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Title: Oingo Boingo
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Edwards, Michael
Date Created and/or Issued: 1983
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.; Photograph included in the Exhibit: From Pop to the Pit, The LAPL Photo Collection Celebrates the L.A. Music Scene, 1978-1989.
Originally a musical theater troupe named "The Mystical Knights of the Oingo Boingo," the band scaled down both the name and their members in the 1980s. Their eclectic, new wave rock featured horns and synthesizers to create a full orchestral sound that defied description.
Photograph caption dated August 18, 1983 reads, "Oingo Boingo's Danny Elfman."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;36 x 29 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00121791
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box Musical Groups--Oingo Boingo
CARL0005343119
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/34066
Subject: Elfman, Danny
Oingo Boingo (Musical group)
Singers--United States
Singing--California--Los Angeles
Rock groups--United States
Rock concerts--California--Los Angeles
Microphones
Men--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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