I found out on the elevator
Chuck Rio (born Danny Flores), the musician who shouted "Tequila" in the 1950s hit song of the same name, has died. He was 77.
Flores, who played saxophone and repeatedly delivered the single-word lyric, died on Tuesday at a Huntington Beach, California hospital from complications from pneumonia.
Flores played the "dirty" saxophone part and gave the line for the song that the next year appeared as the B-side of a single credited to The Champs. Tequila went to the top of the Billboard chart and won a Grammy award in 1959. Flores continued to play it for the next 40 years.
posted by jesse @ 4:24 PM
3 Comments:
The great icon to many-a college students will be missed. May we all raise our shot glasses and shout for one last time, "Tequila!"
It makes me weepful to picture this guy cranking out that one song at county fairs and dive bars for 40 years. Yes, let us toast.
I would inevitably pay the seven dollars to see his boring biopic. Booze blah blah women blah sick die the end.
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