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100 unusual facts about Texas


39th Airlift Squadron

The 39th Airlift Squadron (39 AS) is a United States Air Force unit based at Dyess Air Force Base, Abilene, Texas.

Aaryn Gries

Aaryn Elizabeth Gries (born September 3, 1990 in San Angelo, Texas) is an American student and former model from San Marcos, Texas.

Adam Ulatoski

Ulatoski attended Carroll High School in Southlake, Texas, where he was coached by former Texas Longhorn quarterback Todd Dodge, and protected quarterback Chase Daniel as left tackle.

Aero Africa

David Tokoph owns and operates Aero Africa, as well as Interair, from his base in El Paso.

AgustaWestland AW609

On 6 December 2002, the first ground tests of the BA609 prototype began, and the first flight took place on 6 March 2003 in Arlington, Texas, flown by test pilots Roy Hopkins and Dwayne Williams.

Alvis Wayne

Alvis was born in Paducah, Texas and listened to country music on the radio as a child and was given a guitar at age ten.

Aqib Talib

In March 2011, police in Garland, Texas issued a felony warrant for Talib for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after accusing him of firing a gun at his sister's boyfriend.

Beaumont, Sour Lake and Western Railway

It passed through small southeast Texas communities such as Hull, Kenefick, and Huffman.

Béla Károlyi

Károlyi required that all national team members attend frequent grueling camps at his New Waverly, Texas gymnastics ranch, north of Houston, and selection procedures for international meets became more arbitrary.

He and Márta still have a ranch and gymnastics camp in New Waverly, Texas.

Bill Hartack

On November 26, 2007, days before what would have been his 75th birthday, Hartack was found dead in a cabin at a camp near the town of Freer, Texas, in southern Texas, where he went each winter to hunt.

Black Seminole Scouts

Many of the scouts' remains rest at the Seminole Indian Scouts Cemetery in Kinney County, Texas, including Adam and Isaac Payne and members of their family.

Bobby Tolan

On December 31, 2008, Robbie was shot by a Bellaire, Texas policeman allegedly investigating reports of a stolen car after a confrontation in the Tolan driveway.

Candice Patton

She was born in Jackson, Mississippi but raised in Plano, Texas, she attended Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

Carlos Francis

Francis now coaches football, track, and basketball at The Oakridge School in Arlington, Texas.

CASA 2.111

The aircraft was attempting a landing at the Cheyenne Municipal Airport, near Cheyenne, Wyoming, while en route from Midland, Texas to an air show in Missoula, Montana.

Championship Cup Series

Headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, CCS has been in operation since 1984, founded by Roger Edmondson in Asheville, North Carolina.

Chandi Jones

She was a basketball and long jump standout at Bay City High School in Bay City, Texas.

Charles Binaggio

Born in Beaumont, Texas, Binaggio moved with his family to Kansas City, Missouri, at an early age.

Culebra Road

Culebra Road is a street in Bexar County, Texas, near San Antonio.

Dalsa Cutoff

One segment of the San Antonio and Arkansas Pass Railway (SA&AP) lives on as part of the cutoff: the section between Giddings to Flatonia.

Dana Hamilton

Dana Hamilton (born November 17, 1950, Arlington, Texas) is an American hammered dulcimer player.

David Prychitko

Additionally, he held the Cecil and Ida Green Chair in Economics at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas (2003–2004).

DeBakey High School for Health Professions at Qatar

The school is a branch campus of Michael E. DeBakey High School for Health Professions of Houston, Texas, United States.

Dennis Canon

The Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, a parish located in San Angelo, held a business meeting on November 12, 2006 and voted to

Devils Rope Barbed Wire Museum

The Devils Rope Barbed Wire Museum is a museum located in McLean, Texas, USA.

Dolph Briscoe

Moreover, he denounced the party as a communist threat and blocked federal funds for Zavala County programs.

Edd Hargett

Edward Eugene Hargett (born June 26, 1947 in Marietta, Texas) is a former American football quarterback for Texas A&M University who went on to play professionally for the NFL's New Orleans Saints and Houston Oilers.

Elizabeth McDonald

Elizabeth McDonald (born 1985, Plano, Texas, United States) is an American painter.

