every song I can see certain streets, certain friends that died maybe. My mom passed away seven years ago, especially the ones about my mom cause my mom, she worked at the county general hospital for 37 years, so was raised in El Sereno, you know she’s Chicana so she would listen to Art Laboe all the time, too, you know? And I used to make her CDs. My brother still has all the 45’s they had. PUA: So it’s multi-generational. Do you ever remember listening to oldies for the first time? Or was it something that just happened? GL: I could remember some of my earliest memories in life, I remember like I used to play 45’s at my grandpa’s house, cause when my uncles were gang members from my gang, um so they used to have their friends over all the time, and I grew up on… you ever heard of Locke Street? PUA: Yeah GL: That’s where I grew up so, like um, like the whole street was my homeboys, so I saw my uncles, all the cars—bumping oldies, so, but I remember I think like everyone starts off with like, “Confessing a Feeling,” “Always and Forever,” “Baby I’m for Real.” Those are the three basic ones. If you wanna be a Cholo those are the songs you have to listen to first. Those are the first ones you remember. You know what, as a matter of fact, I just had a flashback, have you heard of Shirley and Lee?
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