The flyers below courtesy of Jimmie Meza
(formerly of The Atlantics)
Rainbow Gardens
(Pomona) -
Every Sunday (1964)
(My
band, Mark & the Escorts, played several of these
Sunday shows)
El Monte Legion
Stadium - May 1, 1964
El Monte Community
Center - December 5, 1964
Riverside National
Guard Armory - December 31, 1964
El Monte Community
Center - February 6, 1965
Big Union Hall -
March 6, 1965
El Monte Community
Center - October 10, 1965
Big Union Hall -
November 21, 1965
The flyers below were found
on line
Big Union Hall -
January 19, c. 1958
(Handmade poster for a dance with Ritchie Valens
singing with The Sillhouettes)
Big Union Hall - August 12, 1962
BIg Union Hall -
December 8, 1962
Big Union Hall - May
16, 1964
Big Union Hall - July
25, 1964
Big Union Hall - October 17, 1964
Birmingham, Alabama- 1965
Big Union Hall - January 16, 1965
(Jaguars with the Salas Brothers, The Romancers,
Cannibal & the Headhunters,
Cookie Jackson, and The Slauson Brothers)
El Monte Community
Center - February 6, 1965
Big Union Hall -
February 12, 1965
Big Union Hall -
March 13, 1965
(Sonny
& Cher on the bill- Little Ray's band was called The
Progressions, not Progressives)
American Legion Hall - El Sereno
April 16, c. 1965
Lincoln Park Gym - February 4, 1966
Lincoln Heights Playground - March 25, 1966
East L.A. College - May 16, c.1965
Lincoln Park Gym -
August 12, 1965
Montebello Ballroom -
August 13, 1965
(Lineup for next week's show, lower half of
flyer-
The Blue Satins, The Impalas (not Ampalas), and The
Jades)
Lincoln Park Gym -
September 10, 1965
Roosevelt High School
Auditorium - October 2, 1965
Big Union Hall -
November 21, 1965
Machinists Union Hall
(Burbank) - December 17, 1965
El Monte Community
Center - December 23, 1965
St. Nicholas Hall - 1966
Lincoln Park Gym -
February 4, 1966
East L.A. College
Auditorium - May 16, c. 1966
East L.A. College
Auditorium - October 16, 1966
Lincoln Park Gym -
November 23, 1966
Big Union Hall -
March 4, 1967
CYO Hall - February 9, 1968
Lourdes Hall - March
28, (1969)
Lourdes Hall - July
25, (1969)
Montebello Ballroom - March 28, (1970)
Below are music charts
from KRLA, one of the three major top 40 radio stations in Los
Angeles in the 1960s, KFWB and KHJ being the other two. These charts
demonstrate the fact that Chicano artists, most from East
L.A., shared the top 40 with major artists of the era such
as the Beatles, the Supremes, Elvis Presley, the Beach Boys,
James Brown, and Ray Charles. Below each chart, I list
the Chicano and East L.A. artists, their hit song title, and chart position.
60s
KRLA Radio Charts
KRLA Charts- May 14- 22, 1964
#5 "Farmer
John"- The Premiers
#22 "Only the Young"- The Champs
#36 "What Have I Got of My Own"- Trini Lopez
August 24, 1964
#3 "La
La La La La"- The Blendells
#22 "Angelito"- Rene & Rene
#43 "Robot Walk"- Pat & Lolly Vegas
October 12, 1964
#40 "Gee
Baby Gee"- The Sisters
February 5, 1965
#19 "Land
of a Thousand Dances"- Cannibal & the Headhunters
#24 "Land of a Thousand Dances"- The Midnighters
February 7-13,1965
#4 "Land
of a Thousand Dances"- Cannibal & the Headhunters
#8 "Land of a Thousand Dances"- The Midnighters
#45 "Lemon Tree"- Trini Lopez
February 21-27, 1965
#4 "Land
of a Thousand Dances"- Cannibal & the Headhunters
#16 "Land of a Thousand Dances"- The Midnighters
#31 "Lemon Tree"- Trini Lopez
June 5-11, 1965
#2
"Wooly Bully"- Sam the Sham & the
Pharoahs
#25 "Whittier Blvd."- Thee Midniters
June 12-18, 1965
#4 "Wooly
Bully"- Sam the Sham & the Pharoahs
#19 "Whittier Blvd."- Thee Midniters
June 26- July 2, 1965
#8 "Whittier
Blvd."- Thee Midniters
#10 "Wooly Bully"- Sam the Sham & the
Pharoahs
Below are music charts
from KFWB and KHJ, two of the three major top 40 radio stations in Los
Angeles in the 1960s, KRLA being the other. These charts
demonstrate the fact that Chicano artists, most from East
L.A., shared the top 40 with major artists of the era such
as The Beatles, The Supremes, Elvis Presley, The Beach Boys,
James Brown, and Ray Charles. Below each chart, I list
the Chicano artists, their hit song title, and chart position.
60s
KFWB and KHJ Radio Charts
KFWB Charts- December 6, 1958
#1 "Donna"-
Ritchie Valens
KHJ Charts- July 9, 1965
#14 "Whittier
Blvd."- The Midnighters
#23 "Wolly Bully"- Sam the Sham & the Pharoahs
KHJ Charts- July 6, 1966
#1 "Lil'
Red Riding Hood"- Sam the Sham & the Pharoahs
#25 "The More I See You- Chris Montez
#28 "Love Special Delivery"- Thee Midniters
Radio Station Ads
from the Era
Below are cards provided by the three
record stores on Whittier Blvd. in East Los Angeles in the
1960s. The stores may have stayed open beyond that decade,
but the 60s was the "Golden Age" of the "Eastside
Sound" and Whittier Blvd. was at the heart of it.
All three stores were on the main strip for cruising from
Ford Blvd on the west to Atlantic Blvd on the east.
On that strip we also shopped for our clothes and shoes and
went to movies at one of the three theaters, the Boulevard,
the Center, and the Golden Gate. The record stores that
we all went to were Story Music, the Record Inn, and the Record
Rack. At those stores we would buy the latest recordings
by local East L.A. bands, as well as the other hits of the
day. The cards below were given for each 45 rpm record
bought. With ten cards we would get a free record.
