Cugat was born in Barcelona, Spain. [1] With his family, he immigrated to Cuba when he was five. He trained as a classical violinist and played with the Orchestra of the Teatro Nacional in Havana.
On 6 July 1915, Cugat and his family arrived in New York as immigrant passengers on board the S.S. Havana. Entering the world of show business, he played with a band called “The Gigolos” during the tango craze.[2] Later, he went to work for the Los Angeles Times as a cartoonist. Cugat's caricatures were later nationally syndicated.
In the late 1920s, as sound began to be used in films, he put together another tango band that had some success in early short musical films. By the early 1930s, he began appearing with his group in feature films. Cugat took his band to New York for the 1931 opening of Waldorf Astoria Hotel and it became the hotel's resident band.
He shuttled between New York and Los Angeles for most of the next thirty years, alternating hotel and radio dates with movie appearances in films such as Week-End at the Waldorf (1945) and Neptune's Daughter (1949).
In 1940, he recorded the song Perfidia with singer Miguelito Valdés which became a big hit. Cugat followed trends closely, making records for the conga, the mambo, the cha-cha-cha, and the twist when each was in fashion. His first marriage was to Rita Montaner, his second to Carmen Castillo (1929 – 1946), his third to Lorraine Allen (1947 – 28 April 1952), and his fourth to singer Abbe Lane in 1952. He and Lane performed together until their divorce in 1964. He married salsa dancer Charo on 7 August 1966. The two were the first couple to marry in the newly opened Caesars Palace on the Las Vegas Strip.
Cugat did not lose sleep over artistic compromises: “I would rather play Chiquita Banana and have my swimming pool than play Bach and starve.”
Cugat died of heart failure at age 90 in Barcelona in his native Catalonia, Spain.
Cerezo Rosa
Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra Lyrics
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When your true lover comes your way
It's cherry pink and apple blossom white
The poets say
The story goes that once a cherry tree
Beside an apple tree did grow
And there a boy once met his bride to be
The boy looked into her eyes, it was a sight to enthrall
The breezes joined in their sighs, the blossoms started to fall
And as they gently carressed, the lovers looked up to find
The branches of the two trees were intertwined,
And that is why the poets always write
If there's a new moon bright above
It's cherry pink and apple blossom white
When you're in love
The lyrics of Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra's song "Cerezo Rosa" celebrate the blooming of cherry pink and apple blossom white when people fall in love. The song is inspired by a legend of a boy and a girl who met under cherry and apple trees, where they fell in love while exchanging glances. The lyrics describe how the branches of the two trees intertwined to form a romantic archway that symbolized their love. The song suggests that this fusion of pink and white blooms represents the beauty and purity of true love.
The lyrics convey the idea that the natural world responds to the ecstasy of love, as the breeze joins in their sighs and the blossoms start to fall. The lyrics of "Cerezo Rosa" also imply that lovers should look to the sky during a new moon because it is a time when cherry pink and apple blossom white colors will represent the purity of their love. The song's lyrics, therefore, use natural imagery to evoke the sensation of falling in love and the accompanying emotional intensity.
Line by Line Meaning
It's cherry pink and apple blossom white
Love is truly beautiful like the colors of cherry pink and apple blossom white
When your true lover comes your way
True love will come and make everything colorful and beautiful
It's cherry pink and apple blossom white
Love will always be beautiful like the colors of cherry pink and apple blossom white as described by poets
The poets say
Poets always try to describe the beauty of love with beautiful analogies
The story goes that once a cherry tree
The story is about a cherry tree and an apple tree that grew together
Beside an apple tree did grow
The cherry tree grew next to the apple tree
And there a boy once met his bride to be
The place where the two trees grew was where the boy met his future wife
Long long ago
It happened a long time ago
The boy looked into her eyes, it was a sight to enthrall
The boy was mesmerized by her beauty when he looked into her eyes
The breezes joined in their sighs, the blossoms started to fall
The wind blew gently, stirring the blossoms of the trees around them as they fell in love
And as they gently carressed, the lovers looked up to find
As they embraced, they looked up and saw that the branches of the two trees were intertwined
The branches of the two trees were intertwined
Their love was so strong that it brought the trees together, and their fates were bound forever
And that is why the poets always write
Poets always try to describe the beauty of love with beautiful analogies like cherry pink and apple blossom white
If there's a new moon bright above
If the moon is shining bright in the sky
It's cherry pink and apple blossom white
Love makes everything beautiful and poetic like the colors of cherry pink and apple blossom white
When you're in love
Love makes everything vibrant and colorful
Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: JACQUES LARUE, MACK DAVID
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Rosa Victoria Andrade Luján
que lindas epocas, quien no bailo con Xavier Cugat!!!
Annarosa Cuniberti
Era una delle canzoni preferite dei miei genitori, anche nella versione cantata in italiani
Marly Salviatto
Maravilhoso
Annarosa Cuniberti
Altra canzone che piaceva ai miei genitori. Mamma la cantava spesso, quando preparava qualche dolce
Marly Melchert de Macedo Salviatto
AMO
Miguel Cruzado Ignacio
Gracias. Lo comparto.
Nada Nikolic
Mel0dija nezaborava