Music CD - Lou Bega: A Little Bit of Mambo

	Music CD: A Little Bit of Mambo Artist: Lou Bega List Price: $11.98 Our Price: $2.73 Your Save: $ 9.25 ( 77% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: RCA
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Tracks: 1. Mambo No.5 (A Little Bit Of...) 2. Baby Keep Smiling 3. Lou's Cafe 4. Can I Tico Tico You 5. I Got A Girl 6. Tricky, Tricky 7. Icecream 8. Beauty On The TV-Screen 9. 1+1=2 10. The Most Expensive Girl In The World 11. The Trumpet Part II 12. Behind The Stage 13. Mambo Mambo
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0078636788722 Label: RCA Manufacturer: RCA Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: RCA Release Date: 1999-08-24 Studio: RCA
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Ah yes, Mambo in the Sinai Comment: Some good music to listen to now that the nights are getting cold here. Two of my favorite songs are on this CD (Mambo No.5 and I Got a Girl) and most of the rest of the mix is to my taste. A couple are not, but that's why we got programmable CD players! Customer Rating: Summary: Lou sells his songs without even trying--and that's no small feat !!! Comment: Lou Bega came out with a great CD here with A Little Bit Of Mambo. The tunes are catchy, solid and well performed by Bega and the musicians. Just one listen proves it! "Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of...)" starts the CD strong with probably the greatest hit on the album. The catchy melody remains in your memory almost effortlessly--but it's a good catchy, not a "bad" catchy. Lou sings really well about flirting with women and the chorus to this song shines like gold! Love that brass! "Baby Keep Smiling" continues the hits with an excellent tune you're bound to love! Lou Bega's excellent diction bolsters his delivery; and the backup chorus makes "Baby Keep Smiling" even better! I predict that you will enjoy "Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of...)" and "Baby Keep Smiling" very much. "Can I Tico Tico You" obviously has Lou singing passionately of how he wants romantic time alone with his woman; and the mix of a traditional Latin beat with a rap melody works wonders for "Can I Tico Tico You." "Tricky, Tricky" features Lou singing about a woman who wants a lot of material things from her man; and the musical arrangement makes good use of the drums and percussion. Lou turns out "Tricky, Tricky" like the pro that he is! Moreover, "Beauty On The TV-Screen" has a great arrangement for piano and percussion; Lou Bega sings this without a superfluous note. Lou sings of how he wants to know a beautiful woman he sees on TV. Great number! "Behind Stage" makes it sound as if Lou just finished a concert; and when the theater staff begs him for more Lou eventually gives in as long as he's "The Mambo King." When the salsa music comes in and Lou sings "Mambo Mambo" this number takes off like a rocket! Excellent! The liner notes give us some great artwork and we get the lyrics to the songs, too. Lou Bega more than proves his talent with this incredible CD. This is great music for anyone who appreciates Latin music and Lou's fans will never be caught without this one in their collections! Muchas gracias, Lou Bega! Customer Rating: Summary: Great for one or two spins Comment: This is actually a fairly decent album compared to some the other stuff out there, on the air. Unfortunately, it doesn't have the necessary lasting power to make it much more than a cleaver, one man show, studio designed, self absorbed, novelty CD. His self adoring, ego-manic lyrics get old real fast even if some of them are no worse than another popular novelty song from some years back. Remember "Don't Worry, Be Happy"? Additionally, his lyrical content does nothing to give women the honor and respect they deserve. In fact, his lyrics and whole attitude of the album is very degrading toward women. Mambo #5 is just another one of those catchy songs that you'll remember for years just like we still remember "Achy Breaky Heart", "Tip-Toe Through The Tulips" by Tiny Tim, the old lady, Mrs. Miller, whose fame was in her whistling of songs and Napoleon XIV with "They're Com'n To Take Me Away, Ha Ha". Just because we remember certain songs doesn't necessarily make them great. Lou Bega had a catchy stinger and he got all of the mileage out of it in one release. Which may be a blessing in disguise! Oddly enough, I still enjoy this CD every so often for the melodies and rhythms. Then again, I also have the remastered album containing Napoleon XIV's only -dare I say- Top 40 HIT. And remember... Don't Worry, Be Happy! Customer Rating: Summary: Mambo Some More Comment: This CD is very fun and exciting. The music envokes fun, movement and laughs. What a feel good way to get into Mambo. Customer Rating: Summary: Good album Comment: I used to line dance to "I Got A Girl" and I always liked " Mambo No. 5" and Lou also does a good song towards the end with a salsa beat to it. A very unique album. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: What sounds like an early-model Casio playing "Wake Me Up Before You Go Go" quickly gives way to a classic Perez Prado riff. On top of it all, Lou Bega--born in Germany to a Ugandan father and Italian mother--hoarsely exhorts the floor to "Mambo No. 5." A runaway hit in more than a dozen countries, it's an agreeable trifle, if ultimately not as charming as "Macarena" proved to be a few summers back. Throughout this cash-in album, Bega comes off like a cross between a less clever Tone-Loc and a less inspired Buster Poindexter. If there's a great Europop-Cuban fusion in the making, its standard-bearers will have to come up with more durable trashy fun than this. --Rickey Wright