La Bamba and Other Hits
Released: Apr 6, 2004
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Released: Apr 6, 2004
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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...
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The Very Best of Richie Valens - REPETOIRE
Released: Nov 21, 2002
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Released: Nov 21, 2002
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With only two brief albums, a poorly recorded live high school show, and some demos and rehearsal tapes to draw from, the legacy of the late Ritchie Valens rests on an extremely small canon. Most...
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Come On, Let's Go
Released: May 5, 1998
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Released: May 5, 1998
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Considering Valens died about seven months after his first recording session, it's amazing that enough material exists to piece together a three-CD, 62-song box set. It's also amazing that, despite...
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Ritchie Valens: The Lost Tapes
Released: Nov 6, 1995
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Released: Nov 6, 1995
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The first major release of Ritchie Valens demos reveals his creative process in fragmentary form, with multiple outtakes of songs like "La Bamba" and "Cry Cry Cry," among others. The sound is...
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Rockin' All Night: The Best of Ritchie Valens
Released: Jan 17, 1995
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Released: Jan 17, 1995
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There have been a few best-of packages for Valens over the last 20 years, and you're not necessarily better off with this one if you've picked up a collection in the past. As of the mid-'90s,...
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The Ritchie Valens Story
Released: Jun 15, 1993
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Released: Jun 15, 1993
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Although The Ritchie Valens Story contains four of Valens' hits ("La Bamba," "Donna," "Come On, Let's Go," "That's My Little Suzie") some famous tracks, like "Ooh! My Head," are not here. The bulk...
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Greatest Hits - AUDIO FIDELITY
Released: 2003
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Released: 2003
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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...
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The Story - BONUS CD-ROM
Released: 2000
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Released: 2000
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EMI Plus' budget-priced The Story series presents straight-forward, no-frills compilations of major rock artists with catalogs in the EMI vaults, accompanied by CD-ROMs containing brief...
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