Your California Dive Bar Jukebox Song of the Week

There's really not much verifiable information out there about Ray Camacho & The Teardrops, but I do love this song.  Ray Camacho was born, probably some time in the early 1940s, in El Paso, Texas,  but at a young age moved to Mendota, California, near Fresno. After spending most of his childhood working the Central Valley vegetable fields, Camacho formed The Teardrops at age 17 and quickly gained a reputation as a man who could play any instrument (though he's best known as a trumpeter) and would play shows anywhere (including performances at leper colonies in Panama and USO shows in Vietnam that came under enemy fire).  After years of touring across the Southwest to Chicano audiences, the Bay Area music scene took notice of the band's fusion of Latin music with funk, rock and jazz, which led to shows with Santana, Tower of Power, Chicago, The Carpenters, and even at George H.W. Bush's inauguration ceremony in 1989.  
"Si Se Puede" was released sometime around 1970 and I came across some mentions that the song was something of an anthem at Chicano marches in Los Angeles, which makes some sense considering "Si se puede" (meaning both "Yes, we can" and "It can be done") became a motto for Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers in 1972.  Like most non-Latino people who know this song, I discovered on the brilliant Bay Area Funk complications released in 2006.  You'll have to be just the right bar to find "Si Se Puede" on the jukebox, but when you do, it's sure to be a crowd pleaser.