Mariachi Mexico De Pepe Villa - Besame Mucho(Cometa Remix)
From Album: "Various Artists ~ Mexicanisimo Lounge (2CD)".
MARIACHI MEXICO DE PEPE VILLA. One February 2, 1953, Mariachi México de Pepe Villa made its official debut on the radio program A si es mi Tierra. But the group was not really new-the night before, the same musicians had played together as Mariachi Pulido for the last time. That group, one of the most popular mariachis of the day, had been led by Pancho Pulido since the 1930s and roughly half its members had once belonged to Mariachi Vargas Vihuela player Pepe Villa had long been second in command in Mariachi Pulido, and all but three of its members followed him to Mariachi México, where he assumed the leadership. The most striking feature of this newly formed group was that it had two trumpets, which was exceedingly rare for a mariachi in the early 1950s. Determined to make this new combination work, trumpeters Miguel Martínez and Jesús Córdoba rehearsed together for many hours each day. The two-trumpet Pepe Villa introduced the two-trumpet mariachi sound 
mariachi style that we know today was virtually invented in those sessions. In 1954, Discos Peerless awarded Mariachi México a gold record for being one of the top-selling recording artists in the Mexican Republic during the period 1953-1954. To this date, no other mariachi group has received a similar distinction. Later that year, Mariachi México signed an exclusive contract with Discos Musart, where they continued to set phenomenal sales records, Juke boxes, ~ Read more from Mysapce
