Combustible Edison

Combustible Edison was a group founded in the early 1990s in Providence, Rhode Island, and was one of several lounge music acts that led a brief resurgence of interest in the genre during the mid-1990s. Unlike other bands with a more ironic take on the lounge scene, Combustible Edison took the music seriously and strove to add to what its members saw as a canon of works, such as those by Esquivel, Henry Mancini, and Martin Denny. In the early 1980s, the artists known as The Millionaire and Miss Lily Banquette formed, with Peter Dixon, a rock band called Christmas, which put out several albums. Nicholas Cudahy also performed with Christmas in the late 1980s. In 1991, the Millionaire wrote a stage show entitled "The Tiki Wonder Hour," and...