Feeling Good! is one of the great Cugat records, marvelously smooth in its adaptations of all sorts of pop tunes. Many of the selections, such as "La Bamba" or "Hello, Dolly," could have spelled disaster, but Cugat pulls them off. Title track "Feeling Good" is from The Roar of the Greasepaint, The Smell of the Crowd, but accurately describes the mood in understated but interesting arrangements. The horns on a baion treatment of "It's Not Unusual" are notable. "Goldfinger" is covered, "Fiddler on the Roof" is a rock-leaning ... Read More
Feeling Good! is one of the great Cugat records, marvelously smooth in its adaptations of all sorts of pop tunes. Many of the selections, such as "La Bamba" or "Hello, Dolly," could have spelled disaster, but Cugat pulls them off. Title track "Feeling Good" is from The Roar of the Greasepaint, The Smell of the Crowd, but accurately describes the mood in understated but interesting arrangements. The horns on a baion treatment of "It's Not Unusual" are notable. "Goldfinger" is covered, "Fiddler on the Roof" is a rock-leaning mambo, and "Game of Love" is a rock "calypso." All of the Decca Cugat LPs are wonderful, made as they were in the high-sixties mod, or "now sound," style. ~ Tony Wilds, Rovi Read Less
