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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 Padam Padam/auf Wiedersehn
78 and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 2 listed $7 - $51

    Baxter Les Passions The W/ Bas Sheva Voca (special order)
lp and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. LP+CDR 1 listed $96

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

    Baxter Les Pepe-dolce Far Niente ()
Capitol 4489 1960 2 listed $5 - $35

    Baxter Les Please Mr. Sun
7" and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 4 listed $2 - $47

    Baxter Les Poor John
7" and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 2 listed $16 - $47

    Baxter Les Poor People Of Paris/theme Hel
78 and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 9 listed $4 - $51

    Baxter Les Ports Of Pleasure Eap 3-868
ep and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 4 listed $28 - $391

    Baxter Les Prelude And Ben Hur Theme-til
film theme. Capitol 4322 1959 2 listed $7 - $37

   Baxter Les Primitive-woc-soc-sol-tps-wrc-
lp and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 11 listed $7 - $70

    Baxter Les-pepe/adios Pepe/adios
7" and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 2 listed $6 - $36

    Baxter Les-poor People Poor People Of Paris
ep and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 2 listed $12 - $58

    Baxter, les Passions, The W/ Bas Sheva Voc
10"lp/box/bklt. CAPITOL LAL486 3 listed $52 - $62

    Baxter, les Pepe / Dolce Fare Niente 3 listed $29 - $36

    Baxter, les Piccolissima Serenata / Tell M (special order) 7"+CDR 1 listed $30

    Baxter, les Please,mr. Sun / Blue Tango 2 listed $33 - $42

    Baxter, les Poor John/theme From Helen Of (special order)
21148 78 cs capitol cl14 1956 ost/tv. 7"+CDR 1 listed $36

   Baxter, les Poor People Of Paris / April I
45 and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 15 listed $1 - $44

    Baxter, les Pop Side Of -25 Tr. (special order) CD 1 listed $32

    Baxter, les Ports Of Pleasure
lp and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 12 listed $2 - $52

    Baxter, les Prelude And Ben Hur Theme
Original Version 3 listed $1 - $32

    Baxter, les Primitive & The Passionate
lt;ol> fiesta bravatenderly - les baxter, gross, walterpeking tigerlaura - les baxter, mercera night w. COLL 11292005 7 listed $12 - $58

    Les Baxter Pepe
7" and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 7" 1 listed $6

    Les Baxter Percussions Tropicales - Mode
LP 1 listed $688

    Les Baxter Poor John
7" and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 2 listed $6 - $51

    Les Baxter Poor People Of Paris / April I
45 and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 5 listed $3 - $33

    Les Baxter Ports Of Pleasure Parti
capitol eap-1-868, ex, 4 track ep. 2 listed $9 - $17

    Les Baxter Prelude & Ben Hur Theme
CAPITOL 4322 7" 1 listed $10

   Les Baxter Primitive & The Passionate 2 listed $11 - $16

    Les Baxter & His O Pepe / Dolce Far Niente
original usa release. Capitol 4489 7" 1 listed $5

    Les Baxter & His O Percussions Tropicales - Vogue
LP 1 listed $217

    Les Baxter & Orche Poor John/theme From Helen Of (special order)
21148 78 cs capitol cl14 1956 ost/tv. 7" 1 listed $28

    Les Baxter & Orche Ports Of Pleasure Part 1
21216 7\" ep capitol eap1 1957. 5 listed $19 - $76

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