jimmy Buffet being played in a tiki bar. I’d rather hear that then reggae, which is not escapist at all. While his music isn’t from the time period of the initial tiki bars, I think most of his music represents a character very much of the tiki world..the white sailor, beachcomber, often drunk near do well found throughout the islands of the Caribbean and South Pacific..an archetype not at all out of place in a tiki bar.
There are a select few of his songs I might slip in to a tiki playlist, but for the most part his songs constantly invoke the modern world and the problems that come with it. I mean, "Volcano" seems like a perfect tiki song, right? But "Don't wanna land on no Ayatollah" is pretty intrusive. Most of his stuff (at least the stuff most would choose to play) is more evocative of a beach party kegger. I've been to some Parrothead gatherings. They're certainly fun, but the atmosphere and vibe are very different from what I look for or expect from tiki (and I don't think I'm terribly rigid in my expectations).
The key takeaway is that there's a lot of music to choose from to set the mood in your tiki space. If you want to do Buffett, then by all means do Buffett. It's your space, your rules! 😁