Cielito Lindo - Versions

Versions

The song has been subject to many versions:

• Voodoo Glow Skulls, a ska punk band from California, do a cover on their album Exitos Al Cabron (1999).
• Pedro Infante sang it in the 1947 Mexican film Los tres García. He also had the lead role in the film
• In 1963, Trini Lopez released a very famous Spanish version of the song, on his album Trini Lopez at PJ's
• In 1982, popular Puerto Rican boy band Menudo covered this song for performances in Mexico, only. It was finally released in 1983, but only on the album Adios Miguel.
• Other Spanish versions include: Irma Vila y su Mariachi, Los Lobos, and Placido Domingo alongside Luciano Pavarotti and José Carreras. In 2006 it was recorded by Ana Gabriel.
• There are instrumental versions as well most notably by Mantovani
• Cuban Rumba band leader and actor, Desi Arnaz performed the song's refrain several times on the television show he co-starred in with his real-life wife, Lucille Ball - I Love Lucy.
• The song "Richard Allen George...No, It's Just Cheez" by Less Than Jake ends with a sing-along about mustaches, to the melody of "Cielito Lindo."
• Iranian singer Mohsen Namjoo included it in his third album Oy. His version features Golshifteh Farahani as co-singer. Within the song, he included some poems by Shamloo and Molana.
• Limerick songs are often set to the tune of "Cielito Lindo."
• Deanna Durbin, a Canadian/American singer and actress from the 1930s and 1940s, also recorded a version of this song in Spanish.