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"South of the Border Down Mexico Way" is a popular song describing a trip to Mexico, written by Jimmy Kennedy and Michael Carr. It was originally released in 1939 , with many versions following, including one for the film of the same name sung by star Gene Autry .
It also featured an instrumental cover of its title song, "South of the Border", which was most famously done as a vocal by Frank Sinatra. One number, a Sol Lake tune called "The Mexican Shuffle", was reworked for a TV ad for a brand of chewing gum, and styled "The Teaberry Shuffle". [1]
"South of the Border" (1939 song), popular song, notably recorded by Gene Autry, as well as Frank Sinatra; South of the Border (Charlie Parker album), 1952; South of the Border (Caterina Valente album), 1963; South of the Border (Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass album), 1964; South of the Border (David Murray album), 1993
Michael Carr (born Maurice Alfred Cohen; 11 March 1905 – 16 September 1968) was a British and Irish popular music composer and lyricist, best remembered for the song "South of the Border (Down Mexico Way)", written with Irishman Jimmy Kennedy for the 1939 film of the same name.
In the 1960s, Kennedy wrote the song "The Banks of the Erne'", for recording by his friend from the war years, Theo Hyde, also known as Ray Warren. Kennedy was a patron of the Castlebar International Song Contest from 1973 until his death in 1984, and his association with the event added great prestige to the contest.
F rench singer Yseult, whose full name is Yseult Marie Onguenet, closed out the closing ceremony of the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis on Sunday with a 1969 song ...
"South of the Border" is a song by English singer Ed Sheeran featuring American singer Camila Cabello and American rapper Cardi B. It was released on 12 July 2019 through Asylum and Atlantic Records, along with "Antisocial", as the sixth and seventh singles respectively from Sheeran's compilation album, No.6 Collaborations Project (2019).
"We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me)" is a ballad published in 1939 by Nelson Cogane (né Nelson Cogane Fonarow; 1902–1985), Sammy Mysels and Dick Robertson. [1] It was a hit song in 1940 for both The Ink Spots on Decca and Frank Sinatra with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra on RCA Victor, both versions reaching No. 3 in Billboard in December.