Xavier Cugat With Dinah Shore

Xavier Cugat | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 14, 1994)
• Original Release Date: 2010
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Harlequin
• ASIN: B000001XYL
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #511,449 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Walter Winchell Rhumba

2. Rain in Spain

3. Amor

4. Miserlou

5. La Negra Leonor

6. Rumba Rumba

7. Duerme

8. Temptation

9. Linda Mujer

10. Promise to Remember

11. Rumba Rhapsody

12. Brazil

13. Quierme Mucho (Yours)

14. The Breeze and I

15. When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano

16. La Cumparsita

17. Whatever Happened to You?

18. Jungle Drums (Canto Karabali)

19. In Sunny San Domingo

20. The Thrill of a New Romance

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

1940s transcriptions with wonderful full-color Cugat painting on the CD booklet front, 21 tracks.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Rare Vintage Music, August 27, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Xavier Cugat With Dinah Shore (Audio CD)

This album contains rare vintage music, with seven numbers vocalised by a very young Dinah Shore. Intitially, Dinah was rejected by big band leaders like Tommy Dorsey and Benny Goodman, because they felt that she did not have a very strong voice required for big band music. She got a break from Cugie and she has given some beautiful renderings of "Quierme Mucho", "La Cumparsita", "The Breeze and I" and "When the Swallows come back to Capistrano". Listening to Dinah has always been a sheer delight and with the instrumental backing of a Latin Great like Xavier Cugat, it is thrilling. It is somewhat ironic that in spite of the initial rejections, she became a force to be reckoned with in both pop and jazz music. The album also contains other renderings of Cugie between 1939 and 1945.

The recordings, though not bad, does contain a few scratches and static sounds. But that cannot be helped, in view of the age of the music which has come out of 1930s and 1940s. I wish music like this would become available in India where I reside so that I do not have to go overseas to make a purchase.

5.0 out of 5 stars HAUNTING, BEAUTIFUL ORCHESTRA BLENDS WITH DINAH VOCALS, October 20, 2010

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Dr. P. D. FISHER - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Xavier Cugat With Dinah Shore (Audio CD)

I have heard bits and pieces of this collaboration over the years - many of the vocals haunt me in dreams and at private moments in the wee hours.