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South Of The Border (Down Mexico Way) | Asleep At The Wheel (feat. George Strait)
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Posted on 04/22/2021 5:05:04 PM PDT by 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.



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1 posted on 04/22/2021 5:05:04 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: SamAdams76
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)

2 posted on 04/22/2021 5:12:37 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: SamAdams76
Here's a 1960's version by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass...

South of the Border

3 posted on 04/22/2021 5:18:33 PM PDT by hoagy62 (DTCM&OTTH)
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To: SamAdams76

I saw miles and miles of Texas...


4 posted on 04/22/2021 5:19:46 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Anti-racism looks suspiciously like racism.)
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To: SamAdams76

“South Of The Border” Frank Sinatra

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


5 posted on 04/22/2021 5:24:14 PM PDT by newfreep (“Leftism, under all of its brand names, is a severe, violent & evil mental disorder.”)
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To: SamAdams76
One of the biggest hit versions.

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

6 posted on 04/22/2021 5:33:34 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Fiji Hill

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


7 posted on 04/22/2021 5:52:03 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (By stealing Trump's second term, the Left gets Trump for 8 more years instead of just four.)
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To: hoagy62

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”).


8 posted on 04/22/2021 5:56:10 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (By stealing Trump's second term, the Left gets Trump for 8 more years instead of just four.)
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To: newfreep
The Sinatra version. This is the album it came from...

Remember TWA?


9 posted on 04/22/2021 6:01:20 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (By stealing Trump's second term, the Left gets Trump for 8 more years instead of just four.)
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To: Fiji Hill

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


10 posted on 04/22/2021 6:04:48 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (By stealing Trump's second term, the Left gets Trump for 8 more years instead of just four.)
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To: SamAdams76

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.


11 posted on 04/22/2021 6:11:12 PM PDT by newfreep (“Leftism, under all of its brand names, is a severe, violent & evil mental disorder.”)
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To: newfreep

I like George Straits Seashore of Old Mexico

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


12 posted on 04/22/2021 6:17:08 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (The veil of civilization is only 9 meals thick. )
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To: SamAdams76
Patsy Cline and Willie Nelson covered it too... (YouTube)
13 posted on 04/22/2021 6:27:29 PM PDT by PerConPat (A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground - Mencken)
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To: SamAdams76

“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.


14 posted on 04/22/2021 6:56:52 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: SamAdams76

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


15 posted on 04/22/2021 6:58:48 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Chinese communism will look different once the masks come off.)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

I’d rather hear Ray Benson sing it.


16 posted on 04/22/2021 7:57:36 PM PDT by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election))
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

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


17 posted on 04/22/2021 8:03:51 PM PDT by Burma Jones
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To: SamAdams76

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.


18 posted on 04/22/2021 8:17:08 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("if I perish, I perish." Esther 4:16)
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To: SamAdams76

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.


19 posted on 04/23/2021 3:06:51 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Molon Labe')
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