Daktari (album)

Daktari
Studio album by Shelly Manne
Released	1967
Recorded	November 30 and December 4 & 5, 1967
Studio	Annex Recording Studios, Hollywood, CA
Genre	Jazz
Length	32:03
Label	Atlantic SD 8157
Producer	Nesuhi Ertegun
Shelly Manne chronology
Perk Up (1967) Daktari (1967) Young Billy Young (1967)

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 liner notes, Manne and fellow percussionists play ankle and wrist jingles, Thai mouth organs, angklungs, ocarinas, vibraphones, tympani, and different kinds of marimbas.