[Fredslist] Today is the Day The Music Died-clarification

[Corey Bearak]

Waylon was a member of Buddy Holly's band.  

He and another band member gave up their seats to the Bopper and after a coin flip Ritchie Valens respectively.  

More importantly for those fans of a more local music legend.  

According to his own accounts, including several times I've heard him interviewed or performed, Dion DiMucci (Dion and the Belmonts) refused Holly's entreaties to share the charter cost so originally the flight would have been Holly and his then band members Jennings and Tommy Allsup.

The music never died, just some originators.  

We hear the originals and many excellent covers to this day.  What we lost was opportunities to hear and see them perform live and make more music.  It certainly inspired legions of others including a band that opted for an insect like name not to dissimilar to Holly's Crickets.  I leave info about that storied group to Vincent Russo who I believe is Gotham foremost fan of that configuration of musicians.

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On Feb 3, 2011, at 8:08 AM, fklein at legal.org wrote:

In a 1959 plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa. Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P, "The Big Bopper" Richardson. Urban legend has it that Waylon Jennings gave up his seat for Buddy

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