Strachwitz Frontera Collection Catalog

This is a catalog of all of the recordings in the Frontera Collection, currently over 175,000 songs from 78s, 45s, LPs, Cassettes, original master tapes and CDs in the Arhoolie Foundation’s archive (updated April 2020). Although originally focused on the border music of the United State and Mexico, it now contains music from all of Latin America. For more information about the recordings and to hear them, go to UCLA’s Frontera website. You will also find articles about the music, musicians and record labels there. You can listen to many of these recordings on our YouTube Frontera Collection channel. Click on the “+” symbol next to the Label name for more information about the recording. You can search specifically below, or globally in the search box above the list. Sort the columns by clicking on the ▲ . Search here, scroll down to see results

num	Label	.	Cat #	Matrix #	FMT	Title	Artist	Accomp.		Notes	Condition	date	Composer	Genre	Album Title
num	Label	.	Cat #	Matrix #	FMT	Title	Artist	Accomp.	Listen:	Notes	Condition	date	Composer	Genre	Album Title	data_record_number	on_YT
1	1355 Records		101		45	El Corrido De Don Yarborough	Felipe Martinez	Y Los Artistas			N-		Martinez, Felipe	corrido		1
2	1355 Records		102		45	Carta Preciosa	Felipe Martinez	Y Los Artistas			N-		Martinez, Felipe	psychedelic rock		2
3	4 Star		1001-a	v-103	78	La Cumparsita	Juan Florer	Speigener - Guitar; Erwin - Bass		Internationally famous novelty singer and pianist with his Dusketeers	N-		Matus - Rodriguez	tango		3
4	4 Star		1001-b	v-104-me-r	78	Belle of Santiago	Juan Florer	Speigener - Guitar; Erwin - Bass		Internationally famous novelty singer and pianist with his Dusketeers.	N-		Carleton - Dixon	rhumba		4
5	4 Star		1002-a	v-105	78	Tico Tico	Juan Florer	International Trio: José Boroso - Guitar; Michael Somogyi - Bass; Danny Van Allen - Drums			E+		Abreu - Oliverira	rhumba		5
6	4 Star		1002-b	v-106	78	No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti	Juan Florer	International Trio: José Boroso - Guitar; Michael Somogyi - Bass; Danny Van Allen - Drums		I Can’t Live Without You	E+		Florer, Juan	rhumba		6
7	4 Star		1003-a	v-107	78	El Choclo De Noche	Juan Florer	International Trio: José Boroso - Guitar; Michael Somogyi - Bass; Danny Van Allen - Drums		The Night Owl. This is sung in English as well as Spanish.	E+		Florer, Juan	calypso		7
8	4 Star		1003-b	v-108	78	Nague	Juan Florer	International Trio: José Boroso - Guitar; Michael Somogyi - Bass; Danny Van Allen - Drums			E+		Pozo, Luciano	samba		8
9	4 Star		1004	v-109-me	78	Ba Ba Rum	Juan Florer	Michael Somogyi - Bass, Ivan Lopes - Trumpet, Dann Van Allen - Drums, Lou Bonkowski - Guitar			V+		Florer, Juan	rhumba		9
10	4 Star		1004	v-110-me	78	Lovely Lady of Castilia	Juan Florer	Michael Somogyi - Bass, Ivan Lopes - Trumpet, Dann Van Allen - Drums, Lou Bonkowski - Guitar			V+		Duffie - Taconis	bolero		10
11	4 Star		1005	v-111-me	78	Tango Of Delight	Juan Florer	Michael Somogyi - Bass, Ivan Lopes - Trumpet, Dann Van Allen - Drums, Lou Bonkowski - Guitar		This is sung in English.	N-		Somogyi - Florer	tango bolero		11
12	4 Star		1005	v-112-me	78	Acabasta	Juan Florer	Michael Somogyi - Bass, Ivan Lopes - Trumpet, Dann Van Allen - Drums, Lou Bonkowski - Guitar			N-		Valencia - Sacasas - Pafumy	rhumba		12
13	4 Star		1006	v-113-me	78	Misirlou	Juan Florer	Michael Somogyi - Bass, Ivan Lopes - Bongos, Danny Van Allen - Drums, Russel Soule - Guitar			E+		Ronbanis - Pipilas	beguine bolero		13
14	4 Star		1006	v-114-me	78	Linda Mujer	Juan Florer - Marion Nichols	Michael Somogyi - Bass, Ivan Lopes - Bongos, Danny Van Allen - Drums, Russel Soule - Guitar		This is sung in english and spanish.	E+		Duchesne	rhumba		14
15	4 Star		1007	v-115-me	78	Juana	Juan Florer	Michael Somogyi - Bass, Ivan Lopes - Bongos, Danny Van Allen - Drums, Russel Soule - Guitar		This is sung in English.	E+		Woodbury -Taconis	calypso		15
16	4 Star		1007	v-116-me	78	El Choclo	Juan Florer	Michael Somogyi - Bass, Ivan Lopes - Bongos, Danny Van Allen - Drums, Russel Soule - Guitar			E+		Villoldo	rhumba		16
17	4 Star		1013	v-21-me	78	Guadalajara	S. Miguelito Alejandro	and Quartette, vocal: unknown duet			N-		Guizar	huapango		17
18	4 Star		1013	v-24-me	78	La Feria De Las Flores	S. Miguelito Alejandro	and Quartette		(The Fair of Flowers).	N-		Monge	ranchera		18
19	4 Star		1014	v-22-me	78	Las Alteñitas	S. Miguelito Alejandro	and Quartette		(The Gay Ranchero)	E+		Espinosa - Tuvin - Luban	ranchera		20
20	4 Star		1014	v-23-me	78	Ay Jalisco No Te Rajes	S. Miguelito Alejandro	and Quartette		(Do Not Back Out, Jalisco)	E+		Esperón, Manuel M. - Cortazar, Ernesto E.	corrido ranchero		21
21	4 Star		1015	v-19-me	78	Voodoo Rhapsody	Juan Florer	and the Cariocas		This is sung in English	N-		Somogyi - Florer	rhumba		22
22	4 Star		1015	v-20-me	78	Negra Concentida	Joe Carioca - Juan Florer	and the Cariocas		(My Pet Brunette). This is sung in English and Spanish.	N-		Pardavé - Harper	rhumba		23	x
23	4 Star		1016	v-1a-me	78	Por Eso No Debes	Reynaldo Y Laura	Acompañmiento Instrumental		(You Owe Me Nothing)	E+		Lecuona, Margarita	bolero		24
24	4 Star		1016	v-1b-me	78	Amor Ciego	Hermanas Hernandez and Carmen Y Laura	Acompañmiento Instrumental		(Blind Love)	E+		Hernández, R.	bolero		25
25	4 Star		1017	v-2a-me	78	Se Me Fue Mi Amor	Carmen and Laura	Isaac Figueroa - Accordion, Juan Garcia - Bajo sexto, Jesus Garcia - Contrabajo		(My Love Has Gone)	E			corrido		26	x