Hugo Winterhalter and His Orchestra - Tequila

ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE CHARTS - 1968
Song that entered the charts : "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly"
Performing Orchestra : Hugo Montenegro
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Montenegro hit the jackpot with his version of Ennio Morricone's western theme "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly". Morricone's original soundtrack theme entered the charts as well, and, though it never reached the nbr 1 position, it was Morricone's version that remained in the top sales charts for nearly a year.
Film- and music critics alike consider the theme "one of the best original filmscores ever written in cinema history".

HUGO WINTERHALTER
Educated at Mt St Mary's College and the New England Conservatory of Music, Winterhalter taught school for several years before joining a variety of swing bands as a multi-instrumentalist in the mid-1930s. By 1940, Winterhalter had proven himself a talented arranger and wrote for some of the top bands of the time: Count Basie, Raymond Scott, Claude Thornhill, and the Dorsey brothers. He then focused on backing singers, and arranged and conducted recordings for Dinah Shore, Billy Eckstine, and others.
Over the next 15 years, Winterhalter served as musical director for a series of labels. First MGM in 1948-49, then Columbia, and then, in 1950, RCA Victor. He matched vocalists with arrangers and oversaw assignments among RCA's house arrangers, composers, and conductors. He remained with RCA until 1963, when he switched to Kapp for several years. Winterhalter provided arrangements for many of RCA's singers, including Eddie Fisher, the Ames Brothers ("The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane"), Perry Como, and Eddy Arnold on the immortal "Cattle Call."
Winterhalter released instrumental albums under his own name from 1950 through his retirement in the late 1960s. As an arranger, Winterhalter is something of a kindred spirit with Marty Gold, clearly reflecting the philosophy that you can never have too much music
Like Percy Faith, Winterhalter often produced arrangements that belie the "easy listening" label. He had a number of singles in the Top 40 between 1950 and 1956, including covers of "The Third Man Theme" and "Canadian Sunset."
After leaving Kapp in the mid-1960s, Winterhalter worked on Broadway and in New York-based network television stations.

TEQUILA
"Tequila" is a 1958 Latin-flavored rock and roll instrumental recorded by the Champs. It is based on a Cuban mambo beat. In the original version, the word "Tequila" is spoken three times throughout the tune. "Tequila" became a nbr1 hit on both the pop and R&B charts at the time of its release and continues to be strongly referenced in pop culture to this day. The song was written by Daniel Flores.

MHO
A spectacular, dynamic and most Original arrangement of this "classic" (one of few versions where the word "tequila" is not spoken ) : that's how we would like to define this "end- of- the- week 'firecracker' . You're in for a true musical surprise trip here, where one "unexpected" combination of instruments and sounds follows another. The phrase where the strings have been put "on top" of the basic refrain verse is just "out of this world".
Exhilirating brass, mixed with magnificent high pitch strings and, when you least expect it, a rhythm driven piano : for me, this arrangement "has it all". Enjoy.

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