Mando & The Chili Peppers - On the Road with Rock'n'roll (1957)

Tracklist

01. I Love to Eat Chili in Chile
02. South of the Border
03. Don't Say Goodnight
04. Swingin' Baby
05. I'm Walkin' the Floor over You
06. Cherry Pie
07. This Is True Love
08. Congo Mombo
09. San Antonio Rose
10. Why Can It Be
11. There's a New Moon over My Shoulder
12. Harbour Lights
13. Beg Your Pardon
14. Candy Kisses
15. Baby, Baby I Can't Believe
16. Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You)

Fronted by Armando Almendarez (aka Mando), this San Antonio band was one of the few, if not the first, Mexican-American rock & roll groups in the late 1950s. They recorded some rare singles, and a very rare LP, for the Crest label, but never made anything more than a regional impact. Although the mere existence of a Mexican-American rock band in the pre-Ritchie Valens era is interesting, their actual music was competent but derivative R&B-soaked rock, with smoky sax breaks and Mando's foggy vocals leading the way. Most of their material was rock, R&B, country, and pop covers, the arrangements and Mando's delivery showing a strong debt to the New Orleans R&B of Fats Domino in particular. They never recorded after the 1950s, although it's known that they were still playing San Antonio joints in the early 1960s.

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