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BRUTE FORCE STEEL ORCHESTRA - Mambo Jambo, Mambo No. 5

Posted by Glenroy R Joseph on April 10, 2012 at 1:26pm
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In the nineteen fifties, the Cuban mambo sounds were very popular with steel bands, and were even heard on the road at Carnival.The Brute Force Steel Orchestra of Antigua was one of the best known and most popular steelbands in the Caribbean in that era.From the 1955 Cook album "Brute Force Steelbands of Antigua", here are two mambo selections, "Mambo Jambo", and "Mambo No. 5". Both of these tunes were composed by Perez Prado who was mainly responsible for popularizing the mambo in the fifties.

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  • C.P. Francis October 16, 2012 at 12:47am

    Ole time PAN from Antigua

  • C.P. Francis April 14, 2012 at 10:10pm

    BIG UP Antigua and pan music!!!!

  • Glenroy R Joseph April 12, 2012 at 4:24pm

    Kenneth Mc Mayo, the recordings by TASPO  featured on this site were done during TASPO's tour of Great Britain and Paris, France. This historic "Festival of Britain"tour was in 1951.

    As a matter of fact , this was not even the first recording by Brute Force.

    According to " Forty Years of Steel: An Annotated Discography of Steel Band and Pan ."  by Jeffrey Ross Thomas, their first recording was in 1953.

    You should do your research before making such claims.

  • Kenneth Mc Mayo April 12, 2012 at 3:29pm

    To the best of my knowledge, this is the first commercial record of a steelband in the world/

  • Kenneth Mc Mayo April 12, 2012 at 3:27pm

    To the best of my knowledge, this is the first recording of a steelband anywhere in the world

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