I just love this song. It's so incredibly sad if you really listen to the lyrics. Just people trying to get by the best they can, with so much adversity placed in front of them constantly. Here I am, a senior citizen, and I still almost cry every time I hear this beautiful song. I just love this song so much.
Thank You W. Hild. I too am a senior, and I also cry every time I here this tune..........like right now!! Heard them do it live at "Merle Fest", with the "Tedeschi Trucks Band". Phenomenal!!!! Just turned on the movie "Colors" ( it opens the movie), and had to do a "Double Play"..........make that a Triple!!!!!
This song is the intro to the movie 'Colors'. One of the most powerful cinema music/imagery's in Hollywood history. Thanks Los Lobos for being such talented, great band.
Hi! Y'all a shout out to you all. I also love this tune. I'm from the East Side of Los Angeles. Hey I am glad to have been part of Los Lobos. I am Charlie Tovar and played congas and percussion in the early days. I played in the album " Just another band from ELA." Btw I still play my congas whenever and wherever. 😂 Later Gente! 👍😁🙏
I have a story. Poignant but true. As I mentioned I played with Los Lobos. Many gigs. Gas money y' know. Anyways I went to Tower Records back in the day man. In Hollywood on Sunset. I asked the counter staff about Los Lobos album. He said to look in the " Foreign section." He said never heard of Los Lobos. Around '85? Yet you can find lots of British band records. Aren't Brits foreign? East Los Angeles us part of L.A. County.
It’s so funny to see Louie on drums after seeing him for the last bunch of years playing guitar. Tremendous drummer but Bugs is fantastic! Louie, David and Cesar are all great guitar players. Hidalgo hits me as hard as any guitar player in terms of making my soul cry. Long Live The Wolves Of East LA. 🐺
All of them a great musicians, and under rated song writers. Great, great lyrics. Makes me smile knowing these dudes are still touring, bringing their music live to their fans.
Born and raised in Texas, daing good song comin outta California. Hell yeah, listen to the message man..... Thank you Los Lobos. Proudly served this country, Infantry 11B
Hey brother. Also 11 Bang Bang. I may not like we're this country is politically at the moment. But ain't about the government its about the people. I love my fellow citizens dearly and will always do my part to serve them. I no longer wear the uniform but now I'm on the frontlines as a union organizer. I fight to make sure our American workers get decent pay, benefits, and enough down time to be with their loved ones.
Big Red 1 1st infantry division 82C survey 30 years in a 2 months when we deployed for the first gulf war. We ain’t no suckers or losers and our country is suppose to be a melting pot and diverse like it was when our ancestors came to this country. ☮️ vote!!!!
@@fransorbon6121 It amazes me how racially diverse and inclusive this song is, it's a SAD world we live in that in 30yrs, as a people we're no further along in the efforts of loving one another. LISTEN to the lyrics, WHY are we still talking about walls and keeping people out??
J G Los lobos we’re not illegal immigrants they are Americans. The border is to keep non Americans or illegal immigrants out. To protect the country from drugs gangs cartels and violent criminals. For many many years democrats and liberals have divided the country by race by telling people of color line myself that my race is more important than being American
these guys hit this one dead on...it shows the fabric of this country and who we are...god bless this country and thank you lobos for such a wonderful song..my father said to be strong and that a good man can NEVER be wrong !!
This song got a lot of airplay on alternative music stations. Not on the top 40 stations. One of those gems you find along with so many other songs. I loved Alternative Radio Stations in the 90's.
First time I ever heard this song was in the movie Colors back in 88. I was eight years old, even as a kid I liked this jam. It has a Texas country sound to it.
This song has been a part of my i-pod playlist for years and years!!! This song never got the respect it deserved. But, rock and roll with a twist of country flair is always a winner....
I’m a 56 male from Central Alberta🇨🇦. When this song came out back in the 80’s … Wow its stuck with me ever since.. took me years to really understand the lyrics…love this band for 30+ years!!! Incredible tune from a Seriously talented band!!!!
