| Skins! Bongo Party with Les Baxter | ||||
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| Studio album by Les Baxter's Drums | ||||
| Released | 1957 | |||
| Genre | Easy listening, exotica | |||
| Length | 30:46 | |||
| Label | Capitol T 774 | |||
| Les Baxter's Drums chronology | ||||
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Skins! Bongo Party with Les Baxter is an album by Les Baxter's Drums. It was released in 1957 on Capitol Records. [1] [2]
The album debuted on Billboard magazine's popular albums chart on March 16, 1957, peaked at No. 21, and remained on that chart for two weeks. [3]
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