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Skins! Bongo Party with Les Baxter

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Skins! Bongo Party with Les Baxter
Studio album by
Les Baxter's Drums
Released1957
GenreEasy listening, exotica
Length30:46
LabelCapitol
Les Baxter's Drums chronology
Caribbean Moonlight
(1956)
Skins! Bongo Party with Les Baxter
(1957)
'Round the World with Les Baxter
(1957)

Skins! Bongo Party with Les Baxter is an album by Les Baxter's Drums. It was released in 1957 on the Capitol label (catalog nos. T-774).[1][2]

The album debuted on Billboard magazine's popular albums chart on March 16, 1957, peaked at No. 21, and remained on that chart for two weeks.[3]

Track listing

Side 1

  1. "Afro-Desia" (Les Baxter)
  2. "Brazilian Bash" (Les Baxter)
  3. "Bustin' the Bongos" (Dave Dexter)
  4. "Conversation" (Les Baxter)
  5. "Poppin' Panderos" (Les Baxter)

Side 2

  1. "Talkin' Drums" (Les Baxter)
  2. "Reverberasia" (Les Baxter)
  3. "Shoutin' Drums" (Les Baxter)
  4. "Gringo" (Les Baxter)
  5. "Mood Tattooed" (Lex Baxter)

References

  1. ^ "Les Baxter – Skins!". Discogs. Retrieved December 30, 2020.
  2. ^ "Skins! Bongo Party with Les Baxter". AllMusic. Retrieved December 30, 2020.
  3. ^ Joel Whitburn (1995). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Albums. Billboard Books. p. 27. ISBN 0823076318.