LOS LOBOS
''SI SE PUEDE! AN ANTHOLOGY OF ORIGINAL SONGS PERFORMED BY LOS LOBOS & FRIENDS''
1976
34:23
1 De Colores (Traditional) 5:11 Feat. Santa Isabel School Children's Choir
2 Huelga en General (Luis Valdez, Baldemar Gomez) 3:14 Feat. Carmen Moreno
3 Yo Estoy Con Chavez (Ramon "Tiguere" Rodriguez) 2:31 Feat. Ramon ''Tiguere'' Rodriguez
4 Mujeres Valientes (Miguel Francisco Barragan) 2:21 Feat. Raul Brambila
5 Mañana Is Now (Arturo P. Brambila) 3:25 Feat. Geree Gonzalez
6 Telingo Lingo (Traditional) 1:52 Feat. Cesar Rosas
7 Corrido de Dolores Huerta #39 (Carmen Moreno) 4:03 Feat. Carmen Moreno
8 Chicanita de Aztlán (Ramón "Tiguere" Rodriguez) 4:22 Feat. Diana Cruz
9 Sangre Antigua (Carmen Moreno) 4:00 Feat. Carmen Moreno
10 No Nos Moverán (Traditional) 3:22 Feat. Geree Gonzalez, Tierra And Conrad Lozano, Carmen Moreno
ABOUT THE ALBUM
By Wikipedia
Sí Se Puede! is the 1976 charity album debut of Los Lobos and the Salas Brothers of Tierra. Proceeds from this album went towards the United Farm Workers of America.
MORE ABOUT
By ilxor.com
LOS ANGELES, Calif. — In 1976, after Cesar Chavez helped get Coca-Cola to sponsor his groundbreaking Latin entertainment television show, The Mean Salsa Machine, television and music producer Art Brambila wanted to do something in return for Chavez and the United Farm Workers. The idea of Sí Se Puede! (Yes We Can!) came to him.
“I was grateful but undecided on how I was to make good on my own promise to him,” recalls Brambila. “After thinking long and hard I decided to record an album that would honor his union and represent it with dignity. I could utilize the talents of many local artists I’d worked with in my earlier years as a record producer and the union could sell it at rallies, marches, and huelgas.”
After reviewing over 120 songs and speeches from UFW marches, Brambila began to create the list of songs for the album. Inspired by his work, he wrote “Mañana Is Now,” the only all-English song, for the LP. As the song choices were coming together, he knew who he wanted to record and arrange the music — from East L.A., Los Lobos, then consisting of David Hidalgo, Louie Pérez, Cesar Rojas and Conrad Lozano. This would be the band’s first released recordings, a full two years ahead of their groundbreaking EP Just Another Band From East L.A.
Sí Se Puede will be released digitally-only on March 11, 2014 by Fantasy Records.
His passion and tenaciousness in full swing, Brambila continued to get key people to sign on to his project — Herb Alpert, President of A&M Records, donated studio time. In addition to Los Lobos, singers like Carmen Moreno from Fresno, Geree Gonzales of East L.A., the Salas brothers of Lincoln Heights and Tigre Rodriguez from Phoenix all agreed to participate.
In January 1977 Brambila assembled his cast at A&M’s studio on La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles — as Carole King and The Carpenters were in the studios next door and down the hall — to record the album. By early February he had recorded all the music and vocals with the professional singers and needed only to add the vocals on “Mujeres Valientes” and “De Colores.”
After a long search he found a kids’ choir in a small Catholic school in East L.A., made up of eight-year-olds, to bring the right sound to “De Colores.” The search for the right singer for “Mujeres Valientes” was not long or far, but Brambila’s power of persuasion was on high again as he finally convinced his brother, Raul, to do the honors.
In March, 1977, the United Farm Workers Union was presented with 5,000 albums of Sí Se Puede! The statement on the back of the album reads: “This album mirrors the spirit and vitality that have sustained the farm workers through good times and bad for more than a decade. It celebrates the love and solidarity we share as a people united in a common struggle. It is a tribute to the artists who donated their talents to support the cause. It will be cherished within the movement, and it will help bring our message to friends and supporters everywhere.” —Cesar Chavez
Almost 40 years later, on the verge of Cesar Chavez Day (March 31), Sí Se Puede! once again rises to honor Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers.
