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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

§ I Am Music and I Pick the Songs: La Bamba

{Song #48 « Song #49 » Song #50}

§ ≡ One of an ongoing series of posts in which I pick, in my not-so-humble opinion, the best songs of the second millennium. Feel free to offer constructive dissenting opinions; preferably set to music.

Song #49 is La Bamba, sung by Ritchie Valens. "La Bamba" was originally a Mexican folk song that Valens transformed with a rock rhythm and beat that became a hit in 1958, making Valens a pioneer of the Spanish-speaking rock and roll movement.

On February 3, 1959, on what has become known as The Day the Music Died, Valens was killed in a small-plane crash in Iowa, a tragedy that also claimed the lives of fellow musicians Buddy Holly and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson.

La Bamba (1987 version) — Richie Valens


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