Enric Madriguera & His Orchestra - Carioca Hits Latin Magic And More 1932-47Enric Madriguera, born in Barcelona in Spain in 1902, was a classical violinist who moved to the Americas to become lead violinist in the Boston Symphony and Cuban Philharmonic before joining the studio band at Columbia Records, and starting his own orchestra in 1932.

"Buck Owens" and "You're For Me"

"Sings Lullabys For Lovers" and "This Is Chris" for Bethlehem

the more traditional blues and R&B artists whose music had helped lay the groundwork for rock found it harder to reach the top positions

The last covered composer is classicistic Joseph Haydn with his Sonata in E Major

discovering that slide guitar techniques are ideally suited to the microtonal inflections and disarmingly vocal-like melodic cadences of Hindustani forms

marked the sole occasion upon which Dvorak wrote music to a German libretto (by German poet Karl Theodor Korner (1791-1813)

the seventh full calendar year of the Billboard Best Sellers chart - the chart was launched in July 1940 - and the third year to feature both a Most Played in Juke Boxes and Most Played by Disc Jockeys charts as well

ranging from baroque music to the present

This great value 98-track 4-CD set comprises almost every record which appeared in the Top 20 during the year - specifically it features the records which appeared in the Top 10 published in Billboard

a native of New Orleans

000+ word booklet featuring background notes on every record as well as full discographical and chart information

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