Today, February 3 is the day of the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper. There's a pretty good tribute video on YouTube if you're interested:
M. J. Rudy
I sang American Pie at Karaoke last night. Didn't realize that's today.
-----Stephen
someone even did a song about the music didn't die.
Heck, it was years before I heard of the crash. Our local R&R station played the music a lot and it was only sometime around the debut of the Beatles that they started using 'The Late...' when identifying the artists. I thought they'd passed "recently".
Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.
Yes, it was 1958 in Lancaster right up to,...Hmm,...it may still be. ;)
and there were about 500 people that were "supposed" to be on that flight. like the 500 that just missed sharon tate's "party".
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