https://www.surfballroom.com <—— This is where Buddy Holly’s last performance was in Mason Iowa, they even have the phone he last called his wife on there and keep it preserved.
I’ve read books on him, what happened. One book called “The day the music died”.
Here was a tribute song that was written weeks after the accident, it’s a moving song. Whomever made the video messed up some in the Richie Valens pictures but that doesn’t change the original moving message of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwO8bsMKuyI
In hindsight, it is too bad they put faith in a 20, 21 year old pilot in a snow storm. That much can be said.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jsw5wBIitfA Jackie DeShannon sings “Oh Boy”, Buddy’s song in 1964. Though it might be difficult to appreciate Holly’s impact on the music nowadays, now I understand more it’s originality and such. One can wonder what direction music could have gone in but that is just speculation. I like a lot of the oldies, pre-British invasion because a lot of the music had a real innocence to it imho.
Surf Ball Room in Clear Lake Iowa or wherever it was, I know I said Mason Iowa and that seems to be wrong. So just correcting, it sounds like Clear Lake Iowa. https://www.surfballroom.com
The Surf Ballrom is in Clear Lake, Iowa.