Word: boleros
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...event of considerable importance to the juke boxes of the U.S. Southwest occurred last week when Decca recorded Ramon Armengod, Mexico's Bing Crosby, singing Amor, Amor, Amor, Mexico's "new song." It is a cancion bolero with a lovely, lazy melody and a fetching Franz Lehar swipe at the end of the middle part, and Senor Armengod has the voice to sing it bravely. But Amor, Amor, Amor is not new. It has been played south of the Bravo (Rio Grande to Yanquis) for several years. It is called new by Mexicans because, with the fierce competition...
...itself on being the Thomas Cook & Sons of popular music, takes especial pride in its Mexican list, and well it might. Mexican popular music is like Mexico itself: vivid, varied, unpredictable, exciting. It comes in many forms. There are many kinds of canciones (songs): fox (fox trot), ranchero (cowboy), bolero (slow rumba), corrido (fast one-step), etc. There are also polkas and a number of varieties of locality songs and dances. Their general characteristic is ingeniously broken time...
...RECORDS: Hazy and Blue,: a nice job on the Templeton tune by Kay Kyser. Song itself sounds like the concert jazz that was the range in the middle thirties... "Perfidia" by Nana Rodrigo is listed as a bolero, but that's about as far as the boleroness of the thing goes. Sounds vaguely like a foxtrot that was told to go South American, met a rhumba on the way and gave up in the middle... Tiger Rag"--this tune has been torn apart for so many years by so many bands, that any version is apt to sound trite...