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The song "Beautiful Maria of My Soul" was written for the film, with lyrics by Glimcher and music composed by Kraft. [4] The original soundtrack album was released in 1991 by Elektra Records. It features a number of original master recordings, re-recorded tracks and mambo-themed songs performed by Sandoval, Tito Puente and Celia Cruz. [4]
The mamba is the deadliest snake in the world, so he must have meant the mambo, but it sounds so much like 'mamba' that every lyric website writes it that way. It makes sense neither way." [14] The Blender feature also noted the irony of the song lamenting "they're always changing corporation names", given Starship's own frequent name changes. [13]
Mamba is a 1930 [1] American pre-Code film, released by Tiffany Pictures. It was shot entirely in Technicolor and stars Jean Hersholt , Eleanor Boardman , Ralph Forbes , Josef Swickard , Claude Fleming, William Stanton and William von Brincken.
The film is titled after a traditional Mexican folk song of the same name, which Valens transformed into a rock and roll rendition in 1958. In 2017, La Bamba was included in the annual selection of 25 motion pictures added to the National Film Registry of the U.S. Library of Congress being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically ...
The Mambo Kings is the soundtrack to the 1992 film of the same name, based on Oscar Hijuelos's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love.Artists featured on the album include Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, Benny Moré, Arturo Sandoval, Linda Ronstadt and Los Lobos.
"Mambo Italiano" is a popular song written by Bob Merrill in 1954 for the American singer Rosemary Clooney. The song became a hit for Clooney, reaching the top ten on record charts in the US and France and No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart in early 1955. The song has shown enduring popularity, with several cover versions and appearances in numerous ...
"Mambo No. 5" is an instrumental mambo and jazz dance song originally composed and recorded by Cuban musician Dámaso Pérez Prado in 1949 and released the next year. [1] German singer Lou Bega sampled the original for a new song released under the same name on his 1999 debut album, A Little Bit of Mambo. [2]
In 1961, The Tokens covered the song on their album "The Lion Sleeps Tonight". In 1963, Trini Lopez released the song at the A-side of a single as "La Bamba part I" with on the B-side "La Bamba part II". A second single in 1963 contains "La Bamba" with B-side "Granada". The song is also included at his 1963 live album Trini Lopez at PJ's.