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The following CDs below are now available directly from T.H.G. Productions and through this Web site only. For your information, these Tortilla Factory records were my favorite ones and the most memorable. They are indeed classics because most of the songs on these CDs were #1 hits for me and the rest of the Tortilla Factory members.

We want to thank all our super fans all over the world, the many surfers on the Internet for their constant support and emails ... and to all the new generation of tejanos out there as well. In addition, we're also selling my son's new hip hop hit single, "Sexy Girl", at a special price just for you!

PLEASE NOTE:  Prices vary on selected CDs - Cost includes shipping charges - Money Orders accepted at this time only - Order the CDs by their respective number assigned to them. Contact T.H.G. Productions at (512) 837-5324, or send an email to tonyhamguerrero@sbcglobal.net for further information and to place your order. Do it today!

Alfredo Antonio singing at the Tejano Academy Fan Fair event in July of this year. He was backed up by his dad's band, "Tortilla Factory", under the leadership of the legendary, Tony "HAM" Guerrero.

A Short Bio On:  Bobby Butler, "El Charro Negro"
 

One of the most unique entertainers of the last forty years in our Texas music history is, Bobby Butler AKA “El Charro Negro.” Bobby was born in 1937 in Jefferson Arkansas, a small community right next to Pine Bluff Arkansas. As a child in the south he and his mother both had to work. Bobby used to work in the cotton fields while attending school. By the age of seven years old he was working the circles in the fields with all the Blacks and Chicanos that had to pick cotton outside of Texas to make a living. Bobby says that while working in the fields he would hear singing by some of “la gente” and he fell in love with the sound of the music. He says in the evenings the men would gather around the campfires and take out their guitars and sing song after song. He totally got in to the music and never forgot it even when they moved to Ft. Worth when he was about 9 years old. He and his mom lived in Ft. Worth a few years but then they moved to St Louis, Missouri where he went to school and worked helping his mother.

When he was in the 10th grade he moved back to Pine Bluff Arkansas and enrolled in high school. At age 18 he graduated from high school and was given a scholarship to study music at Arkansas State. He studied two years there and moved back to St. Louis to help his mom. It was during this time that he joined a Rhythm & Blues group called the, “Ecuadors”...there were five singers in the group and performed as the house band at Chuck Berry’s Club when he was on the road with his band.

It was around the early 60s that he met his first wife Rosy. In St Louis, Mo., it was a tough place to live and raise a family. Rosy had an uncle that lived in Temple, Texas and they moved to raise a family and start a new life in Texas. The word got out quick in Temple that there was a new drummer and singer in town and Bobby worked with a lot of the local bands. When Cino Moreno had to miss a weekend gig with the Latinaires, Bobby was called and thus he became a friend with Little Joe and the Latinaires. Bobby was in a band that played the Mexican songs he had heard as a child. When he told the guys he could sing, “La Enorme Distancia”, nobody believed him until they heard him sing the song.

There at that moment the legacy of, "El Charro Negro", was born and the rest is history. He was dubbed El Charro Negro by The guys in the band and to this day he is loved and admired all over the world by his fans. Bobby was the first African-American singer and musician to reach the legendary status of International recording fame as an artist of la Onda Chicana and his accomplishments and Star Power has never been equaled to this day. After performing with Little Joe and the Latinaires in the 60s he went back to St. Louis, Missouri and helped to take care of his mom and worked as a Postal Inspector.

In May of 1973, a new band called, Tortilla Factory, was just being formed and although Bobby had not been singing, the leader of the new band, Tony "Ham" Guerrero knew Charro was the one person that could sing any style be it R&B, Onda, Boleros, Cumbias, or Salsa. So Ham picked up the phone and called Bobby. Charro came back to Texas and he continued to add to his legacy as a member of the Tortilla Factory.