"The Day the Music Died" The Death of Buddy Holly, J.P. Richardson, and Richie Valens
What a Creep
Margo Donohue
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
“The Day the Music Died”
Season 27, Episode 10
"The Day the Music Died" is a phrase coined by singer-songwriter Don McLean in 1971 in his 8-and-a-half-minute song “American Pie.” The tragic deaths of Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens on February 3, 1959, shocked the world and have been the subject of study for decades. In this episode, I will discuss the lives of the men who lost their lives that night and the harsh realities of life on tour during the early days of rock and roll.
Sources for this episode:
- Britannica
- Video KCCI-TV “This Day in History”
- The Day in Weather Fox News
- All Things Cruising
- Buddy Holly: A Life from Beginning to End (Biographies of Musicians)
- Wisconsin Life.org
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to What a Creep, the show with Margotonio and Sonia Mansfield, talking about creeps from the past to the present. |
| 0:08.4 | This is your quick guide to the biggest creeps, jerks, assholes, and losers, the best of the worst. |
| 0:14.6 | From two nice ladies who want the world to be a little less creepy. |
| 0:31.0 | Welcome back to What a Creep. This is Margo Donahue. And my cohort on creepitude, as always, is the amazing Sonia Mansfield. Hey, Sonia. Hello, my friend. We are the podcast that |
| 0:37.2 | talks about our creeps from the past to the present. |
| 0:39.9 | Today, we are talking about a creepy event in rock and roll history. |
| 0:43.9 | Let me make this clear. |
| 0:45.0 | Buddy Holly is not a creep. |
| 0:46.7 | We're not. |
| 0:48.0 | People were very buried in the group. |
| 0:53.4 | But just so you know, we're always looking for suggestions for creeps. |
| 0:56.9 | And also at the end of the show, we always ended with somebody who is not a creeps. |
| 1:00.2 | You leave feeling a little bit more elevated by the end of the show. |
| 1:03.3 | And this time of year, people need this. |
| 1:05.4 | Yes. |
| 1:06.0 | And we got a really good one today. |
| 1:08.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:08.7 | Let me just give you all the socials. |
| 1:10.2 | We do have a basic Facebook page, |
| 1:11.9 | but we rarely check it. It's where people go to complain about our language. This is your big |
| 1:15.6 | warning. If you have kids in the car or whatever, we use salty language in this program. |
| 1:20.7 | Shit, fuck. Damn. That's right, Sonia. If you want to interact with us, we're much more |
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