La-La (Means I Love You)

The song was a number four U.S. Billboard pop, number two R&B hit in 1968. A 1971, rerelease peaked at number 19 on the UK Singles Chart. The song is one of the Delfonics' most enduring recordings and perhaps their best loved, noting a number of cover versions.

• Alton Ellis and the Flames recorded a rocksteady version in 1968 on the Jamaican Supersonics label.
• Family group The Jets covered it in 1985 in for their self-titled album.[4]
• Booker T. & the M.G.'s covered an instrumental version of the song in their 1968 album, Soul Limbo.[5]
• The Jackson 5 covered the song in their 1970 album, ABC,[6] and it was featured in their early 1970s Saturday morning cartoon.
• American actress Connie Stevens covered the song in 1971 during a short-lived stint as an R&B singer, with Thom Bell producing.[7]
• Egyptian rock group Les Petits Chats (aka The Cats) released a version b/w "With a Little Help from My Friends" in 1971 on the Sono Cairo label.[8][9]
• Todd Rundgren covered the song, as a medley of soul songs on his 1973 album, A Wizard, a True Star.[10]
• Samantha Sang covered "La-La (Means I Love You)" on her 1978 LP, Emotion.[11]
• In 1981, Tierra covered the song on their album, "Together Again".[12]
• Tatsuro Yamashita covered the song on his 1989 album, Joy: Tatsuro Yamashita Live.
• The Cantonese version of the song was sung by Grasshopper in 1992.
• Swing Out Sister covered the song in their 1994 album The Living Return.[13]
• The Manhattan Transfer covered the song in their 1995 album Tonin'.[14]
• Prince covered the song in his 1996 album Emancipation, retitling the song "La, La, La Means 👁 Love U".[15]
• Laura Nyro covered the song, as a medley, on her 1988 live album laura:) live at the bottom line.[16]

• In 2004, rapper Ghostface Killah also sampled "La-La" for his song "Holla" from his album, The Pretty Toney Album.

• Billy Bragg quotes the chorus of the song on "The Saturday Boy" from his 1984 album, Brewing Up with Billy Bragg.
• The song was featured in Spike Lee's 1994 film, Crooklyn.
• It also appeared in Quentin Tarantino's 1997 film, Jackie Brown.
• Brett Ratner‘s 2000 film, The Family Man, Jack Campbell (Nicolas Cage) sang this song to Kate (Téa Leoni).