Ritchie Valens In Concert At Pacoima Junior High

Artist : Ritchie Valens

Album : In Concert At Pacoima Junior High

Source : Vinyl

Year : 1960

Genre : Rock

Encoder : Unknown

Codec : Fraunhofer

Bitrate : 320K/s 44100Hz Stereo

ID3-Tag : ID3v2.3

Ripped By : NMR





Track Listing

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1. Bob Keane Intro (Side 1) (1:57)

2. Come on, Let's Go (3:20)

3. Donna (3:05)

4. Summertime Blues (2:58)

5. From Beyond (3:55)

6. La Bamba (4:35)

7. Bob Keane Intro (Side 2) (0:20)

8. Rhythm Song (1:15)

9. Guitar Instrumental (1:56)

10. Malaguena (3:24)

11. Rock Little Darlin' (1:29)

12. Let's Rock & Roll (1:48)



Total Playing Time: 30:09 (min:sec)

Total Size : 88.4 MB (92,734,734 bytes)



Ritchie Valens In Concert at Pacoima Jr. High was the third and final of the posthumously released "original" albums by Ritchie Valens. It consists of the only live performance of Valens ever recorded.



On December 10, 1958, Valens, having completed a recent tour of Hawaii, gave a performance at his old Pacoima Jr. High School. The show was emceed by Gail Smith, a close friend of Ritchie's who would later become president of the Ritchie Valens Memorial Fan Club in Los Angeles. Valens' guitar and vocals were only accompanied by drummer Don Phillips. The concert was taped using a small portable tape recorder.



After Valens' untimely death on February 3, 1959, numerous Ritchie Valens Fan Clubs were formed all over the nation. By late 1960, with no further records released since the "Ritchie" album a year before, Valens' manager Bob Keane received an endless number of letters from fan club members who were hoping there were more of Ritchie's songs to be released. Keane responded by obtaining the tape of four songs from the Pacoima Jr. High show and pressing it to record. To fill the "live" side of the album, an early demo of "Come On, Let's Go", bearing no resemblence to the released "hit" version, was added with live audience dubbed in. As Valens' entire Gold Star Studios master output had been released on his first two albums, Side 2 was filled with unfinished demos recorded at Keane's home studio. Keane provided narrative descriptions of each track.