Hermanas Padilla - La Pochita - Vocalion 9246

Title: La Pochita Artist: Hermanas Padilla Accompaniment: Con La Orquesta de Manuel S. Acuña Record Label: Vocalion Catalog Number: 9246 Matrix Number: MLA 1943-A Recording Date: August 9, 1939 Recording Format: 78 Notes: Richard K. Spottswood's Ethnic Music on Records (University of Illinois Press) list the matrix number as MLA 1943-A. This song is a parody of a man who marries a woman that doesn’t speak spanish and he doesn’t speak any english. This song also parodies the well known song “La Cucaracha” Pocho is derogatory term used by Mexicans to call other Mexicans that have assimilated too much to the US culture as well as losing their ability to speak their native language. View more information about this and other recordings at the University of California at Los Angeles' Frontera website: http://frontera.library.ucla.edu/reco... This recording is from the Arhoolie Foundation’s Strachwitz Collection of Mexican American and Mexican Recordings. For more information about the Arhoolie Foundation visit our website at: http://www.arhoolie.org For detailed information about the Frontera Collection read the book The Arhoolie Foundation’s Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican and Mexican American Recordings by Agustín Gurza with Jonathan Clark and Chris Strachwitz. http://www.chicano.ucla.edu/publicati... The Arhoolie Foundation does not sell the music in the Frontera collection. We welcome your comments and suggestions but we can not sell you this music in any format. Thank you! - La Fundación Arhoolie no vende la música en la colección Frontera. Le damos la bienvenida a sus comentarios y sugerencias, pero no podemos venderle esta música en ningún formato. ¡Gracias!