The groundbreaking television presenter would have turned 82 today.
Texas Standard producer and reporter Kristen Cabrera attended a taping of"The Johnny Canales Show" when she was a child and even met the famous presenter, who posed with her and her cousin Vinny for this photograph.
Robstown resident Theresa Alonzo, grandmother of Texas Standard digital producer Raul Alonzo, remembers the young Canales shared his love of music with residents from an early age.Robstown resident Theresa Alonzo says she remembers seeing Johnny Canales perform outside storefronts around town with his father when he was a kid.
Ramon Alejandro has run Ray’s Footwear in downtown Robstown for 54 years. While today the area is quiet and numerous buildings lay shuttered, Alejandro says in its heyday it wasn’t unusual to see crowds all about the streets, visiting the numerous businesses, bars and dancehalls.It was at one such dancehall that the young Alejandro first saw Canales performing.
Eventually, Canales would form his own bands – delving into orquesta music or playing with other genres like rock n’ roll, and even funk. He covered popular Spanish songs and even English hits like Chuck Berry’s “Canales eventually made it on to the radio airwaves in the 1970s – not as a musician, but as a DJ. This was where his ear for talent really began to shine.” so much that it became a hit. He also gave Naranjo his famous nickname: “El Clark Gable” of the Chicano music wave.
Not every band or singer who came onto “The Johnny Canales Show” ended up making it big, but the stage nonetheless immortalized many regional artists who otherwise may have been lost to history.
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