Xavier Cugat Jungle Rhumba

[@jaramij2]

The dancer playing claves on top of the piano and screaming loudly a couple of times while dancing was the daughter of Puerto Rico´s timbale player Alberto Calderón who was with Cugat for many years and her name was Norma Calderón who was also a singer, born in Latin Harlem in NY City, that was in the Broadway show "South Pacific" and in the Paramont´s movie "The naked jungle" in 1953 and in 1955 in the "Man with the gun". The pianist was Rafael "Felín" Angulo from Puerto Rico and the flute player performing the solo was from Philippines, Candido Dimanlig and the maracas player was Angel "El Chino" Santos from Puerto Rico

[@arthurmorin3164]

Perfection… I wish there were film records of Latin big bands as they really performed in night clubs in the 40s. Great art.

[@karser6456]

Arthur- ill second that..1930's cuban casino rumba footage would be high on my list. Ive been infatuated with 1930's Cuban rumba for a while, I've mercilessly replayed the usual suspects to death but always hoping to bump into some obscure band/song from that era.

[@berthacasillas2524]

✨💯🥰🌚🚬🤔👀🦜🌴🌊🌎

[@benzell4]

Seems to be one here! Vamo nos!

[@dea9273]

I grew up with these recordings, played by my parents. I just popped on to check this out after seeing an Instagram from Charo, who is still performing at 71!

[@jaramij2]

The singer at the beginning was Tony Gari from Mexico known when he was a child as "Toño el Negro" , in some mexican movies at the end of the 1930s, honoring singer star from Mexico, "Toña la Negra"

[@mercedeslb237]

Wow thanks for the information 🤗🤗🤗

[@lorenachitic6105]

THE MOTHER OF ORCHESTRAS MY GOODNESS👍🏿👍🏿👏👏🎶🎵🎼🎹🎺🎷

[@basourdi]

amazing quality

[@stefanschutz5166]

Thank you from Amsterdam.

[@resetsurvivor]

So good. Forever humbled that I found Cugat in a thrift store.

[@courtneyguzman5507]

Wow!!!! That is awesome

[@riobabic8960]

Thrift sores are good ! I grew up listening to Cugat and Prez Prado because my father played them all the time !

[@bebetigre1252]

Absolutely genius.

[@dileepnaik1312]

It proves these recordings were inspirational to many Bollywood dances

[@Copperlight2]

Spectacular.. I'm amazed they did all the beautiful stage designs with perfect color and lights, way back then.

[@sdimas73]

Scene from Neptune Daughter

[@lazurm]

Copperlight2: You're too used to viewing black & white films from then, that's why.

[@juliozunig3049]

Cuba is the mother of the Latin music nothing like Cuban music

[@thamnosma]

This gets better on more viewings..the choreography is mind-bending.

[@bluedoris88]

excellent, love the technicolor!

[@rebecca.n.holmes.1958]

This song gives me the shivers 😆

[@SixRavenEight]

3:00 1940's style bass drop. Those drums are fire!

[@igobrom5194]

Gran espectáculo musical. Arte y gusto.

[@EstherLuttrellsSundayStories]

At the time this was released, women composers were given almost no credit for their work. Toni Beaulieu composed Jungle Rhumba for MGM. Because she couldn't break into the male dominated ASCAP, she had no recourse but to accept that Cugat's name was given in film credits as the composer of this piece. Toni went on to fight for women's rights in the music industry and finally DID become a member of ASCAP, but she never got the credit or the money for a song that went international and helped establish Cugat in the movie industry. I have to add that recently I have seen her name on KZbin renditions of the song. How I wish she were still alive to see what her fearless battle to win recognition for women composers and female musicians in general has accomplished. God bless Toni and the other women songwriters of her era.

[@jorgecabrera3541]

God how I love and miss my Cuba and it’s rythims those were the golden years of Cuban music to bad the devil him self came a in 59 and the party ended exile for everyone ❤😢😢😊😢😢❤

[@MrJanosch79]

Fabolous... Thanks for posting this awesome contemporary document!

[@DonizeteMesapereira]

Amo os filme dela Esther Williams rainha das Piscina bela Sereia grande nadadora ótima atriz mulher mais Bela do mundo 👑👑👑❤️❤️💙💚💜💙❤️💜🤍💚💙🌺🌺🌸🌸💐💐💐

[@Higbby]

thank you xx

[@micmac09]

Superbe !

[@SandroMussida]

beautiful

[@indigoattila]

awesome! thanks for posting

[@skillet6870]

TO ALL LATINOS AND HISPANICS EVERYWHERE: Latin Music forms Son, Salsa, Samba, Merengue, Bachata, Timba, Rumba, Mambo, Cumbia, Champeta, Bomba-Plena, Soukas-Sebene, Cha Cha Cha, Tango, Pachanga, Tropicalia, Zouk, Carioca and of course Reggaeton--all enjoy well documented African roots coupled with undeniable African influence..

[@josefernandovargas]

JAVIER CUGAT, BUENOS RECUERDOS.

[@CarmbSanv]

👏👏👏👏Espectacular.iii👏

[@marymmansour]

He always played in the Esther Williams movies.

[@nestorduran3006]

ESPECTACULAR CAO CABECILHE XANGO

[@r.n.holmes5625]

This gives me chilles wow

[@cdhill9358]

the bestest

[@JeffScher]

Viva Cugat!

