Maldito abismo

José Alfredo Jimenez wrote it, per the UCLA Frontera catalog, which lists two Victor releases of Mendoza's version, both with Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan. One is a 78 rpm single, Victor 23-6902, matrix G2ZB-0901, recorded in Mexico and filed as a canción ranchera on love, complaint and despair. The other is the LP Gritenme piedras del campo! (Victor MKL-3096), on which it is the first track of side one, tagged with themes of nature, metaphor, lament and abandonment. A 45 rpm issue is reported but unconfirmed. The catalog gives no recording date, and we could not find the LP's release year, so the year on this page is approximate.

Other recordings include Rosa de Castilla's, on the Capitol album The Sounds of Old Mexico, and Lola Casanova's on a Vik 78. We found no statement about the song's meaning, and no chart, video or live history. We cannot tell which of the Victor recordings our upload carries.