Los Lobos - La Bamba | Your Music Video Playlist

On this date in 1987, LOS LOBOS released the single LA BAMBA (Jun 20, 1987) Thirty-seven years ago today, Los Angeles rock band Los Lobos achieved their first and only #1 hit on the UK Singles Chart with their cover of the Mexican folk song “La Bamba.” Originally a traditional son jarocho tune from Veracruz, “La Bamba” was first popularized in the late 1950s by Ritchie Valens, the Mexican-American rock 'n' roll pioneer who famously lost his life in the same plane crash that killed Buddy Holly an