Posted on 02/03/2014 6:40:08 AM PST by Baynative
On this day in 1959, 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 Moorehead, 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."
After mechanical difficulties with the tour bus, Holly had chartered a plane for his band to fly between stops on the Winter Dance Party Tour. However, Richardson, who had the flu, convinced Holly's band member Waylon Jennings to give up his seat, and Ritchie Valens won a coin toss for another seat on the plane.
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Now, this was in Instrument conditions with a qualified pilot during the day trying to get to Fargo.
“The 1000 Greatest Songs (1960-2013)”
Didn’t have to go very far down that one before I ran into some things I really don’t like.
Some disco was good:
She was a goddess and a Born Again Christian.
Top 500 Classic Rock Songs
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It was a great time and it used to be a great place.
siigghhh ... we’re older brother, and the best we can do is attempt to describe the times ... but’cha’ hadd’a BIN there.
This is a slipper slope you are on my FRiend! Next thing you’re going to be slow dancing to Leo Sayer!
What’s wrong with Donna Summer?
What I find really ironic is that now we have a population of aging grey haired hippies who have no idea what the whole experience was about. All they caught was that because the movement was heavily influenced by anti-war sentiment and people rebelled against the government which was Richard Nixon at the time, they think they all have to be democrats.
But, the real meaning of the hippie culture was personal freedom and less government which as far from democrat ideals as can be.
Here's a richly-deserved rejoinder:
The Universal Coward--Jan Berry (1965)
I didn't endorse the song
I was 19 or 20 and I heard it ... words I had never heard before .. at a time when I was drinking with pissed off guys that had just rotated back from country.
Yup.
In a field outside of Clear Lake Iowa where the music died. We all know about the ill-fated plane trip by Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens who on a cold night died when the plane crashed just after take-off.
The crash site is easy to find and a short 1/2 mile walk from the gravel farm road. There is a nice memorial at the spot of the crash.
Please stay on the trail and pick up any trash you see on the way, we are guests on a farmers private property.
Directions to the site:
From U.S. Highway 18, go north on North 8th Street in Clear Lake for 4.7 miles. When the paved road (which has turned into Grouse Avenue) turns to your left (west), take the gravel road (310th Street) to your right (east), then immediately left (north) on Gull Avenue. Follow Gull Avenue to the north for one-half mile, just past the grain bins to the first fence row on your left (west). Walk along the fence row towards the west for just under one-half mile. A small memorial is located at the place the plane came to rest. Four trees were also planted along the fence row in 1999, one for each performer and the pilot
Well worth the trip for every Rock N’ Roll fan.
Come to think of it, where would Linda Ronstadt’s career be if not for all the Buddy Holly covers she hit with in the ‘70s? I’ll tell you where- singing the one hit she had with the stone poneys “different drum” at county fairs in Nebraska.
(IMHO)
CC
I love that show Keillor is one of our best story tellers. His letters from Lake Wobegon are classic. Good down home music too. Of course he is hopelessly liberal.
Your boys are above average!
so much for the belmonts!
Thanx.
yes
earlier in the 50s I think R&B that wasn’t the blues was called race music.
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