The teams run out here to a 1960s Mexican brass number called
Tijuana Taxi, the most absurd tune you could imagine a bunch of hairy-arsed thirddivision players ever shaking hands to.
The tunes will include Burt's Make It Easy On Yourself, I Say A Little Prayer and I'll Never Fall In Love Again, and Henry Mancini's Theme from Peter Gunn, Night Train and
Tijuana Taxi.
Included are such favourites as King of the Road,
Tijuana Taxi, That's A more, and Quando, Quando, Quando.
In February 1993, over 132,000 fans filled Azteca Stadium to see him defeat the mouthy Greg Haugen (who, prior to the fight, belittled Chavez's record--at that time it stood at 83-0--by saying it was inflated by wins over "
Tijuana taxi drivers").
We contacted Herb Alpert's publishers because we wanted to use
Tijuana Taxi. Alpert wrote them a note that said we were all going to burn in hell.
AS a Californian, of Eastern European Jewish parentage, with a passion for Mexican music, the great jazz trumpeter Herb Alpert would approve of Leyton Orient, a modest Cockney club with a Far Eastern name, who always run out to the strains of his
Tijuana Taxi.
