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"Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)" is a protest song with lyrics by Woody Guthrie and music by Martin Hoffman detailing the January 28, 1948 crash of a plane near Los Gatos Canyon, [1] 20 miles (32 km) west of Coalinga in Fresno County, California, United States.
The group was started in the wake of an earlier band Los Gatos Salvajes, who had shared two the same members, in 1967.They recorded their debut single "La balsa" / "Ayer nomás", which turned into an unpredicted large scale hit in the Argentine winter of 67, selling over 200,000 copies, leading to their full-length debut later that year.
When Guthrie's poem was set to music a decade later by college student Martin Hoffman, it became the folk song "Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)". [1] The song was popularized by Pete Seeger, [7] and was subsequently performed by Arlo Guthrie [8] Joan Baez, [9] Judy Collins, [10] Julie Felix, Cisco Houston, [11] Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson ...
After several singles, Los Gatos Salvajes released their first (and only) LP, the self-titled Los Gatos Salvajes in 1965. [1] Sales for the album were disappointing due to poor promotion by the label, which was financially struggling. [1] [2] The album sold less than a thousand copies before the company went broke. [1] [2]
Los Gatos recorded the songs in two channels—one for the band and another one for the vocals and solos—for an hour at TNT Studios. RCA Victor agreed to sign the band and release "La balsa"/"Ayer nomás" the following month as a single, using the demo recordings.
Author Tim Z. Hernández speaks during Sept. 28, 2024 ceremony unveiling a memorial marker with the names of the 32 people who died in a 1948 airplane crash at Los Gatos Canyon.
Trapt is an American rock band formed in Los Gatos, California. Nine studio albums have been recorded to date: Amalgamation (1999), Trapt (2002), Someone in Control (2005), Only Through the Pain (2008), No Apologies (2010), Reborn (2013), DNA (2016), Shadow Work (2020), and The Fall (2024). Its lineup for all studio recordings have consisted of ...
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