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Mambo No. 5
The mambo, numbered. Dámaso Pérez Prado — ‘El Rey del Mambo’ — turned out instrumental mambos so fast he numbered them, and No. 5 (1949) is the one that...
Open in the interactive experienceThe mambo, numbered. Dámaso Pérez Prado — ‘El Rey del Mambo’ — turned out instrumental mambos so fast he numbered them, and No. 5 (1949) is the one that stuck: grunting brass stabs, that unmistakable ‘¡uhh!’, a rhythm engineered for the floor. Fifty years on, Lou Bega bolted a pop-rap lyric onto it and sent it back to No. 1 around the world — proof that Prado's engine still runs.
- Composer
- Dámaso Pérez Prado
- Year
- 1949
- Lineage
- Original mambo