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Created on 15/03/2004
Latest update on 16/05/2023

Artist: Ernesto Lecuona
Author: Ernesto Lecuona
Label: Victor
Year: 1928

Cuban piano player. Second part of his Suite Española. Also wrote Malagueña (another Suite Española tune) and La Comparsa (see there).

Covers:

1940:

Jimmy Dorsey [n°1 US as The Breeze And I; vocal by Bob Eberly; lyrics by Al Stillman]

1941:

Xavier Cugat [vocal: Dinah Shore]

1941:

Coleman Hawkins [idem]

1945:

Ethel Smith [idem]

1946:

Desi Arnaz [idem]

1955:

Caterina Valente [idem; top 5 UK, top 10 US]

1957:

Henry Mancini

1958:

Percy Faith

1959:

Wes Montgomery

1959:

Flamingos

1960:

Art Blakey

1961:

Ramsey Lewis

1961:

Curtis Fuller

1961:

Robert Goulet

1961:

Cliffters

1962:

Shadows

1962:

Fantômes

1962:

Esquivel

1963:

Tornados

1987:

No Strings Attached [all as The Breeze And I]

Contact


If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
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Arnold Rypens
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