Editing Charo (section)

==Career==

Charo was highly visible throughout the 1970s, appearing ten times on ''[[The Love Boat]]'', and on variety and talk shows such as ''[[Donny & Marie (1976 TV series)|Donny & Marie]]'',<ref name="cc-dandm">''Donny & Marie'' broadcast listings, "Channel Choices", ''The Dallas Morning News'', February 27, 1976, pg. C7 (with [[George Gobel]]); December 3, 1976, pg. B11 (with [[Carl Reiner]]); December 2, 1977, pg. A16 (with [[Milton Berle]] and [[the Sylvers]])</ref> ''[[Tony Orlando and Dawn]]'',<ref name="cc-tod">''Tony Orlando and Dawn'' broadcast listings, "Channel Choices", ''The Dallas Morning News'', July 10, 1974, pg. C7 (with [[Lloyd Bridges]]); March 5, 1975, pg. D4 (with [[Tony Randall]]); January 28, 1976, pg. C9 (with [[Freddy Fender]]).</ref> ''[[Captain & Tennille|The Captain and Tennille]]'',<ref name="cc-candt">''The Captain and Tennille'' broadcast listings, "Channel Choices", ''The Dallas Morning News'', March 7, 1977, pg. B7 (with [[John Byner]], [[Ben Vereen]], [[Manfred Mann's Earth Band]], and [[LeVar Burton]]).</ref> ''[[John Davidson (entertainer)|The John Davidson Show]]'', ''[[The Mike Douglas Show]]'' (which she guest-hosted at least once)<ref name="md-host">Rena Pederson (column), ''The Dallas Morning News'', December 3, 1976, pg. B11; refers to Charo as "the dizzy Spanish sexpot-songstress".</ref> and the short-lived ''[[Brady Bunch Hour|The Brady Bunch Variety Hour]]''.<ref>''The Brady Bunch Hour'' broadcast listing, "Channel Choices", ''The Dallas Morning News'', March 21, 1977, page A18.</ref>

In 1975, ''Dallas Morning News'' critic Harry Bowman wrote that the [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC network]] had "penciled in . . . a half-hour comedy starring the uninhibited wife of Xavier Cugat" and commented, "This is probably the worst idea of the season."<ref name="uninhibited">Harry Bowman. "New season guessing" ("Broadcast Beat" column), ''The Dallas Morning News'', April 22, 1975, pg. A12</ref> By October of that year, Charo was promoting a TV special slated for November,<ref name="wilson101375">Earl Wilson. "Hackett 'Teaching' Charo" (column), ''The Dallas Morning News'', October 13, 1975, pg. D5.</ref> but it did not actually appear until May 1976.<ref name="bowman2">Harry Bowman. ''The Dallas Morning News'', April 27, 1976, page C5</ref><ref name="sizzler">UPI. "Charo special looms as family sizzler", ''The Dallas Morning News'', May 24, 1976, pg. B7.</ref>

A television listing for August 24, 1976, shows what appears to be an unsold pilot airing on ABC at 8:30&nbsp;p.m. [[Central Standard Time|CST]]: "''Charo and the Sergeant''—Situation comedy starring Charo Cugat. Charo's first U.S. job is to be a dancer at an off-limits nightclub, and her conservative [[United States Marine Corps|Marine Corps]] husband finds out. The few episodes that were taped ended up being broadcast on the American [[Armed Forces Network]] overseas."<ref>"Channel Choices", ''The Dallas Morning News'', August 24, 1976, pg. B5.</ref> Writer [[Bruce Vilanch]] wrote about his work on ''Charo and the Sergeant'' in his 2025 memoir ''[[It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time]]''.<ref name=K>{{cite web|title=It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time|website=[[Kirkus Reviews]]|date=March 4, 2025|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/bruce-vilanch/it-seemed-like-a-bad-idea-at-the-time/|access-date=March 5, 2025|archive-date=March 7, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250307022934/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/bruce-vilanch/it-seemed-like-a-bad-idea-at-the-time/|url-status=live}}</ref>

By the late 1970s, Charo was being mentioned as an example of how overexposure could damage a celebrity. One such article quoted the "[[Q score]]" of Performer Q, Steve Levitt's celebrity popularity rating service, to show that her popularity declined slightly even as her familiarity increased:{{blockquote|Before she gained national fame on talk shows in 1975, bosomy Latina starlet Charo was 'recognized' by 57 percent of Levitt's national television sample and had a 'popularity quotient' of 9 percent. Today, known by 80 percent, a figure as high as [[Clint Eastwood]]'s 80 percent, Charo's popularity is 8 percent. 'If she was known by 100 percent of the world, chances are her popularity might go down to 7 or 6 percent,' Levitt says coolly. That paradox makes some performers think twice when invitations to talk shows come in.|"The TV Talk Shows", ''[[The Washington Post]]'' July 14, 1977 (''Style'' section, pg. B1)}}

[[File:Charo black dress.jpg|thumb|right|upright|Charo performing in 2004]]

She was named Best Flamenco Guitarist in ''[[Guitar Player Magazine]]''{{'}}s readers' poll twice.<ref name=LatinasintheUnitedStates>{{cite book|last=Ruíz|first=Vicki|title=Latinas in the United States: a historical encyclopedia, Volume 1|year=2006|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0-253-34681-0|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_62IjQ-XQScC&q=%22Best+Flamenco+Guitarist%22+charo&pg=PA144|author2=Virginia Sánchez Korrol|page=144|access-date=November 30, 2015}}</ref>

Charo returned to the dance-music scene in June 2008 with the single "España Cañi", which was released through Universal Wave Records.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://perfectbeat.com/product_info.php?products_id=16933 |title=From Perfect Beat |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080702044226/http://perfectbeat.com/product_info.php?products_id=16933 |archive-date=2008-07-02 }}</ref>

On March 1, 2017, Charo was revealed a contestant for [[Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 24)|Season 24]] of ''[[Dancing with the Stars (U.S. TV series)|Dancing with the Stars]]'', paired with professional dancer [[Keo Motsepe]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/dancing-stars-2017-season-24-celebrity-cast-partners/story?id=45767534|title='Dancing With the Stars' 2017: Season 24 celebrity cast and partners revealed on 'GMA'|work=ABC News|access-date=March 1, 2016|date=March 1, 2016|archive-date=April 24, 2025|archive-url=https://archive.today/20250424024446/https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/dancing-stars-2017-season-24-celebrity-cast-partners/story?id=45767534|url-status=live}}</ref> On April 3, 2017, they were the second couple eliminated from the competition and finished in 11th place.