Word: mambo
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...rumba done in quick time by partners with one game leg apiece. The dance was the merengue, long popular in the Dominican Republic and now a lively candidate for popularity on U.S. dance floors. The merengue (pronounced meh-rew-geh) has already caught on at Manhattan's mambo-mad Palladium, and has begun to spread to less hectic New York dance spots. Says Danceman Murray, currently spending two hours a day practicing merengue steps himself: "I am confident that the merengue will soon become more popular in this country than the mambo...
...music business, having scraped the hillbilly barrel and blown the froth off the mambo craze, has taken over r. and b., known to the teen-age public as "cat music" or "rock 'n' roll.''* The commercial product, whether by Negroes or whites, only superficially resembles its prototype. It has a clanking, socked-out beat, a braying, honking saxophone, a belted vocal, and, too often, suggestive lyrics (spelled "leer-ics" by trade-sheet Variety, which has launched a campaign to clean them up). Result: a welter of hits in the r.-and-b. idiom (including five...
...Sumac Mambo! (Capitol...
Occupational Therapy. In Buenos Aires, arrested for undertaking to cure liver ailments at $21.75 a treatment by having her patients dance the mambo, Healer Dona Pancha, 59, paused en route to jail to mix herself a magic potion of liquids, unguents and powders to ward off claustrophobia...
...Song or a Shot. Dean Pope also gave the back of his hand to the "peace-of-mind cult." He objects to identifying Christianity with it, no matter how popular it is or how many people claim to have been helped. "The mambo is popular, and innumerable people have been helped by patent medicines, hospitals and social-work programs, but not every popular or helpful thing is to be described as Christian or presented under Christian auspices...