Audio CD review:
Ritchie Valens - The Very Best of Ritchie Valens

Ritchie Valens - The Very Best of Ritchie Valens

Band: Ritchie Valens Title: The Very Best of Ritchie Valens Rating: Release Date: 2002-11-21 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Come on Let's Go 2: La Bamba 3: That's My Little Suzie 4: Boney Maronie - Ritchie Valens, Williams 5: Ohh! My Head 6: Framed - Ritchie Valens, Leiber, Jerry 7: Cry Cry Cry - Ritchie Valens, Kuhn, Rolf 8: Paddi-Wack Song 9: Hurry Up 10: Fast Freight 11: Dooby-Dooby Wah 12: Bluebirds over the Mountain - Ritchie Valens, Hickey, Ersel 13: Big Baby Blues 14: Rockin' All Night 15: Hi-Tone 16: In a Turkish Town 17: Donna 18: Little Girl 19: We Belong Together 20: Stay Beside Me 21: Ritchie's Blues 22: My Darling Is Gone 23: Now You're Gone 24: That's My Little Suzie 25: Rhythm Song 26: Rock Little Darlin' 27: Let's Rock and Roll 28: Malaguena - Ritchie Valens, Lecouna

Good CD It has Bob Keane doing wonderful naration of Ritchie's recording history and life. Good CD, but even better is the Ritchie Valens Story. As far as "Bluebirds Over the Mountain," that is not the song that comes over the radio when you learn of Ritchie's death in the movie La Bamba. The song interrupted by the radio bulletin is "Over the Mountain and Across the Sea" performed by Johnnie and Joe. Excellent Review I grew up with his music, and still like it today. Ritchie Valens was a fantastic singer. I don't believe there is one song that is not good! People who saw the movie wanted to know what the song was that was playing when the news of Ritchie's [end to life] came over the radio. It is on this recording and the title is "Bluebirds Over the Mountain". Get it and enjoy his music!. Ritchie may have been another Buddy, if he'd lived... In 1959, shortly after THE CRASH, I bought Richie's only existing LP on vinyl. I have this collection, but under the title "Rockin' All Night" on Del-Fi and it is a bit shorter, but has all of RV's best work. I wore it out and eventually gave it away, so I was glad to find this compilation on CD a couple of years ago. I have always been a great Buddy Holly fan, and have everything he ever recorded. However, when you listen to this album and realize that Ritchie was not yet l8 when he died, you conclude that we lost a musical genius who, if he had lived, may well have surpassed Buddy in his influence on rock and roll. Ritchie had IT, whatever IT is. . . poetry, soul, passion, charisma. Of course, "La Bamba" and "Donna" are the great hits of his brief lifetime, but "In a Turkish Town" and "Malaguena" show the promise of an adult, accomplished, self-confident RV that alas, was never to be realized. This is a fine collection, and essential to anyone who wants the best of the 1950's. Thank God that Ritchie laid down so many tracks before he left us, but I will always wonder what he could have done had he lived through his next decade. He and Buddy died together after having briefly performed together, and each was a true giant. You can see a complete list of all Ritchie Valens discography, or go back to the Ritchie Valens tabs