The Mambo King, Vol. 3

Performer: Pérez Prado
Engineer: Dick Baxter
Producer: Domingo G. Echevarria; Mariano Rivera Conde; Herman Diaz, Jr.
Distributor: BMG (distributor)

Notes: Personnel: P�rez Prado (piano); P�rez Prado; Octavio Mendoza, Enrique Garza Salinas, Antar Daly (vocals); Jerry Sanfino, Jim Daddario, F. Mikell, Irving Greenberg, George Furman, A. Ferina, M. Flachsenhaar, A. Graco, Aaron Sachs, Sol Schlinger (saxophone); L. Procopio, Doc Cheatham, J. Massa, A. Ford, Jack Mootz, J. Kelly, C. Tornow, Paul Webster , Roger Mozian, Jimmy Nottingham, Al DeRisi (trumpet); Ramon "Mongo" Santamaria, J. Luna (congas); Francisco Pozo (bongos); Faustino Sosa, A. Suarez (maracas); Domingo G. Echevarria (sequencer); Dave Lambert (vocals); Mongo Santamar�a (congas); Chano Pozo. Liner Note Author: Gabe Romero. Recording information: Mexico City, Mexico (09/19/1951-06/24/1953); N.Y.C (09/19/1951-06/24/1953); New York, NY (09/19/1951-06/24/1953). Arranger: P�rez Prado.

D�maso P�rez Prado, the original Mambo King, served time as an arranger and pianist in several Havana-based bands in the 1930s. By the '40s, the traditional Cuban danzon style was evolving into newer, African-inspired sounds like the cha-cha and the mambo. With an irresistible syncopated rhythm and sensual, brass-heavy melodies, mambo dovetailed nicely with the popular swing music of the day. Prado began to plant the mambo seeds farther away from home, and by the '50s, the mambo craze had taken hold in the U.S. While Prado was not the first musician to play this music, he wrote and/or recorded some of the biggest mambo hits of the era. Though the craze eventually faded, Prado performed and recorded until his death in 1989.

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