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4. K&R...👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

Reply to Heartstrings (Original post)

Sat Feb 2, 2019, 09:42 PM

Feb 2019

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The day the music died...60 year remembrance thread.... [View all] Heartstrings Feb 2019 OP

Thanks for the great thread! Glamrock Feb 2019 #1

I will be thinking of you, Glam.... Heartstrings Feb 2019 #3

Awww. You're the sweetest. Glamrock Feb 2019 #15

Yes it's a great thread... UniteFightBack Feb 2019 #32

Don McLean - American Pie Quemado Feb 2019 #2

I met a girl who sang the blues and I asked her for some happy news struggle4progress Feb 2019 #10

K&R...👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 spanone Feb 2019 #4

Don McLean was 13 and I was 14 that day. Croney Feb 2019 #5

and I was -9 months and 1 day whistler162 Feb 2019 #6

White Lightning kentuck Feb 2019 #7

AMERICAN PIE is a nice song, but music definitely disn't "die" brooklynite Feb 2019 #8

A metaphor for those 3 guys treestar Feb 2019 #23

I think Mclean may have been referring to the period after the crash Aristus Feb 2019 #24

Waylon Jennings . . . Roadside Attraction Feb 2019 #9

Yup. Waylon suffered from survivor's guilt TexasBushwhacker Feb 2019 #20

Buddy told him he hoped that he froze on the bus Docreed2003 Feb 2019 #27

I was 9, had older siblings TNNurse Feb 2019 #11

And isn't that the greatest tribute that can be paid? Stinky The Clown Feb 2019 #28

Thanks. I grew up in the 50's 60's... pangaia Feb 2019 #12

My father grew up in Nora Springs, near Clear Lake Mr. Ected Feb 2019 #13

I walked out through that cornfield Horse with no Name Feb 2019 #26

What's shocking (at least to me) is how very young they all were. PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2019 #14

... and the three men I admire most. The Father, Son and .. the Holy Ghost ... Persondem Feb 2019 #16

In Lubbock, Texas 1959... czarjak Feb 2019 #17

I grew up in Levelland bmbmd Feb 2019 #29

Responding To The Day The Music Died JGug1 Feb 2019 #18

The pilot, Roger Peterson, wasn't instrument-rated and was unfamiliar with the Attitude indicator Dennis Donovan Feb 2019 #22

I still have that old 7 inch 45rpm record Elwood P Dowd Feb 2019 #19

Buddy Holly was very talented. Ritchie Valens not as much but still talented. raccoon Feb 2019 #21

You beat me to it. I post a similar thread on a variety of venues where I post Stinky The Clown Feb 2019 #25

Me too. I posted last year in the DU Lounge. I was about to post this year in mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2019 #30

Oh baby this is what I like !!! nt UniteFightBack Feb 2019 #31

Fantastic post! Thank you! MoonRiver Feb 2019 #33

Forever favorites. Thank you for good memories, Heartstrings. nt akraven Feb 2019 #34