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Here to tell the story is our own Greg Hengler and Bob Keen. Bob discovered, recorded, and managed Richie Vallons under his Delphi Records label. Take it away, Greg. Richie Ballins had the most rapid career ascent in the history of rock and roll. Fellow winter dance party singer Dion, who would go on to write the hits The Wanderer and Run Around Sue, said Richie was one of the greatest rhythm guitarists he had ever heard.
Because he became an international star, Richie Valens has been referred to as the first Chicano rock star. Bury baby, ha I love you so. Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go. Yeah. Where dancing we love it.
Mama allego up again again and again and again. Come on, let's go. One of the first songs that he sang when he came up to play for me at my home. Richie's material was never written down on paper. He had only to lean back in his chair and start playing and singing.
One day some one said to him, Come on, Richie, let's go. And from that simple beginning, his first hit, Come On, Let's Go, was born. In July 1958, I felt Richie was ready to record and I set up our first session at Gold Star Studio in Hollywood. Goldstar began as a demo studio, which became popular with independent record companies because it only cost $15 an hour to record there. In 1958, The owners expanded the premises by building another larger studio.
in which they installed a new echo chamber with a sound that created Gold Star's future reputation. Later, that chamber played a real great part in Phil Spector's Wall of Sound, and also enhanced such pop classics as Rhythm of the Rain by the Cascades, Sonny and Sheriff's number one hit, I Got You Babe, and the Righteous Brothers classic, That Love and Feeling. You can hear this sound on the final version of Come On Let's Go.
Well, come on, let's go, let's go, let's go, little darling. And tell me that you never leave me. Come on, come on, let's go.
Well, now swing me, swing me all the way down there. Come on, let's go, little darling. Let's go, let's go again. Let's go.
Well, I love you so, dear. And I'll never let you go. Come on, baby, so. Oh, buddy, baby, I love you so. Let's go, let's go.
I first heard about Richie Valenzuela from a young man who was preparing my new business cards for Delphi Records. The date was May 1958. My offices were in Studio City, California. A small town located in the San Fernando Valley, just outside Los Angeles. He asked me if I'd be interested in hearing a young Latin boy from the town of Acoiman named Richard Valensuela.
He said the kids out there calling little Richard a San Fernando. And I told him I'd very much like to hear him. Since Little Richard was a very popular singer at that time along with Sam Cook, who I had recorded on my first label Keen Records. Much like the man who discovered Elvis, Sam Phillips, who sought out black artists. Bob Keen had another genre in mind.
Here's what Keane said. I discovered that young Latin musicians in East LA have their own unique rock sound. I like a lot of what I heard, so I initiated an open door policy. The working class music of Mexican-American Los Angeles included rock-a-billy and rock and roll, Mexican folk songs, and a wide range of black styles from the amplified guitars of urban blues to the vocal harmonies of rhythm and blues. I caught him on a Saturday morning at a theater, where he stood up in front of the screen before the matinee started.
He was this bull-like kid with an opera tenor's torso, and he banged on a beat-up guitar and had a little beat-up amp worth about $30. It was clear to Keene that Richie had talent. Yet what impressed him most was the crowd's reaction to his plane. The kids were going nuts, especially the girls. But Richie was oblivious.
He was in his own world, awash in his music, focused totally on the riffs and lyrics he was making up on the spot. After the concert, I met Richie and invited him to my home. I remember the day he arrived along with a car full of his friends from a band he was playing with in Pacoima. He didn't know one song all the way through, but he had written some titles and words that he always played. He was very unschooled and very raw.
He knew only three or four chords, and everything he wrote and played was based on those chords. I set up a microphone, and Richie sat in a chair and started playing and singing. Yeah. Richie was born Richard Stephen Valenzuela, a Mexican Indian American in Pacoima, California, a Los Angeles suburb. on May 13, 1941.
