“American Pie” explained. The Song By Don Mclean

http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/americanpie.html ^

[navysealdad]

Songs like “Revolution” by The Beatles, which was clearly suspicious of violent revolution and uprisings, as well as “American Pie” by Don McLean.

Many people think that the song “American Pie” is about the death of Buddy Holly and other musicians in a plane crash, but Glenn presented a reading of the lyrics on radio and showed how it could also be seen as a warning against the danger of violent uprisings.

“ I’ve never understood I drove the Chevy to the levee, I didn’t know what that was. Let’s just start there on the simple part because Chevy, just think of Chevy and mom and apple pie. He’s making a point here. Chevy, I drove my Chevy to the levee. This actually goes back into the 1950s and a Dinah Shore commercial for Chevy,”

[TheOldLady]

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[bksanders]

Why minimize Buddy?
It’s a Buddy song.
OBTW, I am the Walrus… koo-kook-a-chu
-Dr. O’Boogie

[potlatch]

drove my chevy to the levee but the levee was dry.......

just as the Chevrolet itself is a familiar icon of 1950s America. Also, given that a drive to a levee carries the suggestion of romance in a car, we can almost see him on a date here. But the date is over, the levee is dry—someone he once loved has betrayed him; something that once gave him sustenance has evaporated.

[PhilDragoo]

Yours is a much more romantic interpretation than given at the top, a Hippie epitaph. (Please deposit twenty-five trillion for the next decade.)

[potlatch]

No deposits, lol, but I actually read that on a link here earlier in the day. The link supposedly described the ‘meaning’ of his words.

I always liked this song. The words are similar to Dylan’s lyrics. Much guesswork as to the meanings!

[potlatch]

But, yes, my description obviously had meaning for me.

[PhilDragoo]

A song's a window and they want to triple glaze it and hang three layers of curtains. Yours, a well. Dylan was three hours from the head of the English department for me.

[potlatch]

I enjoy your interpretations and you have insight.

We can all listen to the same song and get different meanings I believe. Just as Bible readers read and see things differently.

You and Dylan spent a lot of time together, lol.

[devolve]

- AMERICAN PIE -

[sand lake bar]

I saw Iggy in concert many times. He was a homeboy.

[raccoonradio]

I was aware of the Dylan-Guthrie connection and the “voice that came from you and me”

Not sure if the Shore song in the ad mentioned a levee
but it was part of a campaign encouraging “see America”...in a Chevy of course, “See the USA in Your Chevrolet”. (A MAD
magazine bit once showed some anti-pollution protestors and
one sign said “Spray the USA in your Chevrolet”). The lyrics I can remember are

See the USA in your Chevrolet
America is asking you to call
See the USA in your Chevrolet
America’s the greatest land of all

(forget line)
...is sweeter, life is complete-r in a Chevy

At one point we had some kind of lyrical songbook issued
by Chevy dealers, associated with this campaign. The idea
was to have the family sing folk songs, etc. (Dixie Land,
On Top of Old Smokey) as they drove or rode along.

[potlatch]

Pretty car. When I think in terms of the topic car I imagine a more beat up looking car, lol.

[devolve]

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- That is a photograph of a 1/24 scale diecast model of a *56 Chevy Bel Air convertible

- I swapped it with the first photograph I had posted of an actual full-sized 1/1 scale restored *56 Chevy Bel Air convertible -

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[potlatch]

I missed the first one then since you did it in the early AM.

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Same body style and 2-tone paint colors

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