___new week, new take

___due this week is the premiere of Radio Tejano, Tejano Radio, the TV show where we will play all the music of the Tejano Pioneers of the sixties, a ver como nos va ? i have implemented new ideas as to the show's introduction and the sign-off but they gotta be done today, Hot Town continues to roll with Oscar Luis Jimenez due to appear all this week , and we seem to have a little time to launch el "Sportstown", mas o menos we are gonna tape the first show on the 11th that is a Saturday, and the season kicks off on the last week of August or is it the first week of September, either way, we is gonna be ready

___it's a start

___started the ball rolling on the Sportstown Project, the third series of programs under the laredomio productions umbrella, first of all, the program design is completed and a copy has been given to the PAC manager who must approve the project, then i met with Mr. Dennis Silva,, the LMT Sports Editor-to-be, maybe, and he is all go on the idea, went to the annual Coache's barbeque sponsored by the LMT and got to meet some of the district head Coaches, not all of them were there, but most important passed on the program information to the top dogs in the administration offices, the AD's or their subordinates and now we are awaiting their approval, but we carry on, also got to meet and chat with Mr. Bill Green, the LMT publisher and he is all receptive to the idea and even made an appointment to be on the show, also got an excellent opportunity to record on video tape the outgoing Sports Editor of 37 years, Mr. Salo Otero and two head coaches, David Sanchez of United and Ricardo Alaniz of Cigarroa, former NFL'er Tony Darden was in the house so he also said a few words for our cameras, not at all, a bad productive night and the meat was excellent but we did not get to taste the beer, maybe next time

___just git 'er done

___published and delivered the press release on Tejano Radio to both newspapers and the radio media, also delivered to the Lopez family de Nidia Lizette a copy of her recorded material, also discussed the Sportstown program with the LMT sports editor and it is all go, got invited to the Laredo Coaches Barbecue tomorrow, a traditional Laredo kick-off to the high school football season and since i will be there, why no film some interviews and so i have reserved recording equipment for tomorrow and that is all, tan tan y he dicho and all that

___all done for the week

___completed the editing on the Nidia Lizette Lopez musical video show and that young lady can really sing and communicate, and she wants to be an actress, i believe she has a great future and she will make it someday, Melissa Rodriguez, our Hostess did a masterful job on the interview also and also complete and finally edited is the presentation of the Musical trio plus bongos, el grupo "los Preferidos", a group that really sound good and Norma hosted them in the interview, next time you see her ask her what a "tricillo" is ? as she really got close to one, and not to delay but the pilot show for "Tejano Radio" is also complete with a lot of early 1960 music and the words of Carlos Valle and Luciano Duarte, believe me, it is quite a job to finish an hour long show, u seem to never finish but i did,, and now i have the rest of the week off, oh no, tomorrow i got to start pushing the "Sportstown" vehicle

___variety plus

___this week's programming has a lot of variety to it, the TV Hot Town for the week is the Nixon Band Honor Winds Spring Concert that we taped at TAMIU last May, unfortunately, the program is hosted by yours truly as i am on the air again for the second consecutive week, geee, and while we get to tape more musical segments for Tejano Radio tonight, and then tomorrow night we are honored to once again have the Quintero family as our guests, we will do a special show on their very talented daughter Alexia as she heads off to Denton and North Texas University to continue her studies, she was her band's drum major, lead voice with the Mariachi and a very talented oboe player, and she is a recent Grad from her high school

___new week, same old projects

___we begin a new week, two days in the studio as we continue to Produce, on Monday we will continue with our recording of "Tejano Radio" segments as we strive to complete our first show, maybe on this coming weekend, and on Tuesday, possibly some live people in the studio for another Hot Show for Hot Town, a ver quien juntamos pero todavia hay mucho material on the shelf, awaiting

___best ever, i shouldn't say that

___we had a very exciting recording session as we recorded first the musical group "Los Preferidos", a very exciting and talented bunch of musicians whose legacy will be preserved, Norma then did a very intensive interview especially with the young man who plays the trecillo, a three stringed guitar of cuban origin, no cualquiera toca ese instrumento and then we combined the beautiful voice of Nydia Lizette Lopez with the live musicians and they did two songs, on the spot with almost no rehearsal and they came out great, this young lady sings very difficult music, not the old standards, and still she does great. Melissa and her had a very good exchange and not to forget the Laredo moment with Norma and the rest of the cast

___we adjust, step back and do over

___last night was a night of experiment as we tried many things before finally coming up with what i expect will be the final product, Mr. Duarte was there and very gracious and Carlos Valle, so funny when he wants to be, and it ain't easy, talking, getting organied and curing and playing the music and all that management, but in the end we have found our niche, except it will take a little bit more recording, maybe next week, to finally finish one show, now for todays' schedule, we ill have in the studio to record tonight an acoustic quartet with a gentleman who plays a tricillo, a three string guitar and our other invitee is Nydia Lopez, a very talented young singer and recent grad from Alexander High School, she was the winner of the recent dr. pepper talent contest held at WalMart

___today's the day, again

___today's the day when we kick off the much anticipated second show of laredomio productions, our humble local TV production company. we will be in the PAC studios from six to nine getting organized and possibly making a one hour "pilot. again, the format is Tejano Music from the sixties as we play and chat about those golden times of our Youth, Laredo's Premier DJ de hoy, manana y ayer, Luciano Duarte will be there and so will mi Carnal el profe Carlos Valle de TAMIU who knows a lot of stuff about everything, believe me i know and also present will be Carlos Landin, aquel gran voz y compositor de los Rondels y la rola "eres casado", who can ever forget that song, the girls and ladies from Hot Town will be there to lend their valuable support and ideas, a ver quien mas shows up ???

