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Richie Valens (commercial)

Commercial · Don't Touch That Dial shorts · 1959 · 1 min · 217 words

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Hi everybody, this is Richie Valens. I will be on the Winter Dance Party coming your way very shortly. I will be having a ball singing for you and I hope to see you all real soon.

By the way, I hope you have been hearing a lot from my latest Delphi release, Avamba and Don. We're trying to put together a story, a story of a happy success with three young singers that ended in a very sad death this morning early in the cornfield near Mason City and like Iowa. If you're one of those that loves rock and roll and there are many, or if you're

one of those that hates rock and roll and there are many, you'll realize this is a very big day in the lives of many in our generation because this is a day that ended in tragedy for three of the biggest names in the music business. The names in order of bigness probably would be Richie Valens, Buddy Holly of the Crickets, and also the Big Botard. This is

a story that we put together along with the voices of these people, now known as the late great artists and a story that we put together by talking on the telephone around the world with people that

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