His parents, Joseph and Concepcion, separated when he was a child. He went to live with his father, who died several years later. Richie then returned to live with his mother, but nothing indicates that Richie's boyhood was harsh or unhappy, even though he was raised in near poverty. Young Richie would spend evenings on front porches in the company of family friends and relatives who sang lively Mexican songs for hours. Richie himself had a toy guitar made from a cigar box when he was five.
which his uncle John Lozano helped him build. Later, Richie met a musician named William Jones, Sr., who lived across the street from his aunt Ernestine. When Jones saw him trying to play an old guitar with only two strings on it, he replaced the missing four and taught him how to tune them. He also showed Richie how to fret several chords. Richie was left-handed, but he learned how to play right-handed and became an accomplished guitarist.
In junior high school, he built himself a green and white electric guitar and woodshop class, the same guitar he would later use to launch his career. And you've been listening to our own Greg Hengler and Bob Keene, who discovered Richie Valenzuela in May of 1958. And he was known at the time as the little Richard of San Fernando Valley, where Bob Keene had his studio. What happened next was the fastest, most rapid career ascent. in music history.
When we come back, more of the rise and fall of Richie Vallins here on our American Stories. Lee Habib here, and I'd like to encourage you to subscribe to Our American Stories on Apple Podcasts, the iHeartRadio app, Spotify, or wherever you get our podcasts. Any story you missed or want to hear again can be found there daily. Again, please subscribe to the Our American Stories podcast on Apple Podcasts, the iHeartRadio app, or anywhere you get your podcasts. It helps us keep these great American stories coming.
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And we continue with our American stories and the story of Richie Vallins, as told by our own Greg Hengler. and Bob Keene. Let's pick up where we last left off. As Richie grew into his teens, he became a little wild. His father had died and his mother couldn't handle him.
He was running with the wrong crowd. There were plenty of tough kids for companions in the north end of the valley. He was sent to live with his mother's cousin, Henry Felix, who gave him the benefit of old-fashioned discipline, and that's all Richie needed. When he returned to the family home, he was a changed boy. He was still tough.
No one at Pakoima Jr. High dared to challenge him. but he was through as a hellraiser. He knew that music was the life for him.
Now that we have one life to live, That was a statement made by the president of the student body at Pacoima Junior High during an assembly one day in January 1957. Seconds later, there was an earth-shattering crash on the school grounds. where a class of young boys were just coming in from their physical education class. Two airplanes had collided directly by the school, and one of the planes, a jet trainer, fell to earth on the playground. Three of Richie's friends were killed and 70 others were seriously injured.
As fate would have it, Richie was not at school that day. He was attending his grandfather's funeral. From that day on, Richie had a fear of small planes. There was an airport in the area for private aircraft. And one day, as he and his aunt Ernestine drove by, he said to her, You'll never catch me in one of those little planes.
For the next couple of months, Richie and I were making appearances in and around Southern California to promote Come On, Let's Go. I first heard the song La Bamba while driving with Richie to a San Francisco TV appearance. I had just purchased a new Thunderbird. And Richie was riding in the back seat, strumming his guitar. Suddenly, I heard this melody and I asked Richie what it was.
He said it was called La Bamba, a folk song from Mexico. I felt it would make a good Latin rock song, but I bet you didn't know the words and he didn't want to record it anyway. He felt it might demean the music of his heritage. Several weeks later, he agreed to record the song, so his Anne Ernestine gave us the lyrics and we were back in Goldstar. Goldstar was a converted dentist office that was opened in 1950 by co-owners David Gold and Stan Ross.
Until its closure in 1984, Gold Star clients included The Beach Boys, Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin, and it also became home to Phil Spector's famous Wall of Sound.
Alright, Messi? We're going to do it the same way this. Sing it. That doesn't make any difference. Look at the guys coming with me.
That sounds dead. We were back in the studio several weeks later to overdub Richie's voice to the track. Paraballa banda, paraba la la bamba, se deleti, puna coca de glacia, puna coca de glacia, ponipati yajariva riba yari valla riva, poni se edo ti sebo yona foy marineo. By the end of September 1958, Come on, let's go and reach the top 40 on the national charts. and I felt it was time to make a tour with Richie and introduce him to the nation on American Bandstand.
