The Day the Music Died.

[Bugman]

Around midnight on February 2 1959 Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson boarded a chartered Beechcraft Bonanza piloted by 21 year old Roger Peterson.

Earlier that evening the men had played at The Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake Iowa, a stop on "The Winter Dance Party Tour." Less than 10 minutes after taking off the plane crashed into a cornfield, killing all four men.

The music of Buddy Holly would influence countless artists in the years ahead including The Beatles and The Rolling Stones.

R.I.P. Buddy. Gone, but never forgotten.

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[Mitchell]

I was just thinking about the tradegy this morning, bug.

Some of the greatest voices in music history were silenced in that crash.

I've seen the movie "La Bamba", but havent seen "The Buddy Holly Story" yet.

Don Mclean's "American Pie" about this tradegy, is one of the greatest songs in music history.

Mitch

 

[Bugman]

I was just thinking about the tradegy this morning, bug.

Some of the greatest voices in music history were silenced in that crash.

I've seen the movie "La Bamba", but havent seen "The Buddy Holly Story" yet.

Don Mclean's "American Pie" about this tradegy, is one of the greatest songs in music history.

Mitch

The Buddy Holly Story (1978) is a wonderful film with Gary Busey starring, long before he went off the rails.

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[milagros317]

Thanks for the reminder, Bugman. I have always found the following additional details to be chilling:

Flight arrangements were made with Roger Peterson, a 21-year-old local pilot who worked for Dwyer Flying Service in Mason City, Iowa. A fee of $36 per passenger was charged for the single-engined 1947 Beechcraft Bonanza 35 (V-tail), registration N3794N (later reassigned). The Bonanza could seat three in addition to the pilot.

Richardson had developed a case of flu during the tour and asked Waylon Jennings for his seat on the plane. When Holly learned that Jennings wasn't going to fly, he said in jest, "Well, I hope your old' bus freezes up" and Jennings responded, also in jest, "Well, I hope your old' plane crashes". This exchange of words would haunt Jennings for the rest of his life.

Ritchie Valens had never flown in a small plane before, and, in spite of his own fear of flying, asked Tommy Allsup for his seat on the plane. Tommy said "I'll flip ya for the remaining seat". Contrary to what is seen in La Bamba, the coin toss did not happen at the airport shortly before takeoff, nor did Buddy Holly toss it. Bob Hale, a DJ with KRIB-AM, was working the concert that night and flipped the coin in the ballroom's sidestage room shortly before the musicians departed for the airport. Valens won the coin toss, and with it a seat on the flight.

Rest In Peace, all four of you.

 

[Bugman]

Thanks for the reminder, Bugman. I have always found the following additional details to be chilling:

Rest In Peace, all four of you.

Yes, Waylon never really got over that.

 

[milagros317]

Yes, Waylon never really got over that.

The moral of that story is: Never, NEVER, NEVER make a joke about somebody dying.

 

[TklDuo-Drew]

I thought the day the music died was when The Eagles put out their first record.



Drew

 

[SamuelKhan]

 

[Bugman]

Not to forget the rest who died that day, La Bamba by Ritchie Valens. Ritchie grew up speaking English, and learned the lyrics phonetically.




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[paracarl44]

Another 'DAY THE MUSIC DIED' was when Patsy Cline died in an airplane crash.

 

[Bugman]

J. P. Richardson.

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[GEORGIATKLER]

I bought a Buddy Holly cd a few months ago. You can always hear his creative wheels turning in his variety of lyrics and arrangements.

 

[paracarl44]

A lot of talented musicians died that day.