Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The dream
  • The beginning
  • Mamá
  • Papá
  • Our Mexican roots
  • Raul and Alberto
  • The old barrio
  • I go out into the world
  • The beginning of my career in music
  • Music and more music
  • My first love
  • Mexico City
  • Back to Tucson and on to Los Angeles
  • Los Carlistas
  • My first records
  • The New York World's Fair
  • I get married
  • Our gypsy years
  • World War II
  • The Pachuco years
  • On the road with my band
  • The fifties
  • My life with Pancho Lopez
  • I go into the nightclub business
  • Elvis, the Martian, and the Three little squirrels
  • Lalo's again
  • In the fields
  • Papá's dream
  • Lidia
  • Palm Springs
  • My so-called retirement
  • The National Medal of Arts and other honors
  • Afterword / Manuel Peña.