I knew that the disc jockeys of America had never seen an act like Richie. and I knew they'd be surprised to see that he was a Latin American. I shortened his name to Valens because in those days if you had a Latin name you were a Latinat. Which, of course, wouldn't have a chance of even being listened to by the DJs on the top 40 stations. La Bamba was in his blood, but singing in Spanish, which was not Richie's first language, was tough.
Would he get it right? Would it be accepted by the public? Plus, he was going to turn a folk song into a rocker. What would his church think? You see, Ritchie was a devout Catholic.
This was a very big decision. And there is irony in Keene's push to shorten Richie's name for more mainstream appeal, and then his insistence to include the first ever rock and roll song sung in Spanish on just his second single. If you can't follow Keene's logic, you can follow his ear. Keene knew La Bamba was catchy. and would work as a three-chord up tempo dance number.
And he wasn't wrong. Back in Buffalo, New York, We were snowed in for two days, which was a real treat for Richie since he had never seen snow before. From Buffalo, we went to New York City to do the Allen Freed Show. There he met Fabian and Frankie Avalon, who were almost standard fixtures on the Freed Show. Everyone loved Richie, whose humble and gracious manner really threw the New Yorkers for a loot.
From New York, we took a small commuter plane to Philadelphia and the Dick Clark Show. Just before arriving in Philly, we made a landing on a grass field behind a large factory. There was snow all around and Richie said, If we live through this we can make it anywhere. At that point, he told me of his dream of dying in a plane crash. After the Clark show, we returned to LA and immediately started planning Richie's first album.
By this time, Richie and I had formed almost a father-son relationship. and he would confide in me about almost anything that was on his mind. One night Rishi called me on the telephone and said, Babo, I just wrote a song for my girl, Donna. and he played it over the phone. As usual, he only had the first part of the song.
So I told him to come in next day. A final completed version was recorded there in my studio. On October 6, 1958, We went into Gold Star Studios and overdubbed a drum, bass, and guitar fill. Richie had trouble finding the harmony notes for the opening and closing of the song, So I went into the studio and sang them for him. I then cut a demonstration record and took it to the program director at KFWB, the number one station in LA at that time.
To my surprise, the program director flipped over the record and asked me to leave it at the station. Things never got too serious between 15-year-old Donna Ludwig and Richie. When they decided to see other people, Donna decided to bring her date to one of Richie's concerts.
Well, from pain comes art. After the show, Richie called up Keen and told him he had an idea for his next song. I had a girl. Donna was her name. The lyrics began.
The song reminded Keene of the hit he produced for Sam Cook, You Send Me. Darling You. Who send me alone? Oh you send me Darling you send me I list you do I list you do I guess you do. The harmonized Odonna repetitions at the beginning and end of the song were to have Richie double-tracked over his own vocal.
But Richie had trouble singing over his own voice, so Keene jumped in front of a Gold Star Studio mic and delivered the harmony himself. You can hear them come in at the 7 second mark. Oh Oh, Donna, oh Donna, oh Donna, oh Donna I had a girl, Donna was her name Since she left me I never been the same Cause I love my grandma And you've been listening to our own Greg Hangler and Bob Keene. Tell the story of Richie Vallons. And my goodness, the story of how Obama got recorded.
It tells you everything about the instincts of a record guy. And can you imagine sending that out to some AI robot or some marketing survey to decide whether a Latino artist could sing a song in Spanish and have it chart? That took Bob Keene. There was something about Bob Keene's instinct that got Richie Valenzuela. To record this song, and then of course.
He had to change his name. Because the name Valenzuela would have meant no rock charts and instead a Latin act. It was highly segregated radio stations back in the day. There were black stations, urban stations, and white stations. And the Twain, well, it was hard to cross.
Actually, impossible to cross. When we come back, more of the rise and fall of Richie Valens here on our American Stories. Liberty has never been just a word to we Americans. It has guided every one of our endeavors for the past 250 years. And now it takes form in a new way.