Chavez is an upcoming film directed by Diego Luna about the life of American labor leader Cesar Chavez, who cofounded the United Farm Workers. The film stars Michael Peña as Chavez. John Malkovich co-stars as the owner of a large industrial grape farm who leads the opposition to Chávez's organizing efforts.
REVIEW
by Mark Deming, AMG
While conventional wisdom has long held that Los Lobos launched their recording career with the 1978 album Del Este de Los Angeles (Just Another Band from East L.A.), it turns out they had actually made a little-known record two years earlier. In 1976, producer Art Brambila was putting together an album of songs honoring labor organizer and activist Cesar Chavez, and Brambila chose Los Lobos, then a local Mexican folk combo, to be the backing band for the project, accompanying a variety of vocalists doing songs celebrating Chavez's accomplishments, the struggle of farm workers, and Chicano pride. Sí Se Puede! was the result, and it documents Los Lobos when they were still primarily a folk ensemble, before they embraced the more eclectic sound that first popped up on 1983's ...And a Time to Dance. Anyone who has heard Del Este de Los Angeles or 1988's La Pistola y el Corazón knows Los Lobos were an uncommonly good folk ensemble, but in this case Los Lobos are the backing band on most tracks, providing passionate and expert accompaniment but staying out of the way of the guest vocalists, most of whom deliver fine and impassioned work, especially Carmen Moreno, Raul Bambila, and Geree Gonzalez. (And as one might expect, nearly all the vocals on Sí Se Puede! are in Spanish.) Los Lobos do take the lead on one cut, "Telingo Lingo," and it allows a bit more of their personality to shine through, but ultimately Sí Se Puede! is a flashback to the group's earliest days as working musicians, and while this is often strong and inspiring music (and a genuinely heartfelt tribute to Chavez and his brave work), it might feel a bit pro forma for fans used to the ambitious reach of this band's best recordings; if the question is, "Is this the same band that made Kiko?," the honest answer is "No, not yet."
''SI SE PUEDE! AN ANTHOLOGY OF ORIGINAL SONGS PERFORMED BY LOS LOBOS & FRIENDS''
1976
34:23
1 De Colores (Traditional) 5:11 Feat. Santa Isabel School Children's Choir
2 Huelga en General (Luis Valdez, Baldemar Gomez) 3:14 Feat. Carmen Moreno
3 Yo Estoy Con Chavez (Ramon "Tiguere" Rodriguez) 2:31 Feat. Ramon ''Tiguere'' Rodriguez
4 Mujeres Valientes (Miguel Francisco Barragan) 2:21 Feat. Raul Brambila
5 Mañana Is Now (Arturo P. Brambila) 3:25 Feat. Geree Gonzalez
6 Telingo Lingo (Traditional) 1:52 Feat. Cesar Rosas
7 Corrido de Dolores Huerta #39 (Carmen Moreno) 4:03 Feat. Carmen Moreno
8 Chicanita de Aztlán (Ramón "Tiguere" Rodriguez) 4:22 Feat. Diana Cruz
9 Sangre Antigua (Carmen Moreno) 4:00 Feat. Carmen Moreno
10 No Nos Moverán (Traditional) 3:22 Feat. Geree Gonzalez, Tierra And Conrad Lozano, Carmen Moreno
ABOUT THE ALBUM
By Wikipedia
Sí Se Puede! is the 1976 charity album debut of Los Lobos and the Salas Brothers of Tierra. Proceeds from this album went towards the United Farm Workers of America.
MORE ABOUT
By ilxor.com
LOS ANGELES, Calif. — In 1976, after Cesar Chavez helped get Coca-Cola to sponsor his groundbreaking Latin entertainment television show, The Mean Salsa Machine, television and music producer Art Brambila wanted to do something in return for Chavez and the United Farm Workers. The idea of Sí Se Puede! (Yes We Can!) came to him.
“I was grateful but undecided on how I was to make good on my own promise to him,” recalls Brambila. “After thinking long and hard I decided to record an album that would honor his union and represent it with dignity. I could utilize the talents of many local artists I’d worked with in my earlier years as a record producer and the union could sell it at rallies, marches, and huelgas.”
