“Donna” by Ritchie Valens (1958)
Sure, “La Bamba” makes some parts of your body move involuntarily, which some generously refer to as dancing, but “Donna” is the song that makes hearts melt. Ritchie Valens composed the sweet tune for Donna Ludwig, his high school sweetheart. “Donna” climbed to the No. 2 spot on Billboard’s Hot 100 in the year 1959. Ludwig and Valens continued to be close friends up until Valens’s tragic death when his plane crashed in 1959.
“Donna” By Ritchie Valens 1958
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