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February 3, 1959

Well said Ferreri, and well done. Here's to the three.
 
What were you doing , or were you around then??? I wasn't myself.
 
I was returning from a High School Basketball game in Milford MA (Milford High vs St. Louis High Webster) and listening to WPRO when the word came of the plane crash that took the lives of Buddy Holly, Jiles P. Richardson (The Big Bopper) and Richie Valenzuela (Richie Valens).
 
I wasnt alive..but Im assuming it was just as shocking and depressing as the deaths of John Lennon, Elvis, Cobain, Selina..IE...when someone dies at the hight of their career it often leaves a tramatic experience with many of his/her fans....So i can only imagine what it was like..
 
Ferreri,

I was a fan of WYRE the years you were pd. "Never more than 2 mintues from music." I could even hear the station in Newark, DE, not bad for a 250 watter. It was my constant companions on summer weekends fising on the Cheasapeake (sp?).
 
mmmmmm... Pie!


I wouldn't join this world for another ten years, but thanks to the magic of recordings I am able to enjoy the work of the Big Bopper, Richie Valens, and Buddy Holly. Let us not forget that a fourth life was also lost on that day, the pilot, Roger Peterson.

Otis Redding, Jim Croce, Steve Gaines and Ronnie Van Zant Of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Randy Rhoads, Ricky Nelson, and John Denver also died in plane crashes. Perhaps Don Mclean should get to work writing more songs.
 
WTUX said:
Ferreri,

I was a fan of WYRE the years you were pd. "Never more than 2 mintues from music." I could even hear the station in Newark, DE, not bad for a 250 watter. It was my constant companions on summer weekends fising on the Cheasapeake (sp?).
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Thank you! Nice to be remembered. Those 250 watts sure traveled the bay!!
 
Holly's guitar player, Waylon Jennings, gave up his seat on the plane to make room for Buddy.
 
Rob Parker said:
mmmmmm... Pie!

Otis Redding, Jim Croce, Steve Gaines and Ronnie Van Zant Of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Randy Rhoads, Ricky Nelson, and John Denver also died in plane crashes. Perhaps Don Mclean should get to work writing more songs.
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Mmmmmm... bad taste!
 
What were you doing , or were you around then??? I wasn't myself.
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The time was 4:00pm.

I was still sitting, wide-eyed and amazed, with the toys I received on my first birthday just two days earlier...while my mother and grandmother were putting the last chunk of my birthday cake in the freezer and peeling potatoes for supper that evening. Grandpa was going to the barn to "do his turns" and see that the new baby calf was getting to its mama's milk. Tippy and Trixy, the family dogs, accompanied him. My 22-year-old daddy walked in the door from his new job in Charlotte at Douglas Aircraft (the "missile plant" as we called it), whistling and singing, "...oh peh-GEE...my PEH-gee SUE-ooh-hoo...". Little did any of us know that late that night the voice of the person he was imitating would be silenced in a plane crash.

The people in the above narrative really did exist. The times and situations were correct, but at 367 days of age, I was really too young to know if we had 'taters that night for supper.

Later....
Matt Smith
WGSR-TV
 
>>I was still sitting, wide-eyed and amazed, with the toys I received on my first birthday just two days earlier...while my mother and grandmother were putting the last chunk of my birthday cake in the freezer and peeling potatoes for supper that evening........<<

THAT IS AMAZING! So much recall at only a year and two days old! WOW! Excellent story, Matt! As for the 50th anniversary of Buddy Holly's death in 2009....... if there is going to be any event on that day that to recognize the life of Buddy Holly, J.P. Richardson and Richie Valens in Iowa.... I hope to be there. Even my late Mom (God love her!) really liked Buddy Holly and his music. (I was born some 11 months and 9 days later, after the crash.). However, as a big oldies fan and the operator of an oldies FM station, I think that it would be appropriate to be there.


Rave on!

-Peter Q.
 
Waylon played bass on that last tour. Listen to the song "A long Time Ago" -- he got tired of people asking him about the seat on the plane.

My parents were teens in the Lubbock area when Buddy Holly was there. They'd see him play at the roller rinks and at wrestling matches.
 
Proof once again, gentlemen, that Rock 'n Roll and small aircraft don't mix.

And don't forget the Bar-Kays with Otis, and Bill Cahse and his 5 trumpet horn band "Chase". Love their song "Get It On" on Epic. It's the song that made T-Rex change the title in the states to "Bang -A-Gong".
 
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