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Biographical story of the rise from nowhere of singer Ritchie Valens whose life was cut short by a plane crash.
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Biographical story of the rise from nowhere of singer Ritchie Valens whose life was cut short by a plane crash.
National Film Preservation Board | 2017
1988 | Miles
Best Motion Picture Drama | 1988
Song of the Year | 1988 | Los
Favorite Movie | 1988
Budget 6,500,000 USD
Box Office Collection 54,215,416 USD
According to Lou Diamond Phillips in the VH1 documentary Behind the Music Behind the Music: The Day the Music Died (1999), Ritchie Valens' sister was on the set the day they shot the "coin toss" scene, in which Ritchie wins the chance to fly on the plane with Buddy Holly and The Big Bopper. Ritchie's sister began to weep uncontrollably during shooting. When Phillips tried to console her, she hugged him and sobbed "Why Ritchie? Why did you get on the plane?"
Ritchie Valens' family were so attached to Lou Diamond Phillips that when he was shooting the scene where Valens gets on the airplane that led him to his death, the family begged Phillips not to get on, fearing that he would die. The family was warned not to come to the filming the day that they filmed him getting on the plane. However, his sister ignored this and drove up to the set anyways. She cried, hugged him and begged him not to get on the plane.
The band playing the traditional folk version of the song "La Bamba" at the club in Tijuana is Los Lobos, which performed all of Ritchie Valens' music for the movie. The guitar player next to the bass player is David Hidalgo, who provided Lou Diamond Phillips' singing voice.
The plane crash at Ritchie Valens' school happened on January 31, 1957. A DC-7 and an F-89 jet collided and broke up in mid-air. The DC-7 landed on the playground of Pacoima Junior High School (now Pacoima Middle School) while students were outside at recess. Everyone on the DC-7 was killed. Several students were killed on the playground; 75 were injured. Valens was out of school that day, attending his grandfather's funeral. The crash caused Valens' fear of flying.
The club where Ritchie Valens is nervous about performing before an Anglo crowd is Cowboy Palace in Chatsworth, California. The bar is still in business.
"Bob Morales: [last line, in agony over his brother's death] RITCHIE!"
"Ritchie Valens: My mom reckons I'm going to be a star. And stars don't fall from the sky."
