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{{Infobox Album <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums -->
{{Infobox album
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| Name = Ritchie Valens Memorial Album
| Type = Compilation album
| name = Ritchie Valens Memorial Album
| Artist = [[Ritchie Valens]]
| type = Compilation album
| Released = [[1963 in music|1963]]
| artist = [[Ritchie Valens]]
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| cover = Ritchie Valens Memorial Album.jpeg
| Recorded = 1958-1959
| Genre = [[Rock and Roll]]
| alt =
| released = [[1962 in music|December 1962]]
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| Length =
| recorded = 1958–1959
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| Label = [[Del-Fi Records]] DFLP-1225
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| venue =
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| Producer = [[Bob Keane|Robert Keane]]
| studio =
| genre = [[Rock and roll]]
| length = 27:50
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| label = [[Del-Fi Records]] DFLP-1225
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| producer = [[Bob Keane|Robert Keane]]
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| prev_title = [[Ritchie Valens In Concert at Pacoima Jr. High]]
| prev_year = 1960
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| next_title = [[Ritchie Valens...His Greatest Hits Volume 2]]
| next_year = 1964
}}


{{Album ratings
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| Last album = '''''[[Ritchie Valens In Concert at Pacoima Jr. High]]'''''<br>(1960)
| This album = '''''[[Ritchie Valens Memorial Album]]'''''<br>(1963)
| rev1 = ''[[Record Mirror]]''
| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{Cite magazine |last1=Jones |first1=Peter |author-link1=Peter Jones (journalist) |last2= Jopling |first2= Norman |date=27 February 1965 |title=Ritchie Valens: ''His Greatest Hits'' |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Record-Mirror/60s/65/Record-Mirror-1965-02-27-S-OCR.pdf |magazine=[[Record Mirror]] |issue=207 |page=10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220401225353/https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Record-Mirror/60s/65/Record-Mirror-1965-02-27-S-OCR.pdf |archive-date=1 April 2022|access-date=17 August 2022}}</ref>
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| Next album = '''''Ritchie Valens, His Greatest Hits Vol. 2'''''<br>(1964)
}}
}}


'''''Ritchie Valens Memorial Album''''' is the first greatest hits compilaton by [[Ritchie Valens]], featuring his first three charted hits plus tracks from the previous three albums. The original album was issued with a black album cover and the same photo of Valens from his second album "[[Ritchie (album)|Ritchie]]". A few months later, the album was retitled "Ritchie Valens, His Greatest Hits" and repackaged with a white album cover and a photo of Ritchie taken from his Del-Fi EP "Ritchie Valens Sings" (DFEP-1111). Both issues include the same back cover and album contents.
'''''Ritchie Valens Memorial Album''''' is the first greatest hits compilation by [[Ritchie Valens]], featuring his first three charted hits plus tracks from the previous three albums, released three years following his [[The Day the Music Died|death in a plane crash]]. The original album was issued with a black album cover and the same photo of Valens from his second album ''[[Ritchie (album)|Ritchie]]''. A few months later, the album was retitled ''Ritchie Valens, His Greatest Hits'' and repackaged with a white album cover and a photo of Ritchie taken from his Del-Fi EP ''Ritchie Valens Sings'' (DFEP-1111). Both issues include the same back cover and album contents.


==Track listings==
==Track listings==
All tracks composed by Ritchie Valens; except where indicated


===Side 1===
===Side 1===
#"Donna"
#"Donna"
#"We Belong Together"
#"We Belong Together" ([[Hy Weiss]], Johnny Mitchell, Robert Carr)
#"From Beyond"
#"From Beyond"
#"Stay Beside Me"
#"Stay Beside Me" (Bill Olofson, Maurice Ellenhorn)
#"Bluebirds Over The Mountain"
#"Bluebirds Over the Mountain" ([[Ersel Hickey]])
#"In A Turkish Town"
#"In a Turkish Town"


===Side 2===
===Side 2===
#"Malaguena"
#"Malaguena" ([[Ernesto Lecuona]])
#"La Bamba"
#"[[La Bamba (song)|La Bamba]]"
#"Come On, Let's Go"
#"Come On, Let's Go"
#"Rockin' All Night"
#"Rockin' All Night"
#"Cry, Cry, Cry"
#"Cry, Cry, Cry" (Robert Kuhn)
#"Hurry Up"
#"Hurry Up" ([[Sharon Sheeley]])

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{Discogs master|type=album|630648|name=Ritchie Valens Memorial Album}}

{{Ritchie Valens}}


[[Category:Del-Fi Records albums]]
[[Category:Ritchie Valens compilation albums]]
[[Category:Ritchie Valens albums]]
[[Category:1963 greatest hits albums]]
[[Category:Del-Fi Records compilation albums]]
[[Category:Compilation albums published posthumously]]
[[Category:Spanish-language compilation albums]]
[[Category:1960s Spanish-language albums]]

Latest revision as of 10:13, 23 July 2024

Ritchie Valens Memorial Album
Compilation album by
Ritchie Valens
ReleasedDecember 1962
Recorded1958–1959
GenreRock and roll
Length27:50
LabelDel-Fi Records DFLP-1225
ProducerRobert Keane
Ritchie Valens chronology
Ritchie Valens In Concert at Pacoima Jr. High
(1960) 		Ritchie Valens Memorial Album
(1962) 		Ritchie Valens...His Greatest Hits Volume 2
(1964)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Record Mirror[1]

Ritchie Valens Memorial Album is the first greatest hits compilation by Ritchie Valens, featuring his first three charted hits plus tracks from the previous three albums, released three years following his death in a plane crash. The original album was issued with a black album cover and the same photo of Valens from his second album Ritchie. A few months later, the album was retitled Ritchie Valens, His Greatest Hits and repackaged with a white album cover and a photo of Ritchie taken from his Del-Fi EP Ritchie Valens Sings (DFEP-1111). Both issues include the same back cover and album contents.

Track listings

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All tracks composed by Ritchie Valens; except where indicated

Side 1

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  1. "Donna"
  2. "We Belong Together" (Hy Weiss, Johnny Mitchell, Robert Carr)
  3. "From Beyond"
  4. "Stay Beside Me" (Bill Olofson, Maurice Ellenhorn)
  5. "Bluebirds Over the Mountain" (Ersel Hickey)
  6. "In a Turkish Town"

Side 2

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  1. "Malaguena" (Ernesto Lecuona)
  2. "La Bamba"
  3. "Come On, Let's Go"
  4. "Rockin' All Night"
  5. "Cry, Cry, Cry" (Robert Kuhn)
  6. "Hurry Up" (Sharon Sheeley)

References

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  1. ^ Jones, Peter; Jopling, Norman (27 February 1965). "Ritchie Valens: His Greatest Hits" (PDF). Record Mirror. No. 207. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
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