Classic Study by Americo Paredes
http://books.google.com/books?id=zQxbHl8xGJAC&dq
Critical Appreciation by Jose Limon
http://www.escholarship.org/editions/view?docId=ft1m3nb10w;brand=ucpress
Clip from 1982 Film
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsApt0st_u4
Comical competence in Spanish by "The Translator" leads to fatal misunderstanding. Gregorio explains he did not buy a stallion, he bought a mare. Gregorio says to "The Sheriff" you can't arrest a man for nothing.
TCM synopsis:
http://www.tcm.com/thismonth/article.jsp?cid=235313&mainArticleId=235285
Screenplay by:
http://www.victorvillasenor.com/
Corrido
by Los Hermanos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPB-zB_lEXE
see "Variant X" verses 1-6 (Paredes p. 154)
by Ramon Ayala
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W84uOWlO7OM
by Los Trovadores Regionales?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIXNqN4cvLI
see "Variant A" complete (Paredes pp. 158-161)
sounds like a 45 rpm with 10 verses per side
indeed, Paredes collected "Variant A" from "both sides" of a record (by "Los Trovadores Regionales" on Vocalion number SA 283 8351) lent to him by Gregorio's son, Mr. Valeriano Cortez, "who tells me the he has owned the record since 1920" (Paredes 177).