Elsa Benham

Elsa Benham (November 20, 1908 – April 20, 1995, Irving, Texas) was a dancer and silent movie performer from St. Louis, Missouri.

Eric Patrick

Originally from Port Arthur, Texas, he played in a band throughout the southern United States before he studied art and film at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.

Etta Candy

Her father, "Hard Candy," and mother, Sugar Candy, lived on the Bar-L Ranch in Brazos County, Texas that provided the setting for cowboy-themed adventures.

Floyd Weaver

David Floyd Weaver (May 12, 1941 – November 17, 2008) was a Major League Baseball pitcher who was born in Ben Franklin, Texas.

Fly Over States

It even shows different scenes that refer to the lyrics including the Badlands and a woman from Amarillo. At the end of the video, the camera looks up into the night sky after one last look at the graveyard.

Forrest Bess

Born October 5, 1911, in Bay City, Texas, Bess picked up his love of art from his mother.

Four Points Media Group

KEYE-TV in Austin, Texas, the other CBS affiliate owned by Four Points, was the only station not controlled by the KUTV hub facility.

Gender segregation and Islam

In 1998 activists from the National Organization for Women picketed Unocal's Sugar Land, Texas office, arguing that its proposed pipeline through Afghanistan was collaborating with "gender apartheid".

George Henry Burgess

The Amon Carter Museum (Fort Worth), Texas, the Bancroft Library (University of California, Berkeley), the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Oakland Museum of California (Oakland, California) and the Yosemite Museum (Yosemite National Park, California) are among the public collections holding works by George Henry Burgess.

Glen Titensor

He is currently the owner of Timbercreek Golf Center in Lewisville, Texas.

Gospel Advocate

The Gospel Advocate also publishes Sunday School materials and operates Christian bookstores in Nashville and Mesquite, Texas.

Grumman OV-1 Mohawk

Texas Air Museum in Slaton, Texas has a modified OV-1D that was used by NASA that is on loan from the Museum of Naval Aviation.

Harrell Site

The Harrell Site, also known as the M.D. Harrell Site, is a Native American archeological site near South Bend in southern Young County, Texas.

Hermann Lungkwitz

In addition to Gillespie County vistas, his Texas subjects were the German settlements of New Braunfels and Sisterdale, the Hamilton Pool and West Cave at Round Mountain, Marble Falls, and areas around Austin and San Antonio.

Honolulu Pegasus

On May 17, 2010, it was announced that the owners of the team would relocate the club to Cypress, Texas due to travel problems while based in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Hot Lips Page

In his early years, Page, who moved to Corsicana, Texas in his early teens, traveled across the Southwestern United States and toured as far east as Atlanta and as far north as New York City.

Hubert Vo

Vo currently serves as a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives, representing the 149th District which contains part of Harris County including part of west Houston and the suburbs of Alief and Katy.

Jaime Gandara

Jaime Gandara (born El Paso, Texas, USA, 29 June 1982) is an American professional road and cyclocross cyclist.

John Carona

First elected to the Texas Legislature in 1990, Carona is now in his fourth term in the Texas State Senate, representing District 16 in Dallas County.

John Henry Faulk

Other supporters in the blacklist struggle included radio pioneer and Wimberley, Texas native Parks Johnson and reporter and CBS television news anchor Walter Cronkite.

John Yanta

John Yanta (born October 2, 1931, in Runge, Texas), is a former Roman Catholic bishop who served the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Antonio in San Antonio, Texas and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Amarillo in Amarillo, Texas.

KAKW-DT

The station first signed on the air on May 31, 1996 as a primary affiliate of UPN and a secondary affiliate of The WB for the Waco/Killeen/Temple market; the station was originally owned by Communications Corporation of America, along with Waco-based Fox affiliate KWKT (channel 22) and the station's Bryan-based satellite KYLE (channel 48).

KBTX-TV

KBTX serves Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Leon, Madison, Milam, Montgomery, Robertson, Walker and Washington counties, some of which are also in the Houston market, but receive KBTX.