[@arthurstephens]

Very cool

[@thamnosma]

This is so hot, love his posing at the end

[@aestheticman2662]

The "André Rieu" of a big part of 1900's

[@bashafradkin-gelmanopie6593]

Very creative, Basha Gelman-Opie from Stanford University Research Psychology Department

[@kimberleystirk7969]

banana bracelets definitely. the screaming though

[@Saturnin344]

The cries are present in all the music of Exotica: Martin Denis, Les Baxter even in certain albums of George Shearing. Which does not excuse anything but ...

[@jaimesilva6637]

Volumen Muy Bajo.!!

[@AnthonyRochester]

This is pretty wild

[@natividadramosvasconcelos8565]

My parents beautiful Marriage Time

[@katrina2041]

Solomon keep your eyes And what of . No matter .

[@FrancescoAlcozer]

*Xavier🎺 Cugat* vivirá para siempre en el corazón de sus admiradores. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mXLVgX5na9B9pK8 *WHEELS* canción también conocida por el título *RUEDAS* - canción para guitarra solista interpretada al estilo de *Billy 🎸Vaughn*

[@bertskoi]

Was that Abbe Lane laying on the piano with the maracas? & when I say maracas i mean the musical instrument... She started working for Cugat then and then they married like 2 or 3 years later

[@FrancescoAlcozer]

La *Rumba* es otro ritmo latino lleno de amor y sensualidad. kzbin.info/www/bejne/o3SrenaqhdWHnNE *HISTORIA DE 💋UN AMOR* canción para guitarra solista interpretada al estilo de *Leo 🎵Marini*

[@genzod7940]

catalan had to be...always looking for perfection

[@rosamariagalanpons786]

🎉

[@jackallen3827]

I couldn't agree more with you guys on the quality of this music/dance number. But you've got your facts wrong. Why is the composer not being mentioned here or properly credited? Xavier Cugat did not write this. JUNGLE RHUMBA was composed entirely by a WOMAN! And her name was TONI BEAULIEU. Cugat merely conducted the orchestra at MGM studios where some of the best musical productions at the time were being made. Cugat did not get a composer credit on this. But sadly, neither did Toni Beaulieu who actually wrote it. Frank Loesser was the celebrated music executive on the movie and the screen credit read "All Songs By Frank Loesser". He knew he hadn't written JUNGLE RHUMBA, but he went ahead and took credit for it anyway. These are the kinds of things that made a lady composer's life sheer hell--in the male-dominated music world.

[@mickydub3]

They dont make em like that anymore

[@billygiamou7435]

No fake editing and synthesizers kids.

[@bejingmao]

good Christian music.

[@manuelcorteganarodriguez7654]

El primero que aparece despues del cantante tiene la misma cara que Francisco Franco durante las guerras de Africa 😂😂😂😂😂, no es que sea el doble es que es el triple, conio es identico!!!.

[@terencereyes696]

There's no single non-white/mestizo person in this video, how is this referencing Rhumba?

[@markllo123]

Look closer,. There are many Latinos, Cugat was from Spain, but grewup in Cuba, The singer at the beginning (Tony Gari) is Latin as are many of the musicians.

[@otisotis5869]

I really don’t like this guy too much… He dumb down Latin music for a predominantly white audience which he himself conceded knew nothing about Latin music… “They neither understood Nor felt it” and so he dumb down the music “for the eyes and not for the ears”… He also perpetuated racism in the 40s… Once telling Bobby Capó He was refusing his services because “a pity you are so dark” (salsa rising, Juan Flores , p 11)

[@Saturnin344]

to popularize is not "dumb down", as for the alleged racism it would be necessary to condemn the American or even Western society of that time

[@delicflower13x3]

It’s from 1949. Shut up. Nobody cares.

[@fabricioespasande2668]

That you don't like the guy too much it's your personal take. What he really was about is his personal legacy aside from anyone's personal take. The music, the musicians that worked with him and performed were not dumb. Try playing it. Gotta be pretty intelligent to play that music. Pretty brilliant. The quote you include is out of context. He was afraid of touring the south with Bobby at that time. When you are a bandleader, you have a responsibility of where you get your musicians into. How could he guarantee the safety of Bobby if he were afraid some hateful occurrence could take place? Getting this kind of music, modified to be more easily understood into communities where nothing close to it had been heard of accepted in the past, was a feat, and a significant breaching of cultural barriers and taboos. Chango, who is praised here in a chant-like chorus is a Yoruba entity, well respected in Cuba where the religion thrived in spite of Spanish dominion. Praising Chango in a 1940's Hollywood film, they could have stuck to pineapples and bananas, but did not, it's a feat. It's a breach. However stylized, it's done respectfully, with care, with musicality. Cugat respected Cuban culture. Miguelito Valdez performed with him in New York in the 40s, as his skin pigmentation is about as tanned as Bobby's. But, Cugat did not work with Miguelito in the South. Again, to be fair, one must look at things from various angles. Cugat helped tremendously introducing this music, just like Paul Whiteman with jazz. He had to play to folks that only danced to Polkas and Foxtrots and introduced his rumbas and congas, alas not the kind you might have them see in a Havana street or a guaguanco en un solar, but he got them somewhere further the way he best could, given the cirsumstances. He himself had Spanish roots and was emigrated as a child to Cuba. He was a classically violinist, but in Cuba, all kinds of music from the country permeates you, and it did him. He also had his own taste and musical sense and he also learned how to open up the American general public. And this man wasn't a mafioso, a murderer, a corrupt politician, he did music, music and only music, you can see for yourself the hundreds of recordings, innumerable performances. He gave jobs to hundreds of musicians throughout his long career. This was a creative and productive man. Perfect? He was better than perfect, he was human. That's what I see Otis.

[@NessunaOffesa]

@@fabricioespasande2668 excellent comment