How Many DUers knew the music of Edmundo Ros?

[malaise]

R.I.P. brother.

My father loved hid music
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/oct/22/edmundo-ros-latin-american-music
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Edmundo Ros, the man who kept British feet tapping through the war years and during the period of austerity that followed, has died at his home in Spain at the age of 100.

Ros was the leading Latin American musician and vocalist of his era and his charisma and infectious rhythms introduced the rumba sound to Britain's dance halls. His death was confirmed on Saturday by the secretary of the Grand Order of Water Rats, the charitable showbusiness fraternity. "He died last night peacefully at his home in Spain, two months short of his 101st birthday," said John Adrian.

Ros became a household name when Princess Elizabeth, the future Queen, arrived at a party at London's Bagatelle restaurant and made her first public foray on to the dance floor accompanied by the music of Ros's band. The South American beat, or at least an anglicised version of the authentic time signatures, quickly became popular all over Britain and Ros's tunes such as The Wedding Samba, Zing, Zing Boom and The Cheeky Parakeet became favourites.

In 1941 he recorded his first tracks with Parlophone and then played regularly with his own rumba band at the Coconut Grove in Regent Street, London, a club he later bought and renamed Edmundo Ros's Dinner and Supper Club. At the age of 64 Ros broke up his band and destroyed his musical arrangement sheets before retiring to Spain.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZCFL9bv-ro&feature=related

[dipsydoodle]

1. Me

I posted this morning in the UK bit and had meant to drop you a line.

:hi:

[malaise]

4. I knew you'd know him

:hi:
My father and mother loved him but they were in England during the war

sp.

[dipsydoodle]

5. In the fifties and into the sixties

he guested on the Billy Cotton Band Show every Sunday on the radio.

Do you of Ray Ellington too?

[malaise]

8. No he wasn't a household name

We heard a lot of Edmundo Ros, Perez Prado and Xavier Cugat on radio in the Caribbean.

[PETRUS]

2. Not I. So... thanks! nt

[Sarah Ibarruri]

3. Wow. He made some great music!!! Thanks! nt

[RebelOne]

6. His music is vaguely familiar. n/t

[Warpy]

7. Most of us who grew up in the 50s knew his music

even if we were too little to have paid much attention to the man who made it.

Thanks for the blast from the past.

[malaise]

9. LOL - Most of us remember our dad's playing that music or

hearing it on radio :hi:

[BlueJazz]

10. I've got a few wave files of his stuff.

[KharmaTrain]

11. A Mainstay of Beautiful Music Radio of the 60s and 70s

He did a lot of stereo recordings on London Records that were played on the early FM "Muzak" stations. I'd bet most people over the age of 45 and rode on an elevator surely heard his music...just didn't know it.