Only the Best of Xavier Cugat

Original Release Date:  May 26, 2009

Track Listing

• 1. El Beso
• 2. Valencia
• 3. El Relicario
• 4. Tres Veces Guapa
• 5. Playera [Dance No. 5 From "The Spanish Dances"]
• 6. Malaguena
• 7. Clavelitos
• 8. Madrid
• 9. Ritual Fire Dance
• 10. El Gato Montes
• 11. Granada
• 12. La Violetera [Who Will Buy My Violets]
• 13. Oye Negra
• 14. Danse Des Mirlitons [From "The Nutcracker Suite"]
• 15. Carioca
• 16. Night Must Fall
• 17. Linda Mujer
• 18. Cuban Mambo
• 19. Green Eyes
• 20. Chiu Chiu
• 21. Danse Arabe [From "The Nutcracker Suite"]
• 22. Baia
• 23. Mambo No. 5
• 24. Adios
• 25. Tico Tico
• 26. Chiquita Banana (The Banana Song)
• 27. Babalu
• 28. Copacabana
• 29. Mambo At the Waldorf
• 30. Mambo #5
• 31. The Peanut Vendor [El Manisero]
• 32. A Weekend In Havana
• 33. Cachita
• 34. Duerme [Time Was]
• 35. Yo Ta Namora
• 36. Anna Boroco Tinde
• 37. Acercate Mas [It Must Be a Dream]
• 38. Lamp of Memory [Incertidumbra]
• 39. Negra Leono
• 40. La Cumparsa [Carnival Procession]
• 41. Brazil (Aquarela Do Brasil)
• 42. La Cucaracha
• 43. Toca-Tu Samba
• 44. Linda Mujer [You Never Say Yes! You Never Say No!]
• 45. Miami Beach Rhumba
• 46. Orchids In the Moonlight
• 47. Walter Winchell Rhumba
• 48. Jack, Jack, Jack (Cu-Tu-Gu-Ru)
• 49. Adios Muchachos [Farewell Boys]
• 50. Begin the Beguine
• 51. Estrellita (My Little Star)
• 52. Green Eyes [Aquellos Ojos Verdes]
• 53. La Paloma [The Dove]
• 54. Yo Ta Namora
• 55. Duerme [Time Was]
• 56. Say "Si Si" (Para Vigo Me Voy)
• 57. La Golondrina [The Swallow]
• 58. Besame Mucho [Kiss Me Much]
• 59. Acercate Mas [It Must Be a Dream]
• 60. Negra Leono
• 61. Cielito Lindo [Blue Skies]
• 62. Mambo At the Waldorf
• 63. Cuca
• 64. Yo Quiero Un Mambo
• 65. Mondongo
• 66. Mambo Gallego
• 67. Jamay
• 68. Mambo Gordo
• 69. Mambo En Espana
• 70. Mambo No. 8
• 71. Sax Cantabile
• 72. La Cumparsita [The Masked One]
• 73. Mambo Retozon
• 74. Bread, Love and Cha-Cha-Cha
• 75. Frenesi
• 76. Suavecito [Sweet and Tender]
• 77. Very, Very Satisfied
• 78. Whatever Lola Wants (Lola Gets)
• 79. Penthouse Mambo
• 80. La Paloma
• 81. Maria La O [Maria My Own]
• 82. Coco Seco [Dry Coconuts]
• 83. The Banana Boat Song
• 84. Mi Musica Es Para Ti
• 85. April In Portugal
• 86. Brazil
• 87. Besame Mucho
• 88. What a Diff'rence a Day Made
• 89. My Shawl
• 90. La Cumparsita [The Masked One]
• 91. Tico-Tico
• 92. Orchids In the Moonlight
• 93. Yours
• 94. Miami Beach Rhumba
• 95. Jalousie [Jealousy]
• 96. Guitara Romana
• 97. Dengoza

Credits

• Enriqué Granados: Composer
• Ernesto Lecuona: Composer
• Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Composer
• Erik Darling: Composer
• Xavier Cugat: Composer, Original Liner Notes
• René Touzet: Composer
• Vincent Youmans: Composer
• Gonzalo Roig: Composer
• Agustín Lara: Composer
• Jerry Ross: Composer
• Sebastián Yradier: Composer
• Richard Adler: Composer
• Alan Arkin: Composer
• Bob Carroll: Arranger
• Carmen Castillo: Vocals
• Herman Diaz, Jr.: Producer
• Osvaldo Farrés: Composer
• René Hernández: Composer
• Cole Porter: Composer
• Fred Reynolds: Producer
• Bob Simpson: Engineer
• Al Stillman: Composer
• Miguelito Valdés: Composer, Vocals
• John Norman: Engineer
• Mark Marymont: Liner Notes
• Rafael Angulo: Composer
• Manuel Ponce: Composer
• Ary Barroso: Composer
• Hermanas Boyd: Vocals
• Adolfo Utrera: Composer
• Irving Fields: Composer
• L. Wolfe Gilbert: Composer
• Sunny Skylar: Composer
• Francia Luban: Composer
• José Padilla: Composer
• Gerardo Matos Rodriguez: Composer
• Bruno Cherubini: Composer
• Jose Gomez de Abreu: Composer
• Gabriel Luna de la Fuente: Composer
• Armando Dominguez: Composer
• Jacob Gade: Composer
• Albert Gamse: Composer
• Al Fichera: Liner Notes
• Bob Carey: Composer
• George Lopez: Composer
• John A. Camacho: Composer
• María Grever: Composer
• Eldo di Lazzaro: Composer
• Raul Ferrão: Composer
• Arsenio Rodriguez: Composer
• Ernest Oelrich: Engineer
• Eliscu: Composer
• Dámaso Pérez Prado: Composer
• Barroso: Composer
• J. Gutierrez: Arranger
• James B. Kennedy: Composer
• Gene Lorello: Saxophone, Soloist
• Consuelo Torres Orti Velazquez: Composer
• Carillo Ramon Marquez: Composer
• Borra Alberto Dominguez: Composer
• Gordon Wrign: Original Liner Notes
• Gerardo Rodriguez: Composer
• Roman C. Roberto: Composer
• Pepi Marques: Composer
• Paz Miguel Prado: Composer
• Ortiz Antonio Fernandez: Composer
• Nilo Menedez: Composer
• Manuel Penella: Composer
• Manuel De Fara: Composer
• Lopez Emilio Rente: Composer