Quiet Village ALL STAR JAM!

Quiet Village recorded live at the Mondo Tiki event at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas, NV back in 2003. The Bird callers included pop artist phenomenom SHAG (Josh Agle), Sven Kirsten (author of the Book of Tiki), Matteo "Hukilau" Brown (motivational consultant), and C.B. Howlie (of the Thurston Howlies) on both bird calls and Drums. This was a moment in Tiki exotica music history!!!

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[CherryCapri]

. If they approved of doing this song this way... I think it's okay with Les Baxter :-)

Thank you for the compliments on the musicianship!

[CherryCapri]

It caught on... Every night the audience would request that the song where the band made bird calls. You might enjoy researching two of the gentlemen doing the bird calls. Josh "Shag" Agle on the left is perhaps the most famous new tiki artist of the 20th and 21st Century (and a former member of the Tiki Tones) and the elder gentleman in the middle is Sven Kirsten - the author of the "Book of Tiki" - the bible of the tiki/exotica world.

[CherryCapri]

"The song was purely accidental. I was opening at the Shell Bar at the old Hawaiian Village, and we played the song and inserted bird calls.

"There was a pond of water near the band, and whenever we played the selection, bufos were croaking, 'Ribbet, ribbet, ribbet.' When I stopped playing, they stopped croaking. It was a coincidence. When we started up again, adding the bird calls, the croaking would resume. Cracked me up." (Martin Denny in the Honolulu Advertiser)

[CherryCapri]

This version of Quiet Village is done true to the tradition of the original. The Martin Denny band used to play this song in lounges in Hawaii. One night back in the late 1950s the band members were feeling a litle extra 'toasted' and started to do bird and frog calls while they were playing - everyone laughed and enjoyed the joke.

[hscmnbk]

thats very pee wee's playhouse

[tropicalcatdetective]

Long live the 21st century's exotica movement! Well done SHAG and Sven!

[Windtalker2]

Your band plays this song so good you should make a studio recording with pre-recorded jungle sounds. There is enviro-recordings with bird sounds of the jungle . I'd personally like to see this video reposted .Musically its a masterpiece, the birdsounds were overdone and bordered on comical/mocking of the song itself. The band should do this one alone. Its never been redone from the best of my knowledge. Take my word for it.. Great job to the musicians, !!