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Article: Pachuco Boogie: the roots of raza rock. (The Untold Story).(production of historic sound recording)(comments on Chicano music and bassist Don Tosti )
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- Latin Beat Magazine
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- May 1, 2003
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In 1985, an obscure 78-rpm recording called Pachuco Boogie was added to the archives of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. Recorded in Los Angeles, California, in 1948 by a virtually unknown cast of young Mexican-American musicians, it had a thumping eight-to-the-bar boogie woogie piano, a nonsensical chorus that translated to "let the boogie burn" and a rap in Chicano jive that glorified the pachuco sub-culture of the zootsuit era. It struck a chord and became an underground anthem.
Pachuco Boogie (Discos Taxco, 108) was written and recorded on the spot by a group of session players hired to accompany popular balladeer Rubén Reyes. The owner of ...