The Rainbow Room Orchestra plays big-band and Latin tunes, featuring a singer in a satin gown; between its sets, small groups play easy-swinging jazz.

But that 1962 version is a fairly faithful rip-off of La Bamba by Ritchie Valens, which is a fairly faithful rip off of a traditional Latin tune plus a rock and roll beat.

His next record, "Charanga Moderna," on the label Tico, featured a song called "El Watusi" that capitalized on a contemporary dance craze and became a hit, the first Latin tune to enter the Billboard Top 20.

The decoration is Andalucian, while the music is a mix of Spanish and Latin American tunes with salsa on Wednesday nights.

Raul Rekow of Santana often plays five conga drums and tunes them to the opening phrase of a Latin tune.

While other orchestras were reduced to broadcasting "Jeannie With the Light Brown Hair" and other songs in the public domain, Mr. Cugat drew on a library of more than 500 non-Ascap Latin tunes.

Its melody is based on the original Latin tune, but re-arranged by well-known Korean composer, Kenzie.

Arrangements with a "Latin" A section and a swung B section, with all choruses swung during solos, became common practice with many "Latin tunes" of the jazz standard repertoire.

During dinner, the impersonator lip-syncs a Latin tune, complete with trills, winks and lots of hip shaking.

Trina's cell phone jangled with a Latin tune.