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54 years ago today.
Buddy, Ritchie and the Bopper boarded a Beechcraft Bonanza to get to their next gig - avoiding a grueling, freezing bus trip.. The bus made it. The Bonanza did not.
Thank you Buddy, Ritchie and JD. Your trip was truncated, but your legend will never be so.
Bennyboy
(10,440 posts)NBachers
(17,124 posts)zeemike
(18,998 posts)postulater
(5,075 posts)Excellent roadtrip!
spanone
(135,846 posts)ChoppinBroccoli
(3,784 posts)Weird how things line up like that.
zeemike
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(23,664 posts)I was a senior in HS and played on the basketball team. We came back to the school on the bus from a Tuesday afternoon game and my sister was there to drive me home and she told me about the plane crash.
I don't remember being affected by the news. I was much happier that we won the game and I got some rebounds and blocked a few shots but years later when "American Pie" came out, that was what I remembered and for some reason I've never forgotten it since.
SharonAnn
(13,777 posts)Valens. I even liked the Big Bopper. It was the first time I'd been affected by a sudden death of people whom I really liked, though I didn't know them personally. Also, the fact that it happened just after they left the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake made it very personal to us. It's where we went during the summers and we had been bummed that we couldn't go to see them because it was winter and during the school week.
I thought they'd been forgotten until American Pie came out. I loved the song immediately and have loved it ever since.
zeemike
(18,998 posts)Also known as Richy Valenzuela...(it sounded to Mexican so he shortened it to Valens)
All of these from my teenage years.
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And each deserves a post of it's own.
Logical
(22,457 posts)SheilaT
(23,156 posts)I recall "The day the music died". I was young enough -- only 10 -- that it didn't have as strong an impact at that time as it has since. Buddy Holly's influence on popular music is almost impossible to calculate. Had he lived, he would have made the Beatles seem like minor players. In his short time he completely changed things, and younger people, say anyone born after 1970, simply have no idea.
All three of those killed that day might still be alive, had the crash not happened. Buddy Holly would be 76, Ritchie Valens 71, and the Big Bopper 82. Just imagine
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)she and her sister were in Fargo waiting for them to arrive as they had tickets to the Winter Dance Paty there
but here it is from the man himself and it's so true
healthnut7
(249 posts)For the videos, love the songs...