Last updated: Saturday, September 23, 2006

MUSICIAN WHO SHOUTED 'TEQUILA' DIES

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 (19SEPT06) at a Huntington Beach, California hospital from complications from pneumonia.

In 1957, Flores was in a group that recorded some work with singer DAVE BURGESS and one of the songs was based on a nameless riff Flores had written.

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.

Source: WENN

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