South Of The Border - 48 Lively Latin Favorites is a 1968 Reader's Digest box, and it is exactly the kind of set that made the Reader's Digest music division worth paying attention to: a large, well-programmed survey of a style, pressed properly and packaged to last. Across four LPs it runs through the Latin dance repertoire that had swept North American ballrooms and living rooms - rumbas, tangos, cha-chas, mambos, sambas and boleros, plus the big south-of-the-border standards everyone can hum - in bright, full orchestral and combo arrangements built for dancing or for background listening.

These sets were sold by mail rather than in record shops, and they arrived as a proper package: a heavy slipcase, individual paper sleeves and a program booklet with notes on the music. Forty-eight tracks in one box is a lot of Latin music for the money, and it still works beautifully as party or dinner-party listening.

DETAILS

Artist: Various Artists

Title: South Of The Border - 48 Lively Latin Favorites

Label / Catalog #: Reader's Digest - catalog # not listed

Format: 12" vinyl LP box set, 33 RPM - 4 records

Year: 1968

Genre: Latin / Easy Listening

CONDITION

Vinyl is in Very Good (VG) condition - plays through with light surface noise and visible light scuffs/hairlines from normal play. Box and jackets show honest age wear: shelf wear, edge wear, and possible seam softness. No skips of note. Please see photos and message with any questions.

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