Buddy Holly - Not Fade Away (HD) 2020
Waylon Jennings Recalls Moments Before Buddy Holly’s Tragic Plane Crash
“The band bus was so cold that Buddy’s drummer had to leave the tour with frostbite.”
A better bus would have made a lot of difference.
I would have demanded the Ted Danson bus.
“I met a girl who sang the blues and I asked her for some happy news, but she just smiled and turned away”.
Nice of Waylon Jennings to give up his seat to JP Richardson on the warm plane.
The pilot was only 22 years old, not instrument current, and instrument flying in those days was less than perfect. So you have to imagine a 22-year-old, at midnight or 1 AM, with three rock stars who want to go. Took off and white out conditions, made it a very short distance before vertigo took over.
Read the FAA report on the crash. Describing all the pressure on the pilot, the weather, his certification, it was an accident waiting to happen. Very tragic.
The plane was a “forked-tailed doctor killer,” but the Bonanza’s self-jettisoning empennage had nothing to do with this mishap.
The the name painted on the nose of the plane was “American Pie.”
One of the greatest ever. Lovely melodies and lyrics. Music.
Bkmk
It’s Don McLean telling how he got into music, how Buddy Holly inspired him, how he came to write American Pie, and the whole program climaxes with a memorial concert in Minnesota near where the fateful plane crash took place.
It’s a MUST SEE. I very strongly and favorably recommend it!
I’m not even a big fan of any of the artists mentioned, but it really moved me. Again, it’s a must see.
According to Hillary, the plane crash was a result of 5he defund by DOGE and Sean Duffy . . .