Flashback Friday: "La Bamba" - Los Lobos (1987)

Here we go again with Flashback Friday! Let's take a look at one of the most fun songs of all time, "La Bamba".

...The Los Lobos version. Because... cover songs. It's been, what, like 3 weeks since the last one?

Anyway, you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who doesn't like this song. It's just so much fun to listen to. The song is actually an instructional song, in part, on how to dance La Bamba. For those who don't speak Spanish (e.g. me), here's the translation of the chorus.

In order to dance La Bamba
In order to dance La Bamba a little bit of grace is needed
A little bit of grace and something else
Ah! Up and up
And up and up and up I'll go

There ya go, folks. You don't need professional dancing lessons. you just need "a little bit of grace and something else", and up, up, you'll go! Now, who could turn down an offer like that?

Now let's talk about the two different versions of this song. To be honest, although Richie Valens is a legend, I prefer the Los Lobos version. It just seems to have a little more energy to it, but it's also a little more focused. Overall, it just sounds better to me.

But no matter what version you listen to, "La Bamba" is a fun song for fun times. Or even gloomy times, if you need something to cheer you up.