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    Vintage Lounge

Vintage Lounge

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    Pennies From Heaven
    Louis Prima
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    Danke Schoen
    Wayne Newton
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    Midnight Cowboy (Theme)
    Ferrante and Teicher

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This new sound had deep Latin roots; trumpeter and bandleader Herb Alpert, Bossa Nova master Sergio Mendes and bandleader Xavier Cugat used the sounds and rhythms of Latin America to breathe life into the admittedly "white-bread" music of lounge. Baxter and vocalist Yma Sumac created "exotica," while hipster Juan Garcia Esquivel and pianist/keyboardist Dick Hyman made futuristic, space age music for a country on the cusp of space exploration. A few years later, the light sounds of Lounge were squelched by the rise of rock.