Xavier Cugat And His Orchestra - The Best Of Cugat

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Xavier Cugat And His Orchestra
The Best Of Cugat

Compil. US 1961 on Mercury label
Jazz and Latin (Afro-Cuban Jazz, Cha-cha-cha, Tango, Rumba, Mambo, Latin Jazz, Bolero)

Gatefold sleeve with blue / silver labels. The right panel inside gatefold contains an explanation and scheme of how the album was recorded [see images]. Microphones used: Telefunken U-47 (reeds, marimba, female and male voices, violins) RCA 44BX (bass, bass guitar, rhythm guitar, trumpets, trombones, bongos, jawbone, celli) RCA BK5 (percussion) Recorded on Ampex tape recorders at 15 inches per second.

Musicians

	Xavier Cugat And His Orchestra , CU album by
	Abbe Lane voc, *1932 US cover, model

Producers

George Piros engineer

George Pickow photography by

Three Lions photography by

Hal Mooney recording supervisor, director

Album Tracks

No	Title	Artist	Composer	Duration
1	Mama Inez	Xavier Cugat And His Orchestra	Eliseo Grenet, Wolfe Gilbert	2:58
2	Tea For Two (Cha-Cha-Cha)	Xavier Cugat And His Orchestra	Irving Caesar, Vincent Youmans	2:35
3	Tequila	Xavier Cugat And His Orchestra	Chuck Rio	2:50
4	Taboo	Xavier Cugat And His Orchestra	Margarita Lecuona, Sidney Keith Russell	2:25
5	Sway	Xavier Cugat And His Orchestra	Norman Gimbel, Pablo Beltran Ruiz	2:24
6	Amor	Xavier Cugat And His Orchestra	Gabriel Ruiz, Ricardo Lopez Mendez	2:20
7	Amapola	Xavier Cugat And His Orchestra	Albert Gamse, Joseph Maria Lacalle	2:58
8	El Cumbanchero	Xavier Cugat And His Orchestra	Rafael Hernández	2:10
9	Ba-tu-ca-da	Xavier Cugat And His Orchestra	Don Alfonso	2:40
10	Misirlou	Xavier Cugat And His Orchestra	Nicholas Roubanis	2:23
11	It Happened In Monterey	Xavier Cugat And His Orchestra	Billy Rose, Mabel Wayne	2:17
12	Always In My Heart	Xavier Cugat And His Orchestra	Ernesto Lecuona, Kim Gannon	2:21

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