Someone from Chee-Kah-Go sent me this on an attachment, and I knew I'd find it YouTube'd: "Beat It" Originally by Michael Jackson - as performed by Mariachi Cabos at La Fogata in Chapin, SC : <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LCM1X8YgZLE&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LCM1X8YgZLE&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> Michael Jackson's "Beat It" by the Mariachi band at Acapulco Mexican Restaurant in Birmingham, Alabama. <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/faArbI4Fkj4&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/faArbI4Fkj4&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> Enjoy, laythees ahnd jentelmen. There are plenty more renditions of Beat It and of more "American" songs out there.
There was a boing boing post about this a few weeks ago. There is a link to several more here. http://www.boingboing.net/2009/07/22/mariachis-covering-u.html
"choe me how fonkee, estrong is joor fight!" This is beyond awesome. Makes me proud to be a Mexicano! Viva MJ!
This was pathetic to begin with, but it's made even better by the fact it's being done in South Carolina and Alabama. The whole thing is confusing and scary.
although incomplete, this is the same band, and just as awesome: <object width="640" height="505"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/orxCqOKBWXE&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/orxCqOKBWXE&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="505"></embed></object>