A note by Chris Strachwitz on the Ideal and El Fronterizo cancioneros.

I was lucky to get these from the office of the Ramirez brothers, sons of Arnaldo Ramirez. Mr. Ramirez had been the owner of Falcon Records and had recently passed away when I met the brothers. I made a deal to buy some of the Falcon master tapes, the log books, contracts, photos (unfortunately not of the earlier artists that appear in these cancioneros), original 78s, catalogs, and these cancineros.

In regard to the cancioneros I just like to point out that in the case of songs written by Tomas Ortiz where you might find some corrections inserted in pencil, I believe Tomas made those himself. Sr. Ortiz was also the A&R person in charge of supervising many local musicians when they recorded for Falcon. I believe the texts were written down by unknown scribes by listening to the records or from hand written sheets given to them by the composers. So, you may find discrepancies if you listen to some of the songs. Also note that many corridos in mid 20^th century were still about very regional figures.

— Chris Strachwitz, May 28, 2020

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