When I was a kid I remember that my mother would play this song over and over. In my mind I could see the smile on her face each time she repeated the song.
RIP Mommy. I love and miss you so much.

@umartra7452

2y↑8

🥲I was listening to Sirius and heard this song so I looked it up. I haven't heard this since I was a kid. I too remember we all loved this instrumental, especially my mom. I was thinking of a reply and in my mind popped I second that emotion, still listening to Sirius a couple of seconds later Smokey was singing his song. Yep, I Second That Emotion! Coincidence??? I don't think so. Our moms watch out for us.

@LinhNguyen-my5my

2y↑7

i know she love you too

@pattydanaher8260

2y↑8

I remember my Dad playing this ,when I was a little girl.Always loved it!!

@dbajet

2y↑5

Me too, my parents played pinochle on the weekends and I was in charge of the record player....we all loved this music and still do....I have 2 of the 45's!!

@joycefrye5930

1y↑5

My mother also loved this song
She would dance with the broom or mop. Once she even had me dancing with her. I still smile when remembering how she twirled me around. I LOVED the movie this song is from.

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@blackprix

2y↑64

1955 I was five years old, and my mother was a fanatic for this song… It was her song. It is a five-year-old child I ended up very much liking it at a very young age. I think the connection she had to the song and how she loved the music and how it was done Made me really pay attention. I am now 73 years old and I love it more than ever. And obviously, it brings back deep loving memories for my mother!

@srsreyna

1y↑6

I'm 68 & remember it, too. I didn't know whether to speak English or Spanish because of this mambo jumbo craze😊

@lindasim649

51w↑1

I am sorry but is it a song? It is only music. Where is the singer and the lyrics? Because you called it a song.

@durandjohnson1321

51w↑4

I was three years old in '55.. I remember hearing it a year later!

@AnalistGuffy

37w↑2

@@lindasim649 let it go Linda. don’t be so pedantic.

@horseyhorselips3501

27w↑1

I just googled the #1 Rock and Roll song of 1955 and on one post I found out that this song was the most played song by DJ’s and Jukeboxes on the very Day I was Born June 11,1955
I do remember hearing this song in my early years
Yes it brings back many memories

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@rebeccav9969

27w↑21

My daddy used to play this on his trumpet. He was BETTER than the original. As I learned piano, he taught me how to back him on this song. It's such a beautiful memory for me! (Dad died in 2010)

@marilynpagliuca1478

3y↑8

What we danced to first time we met! We lasted 60 years together and still in love. RIP my love!

@Parrotilla

5y↑7

If you don't move to this, you're dead. What music!

@samuelmcneill1120

51w↑31

Playing this song for my schools jazz band right now! One of the most fun bass trombone parts I’ve ever had the pleasure of playing!

@alexfitzgerrell5555

22w

Whooooooooooooomp! (Low bb supremacy)

@melindakillie

6y↑19

Although this hit the number 1 on the charts three years before I was born, this is the type of music my Dad and I listened to when I was a little girl. My Dad taught me to dance when I was little. First, I had my little feet on his shoes, and later, we would dance together with my feet on the floor. This is a wonderful dance tune! LOVE IT still! Oh my, the memories!

@dee_dee_place

9w↑1

My Dad's all-time favorite song.

@robertbruce5213

34w↑2

Yes I am this old! When I was a wee tyke, maybe three or four years old, my parents had to buy me the 78 RPM of this record. I loved it. It was about that brazen legato trumpet! I still can’t get over it. Overlaid with a groovy rumba beat with calypso style bongos! Midcentury juiciness!

@madelinesalinas4716

7y↑498

My dad Homer Salinas played with Perez Prado! He also played this solo!

@negativegiraffe2036

5y↑11

wow !

@BernardProfitendieu

5y↑15

Dilo!! he was on the top of the charts for a long time, must make you proud he's associated with a tune people still find so memorable!

@NReese-if1nm

4y↑10

Wow! That's terrific! You must be very proud of him!

@vincentrolfe1384

4y↑10

I remember listening to this music as a child. Yer Dad done good! Welcome to 2020 Madeline S!

@kimmaloney7558

4y↑6

@@vincentrolfe1384 Same here. I listened to this 45 of my parents.

