Mando & the Chili Peppers
Latinos were under-represented in early rock ’n’ roll. In 1957, a year before “La Bamba” by Ritchie Valens and “Tequila” by the Champs (written by saxophonist Danny Flores aka Chuck Rio), Armando [...]
The Daniels
They didn’t become national recording stars, but the Daniels lived the rock ’n’ roll dream for a short time in the ’60s as the darlings of Denver’s debutante set.
Denny & Jay’s “H-U-R-T”
Typical of most young Colorado artists in the early 1960s, Denny Rockwell and Jay Cubbage were big stars locally with a smash chart record—and little interest outside of the Rocky Mountain [...]
