Lou Bega - Mambo No. 5
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Artist: Lou BegaEdition: Music CD
Audio: German (Unknown); German (Published)
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)
Music reviews of Mambo No. 5
Music Review: Good song, but it is NOT A REMAKE OF PEREZ PRADO!
Rating: 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?
Description of Mambo No. 5
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 jewelcase. 1999 release.Dance & DJ CDs
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