The Day the Music Died. February 3rd, 1959.

Best of Buddy Holly

Are you distraught and confused over your inability to locate Renaissance and Baroque music from France, England and Italy featuring solo or duet lute and/or theorbo?

It was still on the first page dude

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The Day the Music Died, so dubbed by a lyric in the Don McLean song "American Pie," is a reference to the deaths of rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, on February 3, 1959. Pilot Roger Peterson was also killed.

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The distance between venues and the conditions prevalent aboard the poorly equipped tour buses adversely affected the performers. Cases of flu spread among the band members, and Carl Bunch was hospitalized due to frostbite. Frustrated by the conditions, Holly decided to charter a plane when they stopped for their performance in the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa, to reach their next venue in Moorhead, Minnesota. Carroll Anderson, owner of the Surf Ballroom, chartered the plane from the Dwyer Flying Service. Richardson, who was affected by the flu, swapped places with Waylon Jennings, taking the latter's place on the plane, while Tommy Allsup lost his place to Ritchie Valens on a coin toss. Dion DiMucci (of Dion and the Belmonts fame) decided not to board the plane for the $36 fee.

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From left: Waylon Jennings, Tommy Allsup, and Buddy Holly during the Winter Dance Party, January 1959

Has Waylon ever written a song (or just a reference) about giving up his seat on the plane?

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Has Waylon ever written a song (or just a reference) about giving up his seat on the plane?

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I don't know about a song; I have seen interviews where he discussed that incident, as well as his jokingly telling his friend Buddy "I hope your damn plane crashes", shortly before takeoff.

Of course, I'm always distraught on the Day the Music Died.

One of the mainstream genres for lute and theorbo in the Early Baroque, particularly in France, was called the Tombeau. The Tombeau form are songs composed in mourning and lamentation for an esteemed person who has passed away. Tombeau were performed on solo lute or theorbo. They are quietly moving monuments to the esteemed person for whom they are written.

I've been playing guitar myself for some years, so, I'm always interested in music featuring the guitar and its relatives.

The Day the Music Died is a good day to listen to a Tombeau or two as we remember Buddy, Richie and Bopper.

My apologies for missing the first thread on this, Kafka.

Here is an appropriate song of mourning, a Tombeau, offered in the memory of those who passed on The Day the Music Died.

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