KBVO-CD

call letters = KBVO-CD
(satellite of KBVO, Llano, Texas

Kendall Webb

Kendall Myles Webb (born September 24, 1984 in Amarillo, Texas) was an All-American point guard for Wayland Baptist University who went on to play professionally for the Bergheim Bandits of Germany.

KEYU

KEYU, known locally as Univisión Amarillo or Univisión 41, is a Spanish-language television station in Borger, Texas, serving the Amarillo market on digital channel 31 as an affiliate of Univision, and on analog low-power station KEYU-LP channel 41.

KFXK-TV

That arrangement makes the two stations sister to NBC affiliate KETK-TV and all three share studios on Richmond Road (near the Texas 323 Loop) in Tyler.

KIDY

KIDY, virtual channel 6, is a television station in San Angelo, Texas, broadcasting locally on digital channel 19 as a Fox affiliate, and is owned by London Broadcasting.

KTXH

The two stations share studio facilities located on Southwest Freeway in Houston (between the Uptown and Greenway Plaza districts); KTXH transmitter is located in unincorporated northeastern Fort Bend County (near Missouri City).

KXFX-CA

From its time affiliated with Telefutura, KXFX-CA programming was also seen in McAllen on KTFV-CA channel 32, in La Feria on KCWT-CA channel 30, and on the digital signal of KNVO channel 48.2 / 49.2.

Lake Harney

There are several landmarks that are named after him in his honor; such as Harney Peak in South Dakota as well as Camp Harney in Zapata, Texas.

Laura Furman

After living in Houston, Galveston, Dallas, and Lockhart she settled in Austin with her husband, Joel Warren Barna, and their son.

Louis R. Douglass

Douglass also served in the United States Army Quartermaster Corps during World War I, with responsibility for the construction of Army hospitals at Leon Springs, Texas, as well as U.S. Army General Hospital No. 7 in Baltimore, Maryland, and at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan.

Lowell Mick White

White currently teaches English at Texas A&M University, and is Writer-in-Residence at the Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas.

Ludwig Kieninger

As he grew older, he desired a studio more closely located to his home in DeSoto, Texas.

Lunar Lander Challenge

Armadillo Aerospace made their attempt for the Level 2 purse from Caddo Mills, Texas, on September 12 and 13, and successfully qualified for the Level 2 prize.

Margaret Varner Bloss

Margaret Varner Bloss (born October 4, 1927) is a retired American athlete and professor of physical education from El Paso, Texas who excelled in three distinctly different racket sports: badminton, squash, and tennis.

Mike Martinez

Michael W. "Mike" Martinez (August 1, 1969) is the current Place 2 Austin City Council member in Austin, Texas,.

Mopac

The Mopac Expressway, State Highway Loop 1 in Austin, Texas, named after the Missouri Pacific railroad whose tracks bisect the expressway.

Muscatine Avenue Moffitt Cottage Historic District

Moffitt constructed more than 100 houses in Iowa City and Coralville, Iowa and a few in Citrus City, Texas.

Neil Rutherford

Also killed by gunshot wounds were the hotel owner, Linda Simcox (52); ex merchant seaman Johnny Gore Green (55), an antique dealer from Bay City, Texas; Simcox's daughter, Lorna (24); and her husband, Alastair McIntyre (55).

Niederentzen

Some inhabitants of Niederentzen responded and settled in Castroville and D'Hanis.

Obie Bermúdez

He became engaged to Latin Popstar Jennifer Peña, they married on June 3, 2007 in a private ceremony in Corpus Christi, Texas.

Onalaska, Washington

Onalaska, Washington, Onalaska, Wisconsin, Onalaska, Arkansas and Onalaska, Texas are all historically connected to one another through the lumber industry.

Orangefield

Orangefield, Texas, an unincorporated town in Orange County, United States

Orville Taylor

Taylor set his personal best in the men's 200 metres (20.67) on 2002-05-25 in San Angelo, Texas.

Pablo Pineda Gaucín

At around 2:45 a.m. on 9 April 2000, in the town of Los Indios, Texas just across the US-Mexico border, US Border Patrol officers found Pineda Gaucín's corpse.

Parker University

18 months later, Dr. Parker served as many as 300 patients a day at affiliate clinics in Dallas, Waco, Texas, and Meridian, Texas.

