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Soundtrack: La Bamba

 A l b u m   D e t a i l s

Artist: Soundttrack
Title: La Bamba
Released: 1975
Label: London Records
Time: 31:26
Producer(s): See Artists ...
Appears with:
Category: Latin
Rating: *****..... (5/10)
Media type: CD
Purchase date:  1998.09.22
Price in €: 18,10
Web address: loslobos.setlist.com

 S o n g s ,   T r a c k s


[1] Los Lobos: La Bamba (Trad., arr. Ritchie Valens)- 2:54
[2] Los Lobos: Come On Let's Go (Richie Valens) - 1:58
[3] Los Lobos: Ooh! My Head (Ritchie Valens) - 1:43
[4] Los Lobos: We Belong Together (Robert Carr, Johnny Mitchell, Hy Weiss) - 1:58
[5] Los Lobos: Framed (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller)- 2:33
[6] Los Lobos: Donna (Ritchie Valens) - 2:19
[7] Howard Huntsberry: Lonely Teardrops (Berry Gordy/Tyran Carlo, Gwen Gordy) - 3:27
[8] Marshall Crenshaw: Crying Waiting Hoping (Budy Holly) - 2:20
[9] Brian Setzer: Summertime Blues (Eddie Cochran/Jerry Capeheart) - 2:40
[10] Bo Diddley: Who Do You Love (Elias McDaniel) - 3:00
[11] Los Lobos: Charlena (Manuel G. Chavez, Herman B. Chaney)- 2:45
[12] Los Lobos: Goodnight, My Love (George Motola/John Marascalco) - 3:16

 A r t i s t s ,   P e r s o n n e l


Los Lobos:
ALEJANDRO "ALEX" ACUÑA - Percussion
STEVE BERLIN - Harmonica, Percussion, Saxophone
DAVID HIDALGO - Bass, Guitar, Steel Guitar , Vocals
CONRAD LOZANO - Bass, Guitar, Vocals
OSCAR ROASA - Banjo, Guitar, Mandolin, Vocals
LOUIE PÉREZ - Guitar, Drums

MARSHALL CRENSHAW - Performer
BO DIDDLEY - Performer
HOWARD HUNTSBERRY - Performer
BRIAN SETZER - Performer

STEVE BERLIN - Producer
DON DAVIS - Producer
WILLIE DIXON - Producer
MITCHELL FROOM - Producer
DON GEHMAN - Producer
GARRY TALLENT - Producer

 C o m m e n t s ,   N o t e s


1987 CD Slash/Warner Brothers 21942
1987 LP Slash 8280581



After two critically acclaimed but only moderately selling albums, Los Lobos was hired to record songs for the film biography of Hispanic '50s rocker Ritchie Valens, resulting in this soundtrack album, which, in addition to eight Los Lobos recordings, features tracks by Marshall Crenshaw, Brian Setzer, and others. Los Lobos' remake of the title song topped the charts, as did this album, which went on to sell two million copies. The result has been something of a career dilemma for the band, which went back to being a critically acclaimed, modest seller afterwards.

William Ruhlmann, All-Music Guide



La Bamba the movie tells of when rock and roll was about joy, love and liberation, rather than anger, sex and rebellion (and, later, drugs, counterculture and money). It's the story of Ritchie Valens, the early pop sensation who was 50% inspiration and 50% machination, and how his fleeting life in the fast lane affected his already turbulent family life. Valens' music is performed by Los Lobos, the only modern-day equivalent of Valens' "barrio kid makes it big" story, and it comes off portraying either a) what Los Lobos could have sounded like then, or b) what Ritchie Valens might have sounded like today. The arrangements are the same as, and the performances and production are faithful (if tighter and cleaner, respectively), to Valens', whose music embodied the fast, loose and passionate style of the best early rockers. In the film, Brian Setzer performs as Eddie Cochran ("Summertime Blues" is included here), Marshall Crenshaw as Buddy Holly ("Crying, Waiting, Hoping") and Howard Huntsberry as Jackie Wilson (`Lonely Teardrops"). Each does a passable job, but none embody the music as well as Los Lobos does Valens (who is played by Lou Diamond Phillips, in a thoroughly convincing lip sync job). La Bamba is a vivid reminder of what rock was all about, and the roots, both emotional and musical, that we often forget. See the movie, and if you get the message, play the record.

