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Continue YouTube via gdling (Left), Decca/Buddy Holly (Right)Giving up his seat on the plane to another musician, the country legend recalls the words that would haunt him forever. Hired as bassist for Buddy Holly after Holly's choice to disband from , got a huge boost to his musical career of touring with the star. Jennings and Holly left on the Winter Dance Party Tour starting on January 23, 1959, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and then continued in the Midwest of the . The sheer distance between tour dates was not justified and as a result, the travel became a complete nightmare for all musicians. Shortly after the tour began, the tour bus lost its heater to a mechanical failure, and the team began to get sick; The drummer, Carl Bunch, was even hospitalized with frozen toes. Today marks 59 years since , when Buddy Holly, , and J.P. Richardson tragically died in a plane crash, in 1959. What's your favorite song by one of these artists? pic.twitter.com/JRAn41tdU5- Aerial TV (@AntennaTV) February 3, 2018On Monday, February 2, the tour stopped in Clear Lake, IA – an unscheduled stop for the band. Although they had no intention of playing a gig, the presenters offered a show to a local venue owner, and they were set to play that night. After the show, Holly was overcome with frustration regarding the travel conditions and chose to charter a plane to Fargo, North Dakota, where the rest of the band would meet him. Holly, Jennings, and were scheduled to take off just after midnight, but another musician on the tour J.P. Richardson (The Big Bopper) asked Jennings for his seat if he had come out with the flu and needed time to rest. Allsup lost his seat in a coin toss with Ritchie Valens and also stayed behind. On this day in 1959, a plane crash near Clear Lake killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper.It would forever be known as The Day the Music Died. pic.twitter.com/McPLImG6Ms- Travel (@Travel_Iowa) February 2018When Holly heard that Jennings was giving up his seat, he jokingly prodded the would-be star country. I hope your ass freezes on the bus! Here I am, about 19 years old and I said, 'Yes, I hope your old plane crashes', and God all-powerful - for years I thought I had caused it... Jennings recalled with a heavy sigh. Several hours later, and minutes after takeoff, the plane with the three musicians, Buddy Holly, J.P. Richardson (The Big Bopper), and Ritchie Valens crashed into a cornfield - driven by a worsening storm and an inexperienced pilot. Nearly 20 years later, Jennings wrote a song to his lost friend and the emotional torment he had felt after Holly's death. The song, Old Old was released on his album, Are You Ready For The Country in June 1976 and was certified gold, topping the Billboard Country Albums chart. Watch the videos below for the interview Jennings gave to CMT about Holly's plane crash as well as the song he wrote in honor of Holly. If you enjoyed this video, get email updates (IT'S FREE) This article is about the plane crash. For other uses, see The Day the Music Died (disambiguation). 1959 American plane crash The Day the Music DiedThe wreckage of the Bonanza at the crash siteAccidentDateFebruary 3, 1959 (1959-02-03)SummarySSpatial disorientation, loss of control near IMCSiteNear Clear Lake, Iowa, US 43°13′13.3N 93°22′53.1W / 43.220361°N 93.381417°W / 43.220361; -93.381417Coöeinates: 43°13′13,3N 93°22′53.1W / 43,220361°N 93.381417°W / 43.220361; -93.381417Planntor typeBeechcraft BonanzaOperatorDwyer Flying Service, Mason City, IowaRegistrationN3794NFlight originMason City Municipal Airport, IowaDestinationHector Airport, North DakotaPassengers3Crew1Fatalities4Survivors0 Location in the United States On February 3, 1959, and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper J. P. Richardson were killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, along with pilot Roger Peterson. [1] The event later became known as The Day the Music Died, after singer-songwriter Don McLean named it as such in his 1971 song American Pie. At the time, Holly and his band, consisting of Waylon Jennings, Tommy Allsup, and Carl Bunch, were playing on the Winter Dance Party tour through the Midwest. Emerging artists Valens, Richardson and Dion and had also joined the tour. The long journeys between locations aboard the cold, uncomfortable tour buses adversely affected the performers, with cases of flu and even frostbite. After stopping at Clear Lake to perform, and frustrated by such circumstances, Holly chose to charter a plane to reach their next location in Moorhead, Minnesota. Richardson, suffering from flu, exchanged places with Jennings, who took his seat on the plane, while Allsup lost his seat to Valens on a coin. Shortly after takeoff, late at night and in bad, wintry weather conditions, the pilot lost control of the light aircraft, a , which then crashed into a cornfield, killing