Professor Elam

As Toby Keith sings, I shoulda been a cowboy. And in the 1950s that is where the action was. Roy rogers, the Lone Ranger, Hop  a Long Cassidy, and yep, the Cisco Kid. Duncan Renaldo was an orphan but ended up playing the well dressed Cisco Kid on television.

Hey Pancho, hey Cisco, the paif would exclaim!  ONe of those sidekicks with a funny name Toby sings about was Leo Carillo, or Pancho, cisco's sidekick.

At a time when there were few Hispanic stars on television, the Cisco Kid  was a popular as any of them.