Triste Janero

Originating in Dallas during the final years of the 1960s, the five-member group Triste Janero specialized in easy listening vocal arrangements whose style had already fallen from favor, occupying the mildest fringes of pop and rock while also echoing the airy Brazilian vocal pop-jazz associated with Sergio Mendes. The band scored a local Dallas success with its 1969 single “Rene de Marie” and cut a little-known album for the White Whale label the same year. By 1970 or 1971, just as White Whale was shutting down, the ensemble dissolved, after which keyboardist Cass Moore went on to perform alongside Dallas country singer Sami Jo Cole.