Xavier Cugat With Dinah Shore

Xavier Cugat

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 14, 1994)
• Original Release Date: June 14, 1994
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Harlequin Records
• ASIN: B000001XYL
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #489,956 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Walter Winchell Rhumba

2. Rain in Spain

3. Amor

4. Miserlou

5. 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. Breeze and I

15. When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano

16. Cumparsita

17. Whatever Happened to You?

18. Jungle Drums (Canto Karabali)

19. In Sunny San Domingo

20. Thrill of a New Romance

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

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

By A Customer

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.