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The story on “Tequila”. Challenge Records, owned by Gene Autry, asked a SoCal rocKabilly artist, whose name escapes me, to put together a band, go into the studio and come out with a hit record. He brought in a bass player and a band called The Flores Trio, remember that name because of Wilmer.
Anyway they recorded four songs and then the trio started jamming themselves on a Cuban mambo song. The jam became Tequila and they wound up recording it and released as the B side to one of the other songs they thought had hit potential but went nowhere.
A DJ played the B side for whatever reason, it caught on, and the rest, as they say, is history.
An aside, The Champs took their name from Autry’s horse, Champion.
Beast, thanks for the reminder that brevity is a virtue, especially when communicating, both written and speech.Most likely the greatest speech in American history, The Gettysburg Address, was just 272 words. It was received to a meager smattering of applause, and Lincoln thought it a failure. When a priest goes on and on in a homily, if I'm friendly enough I remind him of Lincoln's efficiency with words.
On that note, Hemingway asserted that F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" was the greatest American novel because of its efficiency with words. It had 47,000 words and between 180-210 pages.
Woefully long winded, I'm aiming for the Great Gatsby, though the Gettysburg address efficiency may be too high a bar.
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