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Les Baxter was an innovator of two forms of easy listening lounge music: exotica and space age pop. A fair jazz pianist, Baxter's real strengths were as an arranger. In the late 1940s, he started bringing exotic, percussion-heavy instrumentation together with lush, melodic strings and elements of big band swing. During this post-World War Two period, Baxter's island-mad exotic themes worked as aural vacations for newly transplanted suburbanites and his music also became a staple in Polynesian-themed Tiki bars. With song titles such as "Taboo," "City of Veils," and "Harem Silks from Bombay," it's easy to see how Baxter's music (like the Tiki lounges the music was played in) was built around hopeful eroticism as much as dreamy exoticism. In 1958, Baxter shot his steamy sounds up to the heavens with Space Escapade, which imaged islands in the sky full of booze and willing women who came in every color of the rainbow. After this, Baxter kept updating his signature sound for the changing times but by the late 1960s his music started to sound old fashioned. Ironically, this was an era when America's youth started acting like the very same wild, lascivious natives who were portrayed as fantasy objects in Baxter's songs. Thankfully, there's been a revived interest in Baxter's "movies for the ears" music. Long considered "cheesy," much of Baxter's work is highly imaginative and often exploratory in nature (for instance, an exotic theme in an unusual tempo will suddenly kick into a hot jazz number in 4/4 time before spinning off into an entirely new direction). But Les Baxter was never pretentious about being musically inventive and the sheer entertainment value found in his work is the main reason his old records are once again in print.
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    Baxter Les A Farewell To Arms
7" and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 2 listed $4 - $33

    Baxter Les A Womans Devotion-the Clown On
Capitol 3624 1956 2 listed $5 - $35

    Baxter Les Academy Award Winners: The Sou
baxter,les - academy award winners: the soul of the drums upc: 090431749227 days of wine and roses theme from the wonderful world of the brothers grimm</li. COLLECTABLES 1152002 4 listed $10 - $55

    Baxter Les Adios
7" and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 2 listed $4 - $33

   Baxter Les Adventures In Music-exotica &a
import-eu lunar rhapsody moon moods celestial nocturne radar blues l'ardent nuit (ardent night)&l. PID 12112007 4 listed $12 - $97

    Baxter Les African Jazz
lp and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 3 listed $46 - $98

    Baxter Les Alakazam The Great (special order)
lp and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. LP+CDR 1 listed $83

    Baxter Les April In Portugal
7" and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 10 listed $3 - $54

    Baxter Les Arthur Murray Favorites
lp and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 3 listed $4 - $48

    Baxter Les Atlantis
7" and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 2 listed $4 - $33

    Baxter Les Bacoa/how Many Times
78 and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 2 listed $8 - $52

    Baxter Les Baxter's Best
capt 9085x419 cassette rare! cond: mint- title: baxter's best easy listening. 4 listed $10 - $54

    Baxter Les Because Of You/somewhere
78 and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 2 listed $4 - $49

    Baxter Les Blue Echo/designing Woman Solw
7" and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 4 listed $3 - $35

    Baxter Les Blue Mirage / Lonely Wine / Un
us orchestra director, rare french ep with picture sleeve. Capitol EAP 1599 1957 3 listed $18 - $64

    Baxter Les Blue Tango Ps/e Woc Wrc
7" and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 3 listed $4 - $44

    Baxter Les Bora Bora
soundtrack - original, still sealed. American International ST A 1029 LP 1 listed $81

    Baxter Les Broadway 61 (special order)
lp and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. LP+CDR 1 listed $61

    Baxter Les Buenos Aires
7" and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 2 listed $4 - $33

    Baxter Les By Popular Request
BACA 1291996 CD 1 listed $7

    Baxter Les California Moon/b Mine Tonight
78 and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 2 listed $10 - $54

    Baxter Les Caribbean Moonlight. (special order)
lp and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. LP+CDR 1 listed $48

    Baxter Les Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom
7" and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 2 listed $23 - $53

    Baxter Les Clown On The Eiffel
7" and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 2 listed $4 - $33

    Baxter Les Colors Of Brazil-african Blue
a felicidade (from the film 'black orpheus') canta de ossanha balan samba day of the roses (dias das rosas) . GNP 9251991 CD 1 listed $11

    Baxter Les Confetti (special order)
lp and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. LP+CDR 1 listed $66

    Baxter Les Cornflakes/elaine Sol
78 and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 4 listed $4 - $48

    Baxter Les Cry Of The Banshee (special order)
lp and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. LP+CDR 1 listed $70

    Baxter Les Dance Everyone Dance
7" and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 2 listed $5 - $34

    Baxter Les Designing Woman
7" and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 2 listed $4 - $33

    Baxter Les Dolce Far Niente/pepe (special order)
45 and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 7"+CDR 1 listed $36

    Baxter Les El Choclo/jalousie-sol
78 and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 3 listed $5 - $55

    Baxter Les Ep - Romantic Rio - Venezuela
7" and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 2 listed $9 - $39

    Baxter Les Ep-pepe-dolce Farniente-cabayo
Capitol EAP 1 20144 1960 2 listed $9 - $39

    Baxter Les Ep-the Poor People Of Paris Th
7" and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 2 listed $5 - $35

    Baxter Les Ep-thinking Of You-speak Low-w
Capitol 474 1950 2 listed $7 - $37

   Baxter Les Exotic Selection
import-jpn que mango tropicando on awarm night flight in the andes felicia, my love <. PID 11252002 2 listed $22

    Baxter Les Fabulous Sounds (special order)
lp and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. LP+CDR 1 listed $56

    Baxter Les Farewell To Arms
7" and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 2 listed $12 - $42

    Baxter Les Festival
7" and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 2 listed $8 - $37

    Baxter Les Follow Me
7" and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 2 listed $4 - $33

    Baxter Les Free Again
7" and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 2 listed $4 - $33

   Baxter Les Fruit Of Dreams
import-gbr the fruit of dreams is a fantastic combination of les baxter's rarest, best and most pure exotica albums: ports of pleasure (1957) and the sacred idol (1960). both these records ar. PID 332009 4 listed $15 - $25

    Baxter Les Giant (special order)
7" and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 7"+CDR 1 listed $34

    Baxter Les Gigi/i Love Paris* Sol Wol Wrl
cap 2479 v. 4 listed $4 - $49

    Baxter Les Girl On The Boulevard
7" and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 2 listed $4 - $33

    Baxter Les Greatest Science Fiction Hits
CD 1 listed $85

    Baxter Les Green Eyes
7" and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 2 listed $4 - $33

    Baxter Les Havanna
7" and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 2 listed $2 - $32

    Baxter Les Hell S Belles (special order)
lp and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. LP+CDR 1 listed $57

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