Word: mambo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sounds are balmy as a West Indian zephyr, satisfyingly in tune, and played with carefree spirit. The rhythms are intricately Afro-Cuban, e.g., meringue, samba, mambo, although they eventually fall into a predictable pattern. High points: a gimp-gaited calypso about a cricket upset ("Who taught you to bowl, Australia?"), and another that laments some aspects of the latest white man's invasion, a number called Brown-Skinned...
...built a grandstand where 7,000 spectators can watch an hour-long musical (title: "More Power to You"), featuring a top-hatted elephant in a test of strength with a diesel bulldozer (the diesel wins), French acrobats performing from a 70-ft. crane, 35-ton bulldozers doing the mambo, girls posturing on a fishnet held aloft by two giant cranes...
...company's once-famous line of medium-priced lingerie, gloves and stockings had about as much sex appeal as sackcloth. Board Chairman Feinberg set out to woo the hard-to-sell, fashion-conscious college and career girl, hired top designers to turn out fetching new trifles, e.g., red "mambo" panties. He also revamped Kayser advertising to emphasize girlish glamour instead of spinstership thrift: "Be Wiser-Buy Kayser," its longtime slogan, became "You Owe It To Your Audience." When Kayser's new-looking 1955 lingerie collection was shown last June, it drew the biggest crowd of department-store buyers...
Japan was spared the mambo until last fall, when touring Bandman Xavier Cugat introduced it. But it did not really catch on until the Japanese saw Jane Russell do the Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White mambo in the film Underwater! In the last two months more than half a million mambo records have been sold, and Japanese recording companies have been working overtime to meet the mamboom. Top hit is still Cherry Pink, followed closely by Skokiaan Mambo and Cerezo Rosa (a different arrangement of Cherry Pink). Local mambo composers are doing their best to catch...
...instance, the educators prepared a collection of what they called "good, wholesome, invigorating" songs to be sent out to local education boards and parent-teacher associations, with the recommendation that they be plugged on every possible occasion to drive out the "banal, vulgar, nerve-destroying" mambo. Then the educators rolled up heavy artillery in the form of a symphony orchestra imported from Tokyo. It got a respectful hearing, but this week Cherry Pink and Cerezo Rosa were beating harder than ever against Fukui eardrums. Said one local music critic sadly: "Fukui has 1,000 music lovers and 25,000 mambo...