http://www.dinosaurgardens.com/archives/76 Excavating the tar pits of popular culture Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:51:28 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.dinosaurgardens.com/archives/76/comment-page-1#comment-110 Dinosaur Gardens » The Mysteries of “Misirlou” Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:49:00 +0000 http://www.dinosaurgardens.com/archives/76#comment-110 [...] After Roubanis’s version, the song became a minor big band standard, performed by Harry James, Freddy Martin, Woody Herman, and Jan August (who had a hit with it in 1947). It was Xavier Cugat’s version, however, that pushed it into exotica territory; versions would follow by nearly every notable exotica artist, including Martin Denny, Arthur Lyman, Esquivel, Dick Hyman, Enoch Light, and our old friend Korla Pandit (on his 1958 LP Music of the Exotic East). [...] [...] After Roubanis’s version, the song became a minor big band standard, performed by Harry James, Freddy Martin, Woody Herman, and Jan August (who had a hit with it in 1947). It was Xavier Cugat’s version, however, that pushed it into exotica territory; versions would follow by nearly every notable exotica artist, including Martin Denny, Arthur Lyman, Esquivel, Dick Hyman, Enoch Light, and our old friend Korla Pandit (on his 1958 LP Music of the Exotic East). [...]

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