{{Short description|1961 song by Henry Mancini}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{About|the Henry Mancini song|the musical instrument|Lujon (musical instrument)}} {{Refimprove|date=March 2007}} {{Infobox song | name = Lujon | cover = | cover_size = | alt = | border = | caption = | type = | artist = | album = | EP = | language = | English_title = | A-side = | B-side = | written = | published = | released = {{Start date|1961}} | recorded = | studio = | venue = | genre = Easy listening<ref>{{cite web |title=Henry Mancini - Mr. Lucky Goes Latin [Original Soundtrack] Album Reviews, Songs & More |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/mr-lucky-goes-latin-original-soundtrack--mw0000065851 |website=AllMusic |language=en |access-date=2022-12-17}}</ref> | length = {{Duration|03|17}} | label = RCA Victor | writer = Henry Mancini<ref>{{cite web |title=ACE Repertory - T0700977941 / 420100447 |url=https://www.ascap.com/repertory#/ace/search/workID/420100447 |website=ASCAP}}</ref> | composer = | lyricist = | producer = | chronology = | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = | next_year = | tracks = | misc = }}
"'''Lujon'''" (also known as "'''Slow Hot Wind'''") is a composition by Henry Mancini.<ref>{{cite web |title=Lujon |url=https://secondhandsongs.com/work/78342 |website=SecondHandSongs |access-date=2020-12-02}}</ref>
==Background== Its name comes from the lujon percussion instrument heard on the recording.
==Henry Mancini recording== It appeared on his 1961 album ''Mr. Lucky Goes Latin'', but was an original piece of music that had nothing to do with the ''Mr. Lucky'' television program.<ref>{{cite book |last=Caps |first=John |title=Henry Mancini: Reinventing Film Music |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QK6UmDGh2V4C&pg=PA59 |publisher=University of Illinois Press |date=2012-02-15 |page=59 |isbn=978-0-252-09384-5}}</ref> It was included in the soundtracks for the films ''The Big Lebowski'', ''Sexy Beast'', ''W.E.'', and ''Two Lovers''. Mancini would later record a jazz/swing version of "Slow Hot Wind" and include it on his 1975 album ''Symphonic Soul''. The song reached No. 38 on the Adult Contemporary chart in 1976.<ref>{{cite book |last=Whitburn |first=Joel |title=Top Adult Contemporary: 1961–2001 |publisher=Record Research |year=2002 |page=154}}</ref>
==Other versions== * With lyrics by Norman Gimbel, titled as "Slow Hot Wind" (or "A Slow Hot Wind"), the song was recorded by Johnny Hartman (1964 album ''The Voice That Is!''), Sarah Vaughan (1965 album ''Sarah Vaughan Sings the Mancini Songbook''), Sérgio Mendes & Brazil '66 (1966 album ''Herb Alpert Presents''), Roseanna Vitro (1991 album ''Reaching for the Moon''), Julee Cruise (2002 album ''The Art of Being a Girl''), and others. * The song was remixed as "Ocean Beach" by Black Mighty Orchestra on the compilation album ''Chilled 1991–2008''. * "Lujon" is featured in the 1996 album ''Sacrebleu'' by Dimitri from Paris, Track 19, renamed "Epilogue". * Belgian trip hop band Hooverphonic recorded a version of the song overlaid with vocals, "No More Sweet Music".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.humo.be/cd-reviews/46002/hooverphonic-no-more-sweet-music |title=Hooverphonic – (No) More Sweet Music |work=HUMO |language=nl |date=2005-11-19}}</ref> from the 2005 eponymous album. * "Lujon" was recorded by Les Deux Love Orchestra and appears on the album ''King Kong'' (2008), featuring members of Mancini's original orchestra.
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{{1960s-pop-song-stub}} Category:Songs with music by Henry Mancini Category:Songs with lyrics by Norman Gimbel