from Luxuriamusic: …By the end
of 1954, it was one of the most widely recognized songs in the world.By then U.S. songwriter Norman Gimbel had written the English lyric and title: ‘Sway’.
And then the hit records began: Dean Martin, Perry Como, Perez Prado,Rosemary Clooney, Bobby Rydell, Edmundo Ros and Julie London were among the countless performers who had various chart successes with ‘Sway’ in the U.S. and/or the U.K.…
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Tata Guines, Cuba’s most famous percussionist, has died of a kidney infection in Havana. He was 77.
Guines, whose real name was Federico Aristides Soto, died on Monday, Cuba’s state media reported.
The “King of the Congas” shared the stage with some of the world’s most renowned performers during a career spanning more than six decades.
In the US in the 1950s, he performed with the likes of Frank Sinatra, Josephine Baker and Dizzy Gillespie.
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I read it here, at the blog of the San Onofre Surfing Club. His name was Les Williams. I never knew who was the surfer on the Beach Boys Surfin’ USA album cover, but it’s a great shot with style on a considerably sized wave. A big wave. The album is among my favorite Beach Boys albums, and even pure instrumental Surf fans should know it.