SELECTED CHAINO and KIRBY ALLAN DISCOGRAPHY

LPs

TOPS L1510 12 Top Hits . . . Featuring Great Hollywood Vocalists and Artists 1954 Budget album of re-recorded versions of hit songs. Kirby Allan sings "Friendly Persuasion." (On the label, the title is 12 Top Tunes.)
TAMPA RECORDS CORP. TP-144 Chaino Night of the Spectre (a.k.a. Eyes of the Spectre) 1958
VERVE MG V2104 Chaino Jungle Mating Rhythms 1958
SCORE SLP 4027 Chaino Jungle Rhythms 1958
OMEGA DISC OML/OSL 1007 Chaino and his African Percussion Safari Jungle Echoes 1958
SPECTRE/TP 4 Chaino Chaino (a.k.a. Night/Eyes of the Spectre) Strange reissue of Night of the Spectre with amazing new cover art by Dick Thomas and great "eyeball" label that reads "Unbridled Passions of Love's Eerie Spectre." Some covers have the artwork on both sides of the jacket, while others have the Eyes of the Spectre liner notes.)
UNRELEASED Chaino Jungle Rock: New Sounds In Rock-n-Roll Unbelievable mastertape prepped for apparently never-released album. Songs are: "The Pigmy (Pygmy) Song"/ "Congo Rock"/ "Voodoo"/ "Rockin' Bongos"/ "The Chase"/ "African Thunder"/ "Rockin' in Trinidad"/ "Gua-Gua"/ "Ubangi Rock"/ "Dark Africa"/ "Bow Winga"/ "Mau Mau" 1958
DOT DLP-3240 Chaino Chaino Africana 1959
METRO 2356052 Chaino Voodoo Drums German pressing. (Cover graphics suggest this is a later 1960s repackaging of Jungle Echoes.)
OMEGATAPE ST 4021 Primitive and Jungle Echoes with Chaino A.K.A. Primitive Jungle Echoes (Four-track album includes Primitive, the original sound track of the motion picture The Mating Urge composed and conducted by Stanley Wilson, plus Chaino's Jungle Echoes.)
OMEGATAPE ST-7059 Chaino and his African Percussion Safari Jungle Echoes (Four-track version.)
OMEGATAPE 1086-880 Chaino African Percussion Volume Two Featuring Chaino ("Stereophonic" reel-to-reel tape. Four-track. 7 ? ips. Thirty minutes. A repackaging of Jungle Echoes material. No info on Volume One yet.)
OMEGA OSL-119 Various artists Erotic Percussion ("Stereophonic" budget LP features an uncredited Chaino plus others.)
OMEGA OSD-1. Various artists Sounds . . . Out Of This World ("Stereophonic" balance test demonstration/sampler LP featuring Omega label material. Includes Chaino's "Cum-Ba-See" off Jungle Echoes.)
DIRECTIONAL SOUND DS-5006 John Evans Exotic Percussion & Brilliant Brass (Features Chaino as overdubbed sideman. Apparently was going to be repackaged and re-released as Temptation.)
OMEGA (unreleased?) Chaino featuring members of the Francis Bay Orchestra Temptation (Tracks resurface on Percussion For Playboys and possibly also on Playboy Percussion/Omega OSD 2.) A reel-to-reel version of Temptation has surfaced. Probably there's a vinyl version, too. Allan only has a white label stereo test pressing.
HALLMARK 28-30 The Francis Bay Big Band Featuring Chaino Afro Stereo Another version of Temptation. A 4-track reel has turned up of this album. Produced by Stereo Tape Corp., Hewlett, L.I. The songs are: "Temptation," "An Occasional Man," "Mambo Inn," "Eso Es El Amor," "Mambo Italiano," "Bad And Beautiful," "Return To Paradise," "Cool Mambo," "Caravan," "Cuban Caper."
LINCOLN LNP-305 Chaino and his African Drums Erotic Percussion  YET ANOTHER version of the Temptation album.
DOT DLP25240/22-146 The Kirby Allan Group Chaino Africana (Reissue in the Muntz Stereo Pak 4-track format, this time billed as "featuring the Kirby Allan Group.")
MAZE  MAZ-B-331 The Kirby Allan Group Percussion for Primitive Lovers (Muntz Stereo Pak 4-track format only. Tape features a shrunken, black-and-white reproduction of the Dick Thomas cover art from the Spectre 4 album.)
MAZE MAZ-B-385 The Kirby Allan Group Percussion For Playboys Volume One (Muntz 4-track format.)
MAZE MAZ-B-387 The Kirby Allan Group Percussion For Playboys Volume Two (Muntz 4-track format only)
PQ PRODUCTIONS PQ 002 Tangent Moments (Private pressing jazz-soul album features Chaino Sababa Bahutu playing congas and percussion on "Can't Keep From Thinking of You," "Rhythm in Dem Bones," "Right Way to Be," "Moments," and "I Loved You So." Tangent is Peter D. Queal, vocals-guitar-flute-bass, and Jonathan P. Whiting, vibes-drums.)
PUCK (No number) The Funnyboners featuring Kirby Allan The Funnyboners in Backhouse Vulgarities featuring Kirby Allan Circa 1985 ("An assortment of clean dirty songs." A risque musical comedy album with vocals by Allan. Outhouse humor.) Accompanied by sons of the pioneers, and written by Lee Penny of "My Adobe Hacienda." fame.
ROMULAN RECORDS UFOX-23CD Various artists Frolic Diner Part Three (CD includes Chaino's "Ubangi Rock." Vinyl version is called Frolic Diner Volume Five UFOX-23.) 1997
STRIP RECORDS ST-075 Various artists Las Vegas Grind Part Three (CD includes Chaino's "The Chase" and "Rockin' Bongos." Vinyl version is called Las Vegas Grind Volume Five.) 1997
SEPIA CD SEP 002 Various artists Midnight Ramble Tonight! (CD includes Chaino's "Ubangi Rock.")
BACCHUS ARCHIVES (DIONYSUS) BA 1122 Chaino Kirby Allan Presents . . . Chaino Africana and Beyond! (CD only) 1998
THE CONTINENTAL MAGAZINE #7 CD SAMPLER Retro music mag giveaway compact disc includes Chaino's "Swamp Girl." Promotes the Bacchus Archives retrospective. 1999                
HIBISCUS CD 1001 Various artists Paradise Found Vol. 1: Rare Exotic Sounds (CD includes Chaino and his African Percussion Safari's "The Jungle Chase" off Jungle Echoes.) Circa 2000-01

