The genesis of the song reportedly occurred when Guthrie was struck by the fact that radio and newspaper coverage of the Los Gatos plane crash did not give the victims' names, but instead referred to them merely as "deportees." For example, none of the deportees' names were printed in the January 29, 1948, New York Times report, only those of the flight crew and the security guard. However, The Fresno Bee covered the tragedy extensively and listed all of the known names of the deportees. Guthrie, whose image was that of a train-hopping folk singer, actually lived in New York City at the time. Not knowing about the extensive local coverage of the disaster, Guthrie responded with a poem, which, when it was first written, featured only rudimentary musical accompaniment, with Guthrie chanting the song rather than singing it. In the poem, Guthrie assigned symbolic names to the dead: "Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita; adiós, mis amigos, Jesús y María..." A decade later, Guthrie's poem was set to music and given a haunting melody by a schoolteacher named Martin Hoffman. Shortly after, folk singer and friend of Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, began performing the song at concerts and it was Seeger's rendition that popularized the song during this time.
The town of Los Gatos is an incorporated town in Santa Clara County, California, United States. The population was 29,413 at the 2010 census. According to Bloomberg Businessweek, Los Gatos is ranked the 33rd wealthiest city in the United States. It is located in the San Francisco Bay Area at the southwest corner of San Jose in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains. Los Gatos is part of Silicon Valley, with several high technology companies maintaining a presence there. Most notably, streaming and content creator, Netflix was founded in Los Gatos and has developed a large presence in the area.
Etymology
The name Los Gatos is Spanish, meaning "the cats". The name derives from the 1839 Alta California land-grant that encompassed the area, which was called La Rinconada de Los Gatos, ("Cat's Corner"), where "the cats" refers to the cougars and bobcats that are indigenous to the foothills in which the town is located. The name has been anglicized to /lɔːsˈɡætəs/lawss-GAT-əs, although one also hears pronunciations truer to the original Spanish, /loʊsˈɡɑːtoʊs/lohss-GAH-tohss. The anglicized pronunciation is preferred by locals.
Los Gatos were an Argentine rock group of the late 1960s, founded in the wake of an earlier group, Los Gatos Salvajes, who shared two of the same members, and were considered part of the founding trinity of Spanish-language rock in Argentina.
History
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 first two singles "Ayer Nomás" and A-side "La Balsa", 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. The following year they went on tour around the Southern Cone, and then released their 2nd album Seremos Amigos, permeating psychedelic rock during the height of that subgenre of rock.
The band's third effort after a short break-up, 1969's Beat N°1, featured the addition to the group of Pappo. His rocking blues style with Litto Nebbia's more classical melodic approach at times made the album uneven, but also created quite dazzling passages of music that can be considered one of the earliest recordings of progressive rock anywhere in the world, previewing the rise of the genre around the world in the 1970s.
Reise, Reise (German pronunciation:[ʁaɪzə, ʁaɪzə], a German wake-up call, literally "(a)rise, (a)rise", although it can also be interpreted as meaning "journey, journey", or as a command "travel, travel") is Neue Deutsche Härte band Rammstein's fourth studio album. It was released on September 27, 2004 in Germany and followed shortly by its release across Europe. It was released in North America on November 16, 2004. The album was recorded in a span of two years at El Cortijo Studios in Málaga, Spain. It was produced by the band themselves along with Swedish record producer Jacob Hellner. The album charted in the top ten in several European charts and was a number one hit in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Iceland, Finland, Estonia and Mexico. As of February 2006, the album has shipped 1.5 million copies globally.
Recording
The album was recorded in Spain (El Cortijo Studio, Malaga) and produced by Jacob Hellner and Rammstein. The band recorded several songs during the sessions for "Reise, Reise" which were omitted from the album's final track listing and were later released on their follow-up album Rosenrot. A statement from the band's management regarding the upcoming collection reads as follows:
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Deportee (Plane Crash At Los Gatos) Woody Guthrie
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"Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)" Joan Baez - 2017 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Class of 2017 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Inductee Joan Baez performs "Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos) onstage with Mary Chapin Carpenter and the Indigo Girls.
