A 45 from the mid-50s – an early novelty

Lalo Gurrero is considered to be a pioneer in Mexican and Chicano music. Sadly, he passed on in 2005 - about six weeks before my own father did. His son Mark has an extensive amount of info about his father at his web site - and it's a fascinating read.

Some of Lalo’s recordings are still readily available (again I suggest you do some looking around on Mark's web site), and for those of you with kids there is the delightful work he did back around 1995 with Los Lobos on the CD called “Papa’s Dream”.

Not only an extremely talented singer/songwriter with hundreds of songs to his credit he also had a sense of humor that led him to create a number of topical parodies along the way, including one about the hot Disney phenomenon of the mid-1950s, “Davy Crocket” called “Pancho Lopez.”. One of my older brothers brought this 45 home and we played the hell out of it. It needed some serious cleaning up but is now worthy of a listen. Here it is…