Includes 18 of all the Best Known Prado Tracks Like "Mambo No.5" (The Original) and "Guagline" (From the Old Guiness Ad).

ROSEMARY CLOONEY / PEREZ PRADO A TOUCH OF TABASCO

16 seriously swinging hits and classics from the King of Mambo, including Cu Cu Ru Cu Cu Paloma; Besame Mucho; Frenesi; Que Rico El Mambo; Cerezo Rosa; Granada; Esperame en el Cielo; Lupita; Sabor a Mi; Mambo #8 , and more.

Reissue of 1956 album from RCA Victor Gold Series, 24-bit remastered in a digipak with original sleeve and booklet. 2003.

Damaso Pérez Prado was one of Latin music's most inventive bandleaders--literally, as he merged jazz elements with guaracha rhythms, creating the potent concoction known as mambo. The 20-track Mondo Mambo! gets Prado's two biggest U.S. hits, the rather tame "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White" (1955) and the ultratame "Patricia" (1958), out of the way quickly, the better to serve up track after classic track of blaring horns, deep-dish percussion, and shouted exhortations by the master himself. The great Beny More adds vocals to the beyond-torrid "Babarabatiri" and two other numbers, while Prado lays down some daring Monk-style pianistics on "Pianolo." (The disc also includes Prado's original "Mambo No. 5," which Lou Bega turned into a daffy smash in 1999.) --Rickey Wright