Les Baxter - Tenderly download song

The deep vintage colors and this cover star’s face evoke the lasagna my late wife ate repeatedly on our honeymoon week, in an Phila Italian joint long-since turned into a parking lot. . .down by the Salley Gardens.

Aerphonic here: Well, to my "primitive and passionate" ears, the sound effect that is emulating a theremin is a human voice, to be sure. Baxter loved the theremin and featured it on several of his albums with Dr, Samuel at the RCA theremin console. I suppose he could no longer needed the good doctor's services and relied on human intervention as a substitute. Maybe it was Bas Sheva from his album "The Passions". Who knows. Just an educated guess here. Love to all.

Perhaps Les's BEST "non-Capitol" Album!!! THANKFULLY on CD....and STEREO!!! (Mono SUCKS sooo BAD!) My FAVORITE track: "Bird of Paradise"... GLORIOUS!!!! I only WISH I could find the REAL name of "TIKI" the vocalist, with the sweet "Ima Sumac" like vocals! I fall asleep most nights to a playlist that has several tracks from this album!!!!

DUH!! Where have you BEEN?!? Have you heard of Imma Sumac or Mini Riperton? There are RARE singers that have been gifted with wide ranges. "TIKI" on this album (No One knows her real name) has this gift. When I first heard this wonderful piece, before I bought the album, I thought it was someone "whistling". Once I bought the CD, I knew it was someone singing. Anytime I'm down, I play this...one of my alltime FAVORITE Baxter pieces. I smile right away!! Thanx LES! RIP...

I've been right here all along. Actually, the first name is spelled Yma Sumac -- Amy Camus backwards; the second name is spelled Minnie Riperton.

In the lower register at 1:48 it's clearly a woman's voice so that makes me suspect the rest of it is too, perhaps recorded at a slow tempo and low range and then played back faster, à la Chipmunks. That's the best guess I have. It's not a theremin or musical saw.

Some of the early music called "exotica" is great. But the later early 60s stuff sounds like lounge type music that you would bear in ' the better class', hotel bars. Respect to the people who perform this and all music, though. Just not my thing.

From the original album cover notes by Peter J. Levinson: "Added to the distinctive, romantic quality of these instrumentals is the truly amazing high soprano voice of 'Tiki'. Her remarkable four octave vocal range lends itself to being used not only as an instrument but also to simulate the unusual sounds of bird calls".