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This week our host Jim Adams for Song Lyric Sunday has given us the prompt of songs featured in films that made the charts.

The goal is to take the prompt and profile a song that has it part of its lyrics or title.

Please consider carving out time to read the posts of other bloggers who responded to the Song Lyric Sunday challenge.

Rules for Song Lyric Sunday

Post the lyrics to the song of your choice, whether it contains the prompt words or not.  If it does not meet the criteria, then please explain why you chose this song.
• Please try to include the songwriter(s) – it’s a good idea to give credit where credit is due.  Your post can be as long or as short as you want it to be.
• Make sure you also credit the singer/band and if you desire you can provide a link to where you found the lyrics.
• Link to the YouTube video or pull it into your post so others can listen to the song.
• Ping back to this post or place your link in the comments section below.
• Read at least one other person’s blog, so we can all share new and fantastic music and create amazing new blogging friends in the process.
• Feel free to suggest future prompts.
• Have fun and enjoy the music.

La Bamba

In 1987 there was a film released called La Bamba. This movie covers the life and career of Richie Valens. He was just 17 years old when he changed the course of pop music in the late 1950s. Often Valens is identified as Mexican American or Chicano rock legend. La Bamba, the film was written and directed by Luis Valdez. One of the many songs on the soundtrack to La Bamba was the title track called La Bamba. It is a Mexican Folk song and was made popular by Richie Valens in 1958 but in the movie, it is performed by Los Lobos.

Don McLean’ 1971 song “American Pie” has an iconic verse about “The Day the Music Died“. Later this week February 3rd in fact will mark the 63rd Anniversary of a plane crash in Clear Lake, Iowa that claimed the lives of four people. Those that died included musicians Richie Valens, Buddy Holly, and J.P “The Big Bopper” Richardson. Also lost in the accident was the pilot, Roger Peterson.

Los Lobos music video of the song won an award from MTV in 1988 and it also reached #1 on Billboard Top 100.

Lyrics

Music Video by Los Lobos

Next week the prompt is Space, Planets, Aliens.