Mambo No. 5

"Mambo No. 5" is a Mambo and Jazz dance song originally composed and recorded by Cuban musician Dámaso Pérez Prado in 1949 and released the next year.[1]

"Mambo No. 5"
Song by Pérez Prado
Released1950
Recorded1949
GenreMambo, jive dance
Length3:42
Songwriter(s)Dámaso Pérez Prado

The song's popularity was renewed by German artist Lou Bega's sampling of the last 30 seconds of the original, released under the same name on Bega's 1999 debut album A Little Bit of Mambo.[2]

Lou Bega version
"Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit of...)"
Single by Lou Bega
from the album A Little Bit of Mambo
Released19 April 1999
Format
Recorded1998
GenreLatin pop[3]
Length
  • 5:14 (extended version)
  • 3:39 (radio edit)
LabelAriola Records[4]
Songwriter(s)
  • Lou Bega
  • Dámaso Pérez Prado
  • Zippy Davids
Producer(s)
Lou Bega singles chronology
"Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit of...)"
(1999)		 "I Got a Girl"
(1999)

Lou Bega's cover was a summer hit of 1999[5] in most of Europe, including Great Britain, as well as in North America and Oceania. In France it set a record by staying at number-one for 20 weeks. The song reached number 3 on the US Billboard Hot 100 on 2 November 1999, giving Bega his only top-40 hit in the United States.[6]

With its worldwide success, the song became the subject of a seven-year copyright trial between Prado's estate, Peermusic, and Bega's producers. Bega had only used riffs (which by German law cannot be registered for copyright) from Prado's original and written the entire lyrics, so Bega's producers went to court in order to gain access to all the song's proceedings from Peermusic representing Prado's estate. However, after seven years the Federal Court of Justice of Germany ruled in favor of Peermusic and Prado's estate in 2008, based upon the fact that Bega's producers had sought a royalty agreement with Peermusic prior to releasing the song. Because of Bega's significant contributions to his version, the court's final ruling declared it a new song co-written by Prado and Bega.[7]

Music video

The music video, directed by Jorn Heitmann, features Lou Bega singing and dancing with flappers. An alternate music video aired on Disney Channel, featuring clips from various Disney films and television series, with newly recorded lyrics by Bega dealing with the featured characters.

Track listings

CD single

  1. "Mambo No. 5" (Radio Edit) – 3:39
  2. "Mambo No. 5" (Extended Mix) – 5:14
  3. "Mambo No. 5" (Enhanced CD-ROM Video) – 3:42

Maxi single

  1. "Mambo No. 5" (Radio Edit) – 3:39
  2. "Mambo No. 5" (Extended Mix) – 5:14
  3. "Mambo" (Havanna Club Mix) – 5:48
  4. "Mambo" (The Trumpet) – 6:01

7" 45 rpm single

  1. "Mambo No. 5" (Radio Edit) – 3:39
  2. "Beauty on the TV Screen" – 4:03[8]

Charts

Certifications
Region CertificationCertified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[62] 4× Platinum 280,000^
Austria (IFPI Austria)[63] 2× Platinum 100,000*
Belgium (BEA)[64] 3× Platinum 150,000*
France (SNEP)[65] Diamond 1,532,000[66]
Germany (BVMI)[67] 3× Platinum 1,500,000^
Mexico (AMPROFON)[68] Gold 75,000[69]
Netherlands (NVPI)[70] Platinum 75,000^
New Zealand (RMNZ)[71] 3× Platinum 30,000*
Sweden (GLF)[72] 3× Platinum 90,000^
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[73] 2× Platinum 100,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[74] 2× Platinum 1,029,722[75]

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone

Release history
Country Release date
Germany 19 April 1999 (1999-04-19)
Worldwide 17 August 1999 (1999-08-17)
Rerecorded 1 January 2009 (2009-01-01)

Bob the Builder version
"Mambo No. 5"
Single by Bob the Builder
from the album Bob the Builder: The Album
Released3 September 2001
FormatCD single
GenrePop, novelty[76]
Length3:14
LabelBBC
Songwriter(s)Paul K. Joyce
Producer(s)Grant Mitchell
Bob the Builder singles chronology
"Can We Fix It?"
(2000)		 "Mambo No. 5"
(2001)		 "Big Fish Little Fish"
(2008)

In 2001, BBC Records released a novelty version of the song sung by British actor Neil Morrissey, who provided the voice for the children's television show Bob the Builder. This cover made radical changes to the lyrics to fit the theme of the show, making numerous references to construction, repairs and roadway maintenance, as well as the show's characters, who provide background vocals. The female names from Bega's version are also replaced with types of construction supplies and building tasks (e.g. timber, saw, waterproofing, tiling).

