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Originally Posted by Lambada
Showing my age here a bit & probably needing to get with the programme, but..........if you were brought up on the Big Band Sounds of the 40's & 50's and learned your 'Latin American' dancing in the UK in the 50's then the clips posted by Margaret & El Sabeloto ARE Mambo. Definitely the same beat, definitely the same 'make you want to get up and dance' & definitely be exhausted after you have.
Mr. Lu are you saying this is the DR equivalent to gangsta rap? I find that hard to believe - this has melody, rhythm and...........no crotch scratching!  Altogether a kinder, gentler, yet more invigorating type of music. I like it, and remember to me mambo is (or perhaps was)
YouTube - Perez Prado piano solo
plus the stuff Bushbaby & I used to dance when we were a bit younger of which, thank goodness, there are no videos out there! |
And while I heard Pérez Prado's mambo growing up, I must embarrassedly admit that it took American Radio, Casey Kasem to be exact, to tell me about
Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White, not a mambo, but a cha-cha, and his biggest hit in the US.
Did you know that Los Hermanos Rosario were thinking about imitating that sound during their early years before they had a contract?