| Favorite Music
Faborite Music, Musicians, Composers
Begin the Beguine, greatest pop song ever
Siboney, firmly in second place
Brazil, a contender
Stardust
Marie
I'll be seeing you
Lara's theme
Wunderbar
Under the Double Eagle
Orange Blossom Special
Rose of Sanantone, best country song ever
Four in the Morning, second place country song
South of the Border
Noche de Ronda
Cielito Lindo
Tu Solo Tu, right up there with the best
How Great Thou Art
Amazing Grace
Life is a Cabaret, philosophy as entertainment, my theme song
Las Mañanitas, exquisite
Granada
Augusín Lara
Pink Martini
Gioachino Rossini
Sous les Ponts de Paris
La Piogga, 1960s Italian pop song
O Sole Mio, I don’t care if it is corny, I love it.
Marlene Dietrich, considered a traitor in Germany
Giacomo Puccini
The second movement of the Concierto de Aranjuez, an accurate musical painting of the gardens at Aranjuez, written by a blind man
Ray Price
Johnny Bush
Lola Beltran
Amalia Mendoza
Jorge Negrete
Miguel Aceves Mejía
Water Music, by Handel, default CD on my music system
Placido Domingo, a gentleman, as well as a great talent
Luciano Pavoratti, no gentleman, but he could sing
Maria Callas, no lady, but she could sing
Enrico Caruso
Sergei Rachmaninov
The Bachs
The Strausses, occasionally, some of Ricard included
Henry Purcell
George Handel
Johann Pachelbel
Tomaso Albinoni
Some of Fredrich Chopin
Most of Wolfgang Mozart
Most of Ludwig von Beethoven
Duke Ellington, occasionally
Artie Shaw, occasionally
Bobby Short
Wayne Hancock
Edvard Grieg
Bob Wills
Willie Nelson
Manhattan Transfer
Jim Cullum Jazz Band
Asleep at the Wheel
Edith Piaf
Genres Loved
Forties and Fifties saloon singers
Boogie Woogie, occasionally
Big band, occasionally
Dixieland jazz
Progressive jazz, late at night
Bandstand marches, polkas, and waltzes
Polish umpah music of the Mexican state of Sinaloa
Be Bop
1950s Italian Pop
Baroque, before all
Texas swing, a close second
Traditional country
Traditional Italian love songs
Traditional French love songs
Operetta
Cuban
Mariachi
Romantic opera
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