🎶 We had a Prez, Oh Bama was his name…🎶
Chicano superstars Tierra channel the spirit of dead Pacoima pocho Ritchie Valens’ hit Oh, Donna in Oh, Bama, a love song for President Obama. We miss him, too.
BALLAD
In ‘El Paso,’ Marty Robbins fell in love with a Mexican girl (video)
El Paso was a huge hit for Marty Robbins in 1960. It’s the sad tale of two gringos and one mujer — the dark-eyed dancing Felina.
Here are the lyrics:
Mas…In ‘El Paso,’ Marty Robbins fell in love with a Mexican girl (video)
Saddest song ever! Lalo Guerrero sings “There’s No Tortillas” (video)
The great Lalo Guerrero can hardly sing for all the weeping as he performs There’s No Tortillas. And who can blame him?
Here’s our favorite (non parody) Lalo Guerrero song — he calls it a “boogie woogie jitterbug”:
Mas…Saddest song ever! Lalo Guerrero sings “There’s No Tortillas” (video)
Chicano Batman: Lost in ‘Cycles of Existential Rhyme’ (video)
So Cal homies Chicano Batman lay down a soulful groove and tell an eternal story in Cycles of Existential Rhyme. [POCHO amigo Giovanni Solis produced and directed the just-released video.]
Flaco Jimenez vs Los Gabachos: ‘El Mojado Sin Licencia’ (music video)
The wetback drove from Laredo to San Antonio to see his girl — and that’s when the trouble started.
Lost Acapulco: ‘Miradas De Amor’ (old-school long board surf music)
Hang ten, pochos, with this super mellow old-school surf guitar instrumental from Lost Acapulco, the Mexico City surf, garage and punk band.