Latin standards: selected songs, 1928-1972

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The page might be more accurately titled something like: “Selected Latin American popular song standards, published 1928-1972, which have become pop and/or jazz standards in North America and elsewhere outside of Latin America.” The list is limited to songs that I’ve published individual pages on, or which have appeared in broader feature pages on this site, as noted.

1928 — El Manisero (The Peanut Vendor)

1929 — Te quiero dijiste / Magic is the Moonlight

1934 — Tabú (Taboo)

1935 — Para Vigo me voy (Say Si Si)

1938 —  Na Baixa do Sapateiro (Bahia)

1939 — Perfidia

traditional(?) — Malagueña salerosa (La Malagueña)

1940 — Bésame Mucho

1959 – Manhã de Carnaval

Antônio Carlos Jobim — 15 selected standards, 1956-1972 (15 separate pages)

• 1956 — Se todos fossem iguais a você (Someone to Light Up My Life)
• 1958 — Chega de saudade
• 1959 — Desafinado
• 1959 — A Felicidade
• 1959 — Meditação (Meditation)
• 1959 — Dindi
• 1959 — Fotografia (Photograph)
• 1960 — Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars)
• 1961 — Insensatez (How Insensitive)
• 1961 — O amor em paz (Once I Loved)
• 1962 — Garota de Ipanema (The Girl from Ipanema)
• 1963 — Inútil paisagem (Useless Landscape)
• 1963 — Vivo sonhando (Dreamer)
• 1967 — Wave (Vou te contar)
• 1972 — Águas de março (Waters of March)

(below) Songs contained within broader feature pages

1963 — Mas Que Nada — in “Sérgio Mendes and Brasil ’66: selected recordings, 1966 to 1970“

1970 — Feliz Navidad (José Feliciano) — in the page “Some other popular holiday season songs“

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