Posted on 02/03/2023 6:10:48 AM PST by 1Old Pro
Rising American rock stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson are killed when their chartered Beechcraft Bonanza plane crashes in Iowa a few minutes after takeoff from Mason City on a flight headed for Moorhead, Minnesota. Investigators blamed the crash on bad weather and pilot error. Holly and his band, the Crickets, had just scored a No. 1 hit with “That’ll Be the Day.”
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People my age know the words, yes it was over played :)
Thanks for the reminder. Another event I look to is 12/4/56, the Million Dollar Quartet at Sun Studio in Memphis. It was a jam session with Elvis, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins.
I knew every lyric by heart!.......................
There’s a great British comedy (The Young Ones) that had a scene in which they discussed what might have happened if Buddy hadn’t died. It was funny listening to one of the British characters trying to imitate a Texas accent.
A friend of mine driver her somewhere when she was singing at The Aerodrome in Schenectady. https://www.google.com/search?q=aerodrome+schenectady+ny&rlz=1C1FKPE_enUS938US938&oq=areodrome&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0i10i512j0i10i433i512j0i10i512j46i10i175i199i512j0i10i512l4j46i10i175i199i512.10693j1j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Buddy Holly was remarkable- I play his music to this day..
I think Waylon Jennings was almost on that plane ...
There was room for two more passengers on the flight, and those seats were originally intended for members of Holly’s band, Tommy Allsup and Waylon Jennings. Valens won Allsup’s spot in a coin toss, according to several reports. Richardson was feeling ill and convinced Jennings to let him have his seat on the plane. According to Jennings’ memoir, Waylon: An Autobiography, he and Holly joked about the change in travel arrangements. Holly told him that “I hope your damned bus freezes up again.” Jennings replied. “Well, I hope your ol’ plane crashes.” This casual remark haunted Jennings for years.
Gary Busey did a fine job of acting and singing in ‘The Boddy Holly Story’.
The worst manifestation of the perversion of the label ‘music’ - IMHO - was discovered when I learned of Jada Pinkett Smith’s side gig as - ahem - ‘lead singer’ of the so-called ‘Afro-Punk’ group Wicked Wisdom. I saw the citation of her band as ‘heavy metal’ when looking up her bio after watching Nutty Professor and became curious enough to search for a video.
It’s tortuous listening, both musically & vocally (visuals, too); I won’t link it.
I watched a documentary on Amazon, “The Day the Music Died”: the Story of Don MacLean’s American Pie” and he talks about how his music was influenced by Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper, and their tragic deaths.
He actually meets with Valens’ sister and does a concert in Moorhead Minnesota.
It was a fantastic documentary and I heartily recommend it!
I have to check my recollection of something I heard about him, like being a really nice person...
Several years ago I saw a great show about the events leading up to and after the crash. It was one of the Behind the Music documentaries, but 90 minutes instead of the usual 60. So much information I didn’t know, and lots of pictures, too (including many from the crash that I hadn’t seen).
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