45s

KEM RECORDS 45-2735 Kirby Allan Acc. By Tony Iavello "I'll Make You Love Me" b/w "It's Never Too Late"
MAZE 1002 Kirby Allan "Don't You Remember" b/w "My Life, My Love, My All"
MAZE 1004 Kirby Allan with Tony Iavello and Orchestra "Never Never Never" b/w "That's How I Remember You"
MAZE 1005 Kirby Allan with the Maze Studio Orchestra "You Can't Change Your Heart" b/w "Shameless"
MAZE 1018 Kirby Allan "Mother Don't 'llow No Rock 'n' Roll" b/w "More Bounce to the Ounce" Red vinyl. Backed by Plaz Johnson and Ernie Freeman of "Tequila". December 1956
TAMPA TP-142 Chaino (pronounced Cha-ee-no) and His Slave Boys "Trinidad" b/w "The Slide" Both songs written by Robert Scherman. Allan claims no involvement with this single and it doesn't sound like an Allan production. April 1958 Monarch pressing.
TAMPA TP 144 Chaino "The Pigmy Song (Tikky Tikky Boom Boom)" b/w "Ubangi Rock" Songs credited to Kirby Allan-Chaino. May 1958.
OMEGA EP OR 70 Caino (sic) and the Safari Percussion Boys Jungle Echoes EP "Torture of the Mau Mau"/ "The Jungle Chase"/ "Cum-Ba-See"/ "The Spear Dance" Italy
OMEGA "International Pacific Recording Corporation" 1007 A/B Chaino and his African Percussion Safari "Caccia Nella Jungla"/ "Torture dei Mau Mau" ("Jungle Chase"/ "Torture of the Mau Mau") Italy
TERRA T-1000 Chaino "Afro Cha Cha" b/w "Congo Serenade"
ORB O-1000/1001 Chaino "Poko Cha Cha" b/w "Wah Pah Cha"
ORB O-1002/1003 Chaino "Ubangi Rock" b/w "Gone Ape"
ORB O-1004/1005 Chaino "Rockin' Bongos" b/w "The Chase"
ORB O-1006/1007 Chaino featuring Cherpie, the Swingin' Congo Bird "Rockin' Bird Bongo" b/w "Jungle Bird Rock" (According to the master tape box, these two songs plus the unreleased "Jungle Jam" were recorded on July 9, 1959.)
ORB EP-1000-1/1000-2 Kirby Allan "PREVIEW of our forthcoming album" ultra-rare promotional EP on yellow vinyl. Songs are "Blow Softly"/ "Wild Bird"/ "Here's My Heart"/"Those Tender Years"/"I'll Take My Heart"/"A Tear Fell." Undistinguished easy-listening instrumentals. October 1961

