I really enjoy this thread. I was 12 when this happened and my sister and I were affected by the crash. We were really into the music having been strongly influenced by our mother toward all things musical.
I came here for the news and politics, but this type of thread is icing on the cake.
Thanx again.
The very first time I heard about this was in the 80’s. On the way to church on a Saturday night, I was looking for something to listen to on the radio. Of course, my first choice (and my boys’ “OK, we’ll listen but we don’t have to like it” ).
Our classical music station was playing some show with a guy just talking. He was talking about this day, and how he and some friends drove for miles, just to see if it was true. They couldn’t believe that these big stars were dead. So they drove to the crash site and were devastated.
It was magical. We were driving thru a snowstorm, church is 10 miles away, so we had awhile to listen.
That guy was Garrison Keillor, and the show was “Prairie Home Companion”. (I know, he’s a lib and his politics in no way line up with mine.) We didn’t know it, but the portion of the show we were listening to was The News From Lake Woebegone.