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* ''Film/TinMen'': Mouse is always playing "La Bamba" on the jukebox at the diner, or singing it, to Tilley's annoyance.
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* In ''Film/OneTrickPony'', Valens is mentioned while the band members are listing dead rock stars.
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* "Donna" was used in an episode of ''Series/That70sShow'' where Donna and Eric broke up.



* "Three Stars" by Music/EddieCochran is a tribute to Holly, Valens and the Big Bopper. Cochran's voice audibly cracks at several points in the song. What's worse, the poor guy had do record several takes...and would die young in an accident himself in 1960, only a year after the trio went.
* Music/DonMcLean's ''Music/AmericanPie'' is a {{Homage}} to the deaths of Buddy Holly, Valens and the Big Bopper.

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* "Three Stars" by Music/EddieCochran is a tribute to Holly, Music/BuddyHolly, Valens and the Big Bopper.Music/TheBigBopper. Cochran's voice audibly cracks at several points in the song. What's worse, the poor guy had do record several takes...and would die young in an accident himself in 1960, only a year after the trio went.
* Music/DonMcLean's ''Music/AmericanPie'' is a {{Homage}} to about the deaths of Buddy Holly, Valens and the Big Bopper.



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* "Donna" was used in an episode of ''Series/That70sShow'' where Donna and Eric broke up.



* ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'': In one scene a clone of Buddy Holly invites Abe to ride on a broken-down plane along with Ritchie Valens, The Big Bopper, Music/JimCroce, and half of Music/LynyrdSkynyrd... all of whom had their real life counterparts die in plane crashes.

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* ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'': In one scene a clone of Buddy Holly invites Abe to ride on a broken-down plane along with Ritchie Valens, The Big Bopper, Music/JimCroce, and half of Music/LynyrdSkynyrd... all of whom had their real life real-life counterparts die in plane crashes.
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A list of references, parodies, shout-outs, homages... to Music/RitchieValens.

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* "Three Stars" by Music/EddieCochran is a tribute to Holly, Valens and the Big Bopper. Cochran's voice audibly cracks at several points in the song. What's worse, the poor guy had do record several takes...and would die young in an accident himself in 1960, only a year after the trio went.
* Music/DonMcLean's ''Music/AmericanPie'' is a {{Homage}} to the deaths of Buddy Holly, Valens and the Big Bopper.
* "Boogie With Stu" from Music/LedZeppelin's ''Music/PhysicalGraffiti'' was inspired by Valens' "Oooh My Head".
* Music/WeirdAlYankovic spoofed "La Bamba" as "Lasagna".

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* "Donna" was used in an episode of ''Series/That70sShow'' where Donna and Eric broke up.

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* ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'': In one scene a clone of Buddy Holly invites Abe to ride on a broken-down plane along with Ritchie Valens, The Big Bopper, Music/JimCroce, and half of Music/LynyrdSkynyrd... all of whom had their real life counterparts die in plane crashes.
* ''WesternAnimation/PepperAnn'': In "Cold Feet" a flashback shows a pregnant young Grandma planning to leave for a flight with Music/BuddyHolly, Ritchie Valens and the Music/TheBigBopper, but then she goes into labor before she can leave.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In ''Sideshow Bob Roberts'' Bart and Lisa discover that Sideshow Bob filled in the names of deceased people to win the popular vote, including Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper. A close-up of The Big Bopper's gravestone shows that his epitaph is: "Gooooodbye baby!"
** An Itchy & Scratchy cartoon in "C.E.D'oh" has Scratchy go aboard the plane that carried Holly, Valens and the Big Bopper, who somehow turned out to be vampires too.

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