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Chris Montez: Give Me The Flamenco

Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 2 February 1963

"I REALLY like Spanish dancing best." Chris Montez told me over the transatlantic phone, "And 'though I jive and twist a lot I guess it's the Spanish blood in me that makes me wanna get up and do the Flamenco instead of the Mashed Potatoes like all the other kids are doing."

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