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"Memories of El Monte" is a doo-wop song released in 1963 by the Penguins featuring Cleve Duncan. It was written by Frank Zappa and Ray Collins before they were in the Mothers of Invention . The song was first released as Original Sound 27.
He reprised his performance a decade later on Frank Zappa's "Memories of El Monte", an elegiac 1963 song in which he suddenly breaks into "Earth Angel" as one of the various songs remembered. [7] El Monte, a city near Los Angeles, had spawned such popular performers as Tony Allan, Marvin & Johnny, and The Shields as well as the Penguins. Those ...
The Penguins - "Memories of El Monte" (Original Sound, 1963) Bob Guy - "Dear Jeepers", B-side "Letter from Jeepers" (Del-Fi, 1963) ... (Original Sound, 1963; reissued ...
The original album cover for "Art Laboe's Memories of El Monte," which was re-released as a CD in the early 1990s with a different photo of Laboe but the crowd shot left intact.
[citation needed] In 1963 Collins co-wrote "Memories of El Monte" with Frank Zappa. In 1964, Collins, drummer Jimmy Carl Black, bassist Roy Estrada, saxophonist Dave Coronado, and guitarist Ray Hunt formed The Soul Giants. [citation needed] Hunt was eventually replaced by Zappa, and the group evolved into the Mothers of Invention. [1]
Cucamonga is a compilation album consisting of songs recorded with the involvement of Frank Zappa and Paul Buff at Pal Recording Studio in 1963-1964. In 2004, Rhino Records re-released the album with extra tracks and a new track order, after acquiring Del-Fi.
EL BOSQUE, Mexico (AP) — People moved to El Bosque in the 1980s to fish. Setting out into the Gulf of Mexico in threes and fours, fishermen returned with buckets of tarpon and long, streaked snook.
Jimmy Carl Black (front row) with Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention (1968) Born in El Paso, Texas, Black was Native American, both his father James Sr. and his mother Jennie (née Dorris) were citizens of the Cheyenne and Arapaho nations.