Mexicali Rose (song)
| "Mexicali Rose" | |
|---|---|
| Single by Gene Autry | |
| B-side | "You're the Only Star in My Blue Heaven" |
| Published | March 10, 1923 W.A. Quincke & Co., Los Angeles, assigned to M. M. Cole Publishing Co., Chicago. |
| Released | April 1936 |
| Recorded | December 24, 1935 |
| Studio | American Furniture Mart ARC Studio, 666 N Lake Shore Drive, 21st Floor, Chicago |
| Genre | Hillbilly, Western |
| Length | 3:07 |
| Label | Melotone 6-05-59 |
| Composer(s) | Jack B. Tenney |
| Lyricist(s) | Helen Stone |
"Mexicali Rose" is a popular song composed by bandleader and pianist Jack Breckenridge Tenney in the early 1920s, when he and his seven piece orchestra played the hotels and clubs of the Calexico and Mexicali border. The song became a hit in the mid-1930s, thanks to Gene Autry and Bing Crosby, around the same time that Tenney became a lawyer and was elected to the California State Assembly. Tenney was later appointed to head of the California Senate Factfinding Subcommittee on Un-American Activities.