Mambo Americano offers a comprehensive 63 song collection of Mambo inspired chart recordings stretching from the sax blasting of Chuck Higgins to the cool harmonies of The Robins and Harptones to Cal Tjader & Georgia Gibbs. A wacky Mambo voyage kicking off with Wynonie Harris' suggestive "All She Wants To Do Is Mambo" then weaving through a labyrinth of quirky jazz and bluesy interpretations ending with the close to authentic "Leeward Island Mambo" from Big Shell Steel Band Of Argentina..................
Disc: 1
1. All She Wants to Do Is Mambo - Wynonie Harris
2. Cool Mambo - The Sheppards
3. Don't Play No Mambo - The Charioteers
4. Dye-Ooh Mambo - Chuck Higgins - Daddy Cleanhead
5. Mambo Gunch - Chris Powell & the Blue Flames
6. I Want You to Be My Baby-Mambo - The Royals
7. Mambo Blues - Duke Jenkins Orch. W/ Jo Jo Spoons
8. After Hours Mambo - J.J. Jones
9. Cozy & Bossa (Cozy's Mambo) - Cozy Cole
10. Crazy Mambo - Classie Ballou
11. Mambo Boogie - Johnny Otis
12. Mambo Santa Mambo - The Enchanters
13. Mombo Carolyn - The Octaves
14. Mambo Chillun - John Lee Hooker
15. Mambo Chopsticks - Cal Tjader Trio
16. Mambo Daddy - The Celebrities
17. Mambo Fiesta - The Calvaes
18. Mambo Is Everywhere - Billy Brooks
19. Caldonia's Mambo - Street Singers
20. Mambo Shevitz (Man O Man) - Crows W/ Melino & His Orchestra
21. Rock with the Mambo - Johnny Fraser & the Rebel Airs
22. Mardi Gras Mambo - The Hawketts
23. Night Train Mambo - J.J. Jones
24. She Wants to Mambo - The Chanters
25. Stop Mambo - Danny Kirkland
26. Teenage Mambo - The Gaylarks
27. The Mambo - The Charmers
28. 7-11 (Mambo No. 5) - The Blazers
29. Mambo Boogie - Billy Boyd
30. Big Joe Mambo - Fay Simmons
31. All Night Mambo - The Cookies
32. Mambo Train - The Miracle Tones
Disc: 2
1. Rosco's Mambo - Rosco Gordon
2. Mambo Honky Tonk - Morgan Sisters
3. Mambo Boogie - The Harptones
4. Tabolino (Mambo) - Tab Smith
5. Annie's Mambo - T.N.T. Tribble
6. Blues Mambo - Sonny Thompson
7. Mambo of Love - Nolan Strong & the Diablos
8. Good Mambo Tonight - Wynonie Harris
9. Blues 'N' Mambo - Chuck Higgins
10. Congo Mambo - Manzie Harris Orch
11. Mambo Baby - Ruth Brown
12. Mambostic - Earl Bostic
13. Mambolino - Earl Bostic
14. Shake It Up Mambo - The Platters
15. I Just Wanna Mambo - Linda Hayes & the Platters
16. I Got to Learn to Mambo - Ivory Joe Hunter & the Ivorytones
17. Real Gone Mambo (Si Si Nova) - Bill Doggett
18. Mamma Mambo - Marvin & Johnny
19. Mambo Sh-Mambo - The Charms
20. Loop de Loop Mambo - The Robins
21. Mambo Baby Tonight - The Falcons W/ Candy Rivers
22. Mambo - Joe Houston
23. T-Town Mambo - Ernie Fields W/ Ann Walls
24. Ay Si Si (Mambo) - The Dootones
25. Bopping with the Mambo - The Sultans
26. Mambo Oongh - The Dappers
27. Mambo Blues - Buddy Lucas' All-Stars
28. Mambo Rock - Artie Malvin & the Brigadiers
29. Mambo Baby - Georgia Gibbs
30. Gumbo Mambo - Larke Sisters
31. Leeward Island Mambo - Big Shell Steel Band of Antigua
