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"Divaville Lounge" with Sarah O (archive)

step into the lounge!

Sunday, November 23, 2025 | 14:00 to 16:00 | jazz/pop vocalists

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Artist	Song	Album	Label	Comments
Desi Arnaz	I Come From New York	The Best of Desi Arnaz the Mambo King	RCA	today's show is a celebration of immigration! (Almost) all songs today by immigrants to the US. Desi Arnaz came to the US as a refugee from the 1933 Cuban revolution

Desi Arnaz	Cuban Pete	The Best of Desi Arnaz the Mambo King	RCA	compare this corny song, intended for a pop audience, with the more serious "I Come From New York"
Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra v/ Lina Romay	Bim Bam Bum	Maracas, Marimbas and Mambos: Latin Classics at MGM	Rhino	Cugat was born in Spain, grew up in CUba and moved to the US in 1915. He was the first to really popularize Cuban music in the US. Romay was born in the US, her father was a Mexican diplomat
Carmen Miranda w/ Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra	Cuanto La Gusta	Maracas, Marimbas and Mambos: Latin Classics at MGM	Rhino	Miranda was born in Portugal but grew up in Brazil
Carmen Miranda	Mamae Nao Quer	1930-1945	Harlequin	Miranda recorded many sambas in Brazil before moving to the US and becoming a movie star

Don Azpiazu and the Havana Casino Orchestra v/ Antonio Machin	El Manisero	Manisero / Peanut Vendor	Tumbao	Antonio Machin was a Cuban singer who lived in the US for many years. This was the first record by Cuban artists to sell a million copies in the US
Stan Kenton Orchestra	The Peanut Vendor	The Greatest Jazz: Take Five		performance features Cuban-American artist Machito
Harry Belafonte	Angelina	The Essential Harry Belafonte	RCA/Legacy	Belafonte was born in New York, his parents were both Caribbean immigrants and he grew up dividing his time between the US and Jamaica

Hazel Scott with Charles Mingus and Max Roach	A Foggy Day	Relaxed Piano Moods	Original Jazz Classics	Scott was born in Trinidad but lived most of her life in the US
Astrud Gilberto o/ Quincy Jones	Who Needs Forever?	Astrud Gilberto's Finest Hour	Verve	Gilberto was from Brazil, she relocated to the US after her marriage to Joao Gilberto ended. She lived in Philadelphia until her death in 2023
Nat King Cole	Capullito de Aleli	Grandes Exitos Vol. 2	Capitol	Cole was inspired to make the "Cole En Espanol" SPanish language albums by Cuban artists such as Beny More

Jarabe Tapatio w/ Ricardo Montalban	La Bamba	Fiesta OST		Ricardo Montalban was from Mexico originally but moved to the US for his acting career
Ricardo Montalban	My Heart Beats Faster	Neptune's Daughter OST		This is one of the few times Montalban sang in a film; in other movies when he sang, he was dubbed
Andy Russell	Besame Mucho	Capitol Records From The Vaults, VOl. 4	Capitol	Andy Russell was from LA, his family was Mexican-American. His singing career in the US never took off so he moved to Mexico in the 1950s and became something of a star
Emilio Caceres Trio	China Boy	The Savory Collection	Mosaic	Emilio and his brother Ernie Caceres were from San Antonio and led a swing orchestra that toured the Southwest

Chano Pozo	Blen, Blen, Blen	Rumbero Mayor		Chano Pozo came from Cuba, cowrote some of Dizzy Gillespie's
Dizzy Gillespie	Manteca	The Complete RCA Victor Recordings	RCA	Chano Pozo cowrote this piece
Miriam Makeba	Pata Pata	Pata Pata	Reprise	GREAT request!! Makeba was originally South African, lived in the US for many years

Cab Calloway & His Orchestra	Chili Con Conga	The Chu & Dizzy Years	Hep	this track heavily features Mario Bauza, Cuban-American who was very influential in Latin jazz in the US
Machito & His Afro-Cubans	Carambola	Carambola	Tumbao	Machito was deeply involve in the development of Cubop
Jose Curbelo and His Orchestra	El Rey Del Mambo	Live at the China Doll in New York 1946	Tumbao

Max Dolin's Orchestra	Cielito Lindo	Victor 19329-A	Victor	Dolin came to the US in the early 1920's. He didn't break out the way later bandleaders like Cugat did, but he stayed in the US and became first Music Director at the NBC Pacific Coast Network in San Francisco. This recording 1924
Sophie Tucker	What'll You Do?	Head over High Heels	Trikont	Tucker was a Russian immigrant and extremely successful vaudeville performer
Dave Tarras Orchestra	Second Avenue Square Dance	Music from The Yiddish Radio Project	Shanachie	Tarras was born in the Ukraine and became intrumental in the US klezmer movement
Irving Berlin	What Am I Gonna Do?	From Avenue A to the Great White Way	Columbia/Legacy	Berlin was born in Russia, his family fled from an anti-Jewish pogram. He spoke no English when he came to this country and went on to write our "second national anthem," God Bless America
Don Tosti y su Conjunto	Mambo del Pachuco	Pachuco Boogie	Arhoolie	the pachucos were a Mexican American youth movement, look up "zoot suit riot" to learn more about them
Conjunto San Antonio Alegre	Mi Dolorcito	Pachuco Boogie	Arhoolie
Conjunto Alamo	Buena Vista Swing	Pachuco Boogie	Arhoolie
Lalo Guerrero y Sus Cinco Lobos	Los Chucos Suaves	Pachuco Boogie	Arhoolie	Guerrero went on to become "the father of Chicano music"

Cal Tjader & Anita O'Day	Thanks for the Memory	Time for Two	Verve	Thank you for this GREAT request! Tjader was born in US to Swedish-American parents, they were touring vaudevillians