Greatest Rca Sides of Xavier Cugat
- Everybody Sing was introduced by the former Frances Gumm, now MGM's wonderfully talented child star, Judy Garland..
- In one of Fred Astaire's finest films, 'Swing Time' with the help of Jerome Kern's music and a deft lyric from Dorothy Fields, Astaire paid tribute to the legendary Broadway and film dancer, the African-American Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson. The song was Bojangles Of Harlem..
- Having scored a success with the rueful duet, full of touching reminiscence, 'Thanks for the Memory', Bob Hope and Shirley Ross (born Leslie Townes Hope and Bernice Gaunt respectively) would be given another similar song to see if they could repeat their hit. They could. In the film 'Thanks for the Memory' named after their previous success, the pair introduced Two Sleepy People..
- The celebrated former lift operator, Miss Orleans and band vocalist Dorothy Lamour was born Mary Leta Dorothy Kaumeyer. The girl in a sarong, she was the love interest, fought over by Bob Hope and Bing Crosby in the famous series of 'Road' pictures. The Moon of Manakoora was featured in 'The Hurricane' starring Miss Lamour with Jon Hall..
