Burger, Jack

Accomplished bongo player Jack Burger wasn't known as "Mr. Bongo" without reason. Before the Beatnik generation picked up on the bongos as their super-swank instrument of choice, Jack Burger was already slinging his smooth bongo skills all over the West Coast, from Gene Autry's radio show to session dates with the Beach Boys, Nelson Riddle and dozens of television programs. He's probably the percussion player you hear in every television commercial from the 60s -- and he played more than bongos, too, being an accomplished tympanist and kit player. Bongo was percussion.