Instrumentally Yours: Tequila
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (84507)
United States
November 19, 2025 10:46am CST
Hey, I’m out of alphabetical order! I had the wrong song highlighted yesterday, so you get yesterday’s song today. Unlike yesterday’s song, you’ll know this, you’ll love it, and you’ll sing along. Yes, although it’s an instrumental it has lyrics…okay, lyric. You know your part!
Tequila - The Champs
I’ll blame @LooeyVille for the mistake (she’s in Chuy’s at the moment…next table over, we’re throwing chips at each other 
)! 
No, it was MY mistake. I hope nobody thought I was going to ignore this classic.
This hit #1 in 1958 (knocking Elvis out of the top spot!). It’s closing in on 70 years old, and it’s still referenced all over the place…either the music itself or the shout of “tequila!” at an appropriate (or even inappropriate) time.
Earlier this week the obits list mentioned that Champs rhythm guitarist David Burgess passed away in October at the age of 90. This song lives on.
Tequila
Written by Chuck Rio
Recorded by The Champs
From Go, Champs, Go!, 1958
Tequila!
)! No, it was MY mistake. I hope nobody thought I was going to ignore this classic.
This hit #1 in 1958 (knocking Elvis out of the top spot!). It’s closing in on 70 years old, and it’s still referenced all over the place…either the music itself or the shout of “tequila!” at an appropriate (or even inappropriate) time.
Earlier this week the obits list mentioned that Champs rhythm guitarist David Burgess passed away in October at the age of 90. This song lives on.
Tequila
Written by Chuck Rio
Recorded by The Champs
From Go, Champs, Go!, 1958
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16 responses
@Marilynda1225 (89619)
• United States
19 Nov
Yup I remember it well 
When it comes to songs and tequila I think of the song by Joe Nicholas (Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off) 
When it comes to songs and tequila I think of the song by Joe Nicholas (Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off) 4 people like this
@FourWalls (84507)
• United States
19 Nov
I love “Jose Cuervo” by Shelly West, which had a similar theme (“who is this cowboy who’s sleeping beside me? He’s awful cute but how’d I get his shirt on? I had too much tequila last night!”).
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@Marilynda1225 (89619)
• United States
21 Nov
@FourWalls those tequila songs are pretty funny
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@FourWalls (84507)
• United States
21 Nov
@Marilynda1225 — I guess it’s because tequila makes people do funny things.
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@FourWalls (84507)
• United States
20 Nov
@rebelann — come visit me, there are a hundred distilleries nearby on the “Kentucky Bourbon Trail.”
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@FourWalls (84507)
• United States
20 Nov
Dale Watson always started his song “Thanks to Tequila” by playing this when I saw him live. Fits so well. And after a few tequila shots, people can do any dance they want to do to it, most notably “one tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.”
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@GardenGerty (168343)
• United States
19 Nov
I remember it, and like it, even if I do not drink.
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@FourWalls (84507)
• United States
20 Nov
Me too! Makes me want to dance, not drink.
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@marguicha (230050)
• Chile
19 Nov
I remember that song. It was from my early teens. Although the melody was catchy, it was never one of my favorite ones. I was an ELVIS fan
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@marguicha (230050)
• Chile
20 Nov
@FourWalls Jailhouse rock was released on September 24, 1957. But before that there were several songs.
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@FourWalls (84507)
• United States
20 Nov
Nobody had anything on Elvis back then.
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@marguicha (230050)
• Chile
20 Nov
@FourWalls This post made me ask Alexa to make Elvis sing for me.
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@wolfgirl569 (132065)
• Marion, Ohio
19 Nov
Tequila!!! Anyone who has ever partied has heard that one
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@FourWalls (84507)
• United States
20 Nov
Pretty sure some tea-drinking Mormons know this one.
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@Deepizzaguy (119718)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
20 Nov
I am familiar with the song "Tequila" but I did not know who recorded the song or that it was released in 1958.
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@FourWalls (84507)
• United States
20 Nov
It’s been around forever, and it doesn’t have a “dated” sound to it, so I understand that!
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@Deepizzaguy (119718)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
20 Nov
@FourWalls I know what you mean since the song was played on a Domino's Pizza employee training video.
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@FourWalls (84507)
• United States
20 Nov
@LadyDuck — I am, too! Back in the 70s and 80s, though, it was great.
Back in the 70s and 80s, though, it was great.1 person likes this
@LadyDuck (497118)
• Italy
20 Nov
@FourWalls - I am sure you are right, but I am too old for skating.
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@RasmaSandra (95920)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
19 Nov
Absolutely loved this with friends standing around the bar with each tequila a shot with salt and lime SIGH.
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@FourWalls (84507)
• United States
20 Nov
Never cared for anything “straight.” Ick. But here’s to tequila and lime and salt!
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@LindaOHio (217838)
• United States
20 Nov
Yes, I remember this one well. It's a good one.
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@LindaOHio (217838)
• United States
21 Nov
@FourWalls I've never had Tequila; and now that hubby is gone, I won't be drinking on New Year's Eve which is the only time anymore that we both drank.
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@SIDIKIMPOLE (3189)
• Eldoret, Kenya
20 Nov
Looks interesting! Had to check it out on YouTube
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@FourWalls (84507)
• United States
20 Nov
One of the classics of early rock! Glad you remembered it.
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