Ritchie Valens Memorial Album is the first greatest hits compilation by Ritchie Valens, featuring his first three charted hits plus tracks from the previous...

name Ritchie Valens, was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. A rock and roll pioneer and a forefather of the Chicano rock movement, Valens died...

Ritchie Valens...His Greatest Hits Volume 2 is the second greatest hits compilation by Ritchie Valens. This follow-up to the Ritchie Valens Memorial Album/His...

Ritchie Valens in Concert at Pacoima Jr. High was released posthumously and is the third and final of the released "original" albums by Ritchie Valens...

Ritchie Valens Memorial Album Memorial Album (Bunny Berigan album) The Kenny Dorham Memorial Album The Eddie Cochran Memorial Album Memorial Collection...

On February 3, 1959, American rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and "The Big Bopper" J. P. Richardson were all killed in a plane crash...

March 1958, Keane discovered Ritchie Valens performing a Saturday matinee show in a movie theatre in Pacoima and invited Valens to audition in the basement...

Clear Lake, Iowa, in 1959, along with fellow musicians Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens, and the pilot, Roger Peterson. Richardson was born on October 24, 1930...

Mustang Records by producer Bob Keane, who was noted for discovering Ritchie Valens and producing many surf music groups. By this time, the group consisted...

Los Angeles; he slept in Valens' bedroom. He remained close to the Valens family and performed at the Ritchie Valens memorial concert held yearly in Pacoima...

Cochran. Her other songwriting credits included "Hurry Up", recorded by Ritchie Valens. In April 1960, she traveled to United Kingdom to join Cochran and Gene...

Bopper's death in the same plane crash that killed Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens on 3 February 1959. It entered the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in October...

1958. He began taking lessons from Maus, who had been a student of Ritchie Valens. In 1959, Marks and Brian Wilson's youngest brother Carl began to develop...

before midnight), Allsup agreed to flip a coin for the seat with Ritchie Valens. Valens called heads; when he won, he reportedly said, "That's the first...

to die young, the article compared his cultural impact with that of Ritchie Valens and Darby Crash. Chris Willman of Variety described in a 2022 article...

Matthew Wycliffe, who played the role in the 2007 UK touring company. Ritchie Valens was played by Puerto Rican actor Miguel Angel, and J.P. Richardson (The...

Al Casey. In early 1959, two of Cochran's friends, Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens, along with the Big Bopper, were killed in a plane crash while on tour...

that crashed and killed Holly, J. P. "the Big Bopper" Richardson and Ritchie Valens. Jennings then returned to Texas, taking several years off from music...

Wakefield) – 2:39 "Over and Over" (John Dawson) – 3:08 "La Bamba" (Ritchie Valens) – 3:44 "Going Round the Horn" (Dawson, Wakefield) – 3:33 "Farewell...

classic-rock films – the Chuck Berry tribute Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll and the Ritchie Valens biopic La Bamba (with its accompanying soundtrack) – and Elvis Presley...

gig (for which they earned $300) on New Year's Eve, 1961, at the Ritchie Valens Memorial Dance in Long Beach. In their early public appearances, the band...

acts in the lineup of the traveling Winter Dance Party—Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper—were killed in the crash of a V-tailed 1947 Beechcraft...

contemporary Latin and pop songs by the likes of Carmen Miranda, Selena, Ritchie Valens, Chayanne, Ricky Martin, and Iglesias himself. Iglesias starred alongside...

Belmonts on the ill-fated "The Winter Dance Party" tour with Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, the Big Bopper (J.P. Richardson), Frankie Sardo and other performers...

later, Ritchie Valens, who died along with Holly, released his album Ritchie in October 1959. Two years and eight months later, his live album In Concert...

home win by the St. Louis Blues. In 1987, Wilson was portrayed in the Ritchie Valens biographical film La Bamba by Howard Huntsberry. In 1992, Wilson was...

autobiography, Takin' Back My Name. Richard influenced Ritchie Valens; before he broke out, Valens was known as the "Little Richard of San Fernando". Bob...

Into National Recording Registry| Hollywood Reporter Nina Simone and Ritchie Valens Songs Added to National Recording Registry – The New York Times Jay-Z's...

Brazilian-oriented album, the vibist/marimba player opted to explore Caribbean rhythms and melodies". "La Bamba" (Ritchie Valens) - 7:36 "My Little Suede...

were killed in a plane crash on February 3, 1959, along with singer Ritchie Valens). March 3 – Sotheby's auction house in London auctions off a Rivera...