A cover/sample of Ooh, My Soul by Little Richard, Ritchie Valens took the song in a new direction with different lyrics and a more guitar-rock sound. I tried to make my version as loud as possible.

Never Be The Same: A Ritchie Valens Tribute Album

Ooh! My Head

Ritchie’s most famous song today, La Bamba is a Rock & Roll reimagining of a Mexican folk song. During his lifetime it was only a minor hit, but it has since gone on to be recognized as one of the most important Rock & Roll songs of the1950s. A cover by Los Lobos in the 1980s went to #1 on the charts, cementing the song as a iconic hit. I tired my best to cover it well.

La Bamba

Released only as a posthumous demo, this song showcase’s Ritchie Valens’ talent for crafting unique and heartbreaking ballads. I loved learning this one and discovering the interesting ways all the chords come together to form one of my favorite songs.

My Darling Is Gone

Ritchie’s first hit, this song is fondly remembered today as a Rock & Roll bop. I will admit my version isn’t that great, but I had to include it anyways because it’s such an iconic song.

Come On Let's Go

Lyrics:
I was born under a neon sign and I guess that kinda made up my mind
You were born in a crowded place and a guy said “that’s some guy”
Now I don’t expect you to understand me, oh I guess I do
If you won’t hate me for not understanding you too

But take it from me I think you’re the only one I’m ever gonna talk to
Take it from me I think you’re the only one I’m ever gonna try
Take it from me I think you’re the only one I’m ever gonna talk to, could you talk nice?
Could you talk nice?

Now I don’t talk much and I love to go out at late at night
And you don’t talk much unless you have to lie
Now I don’t see how two people can be so much alike
And yet never really see eye to eye

Talk Nice

An updated version of Last Days 
Lyrics:
(Spoken word)Now this here is a song I wrote all the way back in 2018, and well, it sure hits different now
(Singing)
Ash falls like snow on the cold hard ground
Nuclear shadows are all around me
People remember what people say
No time for sorrows of yesterday
Last age
Last age on earth now
Last days
Last time of any worth now

I looked up into the sky and I saw
Things that were there that should not be at all
People remember what other people say
No time for sorrow that was yesterday

Last Days

Don't worry to hard about what this one means...
Lyrics:
Can I possess it, can I hold it in my hand?
There’s something about you that I just don’t understand
Do I wanna see you? Or do I wanna be you? Well,
You should see me when I’m watching her when she’s looking at you

I don’t think I’ll ever love somebody the way someone loves you                  And I..
I don’t think I’ll ever love somebody the way someone loves you

 I don’t care what it takes, I don’t care if some curse makes me die
I’m gonna be him, I’m gonna be you next, I’m gonna be you
I’m gonna be him, I’m gonna be you next, I’m gonna you, I’m gonna be you

Racing through my fingers and my spine I close my eyes
Seeing how, it all turned out, I find it no surprise
My complex wasn’t complex, but what else can I do
Looking back, it all comes down, as I return to you

The Double

Lyrics:
Went for a walk one day
A girl did I see
Asked her for her name
And she  just said...misery

Oh-ho misery/ you’re giving me/ some pain that’s free/ you make it hard to go on girl
Oh-ho misery/ you’re telling me/ that if I can’t see/ well I’ll just have to be stronger

Well now you’re driving me/ out of my mind
And now you’re making me/ cry all of the time

Oh misery/ Why can’t you see/ You’re taking /everything from me
Oh misery/why can’t you see/ you’re killing me/ oh misery

Oh-ho misery/ you’re taking me/where I can’t be/ And you just drag me along, girl
Oh-ho misery/ please set me free/ you’re all I see/ and I’ll just want to belong, girl

Well now you’re driving me/ out of my mind
And now you’re making me/ cry all of the time

Oh misery/ Why can’t you see/ You’re taking /everything from me
Oh misery/why can’t you see/ you’re killing me/ oh misery
Oooh/why don’t you let me be/ You’re taking /everything from me          
Oh misery/How can this be/ you’re killing me/ oh misery 
Ooo oo ooo woah o oo ooo ohh

Oh! Misery

A faster electric version of Tripping Up The Stairs
The spoken word segment paraphrases "The Tyger" by William Blake
Lyrics:
Crawling in the graveyard 
Just listen to your cares.
Sliding down the highway 
and tripping up the stairs.

Falling in a manhole
and changing all the locks.
Sliding down the runway
and sitting in a box.

I don't want to hurt you
but I fear that I have already done so.
I don't want to leave you but I know that I have already gone so...
Oh little one turn out the light.
Oh dearie tell me it's all right, all right.

Crawling in the graveyard 
Just listen to your cares.
Sliding down the highway 
and tripping up the stairs.

Falling in a manhole
and changing all the locks.
Screaming down the runway
and sitting in a box.
(Spoken word)
Listen, listen to your cares
For what immortal hand nor eye
could tame thy fearful symmetry 

I don't want to hurt you
but I fear that I have already done so.
I don't want to leave you but I know that I have already gone so...
Oh little one turn out the light.
Oh dearie tell me it's all right, all right.

Crawling in the graveyard 
Just listen to your cares.
Speeding down the highway 
and tripping up the stairs.

Falling in a manhole
and changing all the locks.
Sliding down the runway
and sitting in a box.

Tripping Up The Stairs (Fast Version)

Finally releasing my most loved song! This version is my own edit of the recording featured on Shallow Dive Record's excellent Little Big Town Compilation, check it out HERE ->
(https://soundcloud.com/shallow-dive/sets/little-big-town-compilation?si=5b7fb708230c4c23853c8ad3b5be8c27&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing)
A different recording/mix of this song will be released on my album, which comes out in July! That one's going to be even better, but I figured I should share this mix too since it won't be on the album

Lyrics:                 
You had a pink DS Lite
That you played on the floor
Gave the party guests a fright
                         
Then they said  "you’re so sweet"                          
When you are grown
I wonder who you’ll meet

And at your 15th birthday                          
You cried when the other girls
got the dances wrong

Your mom said if you keep this up
You’ll never be right
You’ll never belong

Love was never gonna be that easy for you
Ooh I just wish someone had told you

CHORUS
Ooh Elana, which ever way did you go?
'Cause it’s that fall from grace
The lines on your face
That I could never trace
Right back to the place
Where in your disgrace
You threw down your lace
And said “I don’t wanna know”

Then they sent you to school
Where you met him
Though he treated you cruel

And when you complained they just said
“He really likes you”
Did that fill you with dread?

Now are you giving in? 
When he begs to you
Do you listen to him?

What else is there to say
What a bitter story
What a sad cliché

Love was never gonna be that easy for you
Ooh I wish someone else had told you

CHORUS AGAIN

They got married in the month of May
That’s where most of these stories end
But they say that, she ran away
And they haven’t seen her since then

Love was never gonna be that easy for you
Ooh but you already knew that, didn’t you?

CHORUS AGAIN
        
But whichever way did she go?

Elena (Single Version)

Vee Ivy and the Lovsters
Sinner-Songwriter

Vee Ivy

Popular tracks