It's a scream how Levine does the rhumba : the Latin-Jewish musical story: 1940s-1980s.
(Music CD)

Title from disc labels.

Booklet contains song list, information about the musicians, and essays by The Idelsohn Society (A few words), Arturo O'Farrill (Essay or esse), Steve Berlin (A Jewish lobo speaks), and Mark Schwartz (Memories from the days of the Mamboniks).

Various performers, featuring Tito Puente, Carole King, Herb Alpert, Abbe Lane, Machito, Celia Cruz, and Eddie Palmieri.

"Welcome to one of the great unsung currents of American pop music: the forgotten musical mash-up of Latin and Jewish, bagels and bongos, Spanish and Yiddish, manteca and schmaltz, that's been a bubbling undercurrent of American pop music since the early 1900s. It's a story full of Jewish mambo dancers, Jewish salsa greats, beloved sidemen, and record label chiefs on the one hand, and Latino bandleaders, singers, composers, and entrepreneurs on the other. It's a Scream How Levine Does the Rhumba: The Latin-Jewish Musical Story, 1940s-1980s, is the first of its kind to excavate and mine this cross-cultural tale. Featuring legendary names like Eddie Palmieri, Celia Cruz, Herb Alpert, Carole King, Tito Puente, and many more, it offers an in-depth historical examination of the relationships between Latinos and Jews in America through the sound of popular music"--Publisher's website.

Sung in English, Spanish, some Yiddish.