I had an older brother who passed away 6 weeks after he was born on May 3rd 1955, this was the number one song on that date. I never knew him but I was named after him and feel he is my guardian angle. He would have been 68 today
GOD IS ALWAYS WONDERFUL. HE SOMETIMES GIVES US A LITTLE TASTE OF GOODNESS TO LET US KNOW, WHAT'S AWAITING FOR US ON THE OTHER END OF THE FIELD GOAL. CHEER UP!❤🙏
When I was a kid I remember that my mother would play this song over and over. In my mind I could see the smile on her face each time she repeated the song. RIP Mommy. I love and miss you so much.
🥲I was listening to Sirius and heard this song so I looked it up. I haven't heard this since I was a kid. I too remember we all loved this instrumental, especially my mom. I was thinking of a reply and in my mind popped I second that emotion, still listening to Sirius a couple of seconds later Smokey was singing his song. Yep, I Second That Emotion! Coincidence??? I don't think so. Our moms watch out for us.
Me too, my parents played pinochle on the weekends and I was in charge of the record player....we all loved this music and still do....I have 2 of the 45's!!
My mother also loved this song She would dance with the broom or mop. Once she even had me dancing with her. I still smile when remembering how she twirled me around. I LOVED the movie this song is from.
1955 I was five years old, and my mother was a fanatic for this song… It was her song. It is a five-year-old child I ended up very much liking it at a very young age. I think the connection she had to the song and how she loved the music and how it was done Made me really pay attention. I am now 73 years old and I love it more than ever. And obviously, it brings back deep loving memories for my mother!
I just googled the #1 Rock and Roll song of 1955 and on one post I found out that this song was the most played song by DJ’s and Jukeboxes on the very Day I was Born June 11,1955 I do remember hearing this song in my early years Yes it brings back many memories
My daddy used to play this on his trumpet. He was BETTER than the original. As I learned piano, he taught me how to back him on this song. It's such a beautiful memory for me! (Dad died in 2010)
Yes I am this old! When I was a wee tyke, maybe three or four years old, my parents had to buy me the 78 RPM of this record. I loved it. It was about that brazen legato trumpet! I still can’t get over it. Overlaid with a groovy rumba beat with calypso style bongos! Midcentury juiciness!
Although this hit the number 1 on the charts three years before I was born, this is the type of music my Dad and I listened to when I was a little girl. My Dad taught me to dance when I was little. First, I had my little feet on his shoes, and later, we would dance together with my feet on the floor. This is a wonderful dance tune! LOVE IT still! Oh my, the memories!
my late mother had a lot of old LP's in her collection we used to listen to them as we were growing up , when she passed away in 1996 I inherited all of her old albums . And when ever I hear music from those albums , or I find that music on the web and as i listen to them I am no longer a 63 year old man , I am a young teenager growing to young adult listening to that music in a place that no matter what time of year , or what was going on it was my place of peace
Wow, I have no idea what made me think of this song. I was a 6 y/o kid in Flatbush, Brooklyn in 1955. This actually might be the first song I remember hearing!!
@strick.... a ja jestem rocznik 1953r. Pamiętam uśmiech na twarzy Rodziców, gdy ta melodia leciała w radiu. Ta i wiele innych cudnych utworów. Pozdrawiam z Polski.
I have been searching for this song. I am a trumpet player and always loved this version of this great song. This great trumpeter stays so cool all the way through, and then just explodes the mighty high F at the end.
As well you should be! Mr. Salinas was a master of the trumpet, and his music will live for as long as recorded music lives! Hat's off to him!-- and to you, too!!
I was 4 years old when this was a hit. My dad liked latin music and we had the 45 rpm record that I often played. It brings back wonderful memories. I even remember the B side Elena Maria which is on RUclips also.
