The Best of Cugat

by Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra

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  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 1961
  • Label: Mercury
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 37:33
  • Community rating: 4.07/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Glenn Letsch, Johnny Edwards, James Kottak, Ronnie Montrose, Montrose

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Despite the title implying a retrospective, this compilation features newly recorded, stereophonic updates of the bandleader's most famous repertoire. Xavier Cugat utilizes the era's advanced studio technology to deliver massive, highly polished big band mambos and rhumbas tailored specifically for mainstream American audiences.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental

Tracklist

  1. Don't Damage The Rock (5:06)
  2. Game Of Love (2:57)
  3. Pass It On (3:37)
  4. Hard Headed Woman (3:50)
  5. M For Machine (3:59)
  6. Ready Willing And Able (4:19)
  7. Man Of The Hour (4:23)
  8. Flesh And Blood (4:36)
  9. Stand (4:46)

Credits

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