She begins touring the Southwest and soon become the first female star of Mexican American music.ġ926 Los Hermanos Bañuelos record “El Lavaplatos” (The Dishwasher) whose lyrics include reference to the “Chicanos,” arguably the first time the word is used in print in the United States.ġ928 “El Choclo” introduces Americans to the Argentine Tango.ġ929 Cuban orchestra leader Don Azpiazu is “discovered” at the Havana Casino, Havana, Cuba by a New York music producer. Later it will merge with the Knights of America to form the League of United Latin American Citizens.ġ926 In Texas, Lydia Mendoza performs with her family group, El Cuarteto Carta Blanca, and then on her own. The inability of Pershing to find Villa is later celebrated in the Mexican corrido (ballad) “Nuestro Mexico Febrero 23.”ġ921 El Orden Hijos de América (Order of the Sons of America) a Mexican American civil rights organization is created to fight discrimination and advance education, is formed in San Antonio, Texas. After ten months in Mexico, General Pershing is unsuccessful in finding Villa. In retaliation, the United States sends an expeditionary force of 12,000 men under General John “Blackjack” Pershing to capture Villa.
His exploits are recorded in the border ballad “El Corrido de Gregorio Cortéz.”ġ910 “El Corrido de Jacinto Treviño” another border ballad, highlights the conflict between Mexican Americans and the Texas Rangers, who are known as “Los Rinches” As with Gregorio Cortéz, the hero of this ballad, Jacinto Treviño, defends himself against the Texas Rangers with a gun in his hand–a key component to many of the border corridos of this period.ġ916 Mexican General Pancho Villa, with a force of 485 men, raids the border town of Columbus, New Mexico, killing 14 Americans. Cortéz is eventually captured, tried by an all-Anglo jury and sentenced to prison. Mark Guerrero’s Chicano Music Chroniclesġ900 Gregorio Cortéz, a Tejano, kills a deputy who attempts to arrest him unjustly and flees for his life.“Wasted Days” by Veronique Medrano is available now at all digital platforms, including the Tejano Nation Amazon MP3 store. Other artists have covered the classic tune, including Leann Rimes and the late Jenni Rivera. This time, “Wasted Days” became a huge country and pop hit, selling over 1 million copies. “Wasted Days And Wasted Nights” was re-recorded in 1975 after Fender’s career was rejuvenated with his hit “Before The Next Teardrop Falls”.
The blues ballad from Fender, who passed away in 2006, was originally written and released in 1959 during the early stages of his career, but an arrest and conviction on charges of possession of marijuana in 1960 shelved Fender’s career during his incarceration. “You’re not going to please everybody, but the thing is that so many of my fans wanted it and since there was such a clamoring for it, more than anything, that really pushed us to go ahead and do it, because otherwise we would have just left it as something that was just part of the show.” “When you do covers, everybody has an opinion as to how it should sound and what you should put in there,” Veronique told Tejano Nation. Veronique hadn’t planned to release her version of the Fender classic hit, but her fans had been asking for it. Rising Tejano star Veronique Medrano has released a remake of the Freddy Fender classic hit, “Wasted Days And Wasted Nights”.
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