TABU

Created on 18/03/2004
Latest update on 22/09/2014

Artist: Cuarteto Machin
Author: Margarita Lecuona
Label: Victor
Year: 1934

Written by Ernesto Lecuona's niece. Antonio Machin once sang with Don Azpiazu's orchestra, the first famous Cuban band in New York.

Covers:

1934:

Xavier Cugat [vocal: Pedro Benios]

1934:

Orquesta Oscar De La Rosa

1935:

Lecuona Cuban Boys

1935:

Alfredo Brito

1936:

Comedian Harmonists

1938:

Nilo Menéndez

1941:

Stan Kenton [as Taboo]

1941:

Tony Martin

1941:

Edmundo Ros

1942:

Machito & Miguelito Valdés

1946:

Desi Arnaz

1950s:

Margarita Lecuona y la Mirabel [author]

1953:

Art Tatum

1956:

Les Baxter [on lp Caribbean Moonlight, starting the exotica era]

1958:

Martin Denny

1959:

Enoch Light

1959:

Arthur Lyman [as Taboo, hit US]

1962:

Ferrante & Teicher

1963:

Jokers [as Tabou]

1966:

Booker T. & The MG's

1973:

Bob Boon Singers

1996:

Fifty Foot Combo

2000:

Whodads [as Taboo]

2003:

Cramps [idem]

2005:

Ska Cubano

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