The music video, directed by Jorn Heitmann, features Lou Bega singing and dancing with flappers. Because of Bega's significant contributions to his version, the court's final ruling declared it a new song co-written by Prado and Bega. However, after seven years the Federal Court of Justice of Germany ruled in favor of Peermusic and Prado's estate in 2008, based upon the fact that Bega's producers had sought a royalty agreement with Peermusic prior to releasing the song. Bega had only used riffs (which by German law cannot be registered for copyright) from Prado's original and written the entire lyrics, so Bega's producers went to court in order to gain access to all the song's proceedings from Peermusic representing Prado's estate. The song became the subject of a seven-year copyright trial between Prado's estate, Peermusic, and Bega's producers. The song reached number three on the US Billboard Hot 100 on 2 November 1999, giving Bega his only top-40 hit in the United States. In France, it set a record by staying at number one for 20 weeks. Later that year, it experienced success in the United Kingdom, North America, and Oceania. His version became a summer hit during 1999 in most of Europe. German singer Lou Bega recorded a cover of the song and released it in April 1999 as the first single from his debut album, A Little Bit of Mambo (1999).
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