Download audio file (43-Manamana.mp3)

Like everyone else, we always thought this song originally came from the Muppet Show. As always, our song research took us down an enlightening path into the 60′s, where we found that this song was originally recorded by Piero Umiliani, an Italian composer who worked on a number of cult-ish films of that time. This particular song accompanied a campy sex scene in the 1968 Swedish film “Svezia, inferno e paradiso (Sweden: Heaven and Hell)”. The working title was: “Hooray for the Swedish Sauna”.

The story of how this was reimagined using muppets is a story I’d love to hear. Just another interesting window into the interesting mind of Jim Henson, I suppose.

- N