This is how great music is suppose to sound, nothing fake. Every sound here was made by a person and not by a computer-hell, they didn't exist. This is a great post and if there is any more, by all means post it.
@@BisayangKano and dont forget to picture us on the other side of the recording studio glass smiling and silently cheering him on. Imagination is beautiful.
when you can take a Mexican folk song and turn into into a top 100 rock in roll song of all time means he had so much talent and it's said to think what could have been...
This is something I never thought I could hear some day. When I was 11, and La Bamba movie came on, Los Lobos version was the only to hear everywhere. I called many times to radio stations and asked for Ritchie's version and just once they played it. Thanks for sharing this piece of history. Cheers!
Eduardo . Mondragón D I feel your pain, i heard Richie's version once on a tv special some 18 years ago, and i only could hear it again when RU-vid came along.
I was just thinking today of the first time i saw his real face crazy how you can like someone so much through their story. Without even seeing them or hearing their real voice
Nothin but Great!! These r the first notes I ever learned on guitar a guy who worked for me from Mexico tough me did not speak real good English but played like the wind Rocky and the Hurricanes lead singer and rythem Guitar 🎸
When music was music. Songs were songs not computerized. When bands were formed not created put together by record companies. This recording should be released on record.
A beautiful song. Much like Buddy Holly did, Ritchie, had to work hard overcome the stiff formula driven music execs to get out what he knew would be popular. Geniuses who changed the face of music.
According to multiple sources the session consisted of Ritchie - rhythm guitar Carol Kaye - rhythm guitar Rene Hall (the late,great) - Danelectro (and featured solo) Earl Palmer - drums If you want to hear Carol Kaye knock it out of the park on the Bass Guitar check out the song Hikky Burr.
I loved his music ! He was way ahead of his time. Incredible talent !!! Rock music was inside of Ritchie. It makes us wonder what his future on the earth would have been like ? It was music that got our toes tapping...and we jumped up and danced as if there was something new inside of us. Ritchie had that inside of him ! Awesome...is all I can say.
Need to play more Richie Valens, Buddy Holly and, Big Bopper music🎤🎼🎹🎶 people miss it and want to hear them, want to hear their sound and songs, we miss them, it would be great to hear them on radio again ❤❤
Ritchie definitely did the solo on la bamba , crazy how you can hear it in beginning and through out as he creating and improving it until the final take where he makes it sounds very nice !
saya masih mendengarkan di tahun 2023. luar biasa enak menyenangkan lagu ini. Luar biasa Richie Valens usia 16 - 17 tahun lagunya diciptakannya masih popular sampai sekarang . tidak lekang oleh waktu.
His manager said Richie never sang song the same way every time he did something different and he never wrote anything down imagine if he write some things down good ideas h may have forgotten
Transcript: (Ritchie on Stratocaster playing the melody, showing his barritone player, René Hall René Hall: Ok Earl Palmer: Make sure to give us the break before we get to it. (Referring to the beginning intro of the song) Bob Keane? : Uh, you get the breaks, uhm- (Muffled by the barritone player, René Hall and Ritchie Valens practicing the beginning) (Talking to René Hall/Ritchie Valens) Earl Palmer: But I can que it on the- (Ritchie Valens palm-muting the melody on his stratocaster) Bob Keane?: Here we go kids, La Bamba, take one, uno. (Can't fit the whole thing in a singular comment because youtube but that's the beginning context)
man at the 5,40 mark..it sounds like the poor kids voice hadn't even changed yet, very rare to hear him speak, i can only imagine how bad that tour had to be for him to jump on a plane, just to get warm, damit......we know the rest, thanks for sharing this, pictures and recordings are really the most brilliant thing thought of other than catching a peice of lightning from the sky, they freeze time for that moment and recordings are really like a time machine, only sadly often times the ones in them are gone
Whoa I had no idea about this. I just looked it up. The guitar parts and sound on Ritchie Valens' La Bamba has always sounded perfect. No one plays it the same, not even Los Lobos.
red callendar on upright i believe. most of the guys that featured on eddie cochran's and ricky nelson's records at gold star studios in california. early wrecking crew
I sounds like they have an electric bass playing the riff but with the treble turned all the way up, and a stand up bass and of course guitar. Damn, this is amazing.
They call it a Danelectro 6-string baritone guitar, which has that James Bond Theme guitar sound. I've heard of Danelectro 6-string bass (for instance, used on Beach Boys Fun, Fun, Fun), and I'm unsure whether they are really different or the same, as I've never seen or heard either live. There's also an acoustic bass. The famous Wrecking Crew bassist, Carol Kaye, is actually playing rhythm guitar on this.
That's Rene Hall on Danelectro. Carol Kaye played acoustic rhythm guitar and is completely inaudible in the final mix, as she wasn't even mic'd. I don't know why there's such a trend of giving Carol Kaye credit for things she didn't do, but it should probably stop.
gregorheinrich lol illegal immigration plus twist and shout pretty much is not the same as la bamba considering that its a marriachi song and only rock and roll by ritchie
Yes, he would. He is a racist pig. Should be in prison. Why not fine the employers that hire non-citizens. They are corporate gods to all Republicans and untouchable. Blame a person for working hard, not the guy that hired him. Trumps parents were immigrants. Too bad we didn't stop them. LOCK HIM UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@atomicbootsy Wow How cool is that for you? This was one of the saddess days in music history. Where's your dad now? I live near DONNA She'sa r eal Estate Agent in Sacramento Ca area
1/I read that Valens' first recordings were made in March,1958. I can't find anything recorded before La Bamba. Was La Bamba recorded in March? If so, Valens was 16! 2/Did Carol Kaye or Valens play the guitar solo? She's listed as "acoustic rhythm guitar", & the other guitarist plays a baritone guitar, tuned too low for those solo's notes. I can't hear if there's a third guitar or not, which would be Valens'.
This is very interesting. Had ritchie fired bob keen as his manager and got hired on with Desi arnez hed still be alive today and so would the big bopper and buddy hollie
Hi Farone100, sorry for the delay in responding. I originally posted as atomicbootsy but saw my posts were listed as *spam*. This is my actual contact info. Take care.
Robert Hunter the reclusive former lyricist of the Grateful Dead once played the role of Ritchie Valens. The name, The Grateful Dead, is appropriate. They faked their deaths and became grateful to get out of their record contracts. They also made everyone very rich in the process. When word got out to the public that Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens allegedly died in a plane crash in Clear Lake, Iowa, their records literally flew off the shelves, and they became immortalized through the legend crafting process... These staged performances go on quite a bit, especially when older rock stars become unproductive and want out of their public circus cages, they'll hire a PR firm, kill off their old personas by faking a death, as they regain a sense of normalcy and balance within the relative anonymity of the private sector. Robert wrote his most famous song called "Ripple," here's a famous line in the song. "Can you hear my voice come through the music?" Yes, Ritchie, I not only heard your voice but also recognized your facial features, your guitars and guitar playing style. Ironically, both Ritchie and the character he's now playing Robert Hunter, were born in 1941, 41 days apart, in southern California... They sure know how to entertain us, don't they?
