Not familiar with this one? No surprise. We dug this album up off of a European website several years ago. We like this song so much that we posted it to YouTube ourselves so it could be featured on monahanssong.blogspot.com.
If you don't feel like dancing to this when you hear it, get in the car and go to the emergency room as you may be dead.
Beach Bongo Part I has very little information attached to it, and nothing about the artist Funk Monk.
It all appears to start with a series of books written by Herbert Ypma called "Hip Hotels". The series was a big hit and sold over a million copies. several times out selling "The Da Vinci Code" which was out at that time.
According to Amazon (and they capitalized all the words, not us):
"Hip Hotels" is More Than Just a Bestselling Book Phenomenon. It Was, and is the First Book to Recognize a Fundamental Shift in the World of Travel, Where the Decision on Where to Stay is Governed by the Experience Offered and the Style of the Environment. People Now Want Something to Talk About – They Want to Be Challenged and They Want an Experience. Travel is Not Dictated by Pragmatism Or Practicality, It’s Dominated by Emotion, and Hip Hotels, Whether it Be Music, Books Or on the Internet, is Set Up to Trigger that Emotion."
So apparently in 2006 to accompany a book in the series called "Hip Hotels: Beach", an album was released of various artists using a matching cover to the book. These were hip songs of the beach.
The song uses bongos throughout and there are no less than eight separate solos on a wide array of instruments. Only Funk Monk could pull off matching a banjo with bongos!
So give this a listen and we assure you you will be adding this to your playlist...
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