music friday: 1999

Britney Spears, "...Baby One More Time". 17-year-old Britney puts the Mickey Mouse Club in her rearview mirror. In 2020, Rolling Stone named this the #1 debut single of all time.

Lou Bega, "Mambo No. 5". Lou Bega was born in Germany to a Ugandan father and an Italian mother. He reworked Cuban Pérez Prado's 1949 hit ... it was a worldwide smash. It was Bega's only top-40 recording in the United States.

TLC, "No Scrubs". Won the Pazz & Jop poll as the #1 single of 1999 ("Baby One More Time" was #19, Lou Bega nowhere to be found).

Bonus: Pérez Prado:

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[Tomás]

Oh, 1999.