I remembers seeing Colors in 1988. This song worked well as the intro. Really brought the viewer into a whole crazy world of gangs and cops. Great movie, timeless song.
I grew up around loggers and sawmill workers in the Northwest, was one myself before I went to med school. These folks built America, they are our heroes. I get a tear in my eye whenever I hear this song.
America 🇺🇸 the MOST diversed country on the planet showing the rest of the world it can be done 💪 yes we have our issues but that American bond can NOT be broken. We all want great lives let’s show them all.
RIP Terry in Tejas. Thank you hermano for turning me on to this wonderful group many years ago. Can't believe you're gone. But God is good and faithful.
What happened to this band , my mom bought this album back in the 80s when I was a teenager and it brought us together, I miss mom, she passed February 20 2021
Lance Krantz Laffoon at 2:22 seconds in video. My good friend I grew up with in Los Angeles. Thanks you so much Los Lobos for including him. RIP Lance, love you buddy.
i love this song it reminds me of colors it also reminds me of my hometown east oakland where there are so many storys like this homicides all the time mostly blacks and latinos dying in the streets of oakland in america sad but true....
It's a song causes a dilemma. It's the kind of song that if you heard it come on in a nightclub, such is its rythm, your instinct would be to get up and dance to it, but then if you knew the lyrics you would wonder how appropriate such a response would be. It's also the kind of song that is all too rare today, ie basolutely brilliantly. Muchos gracias to Los Lobos and to loslobosmusic for uploading it. Bueno.
Am struggling with this dilemma now. It fits my band's genre well, but wonder if it's appropriate. Born in the USA comes to mind...if hear only the title stanza you miss the real meaning.
Tampa show. 30 odd years ago. They played this song and I tried to express to my girlfriend how this was THE MOST AMERICAN song ever... And she didn't get it... Los Lobos rules!!! ☮️&❤️4ALL!!!
I grew up listening to this on my Dad's record player. We grew up in a white family from El Cajon, Chula Vista, Bonita, San Ysidro California. This song still gives me goosebumps to this day! Perfect negative (photo) view of the land I love!
One of my favorite bands of all time. Got to meet the guys when I MC'd a show of theirs many years ago, back in my radio DJ days. I got each of them to autograph the cover of my treasured "How Will the Wolf Survive" LP.
Colors is a great movie directed by Dennis Hopper.The guy who played Frog(Trinidad Silva) I once met a couple months after the movie came out, we used to cruise Whittier Boulevard and we saw him down there one weekend.Two weeks after that he was killed on that same street it was the summer of 1988-an automobile accident-really sad I think he would have gotten a lot more roles.I think he was in a movie with Weird Al and they had already started filming it when he died .Cool dude he was also in The Jerk.He also was on Hill Street Blues if I remember right as well.
Trinidad Silva stole every scene he was in on "Hill Street Blues." He played a Latino gang leader trying to keep peace with the police. Unforgettable actor.
I've been a fan of Los Lobos for years--and this song has become a personal 4th of July tradition. If anyone ever asked me to "sum up America in one song" I'd pop this on.
This song will forever pop into my head every time I hear about a school shooting or other gun violence. It's so true. "Merica. We do love our guns, no matter the cost.
Probably one of the best, if not the best, American bands of the last 25 years. I'm still trying to understand how Madonna could make it into the RR Hall of Fame, but LL has still not been even considered. What a joke!!
Totally agree, Nolagirlone. whenever they come to Holland I'm going, they never dissapoint,No image or" how they look" all about the music. Cesar thanks us in between the songs with: Thank you music-lovers! nuff said.
They have so much talent. Totally amazing. I saw them last winter in Boston and I think some of their wives were watching from the side of the stage. They looked like they were all having so much fun, just being able to perform.
one of the best songs ever, such honest people music, and those gorgeous harmonies. nice to see it hitting 4 million views. may you guys live long and well...
"My Father said be strong, A good man never do wrong." That hits me hard. We all do the best we can. It's all just hope and faith the next day will get better.
