Credited on the record as Los Oros Del Valle.
Corrido de Martin Rosales
1968 · Ideal 45-2438 · San Benito, Texas
- Artist
- Los Oros del Valle
- Credited on the record as
- Los Oros Del Valle
- Title
- Corrido de Martin Rosales
- Release
- Corrido de Martin Rosales / Los Derechos Civiles
- Year
- 1968
- Label
- Ideal # 45-2438
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- San Benito, Texas, USA
- Songwriter
- Tony Ramirez
- Genre
- Hispanic Music · Corrido
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation — Mexican-American / Hispanic Songs
The song "Corrido de Martin Rosales" (Ideal # 45-2438), by Los Oros Del Valle, was released in San Benito, Texas, USA. According to the Strachwitz Frontera Collection, this song paid tribute to the Mexican-American journalist Martin Rosales who reported from Vietnam in 1968, as the South Vietnam Spanish language correspondent on behalf of KGBT-TV in Harlingen, Texas. He was born on 27 December 1929, in Gonzales, Texas.12 There was also a soldier called Martin Angel Rosales, killed in action in Vietnam in 1967.3Sources1legacy.com↩2UCLA Frontera Collection: Corrido de martin rosales 0↩3Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund: MARTIN A ROSALES↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Ideal 2438-A (San Benito, Texas); Corrido; written by Tony Ramirez; vocal Maria Alicia Hernandez. About Martin Rosales, KGBT-TV (Harlingen) Spanish-language correspondent in South Vietnam in 1968. B-side "Los Derechos Civiles". Arhoolie CD 367 gives the single as recorded in 1968; Frontera tape box dated 2-14-68.