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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id Label Catalog # Martix # Format Artist Title Accompanyment Notes Condition Date Composer Genre on label Album Title
4
1355 Records
101
45
Felipe Martinez
El Corrido De Don Yarborough
Y Los Artistas
N-
Martinez, Felipe
corrido
5
1355 Records
102
45
Felipe Martinez
Carta Preciosa
Y Los Artistas
N-
Martinez, Felipe
psychedelic rock
6
4 Star
1001-a
v-103
78
Juan Florer
La Cumparsita
Speigener - Guitar; Erwin - Bass
Internationally famous novelty singer and pianist with his Dusketeers
N-
Matus - Rodriguez
tango
7
4 Star
1001-b
v-104-me-r
78
Juan Florer
Belle of Santiago
Speigener - Guitar; Erwin - Bass
Internationally famous novelty singer and pianist with his Dusketeers.
N-
Carleton - Dixon
rhumba
8
4 Star
1002-a
v-105
78
Juan Florer
Tico Tico
International Trio: Jose Boroso - Guitar; Michael Somogyi - Bass; Danny Van Allen - Drums
E+
Abreu - Oliverira
rhumba
9
4 Star
1002-b
v-106
78
Juan Florer
No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti
International Trio: Jose Boroso - Guitar; Michael Somogyi - Bass; Danny Van Allen - Drums
I Can’t Live Without You
E+
Florer, Juan
rhumba
10
4 Star
1003-a
v-107
78
Juan Florer
El Choclo De Noche
International Trio: Jose 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
11
4 Star
1003-b
v-108
78
Juan Florer
Nague
International Trio: Jose Boroso - Guitar; Michael Somogyi - Bass; Danny Van Allen - Drums
E+
Pozo, Luciano
samba
12
4 Star
1004
v-109-me
78
Juan Florer
Ba Ba Rum
Michael Somogyi - Bass, Ivan Lopes - Trumpet, Dann Van Allen - Drums, Lou Bonkowski - Guitar
V+
Florer, Juan
rhumba
13
4 Star
1004
v-110-me
78
Juan Florer
Lovely Lady of Castilia
Michael Somogyi - Bass, Ivan Lopes - Trumpet, Dann Van Allen - Drums, Lou Bonkowski - Guitar
V+
Duffie - Taconis
bolero