3:16
single, 1956
Written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
Hard to believe this is the Coasters' debut single; they sing harmonies like they've been around forever. Starting with a sultry sax, and boosted by some frenetic Latin-infused congas, it tells the story of a cat named Joe who plays blues piana in a honky-tonk down in Mexico. And there's a dancer. "Around her waist she wore three fishnets / She started dancin' with the castanets / I didn't know just what to expect / She threw her arms around my neck." The ancestor song of "El Paso," "Romance in Durango," and even "Mexican Blackbird."
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