Word: rumba
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rumba Rhapsody (Cuarteto Caney, Decca). The Cuarteto's pianist, Rafael Audinot, improvises impressively on a rumba theme. A Latin-American record collector's item...
...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...
...airwaves gave off strange sounds last week. Ray Noble's magnificent band was reduced to rendering a super-syncopated version of De Camptown Races, followed by Liebestraum in rumba time. Kate Smith's big new number was There I Go, new some months ago. Lucky Strike's Your Hit Parade was a parade of the only "hits" it was allowed to play-the well-worn There I Go, So You're The One, Frenesi, seven others. These had been frantically cooked up in the past months by the big broadcasters' Broadcast Music, Inc. to broadcast...
...champion at the 100-yd. dash and 220-yd low hurdles. On the football field, he is fast as a jack rabbit. His speed, and his uncanny sense of anticipation, a formidable straight arm, powerful leg drive that shakes off tacklers like tenpins, a confounding change of pace and rumba hips, make a Harmon touchdown run a memorable performance. In addition to his ball-carrying talents, he is a better-than-average blocker, passer, punter, placekicker, quick-kicker and kickoff...
...examples: Begin the Beguine, I Get A Kick Out of You}. The Porterian lyric wit is displayed in a trio and quintet titled, respectively, God Bless the Women and You Said It. The tune that seems likely to prove most durable is Panama Hattie's response, in rumba rhythm, to temporary disappointment in love: "Make it another oldfashioned, please . . . leave out the cherry, leave out the orange, leave out the bitters, just make it a straight...