Posted on 02/04/2015 8:13:52 AM PST by iowamark
OMG! I just posted THIS in the FR canteen this very morning:
“Tuesday started out terrible, but then the Ten-Year-Old-Tablet-toting-Tyranical-Terror DISCOVERED BUDDY HOLLY.
I took him on a whirlwind tour of You Tube, visiting Buddy, Elvis, Richie Valens, The Big Bopper, and of Course told him about “The Day The Music Died”.
The song that did it was “She’s so square, but I don’t care”, which had appeared in an absolutely VILE movie trailer of disgusting CGI characters called the “Boxtrolls”.
I recognized it as a Buddy Holly song and took it from there.
I am giving the kid an edjumacation! LOL!”
I had no idea that today was the anniversary.
Extra Credit Question.
What now famous musician was SUPPOSED to have been on that plane? He wasn’t and he’s alive.
Big Bopper’s son died about a year and a half ago. He never met his dad, his mom was pregnant when the plane crashed.
What I find interesting is that the headlines you see in that newspaper could just as well appear in today’s newspapers.
There is nothing new under the sun, as they say.
My iPhone started playing American Pie last weekend. All these decades I just thought it was chock full of nonsense lyrics!
Has it really been that long?
Waylon Jennings ?
Here’s some nonsense lyrics from Waylon Jennings (with Buddy Holly and King Curtis). They didn’t know cajun!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F238KHpgDBM
Ooops. You’re right.
The great Waylon Jennings died in 2002.
From Wiki..... Richardson had contracted flu during the tour and asked Waylon Jennings for his seat on the plane. When Holly learned that Jennings was not going to fly, he said in jest, “Well, I hope your ol’ bus freezes up.” Jennings responded, “Well, I hope your ol’ plane crashes,” a humorous but ill-fated response that haunted Jennings for the rest of his life.[9]
I listen to Buddy Holly often. His music is fantastic. Johnny Horton and Johnny Cash are my two other favorites rockabilly kings of the era. I should know the answer to your question, but I don’t recall now.
Don McLean lives quietly in Camden Maine. He made a rare concert appearance at Portland Maine’s Independance Day celebration a couple of years ago.
‘Jape’ J.P. Richardson wrote Chantilly Lace (as the B-side to his novelty song that he thought might make come money) and later wrote this one...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NMklxiE6xw
George Jone was from the same area as Richardson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE5pM1HXxlI
Richardson also was behind this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAKD5CD0I3w
Johnny Preston was likewise from Beaumont. J.P. Richardson and George Jones did the indian whoops on the 1959 original. All 3 are now deceased.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3meEmDpaDU
The Beatles played some of the biggest venues of their day (Shea Stadium, Candelstick Park, Boston Gardens...) and yet all of those venues are gone today.
Really it was Woodstock that did the big paradigm shift, though. Bands went from doing two shows a night at a music hall to doing one show. Bill Graham didn’t want 3,000 seat bands. It was on to 10-20,000 seat venues and up.
Pink Floyd got put out at such venues in the 1970s when they started to count how many seats had been sold vs. how many they were being paid for (thousands less).
But that music business model is imploding. There are pop dance shows and old acts that still draw big bank (and draw it with tickets that can run $125-600 and more per ticket WITHOUT scalping or ticket handling fees) but the mid-size venues in some towns are corporate chains, closed to local acts and bands who won’t play the entire circuit.
Then there are the smaller rung general admission venues. Places that may pre-sell tickets but that don’t go through Livenation-Ticketmaster (who own venues and the contracts on the civic stadiums).
Another bad joke that came true: Charles Nelson Reilly was supposedly told by his mother that if he went to the circus when she told him he couldn’t, she hoped it burned down. It did. More than 150 people died in Hartford CT, 1944 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartford_circus_fire
Some things should not be joked about, if for no other reason it would haunt someone forever if it came true.
Waylon Jennings was in the Highwaymen with Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson. I saw them once, it was the only time I ever got to see Waylon or Johnny and they were quite distant.
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