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Nosotros somos el mundo

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Los Mejores del Mundo Vol. 1. RCA Victor Records (Mexico)

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Help, I’ve fallen and I can’t get up

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Champagne Melodico  NESTOR CAMPOS  Victoria Records (Mexico).  Beautiful, luscious, rich, bright and golden.  A shining example of a nineteen-fifties “cheesecake” pin-up fashion beauty cover from south of the border.  Of course, there’s much more here if you like this – just click on the tagged categories.  And leave a vote for more if you like it.

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Besame smoocho

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El Beso Robado (“Stolen Kiss”)  Cesar Castro  Fuentes Records (Colombia)  1958 issue of Mariachi, Ranchera, Corrido music.  Lovely shot of a Guacho couple on the ranch.

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Tango and Castro

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Attilio and His Tangos Orchestra  “Dracula Tango”  Vogue Records  (France)  Bernard Monie illustration (1974)

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Ballad for a Bronze Beauty

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Ritmos Bailables  Orquesta Romanticos de Brazil   MAMBO. DANZON. CHA CHA CHA. BOLEROS.   Star Records (Miami, Florida)

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You Go To My Head

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Los Tremendos Sepulteros y Dulce Rosario  Ariola Records (Mexico) (1981)

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Gimme some skin!

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“Otra Vez” (“Again”)   Los Trotamundos (The Globetrotters)  Zeida Records (Columbia)

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Beautiful dreamer

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Los Fantasmas  Pagina Blanca  Eco Records (Mexico)

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Skin tight

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Jet de Exitos  Beto Fernan  Fuentes Records (Columbia)

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Before “Social Distancing” we had social dancing

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Danzones  Marimba Lira de Chiapas de los Hnos. Meda U.  Guitarra Records (Mexico).  I don’t know the name of the cover artist though it’s a very familiar style that I see on many other latin records.  Can anyone help?

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