Word: congas
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...there is plenty of time to doze between the best moments. There are also a great many tunes, of which the best remains the 1939 All the Things You Are, as Ginny Simms sings it. Admirers of Lena Home will get a lithe eyeful during a dance which combines conga and boogie-woogie mannerisms. One comic line that approaches universality, as George Murphy sorely delivers it: "I may not always be right but I'm never wrong...
Raul & Eva Reyes claim to have introduced the conga as a ballroom dance. But their specialty is the rumba. Reyes rumbas come in no less than 24 varieties, including the son, guajira, guaracha, punto-guajiro, bolero, bembé, Afro-Cuban, danzón, danza and danzonette. To all these, Raul & Eva bring a sinuous genius. Connoisseurs have risen to cry that when they begin the beguine they absolutely finish...
Hosts of North Americans love Latin American music. Last week they had a chance to learn how Latin Americans themselves estimate the rumba and conga artists now performing in the U.S. Manhattan's big Spanish-language daily La Prensa gave a party for the winners of its recent musical popularity poll. Few of the leaders were favorites of the U.S. public, many were unknown to that public...
...nosed Xavier Cugat. captain of the U.S. rumba industry (TIME, Dec. 28, 1942) only eighth place among bandleaders. The winner (pulling more than twice as many votes as his nearest competitor) was a stocky Cuban named Machito ("The Kid"). One of the chief attractions at Manhattan's La Conga, kinky-haired Machito (real name Frank Grillo) has built his reputation among knowing Latins with a high-octane rumba style that would rattle the fenders off a jeep. Often he prances before his ten-piece band in a solo rumba routine known as the Golpe de Bibijajua (derived from...
...truculent, but always with a full head of steam. He grew up on the Havana docks, became a prize fighter, started as a singer when the Havana Riverside Casino fished him out of tough waterfront cafes. Last week Valdes finished off an eight-week run at La Conga, where he made such a hit that one of the nightly duties of the headwaiter was to wipe off the lipstick feverish women had implanted on his photograph in the lobby...