Beguine (dance) Beguine (dance) The beguine is a dance and music form, similar to a slow rhumba. It was popular in the 1930s, coming from the islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique, where in local Creole "Beke" or "Begue" means a White person, and "Beguine" is the female form. It is a combination of Latin folk dance and French ballroom dance, and is a spirited but slow, close dance with a roll of the hips (a movement inherited from rumba) After Cole Porter wrote the song "Begin the Beguine", the dance became more widely known beyond the Caribbean. The song was introduced in
The Best Days of My Life songs from the album was also released in 1979. From the liner notes for the 2014 CD release: This album's CD release as part of the 2017 box set "" also included "I Never Said I Love You". From the liner notes for "": Rudy Vallee was the first artist to make the charts in "Billboard" magazine with "As Time Goes By" when he took the song to number 15 in 1931, but after the song was featured in the film "Casablanca" his recording was reissued and spent four weeks at number one in 1943. "Begin the Beguine" was first