Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican American and Mexican Recordings 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.
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num	Label	Cat #	Title	Artist	Accomp.	Notes	FMT	Condition	Matrix #	Composer	Genre	data_record_number	on_YT
2	1355 Records	101	El Corrido De Don Yarborough	Felipe Martinez	Y Los Artistas		45	N-		Martinez, Felipe	corrido	1
3	1355 Records	102	Carta Preciosa	Felipe Martinez	Y Los Artistas		45	N-		Martinez, Felipe	psychadelic rock	2
4	4 Star	1001-A	La Cumparsita	Juan Florer	Speigener - Guitar; Erwin - Bass	Internationally famous novelty singer and pianist with his Dusketeers	78	N-	V-103	Matus - Rodriguez	tango	3	Y
5	4 Star	1001-B	Belle of Santiago	Juan Florer	Speigener - Guitar; Erwin - Bass	Internationally famous novelty singer and pianist with his Dusketeers.	78	N-	V-104-ME-R	Carleton - Dixon	rhumba	4	Y
6	4 Star	1002-A	Tico Tico	Juan Florer	International Trio: Jose Boroso - Guitar; Michael Somogyi - Bass; Danny Van Allen - Drums		78	E+	V-105	Abreu - Oliverira	rhumba	5	Y
7	4 Star	1002-B	No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti	Juan Florer	International Trio: Jose Boroso - Guitar; Michael Somogyi - Bass; Danny Van Allen - Drums	I Can’t Live Without You	78	E+	V-106	Florer, Juan	rhumba	6	Y
8	4 Star	1003-A	El Choclo De Noche	Juan Florer	International Trio: Jose Boroso - Guitar; Michael Somogyi - Bass; Danny Van Allen - Drums	The Night Owl. This is sung in English as well as Spanish.	78	E+	V-107	Florer, Juan	calypso	7	Y
9	4 Star	1003-B	Nague	Juan Florer	International Trio: Jose Boroso - Guitar; Michael Somogyi - Bass; Danny Van Allen - Drums		78	E+	V-108	Pozo, Luciano	samba	8	Y
10	4 Star	1004	Ba Ba Rum	Juan Florer	Michael Somogyi - Bass, Ivan Lopes - Trumpet, Dann Van Allen - Drums, Lou Bonkowski - Guitar		78	V+	V-109-ME	Florer, Juan	rhumba	9	Y
11	4 Star	1004	Lovely Lady of Castilia	Juan Florer	Michael Somogyi - Bass, Ivan Lopes - Trumpet, Dann Van Allen - Drums, Lou Bonkowski - Guitar		78	V+	V-110-ME	Duffie - Taconis	bolero	10	Y

Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican American and Mexican Recordings Catalog

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