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Ultra-Lounge, the Glossary

Ultra-Lounge is a series of compilation CDs released by Capitol Records, featuring music predominantly from the 1950s and 1960s in genres such as exotica, space age pop, mambo, television theme songs, and lounge.^[1]

Bossa nova

Bossa nova is a relaxed style of samba developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Capitol Records

Capitol Records, LLC (known legally as Capitol Records, Inc. until 2007), and simply known as Capitol, is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group through its Capitol Music Group imprint.

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Cha-cha-chá (music)

Cha-cha-chá is a genre of Cuban music.

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Duke University Press

Duke University Press is an academic publisher and university press affiliated with Duke University.

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Exotica

Exotica is a musical genre, named after the 1957 Martin Denny album of the same name that was popular during the 1950s to mid-1960s with Americans who came of age during World War II.

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Grammy Award for Best Recording Package

The Grammy Award for Best Recording Package is one of a series of Grammy Awards presented for the visual look of an album.

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ITunes

iTunes was a media player, media library, mobile device management utility developed by Apple.

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Lounge music

Lounge music is a type of easy listening music popular in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Mambo (music)

Mambo is a genre of Cuban dance music pioneered by the charanga Arcaño y sus Maravillas in the late 1930s and later popularized in the big band style by Pérez Prado.

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Space age pop

Space age pop or bachelor pad music is a subgenre of easy listening or lounge music associated with American and Mexican composers, songwriters, and bandleaders in the Space Age of the 1950s and 1960s.

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Swing revival

The swing revival, also called retro swing and neo-swing, was a renewed interest in swing music and Lindy Hop dance, beginning around 1989 and reaching a peak from the early/mid to late 1990s.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-Lounge

Also known as Ultra Lounge, Ultra-lounge (album series).