While relaxing on the beach my first day in La Manzanilla, an ice cream vendor on wheels passed by playing a very quirky tune from the 1960’s. During the rest of my stay there, I would hear this tune over and over again whenever there was an ice cream vendor nearby, but for the life of me, I couldn’t remember the name of the tune. While having breakfast at El Girasol on my third day there, I asked two middle-aged ladies from the USA (and seasonal residents of this small town), if they could identify the tune. Of course, one of the ladies replied - the name of the tune is ‘Alley Cat’, a popular instrumental tune from the early 1960’s. Believe it or not, whenever I think of La Manzanilla now, I hear this Alley Cat tune in my head.

Factoid: Alley Cat won a Grammy Award for the Best Rock & Roll Record Of 1962.

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