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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 Sabre Dance-milord ()
Capitol 4249 1958 4 listed $4 - $37

    Baxter Les Sacred Idol (special order)
lp and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. LP+CDR 1 listed $93

    Baxter Les Sarah Kelly From Nelly/longin
78 and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 2 listed $8 - $52

    Baxter Les Search For Paradise-ricordate
7" and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 4 listed $4 - $37

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

    Baxter Les Sensational
lp and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 2 listed $25 - $60

    Baxter Les Sinner Man / Tango Of The Drum
45 and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 3 listed $4 - $38

    Baxter Les Skins (special order)
lp and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. LP+CDR 1 listed $65

    Baxter Les Skins Pt3 (ps/e Woc)
cap eap 3774 v. 3 listed $3 - $43

    Baxter Les So Long-the Roving Kind ()
Capitol F1381 1950 2 listed $7 - $37

    Baxter Les Somewhere Somehow Someday
7" and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 3 listed $4 - $37

    Baxter Les Song Of The Bayou-monika ()
Capitol 3259 1955 4 listed $4 - $35

    Baxter Les Sounds Of Adventure (special order)
crc exclusive compilation, 2 record set songs: quiet village; moonlight stroll; the enchanted sea; dancing diamonds; normandy; love is a fabulous thing; tom dooley; the other side of the moon. Capitol SQBO90984 LP+CDR 1 listed $60

    Baxter Les South Pacific (special order) LP 1 listed $25

   Baxter Les Space Escapade
digitally remastered and expanded edition of this 1958 album from 'the founding father of exotica'. space escapade (not re-issued or digitalized in the half century since it's original release) is th. Pid 5013929317130 04212009 4 listed $15 - $25

    Baxter Les Stay Awhile/you'll Know Sol
cap 1773 e. 2 listed $4 - $48

    Baxter Les Strings Guitars Voices Woc Wos
lp and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 2 listed $8 - $52

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

    Baxter Les Suddenly/april In Portugal
78 and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 2 listed $4 - $50

    Baxter Les & Other Stereo Showcase (special order)
0 stereo--with billy may--joe carr--nelson riddle--ray anthony--red nichols--jack marshall--les brown--jackie davis--felix slatkin--g/fold cv--booklet (capitol) m. 1268 LP+CDR 1 listed $59

    Baxter, les Sabre Dance/milord
Capitol 4249 3 listed $4 - $29

    Baxter, les Sacred Idol
lp and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 2 listed $49 - $73

    Baxter, les Sea Song (special order) 7"+CDR 1 listed $34

    Baxter, les Selections From South Pacific
lp and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 2 listed $39 - $83

    Baxter, les Sensational! 3 listed $13 - $66

    Baxter, les Shrike/toy Tiger
Capitol 3195 2 listed $4 - $29

    Baxter, les Sinner Man / Tango Of The Drum
45 and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 4 listed $6 - $32

    Baxter, les Skins
lp and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 4 listed $12 - $60

   Baxter, les Skins!
capitol, eap-1-774, part 1, 4 songs, "afro-deesia", "conversation", + 2. 16 listed $5 - $57

    Baxter, les Somewhere,somehow,someday / Be 2 listed $6 - $32

    Baxter, les Sounds Of Adventure
crc exclusive compilation, 2 record set songs: quiet village; moonlight stroll; the enchanted sea; dancing diamonds; normandy; love is a fabulous thing; tom dooley; the other side of the moon. Capitol SQBO90984 13 listed $5 - $73

    Baxter, les Space Escapade
digitally remastered and expanded edition of this 1958 album from 'the founding father of exotica'. space escapade (not re-issued or digitalized in the half century since it's original release) is th. Pid 5013929317130 04212009 9 listed $16 - $102

    Baxter, les Subbenly / April In Portugal (special order) 7"+CDR 1 listed $33

    Baxter, les Suddenly / April In Portugal 4 listed $4 - $30

    Baxter, les & Othe Stereo Showcase
0 stereo--with billy may--joe carr--nelson riddle--ray anthony--red nichols--jack marshall--les brown--jackie davis--felix slatkin--g/fold cv--booklet (capitol) m. 1268 2 listed $15 - $64

    Les Baxter Sensational
lp and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. 3 listed $1 - $67

    Les Baxter Shrike/toy Tiger, Original Cap
Capitol F3195 1955 2 listed $4 - $6

    Les Baxter South Pacific (1956) CD 1 listed $16

   Les Baxter Space Escapade
digitally remastered and expanded edition of this 1958 album from 'the founding father of exotica'. space escapade (not re-issued or digitalized in the half century since it's original release) is th. Pid 5013929317130 04212009 4 listed $12 - $40

    Les Baxter&his Cho Search For Paradise/ricordate (special order)
capitol-3798 search for paradise/ricordate marcellino vg++ style: inst./jazz. 7" 1 listed $7

    Les Baxter&his Cho Song Of The Bayou/monika (special order)
capitol-3259 song of the bayou/monika vg+/++ style: inst./jazz. 7" 1 listed $7

    Les Baxter's Sensational (special order)
lp and digitally remastered audiophile cd. professional artwork, track listing, cd jewel case etc. LP+CDR 1 listed $64

    Les Baxter's Balladeer Same
Reprise R9 6064 LP 1 listed $43

    Les Baxter, will Holt Sinner Man, Tango Of The Drums
both composed sinner man. will holt sings sinner man. les baxter on the other side. maybe hard to find. Capitol 3404 45 1 listed $2

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