The 2026 Semi-Quincentennial Coin and Metal Program from the United States Mint. It celebrates the founding ideals that have long shaped our coinage. Available one year only, this historic collection features new coin designs, limited edition releases, and reissues. Shop new official coins at usmint.gov forward slash semi-q. That's usmint.com.
dot gov slash s e m i q. This July 4th, come celebrate at America's Block Party, hosted by America 250. America's Block Party is a can't-miss 4th of July concert happening at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Experience music performances from major artists, patriotic tributes, and the kickoff to Giving Forth, helping to make July 4th the largest day of giving in American history. It's more than just fireworks.
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where we last left off. On the way back to my office in the car, I heard Donna on the air for the first time, and it was played every hour for the rest of the day. The phone reaction was instantaneous. By this time, Come On, Let's Go had reached what I felt was the top position on the national charts.
So I pressed up the demo version of Donna. backed it with what I thought was a B-side La Bamba. and pressed it up and shipped nationally. Donna was an instant hit all over the United States. The record went to number one in Chicago first, after Los Angeles of course, Still in LA, about the middle of October 1958, Ritchie performed his first concert at his school, Pacoima Junior High.
This concert was recorded on a small, portable machine. But it turned out to be good enough to later release on an album titled Richie Vallins in concert at Pacoima Junior High. And now a success story of one of last year's graduates from Pacoima. His first record sold over a million copies and Dharma, his newest release, is backed by a terrific song called The Bamba. He has been on American Bands then and has made numerous appearances with Al Jarvis and Joe Yoakum.
Now presenting Richie Valence with Come on, let's go. Richie mentioned to me many times how his aim in life was to buy his mother a home. where she could be happy with no more worries. There had been no money coming in yet from sales of his records, but I could see there would be and I gave Richie the money for a down payment on a house that he had found to buy for his mother. Through October and November, and into December, we were in and out of Gold Star Studios recording Richie's first album.
Again, I used the demos we had made at my studio in my home to select the songs. Even though Richie could really bell it when he sang a rock and roll song, he had a beautiful clear voice. His haunting, melancholy sound on his record Donna instantly captured the hearts of millions of people. On December 27, 1958, Richie appeared on the Alan Freed Christmas Show in New York City. From there he went to do American Bandstand for the second time.
While in New York City, he was staying with Carl Bloomberg at Ally Distributing. Carl had four little girls. and the girls wanted Richie to sing at their school. Richie had only a couple of hours before plane time, but he sent all the baggage onto the airport and went all the way out to their school in Hazel, New Jersey. Just to sing for those kids.
That's the kind of person he was. He had a big heart and he was very kind. Returning to Los Angeles, we continued to finish his album. He appeared in his first motion picture Go Johnny Go with Alan Freed, Jimmy Clanton and Chuck Berry. On January 19, 1959, He threw a party for all his friends at his mother's new house.
This was to be a going away party. He left the next day for Chicago. And then on January 21st, he joined the Winter Dance Party in Milwaukee. with Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper, and Dion and the Belmotts. For the next 12 days, the tour took Richie to a different city each day.
It was winter in the Middle West and it was freezing cold. They traveled by bus, but Richie, having lived all his life in sunny California, felt the cold more than the others. Only 17 years old, he was learning the touring life the hard way. On the night of February 2nd, 1959, I talked with Richie by phone. At that time he told me the bad conditions of the tour.
the bitter cold, the bus breaking down, and he wanted to come home.
So I said, okay, Richie, come home tomorrow. Buddy Holly refused to continue traveling on buses with faulty heating.
So he secured a private plane to Fargo, North Dakota after the surf ballroom show in Clear Lake, Iowa. The plan was that he, Tommy Elsup, and Whalen Jennings would fly together. but news of the flight spread among the performers. The Big Bopper, who had the flu, got fellow Texan Whalen Jennings to give up his seat. Buddy Holly joked to Jennings, I hope your old bus freezes up.
To which Jennings replied, Well, I hope your old plane crashes. Richie was also fighting the flu and had been asking Alsup throughout the evening if he could have his spot on the plane. Alsop refused.
So once the band's gear was all packed onto the bus, Holly asked Alsip to do one more sweep of the dressing room. Back inside, Elsip saw Richie signing autographs. Seeing Alsup, Ritchie looked up from his pen and made one more plea for his seat on the plane. Come on guy, let me fly. Richie said.
