Very Best of Richie Valens [Import]

Ritchie Valens | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 21, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Repertoire
• ASIN: B000023XRE
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #62,620 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #42 in Music > Indie Music > Rock > Oldies & Retro

Track Listings

1. Come on Let's Go

2. La Bamba

3. That's My Little Suzie

4. Boney Maronie

5. Ohh! My Head

6. Framed

7. Cry Cry Cry

8. Paddi-Wack Song

9. Hurry Up

10. Fast Freight

11. Dooby-Dooby Wah

12. Bluebirds over the Mountain

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

See all 28 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ritchie may have been another Buddy, if he'd lived..., December 17, 2001

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William E. Adams (Midland, Texas USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Very Best of Richie Valens (Audio CD)

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.In 1959, shortly after THE CRASH, I bought Richie's only existing LP on vinyl. 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.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good CD, August 23, 2003

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Lee M. Williamson (Whittier, California USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Very Best of Richie Valens (Audio CD)

Good CD, but even better is the Ritchie Valens Story. It has Bob Keane doing wonderful naration of Ritchie's recording history and life. 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.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars All the best, May 24, 2010

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M. Murino - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Very Best of Richie Valens (Audio CD)

Great album to hear Valens best for the first time or to relive his music for the millionth time!