{"id":7475,"date":"2018-09-16T10:56:16","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T15:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=7475"},"modified":"2018-09-16T10:56:16","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T15:56:16","slug":"perez-prado-mama-a-go-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=7475","title":{"rendered":"Perez Prado – Mama A Go Go"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download – Perez Prado – Mama A Go Go MP3<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Greetings all.<\/strong><\/p>\n

You find music in the strangest places.<\/p>\n

A few years back someone posted a psychotronic video, with a clip of a dancer from some old black and white grindhouse flick, but the music playing over the clip was wild.<\/p>\n

It took some finagling, but after asking around and doing a little digging I discovered that the track was toady\u2019s selection, \u2018Mama A Go Go\u2019 by Perez Prado.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Prado was a Cuban\/Mexican bandleader, known as the King of the Mambo who had hits in the 50s with the original ‘Mambo No 5′, Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White’ and ‘Patricia’.<\/p>\n

Originally released in 1967 on the United Artists LP \u2018Concierto Para Bongo\u2019, \u2018Mama A Go Go\u2019 is a crazy fusion of Latin boogaloo and 60s au go go.
\nThe mixture of styles is unusual, but I\u2019m a little shocked it wasn\u2019t more prevalent. The collision of the two styles seems like a natural fit to me, with the hard percussion and the wailing combo organ.<\/p>\n

The album as a whole is a very interesting mix of styles, with a few tracks (\u2018Estoy\u2019 and \u2018A Go Go\u2019) following the pattern of \u2018Mama A Go Go\u2019, \u2018Cayitano\u2019 moving in a straighter boogaloo direction and \u2018Fantasia\u2019 and the title track going straight up Latin jazz.<\/p>\n

The album must have been popular in some markets, as it was released in a number of countries in 1967, then reissued in Spain and the US in the 70s (this is a 1979 Raiz issue) then again in a few countries in the 80s, then on CD a number of times in the following decades.<\/p>\n

There was also a 45 issue of this track and as far as I can tell it\u2019s rarer and more expensive than the LP.<\/p>\n

I hope you dig it and I\u2019ll see you next week.<\/p>\n

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