It was 51 years ago today when a plane crash took the lives of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper. Post any thoughts or feelings about these musicians, their music, or the impact they all had on Rock and roll and pop music.

Lucky Waylon survived by not catching that flight.

Weird that it was fifty years ago.  I remember it because I loved Richie Valens "La Bamba" and "Oh, Donna" as a child.  My mother was a young mom who watched Bandstand and listened to the radio with all the pop songs of the day.  My older brother saw Elvis at his ELEMENTARY school (he was maybe in the 5th or 6th grade at the time)

I heard the news and thought it was soooo sad.  So tragic.  Days later while riding in my parents car, I looked over at the driver of a car that had pulled up next to us.  I was sure it was Richie Valens driving the car. Weird.  Fifty years ago, huh? Unbelievable.

Susan

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

There was a fiish..iinn the percolatrr!

the movie--the buddy holly story is good!, the song, my well cannot choose one, but, this one "true love ways" is very sweet and very emotional

as for the film la bamba - ritchie valens was oh cool! he did sleepwalk, but it was not his own music, am I right onesuavefolk?  sad about that tragic plane crash, yes, they were both very much into gettin their style of music out to the world, and all their songs are very cool!!! those are the ones that are very hard to come by!  but la bamba ah! very catchy, upbeat, had not heard from anyone that did not like that one!!!!

But yeah.  I remember.  How about this photo that I cut out of a 1964 Vogue magazine "People Are Talking About" column and saved ever since.  People were talking about the 19 year old British lead singer of this band called the Rolling Stone.  Here's the photo shot by David Bailey.

Pretty cool to acknowledge that the music really didn't die in '59.  That didn't happen until much later near the end of the 20th century with Napster, the death of recording contracts and the advent of American Idol.

Susan

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin