Ritchie Valens Handwritten Lyrics Wanted
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Ritchie Valens Handwritten Lyrics
Original Ritchie Valens handwritten lyrics are rare to come to market. Valens memorabilia is rare in general, perhaps because he died so young, in a plane crash in 1959. If you have Ritchie Valens handwritten lyrics lying around, now is a good time to sell them. Or at least contact Nate Sanders and have your Ritchie Valens handwritten lyrics appraised. You may be sitting on a goldmine.
Nate D. Sanders Auctions, a powerhouse in Music and Entertainment memorabilia sales, currently has original lyrics written by Bob Dylan on the auction block. Here is the listing from that auction which ends Thursday, March 30th.
Bob Dylan Handwritten Lyrics
Bob Dylan handwritten lyrics from November 1961, when Dylan was performing at clubs in New York, shortly after he signed with Columbia Records. Dylan pens a song about Wisconsin, where he lived in late 1960 before moving to New York, and also where he spent time as a teenager at summer camp. The lyrics were given by Dylan to Peter Crago, a musician with whom Dylan briefly lived in New York in 1961. Full uncorrected lyrics by Dylan read in part,
”1. Wisconson is the dairy state
I guess you all know well
I was in Wow Wow Toaster there
The truth to you I’ll tell
It’s milk & cheese & cream
I’ve known ’em all my days
I’m going back to my hometown I’m leaving right aways
2. I’m a heading out Wisconson ways
2000 miles to go
Madison, Milwakee set’s my heart aglow
I’m a coming to that dairy state
My heart’s a beating fast
I’ll jerk my banjo gently there
And twiddle my mustache
3. There’s thoughts I left there long ago
One a coming now it seems
I’ll tune my banjo than the hills
And feast on milk and cream
And stamp my foot all thru the grass
And never know a care
My homes in Wow Wow Toaster
And I’m a going there”
The song continues on the verso:
”1. These people with you city ways
Are driving me insane to drink
My home’s in Wisconson it’s a better place I think
I’ve been in California
My home’s in Wisconson
And I”m gonna own the town”
Several words in the draft are crossed out and replaced, such as ”dreams” being crossed out and replaced with ”thoughts” in section 3. With an LOA from Crago who wrote ”Bob Dylan – 11/20/61 / N.Y.C” to top right of document; all other handwriting is Dylan’s. Paper measures approximately 8.5” x 10.75”. Top portion torn off, horizontal fold and light toning, otherwise near fine. With a COA from Roger Epperson.
If you have Ritchie Valens handwritten lyrics buried in a desk drawer somewhere you may want to consider auctioning them. You’ll make a collector very happy to own Ritchie Valens handwritten lyrics, and make a small fortune for yourself while your at it.
To auction, buy, consign or sell original Ritchie Valens handwritten lyrics please go to http://www.NateDSanders.com, email Nate at [email protected] or phone (310) 440-2982.