{"id":2163296,"date":"2025-11-18T01:30:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T01:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2163296"},"modified":"2025-11-18T01:30:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T01:30:04","slug":"grammy-winner-behind-iconic-tequila-song-dead-at-90-rip-to-dave-burgess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/grammy-winner-behind-iconic-tequila-song-dead-at-90-rip-to-dave-burgess\/","title":{"rendered":"Grammy Winner Behind Iconic &#8216;Tequila&#8217; Song Dead at 90: RIP to Dave Burgess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Musician Dave Burgess has died. He was 90. <\/p>\n<p>The guitarist, known for his work with the band The Champs, died last month according to an obituary <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.anglinfuneralhome.com\/obituaries\/david-burgess\">posted<\/a> by the Anglin Funeral Home in Dover, Tennessee, the town he died in.<\/p>\n<p>His best-known work is, of course, \u201cTequila.\u201d The Latin-adjacent, sax-filled instrumental chant-along helped the band live up to their name when it knocked off Elvis Presley\u2019s \u201cDon\u2019t\u201d from its #1 spot on the charts in 1958. It\u2019s now known all around the world and has probably been played in just about every bar you can think of. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTequila\u201d has also been used in countless movies and TV shows, although none more memorable than its use in Paul Reubens\u2019 1985 comedy <em>Pee-Wee\u2019s Big Adventure<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-savage-platform-youtube-placeholder\" data-component=\"youtube-placeholder\">\n\t\t<button type=\"button\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Play video<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" width=\"72\" height=\"50.76\"><use href=\"#am-symbol-youtube-play-dark\"\/><\/svg>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/6PUM8EqAKaA\/maxresdefault.jpg\" media=\"(min-width: 480px)\"\/>\n\t\t\t<\/picture>\n\t\t<\/button><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<template><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tequila! | Pee-wee&#039;s Big Adventure (1985)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6PUM8EqAKaA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/template><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<noscript><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tequila! | Pee-wee&#039;s Big Adventure (1985)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6PUM8EqAKaA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/noscript>\n\t<\/div>\n<p>Burgess was a songwriter with more than 700 copyrights, however, with songs that would later be made famous by huge names like Glen Campbell, Bing Crosby, and Dean Martin. He also managed the publishing of Hank Williams Jr., according <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/dave-burgess-pee-wees-big-adventure-song-tequila-dies-11849986\">to Entertainment Weekly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a quote about his band\u2019s rise from the book <em>Record Breakers and Makers<\/em> by John Broven, he said his favorite part of their success was how many live performances the group got to put on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe youngsters loved it, and the parents hated us,\u201d he said. \u201cWe were the bad guys. We were gonna corrupt their kids with rock &amp; roll.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Burgess is survived by his son, David.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source popculture.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musician Dave Burgess has died. He was 90. The guitarist, known for his work with the band The Champs, died last month according to an obituary posted by the Anglin Funeral Home in Dover, Tennessee, the town he died in. His best-known work is, of course, \u201cTequila.\u201d The Latin-adjacent, sax-filled instrumental chant-along helped the band [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2163297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[22062,415151],"class_list":["post-2163296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-deaths","tag-dave-burgess"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Grammy-Winner-Behind-Iconic-Tequila-Song-Dead-at-90-RIP.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2163296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2163298,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163296\/revisions\/2163298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2163297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2163296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2163296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2163296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}