I played this for my grandma months before she passed last year and she told me of how she got to dance at his shows when she was young growing up in Caracas, VZ. His music touched so many people ❤
Perez war in meiner Jugend da absolute Musikgenie und hat mich bis heute - bald 80 Jahre nicht mehr losgelassen.Ich wollte immer Dirigent werden von einer Bigband und habe dann mehrer Disco - Clubs eröffnet und geführt. Am 14. Oktober 2017 findet in Lindau - Insel am Bodensee, - dass " 50 jährige Revival - Charlys Crazy _ Alm " " von unserer 1. Disco im Nana an der Seehafenpromenade statt.Musik was my life............Euer Charly
After serving in the Korean War ended in 1953, my father returned to his practice in Honolulu, Hawaii as a Dentist in 1954. In his high school years, he played the trumpet bought and earned from working odd jobs. One such tune "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White", stuck in his head when he first heard it back in 1955. Every time he heard Perez Prado's version without sheet music, he played along from a vinal record he bought. Playing the trumpet was a favorite hobby turned passion. I still can remember how he played that piece and even tried to teach me how to dance the Mambo. Sadly, Dad died in 2015 at age 95. Thus version will always being back happy memories of Dad. R.I.P. ❤❤😂😅😊❤❤
In the early 1950s' my Father was still at home. He eventually left his wife (my mother) and 5 kids. All "abondonados" while he went out to enjoy life. But, this song, this musical by Prado and his band always reminds me of my father as he played it offten.. And, what may have been today an awful lot of party with him (he played bongos at home). I'm 65 yrs old now, and I still remain a fan of this music, and whatever brief memories I have of my father "Pop", as we would call him. I hope he's resting well, he passed in his early 40s' from a heart ailment. Dad, a beer on you and Prado. - Rick
I FINALLY FOUND IT! For years I have been looking for this song. Back in 2002 or so the Fabulous Fifties infomercial had this song and when that horn played that tune me and my brother cracked up. So glad I finally found this after so many years.
I'm playing it because it's the start of May and,though I don't have a cherry tree,the apple trees in and beyond my garden have their pink and white blossom out.
my mom used to play this lp on the Motorola stereo we had in the living room and between Perez and Nat King Cole i grew to appreciate what real music was..Thank You, Mom..
My old fishing and cigar smokin' buddy, Mike Pagone, is playing drums on this track. Mike was an excellent Latin drummer, played good piano, and trombone. We used to have a lot of fun together.
My old fishin' and cigar smokin' buddy, Mike Pagone, is playing drums on this track. Mike was a good drummer, and song-writer. I'd love to see him again, but I can't track him down.
I've ALWAYS adored this song but even more the comments section is just a treat! So many AWESOME stories and people related to those who made it. FABULOUS! 😻
In the fifties when my brothers and I went to the cinema, before the film started this tune would be played. I always liked to hear the voice in the background holler “ooo”.
Thank the youtube algorithm! I finally found the name of this!! I'm 37 and grew up with a fondness for the oldies, my parents feed me as much as they could! It's almost like I was there. It's a blissful track! Wonderful!!
+Maria DiGiovanni -- A few years ago my mother told me this story: She and her siblings were raised by her aunt, a music teacher in Cuba. Perez Prado was one of her students. My mother would sit on the patio and would watch as Prado and his mother walked to the house for his piano lessons. She said he always seemed so bashful and awkward, that she believed him to be retarded.
My Mother is 83 and she remembers dancing to this song with the one that got away! A former boyfriend,also fondly remembers how wonderful the music was! Its great music and I also love it!
Brings back golden memories. My late dad used to play this on his trumpet. And during the 60's my older brother started blowing at the age of 14. Wonderful music of those days
When I was a little girl, my Tata would always play his CDs of Pérez Prado. I remember dancing around to this song and seeing him smile when I did. He would always imitate the “Hit em’!” part in the middle, and that was always my favorite part. This song makes me so emotional. I can only think of him when I hear it. Such a beautiful song. My Tata passed away when I was 9. Hiányzol Tata szeretlek 💗
That trumpet is the icing. Nothing like a GOOD trumpet player taking lead on top of everybody else underneath. ....song is absolutely breathtaking.......everything about it.....
Dámaso Pérez Prado was the King of Mambo! And there will never, ever be Another Perez Prado, he was unique in his music and rhythm and is irreplaceable!!! May he rest in peace always! Love my music the mambo and cha cha cha and all the Cuban music from my beautiful island 🌴 the Republic of Cuba! 🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺. God bless Perez Prado and God bless my beautiful country Cuba 🇨🇺 which I miss so much. Que viva el mambo y Pérez Prado!!!!! Let’s dance!!! 👌👌👌👌❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥👍👍👍👍👍👍🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
My mother used to tell me that this was my father's favourite song. He died when I was five months old. Funny how music can connect you with people even if you never knew them. RIP Ma.
Karen M Hawaii This song was my late father's favorite and played many instruments especially the trumpet the song. He was still single then and just returned from serving in the Korean War. Loved also mambo dancing.
