• 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...
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  • Bongo Rock is the debut studio album by Incredible Bongo Band, released in 1973. It peaked at number 197 on the Billboard Top LPs & Tape chart. It includes...
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  • number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US. A 1973 version by the Incredible Bongo Band has been called "hip-hop's national anthem". Although this version...
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  • It was included in Epps' 1960 album Bongo Bongo Bongo. Incredible Bongo Band recorded a cover version of "Bongo Rock", which charted #57 in the United...
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  • was also a major contributor to Incredible Bongo Band, one of the most influential groups of all-time for its Bongo Rock album which is one of the most...
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  • 1979 reissue A. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida – 3:10 B. Easy Rider – 3:06 The Incredible Bongo Band covered the song in 1973. The composer and percussionist David Van...
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  • played 70s rare groove records. James Brown, Jimmy Castor Bunch, and Incredible Bongo Band were on their playlists. Popular breakbeats source was bootleg series...
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  • sampled percussion break in the recording of the song "Apache" by the Incredible Bongo Band, a group he assembled in the early 1970s, has been frequently integrated...
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  • Explosion) (1978) TK Disco / Alston / Electric Cat Records Incredible Bongo Band – "Bongo Rock"* (from Bongo Rock) (1973) Pride/MGM Records Upp – "Give It to You"...
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    record's break into the break from a second record, "Bongo Rock" by The Incredible Bongo Band. From the "Bongo Rock"'s break, Herc used a third record to switch...
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    American novelty rock acts such as Preston Epps and Michael Viner's Incredible Bongo Band capitalized on the popularity of the instrument as well as its exotic...
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    Jim Gordon (musician) (category Plastic Ono Band members)
    track "Jump into the Fire". Gordon was the drummer on the Incredible Bongo Band's album Bongo Rock, released in 1972, and his drum break on the LP version...
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  • "Hip Hop, Be Bop (Don't Stop)" by Man Parrish (1982), "Bongo Rock '73" by Incredible Bongo Band (1973), and dialogue from Dolemite Track 5 contains samples...
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  • featuring Ariana Grande, Jason Derulo, Dawin, Vicetone, The Very Best, Incredible Bongo Band, Carly Rose, among others, and includes an original track by the...
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  • from classical (Beethoven's "Für Elise" in "I Can") to deep funk (Incredible Bongo Band's "Apache" in "Made You Look") while other producers do not rely...
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  • certain disco records that had funky percussion breaks like the Incredible Bongo Band when they came out with "Apache" and he just kept that beat going...
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    hosted the recording of many classic albums, by such artists as Incredible Bongo Band, Heart, Bachman–Turner Overdrive, Loverboy, Queensrÿche, Chilliwack...
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  • "The Big Beat" by Billy Squier "Turn This Mutha Out" "Apache" by Incredible Bongo Band "Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker)" by Parliament...
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  • much bigger thing than any member of the band." The song samples The Incredible Bongo Band song "Last Bongo in Belgium". The music video for "Angel",...
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    release in 2015. A single, "What I Want" (which samples "Apache" by Incredible Bongo Band), was released from BILI in 2014. Later in 2014, she premiered the...
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  • Love" by Steve Miller Band "Live At Union Square (November 1986)" "Got to Be Real" by Cheryl Lynn "Apache" by Incredible Bongo Band "Dance To The Drummer's...
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    persona "The Demon", he was the bassist and co-lead singer of the hard rock band Kiss, which he co-founded with Paul Stanley, Ace Frehley and Peter Criss...
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  • Coffey, and "Apache" from The Incredible Bongo Band. "Gangster of Love" contains a sample of "The Joker" by Steve Miller Band. "Talkin Loud Ain't Saying...
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  • famous riff from Iron Butterfly's "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" performed by Incredible Bongo Band. Nas would again use the same sample on the 2006 single "Hip Hop...
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  • Light Crust Doughboys, Takeshi Terauchi & Blue Jeans, Art Greenhaw, Incredible Bongo Band, Bad Manners, Roger Powell (an electronic version titled "Pipeline...
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  • samples from "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" by Iron Butterfly, and "Apache" by Incredible Bongo Band (which Nas previously used on "Made You Look", and Billy Squier's...
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  • Hill. "Suspended in Time" contains samples from "Pipeline" by The Incredible Bongo Band, "Touch Me (All Night Long)" by Fonda Rae and Wish, "Real Hip Hop"...
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  • Steel" contains samples from "Good Times" by Chic, "Apache" by The Incredible Bongo Band, "Rapture" by Blondie, "Another One Bites the Dust" by Queen, "8th...
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  • Man") – Alan Hawkshaw Grand Prix Wrestling ("Let There Be Drums") – Incredible Bongo Band Grandstand ("News Scoop") – Len Stevens and Keith Mansfield Gravity...
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  • Records with a rotating cast of studio musicians whom he called the Incredible Bongo Band. The movie also features early work from makeup artist Rick Baker...
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