Cugat Cavalcade

by Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra

Cugat Cavalcade cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 1958
  • Label: Columbia
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 30:49
  • Community rating: 3.15/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Desert Eagle Discs, 21 Soldiers

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Highlighting the bandleader's role in popularizing Latin rhythms for mainstream American audiences, this collection features lushly orchestrated dance numbers. The buoyant arrangements are characteristic of the heavily commercialized exotica and mambo crazes of the mid-century era.

Genres

Descriptors: party, orchestral

Tracklist

  1. Brazil (2:40)
  2. Besame Mucho (2:42)
  3. What a Diff'rence a Day Made (2:40)
  4. My Shawl (2:34)
  5. La Cumparsita (The Masked One) (2:42)
  6. Tico-Tico (2:00)
  7. Orchids In the Moonlight (2:27)
  8. Yours (2:26)
  9. Miami Beach Rhumba (2:23)
  10. Jalousie (3:14)
  11. Guitara Romana (2:48)
  12. Dengoza (2:06)

Credits

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