{"id":3408,"date":"2012-12-04T15:48:50","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T20:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=3408"},"modified":"2013-02-14T11:42:38","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T16:42:38","slug":"incredible-bongo-band-let-there-be-drums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=3408","title":{"rendered":"Incredible Bongo Band – Let There Be Drums"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download Incredible Bongo Band – Let There Be Drums<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/del><\/p>\n

Greetings all<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

Welcome to the middle of another spectacularly crisp, post-Thanksgiving, pre-Yule day.<\/p>\n

The tune I bring you today is a little something I grabbed on a recent dig, and on object lesson in how sometimes you really don\u2019t need to hear a record to know it\u2019s going to be good.<\/p>\n

Any beat fiend worth their wax is already hip to the sounds of the Incredible Bongo Band<\/strong>, especially their version of Jerry Lordan\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0oft-recorded \u2018Apache\u2019, one of the ur documents of hip hop.<\/p>\n

The IBB\u2019s first LP \u2018Bongo Rock\u2019 is fairly rare and sought after, mainly for \u2018Apache\u2019.<\/p>\n

However, there is much to dig on \u2018Bongo Rock\u2019, up to and including the album\u2019s opening track (and one of its singles), which you see before you presently, \u2018Let There Be Drums\u2019.<\/p>\n

Like many of the tunes on \u2018Bongo Rock\u2019, \u2018Let There Be Drums\u2019 is a cover, in this case of Sandy Nelson\u2019s<\/strong> 1961 hit.<\/p>\n

Written by Nelson and producer\/writer\/guitarist Richie Podolor<\/strong>, \u2018Let There Be Drums\u2019 was, like so much of Nelson\u2019s catalog, a percussion feature meant to highlight his skill on the skins.<\/p>\n

Since the IBB was a similar showcase (created by producer Michael Viner<\/strong>), this time for drummer Jim Gordon<\/strong> and percussionist King Errison<\/strong>, the recordings were aimed in the same general direction.<\/p>\n

\u2018Let There Be Drums\u2019 may lack the crisp breakbeats of \u2018Apache\u2019 there are still plenty of slamming drums (do you ever really ever get sick of walls of well recorded drums?) and some cool guitar.<\/p>\n

As far as I can tell \u2018Let There Be Drums\u2019 was only sampled in 2007 by Buck 65<\/strong> on the track \u2018Dang\u2019.<\/p>\n

I hope you dig the tune, and I\u2019ll see you all on Friday.<\/p>\n

Keep the faith<\/strong><\/p>\n

Larry<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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