Con Safos is the second and last album by Ruben and the Jets

Ruben and the Jets

For the celebrity photographer go to Tony Duran Ruben and the Jets was a Los Angeles-based doo-wop, rhythm and blues and rock and roll band active between 1972 and 1974. Led by Ruben Guevara, band members included Tony Duran, Robert "Frog" Camarena, Johhny Martinez, Robert "Buffalo" Roberts, Bill...

, recorded in 1974 as a follow-up to their 1973 debut For Real!

For Real!

For Real! is the debut album of Ruben and the Jets. Released in 1973, the album was produced by Frank Zappa, whose Cruising with Ruben & the Jets album was the source of the band's name...

, which was produced by Frank Zappa

Frank Zappa

Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, singer-songwriter, electric guitarist, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, orchestral and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed...

 (whose 1968 album Cruising with Ruben & the Jets

Cruising with Ruben & the Jets

Cruising With Ruben & The Jets is an album by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, released in December 1968, and controversially reissued in an alternate mix with newly recorded bass and percussion in 1984.-Concept:...

was the source for the band's name). Both albums are out of print, but Con Safos is the especially harder to find of the two, despite the fact that both albums were re-released on compact disc

Compact Disc

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in 1994 and 1995, respectively.

Track listings

1. "Cruisin' Down Broadway"
2. "To Be Loved"
3. "Stronger" (preview)
4. "Speedoo"
5. "Honky Tonk"
6. "Low Ridin' Cruiser"
7. "Stronger"
8. "Earth To Buffalo"
9. "I Wanna Know"
10. "Honky Tonk" (replay)
11. "Dust My Blues"
12. "A Thousand Miles Away/You Send Me"
13. "Durango"