The Incredible Bongo Band, also known as Michael Viner's Incredible Bongo Band, was a project started by Michael Viner, a record artist manager and executive at MGM Records. The band's output consisted of instrumental music in the funk genre, characterised by the prominence of bongo drums and also conga drums. MGM Records was a record label started by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie studio in 1946. ... An instrumental is, in contrast to a song, a musical composition or recording without lyrics or any other sort of vocal music; all of the music is produced by musical instruments. ... Funk is an African American musical style. ... Bongos Bongo drums or bongos are a percussion instrument made up of two small drums attached to each other. ... Conga is a drum, a type of music, and a type of dance (Conga Line). ...

Although the band released two albums, 1973's Bongo Rock and 1974's Return of the Incredible Bongo Band, the band is best known for its cover of "Apache", a song originally made popular by The Shadows. This record languished in relative obscurity until the late 1970s, when it was adopted by early hip-hop artists, including pioneering DJs Kool Herc and Grandmaster Flash, for the uncommonly long percussion break in the middle of the song. Subsequently, many of the Incredible Bongo Band's other releases were sampled by hip-hop producers, and the "Apache" break remains a staple of many producers in drum and bass. The song received popular attention again in 2001 when it was featured in an ad for an Acura SUV. Recently, music critic Will Hermes did an article on Apache and the Incredible Bongo Band for the New York Times. Apache is an instrumental composition written by Jerry Lordan and recorded by British Rock N Roll Group The Shadows in 1960. ... The Shadows were an English instrumental rock n roll group active from the 1950s to the 2000s. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979. ... Hip hop music is a style of music which came into existence in the United States during the mid-1970s, and became a large part of modern pop culture during the 1980s. ... DJ or dj may stand for Disc jockey, dinner jacket The DeadJournal website, or Djibouti. ... Categories: People stubs | Hip hop musicians | Hip hop DJs | 1955 births ... Joseph Saddler (born January 1, 1958 in Bridgetown, Barbados), better known as Grandmaster Flash, is a hip hop musician and DJ; one of the pioneers of hip-hop DJing, cutting, and mixing. ... In popular music a break is an instrumental or percussion section or interlude during a song derived from or related to stop-time – being a break from the main parts of the song or piece. ... Drum and bass (commonly abbreviated to d&b, DnB, dnb, drum n bass and drum & bass) is a type of electronic dance music also known as jungle. ... Acura (アキュラ) is a brand name used by the Japanese car manufacturer Honda in the US, Canada and Hong Kong since March 1986 to market luxury automobiles and near-luxury vehicles. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ...

The song "Let There Be Drums," which was made famous by Sandy Nelson and also performed by The Ventures, was used as the theme song for the long running television show "Atlantic Grand Prix Wrestling" during the 1980's. Sandy Nelsons song Teen Beat rose to #4 on the charts in 1959. ... Walk Dont Run (1960) The Ventures are a rock instrumental band formed in 1958, by Don Wilson and Bob Bogle, two Seattle masonry workers. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Track listing

Bongo Rock

1. "Apache"
2. "Let There Be Drums"
3. "Bongolia"
4. "Last Bongo In Belgium"
5. "Duelling Bongos"
6. "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida"
7. "Raunchy ‘73"
8. "Bongo Rock"
9. "Kiburi (Part 1)"
10. "Sing Sing Sing"
11. "(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction"
12. "Wipeout"
13. "When The Bed Breaks Down, I’ll Meet You In The Spring"
14. "Pipeline"
15. "Okey Dokey"
16. "Sharp Nine"
17. "Hang Down Your Head, Tom Dooley Your Tie’s Caught In Your Zipper"
18. "Apache (Grand Master Flash Remix)"
19. "Last Bongo In Belgium (Breakers Mix)"

External links

• NY Times Article
• Review of Bongo Rock from Filmore Mescalito Holmes
• Distributor for Incredible Bongo Band

• Incredible Bongo Band at All Music Guide