Songs with bongos or about bongos

"with bongos" ?

Bongo Starr plays on Moonlight Bay with Morecambe & Wise - features on Anthology I with Bongo's group The Beatles.

 

Most Tyrannosaurus Rex tracks feature either bongos or congas or both. Early T. Rex tracks do too. Part of their appeal I suspect.

Here's Debora from 1968 with original percussionist Steve Took playing bongos.



The movie of the Stamping Ground festival features replacement percussionist Mickey Finn playing bongos on "By the Light of a Magical Moon". Consider it the 1970 Dutch Woodstock. Like Woodstock it features people portrayed in their natural beauty..... ..... so not for everyone. Youtube currently has the clip.

 

Night Watch, Fleetwood Mac

 

Grazing In The Grass - Friends Of Distinction

 

Border Town - JD Souther and much of the Ocean's Soundtracks (David Holmes), like Lifting the Building

 

Buffalo Springfield, Kahuna Sunset from the box set---Skip Spence plays bongos and fire ax!

 

To say nothing of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Original Motion Picture Soundtrack on such tracks as Escape From East Berlin, Breaking In (Searching The Factory), and The Drums of War.

 

Don't think I've seen this yet, but I love Penn Jillett's band, Bongos, Bass & Bob. Plenty of bongos there.

 

Allman Brothers, In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed - super evident on idlewild south 45th anniversary.

 

So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright

 

Does this count? A whole album about bongos!

 

Billy Idol-Congo Man, 1982

 

This thread needs an Ace or Bear bongo themed CD!

 

This opens with a cool bongo solo

 

Surfin' Senorita - Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass Volume 2

also Crea Mi Amor, etc.....

 

Sheryl Crow- Everyday Is A Winding Road



At least I think those are bongos....

 

I first heard this on Anthology 1 and hadn't seen the visual clip but even just the audio cracked me up!

 

Just The Two Of Us - Grover Washington, Jr.

 

Eyesight to the blind/Why does love got to be so sad (Providence, RI June 25, 1975)!

 

Peter, Bjorn and John
Young Folks

 

Candido - Thousand Finger Man

 

Santana's Primera Invasion - 1981

 

El Chicano - Viva Tirado
Dizzy Gillespie Big Band - Manteca
Syd Barrett - Rhamadan

 

I don’t know if this is applicable but I met the Grandson of the drummer of The Safaris classic song ‘Wipeout’ this summer past @ the farewell tour of the Tragically Hip show in Kingston @ outdoor screen patio in Peterboro ON, where he was working the door. Nice kid. Thing was, i played along on my bongos as a 9 year old. So fave bongo song? Oh yeah.