Aloha
The coolest
vacation spot since Vegas?
Our territorial island paradise, soon to become the 50th state: Hawaii!
Whether you heard it first on your parents' console stereo, in an elevator, while one monkey brained another on TV, or in a faux-hepcat movie or TV soundtrack, you could hardly avoid the strange brew of highly-orchestrated instrumental pop, latin jazz, unusual percussion and kitschy showbiz smarm that flourished in the late '50's and early '60's.
Even if you wanted to, even if you tried really hard.
For Exotica had arrived, and like Chickenman, Exotica
was everywhere!
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