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What hit was the first all-Spanish-language song to reach No. 1 on the “Billboard” Hot 100 singles chart? Hint: it was also a cover for a 1987 hit film of the same name. Take a look back at how Los Lobos and this song made history. | AARP

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