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Disc 1 1. That's My Little Suzie 2. In a Turkish Town 3. Come on Let's Go 4. Donna 5. Bony-Moronie 6. Ooh My Head 7. La Bamba 8. Bluebirds Over the Mountain 9. Hi-Tone 10. Framed 11. We Belong Together 12. Dooby-Dooby-Wah

Ritchie Valens was only 17 when he died in 1959. His musical legacy rests on about an album and a half of completed studio material, a poorly recorded high-school concert, and a handful of demos and rehearsal tapes, all of which actually makes this extremely brief ten-song set a decent purchase, since the longer compilations are forced to include a lot of filler. In the case of Valens , who had no real time to refine or develop his obvious talents, less is quite likely best. Valens ' big hit, "La...

Ritchie Valens's death in the same 1959 airplane crash that claimed Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper remains one of the greatest tragedies of early rock & roll. Valens was only 17 years old at the time, standing at the very beginning of his musical career, full of promise and unrealized potential. His simple, heartfelt music made the teenager America's first Latin rock star, inspired a Hollywood film, and earned him a posthumous induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The adolescent longing and...

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With only two brief albums and some demos and rehearsal tapes to draw from, the legacy of the late Ritchie Valens rests on an extremely small canon. Bob Keene managed to release two fairly decent Valens LPs on Keene 's Del-Fi label, but this third LP, In Concert at Pacoima Jr. High , was literally the bottom of a very shallow barrel material-wise, consisting of six songs drawn from a poorly recorded junior high assembly concert at Pacoima Junior High in Los Angeles (including ragged versions of Valens...