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Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Quiet Village: A Repost Extravaganza

Way back in the first decade of the 21st Century there was this Blog, operated by a fella from Australia who refered to himself as Xtabay, called "Xtabay's World". It started out on blognow.com.au (a site that ceased to exist at some point during Xtabay's operation) and end up on blogger.com (There are still a few Dead Links to it over there in the SideBar on the right side of this page). It was ASTOUNDING!!!

Xtabay specialized in posting Vintage Exotica (which is the vast majority of Exotica that existed at the time), Lounge and Space Age Pop, but he would occasionally sneak in some Jazz, Rock, Punk or whatever else he felt appropriate.

He put together several Compilations of Single Songs as recorded in different styles, in different genres and/or by different artists over the years he was in operation.

The best of these, imho, was "Exotic Sounds of Quiet Village". He put together two collections of "The Exotica/Tiki National Anthem" (at a size which was common at the time, each able to be burned onto a Compact Disk).

This collection was posted at Xtabay's World in, I'm pretty sure, 2006. It contains 21 different recordings of "Quiet Village" including the original, by Les Baxter, and others by Martin Denny, Henry Mancini, Lalo Schifrin, Pete Rugolo, Don Tiare The Surfmen, and Others.

 


01. Quiet Village - Arthur Lyman
02. Quiet Village - The Clebanoff Strings
03. Quiet Village - Don Tiare & His Orchestra Exotique
04. Quiet Village - Eddie Baxter
05. Quiet Village - El Coco
06. Quiet Village - Frankie Carle
07. Quiet Village - Henry Mancini
08. Quiet Village - John Evans / Chaino & His African Drums
09. Quiet Village - Lalo Schifrin
10. Quiet Village (Duophonic [Artificial Stereo] Version) - Les Baxter
11. Quiet Village (Mono Version) - Les Baxter
12. Quiet Village Bossa Nova - Martin Denny
13. Quiet Village (Mono Version) - Martin Denny
14. Quiet Village (Moog Version) - Martin Denny
15. Quiet Village - Martin Denny
16. Quiet Village (Cha Cha Cha) - Pete Rugolo
17. Quiet Village - The Royal Tees
18. Quiet Village - The Surfmen
19. Quiet Village - Ted Auletta
20. Quiet Village - Tommy Garrett
21. Quiet Village -Webley Edwards
 
Please to Enjoy! More to Come!

1 comment:

Domenic Ciccone (AKA Martooni) said...

Hi, I was a big fan of the Xtabay Blog and helped fill in a few items over at Ride Your pony. Can we connect? Will be looking for an email.