[1] Los Melódicos are similar in style to fellow Venezuelan group Billo's Caracas Boys, and were formed while Billo Frómeta was occupied by legal problems and unable to make music; Frómeta later wrote some arrangements for the band.
[3] Some sources claim that Renato Capriles [es] founded Los Melódicos with the help of Billo Frómeta, others that he became director only in 1962.
[3] In 1959 Los Melódicos became the first Venezuelan band to tour abroad when they performed in Havana, Cuba.
[2] By 2008 Los Melódicos had recorded 100 albums, had obtained 9 Congo de Oros at the Barranquilla Carnival, and were still playing up to 28 shows a month.
[4]: q Aside from a period spent recovering from a car crash in 1997, Capriles claimed at that time to have been at every Melódicos show in their entire history.