Pliny Fisk III

When the Lo Vaca Gathering Co shut off the natural gas supply to the small town of Crystal City, Texas in the fall of 1977, Fisk developed the idea of using Army surplus wood stoves and abundant mesquite for heating.

Powell v. Texas

Powell was no stranger to the court system; "appellant had been convicted of public intoxication approximately 100 times since 1949, primarily in Travis County, Texas" (though he had a few convictions in neighboring Bastrop County, Texas).

Randy Keisler

Randy Dean Keisler (born February 24, 1976 in Richards, Texas) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher.

Raymond Clayborn

Raymond DeWayne Clayborn (born January 2, 1955 in Fort Worth, Texas), is a former American Football cornerback who played for the New England Patriots (1977–1989) and Cleveland Browns (1990, 1991) in the NFL.

Republic of Texas

Under command of Potsanaquahip (Buffalo Hump), 500 to 700 Comanche cavalry warriors swept down the Guadalupe River valley, killing and plundering all the way to the shore of the Gulf of Mexico, where they sacked the towns of Victoria and Linnville.

Rodriguez de Quijas v. Shearson/American Express Inc.

In the early 1980s several small first-time investors in Brownsville, Texas, opened accounts with Shearson/American Express agent Jon Grady Deaton.

Sally Mayes

Born in Livingston, Texas, Mayes began her career as a rock and jazz singer in Houston.

Slaugenhopia

Slaugenhopia was found from the San Angelo Formation within the Kahn Quarry of Driver Ranch in Knox County, Texas.

Stephen J. Anderson

Anderson grew up in Plano, Texas, before attending the California Institute of the Arts, where he also served as a story instructor for five years.

Steve Fanara

Steve Fanara (born August 30, 1966) is the former head football coach for the Howard Payne University Yellow Jackets located in Brownwood, Texas.

Sugar Land Skeeters

The team's primary logo consists of a mosquito flying over a Texas contour with its proboscis marking Fort Bend County.

Texans for Public Justice

Texans for Public Justice (TPJ) is an Austin-based non-profit that was organized in 1997 to take on political corruption and corporate abuses in Texas, USA.

Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Denton

Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Denton (formerly Denton Community Hospital and Presbyterian Hospital of Denton) serves the communities of North Texas and southern Oklahoma.

Texas-Oklahoma wildfires of 2005–06

The fire spared the nearly century-old house (now a museum) of Robert E. Howard, author of the Conan the Barbarian books.

Texas's 20th congressional district

Charlie Gonzalez, who represented the district from 1999 to 2013 after succeeding his father, Henry B. Gonzalez, did not seek re-election in the 2012 United States House of Representatives elections.

The J-Tex Corporation

Their name was reference to the fact that its two prominent members, Muta and Funk, were from Japan and Texas, respectively.

The Judy's

The Judy's were a Pearland, Texas-based punk and new wave band from the late 1970s and early 1980s.

The Show with No Name

public-access television cable TV show in Austin, Texas, hosted by Charlie Sotelo and the mysterious "Cinco." Each show featured clips of TV, film and music ephemera along with commentary by the hosts and calls from a predictably unruly Public-access television audience.

Vicente T. Ximenes

Ximenes was raised in the town of Floresville, Texas, where he, along with the Mexican American community, were subjected to racial segregation.

Wayne Christian

In 2009, a controversial amendment sponsored by fellow Republican, Mike "Tuffy" Hamilton passed the Texas House, allowing Christian and a handful of neighbors on the Bolivar Peninsula near Galveston to rebuild houses destroyed by Hurricane Ike.

William Frels

William Frels co-founded the town of Frelsburg, Texas around 1837 with his brother John Frels.

William P. Hobby

Born in Moscow, Texas, Hobby became a circulation clerk for the Post in 1895 and was promoted to business writer in August 1901.

Zack Segovia

Zachary Ernest Segovia (born April 11, 1983) is an American professional baseball pitcher from Forney, Texas.


Anna Mebus Martin

Hewill Mebus lost his Solingen-based business in 1858, and the family made the decision to emigrate to Texas, where Henrietta Mebus's relatives resided.

