While trumpeter Kenny Ball's one major hit in North America was Midnight in Moscow (#2, Billboard Hot 100, 1962), there were lots of chart successes for Ball and his Jazzmen in their native U.K. Among them was a 1963 cover of Acapulco 1922, the flip side of The Lonely Bull, the first hit for Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass.
The Kenny Ball version hit No. 27 on the British singles chart. The MP3 is taken from a 45.
Acapulco 1922
And from YouTube a Kenny Ball hits medley that includes Acapulco 1922.
Acapulco 1922 is freely available as a digital download from all the usual legal sites (iTunes, Rhapsody, etc.) and has been included in several CD compilations over the years.
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