Cugi's Cocktails

by Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra

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  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1963
  • Label: Mercury
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 32:21
  • Community rating: 3.43/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The veteran bandleader and premier popularizer of Latin music in the United States delivers a highly polished set explicitly designed for high-society leisure. Featuring bright brass and sanitized, easy-to-digest polyrhythms, the album strips away the grittier roots of Afro-Cuban music to prioritize cocktail hour atmosphere. It remains a quintessential document of mid-century exotica and suburban escapism.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, party, alcohol, hedonism, lounge

Tracklist

  1. Cuba Libre (Gurarcha) (2:39)
  2. One Mint Julep (Cha-Cha Twist) (3:05)
  3. Old-Fashioned (Beguine) (3:21)
  4. Daiquiri (Bossa Nova) (2:55)
  5. Cocktails For Two (Cha-Cha) (3:07)
  6. Rum & Coca Cola (Mambo) (2:35)
  7. Cugi's Cocktail (Hully Gully Cha Cha) (2:29)
  8. Grasshopper (Rhumba) (2:36)
  9. Blue Champagne (2:18)
  10. Zombie (Bolero) (2:31)
  11. Manhattan (Cha-Cha) (2:21)
  12. Singapore Sling (Rhumba) (2:18)

Credits

  • Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra - primary artist
  • Eddie Asherman - written-by
  • Xavier Cugat - written-by
  • Rudolph Toombs - written-by
  • Antonio Guijarro - written-by
  • Jose Sanchez Sola - written-by
  • Djalma Ferreira - written-by
  • Luiz Ant么nio - written-by

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