I love Exotica Music! What is Exotica Music you ask? Well according to Wikipedia:
Exotica is a musical genre, named after the 1957 Martin Dennyalbum of the same title, popular during the 1950s to mid-1960s, typically with suburban Americans who came of age during World War II. The musical colloquialism, exotica, means tropical ersatz: the non-native, pseudo experience of Oceania (Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Southeast Asia, and especially Hawaii).[1] Denny described the musical style as “a combination of the South Pacific and the Orient…what a lot of people imagined the islands to be like…it’s pure fantasy though.”[2] While the South Seas forms the core region, exotica reflects the “musical impressions” of every place from standard travel destinations to the mythical “shangri-las” dreamt of by armchair safari-ers.[1]
The covers are amazing, a very innocent for our times, in the late 50’s and early 60’s (pre-Playboy) I bet these were risque indeed!
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