Love love love this - I wore out my "By The Light of Moon" CD from playing it to death. Good thing it wasn't on vinyl or the grooves would have worn off til the thing was smooth as glass! LOL
Niiiiiiceee;) My respects for your tadte in fine musiv. Might you be so kind as to suggest other songs in this Vein of One Night One Time. You know irresistabpe to the soul and danceflior? Much Apptrciated;)
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I just love this song. It's so incredibly sad if you really listen to the lyrics. Just people trying to get by the best they can, with so much adversity placed in front of them constantly. Here I am, a senior citizen, and I still almost cry every time I hear this beautiful song. I just love this song so much.
Thank You W. Hild.
I too am a senior, and I also cry every time I here this tune..........like right now!!
Heard them do it live at "Merle Fest", with the "Tedeschi Trucks Band". Phenomenal!!!!
Just turned on the movie "Colors" ( it opens the movie), and had to do a "Double Play"..........make that a Triple!!!!!
You need to listen closer, save some tears
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Oh yeah. Spot on brother
@williamhild1793 "I love beautiful melodies telling me horrible things." -Tom Waits
without question, THE most underrated band in America...and have been for decades.
For sure
@@davidgutierrez5026 I saw them live in Salt Lake City back in the 90's.
Well said friend
Would love to see a double bill with Los lobos and the Mavericks...
Agree
Who's still listening in 2021....This guy!
I am
Los Lobos definitely deserves to be inducted into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
The R & R H of F, is a big frkin joke/scam, like about everything else in this country at this point!!
This song is the intro to the movie 'Colors'. One of the most powerful cinema music/imagery's in Hollywood history. Thanks Los Lobos for being such talented, great band.
Yep the intro with this song couldnt have been more perfect. Bravo
Its an ok movie but nothing special
@@Georgelooney87 No movie with Robert Duvall and Sean Penn in the leads is just "ok". It's a great movie!
@@eddiewinehosen6665 I'd watch it if it were on TV. Saying something as most stuff I wouldn't.
Thumbs up if you think this should be atleast a million veiws
Hi! Y'all a shout out to you all. I also love this tune. I'm from the East Side of Los Angeles. Hey I am glad to have been part of Los Lobos. I am Charlie Tovar and played congas and percussion in the early days. I played in the album " Just another band from ELA." Btw I still play my congas whenever and wherever. 😂 Later Gente! 👍😁🙏
I have a story. Poignant but true. As I mentioned I played with Los Lobos. Many gigs. Gas money y' know. Anyways I went to Tower Records back in the day man. In Hollywood on Sunset. I asked the counter staff about Los Lobos album. He said to look in the " Foreign section." He said never heard of Los Lobos. Around '85? Yet you can find lots of British band records. Aren't Brits foreign? East Los Angeles us part of L.A. County.
Los Lobos are sons of California just like me.
I have an original cassette (yellow) of That album
Just another band from EAST LA
@@charlestovar399 WOW!! Foreign section!!! GOOD GOD!!! I grew up in Colorado and when I heard you for the first time? MAGIC!! THANK YOU!! : )
You and your bros were so good . Guaranteed to steal the show !
I never would have known about this song if it hadn't been the first song on the movie Colors. Now I listen to it all the time
The upbeat music betrays the seriousness of the words.
This has to be one of the most essential gems of a song that everyone needs to listen to at least once in their lifetime.
Most definitely, brother ! 👍😊🇺🇸
Definitely agree…sadly most will never hear it or appreciate it
I have listened to it many times. But I listened to it last night at their concert.
That’s awesome! These folks are definitely one of the best and most talented bands in the world. I’m sure it was an amazing concert.
@@joseleal53 great song to open the show.
This song will always give me chills, great guitar work.
Same here!
Movie soundtrack COLORS
If you have not listed " will the wolf survive? I recommend you to take a listen....
It’s so funny to see Louie on drums after seeing him for the last bunch of years playing guitar. Tremendous drummer but Bugs is fantastic! Louie, David and Cesar are all great guitar players. Hidalgo hits me as hard as any guitar player in terms of making my soul cry. Long Live The Wolves Of East LA. 🐺
All of them a great musicians, and under rated song writers. Great, great lyrics. Makes me smile knowing these dudes are still touring, bringing their music live to their fans.
