I’m still amazed how many great tunes Buddy Holly had before he turned 23.
Have you been to the Buddy Holly museum in Lubbock?
Yeah because of it we got stuck with that damn "American Pie" song.
The day the music EXPLODED, literally and figuratively. These guys and their music were memorialized, copied, and took off from there.
“They Built That City on Rock and Roll...”.
Buddy Holly and Jim Croce ( for me ) are two of those singers/songwriters who really makes me wonder how much more great music would have been written had they lived longer ...
Many of the later great performers have acknowledged Buddy Holly’s influence on their music. The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, and Elton John come to mind.
It has been said that the Beatles took their name as inspiration from Buddy Holly and the Crickets. In other words, the Beatles chose their band name partly in homage to Buddy Holly’s own band.
My mom stayed upset about that event for years. She would cry when “The Day the Music Died” came on the radio.
But she always cried over “Seasons in the Sun” also.
Ritchie Valens was only 17 when he died? Sad.
“The Buddy Holly Story” starring pre-crash Gary Busey - a really well-done movie - and Gary Busey does his own very-well-done stuff on stage. Worth seeing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItmM3pkY4MY
Though it’s a bit of a stretch to call the Big Bopper’s work “music”.
Some of the plane crash pictures on the net are pretty rough.
They never knew what hit them.
RIP
This is the tune for the day the old media died
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1215388/posts
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 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.