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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 .
"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.
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)
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 ...
His 1999 song "Mambo No. 5", a remake of Pérez Prado's 1949 instrumental piece, reached no. 1 in many European countries and was nominated for a Grammy Award. Bega added words to the song and sampled the original version extensively. Bega's signature musical sounds consist of combining musical elements of the 1940s and 1950s with modern beats ...
Mambo is a genre of Cuban dance music pioneered by the charanga Arcaño y sus Maravillas in the late 1930s and later popularized in the big band style by Pérez Prado.It originated as a syncopated form of the danzón, known as danzón-mambo, with a final, improvised section, which incorporated the guajeos typical of son cubano (also known as montunos).
The best-known version was recorded by Perry Como with Mitchell Ayres's orchestra in New York City on August 31, 1954. The U.S. release peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard chart in January 1955. [2] The recording was part of a wave of popular mambo music in the U.S. alongside songs like "They Were Doin' the Mambo" and "Mambo Italiano". [3] [4]
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 ...