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The Day the Music Died 03 Feb 1959
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Posted on 02/03/2018 5:39:11 PM PST by US Navy Vet

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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I am not sure that is correct. They played in Clear Lake
Iowa and were flying to the Hector Airport in Fargo, North Dakota for a gig at the National Guard Armory in Moorhead,
Minnesota (across the Red River). In the fall of 1967, I went to a tri-college dance there.


21 posted on 02/03/2018 6:20:01 PM PST by Maine Mariner
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To: US Navy Vet

I guess everybody can put their own slant on what it means.

I always thought “The Jester” was Mick Jagger. The King was Elvis but not sure who the Queen was. The Sergeants were The Beatles.

Driving “my Chevy to the Levee” was just the typical teenagers going parking. The levee being dry means he was out of luck.

There is a huge amount of religious overtones to the song.


22 posted on 02/03/2018 6:20:59 PM PST by yarddog
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To: US Navy Vet

I remember my ex buying me the cheap airline ticket to Boston shortly before dumping me. As the flight went thru some turbulence it hit me, Feb 3, 1999. 40 years the Day The Music Died

Gulp . . .


23 posted on 02/03/2018 6:21:10 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat (Another Islamic terrorist event, and no “outrage” from the “Muslim community”. Again)
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To: DeFault User

I was a sophomore at the U. Of Iowa at the time. Hit everybody pretty hard. Lots of silence while it was digested. Still chokes me up.


24 posted on 02/03/2018 6:31:14 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: US Navy Vet

I was about 2 weeks old when that happened. I barely remember.


25 posted on 02/03/2018 6:37:08 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Wisdom and education are different things. Don't confuse them.)
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To: bigbob

Small showrooms and auditoriums!


26 posted on 02/03/2018 6:38:32 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: US Navy Vet

Gun found at crash site. Did Holly shoot the pilot?

27 posted on 02/03/2018 6:39:09 PM PST by Karl Spooner
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To: MisterArtery

LOL!!


28 posted on 02/03/2018 6:39:35 PM PST by PistolPaknMama
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To: US Navy Vet

29 posted on 02/03/2018 6:40:09 PM PST by iowamark
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To: US Navy Vet

I know where and when I was when I first heard the song...
I know of no other song that I can say that about.
At the time it struck me, now it is just a song, what does that mean? Hell if I know.


30 posted on 02/03/2018 6:41:44 PM PST by TexasTransplant (Did You Screw up your Life? You get a “Second Chance” every second.)
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To: US Navy Vet

They’re dead, Jim.


31 posted on 02/03/2018 6:44:06 PM PST by logitech
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To: TexasTransplant

Same here.

I guess it was around 1971. I was home for the weekend from college. I had just stopped by a store and gotten a soft drink.

It was raining lightly, the parking lot was wet. I got in the car and had just turned on the radio. The song started just about the same time.

Very odd in that like I said, I knew it was something special immediately.


32 posted on 02/03/2018 6:46:13 PM PST by yarddog
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To: Karl Spooner

The Big Bopper was the problem.


33 posted on 02/03/2018 6:55:22 PM PST by Joe Dallas
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“I always thought “The Jester” was Mick Jagger. The King was Elvis but not sure who the Queen was. The Sergeants were The Beatles.”

That’s right, and he pays tribute to Janis Joplin and the Byrds; and he was pissed that JFK was shot, but the bottom line is that a girl in high school rejected him and from there the world wend the crap.


34 posted on 02/03/2018 6:59:43 PM PST by Joe Dallas
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To: yarddog

Buddy Holly died in 1959. The song was popular in late sixties, and forward....maybe at different times in different states.


35 posted on 02/03/2018 7:02:10 PM PST by Ambrosia ( Independents Rising! Southern born, lived many places; NC, PA, NY, WV, NM, FL, SC)
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To: US Navy Vet

Thankful I enjoyed their music from my parents records before I knew what happened to them.

There’s a good documentary from VH1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvoFBssgHLE


36 posted on 02/03/2018 7:05:04 PM PST by Southern Magnolia
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To: bigbob

That was a weird tour schedule. It looks like the path on one of those Family Circle comics.


37 posted on 02/03/2018 7:08:42 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Family Circus, not Family Circle the magazine.


38 posted on 02/03/2018 7:09:04 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Ambrosia

I just looked it up.

The song was released in 1971.


39 posted on 02/03/2018 7:12:05 PM PST by yarddog
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To: US Navy Vet
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40 posted on 02/03/2018 7:14:07 PM PST by CaliforniaCraftBeer
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