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"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 .
All music and lyrics by Lou Bega, Zippy Davids, Frank Lio and Donald Fact, except: Track 1 – "Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of...)": music by Pérez Prado, lyrics by Lou Bega and Zippy Davids; Track 4 – "Can I Tico Tico You": music by Zequinha Abreu, lyrics by Lou Bega, Zippy Davids, Frank Lio and Donald Fact. Vocals: Lou Bega (main performer)
"Mambo No. 5" was featured in another Guinness commercial, Swimblack, in 1998 (the year before Lou Bega took his sampled cover version of that same song to the top of the UK chart). [21] The soundtrack to the 1997 action thriller Mean Guns heavily features the music of Pérez Prado, as it is the favorite choice of Ice T's character in the film.
Lou Bega’s “Mambo No. 5,” a 1999 smash that topped the pop charts in most global territories, is one of the most love-it-or-hate-it songs of all time — Stephen King’s wife definitely ...
Bega sang the theme song for the Disney Channel animated series Brandy & Mr. Whiskers. Bega also recorded and starred in a music video of a Disney version of "Mambo No. 5" that featured Disney-themed lyrics. In the video game Tropico, Bega is one of the characters that the player can choose as their dictatorial persona.
"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 ...
Mucho Mambo) Sway" reached number 2 in the UK in August, kept off the number-one spot by Lou Bega's version of "Mambo No. 5", [4] also based on a Prado song. Outside the UK, the song was also a top 10 hit in Ireland, [5] Sweden and Norway, as well as reaching number 15 in Finland and number 28 in Australia. [6]
The album includes Prado's Mambo No. 5. In December 1950, Bob Goddard in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat described the album as "scorching" and concluded: "It's utterly impossible to sit still while any of this is going on." [1] In a 2024 ranking of the 600 greatest Latin American albums, Pérez Prado Plays Mucho Mambo for Dancing was ranked No ...