Bis gestern wusste ich weder den Titel des Musikstücks, noch kannte ich den Namen seines Komponisten. Gestern wurde es in einem Bläserkonzert gespielt. Seit Jahrzehnten habe ich diese Komposition nicht mehr gehört. Ich erinnere mich, in unserem Kino wurde es seit den 50gern bis zur Einstellung des Kinobetriebes vor jeder Vorstellung gespielt und man wusste dann, gleich geht es los. Gestern hat es mich noch einmal "vom Hocker gehauen." Dieses Stück wird niemals alt. Ich bin begeistert.
I was also born in 1953 on 10/17/1953. I always liked the Perez Prada song Cherry Pink, Apple Blossom White. That song was very popular in most cities, I call it a city song.
This song was very popular for skaters. I was a skater. In the 60s I lived in skates almost year round. Then almost 17 years later I had my second son who had asthma and played trumpet to help him. My greatest joy was hearing him play this at 8 years old... he had a wonderful gift for the trumpet. Soundtrack of my youth 🎼 🖤
This song was played once again in Olympics Ice Dancing. I remember it from when I was very very young. My grandfather played this on his record player so very long ago. I'm 50 now. I could never place it. Had no idea what the name of the song was. So, I Googled 1950's Instrumentals and a site popped up with a list of songs and audio clips of those songs. This was number 3 on the list. Bingo!!! I found it. This song has something I can't quite put my finger on. Can't quite describe but, I love it.
I love the year 1955 and this was the biggest hit of the year spending 10 wks at #1. It was not the original version of this song but by far the best and still sounds great today.
+Mark Mead .......I love it too.......This hit had a French composer and was written in 1950, but my fellow Cuban Dámaso Pérez Prado turned it into a hit for the entire world in 1955........Pérez Prado was born in Matanzas, Cuba but died a Mexican citizen, and was known as the KING OF THE MAMBO.......His son still runs an orchestra in Mexico City........CM González, ( Sierra Cuban ) Miami, Florida, Estados Unidos de América ...........
Great memories of this one from my childhood: When this came on at all my Italian family weddings, played by live orchestra of course, everything stopped, and everyone surged the dance floor. It was played more than once on those occasions ....
Memories. Back in the day, some organization ranked the top marching bands. They didn't say number 1, number 2 and number 3. They just named the top 3. All 3 were high school bands - no colleges made the top 3. They were Cleveland Heights, Ohio, the richest city per capita in the country at the time, Terre Haute, Indiana, where the instrument maker companies provided all of the instruments, uniforms and lessons and us. We were Chattanooga High School in Tennessee. All we had was the acknowledged top band director in the nation, A.R.. Cassavant. Anyway, we invited the other 2 down for concerts. Terre Haute accepted. This was the Spring of 1956, so without football, we all became concert bands. Terre Haute played this song in their concert. The trumpet player always kept his elbows up, so that his forearms were parallel to the floor. He was fantastic. In those stretches, his instrument went into a lower and much longer growl that did the player for the Perez Prado band. His control was perfect. I think all of the girls in the audience swooned.
Pérez Prado fue el Rey del Mambo, punto! Y nadie se puede igualar a él. Pérez Prado es IRREPETIBLE!!! Que Dios lo bendiga siempre esté donde esté! This mambo is one of my favorite and I have it on my IPhone to listen to it no matter where I am. God bless you Pérez Prado, you were the King of Mambo! There is ONLY ONE PEREZ PRADO, DÁMASO PÉREZ PRADO, AND HIS MUSIC WILL LIVE FOREVER! He was a Cuban icon and a legend loved by many people all over the world and, of course, by his fellow Cubans. Maestro Perez Prado, can you play it again???? ♥️♥️♥️🙏🙏🙏👍👍👍🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺❣️❣️❣️❣️
I am so grateful for my exposure to this music when I was four years old! My brother and I would always grunt back at Perez when he yelled Dila! on the mambo song.
At age 13 my first boyfriend use to call me and he'd play this for me on his trumpet... Such wonderful memories. Now at 73 yrs old I can still hear his rendension of this! 😁
March 5, 1955 I danced with the man of my life. It was our first dance ,we were married until august 1 2013 when he passed It was always our song .I am so happy I founded on You Tube. bitter sweet memories. Thanks You Tube
It was my Mother's favourite too, although it was a UK 🇬🇧 cover version by EDDIE CALVERT (aka the man with the Golden Trumpet) In our local itinerant pantomime group we sang and danced to it, wearing 'cherry pink' costumes. Happy Memories of 1955 with the Teignmouth Follies..
One of the first songs that I memorized on my trumpet. Used to play it at band rehearsal (high school) and catch hell from the teacher, then he asked me to play it again in front of the entire class. I did.
