<VV> The day the music died...

[bub049 at comcast.net]

Actually, the plane crash (Beechcraft Bonanza) happened on February 3, 1959 IIRC, in a snowy, frozen cornfield north of Clear Lake Iowa.  Made the pilgramage. Buddy Holly was my hero. If he would have lived, I just know he would have had a Spyder or a Corsa.  Or....(this is for Mark Corbin)...a late model 4 door for the family. 



BobJ 

Frostbite Falls, MN 

CORSA since '72 




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Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2009 23:06:11 -0400 
From: Tony Underwood <tony.underwood at cox.net> 
Subject: Re: <VV> 50th Corvair Celebration - IS your club planning 
        anything? 
To: "Alan and Clare Wesson" <alan.wesson at atlas.co.uk>, 
        <virtualvairs at corvair.org> 
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At 01:55 PM 2/5/2009, Alan and Clare Wesson wrote: 
>And besides 2009 being the 50th anniversary of the Corvair, the 3rd Series 
>Lancia Appia, my wife, the Falcon, the Comet and various other things, 


The Plymouth Valiant (my first car)...  and Mopar's very first A-body 
vehicle. 


>yesterday was the 50th anniversary of The Day The Music Died. 




Good point...   The Bopper (actually a popular DJ at the time) was 
kinda like Valens (a flash in the pan chicano imho) in that they both 
had *a* hit single.   Chantilly Lace, and La Bomba... other things 
they did never come to mind except for *maybe* Valens' "O 
Donna"...   but that's it. 


It was Buddy Holly who made that splash that included a flock of 
songs that made enough of an impression that other artists did their 
own versions years after he was gone.   It's been said that John 
Lennon may well never have led the Beatles together if not for the 
death of Buddy Holly.   Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper would 
likely just be footnotes today if they'd not died in the plane 
crash... but Buddy Holly was a paradyne shift in music at that time 
and was already slated for greatness. 

We will never know what else Holly could have accomplished... 





tony..