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Bongo Rock

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First heard this on a college radio station and thought it was a new re-mix club/dub mix that was the bomb. Scored it on Amazon only to find out it was the Original. Some cuts I think are great but the overall style is too repetitive with the bongo solos for all the songs. I think the purchase was worth it for Apache alone but many won't like the stylings of 70's funk with the Mancini like strings and the bongo flavorings. For collectors mostly.

Fantastic album that you can't help but to play loud and smile often. Early 70's fidelity and production techniques that only add to the whole effect. It's cheesy and groundbreaking all at the same time!

FROM MICK JAGGER TO MARTIN SCORSESE THIS ALBUM HAS INSPIRED MORE PEOPLE THAN [PERHAPS] ANY EVER RECORDED. ALWAYS IMITATED , NEVER DUPLICATED THIS IS THE ONE.I AM SO HAPPY THAT IS FINALLY BACK IN RELEASE.

The Incredible Bongo Band is probably not a band most people have heard of, but one of their songs, "Apache" is one of the most sampled songs in hip-hop especially by old school acts of the 80's. Run-DMC, LL Cool J, Nas, The Geto Boys, The Ultramagnetic MC's, Grandmaster Flash, KRS-One, Kool Moe Dee and countless others have used the drum break from the song (The Sugarhill Gang had a minor hit with "Apache Rap"). The group wasn't really a group at all, but a studio concoction of session players who were quickly assembled in 1972 to round out a soundtrack album (the less than memorable The Thing With Two Heads) with two tracks. Those two tracks, "Bongo Rock" & "Bongolia", led to the full-length album Bongo Rock and the follow-up Return Of The Incredible Bongo Band. If you are a fan of 70's style funk music, then this is an album for you, but mostly it is only notable for the breaks some of the songs provided.