One of my dad's favorite songs. I adore the trumpet in this, it's outstanding. The Latin flavor just makes it better, it's the icing on a tres leches cake !
The grocery store that I work at plays a wide range of pop music, all the way from big band stuff through the 80s and even later. I heard this one today, and had a hunch that it was this song. I'd heard of Perez Prado and "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White" from reading the Joel Whitburn books, and when I heard this song today at the store, I figured that this was indeed that song. So I looked it up, and I was right!
![Perez Prado and his Orchestra - In Stereo - JVC music cassette - Side A [full]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/o4nCsbwwibY/mqdefault.jpg)
What a beautiful theme. I remember 1957, I was a child and my dad listen it every night. It bring to me a lot of homesickness.
It was around that time and we went to the pictures and as we climbed the stairs, holding my Daddy's hand, this music was playing.
I had an older brother who passed away 6 weeks after he was born on May 3rd 1955, this was the number one song on that date. I never knew him but I was named after him and feel he is my guardian angle. He would have been 68 today
He is in a better place; keep on rocking, my friend.
GOD IS ALWAYS WONDERFUL. HE SOMETIMES GIVES US A LITTLE TASTE OF GOODNESS TO LET US KNOW, WHAT'S AWAITING FOR US ON THE OTHER END OF THE FIELD GOAL. CHEER UP!❤🙏
@@philipnorris6542 WHAT A BLESSING! HE DIDN'T HAVE TO DEAL WITH SIN, OR FACE THE DANGER OF BECOMING AN ENEMY OF GOD .
@@ElisandroSaenz
Darkness, absolutely nothing, like how you were 100 years before you were born, and 100 years after you're dead.
I had acute on guardian angle, but he was kind of obtuse.
When I was a kid I remember that my mother would play this song over and over. In my mind I could see the smile on her face each time she repeated the song.
RIP Mommy. I love and miss you so much.
🥲I was listening to Sirius and heard this song so I looked it up. I haven't heard this since I was a kid. I too remember we all loved this instrumental, especially my mom. I was thinking of a reply and in my mind popped I second that emotion, still listening to Sirius a couple of seconds later Smokey was singing his song. Yep, I Second That Emotion! Coincidence??? I don't think so. Our moms watch out for us.
I remember my Dad playing this ,when I was a little girl.Always loved it!!
Me too, my parents played pinochle on the weekends and I was in charge of the record player....we all loved this music and still do....I have 2 of the 45's!!
My mother also loved this song
She would dance with the broom or mop. Once she even had me dancing with her. I still smile when remembering how she twirled me around. I LOVED the movie this song is from.
I'm a dumbass Chevy guy , so when I hear Cerezo Rosa all I see is brand-spanking new Bel Airs.
Memphis Dan LeLoLai
1955 I was five years old, and my mother was a fanatic for this song… It was her song. It is a five-year-old child I ended up very much liking it at a very young age. I think the connection she had to the song and how she loved the music and how it was done Made me really pay attention. I am now 73 years old and I love it more than ever. And obviously, it brings back deep loving memories for my mother!
I'm 68 & remember it, too. I didn't know whether to speak English or Spanish because of this mambo jumbo craze😊
I am sorry but is it a song? It is only music. Where is the singer and the lyrics? Because you called it a song.
I was three years old in '55.. I remember hearing it a year later!
@@lindasim649 let it go Linda. don’t be so pedantic.
I just googled the #1 Rock and Roll song of 1955 and on one post I found out that this song was the most played song by DJ’s and Jukeboxes on the very Day I was Born June 11,1955
I do remember hearing this song in my early years
Yes it brings back many memories
This was one of my Dad's and Mom's favorite songs. Thank you for the all of the love and wonderful memories!! We miss you very much.
What we danced to first time we met! We lasted 60 years together and still in love. RIP my love!
My daddy used to play this on his trumpet. He was BETTER than the original. As I learned piano, he taught me how to back him on this song. It's such a beautiful memory for me! (Dad died in 2010)
Presuntuoso
Playing this song for my schools jazz band right now! One of the most fun bass trombone parts I’ve ever had the pleasure of playing!
Whooooooooooooomp! (Low bb supremacy)
‘Love it. I played this classic two nights ago on a Country Club gig with a five-piece group. Guests immediately starting dancing.
Was top of the charts april 30th 1955...my birthday.
Yes I am this old! When I was a wee tyke, maybe three or four years old, my parents had to buy me the 78 RPM of this record. I loved it. It was about that brazen legato trumpet! I still can’t get over it. Overlaid with a groovy rumba beat with calypso style bongos! Midcentury juiciness!
