The Clinton-Lewinsky scandal was all over the news in 1998. Billboard reports “Mambo No. 5” reached the peak of its popularity in 1999. Someone called “Monica” is mentioned in the chorus of the song.

In the spring of 1999, a 24-year-old guy with a Panama hat, a flashy white suit and a pencil mustache achieved the impossible. Lou Bega shot to the top of music charts around the world with his smooth ...

Lou Bega knows exactly why “Mambo No. 5” has endured. “There’s two levels. The superficial level that we all enjoy. We dance to it—it’s joyful,” Bega says of his 1999 megahit documenting a series of ...

The music for Bega’s “Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of)” was originally composed by Cuban musician Dámaso Pérez Prado as an instrumental mambo and jazz dance song in 1949, which he later released in 1950.

(CBS 11) - Todays' Friday Fun Song has its roots going back 70 years to 1949 when Cuban musician/performer Perez Prado recorded this song originally. Lou Bega (born David Lubega on April 13, 1975) is ...