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Simultaneous Spanish-language version?

Am I correct in thinking that a Spanish-language version of this was filmed with the same cast at the same time? I recall that it was felt that, given the subject matter, there would be a market for the movie in Spanish-speaking territories which would be better served by not being given a dubbed version, but I don’t have any evidence for this, and could be mis-remembering. Jock123 (talk) 11:57, 3 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

First time I hear of it, as far as I know. But the LA Times says there was such a version: [1]. They write very little about it: that it was released in summer 1987 by Columbia, was exhibited in Spanish-language theaters in the US, and it grossed $2.6, considered a very good take. There's nothing about the casting, though. SamEV (talk) 21:24, 3 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I saw the movie in South America when it was released there and I also had the impression (or I was told) that it was filmed in Spanish. Particularly, I was struck by the fact that there were some Spanish-language idioms/profanities that at that time were traditionally not present in our everyday Spanish-dubbed American movies. Later, I saw it in VHS but in English. As I remember there was a telltale scene in which Ritchie, during his Tijuana escapade with/abduction by his brother, encountered a Mexican-Indian shaman and the boy excused himself to the elder man: "Yo no speako Español". This scene was also present in the Spanish-language version, and Ritchie also seemed not to understand the shaman, but it was less clear why he didn't. So I assumed that the Spanish version is a dubbed version of the same footage, dubbed or not by the same cast. As I have never heard Lou Diamond Phillips speak Spanish, I don't know if his command of it is as perfect as his character's in that Spanish-speaking version of La Bamba. Aldo L (talk) 03:33, 28 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Background

==Background==

This production had the full support of the Valenzuela family. The real Bob Morales and Connie Valenzuela came to the set to help the actors portray their characters accurately, and Connie (in life known as "Concha") makes a cameo appearance as an older lady sitting next to Ritchie at the family's first party.

Phillips bonded with the Valenzuelas and, at one point, actually became Ritchie to them. Such as was the case when an incident involving Ritchie's real-life sister Connie Lemos occurred that disrupted the screening of the film. When at the screening she saw Phillips (as Valens) boarding the plane for the ill-fated Winter Dance Party flight; Lemos, who was only six years old at the time of the crash, was said to hysterically grab onto Phillips and shout, "Don't go Ritchie! Please don't get on the plane! Why did you have to die?" Lemos later admitted on VH-1's Behind the Music that she realized at that moment that she never fully accepted her brother's death.

The original title of this film was "Let's Go", named for Valens' hit song: "Come On, Let's Go!"

All of Ritchie Valens' songs were performed by Los Lobos. The band has a cameo in the movie wherein they sang in the brothel ballroom in Tijuana. Brian Setzer has a cameo as Eddie Cochran performing "Summertime Blues" onstage, while Howard Huntsberry starred as singer Jackie Wilson in the film, singing a cover of "Lonely Teardrops," which was on the soundtrack LP. Marshall Crenshaw plays Buddy Holly performing "Crying, Waiting, Hoping" at the final concert in Clear Lake, Iowa.

Ritchie Valens was only 17 years old when he died, eight months after he signed to Del-Fi Records and produced three songs that hit the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Don McLean immortalized Ritchie and his friends' deaths as "The Day the Music Died", when he chronicled his reaction to hearing about the plane crash in his song "American Pie".

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