Mr La Bamba
When Trini Lopez first heard The Beatles, he thought the group would not become a phenomenon. Popular for hits like Lemon Tree, La Bamba, Shame and Scandal and If I had a Hammer, the singer takes a break from working on his 63rd album to walk down memory lane with Mathures Paul No Western music request show on All India Radio is ever complete without a song from Trini Lopez. The poor boy from Dallas, Texas, sold lemonade to earn a living. After his father caught him “hanging around the wrong kind of kids”, a spanking followed. Trinidad Lopez Sr. was saddened by the incident and bought him a guitar with $12. The rest is history. Two generations grew up on songs like If I Had A Hammer, La Bamba and Perfidia. But why, since the 1980s, do we hear less from Trini Lopez? Like other artistes, not everyone can stay on top all the time. But the primary objectives are to be around and be heard once in a while. Even when a singer dies somebody would play the person’s records once in a while. Bein...