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Artist: Felix Figueroa Label:   Ambassador Country: USA Catalogue: 1001 Date: Nov 1946 Format: 10" Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:  2 Own, 2 Want Price Guide: Valuation Page » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Felix Figueroa	Pico And Sepulveda (The Street Song)	Styne, Cherkose	Rate
B	Felix Figueroa	She Of The Black Coffee Eyes	Harold Spina	Rate

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Felix Figueroa and his Orchestra
[pseudonym for Freddy Martin's orchestra recording without Freddy Martin himself]

Variety, Nov. 6, 1946, page 32: Inside Orchestras - Music.
Billboard, Nov. 9, 1946, page 19: article "Martin Mfrs. Own "Limited Edition" Disks for la Mart" ("release next week")

Reissued in June 1947 as Ambassador 275.



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LaurenceD SUBS 29th May 2022		Felix Chevrolet (on Figueroa St.) celebrated its 100th year in 2021.
xiphophilos ● 29th Dec 2017		A side:
Jock_Girl 1st Mar 2014		The aforementioned Hansen was also known as Dr Demento. For those who don't know of him, Dr Demento is the host of a programme that aired on radio from the early 1970s until 2010. It now is on-line only (that fact being a further nail in the coffin of broadcast radio). This version of Pico and Sepulveda is the theme song for the show during its early years. A later version by The Roto Rooter Good Time Christmas Band is now used.
LaurenceD SUBS 1st Mar 2014		This is really Freddy Martin, of course, whose band at that time was in residence at the Ambassador Hotel in Hollywood. He opened up his own record shop in the hotel, then launched his Ambassador label to release some of his own recordings (under various pseudonyms) along with those of other artists. These sides were later re-released in 1947 on an Enterprise-distributed Ambassador label with the catalog number 275. Los Angeles residents may recall "Pico And Sepulveda" as becoming the unofficial theme song for FM station KMET around 1970. I suspect that Barrett Hansen may have had something to do with that.

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