One of the greatest songs ever written,by one of the greatest bands of all time, who cares if they are underrated?, they are ours, and we love them!!
Born and raised in Texas, daing good song comin outta California. Hell yeah, listen to the message man..... Thank you Los Lobos. Proudly served this country, Infantry 11B
Hey brother. Also 11 Bang Bang. I may not like we're this country is politically at the moment. But ain't about the government its about the people. I love my fellow citizens dearly and will always do my part to serve them. I no longer wear the uniform but now I'm on the frontlines as a union organizer. I fight to make sure our American workers get decent pay, benefits, and enough down time to be with their loved ones.
I'll just follow you then.
We're not all fruitcakes here in califrutti
Thank you for your service neighbour
Big Red 1
1st infantry division
82C survey
30 years in a 2 months when we deployed for the first gulf war.
We ain’t no suckers or losers and our country is suppose to be a melting pot and diverse like it was when our ancestors came to this country. ☮️ vote!!!!
Great Band out of Rowland Heights/East LA. Colors 88 soundtrack
The music, the lyrics, the singing. WOW! Best song I've heard in 30 years!
Great group is all I can say ! ! !
Check out the Mavericks songs in English.
Colors brought me here
One of the best things to come out of East LA was this terrific band!
Giuseppe Ferrazza
@@fransorbon6121 It amazes me how racially diverse and inclusive this song is, it's a SAD world we live in that in 30yrs, as a people we're no further along in the efforts of loving one another. LISTEN to the lyrics, WHY are we still talking about walls and keeping people out??
J G Los lobos we’re not illegal immigrants they are Americans. The border is to keep non Americans or illegal immigrants out. To protect the country from drugs gangs cartels and violent criminals. For many many years democrats and liberals have divided the country by race by telling people of color line myself that my race is more important than being American
@@jg1205 always some tool who has to add race
Anthony Quinn was also from East LA.
Can't sing along without raising tears not 20 years ago and still not now - now that's a great song!
Best Band in America. Now, more than ever, America needs this song.
these guys hit this one dead on...it shows the fabric of this country and who we are...god bless this country and thank you lobos for such a wonderful song..my father said to be strong and that a good man can NEVER be wrong !!
"...a good man, can never do wrong!" I'm a naturlasied citizen. This is as patriotic as, "America the Beautiful".
Amen to that 🙏
Thank you Rolling Stone magazine,you turned me on to this band in 1984.
This song got a lot of airplay on alternative music stations. Not on the top 40 stations. One of those gems you find along with so many other songs. I loved Alternative Radio Stations in the 90's.
Love this song! Los Lobos is so underrated.
One of the best live bands that I've ever seen. These cats deliver every time!
Perfect song for this week in America
Especially after what happened yesterday in Pennsylvania.
First time I ever heard this song was in the movie Colors back in 88. I was eight years old, even as a kid I liked this jam. It has a Texas country sound to it.
This song has been a part of my i-pod playlist for years and years!!! This song never got the respect it deserved. But, rock and roll with a twist of country flair is always a winner....
This song should be our new national anthem! No kidding! The song & the video encapsulates our new national identity, nowadays!
I don't know if there is any band that could be considered the "LA band". But if there is it is definitely these guys. They are amazing,
I’m a 56 male from Central Alberta🇨🇦. When this song came out back in the 80’s … Wow its stuck with me ever since.. took me years to really understand the lyrics…love this band for 30+ years!!! Incredible tune from a Seriously talented band!!!!
The energy from all the comments filled with love and hope linked to this song makes me confident we will prevail
So relevant today. Yeah -- today! America's best band.
I remembers seeing Colors in 1988. This song worked well as the intro. Really brought the viewer into a whole crazy world of gangs and cops. Great movie, timeless song.
I grew up around loggers and sawmill workers in the Northwest, was one myself before I went to med school. These folks built America, they are our heroes. I get a tear in my eye whenever I hear this song.
