Posted on 02/03/2016 10:09:49 AM PST by oh8eleven
(Originally published by the Daily News on Feb. 4, 1959.)
MASON CITY, IOWA, Feb. 3. - Three rock 'n' roll singing stars, who records and appearances stirred millions of teenagers, were killed early today in an Iowa field.
The four-place plane carrying the three and their pilot crashed soon after taking off in light snow and heavy gusts of wind from the Mason City Airport.
Dead were Buddy Holly, 22, of Lubbock, Tex.; Ritchie Valens, 17, of Los Angeles; J.P. (Big Bopper) Richardson, 24, of Beaumont, Tex., and Roger Peterson, 21, of Clear Lake, Iowa, the pilot.
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Well, most people whose perception of it comes from Hollywood are. It was just lonely outpost at a run-down mission on the frontier.
Listen to the guitar break in “Peggy Sue”. Nothing quite like it before. How much of the rock and roll to come can be heard in those twenty seconds....
As a sixth grade Boy Scout in a Catholic school. Myself and two friends were in charge of putting the flag up every morning at school. That morning we put it up at half mast. Later the nuns came and got us out of class and wanted to know what the flag was doing at half mast. When we told them Buddy Holly died they said “who is that”. When we explained who it was they were not amused.
I loved “American Pie”..
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I went to the Waylon Jennings auction a year and a half ago.
There were lots of pictures of Buddy Holly and Waylon goofing around, as they were very close friends.
Waylon dumped music and moved to Arizona for a few years after the plane crash and after losing Buddy, but eventually re-entered the music world (thank goodness).
Everyone has heard the story as to how Waylon was not on that flight, and ended up riding the charter bus - so I won’t get in to that.
It is just the pictures Waylon kept of him and Buddy were just remarkable.
You could tell how close they were by the pictures alone.
The original Crickets bought Buddy’s motorbike years later and gave it to Waylon for a birthday present.
They left it in his hotel room for him to find after a show.
The bike was at the auction, and went for a rather large price tag (all proceeds went to the Children’s Hospital).
Waylon would occasionally play a Buddy Holly song at his concerts.
I was a teenage girl. I sobbed so much, I hurt my mother’s feelings, since a relative had recently died and I hadn’t taken it nearly as bad.
Oh we knew they didn’t know who he was. We were just being grade school kids is all. Who happen to like Buddy Holly a lot.
Goin' faster than a roller coaster
Words that are more relevant today then the first time I heard them. Buddy Holly was a great songwriter in a good person
I wore hyis style glasses all the way through college!
> “Gotta’ say I was disappointed with the Alamo.”
You must have not gotten down to see the basement.
Wayfarer-style frames are again popular. I see a lot of younger people wearing them.
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