Los Fabulosos Robles de Reynosa
Credited on the record as Los Fabulosos Robles De Reynosa.
Corrido de Pancho Alvarez
Canasta CAN-1038 · Kingsville, Texas
- Artist
- Los Fabulosos Robles de Reynosa
- Credited on the record as
- Los Fabulosos Robles De Reynosa
- Title
- Corrido de Pancho Alvarez
- Release
- Querer sin esperanza
- Label
- Canasta # CAN-1038
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Kingsville, Texas, USA
- Songwriter
- Raul Serna Olivarez
- Genre
- Hispanic Music · Corrido · Norteño
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation — Mexican-American / Hispanic Songs
The song "Corrido de Pancho Alvarez" (Canasta Records # CAN-1038) by Mexican-American group Los Fabulosos Robles de Reynosa, released in Kingsville, Texas, USA, paid tribute to a soldier named Pancho Alvarez, a draftee killed in Vietnam on 25 November 1968. He name is on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall in Washington D.C. under the name Francisco Alvarez, said to have come from Rio Grande City, Texas, USA.1 (2)3Sources1Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund: FRANCISCO ALVAREZ↩3The Vietnam War in Popular Culture (Ron Milam, 2016)↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Canasta Record Co. CAN-1038, P.O. Box 347, Kingsville, Texas; side B, track 2; written by Raul Serna Olivarez. About Francisco "Pancho" Alvarez of Rio Grande City, Texas, a draftee killed in Vietnam on 25 November 1968.