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Top categories

Artist
- Ritchie Valens (2)
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- Retrospective (2)
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- Tex-mex and Chicano (2)
- Rockabilly, Rock'n'Roll (1)
Publication
- History of Rock, The (1)
- LA Weekly (1)
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- Martin Hawkins (1)

Ritchie Valens Lives!

Retrospective by Don Waller, LA Weekly, 29 October 1981

RITCHIE VALENS, born Richard Valenzuela in Pacoima, California, on May 13, 1941, cut three hit records before he finished high school: 'Come On Let's Go', ...

Ritchie Valens: The Young Singer Who Pioneered Chicano Rock

Retrospective by Martin Hawkins, The History of Rock, March 1982

WHEN ROCK'N'ROLL first stopped calling itself rhythm and blues in the mid Fifties, it became a young man's game. Teenage performers like Ritchie Valens began ...