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Johnny Rodriguez, Chicano country star who sang 'Ridin' My Thumb to Mexico,' dies at 73
Johnny Rodriguez, a trailblazing Mexican American country music star whose folksy storytelling propelled him to fame in the ...
Mexican American singer Johnny Rodriguez, whose 1970s country hits topped charts, dies at 73
Country music star Johnny Rodriguez has died at age 73. The popular Mexican American singer was best known for chart-topping ...
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Johnny Rodriguez, Country Music Star, Dies at 73
By Livia Albeck-Ripka Johnny Rodriguez, who became the first Mexican American country music star with a string of hits, died on Friday. He was 73. His daughter, Aubry Rodriguez, announced his ...
New York Post3d
Chart-topping country singer Johnny Rodriguez dead at 73
Country-music star Johnny Rodriguez, a popular Mexican-American singer best known for chart-topping hits in the 1970s, including “I Just Can’t Get Her Out of My Mind,” “Ridin’ My Thumb ...
Rolling Stone4d
Johnny Rodriguez, Country Music’s First Mexican American Star, Dead at 73
Johnny Rodriguez, the first country star of Mexican ... which added two more hits to his resume. The hard-luck anthem “Ridin’ My Thumb to Mexico” mixed wanderlust with a broken heart ...
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Mexican-American singer Johnny Rodriguez, whose 1970s country hits topped charts, dies at 73
Country-music star Johnny Rodriguez has died at age 73 Country-music star Johnny Rodriguez, a popular Mexican-American singer best known for chart-topping hits in the 1970s, including “I Just ...
The Washington Post3d
Mexican American singer Johnny Rodriguez, whose 1970s country hits topped charts, dies at 73
SAN ANTONIO — Country music star Johnny Rodriguez, a popular Mexican American singer best known for chart-topping hits in the 1970s such as “I Just Can’t Get Her Out of My Mind,” “Ridin ...
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Johnny Rodriguez, Pioneering Hispanic Country Singer, Dies at 73
Johnny Rodriguez, one of country music’s first Hispanic stars and known for 1970s hits “Ridin’ My Thumb to Mexico” and “That’s the Way Love Goes,” has died at the age of 73.
Taste of Country4d
Country Music Legend Johnny Rodriguez Dead at 73: ‘We Have Lost Someone Irreplaceable’
Johnny Rodriguez, who built a superstar-level career ... Rodriguez would go on to score a long string of country hits that included his first Top 10 hit, 1973's “Pass Me By (If You're Only ...