“En Mi Ciudad” starts at 23:35
THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD
1,518) Johnny Allon — “En Mi Ciudad”/”In My City”
The trailblazing and flamboyant Argentine rocker, TV personality and entrepreneur gave us this effervescent horn-accented number from his ’68 solo LP.
Wikipedia tells us (courtesy of Google Translate):
Antonio Juan Sánchez, later better known as Johnny Allon, grew up in . . . Buenos Aires . . . . [D]uring his adolescence he was a lover of rock, especially Elvis Presley and Bill Haley, as well as having a deep admiration for . . . bandleader Glenn Miller. Regarding music, he was part of The Tammys . . . that did covers of the Beatles, among other artists . . . . After making the Fotonovela de Los Tammys, he made his film debut in 1966 with Una ventana al éxito, a musical comedy . . . . In his early days he used the pseudonym Johnny Willy . . . . Later, he formed his own group, “Johnny Allon y su Banda Púrpura” . . . with which he recorded several singles. In the early 70s he formed a rock group called “Caballo Vapor” . . . . [A]t the end of that decade he moved away from music and opted to venture into television, being the protagonist – as host – of the Johnny Allon Show cycle, broadcast between 1978 and 1987 . . . a pioneering program in Argentina in the diffusion of music videos. . . . The program began to be called Johnny Allon Presenta from 1984 . . . . For many years he produced and hosted Johnny Allon Presents which was . . . reproduced in countries such as Mexico and the United States . . . . Allon popularized the phrases “change my music” and “give it power “, frequently used as catchphrases. . . . He is . . . considered one of the first entrepreneurs to establish dance clubs of the so-called “tropical music” (bailanta) in Argentina. . . . In 2015, he launched a new program, Johnny Allon Max . . . dedicated to music and humor, ending its broadcast on said channel at the end of 2019.
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