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@101jethrotull

2y↑3

Wow, I have no idea what made me think of this song. I was a 6 y/o kid in Flatbush, Brooklyn in 1955. This actually might be the first song I remember hearing!!

@anthonybaccari8261

4y↑45

I played this for my grandma months before she passed last year and she told me of how she got to dance at his shows when she was young growing up in Caracas, VZ. His music touched so many people ❤

@zunnymartinez3226

4y↑3

Dámaso Pérez Prado was the King of Mambo! And there will never, ever be Another Perez Prado, he was unique in his music and rhythm and is irreplaceable!!! May he rest in peace always! Love my music the mambo and cha cha cha and all the Cuban music from my beautiful island 🌴 the Republic of Cuba! 🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺. God bless Perez Prado and God bless my beautiful country Cuba 🇨🇺 which I miss so much. Que viva el mambo y Pérez Prado!!!!! Let’s dance!!! 👌👌👌👌❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥👍👍👍👍👍👍🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

@berlinsaintclair9100

2y↑21

I've ALWAYS adored this song but even more the comments section is just a treat! So many AWESOME stories and people related to those who made it. FABULOUS! 😻

@YY4Me133

1y↑1

I agree. I don't bother with channels that don't allow comments.

@erinpena6321

8y↑386

Judge Homer salinas on the trumpet solo, so phenomenal. So proud to be his granddaughter.

@ThePantruca

6y↑11

The trumpet is my favorite instrument on this Music.

@NReese-if1nm

4y↑9

As well you should be! Mr. Salinas was a master of the trumpet, and his music will live for as long as recorded music lives! Hat's off to him!-- and to you, too!!

@philipnorris6542

3y↑4

Well done, Erin.

@smoothandchunky1

3y↑4

LOVE THIS!!

@stevenkalka1064

2y↑9

I was 4 years old when this was a hit. My dad liked latin music and we had the 45 rpm record that I often played. It brings back wonderful memories. I even remember the B side Elena Maria which is on Youtube also.

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@nick56677

1y↑19

I FINALLY FOUND IT! For years I have been looking for this song. Back in 2002 or so the Fabulous Fifties infomercial had this song and when that horn played that tune me and my brother cracked up. So glad I finally found this after so many years.

@patsypatti990

1y↑1

Me too!

@fayettebrown2312

I remembered that commercial for a long ago

@floydbranson9226

1y↑2

my late mother had a lot of old LP's in her collection we used to listen to them as we were growing up , when she passed away in 1996 I inherited all of her old albums . And when ever I hear music from those albums , or I find that music on the web and as i listen to them I am no longer a 63 year old man , I am a young teenager growing to young adult listening to that
music in a place that no matter what time of year , or what was going on it was my place of peace

@ROSALINDASabedra-yj6rf

34w↑1

This was one of my Dad's and Mom's favorite songs. Thank you for the all of the love and wonderful memories!! We miss you very much.

@Rickcontifrese

7y↑95

In the early 1950s' my Father was still at home. He eventually left his wife (my mother) and 5 kids. All "abondonados" while he went out to enjoy life. But, this song, this musical by Prado and his band always reminds me of my father as he played it offten.. And, what may have been today an awful lot of party with him (he played bongos at home). I'm 65 yrs old now, and I still remain a fan of this music, and whatever brief memories I have of my father "Pop", as we would call him. I hope he's resting well, he passed in his early 40s' from a heart ailment. Dad, a beer on you and Prado. - Rick

@nickarbuckle3500

4y↑4

Sorry to hear about your dad rick passing away

@nedeljkamihajlovic3959

46w↑1

😢

@TonyfromBham

18w↑1

‘Love it. I played this classic two nights ago on a Country Club gig with a five-piece group. Guests immediately starting dancing.

@rgracias

5y↑57

Damn it. None of my relatives/friends are playing any instrument here!
But the performance is darned good. I love listening to it.

@rjjcms1

2y↑4

I'm playing it because it's the start of May and,though I don't have a cherry tree,the apple trees in and beyond my garden have their pink and white blossom out.

@momdabomb8936

8y↑37

This is my parents song that became their favorite as a couple. It will always remind me of easier times and my parents dancing.

