TITLE: THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED
FEBRUARY 3, 1959.
(Radio News Report)
THIS STORY IN FROM CLEAR LAKE, IOWA. THREE OF THE NATIONS TOP ROCK-AND-ROLL SINGING STARS – RICHIE VALENS, J.P. THE BIG BOPPER RICHARDSON AND BUDDY HOLLY, DIED TODAY WITH THEIR PILOT IN THE CRASH OF A CHARTERED PLANE.
BUT ORIGINALLY THE PLANE HAD DIFFERENT PASSENGERS. AT THE LAST MINUTE, THE BIG BOPPER HAD TAKEN THE PLACE OF HOLLY’S NEW BASS PLAYER, A YOUNG TEXAN NAMED WAYLON JENNINGS. AS JENNINGS CLIMBED OUT, HE JOKED WITH HOLLY THAT THE PLANE WOULD CRASH.
WAYLON BECAME A TEXAS MUSIC LEGEND, BUT NEVER GOT OVER HIS GUILT. HE DIED IN 2002.
BUDDY HOLLY’S PLANE CRASHED, WITHOUT WAYLON JENNINGS, 53 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK IN TEXAS HISTORY.
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Martin Donell Kohout, "HOLLEY, CHARLES HARDIN [BUDDY HOLLY],"
Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fhors), accessed January 19, 2012. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
"Buddy Holly,"
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Holly), accessed January 19, 2012.