Name: Live from the Waldorf: Astoria 1950-1954
Brand: Harlequin Records
SKU: 6574
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Live from the Waldorf

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Album: Live from the Waldorf: Astoria 1950-1954
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Penguin Song
2)	Play Fiddle Play
3)	iQue Jelenque!
4)	Mambo Rhapsody
5)	Night Must Fall/Nightingale
6)	Mambo Jambo
7)	One at a Time
8)	Llego, Llego
9)	My Shawl
10)	Siboney/La Paloma
11)	Miami Beach Rhumba
12)	Francesca
13)	Chivirico
14)	Carnival in Uruguay
15)	Me Lo Dijo Adela (Sweet and Gentle)
16)	Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White
17)	Cha-Cha-Cha with Me
18)	Maracaibo
19)	Whatever Lola Wants
20)	Park Avenue Mambo
21)	Dengozo

Album: Live from the Waldorf: Astoria 1950-1954
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Penguin Song
2)	Play Fiddle Play
3)	iQue Jelenque!
4)	Mambo Rhapsody
5)	Night Must Fall/Nightingale
6)	Mambo Jambo
7)	One at a Time
8)	Llego, Llego
9)	My Shawl
10)	Siboney/La Paloma
11)	Miami Beach Rhumba
12)	Francesca
13)	Chivirico
14)	Carnival in Uruguay
15)	Me Lo Dijo Adela (Sweet and Gentle)
16)	Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White
17)	Cha-Cha-Cha with Me
18)	Maracaibo
19)	Whatever Lola Wants
20)	Park Avenue Mambo
21)	Dengozo

Performer Notes

Personnel: Xavier Cugat; Abbe Lane, Otto Bolivar (vocals).
Includes liner notes by Bruce Bastin.
Digitally remastered by Charlie Crump.
Personnel: Otto Bolivar, Abbe Lane (vocals).
Audio Remasterer: Charlie Crump.
Recording information: Waldorf-Astoria (1950-1954).
Photographer: Hugh Turner.
Harlequin Records presents Xavier Cugat and his orchestra, the way they sounded live and in person at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel during the years 1950-1954. This is Latin big band dance music -- heavy on the rhumbas and mambos -- with a strong jazz influence. Indeed during their best passages Cugie's crew could easily be mistaken for Machito & His Afro-Cuban Salseros. Vocalists Otto Bolivar and Abbe Lane convey the lyrics in tidy Spanish and accessible English, ensuring acceptance from the audibly wined and dined Truman-Eisenhower era audience. Among many dozens of Cugat compilations, this one rates somewhere amidst the uppers. ~ arwulf arwulf