Lalo Schifrin and Xavier Cugat

Carmen Cavallaro - Voodoo Man

Carmen Cavallaro - Acapulco

Peter Neto - Hello

The Hollyridge Strings

See here - Hollyridge Strings

Cover from Lounge Legends

Henry Mancini - Great Race opening titles

The Great Andre Kostelanetz

Andre Kostelanetz born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and escaped in 1922 after the Russian Revolution. He arrived in the United States that year, and in the 1920s, conducted concerts for radio. In the 1930s, he began his own weekly show on CBS, André Kostelanetz Presents.
Kostelanetz was known for arranging and recording light classical music pieces for mass audiences, as well as orchestral versions of songs and Broadway show tunes. He made numerous recordings over the course of his career, which had sales of over 50 million and became staples of beautiful music radio stations. For many years, Kostelanetz also conducted the New York Philharmonic in pops concerts and recordings, in which they were billed as Andre Kostelanetz and His Orchestra. Kostelanetz's last concert was A Night in Old Vienna with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra at that city's War Memorial Opera House on December 31, 1979.

Giorgio Moroder - The Legend of Babel

Baby Elephant Walk by Henry Mancini - from HATARI

It snowed in the Amazon

Mr. Edmundo Floss, author of this blog, is arrested at his ranch in the Amazon, from where it snows tomorrow. Floss redid all your cigar and supply cachaça 51 (The Good Idea!) to face the coming winter sweeping Brazil.

Winter in Brazil

In brazilian tupiniquim
A neve voltou a cair na madrugada de hoje em várias localidades da Serra gaúcha e em São Joaquim, na serra catarinense, segundo informações da Climatempo. As cidades gaúchas atingidas foram Cambará do Sul e Bom Jesus. De acordo com o Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia (Inmet), Cambará do Sul registrou -3,6º C e Bom Jesus, -3ºC. Em São Joaquim, no estado de Santa Catarina, a temperatura chegou aos 2,8ºC abaixo de zero.
A primeira queda de neve do ano no Rio Grande do Sul ocorreu no fim da noite de segunda-feira. O fenômeno ocorreu entre às 22h40 e à 0h30 em Cambará do Sul, no nordeste do Estado, e foi qualificado como de intensidade moderada pelo 8º Distrito de Meteorologia. Na cidade serrana também foi registrada a menor temperatura do dia, de 2,3 graus negativos.
Desde o início da semana, as temperaturas baixaram dia após dia em todo o Sul do Brasil. O frio intenso está sendo provocado por uma massa polar extremamente forte que entrou no centro-sul da América do Sul.
O frio rigoroso ao amanhecer, com temperaturas próximas de zero, foi o responsável pelas geadas moderadas a fortes que voltaram a cobrir os campos do centro-oeste e sul do Rio Grande do Sul.

In googlenglish by Google Translate
The snow fell again at dawn today in various localities of Serra Gaucha and São Joaquim, Santa Catarina in the hills, according to information from Climatempo. Gauchos hit were the towns Cambará South and Bom Jesus. According to the National Meteorological Institute (Inmet), South Cambará recorded -3.6 ° C and Bom Jesus, -3 ° C. In Sao Joaquim in Santa Catarina state, the temperature reached 2.8 º C below zero.
The first snowfall of the year in Rio Grande do Sul was the late night Monday. The phenomenon occurred between 22:40 and at 0h30 in Cambará city, northeastern state, and was classified as moderate intensity by the 8th District of Meteorology. In the highland city was also recorded the lowest temperature of the day, from 2.3 degrees Celsius.
Since the beginning of the week, temperatures dropped every day across the South of Brazil. The intense cold is being caused by an extremely strong polar mass that entered the south-central South America
The severe cold in the morning, with temperatures near zero and was responsible for moderate to heavy frosts have returned to cover the fields of the midwestern and southern Rio Grande do Sul

It's cold outside !!!