___third man in

___i think we have a committment from the Third Man in the Booth for Tejano Radio and his name is el Profe Carlos Valle from TAMIU, yes Carlos attended elementary school conmigo but that is so far in the past and he is a very knowledgeable person about Laredo's history, las costumbres, los barrios y especialmente la musica, and that dude can dance, wow es un trompo y camarada de todos los artistas, Little Joe, Sunny y quien mas ????, it will be grand , now all we got to do is get it rolling

___over y aun hay mas !

___the much acclaimed interview show with the author Jose M. Pena ended it's run tonight and i will have copies on CD soon for Norma as there is some kind of demand out there for them especially outside of Laredo, so i guess our viewing audience is growing, up next next week is the presentation of Grupo Tekila which i myself hosted, so we shall see how it comes out, scheduled to be shoot (recorded) this coming Tuesday is grupo "Los Preferidos", and maybe a couple of female singers, quien sabe?, don't forget on Monday is the "pilot" shoot for Tejano Radio, a ver como nos va ?????

___little brother in town . . .

___announcing the birth of our big, little brother, yes, there is a new "pudnuh" in town and his name is "tejano town", we have officially begun the develpoment of the new show which will showcase only the music of the early days of tejano music and those artists who gave us such a thrill in our high school and college days. three adults,, me in the middle talking about those artists and spinning records, inserting cassettes, and even some cd's while the people on the airwaves phone in with their dedications and requests for music and we will even have couples dancing in the studio doing all their fancy dance moves, Luciano Duarte, el dean de los dj's de Laredo is on board and i know he will be doing all the right things, so now we have to set up the
stage from where we will broadcast, decorate the place, organize the materials we are gonna use, set up the visual and audio recording equipment, business cards, arrange for the phone we will use, and publize the darn thing, oh yeah !, and then we will shoot the pilot. wow, do we need a crew !

___latest update

___it has been a long time since we have updated this site and so here goes, we have a new program to go hand in hand with "Hot Town", the new show slated to premiere the latter part of July and it is a simulation of an old time radio show focusing on the golden days of Tejano Music or la Onda Chicana as it was known in those days, it will showcase the music of the Pioneers of tejano music, Sunny, littlejoe and augustine amongst others including several laredo bands, Luciano Duarte has agreed to co-host along with several other local personalities, we will have dedications, requests and even dancers in the studio, sort of an american bandstand, laredo style, stay tuned, it should be a Blast (Boooooooooooooooom !)

___surprised on the Fourth !

___attended the Fourth of July festivities at the local Civic Center which was for free and i was very pleasantlysurprised by the talent level of the performers, it took a while but when the Music finally started at about 7:30 pm the first band was a small tight Conjunto by the name of Canela which backs up their leader, a young lady by the name of Margarita, alas, her last name i believe is Canela. She has a strong voice and some very nice dance moves very much coordinated with her male dancer, she normally has two but only one was here yesterday, They together danced up a storm and kept the crowd in the palms of their hands, she should go far. They were followed by a group that uses the moniker "los bad boys del valle" and they too were a crows pleaser with a very dynamic show. THEY ARE ENTERTAINERS. Disappointment was the word for the main act David Lee Garza and los Musicales as he did not sound quite up to his normal level as i think he broke in yet another singer, a young man who just seemed out of place, His mike was turned down too low and the Band's sound overwhelmed his lyrics. People who are so fickle could not wait and started to leave in droves. A bright spot on stage was Yessenia Galaviz who added a lot of charm to a lackluster trio of MC's

___a short pause . . .

___a very happy independence day to all our readers, let us take a short pause and think about our hard earned Freedoms, free speech, freedom of religion, and all the others none any less important and how many lives it has cost to earn and keep them, let us continue to pay the price cause life without Freedom is not life

___no news is . . .

___no recording this week due to the Holidays, new show coming up maybe as soon as next week, watch for and read here for details

___easy done, easily done

___completed the Tricia/Selena video and it was a breeze given the professionalism of Tricia Cortez and our Norma, as they ran thru the interview in one take and of course Tricia's performance was also completely flawless, and the material recorded lasted exactly 30 minutos, no need to cut, clip, or add video, this week we celebrate our country's birthday so we will not do any recordings, just me, i still have two video's on the shelf to edit as we complete almost our whole calendar slots for September, still to be shot this summer, Alexia, the Galaviz/Gomez sisters and Nydia Lopez who won the Dr. Pepper talent contest today at the local Wal-Mart, she is sixteen and she can really sing, i heard her sing ans she is recently graduated from Alexander High School