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Ritchie Valens - La Bamba - 1958
Ritchie Valens - La Bamba - 1958
Ritchie Valens stand for "La Bamba" (1958)
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La Bamba (song)
Mexican folk song and dance
"La Bamba" (pronounced[laˈβamba]) is a Mexican folk song, originally from the state of Veracruz, also known as "La Bomba".[1] The song is best known from a 1958 adaptation by Ritchie Valens, a Top 40 hit on the U.S. charts. Valens's version is ranked number 345 on Rolling Stone magazine′s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, and is the only song on the list not written or sung in English.
"La Bamba" has been covered by numerous artists, notably by Los Lobos whose version was the title track of the 1987 film La Bamba, a bio-pic about Valens; their version reached No. 1 on many charts in the same year.
Traditional versions
[edit]"La Bamba" is a classic example of the son jarocho musical style, which originated in the Mexican state of Veracruz, and combines Spanish, indigenous, Afro-Mexican and Afro-Caribbean[2] musical elements.[3] "La Bamba" likely originated in the last years of the 17th century in 1683 during a slave uprising known as the Bambarria. The song would be played at weddings with lyrics being encouraged to be made up, over 500-1000 known verses exist. The bride and the groom would tie a ribbon together on their toes and dance to La Bamba as a symbol of love,
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With a twanging guitar riff and one full throated cry of "para bailer la bamba", Ritchie Valens howled himself into rock'n'roll folklore, becoming Latin America's answer to Elvis Presley and sending Los Angeles teenagers into a frenzy. Raised in Pacoima, California by his Mexican father, Valens taught himself to play guitar and soon became the front man of local band The Silhouettes. Discovered by producer and label boss Bob Keane, he first hit the charts at barely 16-years-old with Come On, Let's Go, before his ballad Donna shot to Number 2. But it was the B-side La Bamba - a sexy, rock'n'roll cover of an old Mexican folk song - that shook up the nation's Latino community and became an all-time classic. Sadly his star only shone for 18 months, as Valens died alongside Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper when their plane crashed in Iowa on February 3, 1959. The tragedy was described as "the day the music died" in the Don McLean song Ame