As for what happened next, I also described it like this. For some reason, I reached into my pocket, grabbed a silver dollar and said, call it. Richie called heads. Heads it was. Alsop went back outside and told Holly that Richie would be taking his place on the plane.
Next morning, driving to my office at Delphi Records, I had the car radio on as usual, listening to KFWB. All of a sudden I heard the dis jockey say, and now Donna by the late great Richie Vallens. Instantly I felt a sharp pain in my stomach. as though someone had hit me with a baseball bat. I couldn't believe it.
I thought that maybe I had misunderstood what the DJ had said. But when I arrived at the office, it was in turmoil, with people swarming all over and the phones are ringing off the hooks. We interrupt this program for a special news bulletin. Three young singers who soared to the heights of show business on the current block and roll craze were killed today in the crash of a light plane in an Iowa snow flurry. The singers were identified as Richie Ballin, 17, Buddy Holly, 22, and J.P.
Richardson, known professionally as the Big Buffer. Cause of the crash was due to inclement weather conditions. Details upcoming from Hatchin Central News. I remember how he would sit up in his bed in the hotel room after the day's performances were over. He'd play his guitar softly, humming melodies from his boyhood.
He said I'll never record any of these Mexican folk songs. They belong to my people. One song he did want to record was Malagania. but he never lived to fulfil that wish. Though there is no vocal, fortunately he played what he knew one day in my studio.
One of Richie's greatest records was a Mexican folk song titled La Bamba, which he adapted. This next track was to be the follow-up to Labamba, its title, Malaguena. This song also is a great American Mexican standard, and as you can hear, would have been another million seller, we're sure. Although Richie had not put his voice to the song as yet, if you try you can picture him singing it. with all the fire that was in his guitar playing, laying a foundation for his great voice.
At Richie's funeral, people came from all around. The press, DJs from the radio stations, celebrities, and even the mayor, who later proclaimed Richie Vallen's Day in Los Angeles. But Richie is still with us. There's the motion picture of his life as a young musician. You're Filipino and white in your first major role playing Richie Ballons, who is Mexican.
Yeah. It's really wonderful because the story Maybe it is even more relevant today, you know, of a farm worker following his dream and the American dream that talent and determination can actually get you very far, you know, in this country. His star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Still to come. The Record Hall of Fame.
And now, for all the world to see, his very own United States postage stamp. And terrific work on the production, the editing, and the storytelling by our own Greg Hengler. and Bob Keen, who discovered Richie Valenzuela in May of 1958. And my goodness, his storytelling, that first-person narrative, there's nothing like it. We love doing that on this show whenever possible.
And what a story we hear. My goodness, that beautiful, beautiful melody and Donna. What a voice, what a guitarist. He had it all. And to hear that screaming entourage of students at his old high school, just to hear their joy seeing their own local hero perform in their high school gymnasium and sing these massive hits.
They were massive hits. And then of course that decision on February 2nd, 1959, to get on that plane with Buddy Holly and with the Big Bopper, the day the music died. cutting short what would have been a magnificent recording career. The story of Richie Vallens here on Our American Stories. Liberty has never been just a word to we Americans.
It has guided every one of our endeavors for the past 250 years. And now it takes form in a new way. The 2026 Semi-Quincentennial Coin and Metal Program from the United States Mint. It celebrates the founding ideals that have long shaped our coinage. Available one year only, this historic collection features new coin designs, limited edition releases, and reissues.
Shop new official coins at usmint.gov forward slash semi-q. That's usmint.gov/slash S-E-M-I-Q. This July 4th, come celebrate at America's Block Party, hosted by America 250. America's Block Party is a can't-miss 4th of July concert happening at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Experience music performances from major artists, patriotic tributes, and the kickoff to Giving Forth, helping to make July 4th the largest day of giving in American history.
It's more than just fireworks. Learn more about this landmark celebration at America250.org. With my mom and dad living in Orange County, when we bring my five and seven year old to visit, we are sometimes in for a two-hour drive that could feel like 10. No, as an avid camper, I know all about this. We'll pack up the RV and know this is either going to be the trip of a lifetime or a complete disaster.
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