Although this hit the number 1 on the charts three years before I was born, this is the type of music my Dad and I listened to when I was a little girl. My Dad taught me to dance when I was little. First, I had my little feet on his shoes, and later, we would dance together with my feet on the floor. This is a wonderful dance tune! LOVE IT still! Oh my, the memories!
my late mother had a lot of old LP's in her collection we used to listen to them as we were growing up , when she passed away in 1996 I inherited all of her old albums . And when ever I hear music from those albums , or I find that music on the web and as i listen to them I am no longer a 63 year old man , I am a young teenager growing to young adult listening to that
music in a place that no matter what time of year , or what was going on it was my place of peace
Wow, I have no idea what made me think of this song. I was a 6 y/o kid in Flatbush, Brooklyn in 1955. This actually might be the first song I remember hearing!!
If you don't move to this, you're dead. What music!
I'm so happy to have been born in 1955 and grew up with great music!
Me too.
I remember my parents dancing to this song as it played on the radio.
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@strick.... a ja jestem rocznik 1953r. Pamiętam uśmiech na twarzy Rodziców, gdy ta melodia leciała w radiu. Ta i wiele innych cudnych utworów. Pozdrawiam z Polski.
I have been searching for this song. I am a trumpet player and always loved this version of this great song. This great trumpeter stays so cool all the way through, and then just explodes the mighty high F at the end.
And you thought your dog ran for the hills when you got your horn out NOW, lol
My dad Homer Salinas played with Perez Prado! He also played this solo!
wow !
Dilo!! he was on the top of the charts for a long time, must make you proud he's associated with a tune people still find so memorable!
Wow! That's terrific! You must be very proud of him!
I remember listening to this music as a child. Yer Dad done good! Welcome to 2020 Madeline S!
@@vincentrolfe1384 Same here. I listened to this 45 of my parents.
Judge Homer salinas on the trumpet solo, so phenomenal. So proud to be his granddaughter.
The trumpet is my favorite instrument on this Music.
As well you should be! Mr. Salinas was a master of the trumpet, and his music will live for as long as recorded music lives! Hat's off to him!-- and to you, too!!
Well done, Erin.
LOVE THIS!!
I was 4 years old when this was a hit. My dad liked latin music and we had the 45 rpm record that I often played. It brings back wonderful memories. I even remember the B side Elena Maria which is on RUclips also.
I played this for my grandma months before she passed last year and she told me of how she got to dance at his shows when she was young growing up in Caracas, VZ. His music touched so many people ❤
Perez war in meiner Jugend da absolute Musikgenie und hat mich bis heute - bald 80 Jahre nicht mehr losgelassen.Ich wollte immer Dirigent werden von einer Bigband und habe dann mehrer Disco - Clubs eröffnet und geführt. Am 14. Oktober 2017 findet in Lindau - Insel am Bodensee, - dass " 50 jährige Revival - Charlys Crazy _ Alm " " von unserer 1. Disco im Nana an der Seehafenpromenade statt.Musik was my life............Euer Charly
I don’t understand, Bulgarian. Switch to Albanian !
After serving in the Korean War ended in 1953, my father returned to his practice in Honolulu, Hawaii as a Dentist in 1954. In his high school years, he played the trumpet bought and earned from working odd jobs. One such tune "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White", stuck in his head when he first heard it back in 1955. Every time he heard Perez Prado's version without sheet music, he played along from a vinal record he bought. Playing the trumpet was a favorite hobby turned passion. I still can remember how he played that piece and even tried to teach me how to dance the Mambo. Sadly, Dad died in 2015 at age 95. Thus version will always being back happy memories of Dad. R.I.P.
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In the early 1950s' my Father was still at home. He eventually left his wife (my mother) and 5 kids. All "abondonados" while he went out to enjoy life. But, this song, this musical by Prado and his band always reminds me of my father as he played it offten.. And, what may have been today an awful lot of party with him (he played bongos at home). I'm 65 yrs old now, and I still remain a fan of this music, and whatever brief memories I have of my father "Pop", as we would call him. I hope he's resting well, he passed in his early 40s' from a heart ailment. Dad, a beer on you and Prado. - Rick
Sorry to hear about your dad rick passing away
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I FINALLY FOUND IT! For years I have been looking for this song. Back in 2002 or so the Fabulous Fifties infomercial had this song and when that horn played that tune me and my brother cracked up. So glad I finally found this after so many years.
Me too!
I remembered that commercial for a long ago
Mummy and daddy danced this. Tears in my eyes now as I reminiss
Damn it. None of my relatives/friends are playing any instrument here!
