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Les Baxter (March 14, 1922–January 15, 1996) was an American musician and composer. Events 1489 - The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice. Year 1922 ( MCMXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 588 BC - Nebuchadrezzar II of Babylon lays siege to Jerusalem under Zedekiah 's reign Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar) The United States of America —commonly referred to as the

Baxter studied piano at the Detroit Conservatory before moving to Los Angeles for further studies at Pepperdine College. The piano is a Musical instrument played by means of a keyboard that produces sound by striking steel strings with Felt covered hammers Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West Pepperdine University is a private University of higher learning affiliated with the Churches of Christ. Abandoning a concert career as a pianist, he turned to popular music as a singer. At the age of 23 he joined Mel Tormé's Mel-Tones, singing on Artie Shaw records such as "What Is This Thing Called Love". Melvin Howard Tormé ( September 13, 1925 &ndash June 5, 1999) nicknamed The Velvet Fog, was an American musician known as Arthur Jacob Arshawsky ( May 23, 1910 &ndash December 30, 2004) better known as Artie Shaw, was an American Jazz

Baxter then turned to arranging and conducting for Capitol Records in 1950 and was responsible for the early Nat King Cole hits, "Mona Lisa" and "Too Young". Capitol Records is a major United States -based Record label owned by EMI and located in Hollywood California and New York City as Nathaniel Adams Coles (March 17 1919 &ndash February 15 1965 known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American musician " Mona Lisa " is an Academy Award-winning song written by Ray Evans and Jay Livingston for the Paramount Pictures film " Too Young " is a popular Song.The music was written by Sidney Lippman, the lyrics by Sylvia Dee. In 1953 he scored his first movie, the sailing travelogue Tanga Tika. Year 1953 ( MCMLIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. With his own orchestra, he released a number of hits including "Ruby" (1953), "Unchained Melody" (1955) and "The Poor People Of Paris" (1956). Year 1953 ( MCMLIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. " Unchained Melody " is a popular song with music by Alex North and lyrics by Hy Zaret. Year 1955 ( MCMLV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar) " The Poor People of Paris " is a popular Song. It was adapted by Jack Lawrence in 1954 from the French language song Year 1956 ( MCMLVI) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. He also achieved success with concept albums of his own orchestral suites: Le Sacre Du Sauvage, Festival Of The Gnomes, Ports Of Pleasure, and Brazil Now, the first three for Capitol and the fourth on Gene Norman's Crescendo label. Gene Norman was an US American promoter and Disk jockey. In 1953 he founded a record label known as Record label Gene He worked with first class session musicians, the likes of Plas Johnson and Clare Fischer. Plas John Johnson Jr (born July 21, 1931) is an American Soul-jazz and Hard bop Tenor saxophonist, probably most familiar as the Clare Fischer (born October 22, 1928 in Durand Michigan) is an American Composer, Arranger, Pianist and

Baxter also wrote the "Whistle" theme from the TV show Lassie. Lassie is an Emmy Award -winning American Television series that follows the adventures of a female rough collie named Lassie Baxter had obvious skill in writing Latin music for strings, but he did not restrict his activities to recording. As he once told Soundtrack! magazine, "I never turn anything down".

In the 1960s, he formed the Balladeers, a besuited and conservative folk group that at one time featured a slim and youthful David Crosby. David Van Cortlandt Crosby (born August 14, 1941) is an American Guitarist, Singer, and Songwriter. He operated in radio as musical director of The Halls of Ivy and the Bob Hope and Abbott and Costello shows; he also worked on movie soundtracks and later composed and conducted scores for Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe films and other horror stories and teenage musicals, including The Pit and the Pendulum, The Comedy of Terrors, Muscle Beach Party, The Dunwich Horror, and Frogs. Radio is the transmission of signals by Modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible Light. The Halls of Ivy was an NBC radio sitcom that ran from 1949-1952 Bob Hope, KBE KCSG ( May 29, 1903 &ndash July 27, 2003) was an American comedian and actor who appeared in William (Bud Abbott and Lou Costello (born Louis Francis Cristillo performed together as Abbott and Costello, an American comedy duo whose Roger William Corman (born April 5 1926) sometimes nicknamed "King of the Bs" for his output of B-movies (though he himself rejects this as inaccurate Edgar Allan Poe (January 19 1809 – October 7 1849 was an American poet, short-story Writer, editor and Literary critic, The Pit and the Pendulum (also known as Pit and the Pendulum) is a 1961 Horror film directed by Roger Corman, starring Vincent The Comedy of Terrors ( 1964) is a American International Pictures comedy horror Film directed by Jacques Tourneur Muscle Beach Party is the second of the ' Beach Party films. It was made in 1964 by American International Pictures and was directed by " The Dunwich Horror" is a Short story by H P Lovecraft. This article is about the block cipher algorithm For the ultrafast laser pulse measurement technique see Frequency-resolved optical gating. Howard W. Koch recalled that Baxter composed, orchestrated, and recorded the entire score of The Yellow Tomahawk (1954) in a total of three hours for $5,000. Howard Winchel Koch ( April 11, 1916 - February 16, 2001) was an Academy Award -winning American director [1]

When soundtrack work reduced in the 1980s, he scored music for theme parks and SeaWorlds. Sheet music is a hand-written or printed form of Musical notation; like its analogs -- books pamphlets etc History Milton C Shedd, Ken Norris, David Demott, and George Millay brought SeaWorld to life yet that was not the initial idea In the 1990s, Baxter was widely celebrated, alongside Martin Denny and Arthur Lyman Group, as one of the progenitors of what had become known as the "exotica" movement. Martin Denny ( April 10, 1911 – March 2, 2005) was an American piano-player and composer best known as the "father of Exotica. Arthur Lyman ( February 2, 1932 &ndash February 24, 2002) was a prolific American Jazz Vibraphone and Marimba Exotica is a musical genre named after the 1957 Martin Denny album of the same title, popular during the 1950s to mid 1960s typically with the Suburban In his 1996 appreciation for Wired magazine, writer David Toop remembered Baxter thus:

Baxter offered package tours in sound, selling tickets to sedentary tourists who wanted to stroll around some taboo emotions before lunch, view a pagan ceremony, go wild in the sun or conjure a demon, all without leaving home hi-fi comforts in the white suburbs. Wired is a full-color monthly American Magazine and on-line periodical published in San Francisco, California since March 1993 Paganism (from Latin paganus, meaning "country dweller rustic" is a word used to refer to various religions and religious beliefs from across the world High fidelity or hi-fi reproduction is a term used by home stereo listeners and home audio enthusiasts ( Audiophiles to refer to high-quality reproduction South San Jose (cropjpg||thumb|A suburban development in San Jose California.

Les Baxter has a motion picture star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6314 Hollywood Blvd. The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a Sidewalk along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood Los Angeles California, USA, that

Discography

Album, Soundtrack & Compilation

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