South Of The Border (Down Mexico Way) | Asleep At The Wheel (feat. George Strait)

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[SamAdams76]

This is one of the better known recording by Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys.

Covered here by Asleep At The Wheel (one of the most underrated bands out there) with guest vocals by George Strait.

[SamAdams76]

[Fiji Hill]

Here's a version from England--a hit at the time Hitler and Stalin were marching into Poland.

Southe of the Border--Bert Ambrose & His Orchestra; vocal by Denny Dennis (1939)

[hoagy62]

Here's a 1960's version by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass...

South of the Border

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I saw miles and miles of Texas...

[newfreep]

“South Of The Border” Frank Sinatra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HFdJlFPFsw

[Fiji Hill]

One of the biggest hit versions.

South of the Border--Shep Fields & His Rippling Rhythm (1939)

[SamAdams76]

I’d never heard that version before. Good one!

[SamAdams76]

This one I’ve heard - but not in a very long time. Thanks for linking it. I had recently heard Herb Alpert’s “Rotation” (the followup to “Rise”).

[SamAdams76]

The Sinatra version. This is the album it came from...

Remember TWA?

[SamAdams76]

Hadn’t heard this version either. My parents were toddlers when this was a hit!

[newfreep]

A friend who is a world acclaimed mastering engineer gifted me CDRs of Sinatra’s hits burned direct from the studio master tapes.

Some are “dry” before the dreaded reverb was added and some have studio chatter. the sound quality is light years better than the commercial “pressed” CDs.

Frank was THE best pop singer of the 20th century - still listen to him almost every day.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

I like George Straits Seashore of Old Mexico

https://youtu.be/V-9FdWmZqRQ

[PerConPat]

Patsy Cline and Willie Nelson covered it too... (YouTube)

[HartleyMBaldwin]

“Asleep At The Wheel (one of the most underrated bands out there)”

Not underrated by me. I’ve liked Asleep at the Wheel since the mid-70s, though I only saw them once, in 1981.

[OrangeHoof]

Dean Martin also covered the song and a man named Johnny Mueller uses it as the theme for his podcast on “The Ex-Pat Files: Living In Latin America” which I listened to regularly while doing my prep work for moving to Panama. Mueller, on the other hand, decided place like Panama and Costa Rica had become too gringo-ized and now lives off the grid somewhere in Guatemala.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmtenHpvkWE

[Lisbon1940]

I’d rather hear Ray Benson sing it.

[Burma Jones]

Have seen them several times but probably not in this millenium. Always good, like George Strait.

[MayflowerMadam]

One of my favorite Chrostmas albums is by Asleep At The Wheel. A really good band but you don’t hear too much about them.

[Joe Boucher]

Saw Asleep at the Wheel a few years ago at the Georgia Mountain Fair.
They were entertaining as could be. a fine time was had by all.