RELATED

LPs

CORONET (mono) Kaino and his Afro-Percussion Group Fabulous Ping Pong Percussion (Cheapie Chaino knockoff)
DECCA DL 8983 The Eloise Trio The Eloise Trio (Unsung album of Caribbean music contains the intense "Anna Ba Coha" by Kirby Allan. There are unreleased master tapes of Chaino's versions of the song.)
DIRECTIONAL SOUND DS-5012 Chango (Chaino?) and the Polynesians. Polynesian Percussion. (According to the liner notes by Bob Freedman the artists on this LP are Chango and the Polynesians. However, on the record label it is Chaino and the Polynesians. Frequently marketed by record dealers as being by Chaino. Kirby Allan says it's not Chaino.)
IMPERIAL LP-9183-A (Monaural) Ukonu Jungle Drums (The music is different but the cover painting is a swipe of the cover of Chaino's Jungle Rhythms LP!)
OMEGA OSL 118 Uncredited Pervasive Percussion (Cover shows up on reel-to-reel reissues of Jungle Echoes, but this doesn't seem to be Chaino.)
VIKING VK 605 Ugella and the Viking Pops Orchestra Theme from Mondo Cane and Other Horror Music (Contains bootlegged Chaino material without credit. Also apparently came out on OMEGA.)

45s

MAZE 1003 Tony Iavello Orchestra "This Is New York" b/w "Periquito (Little Parrot)" (Co-produced by Kirby Allan.) On two different labels: a light blue one with dark blue lettering and the more common green-and-silver one.
MAZE 1019 Gloria Craig with Kirby Allan and His Orchestra "Nothin' To Lose But The Blues" b/w "Chihuahua Choo Choo"
MAZE 1000 Ernie Varden with the Tony Iavello Orchestra "If It Takes A Miracle" b/w "It's So Hard To Explain" (Both songs written by Kirby Allan.)
MAZE 1012 Bill Norman with the Hank Levine Orchestra and chorus "Ring Out Wild Bells" b/w "If You'd Be Mine"  (B-side written by Kirby Allan.)
MAZE 1013 Bill Norman with Hank Levine Orchestra and chorus "Picnic in the Park" b/w "Song of the Wedding" (A-side is listed as being from "Picnic," but Allan doesn't know why. It's apparently not a song from the movie.)
MAZE 1014 Tony Iavello Orchestra "Friendly Stranger" (vocal by Gloria Craig) b/w "I Don't Want to Kiss You Goodnight" (vocal by Vicki Benet)
MAZE 1015 Bill Norman "It's Never Too Late" b/w "Ghost Train" (A-side written by Kirby Allan; B-side written by Buck Ram.)
MAZE 1016 Herb Jeffries with Dick Hazard and his Orchestra "The Heart of a Woman" b/w "The Conqueror"
MAZE 1017 Johnny Gable "Oh Well" b/w "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" (A-side co-written by Kirby Allan.)
MAZE 1020 Bill Norman with Kirby Allan and His Orchestra "Where Are You" b/w "S'Wonderful" (At least some copies of this record are mispressed and actually are the never formally released Kirby Allan single "With You" b/w "Tears.")
MAZE EP 1000 Page Cavanaugh Quartet "Tell Her You Love Her"/ "Destination Honeymoon"/ "April in Paris, Texas"/ "Our Time" (Masters purchased or licensed by Maze, according to Allan.)

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