Since it’s pouring proverbial buckets, I remembered a song about rain from my teen years. Turns out it was “The Rains Came,” 1965, an earlier song covered by the Sir Douglas Quintet. I loved the Sir Douglas Quintet, but I couldn’t find a live version on the YouTube that I liked.

Then I found this one, lovely, performed by the late Freddy Fender.

Hm, I wondered. Why would a Tejano Country-Western star cover a Brtish group’s song? I let it go and found another Sir Douglas Quintet song, “She’s About a Mover,” with Go-Go dancers and a vaguely scary lead singer, Doug Rahm, and a just-as-scary organist, an instrument that was a Sir Douglas trademark.

They’re not English at all. They’re Texans! From San Antonio!

In fact, Sir Douglas—er, Doug Rahm—would go on to found the Texas Tornados. Here’s “Mover,” by the Tornados, from a 1990 “Austin City Limits.”

And that’s Freddy Fender next to Rahm.

And, about 3:47, just past the accordionist Flaco Jimenez, theres a solo by a guitarist in a striped shirt. That’s San Luis Obispo’s Louie Ortega.

Cool.