January 23 - Milwaukee, WI
Feb. 15, 2007 - 2 photos of
Ritchie Valens have surfaced from this show,
hopefully we can feature them here soon.
"It was crazy, daddy - the
goings-on Friday night at George Devine's Million Dollar Ballroom.
"Nearly 6,000 young people turned out to hear such rock 'n' roll stars
as Buddy Holly and the Crickets, Big Bopper, Dion and the Belmonts and Ritchie
Valens.
If you haven't heard them, you haven't lived, man. . . .
"It's obvious the Big Beat still has a hold on the kids, and it takes
steady nerves to withstand the sound.
Electric guitars boomed through two loudspeakers with the force of two symphony
orchestras in full sway,
and the twitching rock 'n' rollers invoked screams that surely melted the snow
on the roof of the ballroom."
- Milwaukee Sentinel - Jan. 24, 1959