The David Dante original version briefly entered the U.S. Music Vendor chart in April 1961.
The song was popularized in the United States as a 1962 single by Pat Boone.
[3] It also incorporated Mel Blanc voicing Speedy Gonzales as he did in the Warner Brothers cartoons.
Dante's version details a demand from a girl named Consuela to Speedy to stop roving about and take care of his neglected household.
Boone's song adds a spoken introduction stating that he was wandering between some old adobe haciendas on a moonlit night in Mexico, where he heard the voice of a Mexican girl calling to Speedy, and Mel Blanc's inserts replace a recurring line from Dante's lyrics.