Redbow
Senior Member
Charles Hardin Holly better known as Buddy Holly was killed in a plane crash along with Richie Valens, Jiles Perry Richardson aka The Big Bopper and the pilot of the aircraft Roger Peterson on this day in 1959 near Clear Lake Iowa. Buddy Holly and the Crickets were a popular and upcoming rock n roll group of musicians and singers.
You might remember this song by Don McLean " The Day The Music Died" or Bye Bye Miss American Pie, took my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry. Good ole boys drinking whiskey and rye, singing this'll be the day that I die.
Three young singers tragically left this life much too soon but many have not forgotten them over the years. I well remember the day this tragedy happened. Waylon Jennings was scheduled to be on this flight but Richardson the Big Bopper was sick with the flu so Jennings let him go in his place. Tommy Allsup Holly's lead guitar player at the time flipped a coin with Richie Valens for a seat on the plane, Valens won therefore sealing his fate on that dark stormy night. Valens was the youngest of the group, only 17 years old. The rest were in their twenties including the pilot Roger Peterson. It has been said that Peterson was not qualified to fly by instruments and should not have been in the pilots seat. Also Peterson was trained by the same flight instructor that trained Jim Reeves another singer that was killed in July 1964 when the airplane he was piloting crashed just outside Nashville Tennessee.
RIP fellows a few of us still miss you.
You might remember this song by Don McLean " The Day The Music Died" or Bye Bye Miss American Pie, took my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry. Good ole boys drinking whiskey and rye, singing this'll be the day that I die.
Three young singers tragically left this life much too soon but many have not forgotten them over the years. I well remember the day this tragedy happened. Waylon Jennings was scheduled to be on this flight but Richardson the Big Bopper was sick with the flu so Jennings let him go in his place. Tommy Allsup Holly's lead guitar player at the time flipped a coin with Richie Valens for a seat on the plane, Valens won therefore sealing his fate on that dark stormy night. Valens was the youngest of the group, only 17 years old. The rest were in their twenties including the pilot Roger Peterson. It has been said that Peterson was not qualified to fly by instruments and should not have been in the pilots seat. Also Peterson was trained by the same flight instructor that trained Jim Reeves another singer that was killed in July 1964 when the airplane he was piloting crashed just outside Nashville Tennessee.
RIP fellows a few of us still miss you.