America 🇺🇸 the MOST diversed country on the planet showing the rest of the world it can be done 💪 yes we have our issues but that American bond can NOT be broken. We all want great lives let’s show them all.
34 trillion in debt..yeah the diversity experiment didnt work.
Watching Colors in 2015 loving this Song! !
2016 its june and i rewatched & reenjoyed this favorite 80s flick
2019
2020
I think of the movie Colors every time I hear this song.
Likewise
Masterpiece of Americana music
Opening song from the American classic movie 'Colors'.
Thank you Rolling Stone for introducing me to this band back in the 1980’s.
RIP Terry in Tejas. Thank you hermano for turning me on to this wonderful group many years ago. Can't believe you're gone. But God is good and faithful.
What happened to this band , my mom bought this album back in the 80s when I was a teenager and it brought us together, I miss mom, she passed February 20 2021
Got hooked on this song wen I saw the Colors movie back in the late 80s
Lance Krantz Laffoon at 2:22 seconds in video. My good friend I grew up with in Los Angeles. Thanks you so much Los Lobos for including him. RIP Lance, love you buddy.
i love this song it reminds me of colors it also reminds me of my hometown east oakland where there are so many storys like this homicides all the time mostly blacks and latinos dying in the streets of oakland in america sad but true....
It's a song causes a dilemma. It's the kind of song that if you heard it come on in a nightclub, such is its rythm, your instinct would be to get up and dance to it, but then if you knew the lyrics you would wonder how appropriate such a response would be. It's also the kind of song that is all too rare today, ie basolutely brilliantly. Muchos gracias to Los Lobos and to loslobosmusic for uploading it. Bueno.
Am struggling with this dilemma now. It fits my band's genre well, but wonder if it's appropriate. Born in the USA comes to mind...if hear only the title stanza you miss the real meaning.
@@bcoldwell1 "i was born in a small town"
"Little pink houses for you n me"
All the same.
These dudes are the definition of a rock band. They're perfectly in sync with each other. That flat picking is country gold. Pure n simple
I'm coming tooam 😊
This song has always knocked me out. Well done, guys.
loved this from the Colors movie
A GREAT American band. Love this group. 2025 soon and will still be listening to this awesome band from East LA:-)
I first heard this in Colors in the opening scene. The contradictions in the song fit in well with the movie itself. I love this song.
Arriba Los Lobos, saludos desde Oaxaca, Mexico.
The song that should bring us all together (Nov. 2020)
Fell in love with this song when the movie Colors first came out
Tampa show. 30 odd years ago. They played this song and I tried to express to my girlfriend how this was THE MOST AMERICAN song ever... And she didn't get it... Los Lobos rules!!! ☮️&❤️4ALL!!!
Why isnt this song credited in the Colors soundtrack...or in the credits. Its pretty much the best song that is played in the movie. Great song.
Because the music director for the film, Herbie Hancock, chose to focus on rap/hip-hop...
I grew up listening to this on my Dad's record player. We grew up in a white family from El Cajon, Chula Vista, Bonita, San Ysidro California. This song still gives me goosebumps to this day! Perfect negative (photo) view of the land I love!
This song reminds me of the movie Colors. great movie, great song.
Wicked song tune from back in my day!!! Very underated song
COLORS COLORS COLORS COLORS!
I love this song..this is one of my all time faves by "the wolves of east los angeles"!!!!
One of my favorite bands of all time. Got to meet the guys when I MC'd a show of theirs many years ago, back in my radio DJ days. I got each of them to autograph the cover of my treasured "How Will the Wolf Survive" LP.
Great front man,great Lyrics, great guitar, great band
my opinion the greatest american rock band. thanks.
Thank you Michelle for turning me on to this group still have the cassette JS bus
beautiful song, I love how well Caesar's and David's voices sound so well together
First heard this song in the opening credits for the movie "Colors". One of the many great tunes from Los Lobos.
Thanks for posting.
Great song and it was in the movie colors
Pure America, right there!
I know this song, never seen this video! omg so many things I want to say. But amazing. so well done, nothing is at this level anymore.