After reviewing over 120 songs and speeches from UFW marches, Brambila began to create the list of songs for the album. Inspired by his work, he wrote “Mañana Is Now,” the only all-English song, for the LP. As the song choices were coming together, he knew who he wanted to record and arrange the music — from East L.A., Los Lobos, then consisting of David Hidalgo, Louie Pérez, Cesar Rojas and Conrad Lozano. This would be the band’s first released recordings, a full two years ahead of their groundbreaking EP Just Another Band From East L.A.
Sí Se Puede will be released digitally-only on March 11, 2014 by Fantasy Records.
His passion and tenaciousness in full swing, Brambila continued to get key people to sign on to his project — Herb Alpert, President of A&M Records, donated studio time. In addition to Los Lobos, singers like Carmen Moreno from Fresno, Geree Gonzales of East L.A., the Salas brothers of Lincoln Heights and Tigre Rodriguez from Phoenix all agreed to participate.
In January 1977 Brambila assembled his cast at A&M’s studio on La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles — as Carole King and The Carpenters were in the studios next door and down the hall — to record the album. By early February he had recorded all the music and vocals with the professional singers and needed only to add the vocals on “Mujeres Valientes” and “De Colores.”
After a long search he found a kids’ choir in a small Catholic school in East L.A., made up of eight-year-olds, to bring the right sound to “De Colores.” The search for the right singer for “Mujeres Valientes” was not long or far, but Brambila’s power of persuasion was on high again as he finally convinced his brother, Raul, to do the honors.
In March, 1977, the United Farm Workers Union was presented with 5,000 albums of Sí Se Puede! The statement on the back of the album reads: “This album mirrors the spirit and vitality that have sustained the farm workers through good times and bad for more than a decade. It celebrates the love and solidarity we share as a people united in a common struggle. It is a tribute to the artists who donated their talents to support the cause. It will be cherished within the movement, and it will help bring our message to friends and supporters everywhere.” —Cesar Chavez
Almost 40 years later, on the verge of Cesar Chavez Day (March 31), Sí Se Puede! once again rises to honor Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers.
Chavez is an upcoming film directed by Diego Luna about the life of American labor leader Cesar Chavez, who cofounded the United Farm Workers. The film stars Michael Peña as Chavez. John Malkovich co-stars as the owner of a large industrial grape farm who leads the opposition to Chávez's organizing efforts.
REVIEW
by Mark Deming, AMG
While conventional wisdom has long held that Los Lobos launched their recording career with the 1978 album Del Este de Los Angeles (Just Another Band from East L.A.), it turns out they had actually made a little-known record two years earlier. In 1976, producer Art Brambila was putting together an album of songs honoring labor organizer and activist Cesar Chavez, and Brambila chose Los Lobos, then a local Mexican folk combo, to be the backing band for the project, accompanying a variety of vocalists doing songs celebrating Chavez's accomplishments, the struggle of farm workers, and Chicano pride. Sí Se Puede! was the result, and it documents Los Lobos when they were still primarily a folk ensemble, before they embraced the more eclectic sound that first popped up on 1983's ...And a Time to Dance. Anyone who has heard Del Este de Los Angeles or 1988's La Pistola y el Corazón knows Los Lobos were an uncommonly good folk ensemble, but in this case Los Lobos are the backing band on most tracks, providing passionate and expert accompaniment but staying out of the way of the guest vocalists, most of whom deliver fine and impassioned work, especially Carmen Moreno, Raul Bambila, and Geree Gonzalez. (And as one might expect, nearly all the vocals on Sí Se Puede! are in Spanish.) Los Lobos do take the lead on one cut, "Telingo Lingo," and it allows a bit more of their personality to shine through, but ultimately Sí Se Puede! is a flashback to the group's earliest days as working musicians, and while this is often strong and inspiring music (and a genuinely heartfelt tribute to Chavez and his brave work), it might feel a bit pro forma for fans used to the ambitious reach of this band's best recordings; if the question is, "Is this the same band that made Kiko?," the honest answer is "No, not yet."
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This is one I've never heard of by Los Lobos
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