. "false"^^ . "Folk songs" . "Selena songs" . "Ritchie Valens" . "-0.16011"^^ . "true"^^ . "Platinum" . "The Youngbloods songs" . . "Music videos directed by Sherman Halsey" . "TRURQUP128F14637F2" . "Number-one singles in Switzerland" . "1987 singles" . "Billboard Hot Latin Songs number-one singles" . "0.201397"^^ . . "Los Lobos songs" . "Los Lobos" . "Spanish-language songs" . "Number-one singles in Italy" . "Disco songs" . "Year of song unknown" . . "Number-one singles in New Zealand" . "157000.0"^^ . "89.0"^^ . "1986" . "false"^^ . "142728"^^ . . "italian" . . "2114593" . "Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles" . . "Number-one singles in Australia" . "2588" . . "Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipients" . . "Songs from Grease (film)" . "Latin Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipients" . "Del-Fi Records" . "2a4e6183-8577-4f08-9578-f7cb43193390" . "1958" . "Mexican songs" . "La Bamba" . "La Bamba" . "Number-one singles in France" . "Singles certified gold by the Syndicat National de l'\u00C9dition Phonographique" . "CD single" . . "4"^^ . . "RPM Top Singles number-one singles" . "Ritchie Valens songs" . "1958-10-18"^^ . "Rock-and-roll songs" . "%22La Bamba%22 (pronounced: [la \u02C8\u03B2amba]) is a Mexican folk song, originally from the state of Veracruz, best known from a 1958 adaptation by Ritchie Valens, a top 40 hit in the U.S. charts and one of early rock and roll's best-known songs. Valens' version of %22La Bamba%22 is ranked number 354 on Rolling Stone magazine\u2032s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. It is the only song on the list sung in a language other than English.%22La Bamba%22 has been covered by numerous artists, most notably by Los Lobos, whose version was the title track of the 1987 film La Bamba and reached #1 in the U.S. and UK singles charts in the same year. The music video for Los Lobos' version, directed by Sherman Halsey, won the 1988 MTV Video Music Award for Best Video from a Film." . "GBF086500331" . "2"^^ . "Star Academy France songs" . "NHK K\u014Dhaku Uta Gassen songs" . "Gramophone record" . "Gold" . "Number-one singles in Belgium" . "UK Singles Chart number-one singles" . "spa" . "Warner Bros. Records" . "1958 singles" . "1987-06-20"^^ . . . "5714dece25ac0d8aee4053e1" . "1999-03-23"^^ .