Formed in 1972, the Incredible Bongo Band – AKA Michael Viner’s Incredible Bongo
Band – was a studio project formed by MGM Records executive and artist manager
Michael Viner. Commissioned to provide the soundtrack to the 1972 film The Thing
with Two Heads, Viner and his group of session musicians provided a funky,
percussion-fueled collection of instrumentals for the film’s soundtrack. Being
made up of session musicians, Viner used the cream of the crop when making
Incredible Bongo Band records. Some of the many musicians involved on their
recordings include Jim Gordon, Joe Sampl...