Blog Post #4
The song I chose for this week is "Mambo No. 5" written by Perez Prado, a Cuban composer, in 1949 (linked below). I originally chose this song because the tune of it sounded familiar for some reason. After looking into it, I found out there is a different song by Lou Bega called "Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of...)" Bega's song seems to have sample's from Perez Prado's original soundtrack and I had heard Bega's version sometime when I was younger I think (I don't remember exactly when, but I've heard it somewhere haha.)
"Mambo No. 5" doesn't have many lyric's besides a few repeated Spanish lines towards the end that translates to "Yes, yes, yes I want to mambo." From listening to it, the song uses a lot of trumpets and drums to create the the catchy melodies. The song sometimes presents more than one layer of trumpets or brass instruments playing two different beats at the same time. Other times it has short, quick and loud bursts of trumpets on top of the other sounds being played. It's a pretty fast paced, but not overbearing song with some repetition to it but enough change to be interesting.
Perez Prado : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJlAb4VLs4k
When I listened to this song it also felt super familiar to me and I didn't know where I had heard it. I looked on wikipedia and apparently there's a rendition in Bob the Builder so maybe that's where I heard it from lol. I like how you talked about the layered instruments to create the varying beats. Personally I think the song gets a little repetitive but I think that's just because of the lack of words.
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