But the performance is darned good. I love listening to it.
I'm playing it because it's the start of May and,though I don't have a cherry tree,the apple trees in and beyond my garden have their pink and white blossom out.
This was #1 hit song in the 1955 Soltzo Harvey loved this song
my mom used to play this lp on the Motorola stereo we had in the living room and between Perez and Nat King Cole i grew to appreciate what real music was..Thank You, Mom..
My old fishing and cigar smokin' buddy, Mike Pagone, is playing drums on this track. Mike was an excellent Latin drummer, played good piano, and trombone. We used to have a lot of fun together.
My old fishin' and cigar smokin' buddy, Mike Pagone, is playing drums on this track. Mike was a good drummer, and song-writer. I'd love to see him again, but I can't track him down.
Good version of the song, much better than Eddie Calvert’s version. I particularly like the bass note.
Had the pleasure and honor to play with that trumpet player in Hollywood.
I've ALWAYS adored this song but even more the comments section is just a treat! So many AWESOME stories and people related to those who made it. FABULOUS! 😻
I agree. I don't bother with channels that don't allow comments.
This was my favorite song in 1970
My parents passed this man’s legacy on to me and i will be forever grateful ❤
In the fifties when my brothers and I went to the cinema, before the film started this tune would be played. I always liked to hear the voice in the background holler “ooo”.
Isso mesmo...❤😊
My grandfather’s song God rests his soul, my oh my this brings so many memories
My dad's favorite 🎶 when he was still alive! So everytime, I remember this music it reminds me of him.
Thank the youtube algorithm! I finally found the name of this!! I'm 37 and grew up with a fondness for the oldies, my parents feed me as much as they could! It's almost like I was there. It's a blissful track! Wonderful!!
My Grandfather is playing the Bass! ;) Love this!
Maria DiGiovanni Me too - Wink Wink!
+Maria DiGiovanni -- A few years ago my mother told me this story: She and her siblings were raised by her aunt, a music teacher in Cuba. Perez Prado was one of her students. My mother would sit on the patio and would watch as Prado and his mother walked to the house for his piano lessons. She said he always seemed so bashful and awkward, that she believed him to be retarded.
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Moon Raker ???
Maria DiGiovanni 😊
my great grandfather was the maker of the first jukebox to include this hit! what times
My Mother is 83 and she remembers dancing to this song with the one that got away! A former boyfriend,also fondly remembers how wonderful the music was! Its great music and I also love it!
Our school band had mastered this song, everytime our team was winning it caused for celebratiin & dancing. Those were fun and carefree days.
Have always loved this song. Recently read the lyrics, what a great love story. Shame we don't have music like this today.
Brings back golden memories. My late dad used to play this on his trumpet. And during the 60's my older brother started blowing at the age of 14. Wonderful music of those days
When I was a little girl, my Tata would always play his CDs of Pérez Prado. I remember dancing around to this song and seeing him smile when I did. He would always imitate the “Hit em’!” part in the middle, and that was always my favorite part. This song makes me so emotional. I can only think of him when I hear it. Such a beautiful song. My Tata passed away when I was 9. Hiányzol Tata szeretlek 💗
This is my parents song that became their favorite as a couple. It will always remind me of easier times and my parents dancing.
Me too.
This music is giving me a total flashback. How wonderful to hear this song again.
That trumpet is the icing. Nothing like a GOOD trumpet player taking lead on top of everybody else underneath.
....song is absolutely breathtaking.......everything about it.....
Dámaso Pérez Prado was the King of Mambo! And there will never, ever be Another Perez Prado, he was unique in his music and rhythm and is irreplaceable!!! May he rest in peace always! Love my music the mambo and cha cha cha and all the Cuban music from my beautiful island 🌴 the Republic of Cuba! 🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺. God bless Perez Prado and God bless my beautiful country Cuba 🇨🇺 which I miss so much. Que viva el mambo y Pérez Prado!!!!! Let’s dance!!! 👌👌👌👌❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥👍👍👍👍👍👍🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
Pity the communists took over and all the talented people fled to the USA
My mother used to tell me that this was my father's favourite song. He died when I was five months old. Funny how music can connect you with people even if you never knew them. RIP Ma.
Too right; keep on rocking, my friend.
Karen M Hawaii
This song was my late father's favorite and played many instruments especially the trumpet the song. He was still single then and just returned from serving in the Korean War. Loved also mambo dancing.
