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.

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Ritchie Valens Memorial Album
Compilation album by Ritchie Valens
Released	December 1962
Recorded	1958-1959
Genre	Rock and roll
Length	27:50
Label	Del-Fi Records DFLP-1225
Producer	Robert 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
Source	Rating
Record Mirror	[1]

Track listings

All tracks composed by Ritchie Valens; except where indicated

Side 1

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

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" (Shari Sheeley)

References

External links

• Ritchie Valens Memorial Album at Discogs (list of releases)