Is there any sunnier music than the mambo? From it’s origins in the 1940’s to it’s latest versions, the mambo has had us moving happily for decades! Take a dancing stroll through memory lane with classics from Perez Prado and Celia Cruz to New Orleans takes on the venerable mambo to Tucson, Arizona’s Orkesta Mendoza fabulous Mexican Mambo to NYC and Cuba’s Orquesta Akokan’s recent refreshment of the mambo, all on this week’s Beat Latino!

Title	Artist	Album	Label	Year	Length
Pacific Mambo Dance no. 2	Pacific Mambo Orchestra	Live from Stern Grove San Francisco.	Pacific Mambo Records	2017	03:28
Que rico Mambo	Orquesta Perez Prado	Pérez Prado y Su Orquesta.	Meta/ Vocación Musical	2013	03:14
Mambo caliente	Bebo Valdes	24 chansons de Bebo Valdes.	Brisa Records2	14	02:42
Mambo Remedio	K-meleon	Tango de Paname.	Ca Kmeleon	2009	03:52
Mambo influenciado	Sandy Gabriel	Jazzeando.	Jazzeando	2011	06:11
Mi Mambo pide campana	Luisito Orbegoso & Moda eterna	Lula Lounge Essential tracks V1.	Lula Lounge Records	2012	04:31
Mambo Rapidito	Orquesta Akokán	Orquestra Akokán.	Daptone Records	2018	03:19
Mambo	Tropkillaz	Mambo.	Elemess	2015	02:58
Mambo Lupita	Orkesta Mendoza	Mambo Mexicano.	–	2009	04:15
Mambo	Cachao y su Combo	Mambo.	José Luis Álvarez – Svetlana Novojilova Shulguina	2010	05:02
Mardi Gras Mambo	The Meters	Modern Art of Music: Only the Best.	Modern Art of Music: Only the Best	2012	02:41
El Cumbanchero	Angel Melendez The 911 Mambo Orchestra	Angel Melendez The 911 Mambo Orchestra.	Latin Street Music Inc	2004	03:45
Mambo con Puente	Tito Puente	The Mambo King.	Goldstar Records	2017	03:02
Mambo del amor	Celia Cruz	Celia Cruz.	Goldstar Records	162	02:56
Que no se acabe el mambo	José Peña Suazo y la Banda Gorda	Puro Mambo.	Musical Productions	2014	03:44

feature photo: Orquesta Akokan at National Sawdust, by Alex Cascone