Los Lobos / Beatriz Adriana
Mundo Artistico 87-21
for broadcast the week of November 2, 1987
Los Lobos
Recorded at:
Kentish Town & Country Club
London, UK
February 26, 1987
Beatriz Adriana
Recorded at:
Houston, TX
unknown date
Side 1:
01 Ernesto Cervera - Mundo Artistico 87-21 Intro
02 Los Lobos - Anselma
03 Los Lobos - Serenata Nortena
04 Los Lobos - Volver, Volver
05 Commercial - Ford Escort
06 Commercial - McDonalds
07 Ernesto Cervera - Mundo Artistico 87-21 Break
08 Los Lobos - Los Ojos De Pancha
09 Los Lobos - Prenda del Alma
10 Los Lobos - La Bamba
11 Commercial - McDonalds
12 Commercial - Ford Escort
13 Ernesto Cervera - Mundo Artistico 87-21 Break
Side 2:
01 Ernesto Cervera - Mundo Artistico 87-21 Intro 2
02 Beatriz Adriana - Mira No Mas
03 Beatriz Adriana - Que Sola Estoy Sin Ti
04 Beatriz Adriana - Hasta Cuando
05 Beatriz Adriana - Sigue Sin Mi
06 Commercial - Ford Escort
07 Commercial - McDonalds
08 Beatriz Adriana - Cuando Regreses
09 Beatriz Adriana - Que Vuelvas
10 Beatriz Adriana - Entre Tu Y Yo
11 Beatriz Adriana (Outro Ernesto Cervera)
12 Ernesto Cervera - Mundo Artistico 87-21 Promo
Runout grooves:
MA 87-21-A (RE) MZ KM
MA 87-21-B RE MDC KM
Includes: 300 dpi scans of the disc labels and cue sheet.
As an added bonus, there's a lyrics sheet so you can sing along with Los Lobos!
Here's something new! I've been looking at EBAY listings for...twenty years now? Running searches and looking for syndicated radio shows at an affordable price. And never, not once, have I run across a Mundo Artistico show. A few weeks back, two of 'em turned up. AND one featured Los Lobos, one of my favorite bands. I bid on that one and won.
The V-W research team found that Mundo Artistico began in 1985. This is from 1987. I didn't find any listings for 1988, so it looks like it only lasted a couple of year. That's not confirmed; we're looking for facts.
The set list was intriguing...all of the songs were in Spanish. As the Mundo Artistico show was from 1987, I suspected the show was sourced from the Kentish Town & Country Club in London. Announcer Ernesto Cevera says the concert was "en concierto desde Londres, Inglaterra" ("in concert from London, England").
But here at the V-Dub we won't just accept his word, Westwood One sometimes screws things up, so I start comparing tracks. A comparison of "La Bamba" with the Westwood One In Concert version proved the two songs are identical recordings, confirming Kentish Town & Country as the source concert.
There are at least six circulating versions of the Town & Country show, with six different track lists. The show was syndicated on Westwood One In Concert IC 87-12, IC 87-26, and BBC Transcription BBC 408. There are two versions on Archive.org, and another version claimed to be from the "10 inch radio reel." Songs are swapped in, and out, all the versions scramble the songs in different orders.
There are a total of thirty songs on these six versions. This is more songs than a typical Los Lobos set list at the time. One of them ("My Baby's Gone") appears in two different versions on Westwood One In Concert 87-26. Bands don't usually repeat a song twice unless they're out of material. All of this suggests there may have been two shows (perhaps an early and a late show) recorded.
I have not found any evidence for two, though. I have "entertainment blurb" listings for the concert, and it does NOT advertise an early and a late show. I also found a review by JOHN PEEL, and he says nothing about two shows. All I can say is there are a lot of tracks supposedly from the Kentish Town & Country show, and there's no confirmed running order, and there's the mystery of a song played two times.
It's a mess! I've included a file that lists the variations in tracks.
With all the versions out there, you'd think that everything from it had been released. But on Mundo Artistico, "Los Ojos de Pancha" turns up for the first time...bringing our total up to thirty-one songs.
So there's something new here for Los Lobos completists...PLUS that John Peel review.
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The second artist on the disc is Beatriz Adriana. I'd never heard of her. The English language Wiki gives almost no information about her. She's "a Mexican singer of ranchera....She has a recognized artistic trajectory in her country of origin."
That's a stilted phrase if I ever heard one.
The Spanish language version reveals she's issued twenty-nine albums and dozens of "super-exito" compilations over the years. She's still out there on tour, again playing Houston this June in 2025.
I enjoyed her music here; it was a refreshing change from the rock music I pound into my head every day, preparing radio shows for you to hear. I urge you to give it a try.
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On the commercials...we have McDonald's advertising a "delicioso Egg McMuffin sandwich" on an "English muffin tostado."
I love it when the background singers shout "English muffin! Viva! Viva!" That's a rallying cry if I ever heard one!
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| We found a review of the show by the LEGENDARY JOHN PEEL! |
