It has been fifty years since Buddy Holly, along with Richie Valens and The Big Bopper died in that plane crash 3 February 1959. For this week I focused mainly on Buddy Holly and his influence. Monday and Tuesday nights I featured comparisons between Buddy Holly songs and the covers from two of the groups influenced by his music. The Rolling Stones on Monday with “Not Fade Away” and the Beatles on Tuesday with “Words Of Love”. Wednesday, I played the Eddie Cochran tribute song, “Three Stars”. As explained in Wikipedia; Eddie Cochran, Holly's good friend and fellow rock 'n' roll pioneer also recorded the song "Three Stars" but it was not released until after Cochran's own premature death, because he was too upset to allow it to be issued in his lifetime.
Thursday night I played Waylon Jennings - The Stage, his tribute song about a Stage in Heaven. On that fateful night, Waylon Jennings gave his seat up to Richardson, who was running a fever and had trouble fitting his stocky frame comfortably into the bus seats.
When Holly learned that Jennings wasn't going to fly, he said, "Well, I hope your old bus freezes up." Jennings responded, "Well, I hope your plane crashes." This friendly banter of friends would haunt Jennings for years. Also each night I played extra Holly, Valens and J.P. Richardson tracks, including Valley Of Tears (Domino song by Buddy) Richie’s Blues, and Come On Let’s Go by Richie Valens and Big Bopper’s Wedding. Big Bopper’s Wedding prompted a call from a listener to say they never expected to hear such a ‘non politically correct’ song played on Coast.
Each day with the ‘On The Show Today’ section I pointed web viewers to the meaning of the Don McLean – American Pie lyrics ', with this Link
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