@rhododendron4902

3y↑2

Me too.

@edwardswanzey7595

10y↑261

My old fishing and cigar smokin' buddy, Mike Pagone, is playing drums on this track. Mike was an excellent Latin drummer, played good piano, and trombone. We used to have a lot of fun together.

@edwardswanzey7595

10y↑10

My old fishin' and cigar smokin' buddy, Mike Pagone, is playing drums on this track. Mike was a good drummer, and song-writer. I'd love to see him again, but I can't track him down.

@martineveeel6431

1y↑1

Good version of the song, much better than Eddie Calvert’s version. I particularly like the bass note.

@PrabhupadaMan

8y↑70

Had the pleasure and honor to play with that trumpet player in Hollywood.

@FoReLivingRoyal

10y↑509

My Grandfather is playing the Bass! ;) Love this!

@moonraker9409

9y↑2

Maria DiGiovanni Me too - Wink Wink!

@ParkinsonProduction

9y↑27

+Maria DiGiovanni -- A few years ago my mother told me this story: She and her siblings were raised by her aunt, a music teacher in Cuba. Perez Prado was one of her students. My mother would sit on the patio and would watch as Prado and his mother walked to the house for his piano lessons. She said he always seemed so bashful and awkward, that she believed him to be retarded.

@carolinalopezvalladolid3787

7y↑3

musica de viki Car
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@FoReLivingRoyal

7y↑1

Moon Raker ???

@avadaily6146

7y↑2

Maria DiGiovanni 😊

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@wendy-annjames8441

42w↑1

Mummy and daddy danced this. Tears in my eyes now as I reminiss

@doubleblue3109

1y↑3

My mother used to tell me that this was my father's favourite song. He died when I was five months old. Funny how music can connect you with people even if you never knew them. RIP Ma.

@ritalee1786

2y↑1

My dad's favorite 🎶 when he was still alive! So everytime, I remember this music it reminds me of him.

@mrderby0178

6y↑11

God I wish we had real night clubs like they did back then! I love the music, the scene.. Everything ! =)

@thinking6307

We've got the memories....and ocasionally an old Movie clip!

@yes-wo2je

3y↑3

This was #1 hit song in the 1955 Soltzo Harvey loved this song

@rosecrow1545

2y↑1

Thank the youtube algorithm! I finally found the name of this!! I'm 37 and grew up with a fondness for the oldies, my parents feed me as much as they could! It's almost like I was there. It's a blissful track! Wonderful!!

@luvbasses5487

7y↑2

That trumpet is the icing. Nothing like a GOOD trumpet player taking lead on top of everybody else underneath.
....song is absolutely breathtaking.......everything about it.....

@extdiso

3y↑17

Such a cool song!!! Truly passes the test of time!!

@paolapaz1240

6y↑1

I'm 22 years old, and i love it 💙🙌

@christinelarive1249

3y↑5

Brings back golden memories. My late dad used to play this on his trumpet. And during the 60's my older brother started blowing at the age of 14. Wonderful music of those days

@marlenechavez3368

3y↑6

Love the trumpet, beautiful music!

@douglasmorosoff2877

52w↑15

I used to play this song on my trumpet over and over again! I can still play it...just not as well as Perez Prado did of course! 🙂

@jerrymunroe2233

10y↑14

My Mom used to tell me they were playing this on the radio when I was born in 1955. I have always like this tune

@felinobeltran2440

Awesome

@Sham9909

2y↑1

In the fifties when my brothers and I went to the cinema, before the film started this tune would be played. I always liked to hear the voice in the background holler “ooo”.

@G8GT364CI

2y↑10

When I was a little kid they had so many great instrumental hits like this and they sounded great on the AM radios of the day.

@mmead111

8y↑36

I was 9 yrs old in 1955 and I loved it then and still at 69.

@sierracuban

8y↑6

+Mark Mead .......I love it too.......This hit had a French composer and was written in 1950, but my fellow Cuban Dámaso Pérez Prado turned it into a hit for the entire world in 1955........Pérez Prado was born in Matanzas, Cuba but died a Mexican citizen, and was known as the KING OF THE MAMBO.......His son still runs an orchestra in Mexico City........CM González, ( Sierra Cuban ) Miami, Florida, Estados Unidos de América ...........

