Ruben Ramos Celebrated his 50^th Music Career Anniversary in Style

By Ramón Hernández

 Rubé Ramos celebrated his half-century mark as an entertainer and the star-studded event took place at the Cadillac Bar.

Ramos started out playing maracas with the Ramos-Guerrero Orchestra on the ballads as his brother Alfonso sang and his brother Elijio played saxophone in 1957. So it was actually his 52^nd Anniversary.

Unless you want to go by the date – June 1960 – when he replaced Johnny “Box” Ruiz as the orchestra’s drummer during a gig at El Latino in Lockhart, Texas. This also marked his debut as a vocalist since he sang all the rock’n’roll songs from the rear of the bandstand. In this case, this would have been his 49^th anniversary. Therefore, he must have averaged out the dates.

Late that year, Guerrero was drafted into the U.S. Army and it became the Alfonso Ramos Orchestra.

It was not until October 1969, when his brother Roy formed his own band and Marcelo Tafoya named it the Mexican Revolution that Rubén stepped up front as a lead singer.

The rest as they say, is history, in January 1983, the sibling became Rubén y Alfonso Ramos y Texas Revolution and the group now included their brother Joe with an occasional appearance by Elijio and their sister Inez. Four years later, Rubén went solo, but rather than bore the reader with a string of facts, we’ll let the pictures from the Cadillac Bar gala tell the story of who was there and show the fun that was enjoyed by all.