FORTY-FIVE REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE #31: We Built This City On New Wave
RITCHIE VALENS “Donna” b/w “La Bamba” (Lost-Nite Records #201, early-’80’s reissue; Original release: Del-Fi Records #4110, 1958)
You could Google “Valens” or “La Bamba” or even “famous plane crashes” and learn all you’d ever need to know about the late great Ritchie Valens, but you’d still only be skimming the surface.  The young Pacoima, CA wunderkind, tragically killed at 17 in the same historic crash that took the lives of Buddy Holly and J.P. “Big Bopper” Richardson […]