The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra - More Tea For Two Cha Chas (1959)

A1 	Tea For Two Cha Cha No. 2 	
A2 	An Occasional Man 	
A3 	Santa Isabel De Las Lajas 	
A4 	Dream 	
A5 	Everybody's Cha Cha 	
A6 	Santiago De Cuba 	
B1 	Sweet And Gentle (Me Lo Dijo Adela) 	
B2 	Nunca 	
B3 	Don't Worry 'Bout Me 	
B4 	Silencio 	
B5 	The Sheik Of Araby - Cha Cha 	
B6 	Esto Es Felicidad

Warren Covington - Director, Trombone
Gene Allen - Sax (Baritone)
Lawrence J. Boyle - Trombone
David J. Ecker - Trombone
John Frosk - Trumpet
Rolf Kühn - Clarinet, Sax (Alto)
Joe Lopes - Sax (Alto)
Paul A. Perman Jr. - Trumpet
Lester Perry - Sax (Tenor)
Jack Six - Bass
Teddy Sommer 	- Drums
Robert Tillotson - Trumpet
Hal Turner - Piano

After Tommy Dorsey passed away in November 1956, trombonist Warren Covington assumed leadership of the Dorsey band, and continued making records for Decca on the LP format. Dorsey's final releases were the long-playing Decca albums In a Sentimental Mood and a sampling of musical comedy hits by Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz. Tea for Two Cha Chas, which was Covington's first essay at the helm of the Dorsey group, outsold the earlier albums and achieved enormous popularity as the best-selling Dorsey LP of them all. While this may seem at first like a suspiciously kitschy attempt to cash in on the Caribbean dance trend instigated by Xavier Cugat, Desi Arnaz, and Edmundo Ros, it is clear why the record-buying public responded so well, as the easygoing arrangements and a playlist peppered with familiar airs like "Dinah" and "Dardanella" made it ideal background music for patio barbecues and cocktail parties across the land. Even if the rather stilted vocals on "I Want to Be Happy Cha Cha" sound slightly demented, "Tea for Two Cha Chas" is a fabulous period piece which should be championed as essential equipment for any retro-cocktail gathering. Sepia's zesty reissue of this important, campy cultural artifact adds another dozen tracks from Covington's 1960 follow-up LP, More Tea for Two Cha Chas, which is distinguished by the inclusion of "An Occasional Man," immortalized one year later by sultry Julie London on her Liberty album "Whatever Julie Wants." Covington's concession to current developments in pop culture is evidenced by the addition of a twangy electric guitar on "Tea for Two Cha Cha No. 2." --- arwulf arwulf, Rovi

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