Side A
Artist	Song
louis armstrong usa	mexican swing A Portrait Of (1938)
stan kenton & his orchestra usa	the peanut vendor From Latin.To Jazz Dance Vol 2 (1947)
james moody & chano pozo usa	tin tin deo From Boogie To Bop (1948)
tito puente & graciela cuba	el yoyo Kings Of Mambo (1950)
edmundo ros & his orchestra trinidad	I love to mambo Vaba-Ba-Boom (1950)
illinois jacquet usa	mambocito mio Talkin' Verve Vol 2 (1954)
yma sumac peru	bo mambo Queen Of Exotica (1954)
james moody usa	mambo with moody From Latin.To Jazz Dance Vol 4 (1954)
esquivel mexico	puerto principe Best Of (1957)
jack costanzo usa	bajo numero uno Latin Fever (1958)
champs, the usa	carambra From Latin.To Jazz Dance Vol 1 (1959)
joe loco usa	moderna muchacho Bongo Land (1959)
perez `prez' prado cuba	mambo no.8 King Of Mambo (1959)
serge gainsbourg france	cha cha cha de loup (Les Loups Dans La Bergerie) Couleur CafT (1959)
don swan & his orchestra usa	el cumbanchero (guaracha - fast rhumba) Mambo Fever (1959)
jon hendricks usa	jive samba The Leopard Lounge Vol 1 (1961)
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
henry mancini usa	latin golightly (Breakfast At Tiffany's) OST (1961)
ella fitzgerald usa	stardust bossa nova Jukebox Ella (1962)
ann-margret sweden	senor blues (Horace Silver) Viva La Vivacious (1962)
elvis presley usa	bossa nova baby (Fun In Acapulco) OST (1963)
bert kaempfert & his orchestra germany	mambo mania In Flight Entertainment (1964)
herb alpert's tijuana brass usa	mexican shuffle South Of The Border (1964)
laurindo almeida & the bossa nova all stars brazil	route 66 (Nelson Riddle) Exciting Jazz Samba Rhythms Vol 4 (1964)
king curtis usa	tequila (The Champs) From Latin.To Jazz Dance Vol 5 (1964)
lalo schifrin argentina	the cat From Latin.To Jazz Dance Vol 2 (1965)
clark terry usa	el blues latino Les Yper Sound (unk)
charlie byrd usa	s= danto samba Exciting Jazz Samba Rhythms Vol 4 (1965)
xavier cugat & his orchestra	soul sauce (wachi wara) From Latin.To Jazz Dance Vol 2 (1965)
bobby mackay usa	bossa nova (I say) Exciting Jazz Samba Rhythms Vol 2 (1965)
connie francis usa	bossa nova hand dance Les Yper Sound (1965)
piero piccioni italy	before it's too late (afro cha-cha-cha) (Agente 077 Dall' Oriente) OST (1965)
les baxter orchestra & chorus usa	canta de ossanha Blue Brazil (unknown)
astrud gilberto brazil	berimbau Genius Of (1965)
ray terrace unk	cuchy frito man Carnival (1965)

Comment:

With a few exceptions, this mix focuses on the styles and influences of dance music from both Cuba & Brazil.
The modern mambo originated in Cuba in 1938 but the first musician to create mambo music was Perez Prado.
The Cha-Cha-Cha originated in 1951 in Cuba by violinist Enrique Jorrin. The many variants of Samba, Brazil's most popular dance, developed into The Bossa Nova and was first heard in 1958. BTW Schifrin's The Cat is not the Jimmy Smith version. 9 of the tracks are from The Rare Groove Label who released a wonderful 11 volume set of mostly 60's Latin grooves - `From Latin.To Jazz Dance' Vol 1-5 (80 tracks) & `Exciting Jazz Sambas' Vol 1-6 (120 tracks) - not definitive alas but an essential addition to anyone interested in Latin Grooves. The covers, incidentally, are not disimilar to my Mondo Designs. Below is the super rare Dom1 Mondo Ann-Margret coaster for the Bossa Barbeque. At Mondo, we feel summer is on the way & Dom1 is heading off to Paris to join his wife for a (much needed) delayed honeymoon week. Ooh la la!

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