1. "Ritchie ValensLegend RITCHIE VALENSLEGEND Richard Valenzuelas, a high school student at Pacoima High School in California, had a girl friend named Donna about whom he wrote a song in the year 1957."
2. "Ritchie Valens music covered a wide span that did not reach to the ever softening changes that rock and roll was going through."
3. "His first record, Come On Lets Go composed by Valens was a driving rock song with an imaginative backbeat and a topflight jazzrockblues guitar."
4. "DonnaLa Bamba, the next record, was the one that cracked the nut for Ritchie."
5. "Donna composed by Valens is a slow one in the classical slow rock and roll sense."