"One of the 25 Most Significant Albums of the Last Century" --The New York Times Disc One: 12-song Dance Mania hit album of 1958, plus 10 bonus tracks Disc Two: 12-song Dance Mania Vol. 2 of 1961, ...

Pedro "Cuban Pete" Aguilar, one of the leading mambo dancers of the 1950s, has died. He was 81. By Associated Press Pedro “Cuban Pete” Aguilar, one of the leading mambo dancers of the 1950s, has died.

To date, the Latin dance album that holds the record for sales remains Tito Puente's Dance Mania. Recorded in November and December of 1957 and released in early 1958, Dance Mania was the first ...

Shimmering in the Anacostia Community Museum's collection are the ruffled sleeves of Washington, DC’s “Original Mambo King,” Roland Kavé. The musician and dance instructor introduced mambo to his ...

“They were doin’ the mambo. What the heck is a mambo?” came across the space of my office. I listen to “oldies” to open up the right side of my mind for creativity as I write. Those lyrics and the ...