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September 17th is not just my birthday. This year, it also marks the 70th anniversary of Speedy Gonzales' self-titled cartoon that made him an icon not just to fellow mice, but also to many fans of "Looney Tunes".

To celebrate early, I want to post a couple of isolated music suites to Speedy cartoons that haven't been posted yet. To start, here's the suite to the 1962 short "Mexican Boarders", featuring Speedy's snail-paced cousin, Slowpoke Rodriguez.

This cartoon was directed by Friz Freleng, with veteran layout artist Hawley Pratt as the co-director. It features a posthumous score composed by Milt Franklyn, being one of eight cartoons with his music released after his death.

Slowpoke is one of the more notorious characters in the classic "Looney Tunes" canon, not only for his stereotypical look and accent, but also due to his slow talking and walking wasting precious time in the cartoon. He wasn't used for many years afterwards, finally reappearing in a cameo in "Space Jam" and "The Looney Tunes Show" season two episode "The Black Widow".

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