Vol. 1 Issue 14 - Feb 11th, 2021 NEXT EDITION FEB 25TH 2021 email:
[email protected] East Cork News & Advertiser Thursday February 11th, 2021 In the midst of all of this Buddy had mar- THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED ried Puerto Rican- By John Walshe born receptionist The following year of 1956 Buddy signed Maria Elena Santiago "I can't remember if I cried, when I heard up with Decca Records, the company after a whirlwind about his widowed bride, but something inadvertently misspelling his surname by romance, setting up touched me deep inside, the day the dropping the 'e' in Holley. His first single home in Greenwich music died." "Blue Days, Black Nights" sold a paltry Village. 19,000 records and Decca failed to renew In January 1959, to Sixty-two years ago last Wednesday, on his contract. ease his financial situ- the icy morning of February 3rd, 1959, ation, Buddy agreed fourteen-year-old Don McLean was on A move to Clovis, New Mexico, and a link- to front the 'Winter his newspaper round in New Rochelle, up with musician Norman Petty, the Dance Party Tour'. New York. Cutting open a bale of newspa- owner of a modern recording studio, final- Winter in the harsh pers, he read the tragic news: "3 Stars of ly saw Buddy Holly reach the pinnacle. American Mid-West Rock 'N' Roll Killed in Plane Crash." With a number of his friends who dubbed was no place to be in themselves 'The Crickets' he released a a clapped-out bus Later immortalised in his enduring epi- song he had previously recorded in with inadequate heat- logue 'American Pie', for McClean and for Nashville called "That'll Be The Day", ing.