Arthur Lyman – Taboo - The Exotic Sounds Of Arthur Lyman
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HiFi Records – R 806 |
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US |
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Genre: |
Folk, World, & Country |
Style: |
Exotica |
Tracklist
| A1 | Taboo | |
| A2 | Kalua | |
| A3 | Ringo Oiwake | |
| A4 | Sea Breeze | |
| A5 | Misirlou | |
| A6 | China Clipper | |
| B1 | Sim Sim | |
| B2 | Katsumi Love Theme | |
| B3 | Caravan | |
| B4 | Akaka Falls | |
| B5 | Dahil Sayo | |
| B6 | Hilo March |
Companies, etc.
- Recorded At – The Kaiser Aluminum Dome
- Record Company – High Fidelity Recordings, Inc.
- Pressed By – RCA Records Pressing Plant, Hollywood
Credits
- Arranged By – Paul Conrad
- Arranged By, Idiophone [Marimba], Percussion, Producer, Vibraphone, Voice [Bird Calls] – Arthur Lyman
- Bass, Ukulele, Guitar, Flute, Clarinet, Percussion, Voice [Bird Calls] – John Kramer
- Guitar, Idiophone [Celesta], Percussion, Piano – Alan Soares
- Percussion, Xylophone – Harold Chang
- Photography By [Cover] – Werner Stoy
- Producer [Assistant] – Lewis Amiel
Notes
'Arthur Lyman's Taboo' (Title on spine)
'The Arthur Lyman Group' (Artist on labels)
"Taboo" credits Baxter on label as composer in error, correct composer is Margarita Lecuona.
Printed inner company sleeve.
High Fidelity Recordings, Inc., 7803 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood 46, Calif.
Deepgroove
Use Standard RIAA Bass Boost And Treble Roll Off.
Runout details are stamped.
'The Arthur Lyman Group' (Artist on labels)
"Taboo" credits Baxter on label as composer in error, correct composer is Margarita Lecuona.
Printed inner company sleeve.
High Fidelity Recordings, Inc., 7803 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood 46, Calif.
Deepgroove
Use Standard RIAA Bass Boost And Treble Roll Off.
Runout details are stamped.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Pressing Plant ID (Stamped on both sides): H
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 1): R 806-A-D8
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 1): R 806-B-D8
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 2): R 806-A-D3
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 2): R 806-A-D3
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 3): R 806-A-D3 H
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 3): R 806-B-D3 H
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Taboo - The Exotic Sounds Of Arthur Lyman (LP, Album, Mono) | HiFi Records | R 806 | US | 1958 | ||
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Taboo (LP, Album, Stereo, Misprint) | HiFi Records | R 806 | US | 1958 | ||
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Taboo (LP, Album, Stereo) | Sparton | SR 806 | Canada | 1958 | ||
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Taboo (LP, Album, Mono) | Sparton | R 806 | Canada | 1958 |
Recommendations
Reviews
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Top of the heap in my exotica collection. You couldn't pack more mojo into an analog recording. -
Edited 2 years agoHuge seller for Lyman...He sounded very similar to Martin Denny with the South Seas feel and the bird calls...Saw him once at a radio station concert (KMPC Teenage Underground) for only a hundred or so fans by old Hollywood Park in LA in a sleazy old timey nightclub on a Sunday afternoon...Lights were low but the performance with Red Hot...Lyman sold a whole lot of albums over the years... -
I really like this. It’s chill. Slow it down and it sounds like Tortoise. I can’t believe this hasn’t been sampled more. -
Wow, MORE COWBELL on [B5] “Dahil Sa iyo” the old Filipino standard (translates to English as “Because of You”) so don’t fear the reaper! -
Edited 5 years agoI with I could have been in the studio for 'Sim Sim' when someone had to have said, 'ya know, make those bird sounds super high in the mix, just turn it way up.' Great record! Certainly slightly more formulaic than Baxter or Denny, but it also removes most of the charming-yet-kinda-eye-rolling sincerity of those records. This keeps the kitsch intact, and that's not anachronistic at all. I think Lyman was more cognizant of his big-band-paradiddle-drumming take on blatant cultural plundering than most of his contemporaries (I mean, listen to Caravan,' that's too clever an amalgam of like 6 different contemporary sounds melded into a succinct danceable ditty for pre-hep-cat-era dilettantes to not be tongue-in-cheek right?!), which lends a nice subtle irony to the whole thing. Fantastic LP to drink wine, cook dinner and listen to loudly. LOVE it. -
Compared to Martin Denny, Arthur Lyman’s take on exotica is very in-your-face. He’s very heavy-handed with the “natural” sounds of waves crashing, “jungle sounds” of ooh-ooh-ah-ahing spider monkeys and marmosets and bird sounds and all that.The arrangements are great though. Very Hawaiian feel and it’s great to just throw on and chill to in a sitting-in-a-plastic-lawn-chair-on-a-patch-of astro-turf-next-to-a-charcoal-grill sort of way.
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Exotica is somewhat of a hit or miss genre. This one is spot on for me. I particularly like the version of Caravan.
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