Mardi Gras Mambo

"Mardi Gras Mambo" is a 1954 New Orleans rhythm and blues song that became one of the anthems of the city's carnival. This page has the Mardi Gras Mambo chords and a backing track you can slow down, speed up and transpose.

Who wrote "Mardi Gras Mambo"

It is credited to Frankie Adams and Lou Welsch. The country singer Jodie Levens recorded it first; the version that lasted was made the same year by the Hawketts, a teenage band with Art Neville on piano and vocals, and it is played on the radio in New Orleans every carnival season.

Recordings that made it a standard

• The Hawketts (Chess, 1954) — with Art Neville.