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Apache incredible bongo band live biography
Incredible Bongo Band
American funk band
The Incredible Bongo Band, also known as Michael Viner's Incredible Bongo Band, was a project started in 1972 by Michael Viner, a record artist manager and executive at MGM Records, producer, MGM Records executive and Curb Records founder Mike Curb and arranger Perry Botkin Jr.[1][2] Viner was called on to supplement the soundtrack to the B-film The Thing With Two Heads.[3] The band's output consisted of upbeat, funky, instrumental music.
Many tracks were covers of popular songs of the day characterized by the prominence of bongo drums, conga drums, rock drums and brass.
Bongo Rock was featured in Robert Dimery's book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.[4]
History
The band released two albums, 1973's Bongo Rock, and 1974's Return of the Incredible Bongo Band.[1] The instrumental "Bongo Rock", co-written by Art Laboe and Preston Epps and released by Epps as a Top 4