Mambo No
About Mambo No
"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. 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. In 2026, Pérez Prado's original recording of the song was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry for its "cultural, historical or aesthetic importance in the nation's recorded sound heritage."
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Right. Whereas if Pamela was popular a century before, it's probably not that one because you're combining it with a Jessica. As the writer said, Mambo No. 5 was released in 1999, but the popular baby girl names of 1999 would not automatically tell us the song was released that year. Lou Baker wasn't meeting newborn infants, but was most flirting with adult women. We need to look at the popularity of names from the 60s and 70s and 80s, you know.
from No Such Thing As A Fence Made of Sausage, 2026-07-23 at 00:49:36 · read transcript
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Absolutely not getting on the Anna Tashinsky, let's attack on academics bandwagon. I forgot I did that. I thought you were going to say that here's a mathematical thing about Mambo No. 5. Isn't it weird that there's a song Mambo No. 5 and then that same original artist wrote a song Mambo No. 8, but there aren't any others? I think there were.
No Such Thing As A Fence Made of Sausage, 2026-07-23 · listen
I could find Mambo No. 7, but by a different artist. I couldn't find one to four. This is Perez Prado that we're talking about, who was the original writer of Mambo No. 5. He wrote so many songs with the name Mambo in it, he didn't necessarily record all of them. It's quite possible that he had live versions.
No Such Thing As A Fence Made of Sausage, 2026-07-23 · listen
I forgot I did that. I thought you were going to say that here's a mathematical thing about Mambo No. 5. Isn't it weird that there's a song Mambo No. 5 and then that same original artist wrote a song Mambo No. 8, but there aren't any others? I think there were. I couldn't find any.
No Such Thing As A Fence Made of Sausage, 2026-07-23 · listen
Imagine that. A little bit of Che in Bolivia. There's no lyrics in his original Mambo No. 5. He did do a lot of different Mambos, Mambo No. 8 and so on. Apparently there's a really good way.
No Such Thing As A Fence Made of Sausage, 2026-07-23 · listen
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