Born out of the L.A. basin community of Mexican-Americans, Ritchie Valens created a style that merged his heritage and '50s rock & roll. His "La Bamba" stands as one of the most innovative compositions of the first-generation rock era. He remains an icon of promise unfulfilled, dying at age 17 in a plane crash with Buddy Holly. Ensuing decades saw the making a popular film about his life and even a posthumous induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

Listen to Ritchie Valens at Finetune.

• (2006)  The Best Of Ritchie Valens
• (2005)  Rhino Hi-Five: Ritchie Valens
• (2004)  The Ritchie Valens Story

• La Bamba
• Donna
• Come On, Let's Go
• We Belong Together
• La Bamba (Recorded at Gold Star- the B-side of "Donna")

• Buddy Holly
• Roy Orbison
• Eddie Cochran
• Gene Vincent
• The Everly Brothers
• Rick Nelson
• Sublime
• Elvis Presley
• Little Richard
• Carl Perkins
• Charlie Rich
• Mickey and Sylvia
• Mickey & Sylvia
• Warren Smith
• Chuck Berry
• Jerry Lee Lewis
• Los Lobos
• Dion
• Marshall Crenshaw
• Fats Domino

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• thepkk on 2008-05-23 15:05:22.433:
  This site is hard to go to different kinds of music.