Don Ralke Gems
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jazzy_daveSome more musical gems.
This time from Don Ralke and a track called Ritual of the Cobra.
Also from Don Ralke is this wonderful tune Four Paces East.
Don Ralke was born in 1920 and was a prolific arranger, composer and producer, working for four decades in the Hollywood studio system in films, television, and pop recordings.
A killer bongo player, Ralke collaborated with versatile flautist Buddy Collette on "Jazz Heat" and "Bongo Beat". Warner Brothers then hired him for "Gershwin with Bongoes" and "The Sensuous and the Savage", which is widely regarded as one of the best jungle exotica albums of that era. He worked with Warren Barker on the music for '77 Sunset Strip' and his orchestra backed Sam Cooke on several 1959-1960 songs.
Ralke also recorded two monster garage punk hits by Ty Wagner: "I'm a No Count" as well as "Slander".
FOUR PACES EAST was the flip of a cover of Teen Beat, released on Warner Brothers in 1959. It's an incredible piece of music: playful, frenetic, exotic, deranged. Perfection!
He passed on in 2000 in Santa Rosa, California.
This time from Don Ralke and a track called Ritual of the Cobra.
Also from Don Ralke is this wonderful tune Four Paces East.
Don Ralke was born in 1920 and was a prolific arranger, composer and producer, working for four decades in the Hollywood studio system in films, television, and pop recordings.
A killer bongo player, Ralke collaborated with versatile flautist Buddy Collette on "Jazz Heat" and "Bongo Beat". Warner Brothers then hired him for "Gershwin with Bongoes" and "The Sensuous and the Savage", which is widely regarded as one of the best jungle exotica albums of that era. He worked with Warren Barker on the music for '77 Sunset Strip' and his orchestra backed Sam Cooke on several 1959-1960 songs.
Ralke also recorded two monster garage punk hits by Ty Wagner: "I'm a No Count" as well as "Slander".
FOUR PACES EAST was the flip of a cover of Teen Beat, released on Warner Brothers in 1959. It's an incredible piece of music: playful, frenetic, exotic, deranged. Perfection!
He passed on in 2000 in Santa Rosa, California.
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