Latin From Manhattan - Ethel Smith

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Latin From Manhattan

Ethel Smith
Organ Solos With Instrumental Accompaniment
Decca Records DL 8457
1958

From the back cover: Louis Sobol informed his readers in the New York Journal-American: "First Nighters wouldn't let her off. Certainly, this is one of our most versatile entertainers. She delivered organ solos – and then in a hilarious patter, explained how the organ operates. She sang, she played the guitar, she demonstrated how various noisemakers are employed, and put new life into everything." In Variety, the Bible of the entertainment world, Abel Green added: "Decca dicker, Ethel Smith, is a comedienne as well as a virtuoso of the organ... In somewhat the same vein as Victor Borge's tongue-in-cheek humor, Miss Smith makes with the quips and the linguistic ad libs... A novelty on any rostrum, podium, and salon floor." When she appeared as guest performer with The Milwaukee Pops Orchestra, the Milwaukee Journal's Harry S. Pease wrote: "She kicked more rhythms out of an electric organ with her dainty left foot than other musicians extract with all ten fingers.

Tico Tico
Lero Lero & Bem Te Vi Atervido
Toca Tu Samba
Dinorah
April In Portugal
Brazil
Alla En El Rancho Grande & Las Altenitas
The Breeze And I
The Parrot (On The Fortune Teller's Hat
Paran Pan Pin & Cachita
Hernando's Hideaway (from the Broadway production "The Pajama Game")
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