Volume 211: Percy’s Cuba

I’ve mentioned this a few times on this show. The Latin beat was extremely popular when my dad was a teenager and beyond. This record is a combination of taking that Latin beat, this time from a specific country, and arranging it with a plush orchestra.

The orchestra conductor who arranged this music was considered the leader in a genre that infiltrated hundreds of radio stations in the 1960s. It’s still a term widely used to describe this sound.

So get ready to hear the captain of the easy listening movement in Volume 211: Percy's Cuba.

More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. 

Credits and copyrights

Percy Faith And His Orchestra – Malagueña (Music Of Cuba)
Label: Columbia – CS 8081
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
Released: 1958
Genre: Jazz, Latin
Style: Easy Listening, Afro-Cuban Jazz, Rumba, Samba, Cha-Cha

We'll hear 6 of 14 tunes from this album.

Malagueña
Written-By – Ernesto Lecuona

El Manisero (The Peanut Vendor)
Written-By – Marion Sunshine, Moises Simons, and Louise Wolfe Gilbert

El Bodeguero
Written-By – Richard Egues

Siboney
Written-By – Ernesto Lecuona

Mama Inez
Written-By – Elisio Grenet

Para Vigo Me Voy (Say, Sí Sí)
Written-By – Al Stillman, Ernesto Lecuona, and Francia Luben

I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

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