"The Day the Music died' - 49 years ago today

[tularetom]

we've all heard 'American Pie' and seen ''La Bamba".

I remember this like it was yesterday. I don't know why. I was on the basketball team in my senior year of HS and we got back from a game about 9 that evening. Some kid in the parking lot at the school was talking about it.

Anybody else remember this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Music_Died

[abq e streeter]

1. A little too young to remember ( I was 7)

but began listening to rocknroll radio by 1961, and can still remember WLS ( Chicago) DJ Bob Hale always sounding emotional when he'd play a Buddy Holly record. I found out many years later that Hale had MC'd the show at the Surf Ballroom.I wasn't even thinking about the anniversary when , a couple of days ago, I replied to a DU lounge question re: "your favorite you tube video" and listed mine as " "any film of Buddy Holly". I live in New Mexico, but have not yet had the opportunity to visit the Petty studio in Clovis. I think they still open it one weekend a year during Clovis's "pioneer days", or "frontier days" ( or something like that). I had a girlfriend about 20 years ago who was family friends with the Pettys ( Norman's widow, Vi , was still alive) and she kept promising she'd introduce me, but we split up before that could take place...Its not surprising that you remember it so clearly; if rock and roll had even a fraction of the impact on your life as its had on mine ( I'm a musician, mostly rock and blues, and done some rockabilly, which I love ), then it must have felt devastating to lose three of the biggest stars in such a tragic way. RAVE ON...