Mambo Americano / Various Mambo Americano / Various CD

The Mambo craze swept through the U. S. popular music culture during most of 1954 and into 1955, competing (surprisingly enough) with the emerging "Swingin' Saddlemen" - Bill Haley, the endless "Annie" vocal group spin-offs, the widespread smash of the Chords' "Sh-boom" and a welter of cute, flower-bower ballads and novelties crooned by the likes of Eddie Fisher, Perry Como and Teresa Brewer. Mambo Americano offers us a comprehensive 63-song collection of Mambo-inspired charts stretching from the sax-blasting of Chuck Higgins to the cool harmonies of the Robins and Harptones, from Cal Tjader to Georgia Gibbs. A wacky Mambo voyage kicking off with Wynonie Harris' suggestive "All She Wants To Do Is Mambo" then weaving through a labyrinth of quirky jazz and bluesy interpretations ending with the close-to-authentic "Leeward Island Mambo" from Big Shell Steel Band of Antigua.

1. All She Wants to Do Is Mambo - Wynonie Harris 2. Cool Mambo - the Sheppards 3. Don't Play No Mambo - the Charioteers 4. Dye-Ooh Mambo - Chuck Higgins - Daddy Cleanhead 5. Mambo Gunch - Chris Powell ; the Blue Flames 6. I Want You to Be My Baby-Mambo - the Royals 7. Mambo Blues - Duke Jenkins Orch. W/ Jo Jo Spoons 8. After Hours Mambo - J.J. Jones 9. Cozy ; Bossa (Cozy's Mambo) - Cozy Cole 10. Crazy Mambo - Classie Ballou 11. Mambo Boogie - Johnny Otis 12. Mambo Santa Mambo - the Enchanters 13. Mombo Carolyn - the Octaves 14. Mambo Chillun - John Lee Hooker 15. Mambo Chopsticks - Cal Tjader Trio 16. Mambo Daddy - the Celebrities 17. Mambo Fiesta - the Calvaes 18. Mambo Is Everywhere - Billy Brooks 19. Caldonia's Mambo - Street Singers 20. Mambo Shevitz (Man O Man) - Crows W/ Melino ; His Orchestra 21. Rock with the Mambo - Johnny Fraser ; the Rebel Airs 22. Mardi Gras Mambo - the Hawketts 23. Night Train Mambo - J.J. Jones 24. She Wants to Mambo - the Chanters 25. Stop Mambo - Danny Kirkland 26. Teenage Mambo - the Gaylarks 27. The Mambo - the Charmers 28. 7-11 (Mambo No. 5) - the Blazers 29. Mambo Boogie - Billy Boyd 30. Big Joe Mambo - Fay Simmons 31. All Night Mambo - the Cookies 32. Mambo Train - the Miracle Tones 33. Rosco's Mambo - Rosco Gordon 34. Mambo Honky Tonk - Morgan Sisters 35. Mambo Boogie - the Harptones 36. Tabolino (Mambo) - Tab Smith 37. Annie's Mambo - T.N.T. Tribble 38. Blues Mambo - Sonny Thompson 39. Mambo of Love - Nolan Strong ; the Diablos 40. Good Mambo Tonight - Wynonie Harris 41. Blues 'N' Mambo - Chuck Higgins 42. Congo Mambo - Manzie Harris Orch 43. Mambo Baby - Ruth Brown 44. Mambostic - Earl Bostic 45. Mambolino - Earl Bostic 46. Shake It Up Mambo - the Platters 47. I Just Wanna Mambo - Linda Hayes ; the Platters 48. I Got to Learn to Mambo - Ivory Joe Hunter ; the Ivorytones 49. Real Gone Mambo (Si Si Nova) - Bill Doggett 50. Mamma Mambo - Marvin ; Johnny 51. Mambo Sh-Mambo - the Charms 52. Loop de Loop Mambo - the Robins 53. Mambo Baby Tonight - the Falcons W/ Candy Rivers 54. Mambo - Joe Houston 55. T-Town Mambo - Ernie Fields W/ Ann Walls 56. Ay Si Si (Mambo) - the Dootones 57. Bopping with the Mambo - the Sultans 58. Mambo Oongh - the Dappers 59. Mambo Blues - Buddy Lucas' All-Stars 60. Mambo Rock - Artie Malvin ; the Brigadiers 61. Mambo Baby - Georgia Gibbs 62. Gumbo Mambo - Larke Sisters 63. Leeward Island Mambo - Big Shell Steel Band of Antigua