{"id":41754,"count":1,"description":"\"Donna\" is a song written and sung by Ritchie Valens featuring the 50s progression. The song was released in 1958 on Del-Fi Records. It reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart the following year, becoming Valens' highest-charting single. The song was covered by another Del-Fi artist and western actor, Johnny Crawford, in 1962. It was also covered in 2003 by American punk band The Misfits on their album Project 1950, which was a cover album of 1950s songs.\nIt was written as a tribute to his high school sweetheart, Donna Ludwig, now known as Donna Fox.\n\"Donna\", the second Ritchie Valens single released, was the A side of the influential and much more famous song \"La Bamba\". This single was only one of three, along with the previous single (\"Come On, Let's Go\"\/\"Framed\" \u2013 Del-Fi 4106) and the follow-up (\"Fast Freight\"\/\"Big Baby Blues\" \u2013 Del-Fi 4111) ever released in Valens's lifetime.\nOriginal Del-Fi pressings of \"Donna\"\/\"La Bamba\" include black and sea green labels with circles, later...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/donna\/","name":"Donna","slug":"donna","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/41754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=41754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}