CMJ New Music Report Issue: 121 - Jul 03, 1987
 

 L y r i c s


LA BAMBA

Para bailar la bamba
Para bailar la bamba
Se necesita una poca de gracia
Una poca de gracia pa mi pa ti
Y arriba y arriba
Ay arriba y arriba
por ti seré, por ti seré, por ti seré

Yo no soy marinero
Yo no soy marinero, soy capitán
Soy capitán, soy capitán

Bamba, bamba
Bamba, bamba
Bamba, bamba
Bamba

Para bailar la bamba
Para bailar la bamba
Se necesita una poca de gracia
Una poca de gracia pa mi pa ti
Ay y arriba y arriba

Para bailar la bamba
Para bailar la bamba
Se necesita una poca de gracia
Una poca de gracia pa mi pa ti
Y arriba y arriba
Ay arriba y arriba
por ti seré, por ti seré, por ti seré

Bamba, bamba
Bamba, bamba
Bamba, bamba
Bamba, bamba

© Longitude Music Co. (BMI)


COME ON LET'S GO

Well come on let's go, let's go, let's go
little darling
and tell me that you'll never leave me
Come on let's go and do it again

Well now swing me, swing me, all the way
down there
Come on let's go little darling
Come on let's go again once more

(bridge)
Well now I love you so
and I'll never let you go
Come on Baby so
Oh! Pretty baby I love you so

Well come on let's go, let's go, let's go
little darling
and tell me we'll always be together
Come on let's go again and do it again

(bridge)

Well let's go, let's go, let's go little sweetheart
and tell me we'll always dance together
Come on let's go and do it again

© 1958 Clockus Music Co./Big 7 Music Corp./Kemo Music Co. (BMI)


OOH MY HEAD

Well, well,now,now baby
Lets just go all night long
Well, on,on,on,on,darlin
I just want you-to-go-on more
There wont be no tuttie fruiti
No not at all,cmon baby just
Rock, rock, rock

Well, now, now, now, now, honey
We gonna rock all night
Well babe,babe,babe,babe,baby
Were just gonna go fine
Well on, on, on, on, darlin
Ooh, my head!

Well, Bonie Moronie,Peggy Suzy
They aint gonna be around no more
Well,on now dit-a-little darlin
We just gonna party some more
Daylight,I love you darlin
Ooh my head! (now lets go)

Well now,now,now,now,baby
Keep me rockin on an on
Well I just reelin till its over
Oh,just all night long
Well,now
Ooh my head!

Alright,WAIL.....
Rock it out.....
Come on.....
My head is tired!
                                  Thanks to David H. Yang for this songlyrics


WE BELONG TOGETHER

You're mine and we belong together
Yes, we belong together for all eternity
You're mine, your lips belong to me-ee
Yes, they belong to only me for all eternity

You're mine, my ba-a-by and you-ou wi-ill always be
I swear by everything I own you'll always, always be mine
(Mine, mine, be mine)

You're mine and we belong together
Yes, we belong together for all eternity


FRAMED

I was walkin' down the street, minding my own affair
When two policemen grabbed me unaware
They said, is your name Henry, I says why sure?
He says you're the boy I been lookin' for
I was framed, framed, I was blamed
Framed, well I never do nothing
But I always get blamed, oh framed

They took me to the line where those bright lights shine
There was ten poor souls like me in that line
I knew I was a victim of someone's evil plan
When a stool-pigeon walked in an' says
Thats your man!
I was framed, framed, I was blamed
Oh, framed, framed, framed
Well, I never do nothing
But I always get blamed

Well, the prosecuting attorney started a-prosecuting me
Man, that cat didn't give me the one, but the third degree
He says, where were you in the night of July 1953
Man, I was just home, just a tweedle-ee-dee
I was framed, oh framed, I was blamed
Oh, framed, framed, framed
Well, I never do nothing
But I always get framed, oh framed
Oh framed...


DONNA

Oh Donna, Oh Donna, Oh Donna, Oh Donna

I had a girl.
Donna was her name.
Since you left me, I've never been the same
Cause I love my girl.
Donna where can you be?
Where can you be?

Now that you're gone I'm left all alone
All by myself to wonder and yoam
Cause I love my girl
Donna where can you be?
Where can you be?

