Incredible Bongo Band Bongo Rock (Reissue) Album 5 As Ugly As I

5 As Ugly As I Seem

" and the beautiful "Who Scared You

I'm Only Dancing" -- long legendary as an outtake

but not much else has changed

As clever and subtle as these reworkings are

Incredible Bongo Band Bongo Rock (Reissue) Album 5 As Ugly As IThere's a fun story behind this album, retold in detail in the liner notes. In 1972, Michael Viner was an executive at MGM Records. Asked to put together some music for the soundtrack of an upcoming B movie horror film, The Thing with Two Heads, he called on songwriter Perry Botkin, Jr., and the two of them whipped up a pair of songs called "Bongo Rock" and "Bongolia." By the middle of 1973, the songs, attributed to the Incredible Bongo Band, began to