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Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)
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Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos) · Dolly Parton
9 To 5 And Odd Jobs
℗ 1980 Sony Music Entertainment
Released on: 1980-11-17
Composer, Lyricist: Woody Guthrie
Composer, Lyricist: Martin Hoffman
Arranger, Producer: Mike Post
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The Byrds - Deportee (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos) (Audio)
Music video by The Byrds performing Deportee (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos) (Audio). Originally released 1969. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
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Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos) · The Highwaymen · Willie Nelson · Johnny Cash · Waylon Jennings · Kris Kristofferson
Highwayman
℗ 1985 Sony Music Entertainment
Released on: 1985-05-01
Associated Performer: The Highwaymen, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson
Composer, Lyricist: Woody Guthrie
Background Vocal, Keyboards: Paul Davis
Background Vocal: Johnny Rodríguez
Composer, Lyricist: M. Hoffman
Background Vocal, Guitar, Engineer, Producer: Chips Moman
Guitar: Reggie Young
Guitar: J.R. Cobb
Guitar: Marty Stuart
Drums: Gene Chrisman
Keyboards: Bobby Emmons
Keyboards: Bobby Wood
Bass: Mike Leech
Bass: Jimmy Tittle
Harp: Mickey Raphael
Engineer: David Cherry
Assistant Engineer: Larry Greenhill
Assistant Engin...
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Plane Wreck At Los Gatos (Deportee) · Joan Baez
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Released on: 2005-01-01
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Composer: Woody Guthrie
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Arlo Guthrie, "Deportee"
"Deportee" by Woody Guthrie
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Plane Wreck At Los Gatos (Deportee) | Lance Canales | TEDxBend
In 1948, a plane carrying 32 passengers crashed in the Los Gatos Canyon, California killing everyone on board. The media, including the New York Times, listed the names of the pilots, the flight attendant and the immigration guard but all 28 of the migrant workers (braceros) were labeled as deportees. This angered folk singer Woody Gutherie who wrote a poem about the crash. Almost ten years later, school teacher Martin Hoffman composed a melody to Gutherie's poem and that song became well known. Around 2010 Central Valley writer Tim Z. Hernandez discovered the story and soon began a project of finding the names and surviving relatives. Soon after musician Lance Canales joined the journey and composed his own version of the legendary song with Hernandez reading all the names of the decease...
Actually: Johnny Cash, Johnny Rodriguez and Willie Nelson.
I do not own anything. The music belongs to The Highwaymen.
Update 27.04.2011
Almost 27.000 views pr...
Actually: Johnny Cash, Johnny Rodriguez and Willie Nelson.
I do not own anything. The music belongs to The Highwaymen.
Update 27.04.2011
Almost 27.000 views proves there are still people listening to good old music... Thank you all so much =)
--------------------------------------
Update 03.08.09
Thanks guys for 1.140 views!
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Update 14.12.09
Thank you for 3,727 views and merry Christmas!
----------------------------------------
#update 16.07.2010
Wow! 11,962 views, my highest viewed video. Thanks again guys!
Actually: Johnny Cash, Johnny Rodriguez and Willie Nelson.
I do not own anything. The music belongs to The Highwaymen.
Update 27.04.2011
Almost 27.000 views proves there are still people listening to good old music... Thank you all so much =)
--------------------------------------
Update 03.08.09
Thanks guys for 1.140 views!
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Update 14.12.09
Thank you for 3,727 views and merry Christmas!
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Class of 2017 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Inductee Joan Baez performs "Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos) onstage with Mary Chapin Carpenter and the Indigo Girls....
Class of 2017 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Inductee Joan Baez performs "Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos) onstage with Mary Chapin Carpenter and the Indigo Girls.