Well, Darling now that you're gone
I don't know what I'll do
Cause I had all my love for you

Oh Donna, Oh Donna, Oh Donna, Oh Donna
Oh Donna, Oh Donna


LONELY TEARDROPS


My heart is crying, crying lonely teardrops
My pillow's never dry of lonely teardrops
Come   home, come ho-o-o-o-o-ome
Just say you will (say you will)
Sa-ay you will (say you will)
Hey-ah-hey (say you will)

My heart is crying, crying lonely teardrops
My pillow's never dry of lonely teardrops
Come   home, come ho-o-o-o-o-ome
Just say you will, say you-ou-ou wi-ill (say you will)
Sa-ay you will (say you will)
Hey-ah-hey (say you will)

Just  give  me a-a-a-nother chance for our romance
Come on and tell me that one day you'll retu-u-urn
'cause every day that you've been gone away
You'll know-a my heart   does nothing but bu-u-urn

Crying lonely teardrops
My pillow's never dry of lonely teardrops
Come home, come ho-o-o-o-o-ome
Just say you will, say you wi-ill (say you will)
Sa-ay you will (say you will)
Hey-ah-hey (say you will)

Say it right now, baby (say you will)
Come on, come on (say you will)
Say it, darleeeeeeeeeeen (say you will)
Say it right now, baby (say you will)

Fade


CRYING, WAITING, HOPING

Crying, waiting, hoping you'll come back
I just can't seem to get you off my mind
Crying, waiting, hoping you'll come back
You're the one I love
And I think about you all the time

Crying, my tears keep falling all night long
Waiting, it feels so useless, I know it's wrong
To keep a-crying, waiting, hoping you'll come back
Maybe someday soon
Things will change and you'll be mine

Crying, my tears keep falling all night long
Waiting, it feels so useless, I know it's wrong
To keep a-crying, waiting, hoping you'll come back
Maybe someday soon
Things will change and you'll be mine
Crying, waiting, hoping...


SUMMERTIME BLUES

Well I'm gonna raise a fuss
And I'm gonna raise a holler
About workin' all summer
Just tryin' to earn a dollar
Well, I went to my boss
Who governs me
He said, "No, dice, bud
You gotta work late"

Sometime I wonder
What I'm gonnna do
There ain't no cure
For the summertime blues

Well, my mom and papa told me
Now you better earn some money
If one of you is gonna go
Ridin' next Sunday
Well, I didn't go to work
I told my boss I was sick
He said, "You can't use the car
'Cause you didn't work a lick"

Sometime I wonder
What I'm gonnna do
There ain't no cure
For the summertime blues

Gonna save two weeks
Gonna have a fine vacation
Gonna take my problem
To the United Nations
Well, I went to my congressman
He sent me back a note
It said, "I''d like to help you, hon
But you're too young to vote"

Sometime I wonder
What I'm gonnna do
There ain't no cure
For the summertime blues

Now there ain't no cure
For the summertime blues
Now there ain't no cure
For the summertime blues


WHO DO YOU LOVE

I walked forty-seven miles of barbed wire,
I got a cobra snake for a necktie,
I got a brand new house by the road side,
Made out of rattlesnake hide.
I got me a chimney made on top,
Made from a human skull,
Now come on, take a little walk with me,
Now who do you love?
Come on Arlene, take me by the hand,
Let me know you understand,
Who do you love? ...
Ride nine times on the midnight train
Through the fire and cold rain,
Who do you love? ...
I've got a tombstone hand in a graveyard mine,
Just twenty-two and I don't mind dying,
Who do you love? ...


by Ellas McDaniel a.k.a. Bo Diddley

I walked 47 miles of barbed wire, I use a cobra snake for a necktie
I got a brand new house on the roadside, made from rattlesnake hide
I got a brand new chimney made on top, made out of a human skull
Now come on, take a little walk with me, Arlene and tell me:
who do you love?
who do you love?

Who do you love?
Who do you love?
Who do you love?
Who do you love?

I've got a tombstone hand and a graveyard mind,
I'm just twenty-two and I don't mind dyin'
Who do you love?
Who do you love?
Who do you love?
Who do you love?

I rode around the town'n use a rattlesnake whip,
take it easy Arlene don't give me no lip
Who do you love?
Who do you love?
Who do you love?
Who do you love?

The night was dark and the sky was blue, down the alley a house wagon flew
Hit a bump and somebody screamed, you should'a heard just what I seen
Who do you love?
Who do you love?
Who do you love?
Who do you love?

Arlene took me by my hand, she said, "Ooo-eee Bo, I understand"
Who do you love?
Who do you love?
Who do you love?
Who do you love?


CHARLENA

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GOODNIGHT, MY LOVE (PLEASANT DREAMS)

Good night, my love
Good night, my love

Good night, my love
Pleasant dreams and sleep tight my love
May tomorrow be sunny and bright
And bring you closer to me

Before you go
There's just one thing I want to know
Is your love still warm for me
Or has it gone cold?

If you should awake
In the still of the night
Please have no fears
I'll be there
You know I care
Please give your love to me, dear

(repeat first verse)

Good night, my love

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