[Fiji Hill]

I think Buddy's version is better.

Early in the Morning--The Rinky-Dinks

Early in the Morning--Buddy Holly

[ChildOfThe60s]

A tad too confusing to be interesting for me

[Jim W N]

Buddy Holly died at 22 in a plane crash

Bobby Darin died at 37 from a heart ailment.

[crusty old prospector]

The only version I know is by the Gap Band.

[Fiji Hill]

Atco was a subsidiary of Ahmet Ertegün’s Atlantic label, which played a big role in ushering in the rock and roll era by providing a home for acts like the Drifters, the Clovers and Joe Turner. Atco was for artists such as Bobby Darin, who didn’t fit into the genre of music that Atlantic was putting out—blues, rhythm and blues, and jazz. The Coasters, the Sensations, the Who, the Buffalo Springfield, Sonny & Cher and even the Beatles had songs issued on Atco.

[Paal Gulli]

A screen shot from my favorite Bart Simpson episode. They're watching an episode of the Itchy & Scratchy show on TV. Scratchy suffers a horrible motorcycle accident and an ambulance crew shovels up the pieces and loads him onto a medivac flight.

As the plane takes off you see it's (a fairly accurate representation of) a V-35 Bonanza, the infamous forked-tail doctor-killer. At that same moment, Scratchy realizes his co-passengers are The Big Bopper, Richie Valens, and Buddy Holly. Then the plane flies into a snowstorm (as below) and crashes.

All it was missing was the "American Pie" nose art.