Songs with bongos or about bongos

congas, i think - deeper sound than bongos.

 

They sound Beatle-y, ("Getting Better") or like the Romantics ("What I Like About You").

Highly recommended to anyone on this board who isn't a non-rock person.

 

I had to go there before someone else did

A lot of lady singers have some impressive bongos.

 

First that came to mind. I've won this CD on the radio a few years ago and it's really cool.



Especially Apache and Let There Be Drums.

 

The Beatles-Till There was You

 

The album "Bongo Fury" by Zappa/Beefheart contains no bongos.

 

The Beatles-You Know My Name
in the cocktail lounge section

 

The theme song to the UK TV show The Prisoner comes to mind. Anyone ever heard an original RCA single of that ?

 

Howard Stern - Butt Bongo Fiesta

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFfqy_BHGYw

 

yes! that's a great record, over the top bat***** crazy in the best lou christie fashion, with the incredible tammys on background vocals.

 

From Jamaica -

Bongo Man - Bongo Man Byfield

Bongo Cup - Bongo B

Thunder Storm Part 2 (Bongo Version) - Bongo Herman

Bongo I - Tommy McCook & Gladiators Band

Bongo Man - Count Ossie & The Mystic Revelation of Rastafari

Natty Bongo - Owen Grey

Bongo Man - Rod Dennis Mento Band

The Bongo Man titles are not on the same rhythm. There are countless other Jamaican records that feature Bongo playing.

 

LOL I just thought of the Happy Days episode where Fonzie joins the boys' band and plays bongos.

 

Worthy of a mention on any Bongo thread gotta be the Jamaican Studio 1 7" Bongo Man imprint...

 

"A Horse With No Name"

 

LA Free Music Society avant-gardists Le Forte-Four had a track called "It's Raining Bongos" (which was literally a bunch of speeded up bongos and vocals proclaiming the same)

 

Bongo Lesson - Jack Castanzo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0R4_xX8I9vQ

 

"Bongo Bong" from Manu Chao's 1998 album Clandestino

A song about the "King of the Bongo", but the actual bongo playing is left up to your imagination.

 

"Pet Sounds"-the Beach Boys

 

"And I Love Her"

 

Really? Three and a half pages and no mention of Steve Miller's "Bongo Bongo"?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd1b7d7vj04

 

I'll play...

Bongo Stomp - Little Joey(Joey Hall) & The Flips; July 1962
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orWuNqwzMLk

 

In 1947 there were about ten recordings of a song called "Civilization" that went:

Bongo bongo bongo I don't want to leave the Congo oh no no no no no
Bingle bangle bungle I'm so happy in the jungle I refuse to go

I like Ray McKinley's version.

 

All of Chicago albums from 1973-1979 (from Chicago VI to Chicago 13) have songs with bongos and congas courtesy of Brazillian percussionist Laudir de Oliveira.
Laudir became a full time member of Chicago starting from 1974.

A few examples of their songs with congas include "Call On Me" and "Mongonucleosis" from 1974 album Chicago VII and "Old Days" from 1975 album Chicago VIII.

You can hear the sound of bongos in other Chicago VII tracks such as the acoustic ballad "Happy Man" and the instrumental "Aire"

 

Irving Fields (born August 4, 1915) is an American pianist and lounge music artist who was born in New York City, New York.
One of his albums from the 60's is called "Pizzas and Bongos".

 

The Serendipity Singers - Don't Let The Rain Come Down.