@rayunseitig6367

8y↑4

+Mark Mead mmee too, OK to have some fun now and then. Keep it up.

@bangnee

Nice.

@jmtz8352

4y↑1

My Mother is 83 and she remembers dancing to this song with the one that got away! A former boyfriend,also fondly remembers how wonderful the music was! Its great music and I also love it!

@schumilux123

4y↑3

Trumpet solo is fantastic but also the complete trumpet section is brilliant!

@lizbarrett4832

10y↑24

Have always loved this song. Recently read the lyrics, what a great love story. Shame we don't have music like this today.

@rebeccaluna9560

3y↑16

When I was little, my mom used to play this album as she cleaned house on Saturdays!!! I just LOVE IT!!!! 🥰🥰🥰

@zunnymartinez3226

5y↑7

Pérez Prado fue el Rey del Mambo, punto! Y nadie se puede igualar a él. Pérez Prado es IRREPETIBLE!!! Que Dios lo bendiga siempre esté donde esté! This mambo is one of my favorite and I have it on my IPhone to listen to it no matter where I am. God bless you Pérez Prado, you were the King of Mambo! There is ONLY ONE PEREZ PRADO, DÁMASO PÉREZ PRADO, AND HIS MUSIC WILL LIVE FOREVER! He was a Cuban icon and a legend loved by many people all over the world and, of course, by his fellow Cubans. Maestro Perez Prado, can you play it again???? ♥️♥️♥️🙏🙏🙏👍👍👍🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺❣️❣️❣️❣️

@albireothestarthebacklight2990

2y↑5

The mist starts rushing out

@sooz9433

2y↑2

This song was very popular for skaters. I was a skater. In the 60s I lived in skates almost year round. Then almost 17 years later I had my second son who had asthma and played trumpet to help him. My greatest joy was hearing him play this at 8 years old... he had a wonderful gift for the trumpet. Soundtrack of my youth 🎼 🖤

@user-vm4gv3xv6e

2y↑2

View 1,159,045... Thank you for the song.

@movelynsenoy1359

33w

Nostalgic😢.I remember my grandma❣️.

@bruceferguson6637

3y↑3

Love this. Instrumentals need to come back.

@zoeeva5943

3y↑3

When I was a little girl, my Tata would always play his CDs of Pérez Prado. I remember dancing around to this song and seeing him smile when I did. He would always imitate the “Hit em’!” part in the middle, and that was always my favorite part. This song makes me so emotional. I can only think of him when I hear it. Such a beautiful song. My Tata passed away when I was 9. Hiányzol Tata szeretlek 💗

@KillahTrax

3y↑1

My grandfather’s song God rests his soul, my oh my this brings so many memories

@user-pj8mv3qz3d

1y↑1

아름다운 복사꽃 귀엽게 피어날적에. 추억의 연주 잘 감상했습니다.

@EricJamesHanson

7y↑1

I have been searching for this song. I am a trumpet player and always loved this version of this great song. This great trumpeter stays so cool all the way through, and then just explodes the mighty high F at the end.

@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823

And you thought your dog ran for the hills when you got your horn out NOW, lol

@markrocovich2234

9y↑1

my mom used to play this lp on the Motorola stereo we had in the living room and between Perez and Nat King Cole i grew to appreciate what real music was..Thank You, Mom..

@elbetoe24

4y↑1

This reminds me of my dad and mom ...R.I.P dad ...1949-2014 East .L.A

@lakpolmit

8y↑2

My Mother loved this song and I heard it so much growing up, it became one of mine.

@suziandrews1406

It was my Mother's favourite too, although it was a UK 🇬🇧 cover version by EDDIE CALVERT (aka the man with the Golden Trumpet) In our local itinerant pantomime group we sang and danced to it, wearing 'cherry pink' costumes. Happy Memories of 1955 with the Teignmouth Follies..

@robertprest638

3y↑1

This was my favorite song in 1970

@jlindsey241

10w

I'm 48, and I fuckin love this song!!!!!

@marilyngaresbean

8y↑87

I loved this as a kid (born in '53 ) ,and I love it still,and I always will ,it's just gorgeous . I can listen to it non stop ...

