What's that tune? (50s instrumental)

September 12, 2015 10:13 AM

Lounge Lizards of MeFi, please ID this track. Easy listening, maybe just non-vocal, kinda South of the Border. Link to unknown cover version plus

This is the music, a 29-second sample from a scratchy LP, long gone. Hope me (and don't laugh).

posted by Rash to Media & Arts (8 answers total)

I don't recognize this specifically but it sounds Herb Alperty.
posted by phunniemee at 10:20 AM on September 12, 2015

Best answer: Herman Clebanoff and His Orchestra, Anna
posted by strangely stunted trees at 10:23 AM on September 12, 2015 [3 favorites]

Response by poster: Thank you, Strangely! Clebanoff, again -- Shazam successfully sourced another mystery track to him, but drew a blank on this one.
posted by Rash at 10:46 AM on September 12, 2015

Best answer: The linked YT gets the title of the song wrong -- it's from a movie called Anna. The YT performance (and your original vinyl) is Silvana Mangano's El Negro Zumbon, which was also used in The Avalanches' Frontier Psychiatrist (slowed down a tad).
posted by maudlin at 11:32 AM on September 12, 2015 [1 favorite]

(I can't grammar today. The YT link is a cover of the original performance from the movie that I linked.)
posted by maudlin at 11:43 AM on September 12, 2015

Response by poster: Wikipedia: El Negro Zumbon
posted by Rash at 2:09 PM on September 12, 2015

I was guessing Edmundo Ros but I'm really happy to have made Clebenoff's acquaintance!
posted by cleroy at 4:38 PM on September 12, 2015

That is indeed El Negro Zumbon. Pink Martini did a cover of it.
posted by kevinbelt at 9:54 AM on September 14, 2015