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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 I Ain T Mad At You (special order)
7" and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 7"+CDR 1 listed $53

    Baxter Les I Aint Mad At You
blue mirage cap 3040 . 2 listed $4 - $22

    Baxter Les I Could Have Danced All Night
4 listed $55 - $181

    Baxter Les I Ll Never Stop Loving You/wak
45 and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 2 listed $34 - $37

    Baxter Les I Llneverstoplovingyou/wakethe (special order)
78 and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 78+CDR 1 listed $47

    Baxter Les I Love Paris - Capitol 2479
7" and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 13 listed $4 - $87

    Baxter Les If You Were Mine / Douchka
45 and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 3 listed $5 - $40

    Baxter Les Invitation (special order)
capitol, ep, cardboard jacket, eap 1-494, "gigi", "tropicana", "invitation", + one. 7"+CDR 1 listed $40

    Baxter Les It S A Big Wide Wonderful Worl
lp and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 3 listed $58 - $61

    Baxter Les & Dick I M Yours-kiss Of Fire (special order)
7" and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 7"+CDR 1 listed $39

    Baxter Les & Dick I'm Yours-kiss Of Fire ()
Capitol F2102 1952 7" 1 listed $9

    Baxter, les I Ain't Mad At You / Blue Mira 3 listed $15 - $39

    Baxter, les I Could Have Danced All Night
lp and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 8 listed $7 - $52

    Baxter, les I Love Paris / Gigi
45 and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 9 listed $1 - $33

    Baxter, les I Never Had A Dream Like This
Capitol 4517500 2 listed $4 - $29

    Baxter, les I'll Never Stop Loving You/wak
Capitol F3120 3 listed $2 - $6

    Baxter, les I'llneverstoplovingyou/wakethe
CAPITOL 3120 78 1 listed $2

    Baxter, les If You Were Mine / Douchka
45 and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 4 listed $1 - $36

    Baxter, les Indian Summer / Quiet Village (special order) 7"+CDR 1 listed $29

    Baxter, les Invitation
capitol, ep, cardboard jacket, eap 1-494, "gigi", "tropicana", "invitation", + one. 2 listed $10 - $36

    Baxter, les It's A Big,wide,wonderful Worl
195?,osw. Sears SPS 409 8 listed $11 - $57

    Baxter, les & Nils I Dance When I Walk
Original Version 7" 1 listed $1

    Les Baxter I Could Have Danced All Night.
nice lp. tracks. i could have danced all night. all the things you are. quiet village. exodus. la vie en rose. etc. we have a great selection of les baxter lps. wants lists welcome. e.mail. sales. Pickwick spc 3048 5 listed $4 - $288

    Les Baxter I Dance When I Walk/rain On My
Capitol F3653 1955 45 1 listed $6

    Les Baxter I Love Paris
7" and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 7" 1 listed $5

    Les Baxter I'm Yours/kiss Of Fire, 45rpm,
vocals by dick beavers. Capitol F2102 1952 45 1 listed $8

    Les Baxter If You've Forgotten Me/when
inv.7)label has light wear/light visual scratches. Capitol F1818 7" 1 listed $4

    Les Baxter&his Cho I Love Paris/gigi (special order)
capitol-2479 i love paris/gigi vg+/++ style: inst./jazz. 7" 1 listed $7

    Les Baxter&his Cho I Never Had A Dream Like This (special order)
capitol-3842 i never had a dream like this before/the invisible boy vg+/++ style: inst./jazz. 7" 1 listed $7

    Les Baxter&his Cho If You Were Mine/douchka (special order)
capitol-2748 if you were mine/douchka vg++ style: inst./jazz. 7" 1 listed $7

    Les Baxter&the Bom I Ain't Mad At You/blue Mirage (special order)
capitol-3040 i ain't mad at you/blue mirage(don't go) vg++ style: inst./jazz. 7" 1 listed $12

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