Artist: Ricardo Santos and His Orchestra
LP: 7" single
It's Gay Pride weekend! In other news, here's a lovely instrumental tango (with ethereal mermaid vocals) that you can let wash over you on this overheated Seattle Saturday afternoon. The track, from 1957, is performed by the prolific and mysterious Ricardo Santos and His Orchestra. There are plenty of Ricardo Santoses on the internet—like this one and this one and this one and this one and this one—but it's impossible to tell which one of them has, or at some point in the past has had, an orchestra. I'm putting my money on this one.
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The German band-leader Werner Müller was better known, in Japan especially, under his Polydor records pseudonym, Ricardo Santos.
Interesting! I'm familiar with Werner Müller, but had no idea he led a secret double life as a Latin Lothario. :)
hAH! New here, but anyhoo, I just got on mp3 a Ricardo Santos 1956 French album (on SoulSeek), as the name you see I have), "Holiday in France" on Polydor Records, and just looked him up got more info and ta-da..I knew of Werner Muller (and Waerner Tautz as we;;)././thanks for the information.>!SC(and again, also as Pokey on SoulSeety, just as spelt. A la the same era's new debut TV star, Pokey, on the clay-toon Gumby.
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