"Virgenes del Sol" is the "out of place" song of this album.  Especially when set next to all the popular numbers.  Part of the problem is its abysmal arrangement.  Whereas in Yma's other albums there was always one song that did not fit with the surrounding exotica, this piece of pseudo-exotica does not fit with the other popular songs of the album.

This underlines the basic problem Yma experienced due to her concentration on exotica.  After audiences and record buyers became acquainted with Yma, they grew accustomed and expected to hear her in that repertoire - especially after her attempts with more standard music.  When Yma discarded her Incan warbles it was inevitable that audience interest would wane as well.  A concession to those tastes, this song fails to do what was intended because of its cheap treatment.

The song is pitched a third lower than the original version [that] Yma performed with the Compania Peruana fifteen years earlier.  The orchestration is updated; an electric guitar replaces the acoustic guitar, and a bass, rhythm section, piano, wailing women, and grunting men are used to round out the piece.

Although Yma's singing is supposed to be brilliant, it is not.  There are some uncomfortable moments of off-pitch singing in her high register.  Poorly sung, this should never have been released.  It is a pathetic attempt to recapture the glory of a past triumph.  It is a gaudy, commercial, banal performance in the extreme and not representative of what had once been one of Yma's best performing numbers.  Nowhere can one find the beauty and simplicity of the Odeon disc made in 1943.