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The Penguins singles chronology. "Believe Me" / "Pony Rock". (1962) " Memories of El Monte " / "Be Mine". (1963) "Heavenly Angel" / "Big Bobo’s Party Train". (1965) " Memories of El Monte " is a doo-wop song released in 1963 by the Penguins featuring Cleve Duncan. It was written by Frank Zappa and Ray Collins before they were in the Mothers ...
The El Monte Legion Stadium —also known as Legion Stadium, [2] El Monte Union High School Auditorium, [3] El Monte Auditorium, [4] El Monte Gymnasium, [5] Old El Monte Gym, [6] and The Pink Elephant [7] —was a 3,500-seat multi-purpose indoor venue in El Monte, California . It had originally been a combined auditorium and gymnasium located ...
The song is in remembrance of The El Monte Legion Stadium and can be heard on many albums including Art Laboe's Memories of El Monte. Although the stadium closed their doors nearly 50 years ago, the music continues to live on. El Monte was the birthplace of singer–guitarist Mary Ford, of Les Paul and Mary Ford fame.
Scatman John. John Paul Larkin (March 13, 1942 – December 3, 1999), known professionally as Scatman John, was an American musician. A prolific jazz pianist and vocalist for several decades, he rose to prominence during the 1990s through his fusion of scat singing and dance music. He recorded five albums, which were released between 1986 and ...
Synopsis. The show was created by and hosted by Cliffie Stone and first held at the Legion Stadium in El Monte, California, and later at the Harmony Park Ballroom in Anaheim, California. Hometown Jamboree was sponsored by the Hub Furniture store once it moved to Anaheim. The show was the springboard for many of country music's premier musicians ...
The Penguins. The Penguins were an American doo-wop group from Los Angeles, California, that were active during the 1950s and early 1960s. They are known for their 1954 hit song, "Earth Angel", which was one of the first rhythm and blues songs to cross over to the pop charts. The song would ultimately prove to be their only success.
Nashville West was a short-lived American country rock quartet, that was briefly together in the late 1960s. [1] The group comprised multi-instrumentalist Gene Parsons, guitarist Clarence White, singer-guitarist-fiddler Gib Guilbeau and bassist Wayne Moore. [1] Parsons and White left the band to join The Byrds while Guilbeau and Parsons later ...
Angelica Garcia was born in Los Angeles, California and raised in El Monte in the San Gabriel Valley east of Los Angeles. Garcia's mother, who is of Mexican and Salvadoran descent, was a freestyle musician who performed under the mononym Angelica and scored a top-40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 with her 1991 cover of the Rosie and the Originals ...