[rollei_list] Re: Very OT: Fifty Years Ago!
- From: jon.stanton@xxxxxxxxxxx
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- Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:34:58 +0000
Walker, Add to your list: Jim Croce, Ricky Nelson, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Bill
Chase, Clifford Brown, Bessie Smith...some by plane crashes, others by
automobile.
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From: Walker Smith <doubs43@xxxxxxx>
> As one who clearly remembers the day Hank Williams died on 1 January,
> 1953, 50 years doesn't seem that long ago. (My 50th high school reunion
> will be in 3 years.) Then it was Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and J. P.
> Richardson - the "Big Bopper" - in 1959 followed by Patsy Cline in
> 1963. All were magnificent talents who should have stayed around longer.
>
> FWIW, I saw Patsy Cline many times as she shopped in Frederick, MD
> before she divorced her husband (Charlie Cline) and later moved to
> Nashville. She sang in local establishments in the MD - VA - DC areas
> before her rise to stardom.
>
> Today's "music" leaves me completely cold.
>
> Walker Smith
>
>
> Marc James Small wrote:
> > Fifty years ago was "the day the music died". A small plane crashed
> > in the US midwest, and Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, the Big Bopper, and
> > the pilot, Roger Peterson, were killed. The event was later
> > memorialized by Don McLean in his "American Pie".
> >
> > It is rather sobering to think of this as having occurred a HALF
> > CENTURY ago.
> >
> > Marc
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