Papa Loves Mambo
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Perry Como (#4 in 1954) |
Papa loves mambo / Mama loves mambo
Look at 'em sway with it, gettin' so gay with it
Shoutin' "olé" with it, wow! (ooh!)
Papa loves mambo / (Papa loves mambo)
Mama loves mambo / (Mama loves mambo)
Papa does great with it, swings like a gate with it
Evens his weight with it, now!
He goes to, she goes fro / He goes fast, she goes slow
He goes left 'n' she goes right / (Papa's lookin' for mama but mama is
nowhere in sight)
Papa loves mambo / Mama loves mambo
Havin' their fling again, younger than Spring again / Feelin' that zing
again, wow! (ooh!)
Papa loves mambo / (Papa loves mambo)
Mama loves mambo / (Mama loves mambo)
Don't let her rumba and don't let her samba / 'cause papa loves mama tonight
(ooh!)
(Papa loves mambo) / (Mama loves mambo) / (Papa loves mambo) / (Mama loves
mambo)
He goes to, she goes fro / He goes fast, she goes slow
He goes left 'n' she goes right / (Papa's lookin' for mama but mama is
nowhere in sight)
Papa loves mambo / (Papa loves mambo) / Mama loves mambo / (Mama loves
mambo)
Havin' their fling again, younger than Spring again / Feelin' that zing
again, wow! (ooh!)
Chorus
'Papa Loves Mambo and Mama loves mambo!' So sang Perry Como,
who popularized this catchy dance number on his NBC television show. Como's
1954 recording climbed to No. 4 in the U.S.A. and sold over one million
copies.
Bandleader Perez Prado introduced the sizzling, screeching
mambo to the United States in 1949, but it caught on with a bang in 1954,
and this recording was one reason why. The song writing team of Al Hoffman
and Dick Manning was joined by veteran Bix Reichner, composer of such hits
as "The Fable of the Rose" and "The Red We Want Is The Red We've Got ( in
the Old Red, White and Blue )", to produce this bright novelty for Perry.
The grunts heard from the chorus are humorous references to bandleader Prado's
yelps to his musicians as they whipped dancers into a mambo frenzy.