Looking for more Induction Ceremony memories from Joan Baez? Visit her official Hall of Fame online bio: http://rockhall.com/inductees/joan-baez
Dive into the full 2017 Induction Ceremony video collection at rockhall.com/inductees/classes/2017 and watch all videos, read from the official Hall of Fame program bios and view image galleries from the big night and archival materials.
Class of 2017 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Inductee Joan Baez performs "Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos) onstage with Mary Chapin Carpenter and the Indigo Girls.
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9 To 5 And Odd Jobs
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9 To 5 And Odd Jobs
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Composer, Lyricist: Woody Guthrie
Composer, Lyricist: Martin Hoffman
Arranger, Producer: Mike Post
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Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos) · Dolly Parton
9 To 5 And Odd Jobs
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Composer, Lyricist: Martin Hoffman
Arranger, Producer: Mike Post
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Music video by The Byrds performing Deportee (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos) (Audio). Originally released 1969. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
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Highwayman
℗ 1985 Sony Music Entertainment
Released on: 1985-05-01
Associated Performer: The Highwaymen, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson
Composer, Lyricist: Woody Guthrie
Background Vocal, Keyboards: Paul Davis
Background Vocal: Johnny Rodríguez
Composer, Lyricist: M. Hoffman
Background Vocal, Guitar, Engineer, Producer: Chips Moman
Guitar: Reggie Young
Guitar: J.R. Cobb
Guitar: Marty Stuart
Drums: Gene Chrisman
Keyboards: Bobby Emmons
Keyboards: Bobby Wood
Bass: Mike Leech
Bass: Jimmy Tittle
Harp: Mickey Raphael
Engineer: David Cherry
Assistant Engineer: Larry Greenhill
Assistant Engineer: Ken Criblez
Mastering Engineer: Denny Purcell
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Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos) · The Highwaymen · Willie Nelson · Johnny Cash · Waylon Jennings · Kris Kristofferson
Highwayman
℗ 1985 Sony Music Entertainment
Released on: 1985-05-01
Associated Performer: The Highwaymen, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson
Composer, Lyricist: Woody Guthrie
Background Vocal, Keyboards: Paul Davis
Background Vocal: Johnny Rodríguez
Composer, Lyricist: M. Hoffman
Background Vocal, Guitar, Engineer, Producer: Chips Moman
Guitar: Reggie Young
Guitar: J.R. Cobb
Guitar: Marty Stuart
Drums: Gene Chrisman
Keyboards: Bobby Emmons
Keyboards: Bobby Wood
Bass: Mike Leech
Bass: Jimmy Tittle
Harp: Mickey Raphael
Engineer: David Cherry
Assistant Engineer: Larry Greenhill
Assistant Engineer: Ken Criblez
Mastering Engineer: Denny Purcell
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Plane Wreck At Los Gatos (Deportee) · Joan Baez
Blessed Are...
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Plane Wreck At Los Gatos (Deportee) · Joan Baez
Blessed Are...
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Released on: 2005-01-01
Composer: M. Hoffman
Composer: Woody Guthrie
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Plane Wreck At Los Gatos (Deportee) · Joan Baez
Blessed Are...
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Composer: Woody Guthrie
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In 1948, a plane carrying 32 passengers crashed in the Los Gatos Canyon, California killing everyone on board. The media, including the New York Times, listed t...
In 1948, a plane carrying 32 passengers crashed in the Los Gatos Canyon, California killing everyone on board. The media, including the New York Times, listed the names of the pilots, the flight attendant and the immigration guard but all 28 of the migrant workers (braceros) were labeled as deportees. This angered folk singer Woody Gutherie who wrote a poem about the crash. Almost ten years later, school teacher Martin Hoffman composed a melody to Gutherie's poem and that song became well known. Around 2010 Central Valley writer Tim Z. Hernandez discovered the story and soon began a project of finding the names and surviving relatives. Soon after musician Lance Canales joined the journey and composed his own version of the legendary song with Hernandez reading all the names of the deceased workers. Thanks to a fundraiser spearheaded by the two artist a new head stone has been built in the Holy Cross honoring all 32 passengers.