Bis gestern wusste ich weder den Titel des Musikstücks, noch kannte ich den Namen seines Komponisten. Gestern wurde es in einem Bläserkonzert gespielt. Seit Jahrzehnten habe ich diese Komposition nicht mehr gehört. Ich erinnere mich, in unserem Kino wurde es seit den 50gern bis zur Einstellung des Kinobetriebes vor jeder Vorstellung gespielt und man wusste dann, gleich geht es los. Gestern hat es mich noch einmal "vom Hocker gehauen." Dieses Stück wird niemals alt. Ich bin begeistert.
I loved this as a kid (born in '53 ) ,and I love it still,and I always will ,it's just gorgeous . I can listen to it non stop ...
Prado did it best ,gorgeous !
Marilyn Gares Bean
ME TOO MARILYN IWAS BORN IN 52 AND STILL REMEMBER THIS NICE MUSIC.ESPECIALLY THE FIRST TROMPET SUPER HIGH NOTES,,,,,,,
cherry pink
I was also born in 1953 on 10/17/1953. I always liked the Perez Prada song Cherry Pink, Apple Blossom White. That song was very popular in most cities, I call it a city song.
Is there WORDS to go with beautuful music AND Name of the music..
Such a cool song!!! Truly passes the test of time!!
This song was very popular for skaters. I was a skater. In the 60s I lived in skates almost year round. Then almost 17 years later I had my second son who had asthma and played trumpet to help him. My greatest joy was hearing him play this at 8 years old... he had a wonderful gift for the trumpet. Soundtrack of my youth 🎼 🖤
아름다운 복사꽃 귀엽게 피어날적에. 추억의 연주 잘 감상했습니다.
I was 9 when Mom & Dad played Perez Prado. Enjoyed listening to his orchestra then & enjoy it still.
This song was played once again in Olympics Ice Dancing. I remember it from when I was very very young. My grandfather played this on his record player so very long ago. I'm 50 now. I could never place it. Had no idea what the name of the song was. So, I Googled 1950's Instrumentals and a site popped up with a list of songs and audio clips of those songs. This was number 3 on the list. Bingo!!! I found it. This song has something I can't quite put my finger on. Can't quite describe but, I love it.
I used to play this song on my trumpet over and over again! I can still play it...just not as well as Perez Prado did of course! 🙂
When I was a little kid they had so many great instrumental hits like this and they sounded great on the AM radios of the day.
My Mom used to tell me they were playing this on the radio when I was born in 1955. I have always like this tune
Awesome
God I wish we had real night clubs like they did back then! I love the music, the scene.. Everything ! =)
We've got the memories....and ocasionally an old Movie clip!
I love the year 1955 and this was the biggest hit of the year spending 10 wks at #1. It was not the original version of this song but by far the best and still sounds great today.
No Brasil também escutamos Perez Prado🇧🇷
I was 9 yrs old in 1955 and I loved it then and still at 69.
+Mark Mead .......I love it too.......This hit had a French composer and was written in 1950, but my fellow Cuban Dámaso Pérez Prado turned it into a hit for the entire world in 1955........Pérez Prado was born in Matanzas, Cuba but died a Mexican citizen, and was known as the KING OF THE MAMBO.......His son still runs an orchestra in Mexico City........CM González, ( Sierra Cuban ) Miami, Florida, Estados Unidos de América ...........
+Mark Mead mmee too, OK to have some fun now and then. Keep it up.
Nice.
This reminds me of my dad and mom ...R.I.P dad ...1949-2014 East .L.A
Great memories of this one from my childhood: When this came on at all my Italian family weddings, played by live orchestra of course, everything stopped, and everyone surged the dance floor. It was played more than once on those occasions ....
Anyone else is listening in 2019?
Ye
I am.
this is a timeless classic!!! a GREAT tune ---
I am listening in 2020, brilliant.
April 2020..I'm 55 and it's one of those times you can NEVER forget.What happens to REAL music.Cant help but to be happy while listening.😀😀
Trumpet solo is fantastic but also the complete trumpet section is brilliant!
Love the trumpet, beautiful music!
Memories. Back in the day, some organization ranked the top marching bands. They didn't say number 1, number 2 and number 3. They just named the top 3. All 3 were high school bands - no colleges made the top 3. They were Cleveland Heights, Ohio, the richest city per capita in the country at the time, Terre Haute, Indiana, where the instrument maker companies provided all of the instruments, uniforms and lessons and us. We were Chattanooga High School in Tennessee. All we had was the acknowledged top band director in the nation, A.R.. Cassavant. Anyway, we invited the other 2 down for concerts. Terre Haute accepted. This was the Spring of 1956, so without football, we all became concert bands. Terre Haute played this song in their concert. The trumpet player always kept his elbows up, so that his forearms were parallel to the floor. He was fantastic. In those stretches, his instrument went into a lower and much longer growl that did the player for the Perez Prado band. His control was perfect. I think all of the girls in the audience swooned.
