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Les Baxter
Mexia, United States • 1922-03-14 – 1996-01-15
Les Baxter is credited on 2,022 releases across 442 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1950–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
2,022
Pressings credited
442
Albums
8
Decades active
391
In collections
Biography
Leslie Thompson Baxter (March 14, 1922 – January 15, 1996) was an American composer, conductor, and musician. After working as an arranger and composer for swing bands, he developed his own style of easy listening music, known as exotica, and scored over 250 radio, television and motion pictures numbers.
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
2,022 releases · 442 albums · active 1950–2026
- Performance · 3,426
- Other credits · 168
- Production · 96
Studios: Liberty Studios · The Kaiser Aluminum Dome · Bell Sound Studios · Kabuki Sukiyaki Restaurant
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Hello Nasty
1998
Jackie Brown (Music From The Miramax Motion Picture)
1997
Solid Gold Hits
2005
Anthology: The Sounds Of Science
1999
Quiet Village - The Exotic Sounds Of Martin Denny
1959
No Way Out
1997
Beastie Boys Music
2020
Forbidden Island
1958
Exotica Volume II
1957
Exotica
1959
Exotica
1957
Intergalactic
1998
Primitiva
1958
Taboo - The Exotic Sounds Of Arthur Lyman
1958
Le Sacre Du Sauvage (Ritual Of The Savage)
1951
Black Widow
1976
Technicolor Paradise (Rhum Rhapsodies & Other Exotic Delights)
2018
Exotica Vol. III
1959
Music Of Hawaii
1966
Legend Of The Sun Virgin
1952
Exotic Moog
1969
Tamboo!
1955
First Man (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2019
African Queens
1977
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Martin Denny
- Les Baxter And His Orchestra
- Yma Sumac
- Nat King Cole
- 101 Strings
- Arthur Lyman
- Les Baxter With His Chorus And Orchestra
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