Blue-eyed Darner

The Blue-eyed Darner is a common dragonfly of the western United States commonly sighted in the sagebrush steppe of the Snake River Plain, occurring east to the Midwest from central Canada and the Dakotas south to west Texas and Oklahoma.

Bob Hames

While a student at North Texas in 1946, Hames was one of eight student musicians from North Texas to guest star on Interstate's weekly musical radio show, 3:30, Sunday, April 14, 1946, aired on WFAA.

Carlomagno Pedro Martínez

In 2006, it appeared at the Texas Gallery in Houston and the Boston Arts Academy.

Carole Boston Weatherford

In 1995, Lee & Low Books published her first picture book, Juneteenth Jamboree, about a summer celebration in memory of the Texas Emancipation.

Cephalanthus occidentalis

Southwestern North America, from western Texas west to California (Sierra Nevada foothills, San Joaquin Valley, Sacramento Valley, and the Inner North Coast Ranges) and south to Mexico and Central America.

Commstock

Commstock is an annual concert event in San Antonio, Texas hosted by Communications Arts High School, but typically takes place at William Howard Taft High School.

Conn's

is an electronics and appliance store chain headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas, United States.

Dusty Saxton

In 2005 Dusty responded to a MySpace ad for a guitarist spot in Dallas, Texas based rock band, Analogue, fronted by eventual Jonathan Tyler and the Northern Lights bassist, Nick Jay.

Eddy Waller

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp as Rawhide Geraghty in "The Truth About Rawhide Geraghty" (1959); Hugh O'Brian as Wyatt Earp rides shotgun for the retiring 69-year-old Wells Fargo stagecoach driver Rawhide Geraghty on his last run from Tucumcari, New Mexico Territory, to Amarillo, Texas.

El presente

At the Latin Grammy Awards in Houston, Texas, after a presentation of various accordions in Latin music that touched it with her song.

Elmer Blaney Harris

He went to work for the Food Board under Herbert Hoover, but sick of working with Graham flour, he took a new position as civil aide to the commander in charge of amusements and morale at Camp Bowie, Texas as a dramatic director with the Fosdick Commission.

Eugene Nelson

In 1966 Nelson became Texas director of the first grape boycott by César Chávez's farmworker union.

Ewa Malas-Godlewska

Queen of the Night in Mozart's Magic Flute production by Bob Wilson, Paris Opera, L'Opera Comique, Le Theatre du Chatelet, Le Theatre des Champs Elysees, Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers and Parisian Bastille Opera, the Houston Grand Opera in Texas

Garrya

Garrya wrightii – Wright's Silktassel; Arizona, New Mexico, Texas.

Heffelfinger

William Walter "Pudge" Heffelfinger (1867, Minneapolis, Minnesota - 1954, Blessing, Texas), an American football player

Hugh Allen

Joseph Hugh Allen (1940–2008), Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives

Jay Levin

Levin hired Texas writers Big Boy Medlin, Ginger Varney, and Michael Ventura, as well as Anita Hoffman (wife of then-fugitive Abbie Hoffman).

John Calvin Mason

-- A grammar fix may be needed here. -->During the Civil War served with Texas State troops from Brenham, Texas in 1863.

Justin F. Kimball

Justin F. Kimball High School - a school in Dallas, Texas, administered by the Dallas Independent School District

Katrina Price

In her senior year she led La Vega High School (Waco, Texas) to the 1994 state finals and a 32-4 record, and averaged 30.0 points, 13.0 rebounds, 6.0 assists, and 5.0 steals per game.

Kentucky Small Business Development Center

Now, every state has an SBDC program (Texas has four and California has six) along with Guam, District of Columbia, U.S. Virgin Islands and Samoa.

