Johnny Rodriguez

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风格: #前卫乡村　#萨尔萨　#热带　#乡村流行　#叛道乡村　#牛仔
地区: United States of America 美国

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Johnny Rodriguez曾以一曲《You Always Come Back》（见CVZT132），使他成为墨西哥裔美国人获榜首歌曲的第一人。他1951年12月10日出生于离墨西哥边界约90英里，德州的Sabinal；排在家中十个孩子的倒数第二位。他们的家是一个只有四间房的棚居。他在成长的年月中，虽生活在充满街头暴力的Chinano地区，但也过着中美标准的白人学校系统的生活，他以变色龙的方式在两种环境中都生活得很好，不过在他18岁生日前还是曾四度入狱。

墨西哥-美国的传统因素，令他经常在录制同一支歌曲时，以英语和西班牙语两种语言演唱。但在录这首《Ridin’ My Thumb To Mexico》时，他放弃了以往的习惯，是以纯英语演唱的。

他对他自己的这第二支榜首曲评论道：“这是我自己写的第一首歌曲，是在公共汽车路上开着的时候写的，描述了我在德州南方某个夏天发生的事情。我经常搭便车到处跑，时不时的去趟墨西哥，这首歌曲就是这么出笼的。”

制作人Jerry Kennedy接着说：“我们混完音后的30分钟就完成了这支歌曲。我确实感觉到这会是一支上榜曲；当时Mercury公司的总部在支加哥，大家都有同样的看法。记得当时支加哥许多同行的高层人士不断给我们打电话，谈论这首歌曲如何完美，他们都认为会流行起来的。”

唱片公司在最热门的40个广播电台上推出了这支歌曲，然而它在流行排行榜上最高仅列第70位而已，不料它1973年10月13日却登上了乡村排行榜首；两天后，Johnny Rodriguez被乡村音乐协会选为当年五名最佳男歌手之一。

A reliable country hitmaker for much of the 70s, Johnny Rodriguez was born in Sabinal, TX, in 1951, growing up 90 miles from the Mexican border. His older brother Andres, a big country music fan, bought him a guitar when he was seven, and he was playing and singing by his teens. Rodriguez was captain of his high school football team at 16, but when his father died of cancer, he spiraled out of control, racking up four arrests in two years. While Rodriguez was serving a jail term, Texas Ranger Joaquin Jackson heard him sing and introduced him to music promoter Happy Shahan, who booked Rodriguez to work as a singing stagecoach driver at the Alamo Village Amusement Park during 1970-1971. There he was discovered by Tom T. Hall and Bobby Bare, who brought him to Nashville to join Halls Storytellers. Not long after, Rodriguez signed with Mercury, releasing his debut single, Pass Me By (If Youre Only Passing Through), in early 1973. It climbed into the Top Ten and turned out to be the first of 14 consecutive Rodriguez singles to do so. His next two, Ridin My Thumb to Mexico and You Always Come Back (To Hurting Me), both hit number one.

1974 brought the Top Five hits Dance With Me (Just One More Time) and Were Over, plus the number one Thats the Way Love Goes. The following year was even better, as all three of his singles — I Just Cant Get Her Out of My Mind, Just Get Up and Close the Door, and Love Put a Song in My Heart — hit number one. More Top Five hits followed over 1976-1977 in I Couldnt Be Me Without You, I Wonder If I Ever Said Goodbye, and Desperado, but he and Mercury parted ways in 1979, upon which point he signed with Epic. Down the Rio Grande went Top Ten that year, but Rodriguez subsequently endured a serious commercial slump. He returned to the Top Ten in 1983 with a pair of hits, Foolin and How Could I Love Her So Much, which proved to be the last of his career; his final chart single came with 1988s Top 20 hit I Didnt (Every Chance I Had) on Capitol. He did record a couple of honky tonk-style records during the 90s, specifically Run for the Border (Intersound, 1993) and You Can Say That Again (Hightone, 1996).

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