Chart performance

On 9 September 2001, the song debuted at number one on the UK Singles Chart,[77] becoming Bob the Builder's second number-one single on the listing after "Can We Fix It?".[78] It earned a Gold certification from the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) on 12 October 2001 for shipping over 400,000 units.[79] At the end of 2001, it was ranked as the UK's 17th-best-selling single.[80]

In Ireland, the song first appeared on the Irish Singles Chart at number 13 on 13 September and peaked at number four the following week,[81] staying there for three weeks in total. It remained in the top 50 for the next 10 weeks. At the end of the year, the song came in at number 42 on Ireland's year-end chart.[82]

In Australia, "Mambo No. 5" debuted at number three on the ARIA Singles Chart on 4 November 2001 and reached number two on 18 November,[83] held off the top spot by Alien Ant Farm's cover of "Smooth Criminal".[84] After staying at number two for another week, the song began to descend the chart, spending nine more weeks in the top 50.[83] It was Australia's 26th-most-successful hit of the year[85] and shipped over 70,000 copies, allowing it to receive a Platinum certification from ARIA.[86]

Charts

Certifications
Region CertificationCertified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[86] Platinum 70,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[79] Gold 400,000^

^shipments figures based on certification alone

Other cover versions
  • Masayoshi Takanaka covers the song for the compilation album, "All of Me".[89]
  • CKBE-FM David Tyler 1999.
  • A ninety-second cover version was created for the Korean rhythm dance game Pump It Up.
  • A cover of the original Perez Prado version appeared in Guinness's famous 1998 "Swimblack" advertisement.
  • Max Raabe backed by the Palast Orchester included a vintage arrangement version of the song on their 2001 Superhits album.[90]
  • Filipino jazz singer Richard Poon covered the song on the Filipino compilation album 90's Music Comes Alive in 2012.
  • Cover versions, with slightly different lyrics in each version, have been heard in Party City commercials.

Parodies
  • WHTZ DJ David Brody released a parody entitled "Bimbo No. 5"[91] featured on the 2000 four-disc set album, Z100 Morning Zoo Yard Sale: 15 Years Of Crap!,[92] referring to the Monica Lewinsky scandal, wherein DJ JR Nelson imitates the voice of Bill Clinton. The song is commonly misattributed to "Weird Al" Yankovic,[93] Paul Shanklin, and The Woody Show. Brody also released a parody version named "Matzah No. 5" which aired on radio stations throughout the country. Performed by "Louie Bagel", the parody takes on various Jewish stereotypes. Also released was "Combo No. 5", which deals with combo meals at a Chinese restaurant.
  • ApologetiX released "Micah No. 5", with lyrics concerning the Christmas story.
  • Mashup artist Neil Cicierega's album Mouth Moods contains the track named 'Revolution #5', which consists of the song edited and distorted in style of The Beatles' "Revolution 9".
  • The visual novel Doki Doki Literature Club! inspired several remixes which replaced all of the female names with "Monica", in reference to one of the game's main characters, Monika. The most recognizable edit is made by the YouTube channel maki ligon, who is also a minor contributor to the YouTube channel SiIvaGunner.
  • Dutch children's TV character Ome Henk, took a parody of the song to #9 titled "Mambo Nr 6". The lyrics referred to the medicine prescribed to him, which causes hallucinations of the girls he mentions in the song. A parody of commercials for the fictional product is also heard.
  • YouTube channels Ontopic and pluffaduff released a remix in which the synthesizer, the trumpets (only Ontopic's version) and trombones play a certain melody of Megalovania, a soundtrack for the role-playing video game Undertale created by Toby Fox. In pluffaduff's remix, every female names were replaced with "Sans", a character introduced as a comic relief but is actually one of the most knowledgeable in the game.
  • YouTube channel Lulu V released a mashup of the song with We Are Number One, a song from the Icelandic children's television series LazyTown.

Legacy
  • The original recording by Pérez Prado was inducted into the Latin Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001.[94]
  • "Mambo No. 5" was ranked sixth in a 2007 poll conducted by Rolling Stone to identify the 20 most annoying songs.[95]
  • This song was initially selected as the theme song of the 2000 Democratic National Convention, but this plan was scrapped due to the possibility of people associating the song with the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal with the chorus, "A little bit of Monica in my life".[96][97]
  • In the Philippines, the song has gained popularity when Tinidora (played by Jose Manalo) of Kalyeserye, a live soap opera within the Juan For All, All For Juan segment of noontime variety show Eat Bulaga!, dances to its tune with a ladder.
  • In the Philippine sports, the song was used as the theme for Studio 23's coverage of the UAAP basketball games during the 2000 season.
  • The song was used as the theme music for Channel 4's coverage of international cricket from 1999 until 2005.
  • On NBC's TV series The Office, this was a ringtone of the character Michael Scott. It was parodied by Michael in season 2 episode, The Dundies.[98][99][100]

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