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When I was 13 I heard a song called "Come On Let's Go" , it was sung by a British Rock'n'Roll star called Tommy Steele and I liked what I heard but about a week later I was listening to Radio Luxembourg and it was then that I realized that I was listening to the same song but it sounded so brilliantly better than the version I had heard earlier. This version was the original and the D.J. said that it was recorded by Ritchie Valens,from then on I was enthralled by his music and especially his guitar playing. During his brief career he made only a few recordings but the quality of these was so superb that it encouraged many youngsters to take up guitar playing. I didn't know until recently that the song "Donna" was self-penned by Ritchie for his high school girlfriend Donna Ludwig.
Because he was only seventeen when he was killed in that awful plane crash, nobody really knows whether he would have continued on his meteoric rise to fame or whether he would have burned out like so many other stars of that era. That having been said I would have like to have seen the results of many more recording sessions that might have been.....

Favourite tracks include "Come On Let's Go", "Turkish Town","Ooh My Head" and of course the beautiful "Donna".




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