Ritchie Valens One of the Ones That Got Away
Don McLean’s song “American Pie” was about the day the music died, February 3, 1959. This was the day Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens perished in a horrific late night plane crash outside Mason City, a few miles from their departure Clear Lake, IA. Ritchie Valens was born Richard Valenzuela, the second child of four kids. His music practice paid off as he was offered a recording […]