I can’t believe I’m 60 years old & I’ve never heard this tune.
Neither can I! It's a GREAT tune!
You probably grew up in New jersef
View 1,159,045... Thank you for the song.
Pérez Prado fue el Rey del Mambo, punto! Y nadie se puede igualar a él. Pérez Prado es IRREPETIBLE!!! Que Dios lo bendiga siempre esté donde esté! This mambo is one of my favorite and I have it on my IPhone to listen to it no matter where I am. God bless you Pérez Prado, you were the King of Mambo! There is ONLY ONE PEREZ PRADO, DÁMASO PÉREZ PRADO, AND HIS MUSIC WILL LIVE FOREVER! He was a Cuban icon and a legend loved by many people all over the world and, of course, by his fellow Cubans. Maestro Perez Prado, can you play it again???? ♥️♥️♥️🙏🙏🙏👍👍👍🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺❣️❣️❣️❣️
I am so grateful for my exposure to this music when I was four years old! My brother and I would always grunt back at Perez when he yelled Dila! on the mambo song.
Love this. Instrumentals need to come back.
My one of the most favourite. Hearing this one for the first time.
I'm 22 years old, and i love it 💙🙌
At age 13 my first boyfriend use to call me and he'd play this for me on his trumpet... Such wonderful memories. Now at 73 yrs old I can still hear his rendension of this! 😁
I played in the "stage band" when I was in the high school band. We played this song, and I've always loved it.
Sensational. Has to be the best mambo number ever recorded.
When I was little, my mom used to play this album as she cleaned house on Saturdays!!! I just LOVE IT!!!! 🥰🥰🥰
Remember hearing this classic track on the old WLS AM station out of Chicago in the late 80's. Always got a kick out of that fade out/in trumpet part!
March 5, 1955 I danced with the man of my life. It was our first dance ,we were married until august 1 2013 when he passed It was always our song .I am so happy I founded on You Tube. bitter sweet memories. Thanks You Tube
Is it normal that I’m 14 and love these hits ( even if it’s not ok, I’m still gonna like it
Music is ageless.🎶🎵
Danced to this in 1957 with Nick at 3 proms!!❤
WHAT A GREAT SONG! THANKS FOR SHARING! R.K.3/13/2021.
Love this instrumental. This is music
Amen
Yes it IS.👍👍👍
This is music 😍
It certainly is, Bob.
I love this song, it takes me to when I was just a little girl baby sitting and would play this and dance around the room in circles, it made so happy
Betty Roberts Me too...I was a little boy. And remember my uncles and aunts dancing at the radio music
dance time memoriies
+ThePantruca
Me too! I love it!
george mackenzie
Me, too!
My Mother loved this song and I heard it so much growing up, it became one of mine.
It was my Mother's favourite too, although it was a UK 🇬🇧 cover version by EDDIE CALVERT (aka the man with the Golden Trumpet) In our local itinerant pantomime group we sang and danced to it, wearing 'cherry pink' costumes. Happy Memories of 1955 with the Teignmouth Follies..
14 in 1955 loved dancing to this. Loved all his music
My mom played this old 45 forever.
One of the first songs that I memorized on my trumpet. Used to play it at band rehearsal (high school) and catch hell from the teacher, then he asked me to play it again in front of the entire class. I did.
I love this song. It bring back so many memories. I can see my parent dancing to this song, they were married for 68years.
One of my dad's favorite songs. I adore the trumpet in this, it's outstanding. The Latin flavor just makes it better, it's the icing on a tres leches cake !
My Step Dad would play this on his 🎺trumpet. He did such great job, we would ask him to play it many times. 😊
The grocery store that I work at plays a wide range of pop music, all the way from big band stuff through the 80s and even later. I heard this one today, and had a hunch that it was this song. I'd heard of Perez Prado and "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White" from reading the Joel Whitburn books, and when I heard this song today at the store, I figured that this was indeed that song. So I looked it up, and I was right!
I liked this at 10 years old. Seven decades on and I still like it.
I heard this song many times when just a toddler in the late fifties. Hearing it takes me right back.
i STILL HAVE THIS LP AND OFTEN PLAY IT MY WIFE LOVES IT AND DANCES TO IT