EDDIE CANO & JACK COSTANZO "DANCING ON THE SUNSET STRIP" 1960 GNP NM-/VG++ RARE

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ARTIST: EDDIE CANO & JACK COSTANZO WITH TONY MARTINEZ AND HIS ORCHESTRA

TITLE: “DANCING ON THE SUNSET STRIP” (LATIN JAZZ WITH PIANO AS PRIMARY INSTRUMENT)

TRACK LISTING-SEE PHOTOS/BELOW:

A1

Rhumba Rhapsody

4:17

A2

Blue Moon

3:08

A3

Besame Mucho

3:35

A4

Robin's Mambo

2:10

A5

The Continental

3:30

B1

Babalu

3:00

B2

Tenderly

3:50

B3

Pharoah's Curse

2:33

B4

'S Wonderful

2:44

B5

Cueros

4:20

First catalog number on back cover and spine, second on labels.

Deep groove pressing rings in both sides labels.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, stamped): GNP 44-1

• Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, stamped): GNP 44-2

YEAR OF RELEASE- 1960

LABEL: G.N.P. RECORDS

CAT.#: GNP-44

RECORD CONDITION: THE RECORD IS IN EX+/NM--CONDITION, LOOK UNPLAYED, NO LINES, SCRATCHES, DINGS, SMUDGES AT ALL, BOTH SIDES PLAY VERY, VERY CLEAN THE SONGS PLAY CLEAN, NO AUDIO BETWEEN THE TRACKS. LOOKS ALMOST BRAND NEW!

JACKET CONDITION: THE IS IN VG+/EX- CONDITION, NICE CLEAN STRAIGHT EDGES, NO RIPS, TEARS, NO SEAM SPLITS, OR WRITING ON THE JACKET. LOOKS SUPER CLEAN FOR IT'S AGE. SOME VERY LIGHT AGING ON THE BACK, HARD TO SEE ALSO SOME VERY LIGHT EDGEWEAR, MAINLY ALONG THE TOP. JUST NOTICED A SMALL APPROX. 2” SEAM SPLIT BOTTOM RIGHT CORNER.

MORE INFO : THIS RECORD IS OUT OF PRINT. RECORDED “LIVE” AT THE CRESCENDO ON THE SUNSET STRIP IN HOLLYWOOD, THE CLUB OWNED BY GENE NORMAN

ARTIST INFO:

EDDIE CANO BIO

• Born 6 June 1927, Los Angeles, California

A popular and lively lounge piano combo leader in Hollywood in the 1960s. Born and raised in L.A., Cano came from a family of professional musicians--his grandfather had played with the Mexico City Symphony Orchestra. He studied music at L.A. City College and the L.A. Conservatory before joining the Army in 1945. After the war, he toured as a pianist with mambo king Miguelito Valdez for about a year, then led his own combo briefly before joining Bobby Ramos' band. He remained with Ramos for nearly four years.

Returning to L.A., he worked with a variety of groups, including Jack Costanzo's combo, Manny Lopez's band, and Cal Tjader. In 1960, he was hired as the house group for the Hollywood nightclub P.J.'s, a favored Rat Pack hang-out. Cano was popular with the movie crowd, and even appeared in several films, including Elvis' Fun in Acapulco, Jerry Lewis' classic The Nutty Professor, and Sinatra's Love on the Rocks. He also played for Sinatra's 1970 Hollywood Bowl performances. Later, Cano helped create a series of bi-lingual educational records titled, A Taste for Education.

Jack Costanzo (Chicago, Illinois, U.S., September 24, 1919 – August 18, 2018) was an American percussionist.

A composer, conductor, drummer and bandleader of Jack Costanzo and His Orchestra, Jack Costanzo is best known as a bongo player, and is nicknamed "Mr. Bongo". He visited Havana three times in the 1940s and learned to play Afro-Cuban rhythms on the bongos and congas.

Costanzo started as a dancer, touring as a team with his wife before World War II. After his discharge from the Navy, he worked as a dance instructor at the Beverly Hills Hotel, where Latin band leader Bobby Ramos heard Costanzo playing bongos in a jam session and offered him a job. Throughout the 1940s, Costanzo worked with several Latin bands, including a revived version of the Lecuona Cuban Boys, Desi Arnaz, and Rene Touzet.

Costanzo toured with Stan Kenton from 1947–48 and occasionally in the 1950s, and played with Nat King Cole from 1949 to 1953. He also played with the Billy May Orchestra, Peggy Lee, Danny Kaye, Perez Prado, Charlie Barnet, Pete Rugolo, Betty Grable, Harry James, Judy Garland, Patti Page, Jane Powell, Ray Anthony, Martin & Lewis, Frances Faye, Dinah Shore, Xavier Cugat, Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis, and Eddie Fisher.

Costanzo formed his own band in the 1950s which recorded and toured internationally. Many Hollywood stars studied bongos with him, including: Marlon Brando, Rita Moreno, Carolyn Jones, Hugh O'Brian, Keenan Wynn, Van Johnson, Tony Curtis, Betty Grable, Vic Damone, and Gary Cooper.

Costanzo was in retirement until 1998 when he decided to make a comeback and in 2001 recorded Back From Havana under the Ubiquity Records umbrella. This album featured the likes of Black Note's Gilbert Castellanos, Steve Firerobing and the Panamanian singer Marilu. In 2002 he released another album with the same cast called Scorching the skins this time he also added Quino from Big Mountain. Costanzo has continued to tour and perform in California and abroad.

Costanzo died of complications from an aneurysm at his home in Lakeside, California on August 18, 2018, aged 98.

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