Lance Canales is a roots-blues musician from California’s breadbasket. He lived the life that so many songs have been written about since the birth of roots music – hard labor, one room shacks and ghosts whispering of a better life. Canales’ guttural vocals combine a hard-edged storytelling approach with stripped down, foot-stomping, acoustic instrumentation that people readily respond to; Canales and his band, The Flood, were a favorite at the 2015 Sister’s Folk Festival. Canales led the initiative to place a memorial headstone with the names of the plane crash victims of the famous Woody Guthrie song “Deportee,” who were discovered buried nameless in a mass grave in Fresno, California. Now and forever nameless no more.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx
In 1948, a plane carrying 32 passengers crashed in the Los Gatos Canyon, California killing everyone on board. The media, including the New York Times, listed the names of the pilots, the flight attendant and the immigration guard but all 28 of the migrant workers (braceros) were labeled as deportees. This angered folk singer Woody Gutherie who wrote a poem about the crash. Almost ten years later, school teacher Martin Hoffman composed a melody to Gutherie's poem and that song became well known. Around 2010 Central Valley writer Tim Z. Hernandez discovered the story and soon began a project of finding the names and surviving relatives. Soon after musician Lance Canales joined the journey and composed his own version of the legendary song with Hernandez reading all the names of the deceased workers. Thanks to a fundraiser spearheaded by the two artist a new head stone has been built in the Holy Cross honoring all 32 passengers.
Lance Canales is a roots-blues musician from California’s breadbasket. He lived the life that so many songs have been written about since the birth of roots music – hard labor, one room shacks and ghosts whispering of a better life. Canales’ guttural vocals combine a hard-edged storytelling approach with stripped down, foot-stomping, acoustic instrumentation that people readily respond to; Canales and his band, The Flood, were a favorite at the 2015 Sister’s Folk Festival. Canales led the initiative to place a memorial headstone with the names of the plane crash victims of the famous Woody Guthrie song “Deportee,” who were discovered buried nameless in a mass grave in Fresno, California. Now and forever nameless no more.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx
Actually: Johnny Cash, Johnny Rodriguez and Willie Nelson.
I do not own anything. The music belongs to The Highwaymen.
Update 27.04.2011
Almost 27.000 views proves there are still people listening to good old music... Thank you all so much =)
--------------------------------------
Update 03.08.09
Thanks guys for 1.140 views!
----------------------------------------
Update 14.12.09
Thank you for 3,727 views and merry Christmas!
----------------------------------------
#update 16.07.2010
Wow! 11,962 views, my highest viewed video. Thanks again guys!
Class of 2017 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Inductee Joan Baez performs "Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos) onstage with Mary Chapin Carpenter and the Indigo Girls.
Looking for more Induction Ceremony memories from Joan Baez? Visit her official Hall of Fame online bio: http://rockhall.com/inductees/joan-baez
Dive into the full 2017 Induction Ceremony video collection at rockhall.com/inductees/classes/2017 and watch all videos, read from the official Hall of Fame program bios and view image galleries from the big night and archival materials.
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Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos) · Dolly Parton
9 To 5 And Odd Jobs
℗ 1980 Sony Music Entertainment
Released on: 1980-11-17
Composer, Lyricist: Woody Guthrie
Composer, Lyricist: Martin Hoffman
Arranger, Producer: Mike Post
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Music video by The Byrds performing Deportee (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos) (Audio). Originally released 1969. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
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Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos) · The Highwaymen · Willie Nelson · Johnny Cash · Waylon Jennings · Kris Kristofferson
Highwayman
℗ 1985 Sony Music Entertainment
Released on: 1985-05-01
Associated Performer: The Highwaymen, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson
Composer, Lyricist: Woody Guthrie
Background Vocal, Keyboards: Paul Davis
Background Vocal: Johnny Rodríguez
Composer, Lyricist: M. Hoffman
Background Vocal, Guitar, Engineer, Producer: Chips Moman
Guitar: Reggie Young
Guitar: J.R. Cobb
Guitar: Marty Stuart
Drums: Gene Chrisman
Keyboards: Bobby Emmons
Keyboards: Bobby Wood
Bass: Mike Leech
Bass: Jimmy Tittle
Harp: Mickey Raphael
Engineer: David Cherry
Assistant Engineer: Larry Greenhill
Assistant Engineer: Ken Criblez
Mastering Engineer: Denny Purcell
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Plane Wreck At Los Gatos (Deportee) · Joan Baez
Blessed Are...
