[Getready]

Actually, the Germans had people in Mexico long before Hitler was born. That might explain the “oom pa pah” sound of many mariachi songs.

[lee martell]

I listen to a little of that music, and I always wondered;
“I hear Tubas! Big, blustery Biergarten Tubas, in that Vicente Fernandes song. How did that happen?”

[Governor Dinwiddie]

That's right. A lot of Czech and German immigrants in Mexico and Texas the mid-1850s. All that Tejano music gets the accordion and polka beat from their European roots. Música Norteña.