Today is the 53rd anniversary of that day. I know our friend Rumpleforeskin would like this tribute.
McLean has resisted many opportunities to interpret the lyrics of “American Pie”, leaving that to his listeners, but he has said that writing the first verse of the song helped him to get over his long-standing grief over Buddy Holly’s death:
February made me shiver
with every paper I’d deliver
Bad news on the doorstep
I couldn’t take one more step
I can’t remember if I cried
When I read about his widowed bride
But something touched me deep inside
The day the music died.
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The Day the Music Died
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Though his success as a recording artist only spanned a year and a half prior to the plane crash that claimed his life that fateful night in 1959, Buddy Holly has been hailed as one of rock’s most influential creative forces in its early years. Here’s one of his most well-known hits, originally written as “Cindy Lou” but changed by Holly to honor the girlfriend of his drummer in “The Crickets”, Jerry Allison, whose name was Peggy Sue.
Ritchie Valens’s career proved to be even shorter than Holly’s – he was only 17 when he signed his first recording contract with Del-Fi Records, just eight months before his death. In those eight months he had four Billboard Hot 100 hits, including “Come On, Let’s Go”, “Donna”, and “Little Girl”. But today’s audiences might remember Ritchie Valens and his music best for Lou Diamond Phillip’s heartfelt portrayal of Ritchie and Los Lobos’s performances of his songs in the 1987 film “La Bamba.”
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Every time I look up, La Bamba is on.
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Thank you Chef.
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Chef, you sweet thang, you know what I like, and in music, too. You done did good, in fact, REAL good.
A friend of mine claimss she and some girl friends went cruising Lubbock one afternoon with Buddy Holly in his (I think) convertable. She worried about her father finding out 'cause being a 'nice' girl getting caught riding around with 'that way too fast' Holly boy would have gotten her into BIG trouble.
A friend of mine claimss she and some girl friends went cruising Lubbock one afternoon with Buddy Holly in his (I think) convertable. She worried about her father finding out 'cause being a 'nice' girl getting caught riding around with 'that way too fast' Holly boy would have gotten her into BIG trouble.
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I just love Don McLean's American Pie. It is a great song.
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I was seven remember it a little.
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I wasn't even thought of in '59, but it doesn't take away from the fact that it truly was, The Day The Music Died. I am thankful that I am able to listen to their music.
I wasn't even thought of in '59, but it doesn't take away from the fact that it truly was, The Day The Music Died. I am thankful that I am able to listen to their music.
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It was a sad day indeed, but certainly not the last in a long line of music deaths, including Elvis, Michael and Whitney
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lost some good musicians