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"Sway" is the English version of "Quién Será", a 1953 Latin pop song with a mambo beat written by Mexican composer and bandleader Pablo Beltrán Ruiz. In 1954[citation needed] the English lyrics were written by Norman Gimbel and recorded by Dean Martin (this recording reached number fifteen on the Billboard magazine best-seller chart[1] and number six on the UK chart). Since then the song has been recorded and remixed by many artists (see discography below). Mambo is a Cuban musical form and dance style. ...
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Selective list of recorded versions
- 1950s - Pablo Beltrán Y Su Orchestra
- 1950s - Perez Prado
- 1953 - Eileen Barton, on Coral Records, catalog number 61185, backed with "When Mama Calls"
- 1954 - Dean Martin, on Capitol Records, catalog number 2818, US 15, UK 6
- 1960 - Bobby Rydell, UK 12
- 1960s - Julie London
- 1961 - Ben E. King
- 1967 - Cliff Richard, from his album Don't Stop Me Now
- 1978 - The Boys, from their album Alternative Chartbusters
- 1990 - Björk Guðmundsdóttir & Tríó Guðmundar Ingólfssonar, with Icelandic lyrics (title: Í Dansi Med þÉr) (with Björk)
- 1997 - Cabaret Diosa, on the album Hi-Fi Latin Exotica
- 1998 - Anita Kelsey, from the film Dark City
- 1999 - Shaft, titled "(Mucho Mambo) Sway"
- 2003 - Michael Bublé
- 2003 - Peter Cincotti
- 2004 - Pussycat Dolls, from the film Shall We Dance?
- 2004 - Arielle Dombasle, titled "Quien Sera (Sway)"
- 2004 - diam's, sample in the title "DJ" (with French lyrics)
- 2005 - Aaron Kwok, titled "飛" ("Sway" - Cantonese version)
- 2006 - The Puppini Sisters
- 2007 - Santiago g, There For You - the EP (www.myspace.com/nmsantiago)
- 2007 - Jennifer Lopez, recorded "Sway" in English and Spanish in 2004 for Shall We Dance? but was replaced by the Pussycat Dolls' version. Spanish version is a bonus track on Lopez's album Como Ama Una Mujer
- 2007 - Thomas "Tiger" Marion and his band, the Shiny Lapel Trio. The song is featured on a national television commercial launching the fall fashion line for Kohl's department store.[2]
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Dean Martin (born Dino Paul Crocetti, June 7, 1917 â December 25, 1995) was an Italian American singer, film actor, and comedian. ...
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Bobby Rydell 1998 Bobby Rydell (born Robert Louis Ridarelli, 26 April 1940 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American teen idol from the early days of Rock and Roll. ...
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Dark City is a 1998 science fiction film written by Alex Proyas, Lem Dobbs and David S. Goyer, and directed by Proyas. ...
Shaft is an electronic music act, known for their covers and remixes of (Mucho Mambo) Sway and Mambo Italiano. Discography Singles 1999 (Mucho Mambo) Sway #2 UK 2000 Mambo Italiano #12 UK 2001 Kiki Riri Boom #64 UK Category: ...
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Arielle Dombasle (born Arielle Sonnery de Fromental on April 27, 1958 in Norwich, Connecticut) is an American-born singer and actress working primarily in the Cinema of France. ...
Diams (born July 25, 1980 in Cyprus) is a French-language rap artist. ...
Aaron Kwok Fu-Shing (Chinese: éå¯å; Pinyin: GuÅ Fùchéng; Cantonese: Gwok3 Fu3 Sing4; born October 26, 1965) is a popular Hong Kong singer and film actor. ...
The Puppini Sisters are a musical trio specializing in 1940s-style close harmony vocal music. ...
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Como Ama una Mujer (French : Comment aime une femme . ...
Kohls Corporation (NYSE: KSS) is an American department store chain headquartered in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee. ...
Cab Calloway, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1933 Cab Calloway (December 25, 1907âNovember 18, 1994) was a famous American jazz singer and bandleader. ...
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Singer Joel Carver Whitburn (born November 29, 1939 in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin) is an American author and music historian. ...
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