@marilyngaresbean

8y↑13

Prado did it best ,gorgeous !

@brookeweber3408

7y↑3

Marilyn Gares Bean

@hectordelgado2164

6y↑3

ME TOO MARILYN IWAS BORN IN 52 AND STILL REMEMBER THIS NICE MUSIC.ESPECIALLY THE FIRST TROMPET SUPER HIGH NOTES,,,,,,,

@fennydoria4151

6y↑2

cherry pink

@christophers.o622

6y↑4

I was also born in 1953 on 10/17/1953. I always liked the Perez Prada song Cherry Pink, Apple Blossom White. That song was very popular in most cities, I call it a city song.

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@karenn.mirikitani2780

4y↑1

Karen M Hawaii
This song was my late father's favorite and played many instruments especially the trumpet the song. He was still single then and just returned from serving in the Korean War. Loved also mambo dancing.

@nicholascuccia6399

3y↑9

Great memories of this one from my childhood: When this came on at all my Italian family weddings, played by live orchestra of course, everything stopped, and everyone surged the dance floor. It was played more than once on those occasions ....

@celiaejnes

5y↑4

March 5, 1955 I danced with the man of my life. It was our first dance ,we were married until august 1 2013 when he passed It was always our song .I am so happy I founded on You Tube. bitter sweet memories. Thanks You Tube

@jun24juanhuerta14

6y↑1

I was 9 when Mom & Dad played Perez Prado. Enjoyed listening to his orchestra then & enjoy it still.

@Patrick-sb2sb

29w

I played in the "stage band" when I was in the high school band. We played this song, and I've always loved it.

@CaptainPancake789

2y↑2

my great grandfather was the maker of the first jukebox to include this hit! what times

@aldoammendola5268

20w

La musica, il ritmo di Perez Prado fanno da costante sottofondo delle giornate di quelli della mia generazione. Questa fu una interpretazione rivoluzionaria.

@JRZTXN

12w

Oh man! I came across this song watching a makeup short. I’m glad it refreshed my memory. ♥️😎🌹🫡

@8176morgan

3y↑5

I love the year 1955 and this was the biggest hit of the year spending 10 wks at #1. It was not the original version of this song but by far the best and still sounds great today.

@danilorodriguez2596

42w

What a beautiful theme. I remember 1957, I was a child and my dad listen it every night. It bring to me a lot of homesickness.

@charlesbarry6730

4y↑1

I grew up knowing this song. Thanks for the memories.

@robbybonfire9944

7y↑2

Sensational. Has to be the best mambo number ever recorded.

@michaelclendenen4005

3y↑1

Wow how great music of these years .were so powerful.

@sobinafernandes5212

My one of the most favourite. Hearing this one for the first time.

@psychomd1939

3y↑3

Memories. Back in the day, some organization ranked the top marching bands. They didn't say number 1, number 2 and number 3. They just named the top 3. All 3 were high school bands - no colleges made the top 3. They were Cleveland Heights, Ohio, the richest city per capita in the country at the time, Terre Haute, Indiana, where the instrument maker companies provided all of the instruments, uniforms and lessons and us. We were Chattanooga High School in Tennessee. All we had was the acknowledged top band director in the nation, A.R.. Cassavant. Anyway, we invited the other 2 down for concerts. Terre Haute accepted. This was the Spring of 1956, so without football, we all became concert bands. Terre Haute played this song in their concert. The trumpet player always kept his elbows up, so that his forearms were parallel to the floor. He was fantastic. In those stretches, his instrument went into a lower and much longer growl that did the player for the Perez Prado band. His control was perfect. I think all of the girls in the audience swooned.

@jsnterprise9nygra636

4y↑4

Remember hearing this classic track on the old WLS AM station out of Chicago in the late 80's. Always got a kick out of that fade out/in trumpet part!

@daisyflowers9334

4y↑1

My Step Dad would play this on his 🎺trumpet. He did such great job, we would ask him to play it many times. 😊

@lydianieto-martinez4066

2y↑1

At age 13 my first boyfriend use to call me and he'd play this for me on his trumpet... Such wonderful memories. Now at 73 yrs old I can still hear his rendension of this! 😁

@glynisroberts5029

5y↑1

What great music!! Makes me so happy!