all four on board. The event has since been mentioned in several songs and movies. At the site of the accident and in Clear Lake, where an annual memorial concert is also held in the , the location where the last performances of the artists were held, several monuments have been erected. Background Buddy Holly ended his with the Crickets in November 1958. According to Paul Anka, Holly realized he needed to go back on tour for two reasons: he needed money because the Crickets' manager Norm Petty Petty apparently stole money from him, and on top of that, he had recently married a woman in New York City who was now pregnant and wanted to move there to accompany her. [3] Holly signed with General Artists Corporation because he knew they were planning a UK tour and he wanted to be in on that. [4] Before the start of the Winter Dance Party tour, Holly assembled a band consisting of Waylon Jennings (bass), Tommy Allsup (guitar), and Carl Bunch (drums), with the opening vocals of . The tour was set to cover 24 Midwestern cities in as many days. New hit artist Ritchie Valens, The Big Bopper J. P. Richardson, and Dion DiMucci (and his band The Belmonts) joined the tour to promote their recordings and make an extra profit. [5] [6] Winter Dance Party Tour schedule, 1959 The 1959 tour began in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on January 23 and the performance at Clear Lake on February 2 was the eleventh of 24 scheduled venues. The amount of travel that was required quickly became a serious problem. The distances between the locations were not well considered when the performances were scheduled. Instead of systematically circling the Midwest through a series of locations close to each other, the tour alternated erratically back and forth across the region, with distances between some tour stops of more than 640 km. Most of the Interstate Highway System had not yet been built, so the routes between tour stops required much more driving time on narrow two-lane rural highways than they would today. General Artists Corporation, the organization that booked the tour, was later widely criticized for their seemingly total disregard for the circumstances in which they forced the traveling musicians to endure: they didn't care. It was like they threw darts at a card... The tour from hell - that's what they called it - and it's not a bad name.- Buddy Holly historian Bill Griggs[7] The whole troupe of musicians travelled together in a bus, although the buses used for the tour were wholly inadequate, breaking down and being frequently replaced. Griggs estimates that five separate buses were used in the first eleven days of the tour - refurbished school buses, not good enough for schoolchildren. [7] The artists themselves were responsible for loading and unloading material at each stop, since no road crew helped them. The buses were not equipped for the harsh weather, which consisted of medium-deep snow in different areas and varying temperatures from 20 °F (−7 °C) to as low as −36 °F (−38 °C). A bus had a heating system that malfunctioned shortly after the tour began, in Appleton, Wisconsin. Later, Richardson and Valens began experiencing flu-like symptoms and drummer Bunch was hospitalized for severely frozen feet, after the tour bus broke down in the middle the highway in subzero subzero near Ironwood, Michigan. The musicians replaced that bus with another school bus and continued to travel. [8] After Forest was hospitalized, Carlo Mastrangelo of Belmonts took over the drum duties. When performed, the drum chair was taken by Valens or Holly. As Holly's group was the backing band for all the acts, Holly, Valens, and DiMucci took turns playing drums for each other at gigs in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and Clear Lake, Iowa. [9] On Monday, February 2, the tour arrived in Clear Lake, west of Mason City, having driven 350 miles (560 km) from the previous day's concert in Green Bay. The town in northern Iowa was not a scheduled stop; tour promoters hoped to fill the open date and called the manager of the local Surf Ballroom, Carroll Anderson (1920-2006), and offered him the show. He accepted, and they put the show on that night. By the time Holly arrived at the venue that night, he was frustrated with the ongoing problems with the bus. The next planned destination after Clear Lake was Moorhead, Minnesota, a 365-mile (590 km) drive north-northwest and, as a reflection of the poor quality of tour planning, a trip that would take them straight back through two cities they had already played in the past week. No let up that was in sight; as the next day, they were scheduled to travel back almost directly south to Sioux City, Iowa, on a 325-mile (520 km) journey. Holly chartered a plane to fly himself and his band to Fargo, North Dakota, which borders Moorhead. The rest of the party would have picked him up at Moorhead, who took him on the bus and left him time to get some rest. [8] They