Word: andalucia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...laws. But there is never any doubt as to who is the chief songwriter in that melodious land. He is Ernesto Lecuona. He wrote the famed, romantic air which outsiders could scarcely be blamed for supposing was the Cuban National Anthem-Siboney.* He wrote Canto Karabali (Jungle Drums), Andalucia (The Breeze and I), La Comparsa, Say Si Si, Maria La O, and a host of other numbers which have made Cuban melody world-famed...
Even in the U.S. Lecuona's tunes outsell those of many a top-flight Tin Pan Alleyite (Decca alone has sold over 1,700,000 records of Andalucia). They also stay in the top sales brackets longer than most Tin Pan Alley songs (Malagueña has been averaging 100,000 sheet-music sales a year in the U.S. for 20 years...