"La Bamba" () 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 "La Bamba" is included in Robert Christgau's "Basic Record Library" of 1950s and 1960s recordings — published in "" (1981) — and ranked number 345 on "Rolling Stone magazine"′s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. It is the only song on the list sung in a language other than English.