Colors is a great movie directed by Dennis Hopper.The guy who played Frog(Trinidad Silva) I once met a couple months after the movie came out, we used to cruise Whittier Boulevard and we saw him down there one weekend.Two weeks after that he was killed on that same street it was the summer of 1988-an automobile accident-really sad I think he would have gotten a lot more roles.I think he was in a movie with Weird Al and they had already started filming it when he died .Cool dude he was also in The Jerk.He also was on Hill Street Blues if I remember right as well.
good2know...........thanks........
nothing's changed
Thank you for your comment sad but interesting
Thank you for that sad but interesting...
Trinidad Silva stole every scene he was in on "Hill Street Blues." He played a Latino gang leader trying to keep peace with the police. Unforgettable actor.
Yep he was killed by a drunk driver..
I've been a fan of Los Lobos for years--and this song has become a personal 4th of July tradition. If anyone ever asked me to "sum up America in one song" I'd pop this on.
This song will forever pop into my head every time I hear about a school shooting or other gun violence. It's so true. "Merica. We do love our guns, no matter the cost.
Beautiful song and one of the best bands in the world
Probably one of the best, if not the best, American bands of the last 25 years. I'm still trying to understand how Madonna could make it into the RR Hall of Fame, but LL has still not been even considered. What a joke!!
Love ❤️ this song n the band one of my favorite songs ❤
One the greatest American bands of all time.
Love this song so much I'm going to learn it.
I am currently hooked on this song. I listen to it every morning before I leave the house. Brilliant.
Desde Argentina 2021🇦🇷👍
I love this band!! This album is terrific!!!
I grew up listening to these guys music... I loved seeing them when they'd come to the hillside in East austin back in the day
What a great country 2 step....
This song is America!!!
wish hey still made songs like this
It's so sad that our America is no longer the land of the free and the home of the brave. Remember how America was from 2016 and 2020.
Shit. Remember how America was back before the 65-immigration act.
@yosemite735 educate me if you will.
Yeah. Suffering the whims of an idiot man-child.
Totally agree, Nolagirlone.
whenever they come to Holland I'm going, they never dissapoint,No image or" how they look" all about the music. Cesar thanks us in between the songs with: Thank you music-lovers! nuff said.
They have so much talent. Totally amazing. I saw them last winter in Boston and I think some of their wives were watching from the side of the stage. They looked like they were all having so much fun, just being able to perform.
Great Song. I just recently watched Colors and the only thing I cared for was this song. I thought it was a country band. What a voice this guy has!
Lol what's someone like yourself doing watching something like colours?
VIKINGODIN That is a damn good question! I didn't really watch it - just the first few minutes. lol.
Ulla Leonard you should finish watching it!
One of the best movies of the 80s Dennis Hopper should have won an Oscar for it!
Same here.
Amazing this song never charted......wrong time wrong place???........great song from a great group regardless!!!!!
one of the best songs ever, such honest people music, and those gorgeous harmonies. nice to see it hitting 4 million views. may you guys live long and well...
'Yo Hodgers!'.....this song gives me tingles, awesome.
Great band.
Brillian song from a brilliant Band!
"My Father said be strong, A good man never do wrong." That hits me hard. We all do the best we can. It's all just hope and faith the next day will get better.
Love love love this - I wore out my "By The Light of Moon" CD from playing it to death. Good thing it wasn't on vinyl or the grooves would have worn off til the thing was smooth as glass! LOL
Niiiiiiceee;) My respects for your tadte in fine musiv. Might you be so kind as to suggest other songs in this Vein of One Night One Time. You know irresistabpe to the soul and danceflior? Much Apptrciated;)
Thanks!
Paul Chavei - listen to the whole album. Every song is great. My fave is "Is This All There Is" 💯👌🏼
fucking poetry right here. seriously, one of the most underrated american bands of all time.
...been a fan for so-so long...they were great on Austin City Limits...still great, still true...simply... Los Lobos!!!
Great song!! Certainly one the best songs they have written/performed.
Muchas gracias for posting it!!