@remotegod255

6y↑1

that TRUMPET. oh man and slinky Latin beat. the MAMBO! what a BEAUTIFUL recording. I mean INCREDIBLE quality. I do some recording / sound engineering myself and this is a profoundly good recording with a complex set of instruments to capture. The top song of 1955.

@EBThisThat

4y↑3

One of my dad's favorite songs. I adore the trumpet in this, it's outstanding. The Latin flavor just makes it better, it's the icing on a tres leches cake !

@annaelisabethho5253

Perez war in meiner Jugend da absolute Musikgenie und hat mich bis heute - bald 80 Jahre nicht mehr losgelassen.Ich wollte immer Dirigent werden von einer Bigband und habe dann mehrer Disco - Clubs eröffnet und geführt. Am 14. Oktober 2017 findet in Lindau - Insel am Bodensee, - dass " 50 jährige Revival - Charlys Crazy _ Alm " " von unserer 1. Disco im Nana an der Seehafenpromenade statt.Musik was my life............Euer Charly

@plk25425

11w

I can’t believe I’m 60 years old & I’ve never heard this tune.

@gloriaestelaajsivinacloch3003

6y↑3

I love this music, very cool song!!!

@patriciafelix3168

6y↑2

This song reminds me of my Dad😢One of his favorite artists💖

@antoniotermulo9214

6y↑2

Superb melody and video. Feel the pulsating vibrancy of the beats of the music. Perfecto. Muchas Gracias Don Damaso.🎺🎻👯‍♀️❤️❤️

@carmenhiginio9053

6y↑9

Dios mío que recuerdos, música inolvidable, eterna! gracias♡♡♡

@jamesandrews6465

5y↑4

My mom's music! Need this comfort sometimes!

@Lucy-qb9tl

4y↑1

Same goes for me. When I'm missing my mom, I'll listen to this PP song in her honor.

@wallylosangeles4155

10y↑9

Awesome song by Perez Prado and his orchestra indeed!!!

@wltrnz

Walter Nunez Good to find my namesake in the comments!

@al8603cl

6y↑1

This song was played once again in Olympics Ice Dancing. I remember it from when I was very very young. My grandfather played this on his record player so very long ago. I'm 50 now. I could never place it. Had no idea what the name of the song was. So, I Googled 1950's Instrumentals and a site popped up with a list of songs and audio clips of those songs. This was number 3 on the list. Bingo!!! I found it. This song has something I can't quite put my finger on. Can't quite describe but, I love it.

@draymen8754

28w

This music is giving me a total flashback. How wonderful to hear this song again.

@desmondhuggins373

4y↑51

Anyone else is listening in 2019?

@dagangaston2008

4y↑1

@janezamudio4940

I am.

@rhsreunion6552

this is a timeless classic!!! a GREAT tune ---

@mickgee2752

4y↑3

I am listening in 2020, brilliant.

@mpatrickthomas

4y↑1

April 2020..I'm 55 and it's one of those times you can NEVER forget.What happens to REAL music.Cant help but to be happy while listening.😀😀

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@katherine.benson4489

2y↑3

This song came into my head in the middle of the night and then I dreamed about my first boyfriend who I met during the time it was popular.

@8176morgan

2y↑1

How Sweet!💘

@reyknudson7091

WHAT A GREAT SONG! THANKS FOR SHARING! R.K.3/13/2021.

@mmangum4444

Fantastic song from 1955 (my birth year)!

@cookieceo3938

8y↑13

14 in 1955 loved dancing to this. Loved all his music

@wolfgangbenner422

49w

Bis gestern wusste ich weder den Titel des Musikstücks, noch kannte ich den Namen seines Komponisten. Gestern wurde es in einem Bläserkonzert gespielt. Seit Jahrzehnten habe ich diese Komposition nicht mehr gehört. Ich erinnere mich, in unserem Kino wurde es seit den 50gern bis zur Einstellung des Kinobetriebes vor jeder Vorstellung gespielt und man wusste dann, gleich geht es los. Gestern hat es mich noch einmal "vom Hocker gehauen." Dieses Stück wird niemals alt. Ich bin begeistert.