went to Moorhead for a radio performance at the KFGO station with disc jockey Charlie Boone. Flight arrangements A V-tailed Bonanza similar to N3794N, the accident plane Anderson named Hubert Jerry Dwyer (1930-2016), owner of the Dwyer Flying Service in Mason City, to charter the plane to fly to Fargo's Hector Airport, closest to Moorhead. [10] Flight arrangements were made with Roger Peterson, a 21-year-old local pilot described as a young married man who built his life flying around. [11] The flying service charged a price of $36 per passenger for the 1947 single-engine, V-tailed Beechcraft 35 Bonanza (registration N3794N[12]), which placed three passengers plus the pilot. [13] A popular misconception, which stems from don McLean's song of the same name about the crash, was that the airplane was called the American Circle; there is no record of a name ever given to N3794N. [14] The most commonly accepted version of events was that Richardson had contracted flu during the trip and Jennings for his seat on the Asked. When Holly heard jennings wasn't flying, he said in jest, Well, I hope your old bus freezes. Freezes. replied: Well, I hope you ol' plane crashes, a humorous but fateful response that haunted him for the rest of his life. [15] Valens, who once had a fear of flying, asked Allsup for his seat on the airplane. The two agreed to toss a coin to decide. [10] Bob Hale, a disc jockey with Mason City's KRIB-AM, was emceeing the concert that night and turned the coin into the ballroom side-stage room shortly before the musicians left for the airport. Valens won the coin toss for the seat on the run. Contrary to the testimony of Allsup and Jennings, Dion has since said that Holly approached him along with Valens and Richardson to join the flight, not Holly's bandmates. In a 2009 interview, Dion said that Holly called him, Valens, and Richardson in a vacant locker room during Sardo's performance and said, I've chartered a plane, we're the guys making the money [we need the ones flying ahead]... the only problem is that there are only two seats available. According to Dion, it was Valens, not Richardson, who had fallen ill, so Valens and Dion turned over a coin for the chair. His interview makes no mention of Jennings or Allsup being invited on the plane. Dion said he won the pitch, but eventually decided that since the $36 rate (equivalent to $320 in 2019[16]) equals the monthly rent his parents paid for his childhood apartment, he couldn't justify the indulgence. [17] Start and crash After the show ended, Anderson drove Holly, Valens, and Richardson to nearby Mason City Municipal Airport,[18] whose height is 1,214 feet (370 m) of AMSL. The weather at the time of departure was reported as light snow, a ceiling of 3,000 feet (900 m) AMSL with sky darkened, visibility six miles (10 km), and winds of 20 to 30 mph (32 to 48 kph). Although deteriorating weather was reported along the planned route, the weather briefings Peterson received failed to pass on the information. [19] Mason City and Clear Lake, Iowa The plane took off normally from runway 17 (today's runway 18) at 12:55 pm CST on Tuesday, February 3. [20] Dwyer witnessed the southbound start of a platform outside the control tower. He was able to clearly see the plane's taillight for most of the short flight, which began with an initial 180 degree left turn to pass east of the airport, climbing to about 800 feet (240 m) AGL. After an extra left turn to a northwesterly course, the taillight was then gradually observed down until it disappeared. Around 1:00 a.m., when Peterson failed to make the expected radio contact, repeated attempts were made at Dwyer's request to make the communication bring by the radio operator, but they were all unsuccessful. [11] Later that morning, Dwyer, who has not heard word from Peterson since his departure, took off on another plane to trace Peterson's planned route. Within minutes, around 9:35 a.m., he saw him. wrecks less than 10 km northwest of the airport. [11] The sheriff's office, alerted by Dwyer, sent deputy Bill McGill, who was to the crash site, a cornfield that drove up to Albert Juhl. [21] Bonanza had affected terrain at high speed, estimated to have been around 170 mph (270 km/h), banked steeply to the right and into a nose-down stance. The right wing tip had hit the ground first, sending the plane cartwheeling across the frozen field for 540 feet (160 m), before coming to rest against a wire fence on the edge of Juhl's property. [11] Holly and Valens' bodies were thrown from the fuselage and were located near the wreckage of the plane. Richardson's body was thrown over the fence and into the cornfield of Juhl's neighbor Oscar Moffett, while Peterson's body was entangled in the wreckage. [11] With the rest of the entourage en route to Minnesota, Anderson, who had driven the party to the airport and witnessed the plane take off, had to identify the bodies of the musicians. [22] County coroner