Prior to the danzón de nuevo ritmo, in 1910, José Urfé had first added a montuno (typical son improvised closing section) as a final part of his composition El bombín de Barreto.
Mambo is a genre of Cuban dance music pioneered by the charanga Arcaño y sus Maravillas in the late 1930s and later popularized in the big band style by Pérez Prado.
During the mid-to-late 1930s, some members of the Arcaño group were saying vamos a mambear ("let's mambo") when referring to the montuno or final improvisation of the danzón.
By the late 1940s and early 1950s, mambo had become a "dance craze" in the United States as its associated dance took over the East Coast thanks to Pérez Prado, Tito Puente, Tito Rodríguez and others.
audience. Cuban singer Beny Moré also lived in Mexico between 1945 and 1952.
At this time Benny also recorded with the orchestra of Jesús "Chucho" Rodríguez. ===Mambo in New York City=== Mambo arrived in 1947 and mambo music and dance became popular soon after.
In 1949 he traveled to Mexico looking for job opportunities and achieved great success with a new style, to which he assigned a name that had been already used by Antonio Arcaño, the mambo. Perez Prado's style differed from the previous mambo concept.
By the late 1940s and early 1950s, mambo had become a "dance craze" in the United States as its associated dance took over the East Coast thanks to Pérez Prado, Tito Puente, Tito Rodríguez and others.
The mambo boom peaked in the US in early 1950s, when Pérez Prado hit the American charts at number one with a cha-cha-chá version of "Cherry Pink (and Apple Blossom White)".
audience. Cuban singer Beny Moré also lived in Mexico between 1945 and 1952.
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2010. == External links == Perez Prado and Mambo Mania Documentary 52': Mambo Hispanic and Latino American culture in New York City
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