KETK

KETK-LP, a low-power television station (channel 53) licensed to Lufkin, Texas, United States

KEUS

KANG-LP, a low-power television station (channel 31) licensed to serve San Angelo, Texas, which held the call sign KEUS-LP from 2001 to 2013

KICA

KICA-FM, a radio station (98.3 FM) licensed to Farwell, Texas, United States

KKLB

KVLR, a radio station (92.5 FM) licensed to serve Elgin, Texas, which held the call sign KKLB from 1990 to 2007

KSAT

Krueger Middle School in San Antonio, Texas, United States, home of a magnet program called Krueger School of Applied Technologies (K-SAT)

KTSM

KTSM-TV, a television station (channel 9 analog/16 digital) licensed to El Paso, Texas, United States

No Kinda Dancer

No Kinda Dancer is the first album by Texas-based Folk singer-songwriter Robert Earl Keen, originally released in the United States on Philo Records in 1984) and re-released in 2004 by KOCH Records with additional tracks.

Paul L. Foster

During college Paul was inducted into the Texas Theta chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon at Baylor University.

Premiere Cinemas

Flagship megaplex Premiere Cinema locations are operated in Bryan-College Station, El Paso, Houston, and Temple, Texas, Orlando, Florida, Gadsden, Spanish Fort, and Bessemer, Alabama, and Rio Rancho, New Mexico.

Project Transformation

Several months later, they launched Project Transformation with financial and in-kind support from the annual conference and key partners, such as Texas Methodist Foundation, Southern Methodist University, and Perkins School of Theology.

Pterospoda nigrescens

It occurs at moderate elevations in arid scrub and open woodland habitat, ranging from south-eastern Arizona and the Edwards Plateau of west-central Texas south to at least Durango, Mexico.

Ramallah Friends Schools

Farouk Shami, CEO of Farouk Systems, Inc., an American hair care products company; 2010 Democratic candidate for Governor of Texas in the United States

Ray Barnhart

In a letter to Democratic State Senator Kirk Watson of Austin, Barnhart said that the legislature, not the Texas Department of Transportation, is responsible for problems involving highways.

Ridgewood Park, Dallas

Ridgewood Park is a neighborhood in east Dallas Texas (USA).

Ronnie Claire Edwards

Edwards also briefly appeared on an episode of PBS's Antiques Roadshow (2008) from Dallas, Texas, when she brought in for appraisal a chair formerly owned by P. T. Barnum.

Roy Orbison's Sun Recordings

Roy Kelton Orbison was born in Vernon, Texas, on April 23, 1936, and he grew up in Wink, Texas.

Sarah Kunstler

At Off Center Media, Sarah has produced and directed a number of short documentaries, including Tulia, Texas: Scenes from the Drug War (2003), which won Best Documentary Short at the Woodstock Film Festival (she was instrumental in winning exoneration for 46 wrongfully-convicted people in the small town of Tulia, Texas); and Getting Through to the President (2004), which has aired on the Sundance Channel, Current TV, and Channel Thirteen/WNET.

Shannon McRandle

Shannon Lynn Jones was born on August 28, 1969 in Killeen, Texas, US, to Leonard Jones (stationed at Fort Hood, drafted into the army for the Vietnam War) and Barbara Kubiszewski Walsh.

Silver dollar

James Marion West, Jr., Texas oilman known as "Silver Dollar Jim" for throwing coins to passersby on the street

State Marriage Defense Act

It was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Representative Randy Weber, a Texas Republican, on January 9, 2014, who presented it as an attempt to clarify federal government's implementation of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Windsor in June 2013.

Texas Coastal Bend

For example, the California Fan Palm (Washingtonia filifera) is found only west of the Texas Coastal Bend, or more specifically the Balcones Fault.

Texas State Highway Spur 366

In 2012 the Santiago Calatrava designed Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge was opened, extending the Woodall Rodgers west of Interstate 35E across the Trinity River, into West Dallas.

The Shops at Willow Bend

The majority of the stores in the mall cater to women, although some stores have broader appeal, such as the department stores, the restaurants, and North Texas' largest Apple Store.

Transgender inequality

For example, in November 2013, Jeydon Loredo was temporarily excluded from their La Feria Independent School District yearbook in Texas due to sporting a tuxedo that did not meet “community standards.”

Uvalde

Uvalde Estates, Texas, a census-designated place in Uvalde County, Texas

White Whale Records

White Whale also released Nino Tempo & April Stevens's single "All Strung Out (On You)", a hit single by Rene y Rene titled "Lo Mucho Que Ti Quiero", an album by Liz Damon's Orient Express, and the only album by Texas band The Clique.