Ralph Smiley stated that all four victims died immediately, citing the cause of death as gross brain trauma for the three artists and brain damage for the trial. [23] [24] Holly's pregnant wife of the Aftermath, María Elena, learned of his death via a television news report. A widow after just six months of marriage, she suffered a miscarriage shortly after, reportedly due to psychological trauma. Holly's mother, when he heard the news at home on the radio in Lubbock, Texas, screamed and collapsed. [5] Despite the tragedy, the Winter Party tour continued. Fifteen-year-old was tasked with invading Holly at the next scheduled gig at Moorhead, in part because he knew all the words of all the songs. [25] Jennings and Allsup continued for two weeks, with Jennings taking Holly's place as a singer. [26] Meanwhile, funerals for the victims were held individually. Holly and Richardson were buried in Texas, Valens in California and Peterson in Iowa. [27] Holly's widow, María Elena, was not present at the funeral. [28] She later said in an interview: In a sense, I blame myself. I didn't feel good when he left. I was two weeks pregnant, and I wanted Buddy to stay with me, but he had that tour planned. It was the only time I wasn't with him. And I blame myself because I know that if I'd just gone with you, Buddy would never have gotten on that plane. [29] Official investigation The official investigation was carried out by the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB, forerunner of the NTSB). It turned out that Peterson had more than four years of flying experience, including one at Dwyer Flying Service, and 711 of which 128 were on Bonanzas. He had also logged 52 hours of instrument flight training, although he had only passed his written exam, and had not yet to work in the weather that is required exclusively flying based on instruments. He and Dwyer Flying Service themselves were certified to operate only under visual flight rules, which essentially require the pilot to be able to see where he's going. However, on the night of the accident, visual flight would be virtually impossible due to the low clouds, the lack of a visible horizon, and the absence of ground lighting over the sparsely populated area. [11] Furthermore, Peterson, who had failed an instrument control round nine months before the accident, had received his instrument training on aircraft equipped with a conventional artificial horizon as a source of aircraft attitude information, while the N3794N was equipped with an older-type Sperry F3 attitude gyroscope. Crucially, the two types of instruments display the same aircraft pitch attitude information in graphically opposite ways. [11] Another contributing factor was the seriously inadequate weather briefing provided to Peterson, who failed to mention unfavorable flying conditions that should have been emphasized. [11] The CAB concluded that the likely cause of the accident was the unwise decision of the pilot to attempt a flight that required skills that he did not have. [11] Subsequent examinations On March 6, 2007, in Beaumont, Texas, Richardson's body was exhumed for reburial. This was due to the Texas State Historic Sign being awarded to the Big Bopper, and a bronze statue would then be erected at his tomb. Forest Lawn cemetery did not allow above-ground monuments at that particular site, and his body was moved at the cemetery's expense to another area that would be better suited. As the body had to be placed in a new coffin while above ground, the musician's son, Jay Perry Richardson, took the opportunity to have his father's body re-examined to verify the original coroner's findings, and asked forensic anthropologist William M. Bass to carry out the procedure. A long-running rumor surrounding the accident, which sought to confirm or dissipate this reinvestigation, claimed that an accidental firearm discharge occurred on board the aircraft and caused the crash. Another old theory suspected that Richardson initially survived the crash and then crawled out of the wreckage looking for help before succumbing to his injuries, prompted by the fact that his body was found farther from the plane than the other victims. Bass and his team took several X-rays of Richardson's body and eventually concluded that the musician had indeed died instantly from extensive, in-survival to virtually every bone in his body. No traces of lead were found from a bullet, nor any indication that he had been shot. Coroner Smiley's original 1959 report was therefore confirmed. [30] [31] In March 2015, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) received (NTSB) request to reopen the investigation into the accident. [32] The request was made by L. J. Coon, a retired New England pilot who felt that the conclusion of the 1959 investigation was incorrect. Coon suspected a possible malfunction of the right rudder wire, or a problem with the fuel system, as well as a possible incorrect weight