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Dámaso Pérez Prado (December 11, 1916 – September 14, 1989) [nb 1] was a Cuban bandleader, pianist, composer and arranger who popularized the mambo in the 1950s. [2] His big band adaptation of the danzón-mambo proved to be a worldwide success with hits such as "Mambo No. 5", earning him the nickname "The King of the Mambo".
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 ...
Prado recorded "Cherry Pink" several times, the best known version being the original hit recording from 1953 and the 1960 recording in stereo. [1] Billboard ranked the former version as the number one song of 1955. The most popular vocal version in the U.S. was by Alan Dale, which was number fourteen on the chart in 1955. [5]
A Touch of Tabasco is a 1959 studio album released by RCA Victor featuring the American jazz singer Rosemary Clooney and the Cuban band leader Pérez Prado.. This was the only album that Clooney and Prado recorded together; the album was promoted with free bottles of Tabasco sauce.
David Lubega Balemezi (born 13 April 1975), better known by his stage name Lou Bega, is a German singer.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.
Cha-Cha-Cha Boom! is a 1956 American musical film starring Dámaso Pérez Prado, Stephen Dunne, the Mary Kaye Trio, Helen Grayco, Luis Arcaraz and his Orchestra, Lucerto Bárcenas, and Manny López and his Orchestra.
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"Patricia" is a popular song by Pérez Prado with lyrics by Bob Marcucci, published in 1958. The song is best known in an instrumental version by Prado's orchestra that became the last record to ascend to No.1 on the Billboard Jockeys and Top 100 charts, both of which gave way the next week to the then newly-introduced Billboard Hot 100 chart. [1]