Hisao Sudo – Best Selection For Ballroom Dancing

Best Selection For Ballroom Dancing by Hisao Sudo & The New Down Beats Orchestra is a Japanese Ballroom dance music collection featuring 26 orchestral recordings for the five International Standard dances: Slow Waltz, Tango, Slow Foxtrot, Quickstep, and Viennese Waltz.

The album combines well-known melodies, traditional Tango selections, jazz standards, and orchestral favorites arranged for Ballroom dancing. Its repertoire ranges from the expressive Chi Mai and Somewhere in Time to Tango classics such as Felicia and Olé Guapa, Foxtrot favorites including Misty, and energetic Quickstep numbers such as Sing, Sing, Sing and American Patrol.

With dedicated selections for each Standard rhythm, this collection is suitable for Ballroom practice, teaching, social dancing, demonstrations, and competition training.

Hisao Sudou and The New Down Beats Orchestra are associated with Japanese Ballroom dance recordings, and this release is identified as a Ballroom album from Japan.

Track List

Slow Waltzes — 30 BPM/TM

1. Chi Mai — 2:34
2. Sherezade — 2:31
3. Piano Concerto — 2:27
4. Meditation Aus Thais — 2:31
5. Haunted Guitar — 2:33
6. Somewhere In Time — 2:31

Tangos — 33 BPM/TM

7. Felicia — 2:08
8. Ole Gaupa — 2:08
9. A La Gran Muneca — 2:09
10. Tango Argentina — 2:09
11. Twilight — 2:08
12. Brumoso — 2:09

Slow Foxtrots — 30 BPM/TM

13. Lean Baby — 2:05
14. Somewhere In Time — 2:30
15. Misty — 2:36
16. Les Paraplus De Cherbourg — 2:28
17. Time After Time — 2:30
18. To Love Again — 2:32

Quicksteps — 52 BPM/TM

19. Sing Sing Sing — 2:02
20. That’s A Plenty — 2:05
21. It Don’t Mean A Thing — 2:05
22. The Sound Of Philadelphia — 2:07
23. American Patrol — 2:09

Viennese Waltzes — 60 BPM/TM

24. G’schichten Aus Dem Wienerwald — 1:35
25. Estudiantina — 1:34
26. Under Paris Skies — 1:35