distribution. Coon also argued that Peterson may have tried to land the plane and that his efforts should be recognized. [33] [34] The NTSB rejected the request in April 2015 and said that the evidence presented by Coon was insufficient to merit the reconsideration of the original findings. [35] [36] Legacy Monument to the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa Signpost east of the crash site Notification of the families of victims Following the miscarriage suffered by Holly's wife and the circumstances in which she was informed of his death, a policy was later adopted by the authorities not to disclose the names of victims until after their families have been informed. [5] Memorials On February 5, a memorial service for Peterson was held at the Savior Lutheran Church in Ventura, Iowa. A funeral was held the next day at St. Paul Lutheran Church in his hometown of Alta; Peterson was buried in Buena Vista Memorial Cemetery in nearby Storm Lake. Films The accident is mentioned in the biographical film (1978). The run-up to the accident and its aftermath are also depicted in the Ritchie Valens biopic La Bamba (1987). Memorial concerts Fans of Holly, Valens and Richardson have been gathering since 1979 for annual memorial concerts at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake. [37] The 50th anniversary meeting took place on February 2, 2009, with Delbert McClinton, Joe Ely, Wanda Jackson, Los Lobos, Chris Montez, Bobby Vee, Graham Nash, , Tommy Allsup, and a house band with Chuck Leavell, James Hutch Hutchinson, Bobby Keys, and Kenny Aronoff. Jay P. Richardson, the son of the Big Bopper, was one of the participating artists, and Bob Hale was the master of ceremonies, as he was at the 1959 concert. [38] [39] Monuments Memorial at crash site, 2003 In June 1988, a 4-foot (1.2 m) tall granite memorial with the names of Peterson and the three entertainers was dedicated outside the Surf Ballroom with Peterson's widow, parents and sister in attendance; the event marked the first time the families of Holly, Richardson, Valens and Peterson had gathered. In 1989, Ken Paquette, a Wisconsin fan of the era, made a stainless steel monument that shows a guitar and a set of three records with the names of the three artists killed in the accident. [40] The monument is on private farmland, about 1.4 mi (400 m) west of the of 315th Street and Seagulls Road, five miles (8 km) north of Clear Lake. At that intersection, a large plasma-cut steel set of Wayfarer-style glasses, similar to that Holly wore, marks the entry point to the scene of the accident. [36] Paquette also created a similar stainless steel monument to the three musicians located outside the River Ballroom in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where Holly, Richardson, and Valens played their penultimate show on February 1. This second memorial was unveiled on July 17, 2003. [41] In February 2009, a further memorial made by Paquette for Peterson on the crash site was unveiled. [42] Roads A road that is near the Surf Ballroom, which extends north and passing west from the crash site, is now known as Buddy Holly Place. [43] Songs American Pie The song American Pie called the accident The Day The Music Died Problems playing this file? See media help. Tommy Dee recorded Three Stars (1959) in memory of the musicians. [44] In 1961, Mike Berry recorded , which describes the night of the flight. [45] It reached number 24 on the UK Singles Chart and was notoriously banned by the BBC for being too morbid[46][47] Don McLean, a fan of Friend Holly, later addressed the accident in his song American Circle (1971), which symbolized it the MusicNasla's Day death,[48] which symbolized for McLean the loss of innocence of the early rock-and-roll generation. [49] Dion recorded Hug My Radiator, which refers to the broken-down bus and the chilling cold experienced by the performers during the tour. The song doesn't directly refer to the three performers who died, but Dion has said in interviews that the song is a reminder of the tour and that he also nearly got on the plane that crashed, but it was too expensive. Fiction Howard Waldrop's short story Save a Place in the Lifeboat for Me (collected in Howard Who?) describes a fictional attempt by a sextet of famous slapstick characters to avoid the accident. 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Wikisource has original text regarding this article: Aircraft Accident Report for Buddy Holly's crash February 3, 1959 front page of the Mason City Globe-Gazette, via Newspapers.com fiftiesweb.com The Day the Music Died Bakotopia Magazine's 50th Anniversary memorial article 1959: Buddy Holly killed in the air crash Voices of Oklahoma interview with Tommy Allsup. First person interview conducted with Tommy Allsup on September 8, 2011. Original audio and transcript archived with Voices of Oklahoma oral history project. Retrieved from

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