Incredible Bongo Band

Unlikely godfathers of hip-hop, the Incredible Bongo Music group was a revolving-door band of studio room musicians led simply by bongo player Michael Viner, who simply by day worked simply because an executive on the MGM label and ran its short-lived Pride subsidiary. Viner acquired done Bobby Kennedy’s ill-fated presidential advertising campaign before getting into the music sector as a skill scout and A&R guy in LA. By the first ’70s, he was effective enough to start out his pet aspect task the Incredible Bongo Music group, taking unused studio room time and energy to record percussion-heavy instrumentals and pop addresses with African and Latin affects. He positioned two songs within the soundtrack from the 1972 B-movie FINISHED . With Two Mind, released on Satisfaction, and the next year issued the very first Incredible Bongo Music group full-length, Bongo Rock and roll, which reportedly presented a guest place by Ringo Starr. Viner’s funked-up edition from the Shadows’ “Apache” continued to become among hip-hop’s first breakbeat staples, as first-generation hip-hop DJs Kool Herc and Grandmaster Adobe flash came to depend on its percussion breaks to obtain block parties shifting. “Apache” continued to supply the foundation for the Sugarhill Gang’s strike of the same name, and stands among the most sampled songs in hip-hop background. The solitary “Bongo Rock and roll” charted in the low reaches of both pop and R&B lists, and finally assumed a position much like “Apache” within the hip-hop globe (though with smaller magnitude). Viner put together a follow-up recording, The Return from the Amazing Bongo Music group, in 1974, however the band found a halt shortly after; Viner was obtaining excessively ambitious (a well planned session using the London Symphony Orchestra dropped through), and mainstay drummer Jim Gordon dropped prey to serious mental difficulties, which spelled the finish of the street. The English Strut label later on reissued both of the group’s albums on the two-fer entitled Bongo Rock and roll: THE STORYPLOT from the Incredible Bongo Music group.