Throwing back to the week of April 19, 1955, we find Bill Hayes’ ‘The Ballad of Davy Crockett‘ holding on to Billboard’s #1 spot for the last of its five weeks atop the chart.

Hot on its tails at #2 was an instrumental track that would kick off a 10-week stint at #1 the following week: Pérez Prado’s recording of ‘Cherry Pink (and Apple Blossom White).’

Imagine an instrumental mambo track spending more than two months at #1 and becoming the top single of all 1955. That’s what Cuban bandleader Prado, dubbed ‘The King of Mambo,’ pulled off with this cover of a 1950 French song.

Versions of the track exist with both English and French lyrics, but it was this instrumental that became a chart-topping hit in both the U.S. and the UK. It might have helped that Jane Russell danced to the track in the bathing suit heavy adventure film Underwater!, released in February of that year.