Martin Denny

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  • exotica
  • lounge
  • easy listening
  • tiki
  • space age pop
Martin Denny (April 10, 1911 - March 2, 2005) was an American musician. He was universally known as the founder and reigning king of exotica music, a type of big band music with Latin rhythms and overtones of Pacific Ocean culture that is largely scorned by critics but was extremely popular in the 1950s and 1960s. Exotica music

Martin Denny's breakthrough album, Exotica, Denny described the music his combo plays as "window dressing, a background".

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Albums

Quiet Village & The Enchanted Sea (1997)
Exotica: The Sounds of Martin Denny / Exotica, Volume II: The Exciting Sounds of Martin Denny (1996)
Forbidden Island (1996)
Exotic Moog (1969)
A Taste of India (1968)
Another Taste of Honey (1963)
A Taste of Honey (1962)
Exotic Percussion (1961)
Exotic Sounds From the Silver Screen (1960)
Exotic Sounds Visit Broadway (1960)
Afro-Desia (1959)
Hypnot??que (1958)
Primitiva (1958)
Exotica (1956)
Bachelor in Paradise: The Best of Martin Denny
The Exotic Sounds of Martin Denny - Hypnotique & Exotica III

Singles

A Taste of Honey / The Brighter Side (1962)
Fandango / Bonsoir Dame (1961)

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