Daktari (album)

Daktari (subtitled Shelly Manne Performs & Conducts His Original Music for the Hit TV Show) is an album by drummer Shelly Manne recorded in 1967 featuring music from Daktari and released on the Atlantic label.[1] On the album, Mike Wofford plays a tack piano to evoke an African sound, and Manne is joined by percussionists Emil Richards, Larry Bunker, Frank Carlson, and Victor Feldman. According to the record liner notes, Manne and fellow percussionists play ankle and wrist jingles, Thai mouth organs, angklungs, ocarinas, vibraphones, tympani, and different kinds of marimbas.

Daktari
Studio album by
Shelly Manne
Released1967
RecordedNovember 30 and December 4 & 5, 1967
Annex Recording Studios, Hollywood, CA
GenreJazz
Length32:03
LabelAtlantic SD 8157
ProducerNesuhi Ertegun
Shelly Manne chronology
Perk Up
(1967)		 Daktari
(1967)		 Young Billy Young
(1967)

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]

The AllMusic site rated the album 2 stars.[2]

Steely Dan guitarist Walter Becker was a fan of the album's "vaguely African" music, sounding like it came from "Hollywood session players" rather than actual Africans. In the late 1990s, Becker modeled a percussion sequence after this style on the song "Two Against Nature" released on the Steely Dan album of the same name.[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Shelly Manne

  1. "Daktari" - 2:14
  2. "Out on a Limb" - 3:04
  3. "Clarence" - 2:18
  4. "Africa" - 3:10
  5. "Stay With Me" - 2:46
  6. "Elephantime" - 2:21
  7. "Wameru" - 2:56
  8. "Toto" - 2:44
  9. "Galloping Giraffes" - 3:11
  10. "Judy Judy" - 2:37
  11. "Ivan" - 2:27
  12. "Rhino Trot" - 1:51

Personnel
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References
  1. Atlantic Records Catalog: 8100 series accessed August 18, 2015
  2. Allmusic listing, accessed August 18, 2015
  3. "Steely Dan Interview - Against All Odds | Guitar.com". www.guitar.com. Archived from the original on 2017-03-02. Retrieved 2016-09-19.
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