Various Artists - Mambo For Cats / Various

Release Date:05/12/2017;Notes:Jim Flora was an artist, best known for his distinctive and idiosyncratic album cover art for Columbia Records and RCA Victor from the 1940s through the 1970s. His abstract creations are almost Picasso-esque at times and have a dynamic suggestion of motion that pairs well with music-especially Jazz & Classical... Over the next year, together with Irwin Chusid Author/Editor and biographer of all things Flora, plus the Jim Flora website (jimflora. Com) - and Barbara Economon who lovingly restored all Flora's wild & wacky album covers, Moochin' about will be re-issuing a series of special edition boxset's, LP's, featuring all the Columbia & RCA Victor recordings, including some of the finest Jazz and Classical recordings ever, as well as some hidden gems, in sensational celebration of The Wizard Of The Foot Square Canvas... So to get us started, a classic Mambo Collection. An ultra rare LP, featuring some of the greatest Mambo artists ever and one of the most Iconic Flora album covers ever - MAMBO FOR CATS, which was originally released on RCA Victor, now digitally re-mastered for release on 180 gram LP;Track List:1. Jazz Me Blues / Perez Prado His Orchestra (The King of Mambo);2. The Sheik of Araby / Noro Morales His Orchestra;3. Mambo Jumps / the Tony Martinez Quintet;4. Muskrat Ramble Mambo / the Al Romero Quintet;5. Love for Sale / the Don Elliot Quintet;6. Ballin' the Jack / Perez Prado His Orchestra (The King of Mambo);7. Jersey Bounce / Perez Prado His Orchestra (The King of Mambo);8. Sweet Sue Just You / Noro Morales Quintet;9. Fascinating Rhythm / the Tony Martinez Quintet;10. Lullaby of Birdland / Damiron His Rhythm;11. Makin Whoopee / the Don Elliot Quintet;12. St Louis Blues Mambo / Perez Prado His Orchestra (The King of Mambo)