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Am I correct in thinking that a Spanish-language version of this was filmed with the same cast at the same time? I recall that it was felt that, given the subject matter, there would be a market for the movie in Spanish-speaking territories which would be better served by not being given a dubbed version, but I don’t have any evidence for this, and could be mis-remembering. Jock123 ( talk) 11:57, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
Below material was tagged for needing sources long-term. Feel free to reinsert with appropriate references. DonIago ( talk) 14:07, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
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This production had the full support of the Valenzuela family. The real Bob Morales and Connie Valenzuela came to the set to help the actors portray their characters accurately, and Connie (in life known as "Concha") makes a cameo appearance as an older lady sitting next to Ritchie at the family's first party. Phillips bonded with the Valenzuelas and, at one point, actually became Ritchie to them. Such as was the case when an incident involving Ritchie's real-life sister Connie Lemos occurred that disrupted the screening of the film. When at the screening she saw Phillips (as Valens) boarding the plane for the ill-fated Winter Dance Party flight; Lemos, who was only six years old at the time of the crash, was said to hysterically grab onto Phillips and shout, "Don't go Ritchie! Please don't get on the plane! Why did you have to die?" Lemos later admitted on VH-1's Behind the Music that she realized at that moment that she never fully accepted her brother's death. The original title of this film was "Let's Go", named for Valens' hit song: "Come On, Let's Go!" All of Ritchie Valens' songs were performed by Los Lobos. The band has a cameo in the movie wherein they sang in the brothel ballroom in Tijuana. Brian Setzer has a cameo as Eddie Cochran performing "Summertime Blues" onstage, while Howard Huntsberry starred as singer Jackie Wilson in the film, singing a cover of "Lonely Teardrops," which was on the soundtrack LP. Marshall Crenshaw plays Buddy Holly performing "Crying, Waiting, Hoping" at the final concert in Clear Lake, Iowa. Ritchie Valens was only 17 years old when he died, eight months after he signed to Del-Fi Records and produced three songs that hit the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Don McLean immortalized Ritchie and his friends' deaths as " The Day the Music Died", when he chronicled his reaction to hearing about the plane crash in his song " American Pie". |
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Am I correct in thinking that a Spanish-language version of this was filmed with the same cast at the same time? I recall that it was felt that, given the subject matter, there would be a market for the movie in Spanish-speaking territories which would be better served by not being given a dubbed version, but I don’t have any evidence for this, and could be mis-remembering. Jock123 ( talk) 11:57, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
Below material was tagged for needing sources long-term. Feel free to reinsert with appropriate references. DonIago ( talk) 14:07, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
Background |
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==Background==
This production had the full support of the Valenzuela family. The real Bob Morales and Connie Valenzuela came to the set to help the actors portray their characters accurately, and Connie (in life known as "Concha") makes a cameo appearance as an older lady sitting next to Ritchie at the family's first party. Phillips bonded with the Valenzuelas and, at one point, actually became Ritchie to them. Such as was the case when an incident involving Ritchie's real-life sister Connie Lemos occurred that disrupted the screening of the film. When at the screening she saw Phillips (as Valens) boarding the plane for the ill-fated Winter Dance Party flight; Lemos, who was only six years old at the time of the crash, was said to hysterically grab onto Phillips and shout, "Don't go Ritchie! Please don't get on the plane! Why did you have to die?" Lemos later admitted on VH-1's Behind the Music that she realized at that moment that she never fully accepted her brother's death. The original title of this film was "Let's Go", named for Valens' hit song: "Come On, Let's Go!" All of Ritchie Valens' songs were performed by Los Lobos. The band has a cameo in the movie wherein they sang in the brothel ballroom in Tijuana. Brian Setzer has a cameo as Eddie Cochran performing "Summertime Blues" onstage, while Howard Huntsberry starred as singer Jackie Wilson in the film, singing a cover of "Lonely Teardrops," which was on the soundtrack LP. Marshall Crenshaw plays Buddy Holly performing "Crying, Waiting, Hoping" at the final concert in Clear Lake, Iowa. Ritchie Valens was only 17 years old when he died, eight months after he signed to Del-Fi Records and produced three songs that hit the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Don McLean immortalized Ritchie and his friends' deaths as " The Day the Music Died", when he chronicled his reaction to hearing about the plane crash in his song " American Pie". |
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