art direction Tommy Steele
art direction, design Andy Engel
compilation producer, compiled by, research [photo research] Brad Benedict
executive-producer Wayne Watkins
liner notes RJ Smith
photography by Don Miller
remastered by [digitally] Bob Norberg
Made By EMI Swindon
Spicy latin licks hot voodoo chicks.

Hey, Daddy-O! The natives are getting restless and you're invited to a wild percussion party. We're serving up eighteen crazy bongo-spanking relics just raucous enoeugh to pop your precious eardrums. You can't beat it, man. Bam!
(from back cover notes)

Track 1 recorded August 1960 · From the album Mr. Percussion
Track 2 recorded c. 1958 · From the album Latin Fever
Track 3 recorded c. 1958 · From the album Marimbita
Track 4 recorded February 1959 · From the album Let's Go Loco
Track 5 (On Green Dolphin Street) recorded May 1964 · From the album Latin Village
Track 5 (Hernando's Hideaway) recorded c. 1960 · From the album Exotic Sounds Visit Broadway
Track 6 recorded December 22, 1964 · From the album Bang Bang Bang
Track 7 recorded c. 1961 · From the album The Latin Jazz Sextet
Track 8 (Baxter) recorded April 5, 1955 · Previously unreleased
Track 8 (May) recorded c. 1966 · From a Capitol Records single
Track 9 recorded c. 1960 · From the album Guitars, Woodwinds & Bongos
Track 10 recorded c. 1962 · From the album Percusiones Mexicanas
Track 11 recorded c. 1966 · From the album I'll Never Be The Same
Track 12 recorded c. 1960 · From the album Afro Can-Can
Track 13 recorded c. 1960 · From the album Blazing Latin Brass
Track 14 recorded c. 1961 · Previously unreleased
Track 15 recorded August 20, 1958 · From the album African Jazz
Track 16 from the 1959 album Happy Cha-Cha-Cha!
Track 17 recorded February 1959 · From the album Let's Go Loco
Track 18 recorded c. 1959 · From the album Bongo Fever
Track 19 is a bonus track recorded c. 1958 · From the album Sophisticated Savage

Booklet included

℗ © 1997 Capitol Records, Inc.
Marketed and distributed by EMI
Printed in EU
Made in EU

Barcode: 7 24385 34132 8 (Printed)
Barcode: 724385341328
Label Code: LC 0148
Rights Society: bel
Rights Society: BIEM
Price Code: 084 (I)
Price Code: PM 516 (F)
Matrix / Runout: 853413 2 . 1 :2:1 EMI SWINDON (Variant 1)
Mastering SID Code: IFPI L042 (Variant 1)
Mould SID Code: ifpi 1437 (Variant 1)
Matrix / Runout: 853413 2 . 1 :2:7 EMI SWINDON (Variant 2)
Mastering SID Code: IFPI L042 (Variant 2)
Mould SID Code: ifpi 1445 (Variant 2)
Matrix / Runout: 853413 2 . 1 :2:8 EMI SWINDON (Variant 3)
Mastering SID Code: IFPI L042 (Variant 3)
Mould SID Code: ifpi 1431 (Variant 3)