Mexico (Bob Moore song)

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Name = Mexico


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Artist = Bob Moore & His Orchestra
Album = Mexico
A-side = "Mexico"
B-side = "Hot Spot"
Released = 1961
Format = 7" (45 rpm)
Recorded = 1960
Genre = Pop, Country
Length = 2:37
Label = Monument Records
Writer = Boudleaux Bryant
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"Mexico" is the title of a 1961 instrumental recording by American bassist, orchestra leader and Rockabilly Hall of Fame member Bob Moore. Moore was a noted session musician in the 1950s and 1960s who worked with Elvis Presley, Pat Boone, Roy Orbison and Brenda Lee, among others. The song "Mexico" is credited to Bob Moore and His Orchestra, and it became the only single where Moore is listed as an artist to reach the Top 40 of the U.S. "Billboard" Hot 100 chart in the fall of 1961. The song peaked at #7 and spent ten weeks in the Top 40. Moreover, it reached #1 on the "Easy Listening" chart, which would later become known as the Adult Contemporary chart; the song remained at #1 on this chart for one week. [Whitburn, Joel (1996). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 6th Edition (Billboard Publications)] Outside the U.S., "Mexico" was a #1 hit in both Australia and Germany, and it sold over two million records worldwide. [ [http://www.nashvillesound.net/current/1960s_new.htm Bob Moore biography at www.nashvillesound.net] ]

External Links

* [http://www.discogs.com/release/1327219 Single release info at discogs.com]

ee also

*List of number-one singles in Australia during the 1960s
*Number-one hits of 1962 (Germany)

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