Dying a good career move for Ritchie Valens

Dying a good career move for Ritchie Vakens.

Don't get me wrong, I like his music. Some of it was very innovative. You can here the surf rock sound in songs like Fast Freight.

But fast forward to 1964. The Beatles and the British Invasion were eviscerating former huge American groups and genres like the suef rock groups like The Beach Boys, those groups with multiple singers and the late fifties rockers. Many who went over to become C&W acts. Bigger acts like the Rolling Stones, The Who, The Kinks and even The Yardbirds were coming online. Valens would have been over before he was legally able to buy a beer today.

Perhaps nobody would have remembered Valens had he lived. He would have been totally irrelevant. No one was interested in the genre of rock and roll he played by 1964 except maybe the people born between the WW2 generation and the Baby Boomers, The from the late 1930s till the Boomers. They by and large did not buy much music after they turned 25.

Dying put Valens in with the band made of the likes Jim Morrison, Bonn Scott, Keith Moon, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Patsy Cline, Randy Rhodes, Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines, Jimi Hendrix, Janice Joplin and others. Also of course, Buddy Holly and J. P. Richardson, Jr. -The Big Bopper. Those who were taken too soon.

Don't think so, go to Spotify and listen to his catalog. You can do it in the time it takes download a TV episode.