Buddy Holly
Remembering
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Four Days Late & a Buck Fifty Short -'08's in the Rearview
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It's been a busy past couple of weeks so forgive me for my lack of Mog existence. I missed so many great posts over the holidays but it's my turn to share. I'm a data sort of guy. Numbers and information facinates me especially when it comes to music. Thanks to Media players, we can throw numbers out left and right. Let's not waste time and let me share my 2008 stats.
Buddy Holly
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So I missed the day, but yesterday Sept 7th would have been the 70th birthday of Buddy Holly... I sometimes feel like he is overlooked by young music fans today, the way that Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran are, not to mention Johnny Kidd and the Pirates and Vince Taylor.... but back to Buddy, he left his stamp on Rock and Roll and on days like this, it behoves us to look back, to listen and to he
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not fade away
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i just found my ticket stub for a play i went to see earlier this year: the buddy holly story. and it was actually really damn good. so in honor of the late great musician, let's take it back 50 years.apparently this is the last song he ever played.
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That'll be the day-ay-ay
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I just watched The Buddy Holly Story. I know that it is wildly inaccurate, and that Gary Busey is pretty damn creepy, but I could still dig it. One thing I liked was that unlike most music biopics, there weren't any scenes that made you hate the main character (eg Ray, Walk the Line). They just portrayed Buddy Holly as this nice Texan kid who wanted to play music, which is something that he was ap
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The Day The Music Died
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From http://www.thisdayinmusic.comA young Bob Dylan attended the Duluth National Guard Armory show on 31st January 1959, two nights before Holly's death.The family name was "Holley". When Buddy received his first recording contract from Decca Records in 1956, they inadvertently spelled his last name as "Holly". He kept it that way for the rest of his career.Buddy failed his draft physical becau...
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Your Take: Country Music Tragedies
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Almost exactly 50 years ago on February 3, 1959, a plane crash in Iowa killed three rock and roll pioneers. The Day the Music Died, as it was coined in Don McLean’s “American Pie,” marked the loss of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson (who wrote George Jones’ first No. 1 [...]
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Simplicity.
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I don't drink. I don't eat. I don't see. I don't hear.I don't talk. I don't breathe. I don't move. I dont think. I don't care. Just kidding. A compelling or constraining influence, such as a moral force on the mind or world, PRESSURE. To be undecided or skeptical, to tend to disbelieve and distrust, to regard as unlikely, that’s DOUBT. The condition of being insufficient or falling short, declin
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Buddy Holly - A User’s Guide
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It was 50 years ago today…the day the music died…such phrases are being bandied around today as we mark the anniversary of the death of Buddy Holly. Although one of the most influential names in the early days of rock 'n' roll, the Holly story has been strangely neglected on…
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