LA BAMBA
This page is for the MAMBO A GO GO instrumental cover of La Bamba. For the DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA cover of the song, please see La Bamba.
LA BAMBA
Song Information
Artist: メキシコ民謡
Composition: Mexican Traditional
Arrangement: BE BORN STUDIO
BPM: 179
Length: 1:32
Genre: Oldies
First Music Game Appearance: MAMBO A GO GO
Other Music Game Appearances:
- DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME
- ミライダガッキ FutureTomTom Ver.2
Lyrics
None.
Song Connections / Remixes
- Another cover of La Bamba, by LH MUSIC CREATION, appears in DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA.
- Another cover of La Bamba appears in マリンバ天国.
Trivia
- This song has different backgrounds, banners, jackets, or other related images. For more information, please see this page.
- The exact origin of LA BAMBA has never been discovered, with the earliest known recording of the song dating back to 1938, with Alvaro Hernández Ortiz's recording under the name of El Jarocho. The version best known is the 1958 version recorded by Ritchie Valens, which is the version MAMBO A GO GO's cover is based on.
- The MAMBO A GO GO data credits LA BAMBA's artist as BE BORN STUDIO, although this artist is not shown in-game.
- LA BAMBA's MAMBO A GO GO jacket can be seen on its DanceDanceRevolution banner.
- On the American and European releases of DanceDanceRevolution before DanceDanceRevolution A, LA BAMBA's artist was romanized as Mexican Folk Song.
- LA BAMBA received a unique video in DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME2. This video was carried to the arcade releases in DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA. This video is played full-screen and eliminates any on-screen dancers prior to DanceDanceRevolution WORLD.
- Its title was also capitalized as La Bamba in DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME2 and Dancing Stage Max.
- LA BAMBA was the only licensed song from DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME not removed in DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA.
- It is currently the longest surviving license in arcade DanceDanceRevolution history.
- LA BAMBA is listed at the very beginning of the DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME folder from DanceDanceRevolution X3 VS 2ndMIX until DanceDanceRevolution A, much like other licensed songs.
Song Production Information
None.
Difficulty & Notecounts
DanceDanceRevolution difficulty rated from 1 to 10 from DDRMAX2 to SuperNOVA2, and 1 to 20 from X onwards.
MAMBO A GO GO difficulty rated from 1 to 8.
DanceDanceRevolution
| Game | Single | Double | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beginner | Basic | Difficult | Expert | Challenge | Basic | Difficult | Expert | Challenge | |
| Notecounts / Freeze Arrows / Shock Arrows | 99 / 0 | 119 / 8 | 209 / 16 | 305 / 10 | - / - / - | 118 / 6 | 211 / 14 | 282 / 14 | - / - / - |
| DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME→SuperNOVA2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | - | 4 | 5 | 8 | - |
| DanceDanceRevolution X→Present | 3 | 4 | 8 | 11 | - | 4 | 8 | 10 | - |
| DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME CS JP | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | - | 4 | 5 | 8 | - |
| DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME2 / Dancing Stage Max | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | - | 4 | 5 | 8 | - |
| DanceDanceRevolution GRAND PRIX | 3 | 4 | 8 | 11 | - | 4 | 8 | 10 | - |
MAMBO A GO GO
| Game | Difficulty | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Easy | Normal | Hard | Very Hard | |
| Notecounts | 284 | 284 | 464 | 536 |
| MAMBO A GO GO | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |