A more complete history of The Mexican would be as follows... In 1965 Ennio Morricone wrote the theme music to the Sergio Leone movie 'For a Few Dollars More' featuring a distinctive whistled tune. Babe Ruth took this (not the 'Fistful of Dollars' theme as stated above) and used it as one of the guitar riffs on The Mexican in 1972. This song was then covered by The Bombers in 1978 and again in 1984 by John "Jellybean" Benitez, the latter version featuring drum machine percussion and the Babe Ruth lyrics resung by the original vocalist, Janita Haan.

Finally Todd Terry took the Morricone bit (turning it into a wicked enchanting synth riff) and kept a single line of vocals which became the title of his 1988 house classic Dreams of Santa Anna and he also used the same elements on a track called The Texican, both recorded under his Orange Lemon pseudonym. Dreams of Santa Anna is one of my favourite early house tunes and it still gets a great crowd response in the London old skool house scene.

In the Seventies, Babe Ruth (who hailed from Hatfield) provided one of the first b-boy breaks with The Mexican, featuring a classic Fistful Of Dollars theme on lead guitar.