℗ 2005 Vanguard Records, a Welk Music Group Company
Released on: 2005-01-01
Composer: M. Hoffman
Composer: Woody Guthrie
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In 1948, a plane carrying 32 passengers crashed in the Los Gatos Canyon, California killing everyone on board. The media, including the New York Times, listed the names of the pilots, the flight attendant and the immigration guard but all 28 of the migrant workers (braceros) were labeled as deportees. This angered folk singer Woody Gutherie who wrote a poem about the crash. Almost ten years later, school teacher Martin Hoffman composed a melody to Gutherie's poem and that song became well known. Around 2010 Central Valley writer Tim Z. Hernandez discovered the story and soon began a project of finding the names and surviving relatives. Soon after musician Lance Canales joined the journey and composed his own version of the legendary song with Hernandez reading all the names of the deceased workers. Thanks to a fundraiser spearheaded by the two artist a new head stone has been built in the Holy Cross honoring all 32 passengers.
Lance Canales is a roots-blues musician from California’s breadbasket. He lived the life that so many songs have been written about since the birth of roots music – hard labor, one room shacks and ghosts whispering of a better life. Canales’ guttural vocals combine a hard-edged storytelling approach with stripped down, foot-stomping, acoustic instrumentation that people readily respond to; Canales and his band, The Flood, were a favorite at the 2015 Sister’s Folk Festival. Canales led the initiative to place a memorial headstone with the names of the plane crash victims of the famous Woody Guthrie song “Deportee,” who were discovered buried nameless in a mass grave in Fresno, California. Now and forever nameless no more.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx
The genesis of the song reportedly occurred when Guthrie was struck by the fact that radio and newspaper coverage of the Los Gatos plane crash did not give the victims' names, but instead referred to them merely as "deportees." For example, none of the deportees' names were printed in the January 29, 1948, New York Times report, only those of the flight crew and the security guard. However, The Fresno Bee covered the tragedy extensively and listed all of the known names of the deportees. Guthrie, whose image was that of a train-hopping folk singer, actually lived in New York City at the time. Not knowing about the extensive local coverage of the disaster, Guthrie responded with a poem, which, when it was first written, featured only rudimentary musical accompaniment, with Guthrie chanting the song rather than singing it. In the poem, Guthrie assigned symbolic names to the dead: "Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita; adiós, mis amigos, Jesús y María..." A decade later, Guthrie's poem was set to music and given a haunting melody by a schoolteacher named Martin Hoffman. Shortly after, folk singer and friend of Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, began performing the song at concerts and it was Seeger's rendition that popularized the song during this time.
The crops are all in and the peaches are rott'ning, The oranges piled in their creosote dumps; They're flying 'em back to the Mexican border To pay all their money to wade back again Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye, Rosalita, Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria; You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane, All they will call you will be "deportees" My father's own father, he waded that river, They took all the money he made in his life; My brothers and sisters come working the fruit trees, And they rode the truck till they took down and died. Some of us are illegal, and some are not wanted, Our work contract's out and we have to move on; Six hundred miles to that Mexican border, They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves. We died in your hills, we died in your deserts, We died in your valleys and died on your plains. We died 'neath your trees and we died in your bushes, Both sides of the river, we died just the same. The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos Canyon, A fireball of lightning, and shook all our hills, Who are all these friends, all scattered like dry leaves? The radio says, "They are just deportees" Is this the best way we can grow our big orchards? Is this the best way we can grow our good fruit? To fall like dry leaves to rot on my topsoil