Lou Bega - Mambo No. 5
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Artist: Lou BegaEdition: Music CD
Format: Import, Single
CD Release Date: 1999-09-28
Music Label: Bmg Int'l
Soundtracks:
- Mambo No.5 (A Little Bit Of...) (Radio Edit)
- Mambo No.5 (A Little Bit OF...) (Extended Mix)
- Mambo (Havanna Club Mix)
- Mambo (The Trumpet)
Free Music Notes for Mambo No. 5
Free Music Review: Good song, but it is NOT A REMAKE OF PEREZ PRADO!
Hit: 5 Stars
Despite the fact that I am a middle-of-the-road feminist (i.e., I think women are equal to men and should be allowed to do anything men can do except spit in public) I like this song a lot. It's fun, not meant to be taken seriously and as an expresssion of a young man's ambivalence about women (can't live with 'em and ya can't live without 'em) it serves its purpose. As a previous review wrote, this song should be played in sanitariums and it would help cure the depressed.
But the main reason I am writing is to disabuse anyone of the notion that this is a remake of Perez Prado's Mambo No. 5. Perez Prado wrote a lot of commercial music in the 40s and 50s, such as the blanded-down-for-American-tastes "Patricia." But he also wrote a lot of stuff that was avante-garde and musically superior.
The Bega song contains samples of the 50's hit that are about 1 second long. And that, and a semi-Latin rhythm, is all it has in the common with the monster hit of Latin music in the 50s.
So it's a fun song. Is it offensive? Maybe, but it's what he wrote, not national policy, so why care?
Mambo No. 5 Poster
Bega's huge European hit! Contains four mixes (Radio Edit, Extended Mix, Havanna Club Mix and The Trumpet) of this huge remake of Tito Puente's Latin jazz classic. Slimline jewel case. 1999 release.Dance & DJ Music CDs
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